For many years, the freighter served as home base as Han and Chewbacca began their smuggling careers. Unable to go into lightspeed, Han sought refuge in an asteroid field, where he made frantic repairs -- but the hyperdrive failed again. The little droid reactivated the hyperdrive, allowing the freighter and her crew to escape.
But the duo lost their beloved freighter to Gannis Ducain, and spent years trying to find her again. Meanwhile, the Falcon kept changing hands, going from Ducain to the Irving Boys before winding up under a tarp on Jakku. Han and Chewie reclaimed the Falcon , but Han died shortly after getting to see his beloved ship again. After Rey left Ahch-To , the Falcon — now home to nests of porgs — served as an escape craft for the besieged Resistance on Crait.
The Falcon encountered some serious scrapes as the fight between the First Order and the Resistance intensified: damage from lightspeed skipping, capture on Pasaana and near-incineration, and a rough landing on Kef Bir. Skip Navigation Disney. Log In. Millennium Falcon An extensively modified Corellian light freighter, the Millennium Falcon is a legend in smuggler circles and is coveted by many for being the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
But let's have a quick look at a couple of the ways people think we might have a tiny, miniscule chance of one day travelling faster than light. More Star Trek than Star Wars, this one, but it does have a tiny bit of real science behind it The idea is that when the universe began, back at the big bang , space expanded outwards faster than light did If there was some way in which we could create enough energy to bend and stretch the universe to create a bubble of time and space, we could make it travel faster than light.
Have a look at this video to find out more about this idea:. The trouble with warp bubbles is that not only would you need the energy of a whole sun to create one, it would have to be "negative energy", and scientists don't even know if that exists. You may have heard of black holes - tiny spots in space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape the pull.
Well what if one black hole connected up with another - would it create a tube that you could travel through? Imagine for a moment that you wanted to visit your cousin in Australia. You could fly round the world. Or you could just dig a hole right through the middle of the Earth and fly through that. Much quicker! Well, some scientists think these tunnels in space might be real. They even have a fancy name for them: Einstein-Rosen bridges. It's based on the idea that space and time curve round like the surface of the Earth.
This means - like in our imaginary journey to Australia - you could have two black holes on either side which link up to create a tunnel or wormhole which we could use as a shortcut. One of the big problems with this idea is that, like the video above says, black holes are violent and destructive places. Going into one wouldn't be very sensible, even if you thought you might get safely out the other side! Could we ever travel faster than light and visit other stars and planets in our galaxy?
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