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To: driftdiver
Its called the Millennium Falcon.

It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 230 trillion miles. Wait, that's a unit of distance. That makes no sense.

13 posted on 01/31/2011 12:00:27 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Yes but as long as they can out run Imperial Starships, not the local Bulk cruisers mind you I'm about the Corellian Ships now!
17 posted on 01/31/2011 12:05:37 PM PST by KC_Lion (America is on the Brink of War with its self, and no one seams to notice or care)
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To: KarlInOhio
It would make sense if you had to drop in and out of hyperspace to avoid interacting with gravitational fields. Then the "ballsiest" runner would be the guy who flirted with the fields closely, shaving the actual real space distance that was traveled to a record...
Of course, now you get to the sense part of the actual traveled distance taking about a half year if all undertaken at around 99.99% C...
27 posted on 01/31/2011 1:34:22 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: KarlInOhio
It would make sense if you had to drop in and out of hyperspace to avoid interacting with gravitational fields. Then the "ballsiest" runner would be the guy who flirted with the fields closely, shaving the actual real space distance that was traveled to a record... Of course, now you get to the sense part of the actual traveled distance taking about a half year if all undertaken at around 99.99% C...
28 posted on 01/31/2011 1:34:32 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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