Em Solo: Uma História de Star Wars , o Millenium Falcon começa com a parte central da frente no lugar. No entanto, durante o curso do filme, eles voam através de
The maelstrom around Kessel, a hazardous electrically charged swirling cloud of dust and rocky debris, in order to circumvent an imperial blockade and get their coaxium refined before it goes unstable. They are chased by tie fighters, a large beast living within the maelstrom, peppered by rocky debris, struck by lightning, and fight against the immense pull off a gravity well within know as the Maw.
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The Millennium Falcon takes extensive damage, and we see it no longer has it's front central nose piece. Even after Lando does some significant repairs, we see he either chooses to not reinstall this piece, or just hadn't gotten around to it by the time Han wins it from him. The result is that it was never readded.