For the first time the Millennium Falcon is listed as having two separate missile racks -- one upper, one lower. The Falcon only fires its missiles during the final run against the Death Star's main reactor in Return of the Jedi, and subsequent sources extrapolated what the launch mechanism could look like. The doubled racks were required since gaming sources listed the Falcon's payload at eight missiles.
"There was just no way to fit that many missiles in the limited space," says Trevas. "Older drawings overlapped the missile fins and had tiny missile tubes too small to fire them. We expanded from the design shown in Cross-Sections adding opening missile doors and making the racks adjustable to fit the more traditional missiles seen in the past as well as the streamlined ones (designed by Richard Chasemore). With freeze framing HD copies of the films it was apparent that the missiles fired inside the Death Star II did in fact come from where we proposed the new modifications would have them."
