Home One

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Home One, Ackbar's Endor flagship

Home One was a Mon Calamari capital ship in the Rebel Alliance fleet famous for its role at the Battle of Endor and as the flagship of Admiral Ackbar.

Characteristics

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Home One's stern

A blue-gray plated wingless variety of Mon Calamari Star Cruiser, Home One was vaguely tapered conical 3,800 meter cyllinder with bulbous stern covered with ten huge sublight thrusters.

Designed to serve as a command ship, carrier and cruiser, Home One was heavily armed and protected by thick hull plating and advanced, redundant deflector shields. Weapons included twenty nine heavy turbolaser emplacements, thirty six mini ion cannons and six tractor beam projectors. While no two converted Mon Calamari cruisers were the same, the "standard" Alliance aramament upgrade for an MC80a was 48 turbolasers, twenty ion batteries and six tractor beam projectors. It seems likely that Home One's weapon systems were reduced to make room for its large starfighter compliment. Home One carried ten squadrons of Alliance starfighters in twenty hangars that fed into three flank bays.

As with all early Mon Calamari cruisers, most ship controls could not be modified for use by human hands, so the 5,156 crew members and 279 gunners were primarily Mon Calamari. The interior corridors, bridges and bulkheads of Home One were pristine white.

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Operational History

As with most Alliance-era Mon Calamari warships, Home One began as a civilian vessel built at the shipyards of Calamari. After its modifications, Home One was classed as an MC80a cruiser. When the Mon Calamari began to support the Alliance in earnest, the ship became the flagship of the recently freed Ackbar. Home One became particularly important after the Alliance's defeat at the Battle of Hoth forced Alliance High Command to use it as a mobile base of operations.

Home One was the largest ship in the Alliance fleet at the Battle of Endor. Ackbar commanded the Alliance fleet from Home One's bridge while the captain of the ship manuevered the ship in and out of combat. At the battle, the ship was referred to as "Headquarters Frigate" by some, which may have been a deceptive callsign to trick Imperial interceptions of Alliance communications into believing the central Alliance warship to be a small frigate-sized ship, or simply a mistake.

As more advanced Mon Calamari starships, such as the MC80b and MC90, Home One was rendered obsolete. The ship was decomissioned and replaced by Defiance as Ackbar's flagship around 10 ABY.

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Behind the scenes

The confusion of referencing Home One as "Headquarters Frigate" in the novelization of Return of the Jedi has caused some to believe the the name "Home One" was merely a callsign for the ship, but it was far too large to have been a mere frigate. This problem has been compounded by the designation of Independence as Ackbar's flagship in the X-Wing computer game.

On the topic of size, material originally written for the West End Games Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game incorrectly listed the ship's size as 1,200 meters. Measurements using the films themselves by Curtis Saxton and others show Home One to be approximately 3,800 meters long.

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