As he’d hoped, the enemy strike craft wing vectored towards him rather than immediately pursuing the rest of the collection operation. The dust cloud, he’d noticed earlier, was so dense that it rendered sensor readings incredibly inaccurate, which he hoped would give his desperate plan a one-in-a-million rather than a zero percent chance of success.
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Ordering the rest of the resource collection team to full burn towards friendly forces, Jak did the opposite, punching the throttle and frantically maneuvering his collector so that he was ‘behind’ an especially dense dust cloud relative to the incoming enemy craft. Noting the enemy’s compact formation, Jak suddenly had an idea. He, a handful of fellow collectors, and a resource controller suddenly found themselves under imminent attack, over a thousand kilometers from the nearest reinforcements. Minutes after things went sideways, a closely grouped pack of hostile strike craft suddenly appeared on Jak’s sensors. Sandy haired, tall, and lanky, his experience and exemplary safety record meant he was selected to undertake the journey to Hiigara as a resource collector pilot after the Mothership’s construction had been completed six years later.ĭuring a resupply stop in what became known as the Gardens of Kadesh, he’d been calmly collecting the nebula’s resources, when, unbeknownst to him, negotiations with the area’s indigenous population had broken down. He had attended civil flight school in Kharak, and after graduating at eighteen he’d immediately gained a position captaining a heavy cargo hauler, shuttling supplies and equipment from Kharak up to the orbital scaffolding. Jak, aka “Hauler”, was one of only a handful of Kiith Somtaaw in the Fists of Heaven. “That cluster’s not normal” Jak Somtaaw replied “and I would know”. Ship sensors had detected an anomaly and wreckage a few minutes earlier, and the flight computers had just completed a full data analysis. Rhu’kin and his squadron had throttled down a few hundred kilometers from a strange rock cluster in what was otherwise the middle of nowhere. It's also a goodbye to the planetary frame of reference it was constructed in Kharak orbit.“Damn” Rhu’kin cursed over the comms “I’m not picking up a transponder but that’s clearly wreckage from a Recon. Homeworld has always had a nice intermingling of scientific and emotional/spiritual themes, and the Mothership aligning with the galaxy at the beginning of its journey underlines how the Kushan civilization, in one hyperdrive test, is expanding to the galactic scale. What about a civilization capable of traveling across the galaxy?
At our current level of technology, our frame of reference when we imagine our Solar System has it nice and aligned horizontally like a table. The orbital plane of a star system's planets are pretty arbitrary compared to the galactic plane of the galaxies they inhabit (our own Solar System's "North Pole" is happens to be pointing in the direction that the Sun is moving in its galactic orbit), but we don't think of this as much. The Scaffold would naturally be equipped with the stationkeeping and attitude adjustment thrusters to do this. It might seem funny to us living on a planet all our lives to expend all that effort to turn and align a massive, multi-kilometer object, but again, it's in space, where this kind of thing is trivial. Their journey is through the galaxy, after all. The Mothership is calibrating its navigational references and it is much simpler to boot it all up when aligned with the galactic plane, eliminating any complex geometrical conversions in navigation. It's even more important BECAUSE it's in space, where everything is relative. For more information: /r/NoParticipationĤ) No discussion of piracy or circumventing DRMĥ) Use Spoilers and/or do not post spoilers in the titlesħ) No direct questions to BBI or GBX staff as posts on their ownĨ) Low effort posts will be removed at our discretionīlackbird Interactive (Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak) Banner images adapted from Walter-NEST's reimaginings of Homeworld 2 skyboxes, found here
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