Millennium Falcon

The Millennium Falcon is a fictional spacecraft featured in the continuity of the Star Wars mythos. Classically known as the chosen star ship of pilot Han Solo and his first mate Chewbacca, the Wookiee, the Millennium Falcon was first seen in the 1977 film Star Wars. Archival footage of the Falcon was edited into the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. The ship also appeared in the two canonical sequels, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The ship has also appeared in numerous comic books, magazine articles and video games and has been reproduced for various toys and model kits.

Description
The Millennium Falcon is a heavily modified Corellian YT-1300 Transport light freighter and is largely considered the most infamous of such ships amongst its kind. In terms of it's history and capabilities, it sets the standards by which all other light freighters are judged. Although it has known many captains over the years, the Millennium Falcon is almost always associated with it's most infamous captain, former smuggler turned Republic hero Han Solo.

In addition to standard YT-1300 features, the Millennium Falcon boasts powerful hyperdrive and sublight engines, highly durable armor plating, enhanced laser turrets and deflector shields and long-range sensor arrays. During his smuggling days, he installed a hidden cargo compartment beneath the deck plates of the ship. Though this was primarily used for transporting illegal contraband across Imperial space, Solo has been known to use it as a hideaway for passengers in the event that he gets boarded. The cargo hold has the capacity to store 100 tons worth of material.

Han Solo has made many "special modifications" to the Falcon himself. He has made improvements upon the hyperdrive engines to give it additional thrust, and while this may help to substantiate the claim that the Falcon is the "fastest ship in the galaxy", the improvements have also proven detrimental as they make the Falcon extremely high maintenance and subject to disrepair.

Weaponry
The Falcon possesses two quad laser cannon turrets, 2 fire-linked missile launchers equipped with four missiles each and a retractable blaster cannon.