But what is a parsec? A parsec is a unit of distance, not time. Especially since these contradictory statements are both canon.The Millennium Falcon. There is one discrepancy I am aware of (ignoring the unholy combination of Canon, Legends, and Retcon in this answer), and that is that the Millennium Falcon's Hyperdrive is twice as fast as a Class 1 Hyperdrive, yet only moves half again as fast as lightspeed.
Obviously I'm working with artificially specific numbers for the sake of this answer, so this is a ballpark figure at best. So mathematically speaking, a ship that can move 150,000 times faster than the speed of light can travel 39.12 light years in 2 hours and 17 minutes. However Solo claims to have been able to cut a path only 39.12 light years (or 12 parsecs) from Kessel to an area south of the Si'Klaata Cluster. This means the Kessel run is usually 58.68 lightyears (18 parsecs).
In Star Wars a parsec is equal to 3.26 light years. Travel shorter distances between points and arrive faster.
The Millennium Falcon's superior navigation computer allowed it to The Falcon, however, is fastĮnough to straighten the route and cut over six parsecs off the Has to do the run in eighteen parsecs because to cut the route anyĬloser, the ship would get sucked in. Event horizons around black holesĪre dependent on the speed at which you are traveling. The Millennium Falcon could also make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs. This was a result of tinkering with the Hyperdrive on the Falcon. Solo cited that the Falcon was capable of attaining 0.5 past lightspeed The Millennium Falcon could do 1.5 "lightspeed" ( Roughly 150,000 C). All sources are linked, and some are quoted. In conclusion: no-one knows how many hours, minutes and seconds the Millenium Falcon's Kessel Run actually took, not even George Lucas himself, because he was not interested in specifying it, since it was quite simply not at all important to the story.ĭisclaimer: Some of this is using content from Legends because the finer details have not had as much coverage by Disney Canon. Instead he uses the space version of Gandalf's Principle of Wizardly Timeliness:Ī star ship is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when the author means it to. So Lucas is not at all bothering with actual speeds and making the numbers come out right. all squeezed in between the time Obi-Wan "fear something terrible has happened" and the Falcon arriving in the rubble-field that is formerly known as Alderaan. The Empire has time to blow up a planet, make a dash to Dantooine, search the planet, find a rebel base, examine it close enough to conclude that "it has been deserted for some time", and then report back to the Death Star. But it did not turn up any better, with embarrassing concepts such as "standard timeunits" or trying to say that it had something to do with skirting the rims of black holes and whatnot.Īnd when we start to look at other star ships in the Star Wars universe as well, then it becomes very obvious that they are all Travelling at The Speed of Plot.Īs I stated in another answer, here is an example of that phenomenon: Later - as your linked answers suggest - they tried to fix this and make it less willy-nilly, probably because the nerdy and more physics savvy fans started to object. Just like Douglas Adams's "fourty-two" or Nick Kershaw's "The Riddle" it had no actual meaning, it just sounded good for the time being and plugged up a verbal hole that needed to be filled, and any attempt to interpret those things as something substantial and meaningful is doomed to fail. It sounded cool, it had something to do with space, so he used it. The mention of "Parsecs" is in all likely probability a mistake, with Lucas assuming that "Par secs" had something to do with seconds, and "Par" being a prefix akin to kilo- or Mega. George Lucas was only after making the statement that the Millennium Falcon is very fast, not how fast it is.
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