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 is said to have carried ten squadrons, the Independence was limited to just 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 her 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 in the role of 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, and may indicate a slight variation in size and tonnage between the sister-ships. This may have been true of her 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 she was rebuilt as a warship. Side (upper image) and top (lower image) profiles of a MC80 Home One type Star Cruiser with the bow to the right.Įven the Home One and her 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 1.2km in length, but individual ships were 1.4km 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.
0 kommentar(er)
