Commandship Statistics
Commandship
ROLE: commandship or battleship
FEATURES:
Predominantly blue and grey hull plating.
Cigar-shaped with round stern.
One large hangar aperture on starboard; two on portside.
Ten cylindrical thruster nozzles.
At least nine pods attached to fins on the hull.
29 turbolaser batteries; 36 ion cannons.
10 starfighter squadrons carried.
This cigar-shaped design fulfills a battleship or commandship role in the Calamarian starfleet. Home One, the archetype of the class, served as the personal flagship of Admiral Ackbar during the Battle of Endor. The prestigious warship was far larger than a mile-long Imperator-class star destroyer of the Imperial Navy. The Home One design was rare in proportion to its size: to date there is only debatable evidence for the existence of one sister ship.
According to A Guide to the STAR WARS Universe: "Home One has twenty-nine turbolaser batteries, thirty-six mini-ion cannon emplacements, multiple shield and tractor beam projectors, and twenty hangar bays to house its complement of ten starfighter squadrons and other craft." These statistics are probably reliable because they seem to originate with the book's first edition, which was written near the time of the release of Return of the Jedi. The numbers probably derive from direct inspection of the Home One model. "Twenty hangar bays" must be the total number of work bays within all three known flank hangars.
The name of this vessel is in dispute. Some argue that "Home One" is merely a call-sign used for Admiral Ackbar during the Battle of Endor. They say that Ackbar's pre-Yavin flagship, Independence, (seen in the X-Wing computer game) is the same as his Endor flagship. Others argue that the name sounds consistent with Calamarian style and culture, and that it is similar to the name of a Calamarian city.
Mon Calamari fleet