History Trivia / Homeworld

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*** The vehicle designs were both similar and different from those of the final game. Railguns had wheels, for example.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Sorta. The main reason why Gearbox didn't remaster Cataclysm like they did with the other games is because Barking Dog Studios, the team who made the game, lost the source code and back-engineering it from a retail copy would take years. There's also the fact that BDS are now owned by Rockstar, raising licensing issues as well. It was ultimately [[https://www.gog.com/game/homeworld_emergence released without remaster]] as ''Homeworld: Emergence''.

*** The game began its development as ''Hardware: Shipbreakers'', an MMORTS set in its own universe. It followed the adventures of salvager teams known as Prospectors, who searched for treasure in crashed shipwrecks in the desert world of LM-47 (LM stood for Long March Industries, a MegaCorp that owned the planet and designed the Prospector's vehicles).

** Homeworld Shipbreakers will have surface units as being your primary units. Which makes sense seeing as it's set on Kharak before Homeworld and thus the Hiigarans (then known as Kushans) are mostly relegated to the sandy surface of the planet.

*** Originally, combat in would have revolved around [[BigDumbObject massive space megaliths]] left by various ancient civilizations, allowing for Death Star-type fighter combat and units that could be deployed on the surface. This idea was eventually scrapped - although you can still see the megaliths in the cutscenes and the background art - and the biggest object you can interact with in the series remains the Taiidan hyperspace inhibitor from the first game.

*** There were plans for a third antagonistic force other than the Turanic Raiders and the Kadeshi to stand in the way of the Mothership fleet. Known as the [=T-MAT=] and by their development name, P3 (Pirates 3, the Raiders were P1 and the Kadeshi P2), they originally had a [[https://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/misc/images/tmat.jpg starfish-shaped mothership]]. Unfortunately, that ship was too big for the original game's engine to handle. The second iteration had [[https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/717538599313600724/99D559B219FEA4880218C548105D8D0B285B542B/ large, asteroid-like starships]] with glowing crystalline parts and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/e/e8/Megaship_frigates.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080126180043&format=original stalactite]] and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/4/46/AK_P3_barnacle_frigate.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20071201113921&format=original barnacle frigates]]. The T-MAT were intended to be extremely powerful and evil, too strong for the Kushan to handle, which would force the T-MAT missions to be HoldTheLine-like levels until they could flee. In the end, all that remained of the T-MAT was their mothership, known as the Megaship, which appeared as part of the Galactic Council at the end of the game. The Starfish would later appear in its full glory as the Vaygr Planet Killer in the second game. The first game's stat files have entries for T-MAT frigates and destroyers, but they have no models.

* FanNickname: "Banana Ship". Guess what it is for.

** Homeworld 1

*** Prominent space RTS developers Stardock and Paradox attempted to obtain the Homeworld rights when they were auctioned off during the collapse of (old) THQ, but were outbid by Gearbox.

*** There were plans for a third antagonistic force other than the Turanic Raiders and the Kadeshi to stand in the way of the Mothership fleet. Known as the [=T-MAT=] and by their development name, P3 (Pirates 3, the Raiders were P1 and the Kadeshi P2), they originally had a [[https://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/misc/images/tmat.jpg starfish-shaped mothership]]. Unfortunately, that ship was too big for the original game's engine to handle. The second iteration had [[https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/717538599313600724/99D559B219FEA4880218C548105D8D0B285B542B/ large, asteroid-like starships]] with glowing crystalline parts and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/e/e8/Megaship_frigates.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080126180043 stalactite]] and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/4/46/AK_P3_barnacle_frigate.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20071201113921 barnacle frigates]]. The T-MAT were intended to be extremely powerful and evil, too strong for the Kushan to handle, which would force the T-MAT missions to be HoldTheLine-like levels until they could flee. In the end, all that remained of the T-MAT was their mothership, known as the Megaship, which appeared as part of the Galactic Council at the end of the game. The Starfish would later appear in its full glory as the Vaygr Planet Killer in the second game. The first game's stat files have entries for T-MAT frigates and destroyers, but they have no models.

** The first game was originally pitched as an adaptation of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'', but they were unable to secure the rights for it. Interestingly, the DarkerAndEdgier tone planned for it would have pre-dated the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 later reboot]] of the series.
** The first iteration of the Kushan designs were far different from the final game's ships.
** There were plans for a third antagonistic force other than the Turanic Raiders and the Kadeshi to stand in the way of the Mothership fleet. Known as the [=T-MAT=] and by their development name, P3 (Pirates 3, the Raiders were P1 and the Kadeshi P2), they originally had a [[https://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/misc/images/tmat.jpg starfish-shaped mothership]]. Unfortunately, that ship was too big for the original game's engine to handle. The second iteration had [[https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/717538599313600724/99D559B219FEA4880218C548105D8D0B285B542B/ large, asteroid-like starships]] with glowing crystalline parts and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/e/e8/Megaship_frigates.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080126180043 stalactite]] and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/4/46/AK_P3_barnacle_frigate.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20071201113921 barnacle frigates]]. The T-MAT were intended to be extremely powerful and evil, too strong for the Kushan to handle, which would force the T-MAT missions to be HoldTheLine-like levels until they could flee. In the end, all that remained of the T-MAT was their mothership, known as the Megaship, which appeared as part of the Galactic Council at the end of the game. The Starfish would later appear in its full glory as the Vaygr Planet Killer in the second game. The first game's stat files have entries for T-MAT frigates and destroyers, but they have no models.
** Prominent space RTS developers Stardock and Paradox attempted to obtain the Homeworld rights when they were auctioned off during the collapse of (old) THQ, but were outbid by Gearbox.

* TheOtherDarrin: Fans were somewhat miffed when Karan S'Jet ended up voiced by a different voice actor in Homeworld 2. During the showcase of the Remastered Edition in 2014 however, the dev team divulged that they did ask Heidi Ernest (the original VA) to reprise her role and even brought her into the recording studio. Problem is, she was nine months pregnant at the time and her voice wasn't quite the same, so the team was forced to look for someone else. They ended up bringing Heidi back anyways for the Remastered Edition, both for the first game and the second.

** The Taiidani ship designs were originally intended to be the Kushan/Hiigarans'.
** There were plans for a third antagonistic force other than the Turanic Raiders and the Kadeshi to stand in the way of the Mothership fleet. Known as the [=T-MAT=] and by their development name, P3 (Pirates 3, the Raiders were P1 and the Kadeshi P2), they originally had a [[https://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/misc/images/tmat.jpg starfish-shaped mothership]]. Unfortunately, that ship was too big for the original game's engine to handle. The second iteration had [[https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/717538599313600724/99D559B219FEA4880218C548105D8D0B285B542B/ large, asteroid-like starships]] with glowing crystalline parts and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/e/e8/Megaship_frigates.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080126180043 stalactite destroyers]] and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/4/46/AK_P3_barnacle_frigate.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20071201113921 barnacle frigates]]. The T-MAT were intended to be extremely powerful and evil, too strong for the Kushan to handle, which would force the T-MAT missions to be HoldTheLine-like levels until they could flee. In the end, all that remained of the T-MAT was their mothership, known as the Megaship, which appeared as part of the Galactic Council at the end of the game. The Starfish would later appear in its full glory as the Vaygr Planet Killer in the second game. The first game's stat files have entries for T-MAT frigates and destroyers, but they have no models.