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Author Topic: How fast is it? bX Stopped. Smelling flowers. Member # 419 posted                       You've never heard how fast hyperspace is? It's fast enough for you... Old man. Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged japol Member Member # 1149 posted                       Well Han Solo was full of it: "She's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." A parsec is a measure of distance, not speed. Obi Wan knew it too. Check out the look he gives Han after he says it. My friends call any look you give someone when you know they are BSing you a "kessel run look." We are a sad bunch. -------------------- I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit. Registered: Nov 2003  |  IP: Logged Jason Abbadon Rolls with the punches. Member # 882 posted                       Indeed you are. -------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon Registered: Aug 2002  |  IP: Logged Ritten A Terrible & Sick leek Member # 417 posted                       Although, not much more sad than the average Flarite.... But still worse.... -------------------- "You are a terrible human, Ritten." Magnus "Urgh, you are a sick sick person..." Austin Powers A leek too, pretty much a negi..... Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged Da_bang80 A few sectors short of an Empire Member # 528 posted                       I think the Trilogy of Han Solo books that came out a few years back, I can't remembe rthe name of it, I think it was written by A.C Crispin or something to that effect explained the 12 parsec thing. It said that Han flew so close to the black holes of the Maw, that it bend space and time, making the distance shorter. Hence 12 parsecs. -------------------- Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I cannot accept. And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off. Remember when your parents told you it's dangerous to play in traffic? Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged Toadkiller Active Member Member # 425 posted                       Wasn't it The Crystal Planet or something like that? I think the BS idea is better, but at least they tried. -------------------- Twee bieren tevreden, zullen mijn vriend betalen. Registered: Oct 2000  |  IP: Logged japol Member Member # 1149 posted                       Yeah... I read that one. The explanation was rather tortured. I like the BS thing better too. Sob... at least Han is interesting about that... don't take that away from me George Lucas... like the awful Greedo thing. Wah! -------------------- I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit. Registered: Nov 2003  |  IP: Logged Kazeite Active Member Member # 970 posted                       Well, the parsec explanation doesn't make much sense... Even if he plotted shorter route, it only proves that he's good with plotting course. It doesn't say anything about vessel speed. And Greedo did not shoot first. It was a flare reflected from the weather baloon passing through the ionized gases expelled from the Tatoo 1 -------------------- "Do I remember about my amnesia?" Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Nim The Aardvark asked for a dagger Member # 205 posted                       Yes, we all know it was Wedge that shot first, duh! (sic) Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged Peregrinus Curmudgeon-at-Large Member # 504 posted                       It means he plotted a course that most ships couldn't follow, because they'd be too slow to escape the gravity well(s) of the black hole cluster. To get away from Kessel, around the Maw, and into open space -- and away from any blockade vessels -- normally takes, say, 18 parsecs. But the Falcon was fast enough for Han to cut closer to the Maw and trim some distance off the run. What isn't mentioned is that he was desperately running from people shooting at him. He thought he was dead. --Jonah -------------------- "That's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age." --David "Woody" Wooderson, Dazed and Confused Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged Intruder1701 Member Member # 880 posted                       Wedge Antillies is the shizit!!!!!!!!!! -------------------- "Who cares if we bomb a few hospitals, it just means we got them a second time" Warrant Officer Robert Clift, CVN-71 OEF Registered: Aug 2002  |  IP: Logged Peregrinus Curmudgeon-at-Large Member # 504 posted                       Yes, well... My friends and I have had a long-running joke that Wedge will die of a sudden heart attack and the SW universe will spontaneously implode. --Jonah -------------------- "That's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age." --David "Woody" Wooderson, Dazed and Confused Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged Nim The Aardvark asked for a dagger Member # 205 posted                       He is The One. He's nobody's bitch. Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged

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