History TearJerker / Homeworld

* The incredibly emotional WhatTheHellHero delivered to the Bentusi by the [[TookALevelInBadass Kuun-Lan Fleet Command]] in ''Cataclysm'', where he claims they are no better than The Beast.

** There's another heartwrenching line in that level: You've loaded the remaining Cryo Trays on board, the ship is powering up to jump away and then you hear this:
---> '''Fleet Intelligence''': There's nothing left for us here. (sigh) Let's go.

** The Mothership returns to Kharak, expecting a safe return for emergency repairs, only to discover that the scaffold, Kharak and [[AllThereInTheManual its 300 million inhabitants that the manual told you all about, have been wiped away by fire. The initial camera viewing angle given to you is cleverly placed facing away from the burning planet to maximize the shock value towards the player when the player proactively turns the view from the wrecked scaffold to the burning world below. Cue ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Agnus Dei]]'' (the choral version of Barber's ''Adagio for Strings'').

* The life on Kharak pre-Guidestone discovery consists of Kiithid (clans) beating the crap out of each other, fighting over already scarce resources or their own ideology and belief [[spoiler: ''which turns out to be wrong''. From a race punished for a great crime now reduced to disillusioned people fighting one another for a past that they don't even ''remember'' anymore!]]

** The Mothership returns to Kharak, expecting a safe return for emergency repairs, only to discover that [[spoiler:the scaffold, Kharak and [[AllThereInTheManual its 300 million inhabitants that the manual told you all about]], have been wiped away by fire. The initial camera viewing angle given to you is cleverly placed facing away from the burning planet to maximize the shock value towards the player when the player proactively turns the view from the wrecked scaffold to the burning world below.]] Cue ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Agnus Dei]]'' (the choral version of Barber's ''Adagio for Strings'').

--> '''Fleet Command''': [[spoiler:No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning...]]
--> '''Fleet Intelligence:''' [[spoiler:The scaffold has been destroyed. All orbital facilities destroyed. Significant debris ring in low Kharak orbit. Receiving no communication from anywhere in the system... not even beacons.]]
** Moments later, a glimmer of hope shines through: [[spoiler: the Cryo Trays are still intact but sustaining damage from a Taiidan mop-up group that stayed after the attack. The mood of the dialog from Fleet Command and Fleet Intelligence invests the task of saving the Trays - all that remain of your entire race - with the same importance and intensity as protecting your own loved ones.]]
** There's another heartwrenching line in that level: [[spoiler: You've loaded the remaining Cryo Trays on board]], the ship is powering up to jump away and then you hear this:

* The discovery at the end of the Kadeshi missions that you have very possibly committed genocide...[[spoiler:upon your own kin.]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Fleet Intelligence''': The hyperspace waveform of the enemy mothership was identical to our own. This raises interesting questions, considering our hyperspace technology was reverse-engineered from the Khar-Toba.]]

** After the Kushan save the Bentusi from the Taiidan Empire, the Bentusi see fit to share with them information that was forbidden from being shown throughout the entire galaxy. What information is so important and so illegal that it requires saving the lives of the most powerful alien race in the galaxy to be shown? [[spoiler:'''The exile of your ancestors from Hiigara.''' The entire sequence is shown as an entire fleet of prison ships making an unplanned and perilous journey across the galaxy on slow, shoddy, unreliable conventional drives, resulting in generations after generations of Hiigarans living as nomads throughout space until they reached Kharak, lying on the edge of the galaxy. Some prison ships don't even make it that far, helplessly succumbing to poor engineering. Others would desert the convoy and decide to live elsewhere, resulting in the cultist Kadeshi. Like the Return to Kharak, this entire sequence goes by with the helping hand of ''Agnus Dei'', which serves to emphasize the undeserving consequences who the Kushans, now innocent and unaware of their heinous past, face as punishment for the sins that their ancestors committed.]] The entire legacy and future of the Hiigarans and their Kushan descendants is just one big tragedy, which becomes all the more reason for you to help them see it through to the end.

* The [[spoiler: infection of the Caal-Shto in ''Cataclysm'', after you spent two chapters protecting it.]]

* In ''Homeworld 2'', when the [[spoiler:last of Bentusi]] blow themselves up to buy Hiigara fleet the time for escaping [[spoiler:the Keeper]]. Out of nowhere for some, but it takes on different meaning knowing that [[spoiler:they were the one who utterly beat ancient Hiigara into submission and forced them into ''generations'' of exile]]...
* The end credits for Homeworld 1 in the remastered version contains a dedication to late Campbell Lane, the voice actor for Bentusi, referring to him as "Forever Unbound".

** The Mothership returns to Kharak, expecting a safe return for emergency repairs, only to discover that [[spoiler:the scaffold, Kharak and [[AllThereInTheManual its 300 million inhabitants that the manual told you all about]], have been wiped away by fire. The initial camera viewing angle given to you is cleverly placed facing away from the burning planet to maximize the shock value towards the player when the player proactively turns the view from the wrecked scaffold to the burning world below.]] Cue ''[[AwesomeMusic Agnus Dei]]'' (the choral version of Barber's ''Adagio for Strings'').

* The life on Kharak pre-Guidestone discovery consists of Kiithid (clans) beating the crap out of each other, fighting over already scarce resources or their own ideology and belief [[spoiler: ''which turns out to be wrong''. From a race punished for a great crime now reduced to disillusioned people fighting one of their own for a past that they don't even ''remember'' anymore!]]

* The life on Kharak pre-Guidestone discovery consists of Kiithid (clans) beating the crap out of each other, fighting over already scarce resources or their own ideology and belief [[spoiler: ''which turns out to be wrong''. From a race punished for a great crime now reduced to disillusioned people fighting each other for a past that they don't even ''remember'' anymore.]]

* The life on Kharak pre-Guidestone discovery consists of Kiithid (clans) beating the crap out of each other, fighting over already scarce resources or their own ideology and belief [[spoiler: ''which turns out to be wrong''. From a race punished for a great crime now reduced to disillusioned people fighting for a past that they don't even ''remember'' anymore.]]

* The discovery at the end of the Kadeshi missions that you have very possibly committed genocide...[[spoiler:upon your own kin.]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Fleet Intelligence''': The hyperspace waveform of the enemy mothership was identical to our own. This raises interesting questions, considering our hyperspace technology was reverse-engineered from the Khar-Toba.]]

* The end credits for Homeworld 1 in the remastered version contains a dedication to Campbell Lane, referring to him as "Forever Unbound".

* The life on Kharak pre-Guidestone discovery consists of Kiithid (clans) beating the crap out of each other, fighting over already scarce resources or their own ideology and belief [[spoiler: ''which turns out to be wrong''. From a race punished for a great crime to disillusioned people fighting for a past that they don't even remember anymore.]]

* The discovery at the end of the Kadeshi missions that you have very possibly committed genocide...upon your own kin.
---> '''Fleet Intelligence''': The hyperspace waveform of the enemy mothership was identical to our own. This raises interesting questions, considering our hyperspace technology was reverse-engineered from the Khar-Toba.