Millennium Falcon
Despite her outward appearance, the Falcon is not the standard YT-1300 cargo vessel she seems. Heavily modified form her original stock configuration, the Millennium Falcon has acquired capabilities unheard of in Corellian standard freighters. Able to reach point five beyond lightspeed, she is one of the fastest non-Imperial vessels currently in use and owes much of her power availability curve to a vast array of unregistered and normally incompatible computer and thrust system modifications.
The Millennium falcon's power, propulsion and computer network arrangements require a constant maintenance schedule that keeps her repair and adjustment time at a level nearly twice the ship's flying time. A beefed-up hyperdrive system is at the core of the falcon's increased speed, which is well above the light speed plus point one capability of the standard Corellian YT-1300. Four fuel slug tanks in the ship's power core give her an increased range, even at extreme speeds and engine temperatures. While repairs to her various systems must usually be performed each time the ship lands, she refuels at an average rate of only once per month.
The falcon's increased speed let to the need for a more advanced navicomputer than that of the standard YT-1300. Precise calculations are required for the complex hyperspace entry and exit procedures used by faster-than-light vessels, and the falcon is no exception.
The falcon has the standard Corellian twin-guns atop. These weapons can be fired either form their corresponding turret stations or from the cockpit. Remote cockpit operations, however, generally provides less accurate targeting than can be attained manually.
Concussion missiles housed in the lower center-forward mandible can be fired with great accuracy form this same firing control panel. These missiles, powerful enough to penetrate any ship's hull (even through light shielding), pack more punch than either lasers or proton torpedoes can.
The Millennium Falcon carries a enhanced deflector shield system, one equal to any comparably-sized unit in use by Imperial forces. The ship's twin shield generator/projectors are housed against the forward main hull, protruding into the Falcon's mandibles. The shields can be angled and reinforced against enemy fire, making all deflector power available when ever the Falcon is engaged in frontal attack or full retreat. In addition, a navigational defector system mounted between the ship's forward mandibles normally keep space ahead clear of small-to-microscopic impact debris.
The Falcon's characteristic forward mandibles contain a densely-packed clutter of flight equipment, far more than the area in designed to house. Because of this, a congested tangle of crudely-strung power cables and computerlikages make the area one in which repairs are often difficult. Stellar navigation sensors, tractor beam generators, multiple communications arrays, long-range jamming equipment and gravity-flux compensators fill what would largely be used as unpressurised storage space in any standard YT-1300. Four circular ports provide limited access to the systems within the mandibles, but most of the devices can only be reached by removing their adjoining hull plates.
One of the Falcon's most notable features is her topside port-mounted radar dish. The dish and its hardware allow the falcon to spot other ships in space several minutes before the possibly unfriendly vessels know the Falcon is there.
Cargo is generally on-and-off loaded via two port and starboard loading ports. These lead to the ship's three cargo holds, the forward of which is largest.
Mounted into the forward bulkhead of the starboard hold is a lift platform that provides ingress/egress for the ship's small, iris-sealed upper hatch. The starboard hold also accesses a storage room containing repair parts, dry consumables, and a small laundry unit.