Deserts of Kharak Lore: Soban & Khaaneph

In this episode, we take a look at the history of Kiith Soban and the Khaaneph.
Soban Dossier: www.desertsofkharak.com/docume...
Khaaneph Site: www.desertsofkharak.com/docume...

[@TomOfTheDon]

Kith Soban's backstory just gives me chills. Such good writing when it come to lore in the homeworld games.

[@Dreamlands15]

TomWithADon Agreed. Ive been wanting to do this video for a long time.

[@Razgriz_01]

With Homeworld 3 in the works, I hope they expand the lore and universe. Its so untapped that we only seem to scratch the surface from the games. I wouldn't mind they release tie-in books just to expand the world.

[@thelordchancellor3454]

@@Razgriz_01 I would love to read books in the Homeworld setting. It’s so rich and there are so many periods to set them in, I may even try my hand at writing one myself.

[@MrEvan312]

Coalition: Scientific Agnostics Galsieen: Religious Fundamentalists Soban: Spiritual Warriors Khaaneph: Militant Atheists The lore of each of these factions is incredibly interesting, the roots of the Homeworld verse in general, and you sir read it and presented it like a proper story, I like that you used game footage to create a sort of machinima feel to it as well.

[@SgtCandy]

The Khanneph are more militant nihilists than atheist since it's dubious if they care about anything like affirming or denying the supernatural, at least on a group level

[@SkyDude1256]

The Khaaneph were more like Animal Boogiemen

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

@@SkyDude1256 I like to call them Beast Men, I have a head canon where they're connected with the Beast from Cataclysm.

[@Pilvenuga]

@@KlaxontheImpailr The Reavers of Kharak

[@odst1658]

"A withering hail of missile fire rained down on the Soban fleet," pretty much sums up the multiplayer for the first few weeks after the Khaaneph DLC launched.

[@Dreamlands15]

odst1658 Bahaha. So true. That entire segment at Firebase Kriil is actually a recreation of the battle from the Soban Dossier pdf :)

[@odst1658]

That Dossier was pretty legit.

[@Dreamlands15]

odst1658 So legit. I had a lot of fun with Empty recreating that battle. I had way more footage than I could have fit into that short part of the video.

[@ToastedWaffles_]

Might want to throw the link to the pdf in the description just in case if anyone missed it

[@mahj]

Dreamlands Could you put that footage online anyway? Perhaps in an unlisted video; I really like the footage you get out of the game.

[@Crazael]

My favorite bit about the Soban is that if their contract ends during a battle, they will stop fighting and leave, forcing their employers to renegotiate a new contract for them to resume fighting.

[@supershadow102007]

wish they did a expansion for DoK for kiith soban fighting the Khaaneph that would have been great

[@Bozothcow]

One thing I love about the Khaaneph is that it completely explains why the Coalition, obviously the underdog at the beginning of DoK, is able to launch a fleet into the desert and actually make it through. Obviously if the Gaalsien had targeted them with all of their forces during mission one none of us could have beaten them. Now we see why they didn't.

[@sosig6445]

The Gaalsein are also not significantly stronger than the coalition they are just much more accustomed to the desert, the coalition fears them not for their nubers but for their fortitude and cunning. Utalizing tactics that are hard to counter by conventional military force while still packing a hard punch with the technology they reverse engineer from the wreckages of millenia old arc ships.

[@SkyDude1256]

That is one good reason while the other is because they don't really have enough manpower and resources to bring out a long term siege. The Gaals would have to spend a hefty amount of resources to get a main assualt force to pass through the desert and fight against enemies with home field advantage.

[@StadtplanDan]

Interesting that both the Soban and the Khaaneph were born from atrocities in the Heresy Wars.

[@Dreamlands15]

Indeed it is.

[@johnagefrost]

You painted the picture of Soban the Red so vividly. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war.

[@miketacos9034]

The more I learn about Homeworld lore, the more blown away I am by it. So cool!

[@L3_FR]

i've been subscribed to your channel for now half a year and remained mostly if not entirely silent up to this date. But this video was truly something special or should I say a wonderful experience to both watch and listen as you told us the story and tales of the sobanese and khaaneph people while the perfectly mixed in ost was playing in the background. I would like to thank you for making such good content because you put so much time and dedication into these videos and it shows. keep it up! Greetings from France

[@Dreamlands15]

L3 Thank you so much :) The lore and atmosphere of Homeworld is my real passion.

[@BIGESTblade]

Deserts have a special charm in everything they house. Homeworld always showed it at its best. Wherever our jorney leads us, we never forget that Kharak is a desert planet. To bring the athmosphere of a desert in space is a big deal, very few RTSs have such a thick athmosphere.

[@Dreamlands15]

Agreed. Fantastic atmosphere.

[@TheTurtleinariver]

LORE IS BACK BOYS.

[@Dreamlands15]

TheTurtleinariver Its been way too long :)

[@Sobanre85]

A Legendary Story Telling skill right there. Thank you Dreamlands

[@Dreamlands15]

Thank you :)

[@Marth667]

Awesome bit of lore to flesh out an awesome universe

[@Tzryylon5]

So the Khaaneph are like Mad Max but without Immortan Joe?

[@Dreamlands15]

Tzryylon5 Basically yeah.

[@Tzryylon5]

Dreamlands "The commander... he activated the mobility support when I hailed the carrier! I am awaited on Hiigara, shiny and chrome!!"

[@Kevooi]

Tzryylon5 The Citadel dwellers were fanatical followers of Joe. One might argue it was yet another religion. The Khaaneph are more like maddened atheistic desert technobarbarians than anything else. All they do is raid, kill, loot, repeat. So uh... Warboys without Joe. Yeah you're probably right... Also +1 for even bring up Mad Max! The first time I played DoK, I got absolutely crazy Mad Max vibes from watching LAVs zipping around dunes and blowing stuff up. Dat beefy engine sound made it even better.

[@catsndogs98]

No, with better immortan joe

[@rebelleader_kn7738]

Very good lore, I really like the khaaneph even more after this video ; thanks

[@Dreamlands15]

KlingonNerd Thank you :)

[@generalantilles2586]

Seriously, your voice is so good in narration and commentary that I keep on coming back to these videos to rewatch and listen. Keep it up!

[@Dreamlands15]

General Antilles Thank you! I appreciate that.

[@darthbane3937]

Why aren't there books covering the thousands of years or at least awesome fanfics. Keep it up.

[@smolpp585]

I can imagine Gearbox aiming to do something like that with Homeworld now, they seem to be wanting to branch out the IP with things like the RPG Tabletop game

[@ZanTheFox]

@@smolpp585 An RPG? Do tell

[@augustday9483]

I really, really, really want a space dogfighting game set in the Homeworld universe. It could be a recreation of the Homeworld campaign from the perspective of a fighter pilot, or an entirely new story in the era after Hiigara is retaken. There's so much potential there, it's unreal.

[@lantinian]

A truly movie like experience. The build up in the begging was just as great as the battles that followed. I hope you will do more, shorter ones that come more frequently. Thank you again.

[@Dreamlands15]

Nikolay Andreev Thanks! I need to get some ideas for more, now that Ive covered the major parts.

[@aidansteele4632]

BRING THE RED

[@MrEvan312]

Now having learned the meaning of that phrase, it brings chills to hear that.

[@sosig6445]

it's the homeworld equaivalent of "It comes down to the triarii"

[@PolarBearSeal]

Wow that was amazing. I really enjoyed the cinematography and the narration was stellar as usual. Your lore videos are by far my favourite on your channel. 👍🏼Thank you for taking the time to make these truly epic videos.

[@Dreamlands15]

The lore videos are my favorite as well :)

[@SAarumDoK]

Bring back some memories. I keep coming back here, from time to time.

[@cocopud]

Its good to see that Blackbird Interactive have taken Homeworld back to its narrative roots, which was sorely needed after publisher meddling wrecked it with Homeworld 2. I now have a very good feeling about Homeworld 3 :-)

[@solarshdow8657]

I’m genuinely sorry to say your faith in BBI may have been misplaced.

[@bluefin1025]

Great story telling. Please keep the homeworld lore coming!

[@Dreamlands15]

Wallace Wong More will come :)

[@combat.wombat]

Been years since you made this but I would love to see this series continued through HW1 & 2 as a run up to HW3

[@Dreamlands15]

Yeah I hope to do that as well

[@smolpp585]

@@Dreamlands15 Please do! you're the only one that goes into great detail when it comes to homeworld lore, and i'd love to see how you show the other stuff :D

[@combat.wombat]

@@Dreamlands15 Still here, still hoping :)

[@blaansarge]

ITS HERE ITS HERE!!! ITS BEEN SO LONG! lol. awesome bud, i didn't know there was another faction in the game, i knew of the ones you play and the others with the more sci look to them, but these guys at the end of the video they are awesome, if you do more please do one about them at some point i think that would be awesome.

[@Dreamlands15]

Blaan Sarge I would love to do more lore videos, we will have to see what the future holds :)

[@Coercer]

Great job man. I love all the in-game footage! So good! :) All the hard work paid off! :)

[@Dreamlands15]

Coercer Great to hear, thanks for the support:D

[@cenktuneygok8986]

This game was so good. I wish it had a total war like campaign with multiple factions and a big map where you can freely play.

[@negawan]

i've been looking forward to this ever since you mentioned it in the discord chat~

[@Dreamlands15]

negawan Thank you. Hopefully it lives up to expectations :)

[@shayminthedoctor9663]

Holy shit What I would do to have a game taking place during the Heresy Wars or after the Kapisi Expedition

[@donbarnett7137]

Excellent video. Really enjoyed it!

[@Dreamlands15]

Don Barnett Thank you :)

[@CountElectric]

Awesome work with this video. Very enjoyable.

[@Dreamlands15]

CountElectric Thanks :)

[@samuelerikcolombo9090]

aww yeaaaah! nice1, thank you for these and for continually covering this awesome game :) any chance you'll be doing the original homeworlds?

[@Dreamlands15]

Samuel Erik Colombo Thanks! Im going to start doing HWRM videos this month :)

[@crabraptorjesus]

Awesome cinematics of the game!

[@Dreamlands15]

Milkgod Thank you :)

[@wallyhiggens5369]

This is Great! Do more

[@blackmonish]

Hey man, I loved this lore series. You did an excellent job! I was captivated by Homeworld when I first played it about 8 or 9 years ago. I would love to see more of this series, but I know returning to old projects is difficult. Maybe to celebrate Homeworld 3 if the crowd fund is successful? (Wink wink) lol

[@oosul72]

thank you sir. wonderful.

[@Dreamlands15]

Avi Mistriel Im so glad you enjoyed this :)

[@ImperialistJoe]

God, the hovercrafts in this game look fucking good.

[@user-nf5gm4nv7u]

Awesome!

[@mateuszpychynski3370]

To be honest, this game has better lore, story (also in normal Homeworld) than Star Wars and Star Trek Combined.

[@Dreamlands15]

Yeah, easily

[@xpgx1]

Nice one!

[@EmptySoul01]

Soban for life.

[@Dreamlands15]

EmptySoul01 They have such good lore.

[@ardyn407necroderg]

Like the coalition but a much better and disciplined military

[@ToastedWaffles_]

I'm pretty sure like the last PDFs they released this is a teaser for something to come. Sounds like some more Single player content tbh they have been pretty hush hush about things. I know, I know correlation is NOT causation, it might be me reading too much into what is being put forth. But hey I know I wasn't the only one to think this.

[@Dreamlands15]

ToastedWaffles Ive been thinking that forever too. Wishful thinking perhaps. On that topic, the segment in the middle of the video, at Firebase Kriil, is actually a recreation of the battle from the Soban pdf :)

[@diegogiurgola982]

Thanks for great video! (a bit late for the party, but better late than never, I suppose :D)

[@Dreamlands15]

Diego Giurgola Thanks :D

[@MrFukushim]

Awesomesauce :D

[@user-lg4ut4fn9b]

Wow.... Just wow! :o

[@Dreamlands15]

Hyper :D

[@guragat2]

damn khaaneph are scary cannibals ._.

[@Dreamlands15]

You arent wrong

[@topside1246]

Your KZbin icon is the same as my profile pic on Instagram. Glad to see another Gaalsien fan!

[@Dreamlands15]

That90sGuy Media Best tragic antagonists.

[@primachpepe8597]

nice vid Dremlands :)

[@Dreamlands15]

Primach Pepe Thank you :)

[@enthouendhut]

Sorry to say, but I don't really care about the lore anymore; in all 4 Homeworld games, I've always find those Sobanii to be my favourite Kiith clan... kinda like Kushan's elite special forces. In HW-1, Taiidan has an Elite Force with black camo in 'Hyperspace Inhibitor' mission. In HW-2, all Sobanii also has black camo, heavily implying that all Sobanii 'are' elite forces too, IMHO. In DoK, nearly all Sobanii large vehicle (ships) are all equipped with dreaded and powerful railguns, completely out-classed both Coalition and Gallsien alike.

[@ooster0000]

What became of the Khaaneph? Do we know if any made it to Hiigaria? Or are we to assume that they were all wiped out during the burning of Kharak?

[@Dreamlands15]

I guess its assumed they perished with the rest of the population

[@sosig6445]

due to the Khaaneph being even further south than the Gaalsein it's safe to assume most of them where anavare of the happenings in space. Not that they are missed by other kiths as they are basicly cannibalistic barbarians who are crueler than the Gaalsein.

[@AlexBlackmane]

thx

[@Dreamlands15]

AlexBlackmane :D

[@Caktusdud.]

man how the developers made a game with such an amazing history is crazy but now its time they build more campains for the game tell me what you think of that

[@Guanchen]

This is amazing, however I hope you will consider redoing some of the stutter lines as it breaks the flow of the video

[@Dreamlands15]

That would require recording those lines again, and re-editing the video. I dont even have the source files any longer, sadly.

[@Guanchen]

I didn't mean you should re-record this video haha. I just thought if you edit out the stutters in future videos it might improve the quality even further.

[@Dreamlands15]

Ahhh, I see. You are right, thank you :)

[@joetavener2523]

Could BBI have come up with more factions for dlc if they desired?

[@Dreamlands15]

Joe Tavener many more. Paktu, Manaan, Sidiim, Somtaaw, and others.

[@zchen27]

I would love to see Somtaaw going full Dead Space and turn mining tools into deadly weapons.

[@Dreamlands15]

zchen27 Hell yes. We have talked about that a lot on the Homeworld Discord lol.

[@Zerosinker]

Wait so what happens to soban who left to raise their kids can they come back as soon as the kid is independent or is old enough to join the soban?

[@Brendan1259]

Will you take the red?

[@Dreamlands15]

yes

[@xianderthest8014]

So uh can someone spell out that Gaalsien word they call the Coalition please...

[@midasredblade236]

Fa-gaan

[@inswedishmynameisdik]

All this is making me think about is "omg what if we had like a shooter rpg with great vehicle mechanics in the kharak setting"

[@Dreamlands15]

I would kill for a Mass Effect style game on Kharak

[@nerag7459]

Soban: Bring the Red! Khaaneph: Bring the Brown!

[@patrickbo2045]

Maybe we should toss more money at them so they make us campaigns for all of this awesome shit?

[@Geostationary0rbit]

I dont see why you have such few views

[@Dreamlands15]

Geostationary0rbit small channel. its getting there though :)

[@armchairphilosopher6880]

So i just started playing and ive been having fun for the past few months... i apparently main horrible atheist raiders... fucc

[@CommanderLVJ1]

It does not matter as to what the believes or conceives or feels or thinks: however it does matter as to logic reason evidence proof fact and reality; not only the reality of the situation but also reality it's self. Atheism science civilization socialism true forms of course FTW!;)

[@CommanderLVJ1]

And remember that there is no better and that there is no worse for we are all equal though we are not the same: and that while ideas may be equal in that they are all ideas, ideas are not equal or equivalent or comparable or the same as ideas.

[@CommanderLVJ1]

And that there is no spirit, and that there is no soul; however there is the physical, and there is the body, and there is the mental, and there is the mind; and the proper functioning and operation of...

[@CommanderLVJ1]

Oh yes and do (mentally) and do try (physically) to have hope (for and as part of the proper functioning of everything) and conviction based upon logic reason evidence proof fact and reality; not only the reality of the situation but also reality it's self.

[@CommanderLVJ1]

And obviously remember that things/ideas like logic reason learning and science, are not ideological or ideology; and they do not rely on anyone's perception or brainwashing/damage as the case may be: however they are most certainly methodological procedural methodology and perceptual aides (science being described as humanity's attempt to understand reality on reality's terms;) etc. oh yes and do and do try to be what I would call selfful meaning yes absolutely do think of yourself while at the same time also thinking about others if only because everyone is a person for again we are all equal though we are not the same; and if only for the sack of mutual cooperation and mutual respect and stability etc. yes...;)

[@CommanderLVJ1]

And obviously that there is no god(s) or devil(s) or whatever or what have the for there is no evidence or proof for any horrible bullshit or whatever ridiculous claim(s) or what have the and if only because there could not be for we are all equal though we are not the same amongst meny other reasons no exemption(s) or exception(s) period.

[@Brendan1259]

Will the Godless ever be stopped? Better ask the Tidan.

[@nuruddinshah684]

Sigh....I don't "Hate" Dok It just that I wish there was more. There is always more lore to be told but one must resist the temptation to for I might destroy the series.... ...... Sigh

[@SaltyRamen.]

Soban would be extinct if they act like that

[@neilebate3695]

Your stutters and pauses are killing the immersion

[@AnonYmous-dh2zt]

Shut up