Solo: A Star Wars Story - 10 Best Callbacks To The Original Saga Explained
4. L3-37 Is Part Of The Falcon
Franchise newcomer and sassy sentient droid L3-37 provides one of the most subtle, but also one of the most significant revelations about the Original Trilogy.
Since more or less the moment the Millennium Falcon was introduced, it has been implied that the ship was practically a living thing that was constantly changing and being upgraded, almost as if it were evolving.
In fact, it's even been suggested that the Falcon has a droid-esque consciousness. One example of this is when the ship is breaking down in The Empire Strikes Back and Han asks C-3PO to "talk to" the Falcon to try and figure out what's wrong. This seems like a figure of speech at first, but C-3PO then states that the Falcon has a "peculiar dialect," which makes it seem even more like he is literally speaking to the ship.
Thanks to Solo, sense can finally start to me made of this.
When L3 is destroyed after starting a droid revolution during the heist on Kessel, Lando saves what he can of her. Shortly thereafter, Lando is forced to plug her data banks into the ship so the crew can find an alternate escape route. After doing so, he states that L3 is "part of the ship now."
It turns out that the Falcon constantly being referred to as "she" is much more than just a trope.