ANST - [off topic] kessel run

[Keith E. Brandt, M.D.]

>In one of the books, they explain that the Kessel run is a test to see the
>volume of space (what a parsec is, it's a cubic light-year) a smuggler
>needs to rendesvous with a bunch of other ships (heading in all different
>directions) to drop off smuggled goods.  A fast ship would do it in less
>volume of space...

Close, but  no cigar. A parsec is 3.26 light-years, or the parallax of one
second of arc (thus the name). It could still be used as you state, that a
faster ship could rendezvous with ships in a shorter linear distance.

--Galen


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