On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Roger Burton West <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:30:12PM -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:
>>I thought the Kessel run was distance based because it involved
>>passing between a large number of black holes and other massive
>>gravitational objects.
>
> Well, that's the retcon that came out several years later. Or you could
> assume that Lucas didn't bother to check and just put in something that
> sounded "spacey".
>
> I think this is actually quite an important point: if you want a game in
> the Star Wars style, you shouldn't be counting kilowatts or gravities of
> acceleration...

or rules, for that matter.  They get in the way of the plot.


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David Scheidt
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