I always assumed it was because of the insane sandstorms and winds on the planet.

@@HandleMyBallsKZfaq correct

as Harry Potter once said: "Diagon Alley!"

Which is strange to say given that the Kushan during DoK were relatively low-tech (aside from the Gaalsien) compared to their ancestors in HW1.

With the theory that the HW humans are descendants of us in the far future who have colonized another galaxy, it does still make sense

Yep he was right. However, Kharak was a dying planet. By pushing back out into the stars and reclaiming their Homeworld, it ultimately saved the Hiigaran people from their exile and their extinction.

Neither side was really in the wrong during this. The Gaalsien were somewhat right about what would happen should they push into the stars (granted, it was the Taiidan that did it, not Sajuuk). However, the Coalition was caught between a rock and a hard place with either continuing into space or remaining on their already dying planet and be wiped out with it.

@@hycron1234 If you are quick, you can save 600,000 people haha, but the game never acknowledges that and assumes 500k

Although if I could make a counter point. While yes Kharak was dying so they needed to get off the planet. The taidan really did not have any legs to stand on when they burned Kharak since by that time they had ALREADY tried to deploy an orbital weapon to probably orbital bombard the higarians. So, in reality THEY nullified the treaty LONG before the higarans remembered it. So…yeah they deserved the retaliation they got.

@@jeremydale4548 and that was done by Taiidani faction who want to raise the emperor's popularity, which is declining. It just makes people rebel (Republic faction)

I was thinking the same thing when I first saw the harvesters in Dune, so cool!

Desert Power was perfected by the Kushan.

I May have dropped several nukes on it

I did this and it’s a gamble whether they detonate or not because the ashoka floats over them, the actual gaalsien fleet has to go over them to detonate them

I remember The Spirits Within, primarily because of how awful it was.

@@PasserMontanus It was primarily a way to show off tech. In terms of story, it was better than Avatar in that respect. I actually enjoyed it.

Those taiidan are such friendly guys

EasyBreadToast that literally happens within the first hour or so in home world one. It’s the thing that sets up the entire game.

@@videogamechannels360 not when its part of the tutorial section of a game.

Taiidan: "Welp that solves that problem. Time to go back to my booze and whores" [An angry banana shaped object is heading for Hiigara at ludicrous speed] [And it has the defected Taiidan military, the Bentusi, and the entire Galactic Council in tow] Taiidan: keemstar_scream_10hours.mp4

@@KingThrillgore Meanwhile, somewhere in deep space... Kushan fleet: *ANGRY SALVAGE CORVETTE NOISES* Taiidani fleet: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*

That's why the story is interesting: the "bad guys" are actually right. The whole planet will be destroyed because of the actions of the player.

I thik that Gaalsien didn't know about the treaty - that knowledge was propably lost and evolved into a armageddon myth of sorts.

@@BarcelPL That's exactly the point the other comment was trying to make. They knew of it but not as a fact, instead thinking of it in religious terms. They knew it'll end badly, they just thought it's going to be the gods to punish them, not a vengeful Empire. We've seen similar stuff happen in real life too. Not necessarily as religion, but in other ways. There's this experiment or at least an idea where you put a couple of monkeys (say 4 or 5) in a room, put a ladder in the middle of the room and put a banana on top of it. Every time one of the monkeys tried to reach for the banana, the scientists doused the other monkeys with water. In time, the monkeys started to act violently towards any of them that even dared try to reach for the banana. You then change one of the monkeys. The new one of course doesn't know it, but it's forbidden to reach for the banana, so she tries it and gets beaten up. You continue doing it until you've replaced all the monkeys. At some point you'll end up with monkeys that know not to grab the banana but won't know why it's forbidden. That's quite similar to this. The Gaalsien know not to build space tech, they know something bad will happen but misinterpret it as the will of gods. Similarily, the Kadeshi evolved in a similar way, viewing the "Garden of Kadesh" as their sanctuary. They forgot who and why wants to get them, but they knew someone out there wants to take their lives and started to worship their hiding spot, the titular Garden of Kadesh, as a holy place that noone may ever leave out of fear that whoever it is out there, probably gods, will try to kill them. The Kadeshi ambassador says this: "The evil that drove us here will find and destroy you. From you they will know about us and come here. This cannot come to pass.". They all knew not necessarily about the treaty itself, but knew that there's something out there that's going to punish them if they perform certain actions. Actions that unlike the treaty itself, are preserved as religious views.

The ironic part is Kiith Gaalsien stayed behind not taking a part in the Mothership project to take back their homeworld, and most likely perished when Taiidan empire bombarded the planet.

Because that's not how it works in real life. When stories get passed down from a space-capable civilization to one in the stone age, none of that is going to make sense and is just going to get changed to gods and prophecies, because they won't understand anything more.

Agree on mod-support. But I have to askWhat can do you mod tho. This series is not like Space where you have multiple to choose from.With this engine....what can you do?..... What option do modder have?

@@nuruddinshah684 anything from new units to different mechanics to sticking it in a new universe like one where your fighting over the Halo ring or fighting over tatooine or jakku or geonosis

@@nuruddinshah684 some epic 40k mods where missed out on

They could have made bigger maps, the maps are just so small for a game thats supposed to happen in an endless desert. The whole fleet is designed for large maps and this impacts the gameplay a lot in Skirmish, once you play 1 skirmish the rest feels exactly the same. They could have at least unlocked the large maps we get to see in the campaign... smh

But there are mods

Very nice work 👌👍

Nnn

Everyone is doing what they think is right.

They weren't right, though. Kharak was dying regardless, so if they didn't build the mothership then they would have baked to death along with the planet anyway. With the mothership, the Kushan as a people survived. Galsean ideology would have ensured their extinction.

@@Ugh-Fudge_Bwana true, but that doesn't discount the fact that they were literally correct as they where firebombed into extinction.

Honestly I don't mind they take their time, its better to get it right the first time than later

i mean were getting Homeworld 3, Homeworld Mobile and a official tabletop RPG all with their own stories, so seems like Gearbox wants to make Homeworld a bigger thing in some way

I wonder what's going to come first, Terraria 1.4 on mobile or Homeworld: Mobile Hmmm

@@smolpp585 Could do without the 2nd. I don;t recall any mobile port of a PC ever doing well and it just takes resources from working on HW3. But then again I guess Homeworld Mobile sounds better than HW cashgrab which is what mobile generally translates too.

I wish the same with Killzone instead of some garbage fan film or low budget 3D nightmare. But if they actually care about this universe they would but if they didn't they'd either do two things. 1 they'd ruin the universe by adding or not understanding something that wasn't actually part of the universe like the Assassins Creed movie. Or they'll add liberal ideology and add things in the universe that wasn't in it before and ruin the universe like what they did with Disney Star Wars.

INDEED! i was like oFF

No. Galsiaans have no idea about 4000 years old treaty. Saying they are right just because you are coming from future is not good. Also Kharak is consumed by sand and bleeding out. So not going into stars will wipe humankind anyway.

@@SmallKittyPaw The Galsiaans proclaim that doing what the coalition is trying to accomplish will anger the gods. Point is, the people know that Kharak isn't their homeworld, but considered it as divine punishment (forfathers did something, and as punishment they were put on Kharak by the gods) The Galsiaans promote that the only way to be forgiven and, returned to where they were taken from, is by faith..and that the coalition and its path to discover the ruins will only deepen the guilt. Soooooo, what to make of it? The people on kharak know they came from another world, but through the millenia , detailed knowledge was lost, and facts became myth, so yes: The Galsiaans are right, for the wrong reasons, but right neverless! The coalition is right, for the right reasons. My take here is that if actual knowledge about the past had survived through time, It wouldn't change " The Burning of Kharak" ..but at least the coalition couldv'e prepared for it better.

the fact that the taiidans dodged the bullet for thousands of years, just to enforce a treaty that was as illigal as inhumane is also mind boggling

@@Azreal20 yeah its totally possible the vague memory of the treaty evolved through word of mouth into a religion. i mean its probably how most religions start, a story about a real event being twisted and altered through the ages

Its not limited to picky people, dont forget the trolls. There is even a bot that dislikes videos en masse.

+, looks like a movie and atmospheric

@@mariokepler5633 They said HW3's cinematics and storytelling's gonna be like Deserts of Kharak, and more!

Wasn't a prequel. The final artefact was the Homeworld mother ship.

Unfortunately there's too much retconning for it to really be a prequel that fits in with the original.

@@Greenmachine305... That's literally what a prequel means.

@@strategicsage7694 I mean... What did the retconn? The starting cutscene on homeworld was already pretty vague.

I know in Turkish and some other languages, "Kurak" is "arid" or "dry". Wouldn't be surprised if the naming was intentional given the sheer thematic inspirations the series has from the Middle East.

Neakal yes, as a Turkish i can completely confirm that it can be fully translated as “arid”

Well Homeworld is basicaly jews in space, most of the names like kharak , kadesh are from the story of the jews 40 years exodus to the promise land......

The Kushan are rooted in the Bedouin people. Another great sci-fi series inspired by the Bedouin was Frank Herbert's Dune, acknowledged as inspiration for Homeworld.

@@theMPrints Kadosh means "holy" in Hebrew and is similar to Kadesh, who are a very religious people, so definitely some influence from Judaism there too (although I believe the main factions are more influenced by Arab tradition)

Мог бы и купить. Каждая игра от этих разработчиков - шедевр, и заслуживает финансовой поддержки.

The class of ships the sakala and kapisi are are designed for the coalitions expedition lore states 8 of them was planned to be built the ship I think your talking about that Jacob was in was an older class also on an expedition but suffered hull cave in

And the Gaalsien are basically Immortan Joe's faction with hover tech. Funny thing is, their leader also wears a mask!

Thank you. I don't see the point in that. People can just start the playlist. Maybe someday I'll make a "Homeworld Cataclysm" video:)

@@Jijechka Well can't have it all, Can't wait :)

Yepp HW1 was such a breakthrough in game mechanics (at the time). Sound design and graphics were awesome too (for its time). And the story. I remember being awed by its awesomeness when I was young...

you've been missing out. the opening very much makes it feel like the ages-old piece of music they used for it was made for the game. :)

Wow

Yep the First City of Kharak where the Exiles Hiigarans have landed & built their settlement closer in the planet's equator. Its also where the both the Guildestone & the Second Core were kept hidden after 4,000 years during the First Time.

well are you suprised? the image and scene are spot on from the cutscene in the original HL1

@@cosmicac6608 HL1...? 😏 Half-Life 1...?

1:07:50

and rip THEIR TIRANIC EMPIRE TO SHREDS!!!!

I wish this game was still active to play others

@@Mocha69A I'm not sure about DoK, but for HW:R I've consistently seen 2-4 lobbies up on the steam version. Would join them but I'm really out of practice.

Lol. At least, they did got into the film and then can die if glory...

There's weird AI pathing, and there's just throwing the thing into full reverse.

They were obviously FAR more advanced than we are now, and had committed almost all of their scarce remaining resources to building the Mothership, and preparing the cryo-teams to settle another world as their last hope. Little did they know just HOW last a hope it would be...

@@troyjollimore4100 I don't think it's that far more advanced, we just prioritise casinos and 'financial services'

The original Homeworld manual had a big lore section and there it is written that Kharak is a dying world. I just got out my old manual from 1999 and even Kiith Gaalsien is already mentioned there.

I had the exact same thought when I first saw them!

Holy fuck I never noticed that until now

Technically, used the Warpdrive

just like earth?

I mean, they were right but in a wrong way. They genuinely thought it would be a punishment from Sajuuk, but in truth it would just be Taiidan Empire raining orbital bombardment on the planet...