Gail Shaw wrote:
> Found the script reference I mentioned. Seems to imply that the above
> interpretation is correct.
> 
> http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run
> 
>   a.. n the original draft of A New Hope in 1976, the description for
> "Kessel Run" is put as follows:
> HAN: It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!
> Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious
> misinformation.

I read somewhere (I forget where... probably online) that the Kessel Run 
was a series of deliveries / pickups on a moving convoy, and that the 
'parsecs' in the quote refer to how far the convoy had travelled by the 
time the whole run was finished.

This sounds plausible, since Han's piloting would certainly shave a lot 
of time off over less reckless approaches, and Ben's reaction could just 
as easily be disbelief that this was possible instead of transparent 
bullshit.

However, I'm with Warp - Lucas didn't know what a parsec was when he 
wrote the screenplay. :-)

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