Yes. The maw was an area with a high concentration of black holes. He cut it down to 15 or 12 or whatever parsecs by skirting closer to the maw than anyone else was willing to go. Thing is, that's not so much a brag on the speed of the ship as it is a brag on his piloting ability or maybe the toughness of the ship.
Theoriginalcanon explanation (i.e. from the Star Wars script) was that Han was bullshitting to make himself and the Falcon sound better to Kenobi but Obi-Wan wasn't buying it.
The EU explanation of distance makes no goddamn sense, in fact, the whole goddamn 'Kessel Run' makes no goddamn sense, because you wouldn't travel 18 parsecs (thats 54 light years) with your sublight engines and you can't negotiate a fucking asteroid field in hyperspace.
But it's stupid because HE knows what it means. If he were trolling them, sure. But he's trying to get them to hire him. That revised draft explanation doesn't mean he's lying about using parsec vs the correct term. It implies that he's lying about having made the kessel run in that amount of time. The look obiwan gives him is the look of "no one can go that fast." Not "parsec is a measurement of distance, not time, you retard."
Google it for lolz...
So, its totes really distance, by using a shorter route, thats dangerous. But, cargo weight "slows" you down... in space... hahahahahah.
Yeah the EU explanation from Wookieepedia is what I was bitching about, but the part you're laughing about is, ironically, the only part of it that makes some sense. The weight of your cargo would have some impact on how close you could skirt the black holes in the maw when you were shortening your trip.
Are you implying that weight/mass doesn't matter at all in space? That one thruster of static size/power would work with the same effectiveness whether anchored to 1 ton or 1,000,000 tons?
