Distance to Mustafar?

Hi all.

I am wondering.........how far is the distance from Coruscant to Mustafar?

Mustafar is on the Outer Rim isnt it?

Yet Vader and then Sidious seem to travel there in no time at all.
Yes, I know they travel at lightspeed but I thought the Outer Rim was days away (in Hyperspace travel time) from Coruscant?

Can Anyone offer any insight?

 

12 parsecs. It didn't take Obi-Wan hardly anytime at all to reach Kamino nor did it take Mace and his legions of Jedi a long time before stepping on Geonosis.

 

Aren't parsecs a measure of time in the GFFA?



I really am asking and I really don't know.

 

As most of us say here: "They get from planet to planet by the speed of the plot"

 

Thanks guys.

Whats the purpose of Mustafar?

Who owns it?

Is it a neutral world?

What is the purpose of the Magma workers?

Do they provide energy for just Mustafar is it shipped off world?

 

I know that nickel ore deposits are created by lava flows in Hawaii. We could assume some useful metel comes out of Mustafar. Given the speeds of vehicles through hyperspace, Mustafar could be reached from Coruscant in less than an hour if the 12 parsecs comment is true.

 

I'd leave those answers to the EU..

 

Yep.face_happy]

 

Han's exaggerating about the Kessel Run. You can tell by the look on Obi-wan's face after he says that he did it in 12 parsecs. The eu made an explaination for it and Chewie claims that the reading is false due to it probably being not set properly.

Anyway, Mustafar is out in the Outer Rim. It doesn't take long because Lucas doesn't want it to. Early eu said that it took a week to travel through Hyperspace, but it was later dropped as the PT eu began.

 

Sold was not exaggerating his Kessle Run! Im a firm believer that Han could get within 12 Parsecs of a blackhole! The Falcon is just that damn fast (when its wroking properly).

 

quote:Aren't parsecs a measure of time in the GFFA?

Parsecs are measure of distance,NOT time.
A parsec equals 3.258 light years (19 trillion miles)
Thats why the kessle run remark makes no sense, i think Han simply made the boast up to see how big of dupes Luke and Obi-Wan were.
then again i'm a trekkie, what do i know?

 

Not much... just kidding! But GL himself has said that parsecs were a measure of time, not distance.

 

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/glossary.html

I think NASA knows a bit more than GL

 

Since speed = distance divided by time, you can make a parsac equal whatever you want. It is relative. A parsec is 19 trillion miles, figure the speed of light 186000 miles per sec, a parsec can also equal to 102,150 seconds (28.4 hrs) at the speed of light. So the kessal run in less than 12 parsecs, could mean that the race itself is a measure distance, and he did it in just over 14 days?? Does this make sense?

 

Wow, I'm apparently missing something here. Are we not talking about parsecs? This measurment of whatever is real?? I was not aware. Regardless of what I know, GL explains what parsecs mean in his films. We all know we would'nt really hear the sounds of battle in space, but hey Ben Burtt has to make a living! Anyway, are parsecs real or the equivilent of something in reality??

 

This thread got a little sidetracked, but nevertheless, I believe "parsecs" and hyperdrive speed, space travel, etc.. in the Star Wars universe are explained by Lucas himself in the "A New Hope" commentary. Something about lightspeed making the traditional concept of speed irrelavent and therefore it becomes an issue of how efficiently a ship's nav computer can calculate the "trip" between two points (a straight line could "bounce too close to a supernova" or some such thing).

 

Thanks guys.

Whats the purpose of Mustafar?

Who owns it?

Is it a neutral world?

What is the purpose of the Magma workers?

Do they provide energy for just Mustafar is it shipped off world?
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I'd leave those answers to the EU..



On the dvd commentary, one guy says they were mining minerals, but then George interjects that they were mining energy. Mining minerals makes much more sense to me. Scooping out energy particles just doesnt look practical at all.

 

Apologies for the off topic...

...kinda...

...but I remember reading somewhere about the Han Solo - parsec speech. Unfortunately, I can't remember where, and so I can't state if the source is genuine/canon/whatever you wish to call it. And this doesn't necessarily mean I agree with it!

Anyway... I remember reading the the parsec is, as stated by a few people above, a measurement of distance, and not time. Doing the Kessel run in less than the stated number of parsecs referred to the fact that Solo managed to take the shortest distance - or 'shortcut', if you will - to pass between the black hole ridden section of space.

So again, as I think was mentioned above, this would also equate to the shortest amount of time.

Apologies if this is wrong and/or complete rubbish!

 

The distance of Mustafar from Coruscant can be derived from the following equation:

VFAD - NPN = TDFCTM (or V - N = D)

(very far away distance) - (narrative plot needs) = (total distance from Coruscant to Mustafar).

Or... I'm wrong. lol.

Hope that helped... sort of...

 

I read somewhere that it is 12 parsecs, but I can't remember where.
1 parsec = 3.26 light years

 

I'm always amused, when people talk about this, that everyone forgets the the Millennium Falcon seemed to reach the Alderaan system in about 5 minutes at most!

Star Wars time and real time have always been two totally differant things.

 

I'm always amused, when people talk about this, that everyone forgets the the Millennium Falcon seemed to reach the Alderaan system in about 5 minutes at most!

Yeah, 5 minutes of screen time. But Chewy and R2 did play a game of chess, so it had to be at least a few hours implied. But it seemed liked you couldnt even get in a game of checkers going to Mustafar.

 

Yes, Mustafar is in the Outer Rim. It is because Sidious' (A.K.A. Palpatine) Theta-class Shuttle is specially modified to have a faster hyperdrive. Extremely fast hyperdrives (like ISDs) can travel the galaxy in less then 48 hours. He was on the bank for a few hours (6, 8 maybe)

"Whats the purpose of Mustafar? "

It's a lava (or energy) mining area and CIS fortress.

"Who owns it?"

THe CIS originally, but the Galactic Empire likely took over it (BF II)

"Is it a neutral world?"

No, originally CIS, then Empire

"What is the purpose of the Magma workers?"

To extract resources. The workers pick up bits of magma, likely metal ore

"Do they provide energy for just Mustafar is it shipped off world?"

Just Mustafar. The ore is shipped off-world. those things sticking out must be giant Radiators, they absore the heat (but shields protect it from lava) and water circulates through the thin pole, turning a turbine, and providing energy.

 

I agree that the distance between planets certainly is based on plot points and necessity!

It does seem odd that Anakin would have had to have been lying burnt to a crisp for so long while Palpatine travelled to fetch him... I mean from when Palpatine exclaimed that he could sense that Anakin (or Vader...) was in trouble.

Even if he sensed this at the beginning of the duel, that would only have lessened the time by a few minutes or so.

Heh!

 

Yep.

Uncle Sidious turned up just in time to rescue Vader.

Perhaps it was another way to show us Sidious's power.
The fact that he could sense Vader being in danger in the first place.