>>Nah! The Falcon made the Kessel run in 12 parceps....it’s long gone by know<<
Sadly, the UN Counsel against torture is still in session about Lucas’ tortured “explanation” of why “distance” is the same as “speed” instead of admitting he had no idea what a parsec was and screwed up. If they have any concept of “justice” they will rule against Lucas.
At least he won’t have to answer for how Leia can remember her mother as being “sad,” since Leia’s mom Padme died giving birth to Leia...
To be fair, I heard that apparently Leia was talking about her adoptive mother Breha Organa sadness because she knew what going on from her husband Bail Organa, I read it in one of those Timothy Zahn Star Wars books
I think a parsec is 3.26 light years. If you want to talk about torture, one need not go further than Jar Jar Binks.
Spock will get him off, by reminding the Counsel that under the battle conditions found in the movie, Star Fleet Regulation forty-six A applies: 'If transmissions are being monitored during battle... no uncoded messages on an open channel.'
So in Lucas's defense, "distance" was to "speed" as "speed" should be to "distance." Therefore - parsecs.
And don't give me any nonsense about different universes - Scotty eventually fixed the transwarp drive. So what do you think the "trans" stands for?
It’s kind of convoluted, but the eventual explanation does make sense, in that travelling at that speed (FTL), you have to be very careful about gravity wells. Most ships tend to give major mass shadows (gravity wells) a wide berth to avoid stress on the ship. The “less than 12 parsecs” just means that Han was able to find a more efficient course along a known hyperspace route by “cutting corners” here and there, thus travelling in a straighter and therefore shorter line. It is related to speed, in that because of the Falcon’s extreme speed, it was able to skirt closer to those gravity wells, since it would be exposed to the stress for a shorter time period. It’s a small bit of fairly “hard” science in an otherwise “Flash Gordon” space opera.
The whole measuring of speed in the Lucas universe, on the other hand, is really bollixed, where something that goes “0.5 past light speed” is faster than ships that go 0.6 or higher. I still haven’t heard a good explanation for that one.
I remember LMAO about that bit of ignorance on the part of absolutely everybody who worked on that part of the film.
Hey, just write (and film) what you know about.
If you fake it about anything, people who know will out you (and LTAO).