Fellow Star Wars fans please help

[Alex Star]

Okay so I need a bit of help here.

I need a "Team Name", and I'm hoping someone here might be able to help.

I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan, and I hate to have to reach out to help for something like this, but I'm just not very good at putting these kinds of things together.

I am a father of 11 month old twins, Luke and Leia (yes my wife was cool with that, no I did not have to do any special bribery.)

My wife and I have always taken part in the March of Dimes, March for Babies to benefit babies who are born prematurely. This is now of double-importance to us as our twins were born 6 weeks early themselves.

My wife wants a "Team Name" for our Walk that both incorporates the whole March for Babies idea and Star Wars together.

For example. I came up with The Imperial Marchers (but she didn't like that because "those are the bad guys")

My Star Wars knowledge is pretty extensive but I've always been horrible at this name based pun/clever name type thingy.

BTW I'm not going to post a link to our March of Dimes team page or anything, I'm not really looking for donations, but if YOU DO for some reason want to you can always PM me for more information. Really all i want here is some help with the name thing.

[Makensha]

Uhm, Skywalkers?

[The Glyphstone]

Or Skymarchers.

[Traab]

The AT-ATs would be an interesting choice, (cause they are walkers, hur hur) but again, might be too evil for the wife. THE KESSEL RUNNERS!

[Devonix]

The AT-ATs would be an interesting choice, (cause they are walkers, hur hur) but again, might be too evil for the wife. THE KESSEL RUNNERS!

Dammit Traab you had to go and ruin everything BY MAKING THE PERFECT SUGGESTION!!!

Ok go home everyone, might as well lock the thread.


Go blame Traab.

[ThePhantasm]

My wife wants a "Team Name" for our Walk that both incorporates the whole March for Babies idea and Star Wars together.

The Hairless Ewoks

or

The Imperial March

[Triscuitable]

If you do "The Kessel Runners", then you're required to run around with a sign that says, "we did it in 5 parsecs!* *(that is a unit of distance, not time)

[Traab]

If you do "The Kessel Runners", then you're required to run around with a sign that says, "we did it in 5 parsecs!* *(that is a unit of distance, not time)

Hmph, not a plot hole or error, Han Solo figured out a short cut that only took 5 parsecs to get from point A to point B. I figure he did it by blasting his way through a planet instead of going around it or something. /nod

[The Glyphstone]

Hmph, not a plot hole or error, Han Solo figured out a short cut that only took 5 parsecs to get from point A to point B. I figure he did it by blasting his way through a planet instead of going around it or something. /nod

I think the canon explanation is that the Kessel Run involves passing near a black hole cluster or something similarly dangerous - Han took his ship closer to the dangers than anyone else had dared, thus producing a shorter A-to-B line.

[Dumbledore lives]

I think the canon explanation is that the Kessel Run involves passing near a black hole cluster or something similarly dangerous - Han took his ship closer to the dangers than anyone else had dared, thus producing a shorter A-to-B line.

I think another explanation is that he was big to the poor farm boy, and Obi-Wan seemed to know it with his slight grin.

[The Glyphstone]

I think another explanation is that he was big to the poor farm boy, and Obi-Wan seemed to know it with his slight grin.

Yeah, I looked on Wookiepedia afterwards, and apparently parts of the original ANH script imply that.

[Emmerask]

I think the canon explanation is that the Kessel Run involves passing near a black hole cluster or something similarly dangerous - Han took his ship closer to the dangers than anyone else had dared, thus producing a shorter A-to-B line.

Yep, pretty much the cluster he cut very near to is called the maw black hole cluster.

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Normally the kessel run is ~18 parsecs long.

From Wookipedia:
Another interesting trivia might be that Han actually lied about the 5 parsecs (to impress obiwan), this is only possible if you actually cut through the cluster.
Han cut the distance to 11.5 parsecs though (and later even shorter)

[The Glyphstone]

The line isn't "under five parsecs", it is "under twelve parsecs". So while the script hints he may have just been lying when they wrote it, later EU writers made it canon when the Kessel Run was actually defined.

[Thrawn183]

Team Thrawn. Don't make me take your twins away and give them to a crazed dark jedi clone to persuade you.

[hamishspence]

Yeah, I looked on Wookiepedia afterwards, and apparently parts of the original ANH script imply that.

In the novelization, which came out before the movie, it's "less than twelve standard timeparts".

[pendell]

Dammit Traab you had to go and ruin everything BY MAKING THE PERFECT SUGGESTION!!!

Ok go home everyone, might as well lock the thread.


Go blame Traab.

Yup. That works perfectly. And on the plus side, they are GUARANTEED to complete the run in less than five parsecs distance.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Matthias2207]

Yup. That works perfectly. And on the plus side, they are GUARANTEED to complete the run in less than five parsecs distance.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

Not if this run is twice to Proxima Centauri and back.