Solo's modifications push the ship far past the manufacturer's original specifications, but both the sublight drives and the hyperdrives are as finicky as they are fast, and Solo frequently has to crawl around inside the hull making last minute repairs to get the ship flying. Two quad laser cannons are enough to stop TIE Fighters and pirate ships, while concussion missiles provide short-range punch. It sports a deflector shield system 'liberated' from the Imperial maintenance facilities at Myomar. When combat is necessary, the Falcon is ready. And Solo has shielded smuggling compartments hidden throughout the ship's interior. It is fitted with a top of the line sensor suite system to detect incoming Imperial ships long before those crafts notice the 'lowly freighter'. It has a Class 0.5 hyperdrive, which is nearly twice as fast as the fastest Imperial warships. Beneath the Falcon's battered exterior hides a fast, tough smuggling vessel. The Falcon appeared to be no different from the thousands of other Corallian Engineering YT-1300 light freighters plying the star routes of the Empire. The best way to avoid 'Imperial entanglements' was to give nosy Imperial Customs inspectors nothing to suspect in the first place. The Falcon's dilapidated appearance was part of spice smuggler Han Solo's game plan. Luke doubted that the ship would be able to lift off from Docking Bay 94, much less make it halfway across the galaxy. Luke Skywalker could not hold in his reaction upon first seeing the Millennium Falcon, the battered freighter that was somehow to transport him, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the two droids R2-D2 and C-3PO from Tatooine to the planet Alderaan.

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