> That way Han Solo can make sense in the infamous quote.

They explained it in the Solo movie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/ah3ptm/solo_a...

binarymax 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Making a whole movie just to retcon the parsec misuse in Ep IV was a choice

	▲	latexr 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They made a movie to make money. I doubt anyone holding the purse strings cared one iota if that bit were corrected or not. It’s not really a retcon either because they didn’t change anything.

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slavik81 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That had more or less been the explanation in the books for decades, and even in George Lucas' notes from 1977:

> It's a very simple ship, very economical ship, although the modifications he made to it are rather extensive – mostly to the navigation system to get through hyperspace in the shortest possible distance (parsecs).