Damn. Why'd I fucking bring that up?

Yeah, that's roughly what I heard on the matter. Without reading the white paper on the subject, I can't say for sure how sturdy or flimsy an explanation it really is, but my guess is that the "official" Kessel run explanation has a fucked up view of how black holes actually behave and interact with matter. For example, the new Star Trek movie portrayed them in about the most incorrect way I've ever seen. Black holes do not suck. Matter falls toward and orbits them just like it would any planetary body with equivalent mass.

Also, a parsec is a ridiculously long way, about 3.25 light years. Black holes are tiny, but their destructive tidal influence extends a decent way. Each Foot the Millennium Falcon would trim closer to the black holes would increase the tidal stress by multiple orders of magnitude. So, they couldn't have shaved off much distanceat all. If Han Solo did it in 12 parsecs, then the old record holder must have done it in 12.0000000000000000000000001 parsecs. And it says more about the Falcon's sturdiness than its speed or navigational guile.

Great, more tangents.

So, uh, Reach. Should be pretty good. Although...

I was hoping to see a truly sexified version of the Mark V armor from my beloved Halo 1. I guess if you want something done right...