![]() ![]() The first and most notable difference is how your mothership operates. This is all the more impressive given that the game was created by Barking Dog Studios rather than the original team at Relic, although Relic did provide assistance and advice. ![]() The result is a game which successfully improves upon the existing, winning formula. It's actually bigger and longer than Homeworld itself with two brand-new factions sporting new fleets and units (although the Beast fleet consists mainly of altered ship models already existing from Homeworld), not to mention significant improvements to the game interface. With little choice, Somtaaw rebuilds the Kuun-Lan as a warship and takes the fight to the enemy.Ĭataclysm started life as an expansion for Homeworld that got bigger and more ambitious, and eventually became a 'stand-alone expansion', although that's doing it a disservice. Spreading at an exponential rate, the Beast will overrun and destroy civilised space in a matter of months. ![]() Kiith Somtaaw has inadvertently unleashed a bio-mechanical virus which subverts both technology and organic beings into a rapacious and growing threat, code-named 'The Beast', a threat which cows even the powerful Bentusi. Attempts to analyse the beacon soon become problematic when the organic residue coating the beacon suddenly spreads and overruns the lower decks of the Kuun-Lan, which are jettisoned. Whilst helping in the recovery of a warship on the outer edges of the system, the miners stumble across an ancient beacon of some kind, more than a million years old. The Kuun-Lan plays a key role in defeating the Taiidan force but, as usual, the Somtaaw go unthanked for their efforts. When an Imperialist Taiidani strike group breaks through the defensive lines around Hiigara, the Hiigarans scramble a response. After a time of political controversy amidst the Kiith, Somtaaw has become a mobile group based around two large, modular mining ships, the Kuun-Lan and the Faal-Corum. Kiith Somtaaw are among the smallest of the clans, specialised in mining operations. Meanwhile, the Exiles have split into their former political and familial groupings, the Kiith. A new Taiidani Republic, allied to the Hiigarans, has arisen to replace the old empire. ![]() Their return sparked the fall of the decadent and corrupt Taiidani Empire and the death of the immortal Emperor, plunging the Galaxy into a time of strife and chaos it is only now, and rather shakily, recovering from. Fifteen years have passed since the Exiles returned from their four-millennia sojourn on the desert world of Kharak and reclaimed their homeworld, Hiigara. ![]()
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