Although the ship had squeezed through many narrow spots in its history, it still lost the oversized sensor dish while trying to get through a particularly tight section of the Death Star 's superstructure.
The Falcon ' s main source of power was a Quadex power core. Its main computer was made of three droid brains which identified themselves as the Millennium Collective. During the Clone Wars , the freighter was property of the Republic Group. At some point, either prior or during it's ownership under the Republic Group, a military-grade rectenna was installed on the Stellar Envoy. Shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, the Stellar Envoy was involved in a collision with a bulk freighter and was seriously damaged.
The wreckage was reconditioned by a salvager , who used several sections and modules from a scrapped YTp freighter to repair the ship. As such, Calrissian modified the two cargo mandibles at the front into an auxiliary ship launch, thus turning the plain freighter into a unique starship.
When Calrissian was injured during a raid on Kessel , the smuggler Han Solo and Wookiee Chewbacca were left in command of the ship.
During the escape from Kessel, Calrissian uploaded L3 to the Falcon as the ship's navigational system , assisting the crew in making the Kessel Run in under 13 parsecs.
During the Kessel run the ship was majorly damaged by TIE fighters , with one blasting a hole in the front of the Falcon. After destroying the fighters Han slid the Falcon over an asteroid which destroyed two of the Falcon's landing gears. Calrissian later took the heavily damaged ship after landing on Savareen but ended up betting his ship in a " Corellian Spike " game of Sabacc on Numidian Prime , [12] losing to the smuggler Han Solo. The Millennium Falcon ' s destiny as a tool for a small- time smuggling operation was changed when it was chartered by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina for passage to Alderaan.
When challenged by Kenobi about his ship's speed, Solo bragged that the Falcon was capable of attaining 0. The journey to Alderaan proved to be much more than a simple passenger flight. The Falcon was forced to blast its way out of Mos Eisley when a garrison of stormtroopers attacked the ship in an attempt to recover its cargo.
It also narrowly avoided capture by a couple of Star Destroyers before making the jump to lightspeed. When the Falcon began its escape, it created a big enough distraction that the siblings realized they had the chance to steal any other nearby ship. The Falcon emerged from hyperspace into the remains of Alderaan. After chasing a single TIE fighter stranded in what appeared to be empty space, the Falcon was captured by one of the first Death Star's tractor beams and secured aboard the massive space station.
Thanks to quick thinking by those aboard the Falcon , the ship was made to appear as if the crew had escaped soon after taking off from Tatooine. It was searched by stormtroopers and it was reported that there were no passengers on board and the escape pods had been jettisoned.
Their search had missed the crew, who were hidden in a series of secret smuggling holds. They then killed a scanning crew before they could be detected by the scanner. In a matter of hours , the Millennium Falcon had once again escaped the Imperial Navy , this time with the rescued Princess Leia Organa on board. After a fleeing battle with Imperial fighters and a trip through hyperspace, the ship arrived at the secret Alliance base on Yavin 4.
During the ship's stay on the battle station , the Empire had planted a homing device on board the Falcon , which it used to pursue Organa to this location. As the Rebels scrambled to organize a preemptive attack on the massive Death Star, Solo loaded his reward on board the Falcon and departed the moon. However, thanks to Chewbacca, its smuggler captain had a change of heart. Solo and his ship returned just in time to cover Skywalker in his last-ditch effort to destroy the station and secure the safety of the Rebel Alliance.
The ship's surprise attack destroyed Darth Vader's two wingmen and sent Vader himself spinning off into space, allowing Skywalker to successfully complete his attack and destroy the Death Star.
Three years after the Battle of Yavin , the Falcon was undergoing repairs in the main hangar of the Rebel installation Echo Base as the Empire began its assault on Hoth. As the Alliance scrambled to escape the base, Solo and Chewbacca hurried to make the ship spaceworthy. Organa was cut off from her transport by a tunnel cave -in and was forced to make her escape from Hoth on board the Falcon accompanied by Solo, Chewbacca, and C-3PO.
Solo used the ship's uncanny maneuverability and his piloting skills to elude an Imperial Star Destroyer chasing them, and two more emerging from hyperspace. Solo's maneuvers in the Falcon caused the two Star Destroyers approaching and the one pursuing to nearly collide with each other.
The Falcon then attempted to make the jump into lightspeed, but was stopped short by an equipment malfunction. Forced to take drastic measures to avoid capture, Solo made the decision to pilot the Falcon into a nearby asteroid field in an attempt to lose the Imperial pursuers. However, his repairs were cut short as he had unknowingly landed inside a space slug. Escaping just in time as the beast's huge mouth was closing, the Falcon was discovered by the Imperial II -class Star Destroyer Avenger.
They attempted to jump to lightspeed but once again, the hyperdrive was not fully repaired. Solo then had Chewbacca change course and fly directly at Avenger ' s bridge in an apparent suicidal attack run. The ship disappeared from sight and became undetectable to Avenger. It had not gone far: Solo had attached the Falcon to a blind spot on the conning tower of the Star Destroyer. Adhering to standard Imperial procedure, the Star Destroyers of Death Squadron ejected all scrap and garbage before entering hyperspace.
Solo then signaled Chewbacca to release the ship's landing claws, allowing the Falcon to "float away with the rest of the garbage. After its close encounter with the Empire, the Falcon journeyed to Bespin 's Cloud City , where Solo's old acquaintance Calrissian held the position of Baron Administrator.
The Empire had arrived first, however, due to Fett tailing the Falcon to Bespin. The crew of the Falcon were captured, tortured , and detained. Solo was encased in carbonite and given to the bounty hunter. The remaining members of the crew, joined by Calrissian, escaped to the Falcon.
After rescuing Skywalker, who was dangling from a weather vane on the underside of Cloud City, the ship left the planet and attempted to jump to lightspeed. The crew were unaware that the recently repaired hyperdrive had been disabled by Vader's men, and only a last- minute patch by R2-D2 prevented the Falcon from falling into Imperial hands.
Thanks to R2's efforts, the hyperdrive was activated and the Falcon managed to make the jump at the last second and escape. Chewbacca and Calrissian were discussing Solo, with the latter questioning what they would have done if the Falcon had caught up with Slave I , noting that firing Fett's ship out of the sky would have killed Solo. Calrissian also spoke to Organa and told her that they missed their chance to catch Fett because she made them get Skywalker, who Organa introduced as the man who destroyed the Death Star.
Calrissian promised that they would rescue Solo, as both he and Chewbacca understood Fett was taking their friend to Jabba. When Skywalker joined the conversation and asked where Solo was, Organa told him about what happened and promised that they would find him. After she asked what had happened to him, Skywalker only told her that Kenobi had not answered his call.
Organa had R2-D2 give Chewbacca coordinates for the Rebel fleet, and, with Solo gone and Calrissian not being the ship's owner, she commandeered the Falcon for the Alliance. However, when they arrived at Rendezvous Point Delta-Three , the gathered Alliance ships were under attack from the Empire. Upon seeing the Falcon , the Imperial commander , Ellian Zahra , ordered a TIE fighter squadron and all non-essential turbolaser batteries to target the freighter.
Aboard the ship, Organa and Skywalker, despite his missing hand, moved to the gunning stations, while Chewbacca and Calrissian served as the pilots. Skywalker, however, began to be distracted by thinking about Kenobi and Vader, but he then used the Force on the TIEs, ripping the controls from the pilots' hands, allowing them to deviate from their course and collide with each other; giving Organa a chance to blast them.
Calrissian and Chewbacca then made their attack run on an Arquitens -class command cruiser and, using the Falcon ' s missiles , destroyed the ship's gun emplacements, making an opening for the Rebels to escape to backup Rendezvous Point Gamma-Nine. After the battle, Zahra explained to Vader that the Falcon had disrupted their attack. She told the Dark Lord of the Sith that they attempted to destroy the vessel, but Vader informed her that the Falcon was off-limits.
He permitted her to kill Organa if she was able to, as he had no use for her, but Vader explained to her that there was someone else who was often aboard the Falcon. He warned Zahra that, if this individual, who was secretly his son Skywalker, was killed, there would be significant consequences.
During the following months , the Falcon served as home base to Organa, Skywalker, and Calrissian as they tracked Fett in an attempt to save Solo. After the planetary shield protecting the second Death Star was destroyed, the Falcon and several Alliance fighters entered the battle station through a conduit port and headed towards the reactor core.
Space was limited in the conduit tunnels leading to the core, and the relatively large Falcon lost its sensor dish when the ship clipped a conduit in the tunnel. Calrissian was able to pilot the craft into the energy core housing the main reactor, fired upon the reactor, and headed for the exhaust port. To estimate the acceleration, we can look at the angular size of the back of the Falcon as it moves away.
What does angular size have to do with this anyway? Our eyes and movie cameras don't see the size of things. Instead, they see the angular size of objects. If you draw an imaginary line from your eye out to one side of an object and then another line to the other side of the object, you would make a tiny wedge.
The angle between these two lines is the angular size. This is why when things get farther away, they appear smaller. Oh, I know what you're thinking. That relationship only works for the arc-length of a circle. Yes, that's technically true. If the object is sufficiently far away, however, then the difference between arc-length and width is super tiny, and we can ignore the distinction.
Now for some data. All I need to do is measure the position of the sides of the Falcon and use that to calculate the angular size in each frame of the video during the jump to hyperspace. Of course there is a big problem. I don't actually know the angular size at the beginning of the jump. I'm just going to have to estimate it. Let's say that the Millennium Falcon is 25 meters wide and starts off at a distance of meters from the camera.
With that, I can set the angular field of view for the scene. This gives the following plot of angular size vs. View Iframe URL. With that angular size and the width of the Millennium Falcon, I can calculate the distance from the camera to the starship.
There is a quite a bit to consider in this graph. Just look at the final position—around 8, meters. So, in about half a second the Millennium Falcon goes from a position of just meters to about 5 miles.
So for the purposes of calculating the Kessel Run, let's say the Millennium Falcon is the fastest ship ever. Somehow able to withstand the forces involved perhaps it has something to do with that sweet tractor-beam tech , we can calculate what happens when Han and his baby go Because of special relativity, time dilates or expands outward as the moving observer travels faster and faster. The faster Han goes, the less time he experiences — even if we see him traveling over light years.
This is what Han Solo experiences in the Millennuum Falcon. At these ludicrous speeds, time itself contracts. A clock running on a ship moving Not only do clocks obey this contraction, but biology does too. Anyone on a hypervelocity ship will age more slowly than those not on the ship. For example, if we transport a super-accurate atomic clock across the globe by plane , we have to correct for the discrepancy between it and another clock on the ground.
After six months in the International Space Station, orbiting astronauts have aged 0. Unfortunately for Han Solo — and the larger hope of long-distance, high-speed travel — time only contracts for the person who's moving. It marches on the same for everyone else. Experiencing just one hour on the Falcon, Han returns to find everyone three years older. Because the shortened Kessel Run spans 12 parsecs
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