The little known secret as to how Han Solo made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs ...

The Kessel Run was a 20-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

When Han Solo in Star Wars Episode IV “A New Hope”, brags to Ben Kenobi that that Millennium Falcon could make Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs in response to Ben’s need to find a fast ship, Ben appears confused and sceptical as a parsec is a measurement of distance, not time

Of course, Solo was referring to the advanced navigational computer on the Falcon rather than its engines, it’s navi-computer would calculate much faster routes than other ships could. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made the claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs

It is broadly acknowledged that Solo could have articulated his answer to Ben’s question far better focusing on the navigational capabilities of the Falcon, rather than it’s outright speed.

What is a very little known secret is that the ability for the Falcon to be such a technically advanced ship was enabled by Vocus through two new products, recently launched, that were trialled at the Formos Spaceport and across the Kessel Run nineteen years after the formation of the Galactic Empire

At the spaceport itself, Vocus provided a 400Gbps Wavelength Ethernet service to enable rapid transfer of data between the Falcon and nearby Formos data centres. Chewbacca was in a word “stoked” with this new capability as he was no longer delayed by need to run additional cables to add incremental 100Gbps services. Chewie was also struggling with multi-link load balancing and just loved the ease of scalability the bigger pipes provide. No wonder then I suppose that our press release of a fully productised 400Gbps service between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra has been so warmly received by our Vocus customers and the market in general

In-flight was another challenge for Solo and the Falcon as navigational data needed to be updated in flight to ensure the ship was not sucked into the gravitational pull of the Maw and that errant asteroids were avoided

The team tested a few cellular and satellite technologies for this purpose but in the end landed on our Vocus Satellite - Starlink service. The Vocus service offered to Team Falcon a unique combination of high bandwidth, low latency and mobility in a business grade service utilising a high performance antenna which can handle more extreme weather/atmospheric situations

Han Solo is a time-poor being and valued across both offerings the Vocus service advantage providing him a single point of contact in case of any service issues. A little short on Republic Credits from time to time, Han also loved how with Vocus he could amortise the purchase of the Starlink equipment across a contract term (hey, he is good for it ...). Han also liked the confidence that being able to purchase a second set of equipment for swap out purposes in case of a hardware related problem, particularly when in the more remote regions of the cosmos (payment upfront in that one thanks buddy ... )

Want to know more about our Vocus Wavelength or Vocus Satellite services, contact your rockstar Vocus Account Manager, or visit www.vocus.com.au/starlink 

Note/Disclaimer: This story is not actually 100% factually correct. If the Millenium Falcon team did need high bandwidth Ethernet or LEO based Satellite services, I am sure they totally would give Vocus a call !!. Oh, btw, Merry Sithmas 😊

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