Upon closer inspection, the Hiigarans discover that the vessel emits a control field which subverts any large vessel nearby, bringing it under its own control. Far in the depths of space, removed from all nearby worlds, lies a large ship of strange design, orbited by vessels of different races. On the far side of the nebula, the Hiigarans discover a strange vessel. Ten thousand years prior, the Kadeshi and the Hiigarans had been kin. The Kadeshi's most sacred relic was an ancient vessel identical to the ship originally discovered beneath the sands of Kharak.
Ultimately, the Hiigarans are forced to fight and destroy the Kadeshi, only to realize in the final battle that their origins are identical. The Hiigarans are able to survive the assault by the Kadeshi, who command hundreds of swarmers and a massive needle-shaped mothership, but their attempts to flee only draw them deeper within the nebula. The Kadeshi are enraged to find the Hiigarans harvesting the nebula's vast crystalline structures for resources, prompting them to attack. Within the nebula the Hiigarans encounter a group called the Kadeshi, a culture whose religion commands the protection of the nebula from all outsiders. The Mothership makes another jump, this time to the outskirts of a vast nebula. After a long and desperate battle, they destroy the fleet, and resolve to push forward towards their homeworld, Hiigara. Fending off an attack by Turanic Raiders, a pirate organization loyal to the Taiidan, the Hiigarans finally catch up with the fleet responsible for the destruction of Kharak.
After trading vital capital ship technology with the outcasts, the Bentusi also promise to bring their cause before the Galactic Council, a body of great authority. They are soon contacted by the Bentusi, another spacefaring race that sympathizes with the Hiigaran's cause. The Taiidani attack and destroy the defenders of Kharak while their Mothership is away.ĭeciding that they are not yet ready to confront the Taiidan at their present strength, the Hiigarans jump to a nearby star system in order to gather resources and organize an assault. With nothing left for them in the Kharak system, they embark upon a mission of revenge against the Taiidan fleet that attacked and decimated Kharak. The crew of the Mothership returns to find that they, along with the 600,000 people loaded into cryo trays for the journey to Hiigara, are now the last of their people. Sixty years after this discovery, construction of the Mothership is completed, and shortly after it leaves Kharak on its first test run, a fleet of unknown origin emerges from space, laying waste to Kharak and claiming that the Kharakians have violated a millenium-old treaty forbidding them from developing or using hyperdrive technology. Prior to the events of the game, upon having discovered an artifact known as the Guidestone, an ancient relic indicating that the population of Kharak was in fact native to another world, Hiigara, the previously splintered Kharakian clans united to construct the Mothership, a massive vessel capable of carrying them across space to their old home. Homeworld's campaign begins high above the desert world of Kharak, an isolated and inhospitable planet on the far side of the galaxy. To date, the positive response to Homeworld has lead to two additional titles in the franchise: 2000's Homeworld: Cataclysm, a stand-alone expansion pack created by Barking Dog Studios, and 2003's Homeworld 2, a direct sequel to the original game created by Relic itself. Homeworld was extremely well-recieved by critics at the time of its release, not only garnering high marks in reviews, but also receiving numerous additional accolades, including multiple "Game of the Year" awards. Its single-player campaign follows a group of people known as the Hiigarans, who, having just recently uncovered the means to construct spacefaring vessels, set out upon a journey to rediscover their long-lost homeworld, Hiigara. Billed as one of the first truly three-dimensional real-time strategy games, Homeworld takes place within environments that allow movement in all directions. Published by Sierra Entertainment and developed by Relic Entertainment, Homeworld is a space-themed real-time strategy game released on Septemfor the PC.
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