Does this help explain how you can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs?

Well, doesn't there have to be a planet called Mon Calamari?

Where would all the Calamari come from, if there wasn't?

Mon Calamari should be known by all, birth place of the almighty Admiral "It's a trap" Ackbar, called Dac in its native tongue. Home of two races, the Quarren and the notable Mon Calamari who give the planet its human name.

Hmm I love the mini episode of Clone Wars where the SCUBA Clone Troopers commanded by Kit Fisto take on the the Seperatist Army and Quarren Isolation League. Pure awesomesauce.

@Git Em SteveDave: You need a ship fast enough to do 1/2 past lightspeed.

@Git Em SteveDave:

Make sure the alluvial dampers are properly installed.

@Bal-Cleric: The rebel capital ships were designed/built by the Calamarians, right?

That's a beautiful map~

@B: That's what Wookipedia says

@B: some of them, yes.

It looks like the galaxy is mostly empty of Earth-like worlds. I was expecting tens of thousands of worlds, or millions. NOW that would be a map.

"The kessel run as someone pointed out is surrounded by a region with many black holes that starships must skirt the edge of to get from A to B.

The thing with black holes is that you need to keep out of the event horizon so for most ships there is a distance of say (number invented to help explain) 10km, so an average speed ship must stay 10km away from the blackholes so as to not pass the point of no return and avoid being sucked in.

Since the falcon is so fast and has a lot of thrust compared to weight she can skirt closer to the blackhole and still retain the power to escape the gravity well, say 8km. So being able to get closer and make the run in 12 parsecs does mean chop off distance, but you need the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy to be able to get away from those gravity wells later, hence solo means "yeah my ship is that fast i can get so close to the black holes we made the run in 12 parsecs" "

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P.S. this map is awesome, I'm firing up the 44" Canon ipf800 printer at work and blasting myself out one of these!

Mon Calamari as a planet huh?

Better not let Dr. Zoidberg find out... he'll go eat everything on it!

Being a spoilsport here, I'd have to say that I'd move out most of the inner worlds closer to the galactic rim. Of course, this is the same universe that bases the energy of the force on microscopic creatures in the blood and whose the nastiest insult is Nerf Herder.

Based on the astronomy theories circulating these days, there is probably an area around the galactic core that is too hot (radiation and energy wise) to sustain any sort of carbon/water based life.

I'd also move Mon Calamari a bit closer to the middle as it would basically be more like Hoth than Hoth. Not a big fan of the idea of Calamari Popsicles. "You can't repel cold of that magnitude!"

Otherwise, nice map.

@gre9del: i always thought it was less a function of actual thrust available and more a function of how quickly an accuratly you can calculated the gravity interactions along a route to map the shortest distance. so a faster ship in hyperspace is not only the one that maintains the fastest average speed but the one that maps the shortest route. in that sense 'made the run in less than 12 parsecs' is a boast about how effective your hyperdrive computer is.

i recall it being said that a jedi could achieve the fastest travel times of all by taking a hyperdrive with a fast light speed and disabling the safty override that causes the ship to come out of hyperspace in the presence of a strong gravity well and then 'use the force' to map out a near perfect route between gravity wells. although i can't remember where i heard this.

@dOk: Well, it is the best source of squid on mackerel porn in the galaxy. I think the planet of the anchovies is in greater danger from Zoidberg, though.

@dOk: Only if it was Mon Anchovy.

@ManchuCandidate: While the core can get quite radiation wise, the rim is not particularly cool...

We exist in a realtively small minor arm of the milky way...

The radiation at the core make make systems inhospitable, but out side of out local star we get almost nothing from outside stars...

ITS A TRAP!!!

By that I mean, you will get trapped in this map all day if you open it.

Sorry, not to post again, but Moff, (and he can back me up on this) did point out that Dantooine was far too remote to be a feasible rebel base, yet here they have it totally clustered in with a bunch of planets, right next to Empire space. GAWD!!

Cool! I helped design this map. I wrote an article on its creation for STAR WARS INSIDER magazine back in 2002, which can be read here:
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Del Rey is publishing STAR WARS: THE ESSENTIAL ATLAS in 2009.

@Garrison Dean: well, it's far out from the core worlds, and remoteness is a subjective determination, and not necessarily a function of geography (i.e. a small town in upstate New York can be "remote").

As far as the Empire space, that's all Expanded Universe stuff-- that's what's left of the Empire long after Jedi, not the Empire in the days of Moff Tarkin.

@Daveinva: &@ Garrison Dean:

I agree with both of you. (yes remote is relative), but come on.. that isn't that remote...
(but then Moff is just being a dick, "thanks for the base location but I'm STILL going to blow up your planet")

And why is Tatooine it is right on a trade route.. and totally not in Hutt Space...

@ManchuCandidate: please stop trying to apply accepted physics. you're taking the fun right out of it

I had that issue of Star Wars insider and used to have that poster on the wall of my extra bedroom. It was a great addition to all my Star Wars crap.

Where's the ATM on that map?

Well, seeing as San Hill was the head of the Intergalactic Banking Clan, probably somewhere over by the planet Muun.

I've got one of these lying around from my days as a Star Wars Insider subscriber (or some such something when I ate and breathed Star Wars).

Needless to say, it's far more awesome laid out on a table or pined to a wall in its full cartographic glory.

I'd love to play Empire at War with this map