Homeworld - The Homeworld War pt.1: The Burn

The Kushans fail the "Don't perform a Hyperspace Test at 3AM" challenge, thus bringing down the wrath of the Taiidan Empire upon them. What follows after is an epic tale of discovery, revenge, perseverance, and returning home.
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00:00 Intro
00:22 The Stone and The Core
01:50 The Mothership Project
04:43 Hyperspace Test
05:24 Battle at Outer Kharak
06:25 Return
09:50 Bentusi Exchange
11:07 Vengeance
12:30 Credits

[@ardoronro6677]

Damn, probably the best summery of homeworld lore to date. The visual renderings alone are cutscene worthy polish. It even used original models that just bleeds nostalgia.

[@xendakakorva3267]

May the Taiidan Empire fall to ashes, for their mad emperor, deserves no less...

[@LauftFafa]

kushans asked for it . if only their emperor is mad the higaraans were and will always be warmongers and power hungry and this new 3rd game will just prove it again by invading a remote isolated cluster just so they can secure the gates just like those in real life who do that under excuse of bringing freedom but in reality its for securing oil supplies and the safety of their puppet states there . remember that higarans bombarded the taiidan capital first , they have made the general who later became emperor of the taiidans . and they got exiled for their crimes . just because we have empathy for them doesnt mean they are the good guys . idk if you are aware of that but in the dust war scenario script they literally teleported to a cluster with 2 inferior factions fighting and first thing they higarans did was opening fire on both destroying every ship to the last . its almost the same scenario that will be used for 3 but with less atrocities just so you get the impression they are the good guys . tough in the this new game the excuse for their crimes will be the search for karan sjet and securing the gates all while accusing the locals of being pirates or corsaires while in reality they are only defending their oasis from highly advanced invadors

[@xendakakorva3267]

@@LauftFafa What sort of lore were you reading cause I can already tell you've omitted the fact that the Taiidan Emperor lost his god damn marbles being practically immortal, not to mention him ordering the destruction and total genocide of the Kushan people sparked a CIVIL WAR over the fact that The Kushan were young due to no longer remembering who they once were, and that they were in ala practicality a fledgling space fairing people, THEIR HOME WAS TOURCHED OVER A TREATY THEY REALISTICLY HAVE NO MEMORY ABOUT. Please check your history before treating them like the Taiidan emperor did all because of who they once were in the past.

[@LauftFafa]

@@xendakakorva3267 widen your scope talking about since before the exile to homeworld 3 to the dust war script . also the emperor wasn't immortal he kept cloning himself . he kept being maintained to live lot longer but he wasnt immortal and when he die his clone replaces him . also i am talking about the nature of higarans in general . what happened to them was by their own mistakes . when higarans gain power they become warmongers and hegemons . for example after they have found the first core they teleported to the heart of taidan then nuked the capital of taidans until it became almost nothing . the whole taidan royal family vanished , that what allowed the "immortal" emperor to rise and become what he is . the higarans did the first blood and were almost unstoppable it was the bentusi who had to intervene and defeat them . after they returned from exile to higara and playing the victims for too long they formed a second empire who in the original dust war supposed to be the script for homeworld 2 they teleported to a mini cluster and did a genocide against the natives who were only resisting . and in this hoemworld 3 so far the story kinda follow the same dust war path by saying that they are searching for sjet and securing gates in a far cluster region known as the oasis . a region they are definitely invading to secure its gates for their benefits .

[@SkyDude1256]

@@LauftFafa Yeah but in Derserts of Kharak the Taiidan attempted to do some under the table genocide on the exiled Hiigarans, since we can clearly see several Taiidan based ships wrecked on the planet and later see a cutscene showing them deploying a literal orbital canon of death. Lucky for the exiles their smuggled hyperspace core pulled the Taiidan fleet into the planet. So technically the Taiidan broke the treaty first.

[@riesstiu2khunning]

The Taiidan rebelled themselves, due to internal affairs. Burning of Kharak was simply the last straw, that broke the camel's back. Numerous bloodbaths were conducted by the imperial navy on outposts and colonies, which voiced objection to the Kharakian genocide. After that, it turned into conflicts erupting all over the empire. Elson and his small capital ship squadron in the Battle for Hiigara wasn't the whole Rebellion, as the ships fighting the Kushan on their way to Inner Rim were but a portion of imperialist Taiidan strength. If not for the Rebellion, the Exiles would never make it to Hiigara. Even the Council had to assist them in ground combat on their homeworld.

[@rivenoak]

a reminder: the game uses _Agnus Dei_ , not _Adagio for Strings_ both composed by Barber, but _Adagio_ is the orchestral version and _Agnus_ the vocal piece set for choir.

[@kawh8719]

I appreciate that distinction. That explains why I had such a difficult time in the early days finding that track to listen to in my car. :)

[@TheKianykin]

The version of this story when I played the game, was the great fleet of salvage corvettes swarmed across any enemy and stole their fleet. My fleets finest hour was the sacrifice of the multibeam frigates in the final battle covering the salvage corvettes as they tried to steal the emperor's mothership!

[@toddkes5890]

I went with the 'Giant Ball of Ionic Death'. Remember the Hyperspace Gate surrounded by dozens of Ion Frigates? I stole all of them. Final battle was the Ball of Death advancing forward and butchering anything in its path. Fighters can't dodge ion beams when there are several dozen firing. Destroyers? Boom. Cruiser (with Support Frigates)? Boom. Emperor's Flagship? Boom. But trying to capture the Flagship? That is even better.

[@GiacomoVaccari]

A worthy sacrifice!

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

They were defeated. They didn't abandon ship, they didn't signal surrender. They knew not to expect mercy from us.

[@N30-JLI]

Awesome I love your lore on Homeworld, looking forward part 2 & more.

[@Brendan1259]

Can't wait for part 2 and how the Kushan handled their encounter with the Zelots of the Gardan of Kadesh

[@pcuimac]

The Gardens of Kadesh are my favorite part of the game. It was also the worst, because my 350MHz Pentium 2 with 3Dfx Voodoo 3 card couldn't handle it.

[@TheGoddamnBacon]

It was worth the wait.

[@dareka9425]

The Bentusi are my favourite. They always appear with the right stuff that we need for battle like the Super Acolyte fighter design just as we are fighting the Beast.

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

Bro, this is ***really*** good. I've been a nerd for homeworld since I was 12, and was playing the game on a computer that could barely handle endgame 1v1 skirmishes. At no point during any other game in my life, did the delivery of a line give my absolute soul goosebumps, like, "The subject did not survive interrogation." I am so glad I got to grow up when this game was new and was pushing the limits of what games could do, and be, for both gameplay, *and* storytelling.

[@titanjakob1056]

All I know is the taidans know how to do a plannet wide bbq where everyone is served lol

[@cossack4444]

Whooo! Another bit of Homeworld coverage from Mac. Always love it mate! Thank you and keep 'em coming!

[@Cavalon3]

just one detail, the agreement came from the loss of a war, the taidani where at the point of exterminating the kushan, there was a global outcry for mercy, and since they lost the war, they were exiled and forbidden of ever developing hyperspace tech. failure to comply would result in the planetary destruction.

[@CoolSs]

Please keep making those lore videos. I played the whole series recently and i find the world of homeworld amazing.

[@gordonstewardson7683]

Still remember the emotional impacrt of playing that game for the first time and "Kharak is burning". Shivers even now.

[@KiithSomtaaw_]

Many of our brothers and sisters with full blessing of Kiith-Sa took part in every resourcing related operations during conteuction of Scaffold and Mothership. Through whole Returning from Exile voyage, those who worked at Mothership took notes and observed what need to improve, what to replace. Thats why Faal-Corum and Kuun-Lan was better armed, also in contrary to the Resource Controllers we armed Processors with guns to push away small strikecrafts and repair beams. Made workers more multirole utility ships. And of course fom firts contsct, we've shared visit cards with Bentusi. ;)

[@aunderiskerensky2304]

you do the lore pretty good justice, but you forget one thing. any ship frigate class or higher was captured, microwaved, pressure washed out, and a new crew installed.

[@georgeofazgad2176]

I lost 2 cryo trays, after which I ordered all my fighters to kamikaze in a desperate attempt to save the rest😢

[@smolpp585]

Wow! I tend to watch a lot of lore vids on various worlds/games etc but man, I swear you go above and beyond from just having pictures from the source material, you actually render the scenes and it helps just bring even more life to the world! Homeworld lore is in good hands with you :D

[@tba113]

This game came out almost a quarter century ago now. I remember picking up a copy, disc and amazing game manual and all. Even after all this time, that opening chorale of Agnus Dei as the Mothership returns to Kharak and the Scaffold still feels like a gut punch. "No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning..." "Kharak is being consumed by a firestorm. 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." And then at the end... "Hyperspace module charged. There's nothing left for us here. _[inaudible sigh]_ Let's go."

[@LuisFernando-pq4bq]

Same feeling here!

[@rockybeats8682]

Let me tell you about the usefulness of several dozen salvage ships :)

[@rivenoak]

always salvage...knocking at Hiigara's door with the enemy's fleet in tow is just to good to let it slip :)

[@KingThrillgore]

The only sound I ever want to hear from a Taiidan is their hull cracking and hissing

[@Nokard]

Wow, your content is amazing, I'm very familiar with homeworld lore but they way yo tell it is immaculate, thank you and I will be waiting for the rest of the Homeworld war! Greetings from Mexico. Edit, one thing you left telling is that the Taiidani fleet was already weakened thanks to the defensive Kushan systems in Kharak, I like to think that at least they got some bastards before being annihilated.

[@johnkim5718]

This video is just exceptional. The effort put into these are insane. You've earned a subscription from me. One inaccuracy however : rather than destroying the enemy ships the Kushan captured them with salvage corvettes. *They captured them all.* Your destroyer? _Our destroyer._ Needless to say I can't wait for Salvage Simulator 3.

[@MacsLore]

You forgot the most important thing that the Salvage Corvettes could capture: Our Hearts.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

And so the Salvage Corvette Mafia has showed off once more.

[@TheJingoist]

Love Homeworld. Always have, always will. Also hope the Taiidan come back and work together with the Hiigarans. One struggle.

[@Hippy576]

Anytime a notification of a new video of yours comes up I'm excited for a great narrative. That you're covering The Homeworld War is icing on the cake! Great video as always Mac :)

[@Codric]

Mac, this is so unbelievably polished. I don’t know if you have other people working on these videos as well, but I would swear a full creative team worked on them

[@MacsLore]

I wish. It's just one lone nut working on these: Me.

[@Codric]

@@MacsLore well damn, you make the kiith proud buddy

[@captainjeep-eep6180]

I always figured they were interrogated with a derivative of S'Jet's neural interface... one with no particular concern for leaving the subject alive, only trawling their brains for info.

[@allenharper2928]

The Bentusi Ancient Ones They watch and listen Took upon themselves to guide us through the endless skies -Yes Homeworld

[@HevonCZR]

Fantastic video and narration bro! Another great video!

[@wallywolf814]

Can't wait to see more of this series!

[@kilimangan]

Thank you for making this video from the depths of my heart

[@Inignot12]

Yesss its here! And your animations are on point

[@themobian7233]

This explanation helped me understand alot. Earned my sub looking forward to part 2. ❤️

[@TheCamCam2265]

Great work as always

[@RobertsonBrendyn]

This is brilliant!

[@captainandros]

Another great lore video from my favorite franchise. Homeworld is very special in the way it was done and was just such a great game and story. Thank you for doing this and looking forward to part 2 now

[@Formulka]

Fantastic! Thank you!

[@Bluetheknight21]

Man this hit different. A good different, great job 👍👍👍

[@Israelpwn]

Your narration and added visuals are amazing, great job! For whatever reason I'm dumb or what, but I completely missed the story when playing DoK and 2 (still have to play 1) but now I finally get the depth of the lore! The way you describe the campaign levels is amazing! You really make the story behind the battles make so much sense. Anyway, thank you!!!

[@SoulMist17]

Awesome video, didn't see it for a whole month for some reason.

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Homeworld was a very good video game series.

[@jamesyboy1066]

Ok, I watched all your Homeworld lore videos, you got my sub, now you have to make the rest of the Homeworld War and Beast War, please. Looking forward to your content in the future

[@PredatorHun87]

This is EXACTLY what I've been waiting for.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Awesome, can't wait for the next part(s). Also, love the use of the old graphics variants of the ships. By the way, you seem to sound like Fallout's The Storyteller at times, Mac's Lore.

[@Gpz0]

12:07 Got me a new wallpaper, thanks Mac!

[@realkirt]

this is a fantasic way of breaking the story down simply!

[@Hatzi89]

Well that fleet of frigates they found buried and that ion cannon sattelite would have come in damn handy when the taidan came knocking

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Nice lore video!!

[@leandro3710]

Beautifull!

[@mordenmw]

Absolutely love this

[@krnt13]

Oh my Sajuuk this was beautiful!

[@jackotheclanner]

this was awesome

[@TruckingShooter]

Looking forward to more of these

[@ravenbird7764]

Leave one ship??? Impossible, *Proceeds to Use Salvagers to Steal all ships*

[@GTD_Galatea]

I knew Duke Nukem was a Kushan all along.

[@fedricojgarza464]

Great story Mac's Lore 😊👍

[@hogginarmocount9562]

Soooo late!!! Was waiting for long!

[@Phrv199217]

8:22 Amen.

[@Drakkart]

nice summary of the first part of the campaign of the original.

[@moeezansari9106]

waiting for more parts etc. best lore telling yet.

[@ohnoo104]

Damn after finishing homeworld deserts of kharak and seeing this video i feel very bad. Welp time to play this game

[@KoGoO1]

Please make more videos, they are just so great 👍

[@Paolo_A]

can't wait for the next one

[@PraetorPaktu]

YOO Nice.

[@markfreeman4727]

i wish we got a look at the various faction forms, i always wondered if the taidan were aliens or just a different faction of humans

[@FizzleFX]

Two things: 1. I figure they left the wreck to find water and whatnot and didn't want to be anywhere near that thing anymore. It still had a lot of tech in it yet it got "lost?" or they crashed and the crew of this craft died... 2. BUT....... how?! They were EXCILED and we see (during the nebula mission) that they flew all the way conventionally and they were FORBIDDEN to have that tech to begin with....... sooooo how did that hyperdrive core end up there in the first place?! (though i admit they got a habbit of hidding cores i suppose?

[@noisypainter4298]

you better be doing some Lore on the new upcoming Homworld game :D I f... love it

[@CoolSs]

10:41 i always love those small meme between the lore xDDD

[@entropybear5847]

Sajuuk have mercy on their souls for we shall show none.

[@selmevias1383]

Solid lore, funny memes, lovely game. Hope H3 will be as good.

[@Ydrakar]

Its in good hands. Unlike its cousin, dawn of war 3…

[@selmevias1383]

@@Ydrakar Oh I'm a bit scared about in which direction the story will go, S'jet is taking a biiiiit too much room, she was supposed to be fleet command, not Space Jesus.

[@Ydrakar]

@@selmevias1383 this is a different S’jet. Karen went out beyond the gates and got lost. Now Imogen S’jet is being sent to find her. Though personally it would have been cool to see a Naabal or Sobani fleet commander. Oh well. Homeworld Mobile interestingly poses some new factions across one of the gates and reignites the kiithid bickering that was going on in cataclysm’s campaign.

[@selmevias1383]

@@Ydrakar Neat, thanks for the lore exposition.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

It better fulfill the "Surprisingly Improved Sequel" role compared to HW2, all while avoiding the threequel curse that doomed Dead Space, Turok (needs more love, and hope you check those out, Mac's Lore), Command and Conquer: Red Alert, F.E.A.R., Commandos (a maybe for you, ML), Gothic (same as Turok and Commandos), Diablo, and Mafia.

[@FizzleFX]

KaranSjet as fleet command was the right choice: Galaxy knows no wrath like a womans ;p

[@Lumios_UA]

MORE!! MORE!!! MORE!!!!!

[@PRIMUSxPRIME]

this is a good video

[@darwinarmado4654]

Salvage corvette: Your Mine to Take

[@vi6ddarkking]

8:33 Sure... "Mysteriously"

[@michaelandreipalon359]

If there's one thing I can safely say, it's that they knew of God early than expected.

[@alphaone5406]

I love the music from homeworld

[@TheT3d3K]

Narrative is quite good. Makes me want to know more about the game

[@Yingyanglord1]

The art bring glory to Sejuk

[@terryalberts5892]

Looks like I'll have to re-watch Primary anomaly video now

[@Agent382YYC]

MORE!!!!!!! I WANT. MORE!!!!!

[@BladeValant546]

Homeworld the movie...yes.

[@markborst5630]

I agree! Played both and for the sake of story telling the better graphics of the remastered will help in the coherence from previous vids and upcoming vids h2 and eventually h3.

[@MacsLore]

I was never able to get a concrete answer on this, but I was left with the distinct impression that using the older models was a safer bet legally then using the Remastered ships.

[@BladeValant546]

@@MacsLore makes sense.....I'd kill for a well written show.

[@crowsbridge]

Mothership wants to see the manager

[@CHAOS676767]

Love your videos! Question tho where did you fine the art at? I've been looking but no luck

[@MacsLore]

It's a combination of using 3d models from the original Homeworld, & some modern-ish effects to get what I want. The 2d art on the other hand mostly comes from the Homeworld Revelations RPG

[@CHAOS676767]

@@MacsLore thank you!!! I can't wait to see part 2

[@CHAOS676767]

@@MacsLore Any chance you could link to the one with the Taiidan at the military podium?? I have no luck finding that pic plz amd thank you

[@UpcycleShoesKai]

Kharak is burning....

[@ThatTinyDude]

i love your homeworld lore videos! (not that i have a problem with it, but why did you use the OG homewolrd 1 textures and models over the remastered versions?)

[@JAnx01]

Is he using the original Homeworld (1999)? Or is this is something else with the original models imported?

[@ThatTinyDude]

@@JAnx01 prolly imported models

[@MacsLore]

Pretty much, I've been using Blender for these 3d things. Also, while I was never able to get a concrete answer on this, I was left with the distinct impression that using the older models was a safer bet legally then using the Remastered ships.

[@JAnx01]

@@MacsLore The rendering looked different and better than HW1 at the first glance. The use of older models seems like a deliberate artistic choice. They're still quite cool in their own way, but perhaps only to people who played HW1 back in the day. At the first glance, I thought that you scorned HW:Remaster. Many people do because HW:R gameplay is botched compared to the original.

[@tomhoni9642]

oh boy PLS upload the picture of Duke Nukem with the ion frigates in hand xD

[@MacsLore]

twitter.com/MacsLore/status/1589771265820471297/photo/1 It even warranted a response from the Official Homeworld twitter.

[@KILLRAIN42]

Don't suppose anyone knows where to get a copy/pdf of the homeworld manual these days? All the links I could find were either fishy or long dead.

[@MacsLore]

Moddb has a digital copy here: www.moddb.com/games/homeworld/downloads/homeworld-manual

[@darklordmalthric3633]

Could you one day cover the Exosquad please

[@NewSquallor]

Moar!

[@richardkirstein2415]

Hey, where did you find some of the artwork? Like the Taiidan soldiers, or even the Kushan people?

[@MacsLore]

The Homeworld Revelations RPG Corebook, it's got a ton of stuff and it started shipping out just last week.

[@USNCBSLIXXX]

@@MacsLore Wow. I found your channel about a week ago and was impressed by your content and narration. I went searching for this book and as I did I found the entire Homeworld series, as well as more books (19) by author Evan Currie. Made my day. 🤗 Look forward to your upcoming videos. 🙂

[@SportyMabamba]

@@USNCBSLIXXX there are BOOKS!? _rushes to purchase_

[@PantsuMann]

Watching this and hyping over HW3. But something that has always confused me is the story between HW1 and HW2. Didn't both games leave Kharak? What's the difference?

[@fedricojgarza464]

Mac's Lore are going to do G-police Lore ps1 game 😊🤞

[@judet2992]

The Gaalsien were right… And also the only good Karan (Karen) in modern media.

[@hejAmadus]

Where is the part 2 man

[@LauftFafa]

curious question , why using the old graphics ? i noticed peoples who talk about halo 1 and homeworld 1 often tend to use the original graphics even tough they are talking about the lore .

[@MacsLore]

Long story short, I may not actually be able to use the Remastered ships for these videos. Which left me to use the original models in their place.

[@gordonstewardson7683]

8:31 The subject did not survive interrogation.

[@kiithsomtaaw2433]

ok where part 2 because the taiidan is coming with 5 battlecruiser

[@aadenclark6394]

Let the Kushan people avenge there people and return to there rightful home. Higgara.

[@chunkblaster]

I wish they hadn't retconed the original story, the hyperspace core *was not recovered, but AN EXACT COPY WAS BUILT* This leaves the possibility for so much in the lore, as the Trinity of the 3 cores is essentially a farce because of the cores in Sajuuk is a fake, and there is potentially a 4th core to be recovered from the remnants of Kharak. There's so much you could do with both of those potentials

[@soydonhector9476]

Y volvieron a ser expulsados de hiigara en homeworks Mobile