huck2me said:

The Millenium Falcon was a YT-1300 light freighter produced by CEC or the Corellian Engineering Coorporation, one of the most popular space transport hulls ever produced. The appeal of the YT-1300 transport was not its basic equipment, 100 metric tons of cargo space, but its ability to take extraordinary amounts of modifications.  Excellent navigation is an important part of Hyperdrive speed and because Chewie was a member of the Claatuvac navigator guild his expertise was critical to the Falson’ hyperdrive modifications.

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Please tell me you googled that...

laserpig said:

makes me feel like a nerd but I know exactly what you're talking about

it's like, how could it be the fastest ship in the galaxy and also an old junker?
seems like incompatible claims

i think they just wanted it to be old and junky to add to the underdog flavor of Han Solo

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It's the equivalent of a muscle car.

MhmOyster said:

Gr8fulJ420 said:

Are you kidding? It's the ship that made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.

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That just makes the Kessel run 12 parsecs long, since a parsec is a unit of distance not speed.

12 Parsecs = 2.30082338 × 10^14 miles

/Lame

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huck2me said:

Traveling through hyperspace requires careful navigation to avoid stars, planets, asteroids and other solid obstacles and since no long distance journey can be made in a straight line, the fastest ship is the one that can plot the most direct course thereby travelling the least distance.

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Of course the Falcon's dilapitated appearance was part of spice smuggler Han Solo's game plan. The best way to avoid "imperial entanglements" was to ive nosy imperial customs inspectors nothing to suspect in the first place. TheFalcon appeared to be no different from thousands of other Corellian Engineering YT-1300 light freighters

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Beneath the Falcon's battered exterior hides a fast, tough smuggling vessel. It has a Class 0.5 hyperdrive, which is nearly twice as fast as the fastest imperial warships. It is fitted with a top of the line (and highly illegal) sensor suite system to detect incoming imperial ships long before those craft notice the "lowly freighter" And Solo has shielded smuggling compartments hidden throughout the ship's interior.

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When combat is necessary, the Falcon is ready. It sports a deflector shield system liberated from the Imperial maintenance facilities at Myomar. Two quad laser cannons are enough to stop TIE fighters and pirate ships while concussion missiles provide short range punch.

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Solo's modifications push the ship far past the manufacturer's original specs 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.

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