A parsec represented an astronomical distance measurement, approximating 30.5 trillion kilometers (or 3.26 light-years). The standard grid system, utilized by starship pilots to document the spatial position of star systems, employed a scale using 15-parsec increments. As an illustration, the distance between Tatooine and Geonosis was less than one parsec, while the Kamino system resided twelve parsecs south of the Rishi Maze.
In the era of the Clone Wars, the planet Toydaria gained strategic importance in circumventing the Separatist blockade of Ryloth, due to its location being 2000 parsecs nearer to the Ryloth system compared to the closest Republic fleet.
Han Solo famously asserted that his starship, the Millennium Falcon, completed the Kessel Run "in under twelve parsecs," thereby flaunting its capacity to endure shorter, yet more perilous, trajectories through hyperspace. The truth is that the Falcon's completion of the Run in under twelve parsecs was only technically accurate, requiring rounding down to achieve the figure Solo proclaimed.