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Only if we can also add misuse of the word "parsec" on top of that.

"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run is less than 12 parsecs!"

@ Lucas

Parsec is a unit of distance, you rock-stupid half-assed excuse for a writer!

Yeah... Lucas needs to go too. If not for the misuse of parsec in Ep4, then for the Ewoks in Ep6, and the entirety of Ep1-3.

I see what you're saying but I don't agree with it. A light year is a defined scientific measurement of distance, there is nothing figurative about it and it doesn't have anything to do with a time line.

A = A

And, a "time line" is a means of depicting the order of events in history, that also uses a scale that allows us to see the relative time that passed between those events.

If we set the end of the last ice age (10K BCE) as 0 on our time line, and set current day (call it 2000 CE) to be 12 inches away, then each inch would approximate 1000 years. Tings like domestication of cattle, establishment of the first code of laws, first alphabetic language, etc, could be plotted as various inches and fraction of inches along the line.

Here, the well defined unit of distance know as the "inch" is used figuratively to represent the passage of literal time.

You could then say, Faster Than Light Travel is miles beyond us, technologically (which on the scale of inch = 1000 years would be a very long time). This would be hyperbole (intentional exaggeration to make a point) to demonstrate that we are not even close to getting there.

Since it is pure hyperbole, we do not need to specifically designate a unit of time to the unit of distance on our time line, since a mile is clearly an absurd unit to be applied to any time line.

Light Years is just a further over-exaggeration to make the point that we are not even close, in figurative distance on an abstract time line, or literal passage of time on a clock, calendar, or writing of history books.

ITT Arcaus attempts a stealth nerf on using imagery in the English language

Except that is the answer to the question "Is your ship fast?"

That answer would seem to indicate a distance divided by time to indicate speed, with Kessel Run being the distance and 12 parsecs being the time.

If, the intention is that the Kessel Run is a time, and parsec is a distance, then the "less than" is an indication of slow rather than fast.

Creative visualization you guys came up with, but at the scale you suggested I think the Jove would probably have evolved past the need for spaceships or perhaps even a physical form.

So you're saying we should buff the Gnosis to a strategic cruiser with it's own subsystems and 8/8/8 in all slots no matter what?

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In the expanded universe fiction, it's explained that the Kessel run involves going close to a cluster of black holes. If your ship isn't fast enough, if you shave the distance too much, you'll be sucked into one and destroyed.
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Yes, it's BS, used to cover up a mistake by a sci-fi writer in a fairly popular film.

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