The State of the Galaxy in Homeworld 3 | Overview, Factions & History 

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As a teenager I saw Karak burn, and the return to Higara. As a young Man I watched the seige of Higara and the age of Sejuk. Now as a man with a son I look forward to what I will see next.

I played an absurd amount of Homeworld and Homeworld 2 before my vision gave out and am deriving a lot of vicarious enjoyment of HW3 through your investigations. Thanks for the awesome content.

Homeworld: (Cataclysm) Emergence remains my top game of the series. RIP stolen Taidaan Heavy Cruiser. You carried my fleet of miners like a champion.

The galaxy at large may have forgotten The Beast, but Kiith Somtaaw remembers. "Kingdom Hearts 2 has SCREWED US AGAIN!" -the captain of the Kuun-Lan, after discussing the matter with Lord Mandalore

Homeworld is the only tactics/strategy game I've played mainly for its storyline. It's still the best space strategy game ever made.

Karan S'Jet is lisan al gaib serriusly Homeworld and Dune music has same vibe

Honey, cancel all my appointments for tonight, a new Templin Institute kino just dropped

>Riesstiu dead and the Taiidan Empire dead and fractured. Taiidan Republic actually does fare better. >The Beast slain by Somtaaw. >Makaan dead. Vaygr routed. Only wondering where Karan got lost... BTW, Homeworld Cataclysm/Emergence is Canon. Blackbird themselves stated it on Twitter/X. Mentioned it multiple times.

Oh man, you gave a curt explanation by the lack of acknowledgement of that little incident called the Beast War in Homeworld 2.

By far and away one of my favourite game franchises, I still have original disk version somewhere. I always found the numbers to be a bit off though. 600,000 people doesn't seem to be nearly enough to establish and maintain an empire.

LMAO epic you included the War of the Beast.

I can’t believe Homeworld 3 is a thing. It’s been so long since I’ve seen this game series come back like this. I look forward to seeing what happens next for the people of Higara.

There is a fantastic fan theory that the Progenitors are the people of Earth that expanded throughout the universe. Also, I wonder if we will see the Beast again but mutated to be even more dangerous.

25:47 Well, a weird way to learn her death for me ! ^^ (Secretly I'm glad to know she won't be the protagonist of ANOTHER Homeworld game).

Tbh I never thought, in 2024 I would get a sequel to one of my fave games of all time. In the quarter century since getting that first beta disc and the subsequent three games, my reflexes are not what they used to be but I am so happy to come back to this universe.

Makaan wasn't killed at the Battle of the Balcorra Gate, he was killed at the Battle of Balcorra

Been waiting for Templin to cover more about Homeworld for a long while! But still, I hope Marc's health has been improving =w=

Homeworld is still one of the greatest franchises in video game history and is still a fun game to play all these years later.

All this lore from a game that couldn't get the license to Battlestar Galactica. So they filed the serial numbers off and mashed it up with Dune. Brilliant.

Bring Sajuuk to bear, Bring Sajuuk to bear, BRING SAJUUK TO BEAR!!!

Sajuk is just the name of the defense contractor slapped on the side of the hyperdrive. Like Lockheed or Mitsubishi lol

Homeworld is the series I've always wanted to play, but kicks my butt so hard I can't get past the tutorials on easy.

*Long live the BEAST!*

HW Cataclysm/Emergence is still the most unique RTS game I ever played and will always remember. Remember THE BEAST.

Nice cliffhanger, thanks for the refresher of Homeworlds Lore!

5TH TRY: ADVENT Administration

When its all nicely summarised like this, the story of Homeworld 1-3 truly is an epic tale of tragedy, conquest and discovery.

This series inspired my entire career in Neuroscience XD.

This transmission received from 1999 is now hit another milestone in decryption. Being among the first to worship Sajuuk. we have a unique experience with the time between each installment truly feels like the vast expanse of history.

I CAN'T wait to play Homeworld 3, i may not have been there since the release of Homeworld 1 but I've pkayed the remastered, Deserts of khara. The lore, the univerese of Homeworld is just so good, the ship designs, the lorenof each race or the khitids, the music is just sooooo *chef's kiss* Though it may take a while to try the game due to financial reasons but i cant wait till i try the game out.

Very clever reference to Homeworld: Cataclysm, which was a spinoff game made by a third party. The records of those events in that game were "sealed" and are top secret, and the franchise has basically pretended it never happened. It was nice to see the reference.

This video has to be mandatory watching before playing Homeworld 3! Than you Templin Institute for your great work here.

homeworld: you're not of this world homeworld catalysm: does not exist because bizzard homeworld 2: you're going to get wrekked repeatedly

Nice short reminder about Homeworld Cataclysm. And I know, they said it's canon (some say it's not) and that the story is wierd with Cataclysm story included. But, my own head canon is, that yes they suppresed the details about the Beast Infection, because the Kushan/Hiigarans just returned home and promised things will be different and better. Only moments later to unleash something that could have destroyed the entire galaxy. Like someone who crashed cars multiple times, being put on the sidelines and when they say they got better at driving, crashes the car immediately. Pretty sure the other factions would have been like : "Yeah, you're going on exile again."

So is this the end of the "Is Cataclysm/Emergence canon" argument if Gearbox paid you to make this?

It's interesting that the first game (HW1) not only made no mention of Sajuuk or the Progenitors (and not really any religious themes either), but also didn't include the 3 Far-Jump cores at all. Originally the core the Kushan (ex-Hiigaran) used to get off the planet was just a regular hyperspace core with no real significance beyond letting them leave their planet. The story of HW1 was decidedly non-mythical and devoid of any 'special' ancient tech. It was HW2 that added all of the mythical ancient history to the Homeworld 'verse, as well as changing the core the Kushan found on their planet from a regular core to one of the 3 special Far-Jump cores. And Deserts of Kharak really bent the otherwise hard science of HW1 into one steeped in religion and myth. The narrative differences between HW1 and the rest (can't speak for Cataclysm) are actually quite remarkable. Personally I wish they had stayed with the HW1 narrative, it was much more reliant on basic science and Kushan ingenuity to move the plot forward. I still like HW2 and Deserts, but I think the religious and mythic themes were not really necessary and dumb-down the whole narrative. I'd rather they had just stuck with the hard science and not this 'ancient holy tech' mumbo jumbo.

I guess they delayed the game for my sake cause it's coming out on my birthday and I am pretty hyped to play. Maybe I can represent some kiith Paktu. "I can smell the sea. it's only a little farther."

I'm glad the whole beast conflict was just a footnote...

Love this, the most complete story on youtube, well done!

Never liked abandoning the mothership in the last mission of homeworld 2; she'd got us through the whole game, but then got tossed aside because we had an upgrade?

Bought a copy! Awesome refresher and cant wait to play it

Universe looks interesting, hope we’ll see more videos on Homeworld.

Missed an important fact, they found materials that were not from the solar system, which gave them the backings and made them pursue the primary anomaly, thus finding the hyperspace core.

amazing job!!

As always, I am always a fan of the villains. The bad guys get all the cool stuff and got that villain swag, lol. The Galceans and Vaygr are no different. And these new guys looks like a combination of the Taiidan and the Vaygr. So looking forward to H3

All of this has happened before... All of this shall happen again...

There's a perfectly usable and salvageable mothership drifting near a black hole cluster where Sajuuk was found, why the heck no one has sent a team to recover it? A fully working mothership with foundries and shipyards ready to be put in use would be an amazing asset. 🙀

awesome video :D :D love the HW series

There's something special about playing from desperate desert coalition to pan-galactic powerhouse

Just a few more days!!!

Great video, thx ☺️

I always thought that Sajuuk was a terraformer. It was hilarious to me that your stronger warship, like a thousand time better than everything you had, was a Progenitor’s tractor 🤣 , even if homeworld is not very consistent with progenitor’s tech

Why is It called homeworld 3 and not giant blue banana/croissant in space?

A bit of a shame the Developers apparently removed the Beast from History. I mean they are annihilated and that is good so, but the journey of the Kith Somtaw and their Warship Kunlan sure is a nice story.

I love this universe

Already have my copy :)😊

Thank you Templin and Gearbox for sorta making Cataclysm canon!

I love this game

The Beast War barely gets a mention :(

Amazing video! Thank you for putting it togeather! I have only played HW 1, 2 and Deserts, but loved the games. I personally really did not like the feel of HW3, but I am excited to see where they take the story!

Can you Please make videos on homeworld deserts of kharak

This is awesome! I love lore! I love Homeworld! I love lamp!

The artstyle of the 'UI' of the templin institute is very similar to the UI in Hw2

20:00 Comparing the Vaygr from Homeworld with the *Vargr* in Marc Miller's Traveller RPG (1977-present) yields interesting results. The latter, a decentralized civilization of canine-like creatures, also have a raiding culture. They possess an instinctive focus on personal magnetism and charisma, which they refer to in the Gvegh language as kfaegzoukhin. Vargr seek to improve kfaegzoukhin for self-actualization as they interact with foreign beings, seek a good position in the social order, try to find mates, and attempt to influence their peers.

Kiith Somtaaw stands ever ready. The Beast will find no easy prey should it reappear!

Karan's immortality isn't quite because of the Second Core, it was a result of her process of becoming 'Unbound', as all Navigators are, but yes, becoming Unbound is required in order to interface properly with the cores. The Bentusi were considered to be an 'Unbound species'.

love me some homeworld lore !

I was 16 when Homeworld 1 was released. Homeworld 2 I was 20. Both I played with my older borther. Homeworld was one of things that formed our bond. He sadly died in 2020 unexpectedly. Now I am 41 and are totally ready for this. I never play games anymore, but to honour my brother I am gonna play Homeworld 3 until every last Ru is mined and ship is captured. I will bring Sajuuk to bear! Rest in peace my brother.

13:50 "Before an era of scientific progress and logical thought" I.E. Before Kiith S'Jet curbstomped everyone into stopping their wars and forcibly forming a council of nations !

I have always thought that the lack of City Ruins or other habitable structures left behind by the Progenitors signified that they were part of a larger fleet or armada building outposts and hyperplane gates throughout the universe. When they arrived in the Whirlpool Galaxy, they likely conducted research and scanned known sectors while building jump gates and hyper gates in various parts of the galaxy, much like the Ancient Lanteans in Stargate. However, something must have spooked them or interrupted their survey, and they left suddenly, leaving many of their megastructures incomplete or partially finished. These incomplete structures degraded over thousands of years and were eventually discovered by the homeworld races, such as the Bentusi, who were the first interstellar civilization to travel the Whirlpool Galaxy. The fact that all races in the galaxy are human suggests that the Progenitors may have seeded life using their genome as a template. While the Progenitors were only a Type 2 civilization, which is inferior to the Forerunner Type 3.8/9 civilization in HALO, or the Megalithic Enigmatic civilization in Mass Effect Andromeda, which is a Type 3.0/1 civilization, they should have left behind remnants of their civilization, such as cities or space habitats throughout the galaxy.

You have used a Turanic Raiders music theme when telling a Progenitors story, while The Progenitors have their own music theme. Regardless, thank you for this video.

Cataclysm is canon now, yayyyy

I swear to christ this game better not have another campaign loaded with prophecy and pitting you against another fanatic religious enemy.

"We are being overrun!"

I'm not sure that there's a lot of different _species_ in the Homeworld galaxy. Everyone we've seen so far was some variety of human. Taiidan, Hiigaran, probably the Bentusi and all the others too. Everyone looks like a human maybe with some odd skin tones here and there. I'm pretty sure the Progenitors were human as well, and all the other nations are their direct descendants. The only genuine non-human alien intelligence in the series was the Beast...

Things got screwy, so Karan went to see the manager.

after 20 years, we're finally coming home

I have yet to get into the homeworld games universe but it is on my list.

Nice.

Placing all bets on the Anomaly's identity here!

What do the other "species" in homeworld look like? We have only ever seen the human looking higarans.

Wasn’t tracking a home world 3 game. But I’m not preordering or doing early access anymore I’ll wait a few months for all the bugs to get ironed out.

I don't like how they made intergalactic travel possible. Storytellers never really seem to understand how immense a galaxy actually is. Sure, we have a gate network to get us around but it would still take hundreds of thousands of years to consider even a single galaxy as 'explored'. You don't need a new galaxy in the story, the galaxy you already have is big enough

Kiith Somtaaw would like to remind everyone to not go rooting around in ancient tech if they don't know what they're doing.

Fleet Command, Online

i really hope the 13 ep of homeworld has some sort of story to tell.

Me when i burn the carrots. " Karak is burning "

I understand why home world cataclysm isn’t cannon but that doesn’t mean I can’t still miss it.

I hope the extra time that BBI took will pay off. Homeworld 3 has a huge story to live up to

Neat

On June 10, 2022 it was revealed that Homeworld 3 has been delayed to the first half of 2023 and on August 23, during the Gamescom the first gameplay trailer was released. In May 2023, the game was delayed to February 2024. On December 1, 2023, Gearbox announced that the game would be released on March 8, 2024. On February 7, 2024, the developers stated the release would be delayed to May 13.

I should play the Homeworld games again...

23:27 I'm just now realizing Vagyr sounds a lot like Vader.😮

While the early Hiigs were not the good guys, the Taiidan were real SOB's and also more or less controlled the Galactic Council in the early days. The Hiigs were being depowered and screwed over which is why they attacked the Taiidan homeworld. sm

Wait, so are the events of Cataclysm/Emergence considered somewhat canon now?

i have on question left why thy scraped Sajuk ?? just why Thy had the bigest Progenitor Ship in the galaxi whit a phasd aray that can on shot most enemy ship why did thy had to scrap it and put the cores intos tha Car Sajuk ? and What hapend to the progenitor Dreadnought ?

Vagyr Ships Propulsion where protected by 2 huge blast doors which in genius and a tactical advantage during space battles if u ask me.

Omg, imagine if The Beast returns!!!

It's curious how in sci-fi titles such Homeworld and Halo etc, there are these ancient and long forgotten highly advanced civilizations. All accomunated by the same traits with small differences. In Homeworld for example Progenitors, thought the use of such Hyperspace cores, are able to travel through the while galaxy in an instant. And this might look more advanced. But Forerunners too, that looks apparently less advanced since their hyperspace technology takes days or even weeks to travel the same distances, is able to move much more than simple ships. Imnense megastructures can be moved and if the Forerunners wanted, they could have moved even planets or stars since the mass they was able to drive was of that scale. It might be the space (speculation) also for the Progenitors. But still both these civilizations are no match for the (Halo) civilization of the Precursors. Not only able to seed the whole universe and create life from nothing, but even able to move objects of immense mass (or create them from nothing) through both space and hyperspace in instants with their hyper advanced technology. I'm definitely fashinated and partially obsessed with such advanced and lost civilizations... that's also why I'm a bit disappointed with Homeworld 3... No explanations given about the Progenitors. Maybe the developers have yet to "develop" anything concrete about such important piece of the puzzle? It's unrealistic, otherwise their games will show incongruences about the ruins and the technology showed in the game. So they have just decided to not show anything new. And ok, maybe this means they will make an "Homeworld 4"... but it's better if they will do what it takes to end the cycle.