![]() The normal route was 20 parsecs long and a buccaneering pilot needed to navigate an asteroid field and a black hole to safely move the bounty through interstellar space and past guarding imperial spacecraft. For background information, the Kessel Run was a smugglers route used to transport a hallucinogenic drug from the mines of Kessel to a nearby distribution facility at the Si’Klaata Cluster. ![]() ![]() Han Solo, a gung-ho, anti-imperial smuggler who has perennial issues with authority, famously boasted about his spacecraft, the “Millennium Falcon”, that it made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. “It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!” – Han Solo, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)Īs hobby astronomers dust off their equipment for the summer months to start observing without freezing fingers, Hollywood used Memorial Day Weekend to punch out yet another terra blockbuster for Star Wars fans: “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Since we are soon running out of Roman numerals to denote original Star Wars movies (X) and tinsel town is risk averse to try anything new, every original character will get their own flick.
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