<span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>

Millennium Falcon is a ship in the Star Wars "universe"

Possibility the most famous ship in the Star Wars franchise, Solo won the fast ship from fellow rogue Lando Calrissian in a game of Sabacc. In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker charter the ship to deliver them, C-3PO, R2-D2, and the stolen Death Star plans to Alderaan. Skywalker appraises the ship as "a piece of junk", but the vessel's smuggling compartments conceal the group when the Death Star captures it.

Solo flies the Falcon from Hoth, with Chewbacca, Leia, and C-3PO aboard, to elude the Imperial Starfleet in The Empire Strikes Back. They take refuge at Cloud City, where Darth Vader captures Solo and freezes him in carbonite. Calrissian helps the others escape and, at the film's end, he and Chewbacca set out aboard the Falcon to rescue Solo. Calrissian again flies the Falcon during the climax of Return of the Jedi, leading the Rebels' successful attack on the Death Star II.

Trivia

According to George Lucas, the Falcon's design is inspired by a hamburger, with the cockpit being an olive on the side.The ship originally had a more elongated appearance, but a vessel with a similar look in Space: 1999 prompted Lucas to change the Falcon's design.