Kessel Run/Legends

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Kessel Run

Historical information

Era(s)

Rebellion era

Astrographical information

Regions

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Sectors

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Stellar bodies

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Start point

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End point

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Planets

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Junctions

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"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."

―Han Solo^[src]

The Kessel Run was an 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si'Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel's mines.

Description

It took travelers in real space around The Maw leading them to an uninhabitable—but far easier to navigate—area of space called The Pit, which was an asteroid cluster encased in a nebula arm making sensors as well as pilots go virtually blind. Thus there was a high chance that pilots, weary from the long flight through real space, would crash into an asteroid.

History

The Kessel Run was one of the most heavily used smuggling routes in the Galactic Empire.^[1] Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". A parsec was a unit of distance, not time. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cl

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s are given a quest called "The Kessel Run", which involves warning three key figures of a coming attack while riding an elephant like mount. It has a time limit of 15 minutes.