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. 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 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. One of these served as the command center for the ship. 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. 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. Their turbolasers were also capable of planetary bombardment, although they were seldom used in this capacity. 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. Standard armament for the subclass included 36 turbolasers, 36 heavy ion cannons, and six tractor beam projectors.

The Home One types had more armor and armaments than the Liberty type, and were subsequently rarer. Internal design differences may also have affected cargo capacity, which was 20,000 metric tons aboard the Home One. 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. 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. A minimum operating crew of 1,230 was shared by the Home One, and by its sister ship, the Independence. The standard crew of the Home One type consisted of 5,402 individuals, 78 gunners, and a passenger complement of 1,200 troops. Like most warships, all MC80s were classified as cruisers in one standard system and capital ships in another. Taken together, ships of this type were arguably the most prominent capital ships in the Rebellion, serving as command ships as well as battleships.

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. This may have been true of its sister ships as well. 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. Side (upper image) and top (lower image) profiles of an MC80 Home One type Star Cruiser with the bow to the rightĮven 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. Most ships were 1.2 km in length, but individual ships were 1.4 km or even bigger. 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.

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