That’s like designing a truck where the trailer attaches to the front of the vehicle and then sticking the driver off to the side. First, why would a ship be designed so that cargo modules would be stuck on the front of it? The YT-1300 and similar Corellian light freighters like the YT-2400 (seen in use by Iron Squadron in Star Wars Rebels and by Dash Rendar in Shadow of the Empire) supposedly sport this setup to allow the pilot to see around any large loads that the ship may be pushing. That off-to-the-side setup is original and gives the ship a very cool looking silhouette, but it just doesn’t make any sense. The Falcon’s outrigger cockpit is one of its most distinctive features. Freighter? So far the Millennium Falcon is more like a hatchback. The dueling expanded universes do have some scenes that explain the Falcon’s freighter designation, but it's inconsistent and doesn’t make sense, given the amount of screen time the Falcon has gotten in the franchise. Even the size of the ship itself doesn’t exactly seem big enough to have a trunk to put junk. Sure there are Han’s smuggling compartments under the floorboards that everybody hides in when they’re captured in A New Hope, but that barely holds a couple droids and a Wookiee. That's not exactly the kind of space you that would need to make hauling goods from one end of the galaxy to another profitable. The freighter part of that name really sticks out because, well, where does all the actual freight go? We get a pretty good sense of the ship’s layout from the five movies in which it appears but in all that time we’ve never seen anything resembling a cargo bay. Before becoming the ship that killed the second Death Star (and without whom the first one and its big bad successor Starkiller Base would have been a lot harder to blow up), the Millennium Falcon was just another mass produced Corellian YT-1300 freighter.
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