Trivia / The Han Solo Trilogy

• Ascended Fanon: The trilogy incorporates a fan theory regarding Han's famous Kessel Run. For years, seemingly every Star Wars fan had their own favorite explanation for why Han bragged about making the Kessel Run "in less than twelve parsecs" in A New Hope, since a parsec is a unit of distance rather than time, with one of the most popular (and the one that put Han in the best light) being that something about the Millennium Falcon, specifically related to its speed, actually allowed him to take a shortcut of some sort that a less capable ship wouldn't be able to make. In Rebel Dawn, that's exactly what happened: the Kessel Run runs through the Maw Cluster, a tricky cluster of black holes that ships making the run have to navigate around, and the Falcon's speed and maneuverability allowed Han to escape gravitational pulls that would have doomed a less capable ship, so he was able to fly a more direct route that shaved some distance off compared to the conventional route. (Incidentally, this is similar to the explanation that Solo added to the reboot two decades later, which possibly inspired the latter.)
• Similarly Named Works: The third book of the trilogy, Rebel Dawn, shares its name with a later Star Wars Legends novel in the New Jedi Order series, the second book of Aaron Allston's Enemy Lines duology (the other book being Rebel Dream).

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