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Description
This is not the Millennium Falcon as we have known it — rather, as it could have been.

Version 1: The First Awkward Stab...

[Note: the scale of the ship has been deliberately altered for this project]

My initial attempt to rework the Millennium Falcon had advanced quite far before cumulative problems saw it abandoned in favor of the fresh version under development (Millennium Falcon Refactored - WIP ).

Shown here is an elevation cross-section of the Version 1 Docking Complex, looking forward.

I spent quite a few hours trying to sort out how to get that ramp to reach the main deck, but this two-section solution ended up rather steep, and demanded a telescoping extension that differed significantly from canon. The current approach avoids both by elevating the main deck above the saucer equator and adding a small deck below for the ramp to adjoin with a far more comfortable 15° slope — and by doing so, effectively conforms far closer to the exterior canon arrangement in appearance and operation than this earlier concept.

Although this illustration is fairly detailed, very few exact particulars of this version of the Docking Complex have carried forward to Version 2 so far, and the notes here reflect a vision for the ship that likely ended with this first draft. Nonetheless, it offers a glimpse of the level of thorough complexity I am pursuing with this project.

(Coincidentally, the astromech shown, R5-C6 "See-See", is one of three original ship's droids — and the only one which would survive into the SW-E4:ANH period in the "expanded" narrative.)

Compare to a rough cross-section of the Version 2 Docking Complex as visible in these Elevation Tests .

Other project images in the Millennium Falcon Refactored Gallery .

Description
This is not the Millennium Falcon as we have known it — rather, as it could have been.

Version 1: The First Awkward Stab...

[Note: the scale of the ship has been deliberately altered for this project]

My initial attempt to rework the Millennium Falcon had advanced quite far before cumulative problems saw it abandoned in favor of the fresh version under development (Millennium Falcon Refactored - WIP ).

Shown here is an elevation cross-section of the Version 1 Docking Complex, looking forward.

I spent quite a few hours trying to sort out how to get that ramp to reach the main deck, but this two-section solution ended up rather steep, and demanded a telescoping extension that differed significantly from canon. The current approach avoids both by elevating the main deck above the saucer equator and adding a small deck below for the ramp to adjoin with a far more comfortable 15° slope — and by doing so, effectively conforms far closer to the exterior canon arrangement in appearance and operation than this earlier concept.

Although this illustration is fairly detailed, very few exact particulars of this version of the Docking Complex have carried forward to Version 2 so far, and the notes here reflect a vision for the ship that likely ended with this first draft. Nonetheless, it offers a glimpse of the level of thorough complexity I am pursuing with this project.

(Coincidentally, the astromech shown, R5-C6 "See-See", is one of three original ship's droids — and the only one which would survive into the SW-E4:ANH period in the "expanded" narrative.)

Compare to a rough cross-section of the Version 2 Docking Complex as visible in these Elevation Tests .

Other project images in the Millennium Falcon Refactored Gallery .