Editing Talk:890: Etymology

It always bothered me how an independent gunslinger with no team of engineers or assistants has a faster ship than the entirety of the empire and all it's technical expertise. Where did he get his funding and kit from? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|purple|David}}<font color=green size=3px>y</font></u><font color=indigo size=4px>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 10:09, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

The same place as the Falcon....  gambling with people like Lando?  (Also Falconry, by whatever name, was practiced in Mesopotamia and by the Bedouin in arguably at least partially desert-planet-like areas.  It's quite possible that the ancestral 'Falcons' or equivalent translator-microbe-referenced creatures originated ''on'' Tatooine.  A long, long time later, in a galaxy (and planet) much, much less far away (basically, here... and now) our Earth falcons are at least one branch of descendents.)  Now, no doubts "Millenium" refers to the Imperial (previously Republican) standard years, but it begs the question of what the length and nature of the Tattooine 'year' is, given it's a binary-star orbitter, eh? ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.99.81.144|178.99.81.144]] 16:51, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

He won the ship from Lando, that guy owned his own city. Military ships carry much more equipment and are less manoeuvrable. [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 19:21, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
:Plus, most commercial and government ships have extra equipment for safety and reliability.  If you take a car, strip everything out of it, and put a nitrous oxide injection system in it, it will be faster than any cop car.  The cop car will be able to withstand an accident much better (they are often rated for 70-mph rear-end collisions) and will typically start every time the key is turned. 
: Oh, and I think Lando did not yet run Cloud City when Han won the Falcon from him.  I recall Han being surprised to find out Lando had won Cloud City, in The Empire Strikes Back. [[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 16:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

:I've heard this question a few times before, I always just assumed he was lying. He was a rogue and a scoundrel, trying to talk up his knackered old ship.  The stuff in the Extended Universe always seemed to take it as gospel that the ship was this amazing super vessel, but I still think it's more likely that he was just spinning a tale. [[User:Elaverick|Elaverick]] ([[User talk:Elaverick|talk]]) 13:48, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

In George Lucas' novelization of the first movie (which I have heard was ghosted by Alan Dean Foster), Obi-Wan remarks to Luke that "Even a duck must be taught how to swim."  And Luke replies, "What's a duck?"  In another place, Luke was thinking "about a dog he had once owned" right before another event (I believe it was a ship going into hyperspace). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.246|108.162.221.246]] 22:08, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs actually makes sense. The Kessel Run is a run that travels near a black hole, as well as multiple drops into and out of light speed. Therefore, the shorter the distance it took for a pilot to make the run, the faster the ship was (to negate the gravitational pull of the black hole) and the better the pilot was (to be able to maneuver the ship more tightly). So the Kessel Run was actually a race to do it in the shortest ''distance'' possible, not the shortest time. 24 October 2016 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.69.100|162.158.69.100]] 17:38, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

:Honestly, I have to laugh (not at you), as your explanation is very much correct, but the whole situation is ridiculous. What started as a throw-away one-liner brag that seemingly misused an astronomical term has turned into a minor point of debate that was eventually resolved by a film centered around that one line.[[User:Ncpenguin|Ncpenguin]] ([[User talk:Ncpenguin|talk]]) 01:45, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

This same sort of thing also comes up when you think about the names of many rebel/alliance fighters.  The Star Wars universe does not use our alphabet.  You can probably justify the X-wing since an X is a pretty common symbol outside of being a letter, but one must wonder about all those other letter-wings, like the Y, A, B, H, etc.  Fighters shaped after letters that don't seem to exist in Star Wars. {{unsigned ip|172.68.58.53}}