The game drops players straight into a David vs. Though it is a triumph of engineering, it is also merely the first step in a long, treacherous journey to the center of the galaxy, where the Kharaki discover the presence of an oppressive galaxy-spanning empire, the Taiidan, who will stop at nothing to prevent our plucky player characters from reclaiming their homeworld. The game opens as the ship is to undergo its first hyperspace jump, to the edge of the system and back. The ship they create for their return to Hiigara, the Mothership, is a self-contained factory ship, able to produce anything it might need on the journey, and it has a cargo bay large enough for over half a million cryonically preserved colonists. The discovery of the Guidestone confirms that they are not native to their planet.

Kharak, a desert planet in some distant galaxy (more specifically a replica of the M51 galaxy), is home to a fractionated race of formerly nomadic people, who have just recently begun to build a modern society with the beginnings of sublight space travel. The game takes place entirely in space, and all units are spacecraft. It was a groundbreaking title, as it was the first RTS franchise to allow fully realized 3-D movement. I’d just like to see more games in this universe and more people playing them, it’s such a deep, rich universe.A Real-Time Strategy game created by Relic Entertainment in 1999. I could see Gearbox trying to leverage their purchasing of the Homeworld IP into a multi-genre deal beyond just more RTS games. Kinda weird for me to think I have Karan S’Jet on speed dial (or the modern equivalent of that). I would go on to call her Karan for the rest of the event and then keep in contact with her since. After chatting some more, she did the voice in the original game and even came back to do the voice again the remastered games but she was credited as Heidi Ernest before she was married and changed her name to Heidi Eeaves. Everything she said to me just sounded like Fleet Command. I confusingly replied with “No?” and she then goes on to tell me she is the voice of Karan S’Jet. After she let me go on and on for about 15mins she asked me “So I guess someone told you about my history with Homeworld?” And I was shocked because she was a new CEO of Relic so wasn’t there back when the studio made Homeworld. I was chatting away to her (I was slightly drunk) and gushing about my love of Homeworld and Dawn of War. I work at a SEGA owned studio and they also own Relic, upon a gathering of the studios I was introduced to the new CEO of Relic called Heidi Eaves. I’d just like to see more games in this universe and more people playing them, it’s such a deep, rich universe. Thanks again to all my fellow OT creators for their support on all the OTs I’ve posted as well as their impressive work on all the OTs they make (including but not limited to) vestan Xavi nihilence Aurc Theorry Dancrane212 TheKeyPit mazi and the keeper of all things OT TheMoon for highlighting some info I needed before making this :) If none of you have ever played Homeworld I'd love to chat to you about what makes it so awesome and hope some of you may already be fans too.Ĭlick to shrink.I could see Gearbox trying to leverage their purchasing of the Homeworld IP into a multi-genre deal beyond just more RTS games. I’m super excited to get a glimpse at Homeworld 3 in the coming years but until then I’ll be replaying all previous Homeworld games and also checking out Blackbird Interactive’s other game Hardspace: Shipbreaker – it’s the closet thing we’ll ever get to a first person game in the Homeworld franchise due to the similarly art design in the game. I had a great time designing something that I’ve been passionate about for years rather than a game that’s jut releasing.

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