The Force Awakens makes a quick mention of the infamous Kessel Run, which, according to Han Solo, the Millenium Falcon can travel in “less than twelve parsecs.” Considering that a parsec is a measurement of distance rather than time, there have been plenty of Expanded Universe stories attempting to explain what exactly the Kessel Run is, and how a pilot can boast about its travel distance.
One story from the Star Wars Tales comic is told by a drunken alien in a bar, who claims that a kessel is a large, green, flightless bird. After winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando, Han supposedly embarked on the Kessel Run, buying and transporting large shipments of these birds aboard the Falcon, before discovering that he’d been swindled by a bunch of Lando’s buddies into paying for useless livestock.
The story suggests that the barcrawling narrator is just spinning tall tales to get free drinks, but moving kessels around does sound a lot easier than transporting the rathtars seen in The Force Awakens, even if this version of the Kessel Run story is clearly nothing but bantha poodoo.
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