MC80A Home One Type Heavy Star Cruiser

The **MC80A *Home One* Type Heavy Star Cruiser**, also known as the **MC80A star cruiser** and the **MC80 Command Cruiser**, was a variant of MC80 Star Cruiser used by the Alliance to Restore the Republic and New Republic. During the Galactic Civil War, several of these ships participated in battles such as Endor and Jakku.

One famous example was the ship *Home One*, which was a modified version of the MC80A Star Cruiser, and the most advanced vessel in the Alliance Fleet.

## Characteristics

No two Mon Calamari ships were identical, each being individually designed and constructed, but they were gradually standardized by the extensive refitting and adjustments made to the hulls when the vessels were converted for combat duty. Most ships were 1.2 km in length, but individual ships were 1.4 km or even bigger.

Even the *Home One* and its sisters formed a uniform design type: cylindrical hulls, with a tapered bow, hangar bays amidships, and bulbous stern mounting ten huge sublight thrusters: four M8.0-StarDrive main thrusters and six M4.5-StarDrive maneuvering engines.

*Home One* was originally designed for deep-space exploration, and it was constructed with massive panoramic viewports, which had to be removed when it was rebuilt as a warship. This may have been true of its sister ships as well.

The *Home One* was described as the largest Star Cruiser in the Rebel Alliance fleet as it gathered for the Battle of Endor, potentially indicating a variation in size and tonnage between the sister ships. Taken together, ships of this type were arguably the most prominent capital ships in the Rebellion, serving as command ships as well as battleships. Like most warships, all MC80s were classified as cruisers in one standard system and capital ships in another.

The standard crew of the *Home One* type consisted of 5,402 individuals, 78 gunners, and a passenger complement of 1,200 troops. A minimum operating crew of 1,230 was shared by the *Home One*, and by its sister ship, the *Independence*.

The number of starfighters carried appeared to vary: whereas the *Home One* was said to have carried ten squadrons, the *Independence* was limited to two squadrons of X-wings, in later years under the New Republic. It is unknown whether the hangar facilities were the same on different ships, although three of the known vessels had a large hangar on the starboard side of the hull. Internal design differences may also have affected cargo capacity, which was 20,000 metric tons aboard the *Home One*.

The *Home One* types had more armor and armaments than the *Liberty* type, and were subsequently rarer. Standard armament for the subclass included 36 turbolasers, 36 heavy ion cannons, and six tractor beam projectors. *Home One* types lacked the *Executor*'s point defense laser systems because their turbolasers' tracking systems were sufficient in targeting and destroying smaller craft and starfighters. Their turbolasers were also capable of planetary bombardment, although they were seldom used in this capacity.

*Home One* carried heavy hull armor and powerful shields, comparable to an *Imperial*-class Star Destroyer, but it was said to have carried the heaviest armor and weaponry in the Rebel fleet, at the Battle of Endor, indicating that the other ships of the subclass were less protected.

*Home One* type ships appeared to have multiple command pods scattered across each ship protruding from both the dorsal and ventral areas of the hull. One of these served as the command center for the ship.

The commanding officer could be situated in a chair attached to a swiveling robotic arm that overlooked both the bridge crew and a panoramic window out into space. The bridge contained a CS-Mark 12 holoprojector table situated in the middle of a briefing room section, which crew members used to monitor events during a battle.

The *Home One*, like almost all early Mon Cal cruisers, retained its original, species-specific bridge control systems, meaning that, while the bulk of the crew was drawn from the many species that made up the Rebellion, the command crew was made up entirely of Mon Calamari. There is some evidence, however, that one ship of the class was modified for a human command crew.

## History

After the Battle of Endor, the Alliance to Restore the Republic had reformed into the New Republic, and the MC80A star cruisers continued being used within the New Republic Defense Fleet. The MC80A was used in battles such as Kuat and Kashyyyk. The final battle of the Galactic Civil War was the Battle of Jakku, where at least one ship, *Home One*, participated. Admiral Ackbar coordinated the battle with other New Republic commanders including Commodore Kyrsta Agate, General Tyben, and Lieutenant General Brockway. *Home One* along with Agate's *Starhawk*-class battleship *Concord* took part in the assault on the Imperial Star Destroyers enveloping the Imperial Super Star Destroyer *Ravager*, which served as the Imperial command ship. From the bridge of *Home One*, Ackbar watched as the *Concord* used its powerful tractor beam projector to drag the *Ravager* to Jakku's surface. The battle was a victory for the New Republic. MC80As were used during the Battle near the Vanqor system in between 7 ABY and 8 ABY.