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Khan first laid eyes on him when he stood with Lando Calrissian on one of the Permacrete landing platforms on Nar Shaddaa several years before joining the Rebel Alliance. And even then, the Corellian clearly saw not only what this battered old freighter was, but also what he could become later.

As a teenager in love, he could not take his eyes off. His pupils dilated, his jaw drooped down. Solo pulled himself together as quickly as possible until Lando figured out what he was thinking and turned away from the ship like old junk. But Calrissian was not a fool, and by then knew all the ways of the Khan. As one of the luckiest players on either side of Coruscant, he immediately recognized a bluff. "Fast car," Lando remarked with a twinkle in his eyes.

Khan had no doubts.

Even in those old days, Lando had something to envy, and to begin with, his exorbitant wealth. But luck had little to do with it. Lando didn't deserve such a ship. He barely coped with the skimmer, let alone a fast as light, starship, which is more convenient for a couple of venerable pilots to fly. He was completely unworthy of such a flyer.

Khan never considered himself greedy or envious, but suddenly he wanted this ship more than anything else in his life. For many years he served and wandered across the Galaxy, took risks and lost friends, was loved and abandoned, studied at the Imperial Academy, deceived and himself became a victim of machinations ... Perhaps in this ship he saw a chance to start new life- a life in which there will finally be a place for constancy.

Writing circles around the ship, as if in orbit, Khan nurtured sinister designs. The old freighter, like a luminary, attracted him, as, without a doubt, he attracted everyone who flew on it before and put his hand to the contours of these mandibles, hull and other techno wonders on the skin. He even sucked in his scent through his nostrils.

Looking closely, the Corellian saw almost everywhere evidence of attempts to keep the ship safe from the ravages of time and space travel. Dents were repaired, cracks were filled with epoxatal, traces of ingrained combustion products on the skin were painted over. "Non-native" parts were attached by non-standard mountings, or even unprofessionally welded to the body. The freighter was rusty, covered in durastal patches, streaked with grease dripping. He became a veteran even before he took possession of Lando at the whim of the sabacca shuffling card of fortune. But where and to whom he served, Khan did not know. Bandits, smugglers, pirates, mercenaries ... definitely all of them and beyond.

When Lando started the engine to check, Han's heart skipped a beat. A minute later, sitting at the control panel, listening to the measured rumble of sublight, laying a dashing turn and almost scaring Lando to death with this, Han already knew that this ship was his destiny. You can arrange for the Hutts to buy it for Khan, or even simply steal it if necessary. He will install a military-grade rectifier antenna and replace the light laser cannon with a quad. Builds a retractable rapid-fire blaster under your belly to fight back when escaping. And between the square mandibles he will put a rocket launcher ...

He had no idea that he would win the ship against Lando at cards. It certainly hadn't occurred to him that Calrissian would bluff.

Flying in a modified SoroSuub that he and Chuuya had borrowed from Lando, Han only became even more infuriated by his yearning for a freighter. He drew in his mind the adventures that he had been from the first day in this world. Once upon a time it dawned on the Corellian that he was so close to the ship from the very beginning that he did not even ask Lando when and under what circumstances the freighter got the name " Millennium falcon»…

CORELLIAN ENGINEERING CORPORATION

ORBITAL ASSEMBLY STATION No. 7

60 YEARS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF YAVIN

Towards the end of Soli's shift, Kentt did nothing but lazy glance from the chronometer attached to the wall to the HoloSet news channel. Yesterday's shockball match between Kuat and Commenor ended in a draw, but space tramps, some Mandalorians, did not share something between themselves. Kentt, a lanky man who had settled with his family on Corellia and devoted ten years of his life to his current job at KIK on Orbital-7, sprawled in his chair, his soft hands behind his head and his legs crossed over the remote control, which was in his undivided possession. On his lap was an open holo magazine, and in the holders for steamed glasses with two empty containers there was one half-empty with a cold cafe. Behind the transparist dome that crowned the shimmering observation bay, there was a steady stream of fresh, not yet painted IT-1300 freighters - just off the assembly line. They were guided by a flock of orientation buoys that were subordinate to the station's cybernetic controller.

The IT model with a length of thirty-five meters and a carrying capacity of a hundred tons has been in production for less than a year, but has already established itself as a living classic. Designed with the help of Narro Sinar, owner of Corellian Engineering's main shipbuilding competitor, the model was marketed as a cost-effective and easily modifiable alternative to IS's rugged freighter series. Compared to most KIK starships, which no one would consider exquisite, the IT-1300 was distinguished by its peculiar functional style. The shape of the saucer made the ship unique, which made it possible to accommodate many different units, including a portable cockpit and sensor matrices. In its basic configuration, it was equipped with frontal mandrels and a new generation of electronics that controlled the powerful sublight engines and the ship's hyperdrive.

Kentt had lost count of the items that had passed him since the minute he stepped through the security turnstile of Station 7 at the start of his eight-hour shift, but the number was supposed to be twice that of the previous month. But even with such a rate of growth in production, ships were sold out so quickly that supply could not meet demand. Bringing his feet off the console to the floor, Kentt stretched his arms over his head and was about to yawn sweetly when the console emitted a sharp beep that instantly revived the operator. While Kentt scanned the numerous screens with reddened eyes, a young technician in a colorful overalls and a comlink headset rushed from the adjacent compartment.

Millennium falcon fictional spaceship in Star Wars franchises. A modified YT-1300 Corellian light freighter is mainly commanded by Corellian smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). Developed by Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC), the heavily modified YT-1300 is rugged, modular, and is listed as the second fastest vessel in the world. Star Wars canonical.

Millennium falcon first appears in Star Wars(1977) and then in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983) Revenge of the Sith (2005), The Force Awakening (2015), The last jedi(2017), and Solo: A Star Wars Story(2018). Besides, Falcon appears in various star Wars an expanded universe of materials, including books, comics and games; James Luceno has an affair with Millennium falcon focuses on the title ship. He also appears in the 2014 animated film Lego Movie in Lego form, Billy Dee Williams and Anthony Daniels reprising their roles as Lando Calrissian and C-3PO, and Keith Ferguson Voicing Han Solo.

Origin and design

The ship originally had a more elongated appearance, but the similarity of this design to the Eagle transports in space: 1999 prompted Lucas to change Falcons design c. The original model has been modified, re-scaled, and used as Princess Leia's ship, Tantive IV... ModelMaker Joe Johnston had about four weeks to redesign falcons and Lucas Johnston's only suggestion was to "think about a flying saucer." Johnston doesn't want to produce a "main flying saucer," so he created a cockpit offset, front cargo jaws, and a rear engine slot. The design was simple enough to create in a window for four weeks. Johnston named the production of the new falcons design of one of his most intense projects.

The sound of the ship passing through hyperspace comes from two tracks of engine noise in the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, with one track slightly out of sync with the other to introduce a phasing effect. To this end, sound engineer Ben Bert added the hum of cooling fans to the motion control of the rig at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).

Models and Kits

Visually, Millennium Falcon was represented by several models of both external and internal sets. For Star Wars A partial outer set was built and the set is dressed as Hangar 94 and the Death Star Hangar. Apart from the functional chassis, an additional support lifted structure and was disguised as a fuel line. The internal set included the starboard side of the ring corridor, gangway, cockpit access tunnel, gun turret ladder, caches, and forward establishments. The cockpit was built as a separate set that could be rocked when the ship was to be shaken. Several inconsistencies exist between the inner and outer dials, the angle of the cockpit access tunnel being the most conspicuous.

Effect Models for Star Wars corresponds to the construction of the outer set. The base model was 5 feet long and detailed with various kits. The ship was presented with a matte painting when Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) sees it for the first time, showing the full top surface. For the 1997 "Special Edition", the digital model replaces the multi-shot effect model, and is used in a new shot. falcons taking off from the hangar 94.

For The Empire Strikes Back, a new outer set was built. In the spring of 1979, Marcon Falsifications, a heavy engineering firm that served the UK petrochemical and petroleum industries, was hired to build a movable full-scale exterior model capable of "moving as if it were about to take off." Built in secret under the project code name Magic Roundabout The company leased the 1930s West Sunderland seaplane hangar at Pembroke Dock, West Wales. The model, which over three months to build, weighed over 25 long tons (25 tonnes), measured 65 feet (20 m) in diameter and 20 feet (6.1 m) in height, and used compressed air to guide the spacer up to 1.5 inches (38 mm) height hover movement around the set. It was then taken apart and sent to Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, for filming. Today, the Pembroke Dock Museum has an exhibition about the project.

Along with the full-size layout in Sokol, a new miniature model was created for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back to allow ILM to shoot more difficult in-flight rolls and ropes that were not possible with the five-foot model. This model was able to be gimballed, allowing ILM to simulate very complex maneuvers as the ship attempted to outrun the Imperial Tie-Fighters during an asteroid field escape scene from the film. New model which measures about 32 inches in length, had a number of surface features that differ from the five-foot model, including updated chassis and various surface greeblies. Model 32 "was the version Millennium Falcon most portrayed in toys, model kits and promotional materials for Star Wars the universe before the release The Force awakens the model has been reused for. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

As in Star Wars, scores have been repositioned around scores of ships. The only significant design change was to add a chassis where there was a camouflaged fuel line in Star Wars... Included in this set were the port side that gave the given seven landing gears. The interior set has been slightly refitted from A new hope and featured a sliding cockpit door, a larger cargo hold, an additional corridor to the port, and an equipment number. Two new interior kits have been created that are not shown to connect to the rest of the set: the top hatch that Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams uses) to rescue Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), and the compartment where Luke lies on his bunk.

5 feet long (1.5 m) effects from the model Star Wars was modified to reflect the additional chassis, and several new models were built, including one about the size of a quarter of a US dollar. For 1997 Special Edition The CGI model replaced the approach and landing effects model for Cloud City.

No new models or kits have been created for Return of the Jedi... Some of the full-scale ships were used to quickly change a scene from the film, in which several board characters Sokolov in a sandstorm on Tatooine. In the scene when Khan exacts Lando's promise not to harm falcon, then falcon represented by the background of the painting. Also in the matte painting of the entire hangar.

Internal and external kits were discarded after filming at Return of the Jedi ended. The effect models have been retained by Lucasfilm and some have been exhibited from time to time.

On June 3, 2014, TMZ confirmed that Falcon back to Star Wars: The Force Awakens when she leaked a photo from a set of the movie, showing a full blown version falcons are under construction. Effects shots falcons appear in the trailer for The Force awakens released on November 28, 2014. This version of the ship is a digital recreation of the original 1977 5 foot model, with additional detailing reflecting the passage of time. The most noticeable change is the rectangular sensor array above the top case, which replaces the circular platter from the first three films.

Description

Han Solo won Millennium falcons by Lando Calrissian in card game"Sabakk" a few years before the events of the film New hope... IN Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) charter a ship at the Mos Eisley buffet to deliver them, C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), and the stolen Death Star plans Alderaan. When Falcon captured by the Death Star, the group hide themselves in a smuggling compartment built into the floor to avoid detection during a search of the ship. Solo later collects his payment for transporting them to the rebel's hidden bases and leaves under bitter circumstances, but returns to help Luke destroy the Death Star.

Individual pilots Falcon, with Chewbacca, Leia and C-3PO on board to elude the Imperial Starfleet in The empire strikes back in which they take refuge in Cloud City, where Darth Vader (David Prowse / James Earl Jones) captures Solo. Lando Calrissian helps the others escape and, at the end of the movie, he travels to Falcon to track down Solo and his captor, Jabba the Hutt. Calrissian dignitaries again falcons during the climax Return of the Jedi, with Nien Nunb as co-pilot to destroy the second Death Star. Before the second Death Star collapses, LANDO accidentally damages the ship by hitting a circular pickup with a rectenna dish on a random pipe or chain in the second Death Star. Landau and others still are successful in destroying the Galactic Empire.

IN Star Wars: The Force wakes up, set about 30 years after Return of the Jedi, then falcon is in the possession of a scrap dealer named Unkar Plutt on the desert planet Jakku, having been abducted from Solo and Chewbacca a few years earlier. Scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) and former stormtrooper Finn (Boyega) steal Falcon to avoid being attacked by the first order, being targeted for having the BB-8 droid in their possession. During the chase sequence, the Falcon demonstrated an atmospheric performance of 60 degrees of RPM, and 90 degrees of roll rate per second. They are hijacked by a smuggling cargo ship, which turns out to be piloted by Solo and Chewbacca, who reclaim themselves falcon for their own. Forced to run into Sokol Ambushed by the parties to whom Solo is mired in debt, Solo reluctantly agrees to help Rey and the Finn return BB-8 to the resistance. After Rei is captured by the first order, Solo agrees to take Finn in the Falcon to the first order in the new Starkiller base planet, which has been transformed into the next generation "Death Star" - by attempting a risky maneuver to bypass the planet to defend against hyperspace escape in its atmosphere. When Solo was killed by his son, Ben Solo, now known as Kylo Ren-Rei essentially inherits Falcon fleeing the ruined Starkiller with the injured Finn and Chewbacca. Rey later uses the newly collected map to travel to Ahch-To, the site of the first Jedi Temple, to make contact with the long-lost Luke Skywalker while traveling to Sokol in Chewbacca and R2-D2.

Falcon reappears in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, also on Ahch-To with Rey and Chewbacca. Later in the film, Chewbacca and Rey take falcon on the planet Crait, where the resistance is under first-order attack. Falcon loses a dish sensor for the third time on Crait, after being shot off by a TIE fighter, but still manages to single-handedly take out most of the planet's 1st order fighters while Luke distracts Kylo Ren. After the battle, surviving resistance personnel leave Crait on board. Sokolov .

Kessel Run

In the original film, Solo boasts that Falcon done Kessel Run in "less than twelve parsecs." Since parseque is a unit of distance, not time, various explanations have been provided. In the fourth draft of the script, Kenobi "reacts to Solo's foolish attempt to impress them with blatant misinformation." Lucas ruled out to be incorrect in 1977, stating that Han had modified "the navigation system to travel through hyperspace in the shortest possible distance." On the film's DVD audio commentary, Lucas also explained that in Star Wars universe, traveling through hyperspace requires careful navigation to avoid stars, planets, asteroids and other obstacles, and because long-distance travel cannot be performed in a straight line, the "fast" ship is the one that can build the "most direct path" thus traveling the shortest distance.

In film Solo: A Star Wars Story The Solo Kessel Run is depicted in detail, providing an explanation of the "twelve" bragging dog. Solo must do a lot of calculated jumps to avoid crew kills. After plugging the damaged L3 droid Lando's memory module into the ship's navigation, the Solo is able to receive the "shortcut" (which is dangerously close to the black hole). Chewbacca points to the actual distance closer to 13 parsecs, but Solo insists, "Not if you round up," implying that the statement "in less than twelve parsecs" is slightly exaggerated.

Possession

Falcon has been featured many times in the franchise, and his ownership and crew have changed several times already.

• Before Star Wars, then falcon was in the possession of Lando Calrissian. He lost it to Han Solo to pay off his gambling debt. This is depicted in Solo: A Star Wars Story as well as Lando droid integration L3-37 to the ship's computer.
• After the events The empire strikes back, Leia, Chewbacca and Lando take over falcons after the hibernation of Solo in carbonite and the capture of the Empire and

Has released the ninth version of this cool space starship. Each Falcon model differs in functionality and design of some details, the composition of minifigures changes, even the outer panels are transformed. Now they have become more mobile, smoother and perfectly connected to each other.

This set contains 1351 parts. The starship is composed primarily of dark and light gray parts. The body uses black printed elements, grilles, plastic wires, bright red and blue light bulbs.

Constructor includes 7 minifigures. Lando Caprissian in a bright yellow shirt with black prints on the front and back, black trousers on his legs. A double-sided gray-blue fabric cloak is draped over the top. The minifigure has two facial expressions, dark skin, and an interesting hairstyle. In the hands of two accessories - a blaster and a mace. Note that this is a new figurine for this set.

The next character is Chewbacca. He has a dark brown coat all over his torso and a well-detailed face. A ribbon with cartridges is slung over the shoulder. He holds a crossbow in his hand.

The third minifigure is Finn. He also has a dark complexion and two facial expressions. She is wearing a minifigure in a beige shirt and a beige vest, which has many printed pockets and work accessories. There is a belt with a plaque at the waist, blue trousers on the legs. A brown bag is slung over the minifigure's shoulder, and in his hand he holds a gray blaster.

Boolio is an exclusive figure in this set and a new character. He has a green alien head with an interesting muzzle. On the head and on the lower jaw there are yellow horns. The figurine is dressed in a beige suit with a printed belt and buckles.

Then there are 3 droids: a yellow C-3PO with multi-colored printed wires on the torso and a helmet on the head, R2-O2, which consists of white, gray and blue elements and printed details on the torso, and little D-O white with green decorative details. By the way, the last two droids mentioned can be connected to each other.

The Millennium Falcon itself hasn't changed appearance, but it has become more perfect. Now this model has no visible gaps on the outer panels. Some of the panels are interconnected.

If we look at the ship in more detail, we note that there are round parts on the hull. For example, at the front, they are used to activate the firing of spring rockets, which are located under the front elongated panels. On the back of the case, the round parts perform more decorative functions and are made in the form of lattices. On one of the side panels there is a circular antenna on a rotating unit. It can be rotated in any direction and even up, while the position is fixed.

On the other side of the hull is the capsule-shaped cockpit that is attached to the main aircraft. The cockpit has an elongated shape, the front part is transparent and made of flexible plastic. To fit inside the minifigure, the front of the cockpit must be detached. It has space for two minifigures, a lever and a printed control panel.

On the central part is a rotating rocket launcher with weapons. If necessary, the hatch under the rocket launcher can be opened and a minifigure can be placed in it.

To view the interior of the Millennium Falcon, the front rectangular panel is lifted and then extended. It is she who blocks the disclosure of other panels, tk. overlaps them from above. Now you can open the other 5 panels in a circle.

There is enough space inside to accommodate several minifigures in different play areas. Interior details are made in a single colors- beige. There are comfortable chairs in the work area, control panels, storage for weapons and accessories, a bedroom with beds, a kitchen with a stove and cutlery.

Turning over the Falcon model, we see several small chassis that give the car stability. There is also another rocket launcher with 4 guns.

Those who are already familiar with the previous Millennium Falcon models will be able to compare them. The assembled starship measures nearly 14 cm high, 32 cm wide and 44 cm long. This is a great gift for kids who are into space and collect branded Star Wars figurines. The constructor can be combined with other play sets in the series.