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Han Solo's souped-up YT-1300 smuggling ship, which has been modified from its "original" specifications over the years. Han came to own it after winning it in a Sabacc game from Lando Calrissian. Lando had won the Falcon in an earlier sabacc match at Bespin, just before he started hunting for the Treasure of Rafa. He had no idea how to pilot it, but he recognized its abilities. As he grew to become a better pilot, Lando continued to upgrade the ship's systems, and it became his primary mode of transportation. After Han and Lando (had just completed a run of the Kessel Spice Mines together/got together on Bespin), Lando was in a gambling mood. He was running low on credits, so he added Han's choice of any ship in his used ship lot. Han chose the Falcon from among the junkers, much to Lando's dismay. Once Han got control of it, he added a non-spec Imperial power plant and hyperdrive system, as well as an impressive amount of armament: upper and lower quad laser cannons, an underside sweep gun, multiple forward laser gun pods, and a pair of concussion missile tubes. The ship continued to astound those not familiar with its military-issue components and higher than normal lift/mass ratio. The ships' central ladderwell, leading to the upper and lower quad-laser cannons, is equipped with separate gravity generators, allowing the two people manning the cannons to operate in reciprocal gravity fields. After the Battle of Bakura, the Falcon was swapped back and forth by Han and Lando in a series of Sabacc matches. Lando won the Falcon finally, but opted to give it to Han as a gift, in order to end the inane series of card games. The Millennium Falcon contains much of its original systems, as well as many modifications: a Novaldex Stasis-type Shield Generator, a Koensayr TLB Power Converter, a Fabritech Sensor Array Controller/Interpreter, a Chedak Frequency Agile Subspace Radio, a Fabritech ANy-20 Active Sensor Package, an Imperial IFF Transponder, a Corellian Engineering Corporation Emergency Power Generator, a retractable Taim and Bak Auto Blaster Cannon, a Quadex Power Core, 2 Escape Pods, a Hanx-Wargel SuperFlow IV Shipboard Computer, a Torplex Tandem Flight Computer, an Incom N21-4 Power Converter, a Corellian Engineering Corporation Subspace Hyperdrive, a KDY Aft Deflector Shield Generator, a Seinar Fleet Systems Active Sensor Pulse Generator, Cryonic Reserve Power Cells, a Torplex Fore Deflector Shield Generator, a Siep-Irol Passive Sensor Antenna, a Carbanti Signal-Augmented Sensor Jammer, a Carbanti 29L Electromagnetic Countermeasures Package, a Nordoxicon-38 Anti-concussion Field Generator, a Corellstand C-8 Life Support System, 2 Arakyd ST2 Concussion Missile Launchers (2 racks of 4), an Ion Flux Stabilizer with Alluvial Dampers, a KapriCorp Acceleration Compensator, a Microaxial HyD Modular NavCom Unit, Gelieg 20m-Cp Strobe/C-beam Lamps, an Enlarged/modified Cargo Bay, and an Ax-108 Surface Defense Cannon. In the years following the births of Han Solo's three children, he began refitting the Millennium Falcon and removing some of its more military components, in favor of safety and security. The concussion missile launcher were the first weapon removed, making it easier to load and unload cargo. During the struggle to defeat the Yuuzhan Vong, Han painted the Falcon with matte-black paint, hoping to make it harder to spot. In this way, he hoped to work with Droma to locate and rescue Roa and the Ryn's family.