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You lost me at "Stormtroopers" and "Precise" (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

yup.

Han was bullshitting them. Remember, Han is a fast talking scoundrel who runs scams on rubes.

For people who don't know Parsec... is a unit of distance. an object 1 parsec from the sun would be an object that has a parralax angle of 1 arc second. a second of arc is the easiest to explain- it's 1/60^th^ of a minute of arc, which is 1/60^th^ of a degree. (arc second is 1/3600^th^ of a degree.) it comes to about 3 lightyears.

It would be like saying, "I made the Chicago-NY run in less than [whatever miles]!" when talking about how fast his ship is. The distance is fixed. the kessel run is largely fixed.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    well, not anymore. it's been backwritten into some sort of space-warping area where keeping your distance short is impressive

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I ignore that. I prefer the bullshitting scoundrel, to be honest.

    Maybe Han came up with that when he got called on it. lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I also agree that the fast talking Han messing with a hick kid is the better option.

    However I have to at the same time admit that if you are going to make it actually hold up as something literally accurate then it is one of the best retcon jobs ever written to actually make it work.

    Sadly it comes from one of the more painful old expanded universe series because Kyp Durron is one of the most insufferable overly perfect wonder kids ever written. Plus also being the books with the Sun Crusher which is fighting for the most overkill super weapon in all of Star Wars. Which is really saying something considering the huge range of super weapons through the franchise.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Yeah. Sun Crusher is.... uhm.

    Like. Why. even? Even the Deathstar serves no real functional purpose. That's the problem with brinksmanship, and mutually assured destruction. Eventually, you're gonna have to grab that other guy and jump off the cliff. And now, instead of a economically productive and valuable planet, you have an asteroid field. That, sure, you can mine for minerals, but that effort is now going to cost orders of magnitude more.

    And lets be honest. If the goal was to keep people too afraid to try anything, eventually some dumb kid from a dried up backwater is going to blow it up. And then you look really fucking weak.

    The economic loss of entire systems, though, is just bad for business.

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