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Parsec

Legends Canon version → Linked from 112 articles

Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

A parsec was a unit of distance equal to 3.258 light-years. The system used by starship navigators throughout the galaxy to record the location of star systems was based on parsecs, with one unit on the coordinate scale corresponding to 15 parsecs.

Text and facts from the “Parsec/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Facts

Length
3.258 light-years
About 31 trillion kilometers
Purpose
Unit of distance

Appearances

48 works, in story order
  1. The Old Republic: Revan (mentioned only)
  2. Star Wars: The Old Republic
  3. Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Strongholds (mentioned only)
  4. Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire (mentioned only)
  5. Rogue Planet
  6. Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (mentioned only)
  7. Supply Lines
  8. Shadow of Malevolence
  9. Dooku Captured
  10. Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth (mentioned only)
  11. Looking In: Outward Bound (mentioned only)
  12. Nightsisters (mentioned only)
  13. 6.33
  14. MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
  15. MedStar II: Jedi Healer
  16. Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight (mentioned only)
  17. Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (mentioned only)
  18. Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka
  19. Rebel Dawn
  20. Kessel Run (non-canon)
  21. Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (mentioned only)
  22. Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (first mentioned)
  23. A Bitter Winter
  24. The Long Arm of the Hutt
  25. The Jewel of Yavin
  26. The Capture of Imperial Hazard
  27. Star Wars (1977) 51 (mentioned only)
  28. Star Wars (1977) 59 (mentioned only)
  29. Star Wars (1977) 60 (mentioned only)
  30. Desperate Measures
  31. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire novel (mentioned only)
  32. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire abridged audiobook (mentioned only)
  33. Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire (mentioned only)
  34. X-Wing Rogue Squadron 32 (mentioned only)
  35. Starter's Tale (in a flashback)
  36. The DarkStryder Campaign
  37. The Kathol Outback
  38. Endgame
  39. Tatooine Ghost (mentioned only)
  40. The Secret Tales of Luke's Hand! (mentioned only)
  41. Before the Storm
  42. Tempest Feud
  43. Young Jedi Knights: Shards of Alderaan
  44. The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
  45. The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion
  46. Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen (mentioned only)
  47. Riptide (mentioned only)
  48. Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Non-canon appearances: 1
  1. Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan (mentioned only)

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