kith somtaaw all the way.

Homeworld Thread IV: The Voyage Home

Where is that comic I saw from?

so its Firefly... with homeworld?

GEHT UFF MA LAWN YE WHIPPER SNAPPERS!

*Swarmers*

>>3674599

Both Homeworld and Cataclysm would excellent tv OR animated series.

>>3674804
>animated series.

Depending on the studio, this could have the potential for some serious WIN.

>>3674836
The one that did LoGH. I could in this moment simply declare /thread

In 40k, the only REAL threat our Homeworld fleet would have is the Necron.

Salvage Crew: Ok, after fighting these guys for hours, we have the captured ship on the way, soon we will know all of th-
Necron: *teleport out, lol*
Fleet Command: FFFFFFFFFFFF-

Don't mind me, I'm just overwhelming your defenses.

>>3674876
1. Attach hyperdrive to necron ship
2. Hyperspace it into black hole
3. ????
4. PROFIT!

>>3674881
Freesh Paaartsss...

>>3674876
Wouldn't the Kushani develop some gravity wells or phase jump diruptors or something to prevent it from happening? I mean, they are like masters of SCIENCE! A whole race of Space McGuivers

>>3674894

Command, requesting permission to engage hostiles.

>>3674919
They have gravity well generators.

I agree it would LOOK excellent, but what kind of topics would it cover? I can see it becoming some form of long political battle like many epic space themed genre's before it.

What would we like to see? Something like a rogue-trader group running around in the universe? Or discussion about the little known other empires?

The more advanced tech was extremely stupid (lol you cant see me, lol we build gravity generators that are moar gravitatunul than a fucking sun) and should be cut out.

The weaponry was also ridiculous. Everyone who's seen the Galactica shooting should know this.

I don't even start talking about BUILDING FUCKING STAR CRUISERS ON THE WAY.

>>3674932
Just do an animated film about the first game. Expand a bit about the political situation of the Taiidans, and have them give the back story so the Kushans can remain ignorant.

>>3674932
We can have first an epic journey that is in the Homeworld, then a series about young Hiigaran empire trying to survive somehow and earn it's place on the starmap. Yeah, political story sounds alright. Then a prequel about the war that caused the Exile.

>>3674932

That depends on when in the timeline it would take place. There's a 5 year gap between the end of the first game and the beginning of Cataclysm. Lots of political turmoil and civil upheaval following the dissolution of the Taidanii Empire and the formation of the Republic, so that might be an option.

>I don't even start talking about BUILDING FUCKING STAR CRUISERS ON THE WAY.
NANOMACHIENS

Or failing that, BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE MACHIENS

>>3674932
Babylon 5 / BSG / Firefly crossover? Though I don't think the universe wasn't portrait consistent with basic (inner) logix. The Taiidan would have wrecked Hiigara and exploited all its natural recourses. The planet would have to look more along the lines of Earth in Andromeda.

>>3674982
15 year gap

>>3674990
lets just say they did what was necessary for a real time strategy game

>>3674957

I don't see the problem with any of these things.

>>3674990
Creation engines? Sounds like Hostile Waters... in space! Hell, there should be a sequel.

>>3674957
It all makes sense - asteroids are really rich in resources and all kinds of premium-quality metals, with big enough engineering bay, technology and logistics it's entirelly possible to create a battleship in space.

>>3675054

For that matter you'd have to be pretty fucking crazy to build a space battleship on the ground.

>>3674974
>>3674976
>>3674982

OLDSCHOOL MIND!

i agree, everyone will get interested in the first 4 episodes learning about their culture and hopes of moving to their home planet after finding the relic. Feeling sympathy for the brave souls that go into the cryogenic stasis for the journey. leaving their home planet behind.

Then the finding of the Karsilim reck, The heroic battle against the pirates, and then the fateful return to their Karak.

They will shed manly tears.

>>3674851
Keep your fucking Nippon out of my Homeworld, faggot.

>>3675071
If the place where they build has no artificial gravity that should make it all the easier.

>>I think one of the characters could be a starfighter pilot. It could seem generic but the idea of seeing the story from the point of view of a young guy who's basically a front line fighter charged with the responsibility (along with many others) of securing the future of an entire race is a helluva POV.

Halfway through the series, he is shot down, but is recovered. He refuses to stay out of the fight, now hating the Taidan even more. He is placed into a drone frigate, and controls the drones.

>>3675092
If there will be Homeworld anime you better pray it'll be like LoGH, as it's one of the best shows about space conflicts that ever existed. It has real politics, battle tactics and strategy, there is no mecha, no plotholes, no plotarmor, no angsty teenagers, no overpowered units, people die if they are killed, typical space battle claims hundreds of thousands lifes, it avoids cheap moralisations and one of the sides are fucking germans in space. That's why most anime fans don't like it, because it's not like typical anime. I love Homeworld from he bottom of my heart, and that's why I started al these four fucking threads, but Jesus, Sajuuk and God-Emperor help me if LoGH is not one of the best shows that graced my computer screen. EVER.

>>3674925
WE WILL NOT BE BOUND!

>>3675209

After the fighting stops, he is retired against his will. To a mining vessel named the Kun-Laan., perhaps?

>>3675231
OH GOD

This shit just gained a whole new level of epicness

>>3675092
Quickly men, we must flee back to Space Japan!

Homeworld TV/Fic characters:

Karen S'jet: Ms. Fleet command herself.

Mike S'jet: Karen's teenage brother who's always causing mischief aboard the mothership.

Frank, Alex, Susan and Mobata: Fleet intelligence. They can't agree on anything and enjoy drinking alcohol after what happened to Kharak.

Bob Somtaaw: Eventually becomes captain of the Kunlaan, currently a salty old die hard who will mine resources in the middle of a firefight and isn't above firing a pistol out of the airlock at Tiidani fighters passing by.

>Karen S'jet: Ms. Fleet command herself.
Also All Seeing and All Knowing about shit happening in the mothership

>Mike S'jet: Karen's teenage brother who's always causing mischief aboard the mothership.
NO.

>Frank, Alex, Susan and Mobata: Fleet intelligence. They can't agree on anything and enjoy drinking alcohol after what happened to Kharak.
No.

>Bob Somtaaw: Eventually becomes captain of the Kunlaan, currently a salty old die hard who will mine resources in the middle of a firefight and isn't above firing a pistol out of the airlock at Tiidani fighters passing by.
Change the name and will have a FUCKWIN character.

>>3675054
>>3674957

read the manual, they break the raw material down and manipulate it on the atomic level to turn it in to whatever element they want.

>>3675323
I will kill you with your ethernet cord. I will see the life drained from your face.

>>3675245
When this shit strikes gold give me 1/4 of the royalties for the idea

>>3675323
For fucks sake why does that seem so likely?

>>3675360
Imposter!

>>3675323

>> Mike S'jet: Karen's teenage brother who's always causing mischief aboard the mothership.

I can see this, but don't make him a complete twit. I can actually see a rather touching scene or two of him sitting outside the room she is sealed in and talking to her, this being as close as he can get.

>Frank, Alex, Susan and Mobata: Fleet intelligence. They can't agree on anything and enjoy drinking alcohol after what happened to Kharak.

Well, after Kharak I see a lot of people taking up drinking. As long as they arn't bumbling, I can see a lot of argument between them, a case of rival geniuses and whatnot.

>> Bob Somtaaw

Change the name. And remember that he has to be around in 15 years for cataclysm, so don't make him too old.

>>3675323
>Bob Somtaaw: Eventually becomes captain of the Kunlaan, currently a salty old die hard who will mine resources in the middle of a firefight and isn't above firing a pistol out of the airlock at Tiidani fighters passing by.

I believe you mean Dorf Somtaaw

>>3675414

Name seconded.

FUCK, THIS IS STILL HERE?

AWESOME

Someone tell me these great threads are being archived.

>>3675323

I think I have better idea

Karan as fleet command who just want to go home

Intelligence officer trying to reach home without too many encounter with the enemy

couple mid-ranking officers, captains of ships blinded with revenge hoping to encounter the enemy as much as possible and kill as many Taidaniis as they can. Will not trust republican Taiidani and cause problems, even saboage about that

Corvete pilot/captain with schizophrenia who is afraid of going into battle

Couple of space pilots who try to enjoy their lifes while they can and not get killed by the enemy.

Somtaaw guy who is awesome by definition.

Homeworld 1 was a brilliant game, Homeworld 2 was a let down and it felt like it wrecked the plot of HW1.

>>3675434
I'm making screencaps, all three threads that were before this are safe

I demand Soban be recognized for their bad-assery!

http://homeworld.wikia.com/wiki/Kiith_Soban

>>3675480
SOBANI, FUCK YEAH!
GREY BROTHERHOOD!

I weep inside knowing this will never happen

>>3675459
Tsh. I defeated an armada, found an ancient relic of unfathomable power, and saved Hiigara.

I'm pretty happy with that.

Kushan: a race of space MacGuyvers thats lootier than the orks

displaced race going home to usurp the usurpers? can tali be in it too?

Samom Jaraci - Mothership security officer turned interrogator, promoted after a particularly effective (albeit lethal) session with the first captured Taidan.

>>3675521
Well, it's just everything about the religious implications of the Hiigarran return felt very poorly explained in the game. Sure they explain it in the awesome manual, but the plot feels very superfluous.

>>3675480
They allied themselves at one point with Somtaaw. Of course they would ba badass.

>>3675581
That's your opinion.

>>3675571

Isn't that canon?

>>3675480

Have Soban be their master captain. He and his command crew are constantly being changed to fight from the bridge of the most advance ship they have access to.
assault frigate < ion cannon frigate < destroyer < battlecruiser.

Lets them show off the new technological advances.

>>3674851
MEIN KAISER!

>>3675622
Yes, it is my opinion.

But the plot could have been better in my opinion. The chain of events made enough sense, but there wasn't enough exposition. Awesome art assets t show the Hiigarrans raiding the Vaygr facility, but really no discussion about what occurred there or what they found. Then poof Hyperspace Jump, and now we're here.

Captured Kadeshi Multibeam frigate = awesome in a can.

"Lets see what this can-" VROOOM "Whoa! That's fast."

Eat FOUR ION CANNONS YOU FUCKERS!

WHY did they rebuild the mothership in HW2? The point of the mothership was to transport a frak-ton of Kushan back to Hiigara, why not build a proper warship to fight the Vaygr?

>>3675687
They made a smaller mothership. they went with that design because it was proven to work, and it was Iconic with the Hiigarran people.

Same commander/ computer
Same design,
It's the flagship of your fleet.

>>3675687

It was meant to be a mothership class ship with extra armor and battlecruiser class weapons, but with all of the resource collection and construction abilities of the first mothership (which is what saved them the first time around, so was obviously a keeper.).

But they got attacked when only the basic systems were online. However, this mothership did seem to have more life than the first one...

>>3675711
>>3675687
It was a "proper" warship. The whole design philosophy was to keep it as a mobile factory/carrier/sensor hub.

In those regards, it excelled bar none.

>>3675687
HW2 never happened, stop making shit up.

I hope in HW3 they do more to increase the visual frenzy. Seeing ships put out point-defense fire, and for Strike Craft to perform crazy looking strafing runs would be awesome.

>>3675687

Because the Kun-Laan was busy. Probably running around trying to siege cannon Makaan.

>>3675725
That's heretical talk, there...

>frak-ton

We aren't on TV, faggot, you can say FUCK here.

>>3675663
"pilot, stop barrel rolling that multi-frigate every time you shoot!"
"I can't sir, it's rigged together!"

>>3675687
They needed a new flagship for the coming war, but the war arrived sooner then they expected.

>>3675734
"Who's awesome? We're awesome! "
Kun-Laan was probably on a mission, deep into Vaygr territory fucking up their shit.

Best scene ever:

Resource collector kamikaze saves the day.

Actually killed a wounded assault frigate that was targeting my salvage corvettes like this).

I will always cherish that pilots noble sacrifice.

>>3675793
I second the motion, and go on to say that the whole thing started because the somtaaw kicked the vaygr off of their homeworld.

>>3675734
I seriously loled there harderst in my whole fucking life. Just imagine Kuun-Laan running around Makaan firing siege cannon and Somtaaw shouting "Come back here you Vaygr piece of shit and taste my SIEGE JUSTICE!"

>>3675728
I want visual damage to ships. Like those star trek games where it's possible to blast holes into ships.

>>3675687
here

>>3675725
>>3675734
I like these answers best.

Srsly though. It's been... five years since I played HW2. I either didn't catch or forgot that the PoH was meant to be a serious warship, so thanks for clearing that up.

While I'm whining about HW2, the thing that really bugged me was how later on in the crazy huge battles I would go through several fleet turnovers per mission. By that I mean losing every ship I started with and then building more, then losing those, etc. In HW1 each frigate you lost was like a kick to the balls, in HW2 I felt like the Soviets or something, just throwing wave after wave of ships and taking tremendous losses to win by attrition. I understand the Hiigarans have hax resource collecting, but seriously I should have run out of people to crew the ships a long time ago. *sigh*

>>3675837


FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

STOP DODGING

>>3675854
While the game was fun, I've always felt there were design inconsistencies with Home World 2.

>>3675854
I tried to never lose ships and avoided harvesting as much as possible.

HW2 had some plot inconsistencies. The hyperspace cores were the big one. There were 3. So what exactly did they do? Smaller ships could already hyperspace around without it, even capships and clearly the Emperor's flagship didn't have one and it was jumping about nor other motherships on the counsel could have one since they were all owned by the Hiigarans, the Bentusi and Vaygr. So what did they do?

>>3675862
oh the lan games...
SIEGE CANNON FIRE DETECTED
Hy-Hy-Hy-Hyper space jump detected.

>>3675862

Makaan: "I can dodge your siege cannons all day thanks to my awesome hyperspace core, hahaha!"

Vaygr fleet command: They are launching fighters.

Makaan: The fools.

Vaygr fleet command: I'm detecting Bentusi energy readings.

Makaan: Wait, what?

*ION CANNONS*

Makaan: BULLSHIT!

BSG did it already.

>>3675928
Agreed. And didn't the Hiigarrans find a small Hyperspace Core in the wreckage, and then build a much larger one?

So either they retconned that, or there were inconsistencies.

>>3675928

so we're all agreed that had somtaaw shown up for hw2, it would have been a case of GTFOff my lawn! and then the somtaaw go back to being awesome wherever they were before hand?

>>3675928
They enable you to jump anywhere in the galaxy. Current hyperdrive technology limited vessels to very small jumps (on a Galactic scale), which is why the gates where a pretty big deal in the epilogue.

The mining clan (whatever they were called) in cataclysm would be great too.

>>3675983
That's just the issue, they didn't make a big deal out of anything. You just felt like you were along for the ride.

>>3675996
Wow.

make it a non cg toon?

>>3675983
Most likely. They were probably scaring the shit out of nids before this whole Vaygr commotion.

HEY GUYS REMEMBER, ONLY 3 YEARS OF DoW2 EXPANSION PACKS BEFORE THEY START MAKING HW3.

>>3676014
it all makes sense now.. the beast was just the proto-nids, and its gone mad and is running from somtaaw in its new crippled form.

>>3676004
YOUR PLANET WAS UNDER SIEGE BY AN INVASION FORCE THAT DESTROYED YOUR MILITARY.

Granted, it was a bit of a rehash of the first, but the Progenitor stuff made it really cool. It wasn't a game for new fans, but unless you weren't paying attention, if you liked the first one, the second one helped give valuable lore and was a nice upgrade technology-wise.

The Kun-Laan, knowing that the beast exists outside the galaxy, uses Bentusi technology to leave the galaxy and find and kill the beast once and for all.

They are never seen again, but to this day, if you are close enough to the galactic rim, and have your long range scanners pointed in just the right spot, you can detect just the faintest energy burst indicative of a siege cannon firing off in the distance.

So the story goes, at least.

>>3676013
Of course. CG is ruining modern animation.

Does anyone have a good torrent for HW:C, all the ones I found are shit.

Or even better: a direct download.

>>3676085
You must be the one to provide and save us all.

>>3676067

FUCK YEAR

>>3676067
is this just you giving your thoughts, or actually cannon?

>>3676067
I grinned. Best explanation for Somtaaw's disappearance.

>>3676071

Thank you for saying that.

>>3676102
I don't know, but hanks to >>3676067 this thread now achieved godly level.

>>3676102

That is not cannon, but would explain a lot while maintaining Kith Somtaws awesomness.

>>3676035
>>3676035

For real?

I wish they had managed to make their ambitious "Dust Wars" idea before they canned it and made the lesser HW2.

>>3676122
Deal, and this raises the question, would somtaaw ever figure out the whole bentusi unbound thing? I mean they reverse engineered pretty much everything else the bentusi threw at them.

>>3676149

Remember, S'jet was "newly unbound", so they already have the technology.

But apperently being unbound makes fighting the beast scary as hell for you, so I doubt they would do it.

Except for the fleet commander, who would do it just so he can fight forever.

>>3676149
Bentusi "unboud" means you are "bound" to your ships. Just like the beast does it but you remain yourself and you are in control. And Karan is Unbound too, at least as long as she is bound to the mothership as it's core.

>>3676122

No, no, no..
It's not canon, but is is pretty cannon.

Of the Siege variety.

>>3676149
Being "unbound" was strongly implied to be linked physically with your ship, like Sjet was.

They refer to her being unbound, as the Mothership becomes an extension of herself and she experiences space and existence on a differently level.

Presumably, death would end this, since Karan herself is seemingly immortal.

>>3676178

I see what you did there.

>>3676174
>Except for the fleet commander, who would do it just so he can fight forever.
Unlike the Bentusi, Somtaaw developed a technology that prevented their capital ships from being infected. A little tinkering eith it and you just might protect even your fighters. Some little more research on the bentusi and the beast and you pretty much don't even need pilots for your fighters. So pretty much Somtaaw Fleet Commander can do it.

>>3676217
... with newly developed Twin-Linked Siege Cannons!

>>3676217
Yes. It was called the Naar Directive. It involved flushing drive plasma through the ship.

Not something you want to be doing on a fighter,

>>3676217

I don't see that being applied to fighters, because that was FLOODING THE INFECTED AREA AND ALL AREAS ADJACENT TO IT WITH SUPERHOT DRIVE PLASMA. That's why your capital ships took so much damage when the infection weapons hit, it was the only way to save the ship.

For an unbound, that would be like cutting out your kidney to prevent kidney cancer.

>>3676235
No. From what I remember from the game Somtaaw developed/stolen from Imperial Taiidani that some system and mounted it on capital ships, so their bigger ships were pretty much immune to the infection.

>>3675219

What does LoGH stand for? You have me intrigued.

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Sand Rat Squadron - Led by Captain Constantine. Old hands and career soldiers all, they were the men and women of the military before the jump into space. Despite their training and relative expierence, commands insistence on dumping into combat again and again will see the squadron annihilate itself before they reach Hiigara. Captain Constantine will kill himself by flying into a Taidan Frigate after the last of his squadron is taken down. No survivors.

>>3676235
>>3676239

It also meant sacrificing all the crew in there. Infected or not...

>>3676217
That technology is venting raw reactor plasma into the infected decks, cutting away the parts of the ships that are infected. Only viable for destroyer+ sized ships.

>>3676239
well it does say in the epilogue that they created a beast vaccine and went about hunting down all of its wayward children, so with that bargaining chip to hand to the bentusi, they could be set.

>>3676235
>>3676239
>>3676263
>>3676266

http://homeworld.wikia.com/wiki/The_Beast#Beast_disposal_protocols

Purging protocols =/= biohazard sterilization procedures

>>3676260
Legend of the Galactic Heroes

>>3676260

That is awesome and you should feel awesome for typing it.

Character:
scientist that wasn't supposed to by on the mothership permanently, was only there for the initial hyperspace test and would stay on Kharak after the return. he, unlike everyone else, never planned on leaving, and took The Burning much worse than the others, the only thought that kept him from suicide being that his inflated ego wouldn't let him kill one of the last great minds of his race.

He is one of the chief science officers aboard the research ships.

>>3674599

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

is actually the reason i started playing homeworld 2.

>>3676303

And? The defence mentioned there for ships still meant wiping out part of the ship and crew.

During the siege of Higarra during HW2, Kiith Somtaaw held off Vagyr reinforcements with a single ship made entirely of Siege Cannons.

>>3676260

Red, Yellow and Blue squadrons - Rookies trained, barely, to handle the new and improved Interceptors and Bombers of the Fleet. Again, thanks to the hard fighting ahead many of these men and women will not live to set foot on Hiigara.

Potential Baaaw Moment - All three Squadron Captains should meet shortly after the recapture of Hiigara. On their necks are scores upon scores of Dog Tags. As they watch the construction works go up they place a Dog Tag in the foundation of each building. The workers do nothing to stop them.

At the end of the show it will reveal the back of the dog tag to which it will show, etched with care - For the Warriors who will never see the Home world, We Salute You.

>>3676311
Best anime series, bar none.

It's also quite long (110 episodes + two or three movies + 50+ sidestory episodes) but it's absolutely worth a watch.

WARNING: IT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART TO PIECES.

>>3676352
before getting bored and going off to finish rebuilding their utopia in the garden.

>>3676352

It lasted for several days with no additional support, and was regretably lost after a cunning attack by Vagyr fast striking marine frigates and carriers hyperspaceing into close proximity, denying the ship its long range superiority. Rather than allow itself to be taken, it fired all siege cannons at once, with detonation range set to 1 meter.

If salvaged Vagyr records are to be believed, this Somtaaw vessel destroyed no less that 57 Vagyr capital ships, and countless smaller craft.

Its crew were posthumously awarded the Higaran Medel of Awesome, which was created for the occasion and has never been awarded before or since.

>>3676383

too long. sounds boring.

>>3676334
The differenci is that biohazard protocols leave the ship pretty much undamaged, so you can design and construd that kind of ship where upon detecting infection the infected part will be sterilized. The design will make it so that no one/minimal crew will be in the sector upon the infection, so loses in men will be minimal.

And given McGuyver capabilities of the Hiigarans they can design a ship that has beast-proof outer layer (something like constand sterilization) and lots of smaller in-ship sterilization protocols.

I see it doesn't take long before Homeworld is infected with GRIMDORK too.

I'd rather the series died than the WH40k faggots ruin it too.

>>3676424
SPACE GERMANS WITH BATTLE AXES.

Trust me, the episodes will fly by like a breeze.

>>3676424
You, sir, are a faggot.

This is a stupid question, but homeworld's races were humans, right? Did they pilot their ships like say BSG, or were they AI controlled?

>>3676444
Dude, a scientist has neural connection cables shoved into her spine in order to become the Mothership's controlling intelligence. What else do you want?

>>3676444

Don't be hatin. We just showing some love for Kith Somtaaw (and, all things considered, the canon Homeworld stuff has a few grimdark moments of its own. When I played the first game, the idea that my WHOLE PLANET was killed off in mission three really shocked me.).

>>3676384
>rebuilding their utopia in the garden.
>utopia in the garden.
>the garden.

This is the Garden of Kadesh. For thirteen generations, we have protected it from the Unclean.

>>3676383

Any chance you know any good sites to watch it on? Or is Surf the Channel good enough?

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Marine Battalion M1 - Bakers, Electricians, Teachers, Bankers, you name it, this Battalion has it. Made up of the middle class of Exile Society before the Exodus. The will bind together under their hard training and take the fight to the enemy. Mainly for awesome. Show should progress to show their change from raw recruits (first boarding action virgin scene) to manly hard ass. (One of them blows down a door only to get shot in the leg. He falls to the ground but continues firing as his fellow ship invaders jump over him to continue the assault)

Members to watch for - Plumber Joe was once left on a Taidan heavy cruiser for an entire month after a failed assault on said cruiser which left only the engines dead but everything else left intact. Left in the aftermath of the engagement for dead, Plumber Joe spent the days ahead systematically killing the crew and their security detail. Finds his way back to the Fleet with a reluctant team of Taidan Engineers and his prize ship in tow. Is offered Captaincy for his effort but he declines, rejoining his fellow Marines.

>>3676479

...Who else can claim to have captured EVERY Multibeam frigate that spawned?

Seriously. like 15 or so, when combined, make the greatest superlaser ever known.

Character: Member of a rebel Kiith, he was placed in the mothership project to sabotage it from the inside, as their belief is that they were put on that world for a reason and it would be heresy for the Kushan to leave. However, once returning to Kharak to find it obliterated, he's torn between the want for revenge and his Kiith's duty.

>>3676479
We are the Soomtaw. You lose by definition.

>>3676479
Sajuuk damn you, I thought I killed you.

Come back here you pale mutant.

>>3676497
If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

>>3676480

Better yet: Joe, left behind on a failed assualt, sneaks around the ship and uses his awesome plumbing skills and Kushan ingenuity to sabatoge the ship.

The fuel isn't getting to where it needs to be, we have engine coolant in the hallways, and none of our bathrooms work. DAMNIT.

>>3676473
Estimated initial casualties.. 98% of all life. Total casualties.. 100%..

NOT EVEN BEACONS ;-;

>>3676479
FUCK YOU AND DIE

I still don't think I've actually gotten past the Gardens in their entirety actually. I seriously need to hurry up and finish this game, but it is SO SHITFUCKING HARD.

>>3676511
>>3676513

The Turanic Raiders who came before you refused
to join and were punished for this trespass. Like theirs, your ship has already defiled this holy place.

If you have come to join we welcome you and will spare your ship until all have disembarked. If you have come to consume the garden you will be removed at once.

What are your intentions?

>>3676530
BETTER: Bill, left behind on a failed assualt on a carrier, sneaks around the ship and uses his awesome plumbing skills and Kushan ingenuity to build his own frigate

Homeworld would probably be the only good base for a spaceship roleplay game. Each ship would come from a certain Kiith, which gives its crew an affinity, it has to stop for resources ridiculously often, and with Turanics, Taiidan, Beast, Vagyr, and whatever else might be hiding out in the darkness, a good variety of things to fight.

>>3676544

We will join you!
Is he gone? Good.
Quickly spool up the hyperdrive, we are running like hell.

>>3676544

WE HAVE COME TO KILL, MAIM, BURN, AND JACK YOUR SHIT.

PREPARE FOR ME.

>>3676479

do a barrel roll!

god i wish i had a gif of this ship.

>>3676530

That's Jim, his brother. He actually gets mistaken for his bro and gets shoved into an assault transport despite the fact he kept his job as Plumber on board ship. With no experience at all he inconveniences a whole star base enough for his brother to make a second assault that saves him.

Only one of the Brothers will make it to the Homeworld.

>>3676552

This.... has potential. Vast, beautiful potential...

>>3676544
to mine the fuck outta this gas cloud and steal your mini-beam and multi beam frigates, slaughter you, and laugh while doing so.

Again.

(Taiidan Emperor): Karan.

(Taiidan Emperor): You have taken one step too close to me.

(Karan): How do you know of me? How are you even speaking to me?

(Taiidan Emperor): I have watched you aproach, in you I sensed one like myself...there is no need to fight. Your people listen to you, have then throw down their arms and your people will prosper in ways they could never have dreamed of before.

(Karan): Your words are full of lies and nothingness, and even if they were not, I...no, WE would never forgive what you have done!

(Taiidan Emperor): ...you can feel my power, little one...you know you cannot hope to fight me on this plain...that I will break you in half.

(Karan): I know, and I don't care. You've already done your worse, this is nothing. Come and test my defenses, you will find me not as helpless as you might have hoped!

(Taiidan Emperor): So foolish, your race really doesn't know when to stop. So be it!

(Karan): *Screams*

>>3676544
See this? Mr. Claw hammer here says he'd love to make your acquaintance.

What's that? Come here, he wants to whisper something in your ear...

>>3676561

Homeworld series. The race gets a happy ending. No individual character gets one, though.

I take it there are no torrents/direct downloads for Cataclysm?

>>3676561
>>3676551
All of these individual characters detract from the story. Keep it simple and limit it to people who spoke in the games; ship crews should be anonymous and temporary.

>>3676579

That's it?

Son, you need one of THESE.

Watching the Cataclysm intros on youtube creeped me the FUCK OUT. Watching the final cutscene made me smile though. "...Kiith Som-Taaw was forever more known as... the Beast Slayers."

>>3676603

I used to have one, but I deleted it months ago.

>>3676633

Lucky. The version I downloaded was the ghetto-fabulous version without cutscenes.

http://www.zomganime.com/

I've still got the original discs for Cataclysm.

>>3676684
I have it... somwhere.

Shit, I really need to find that, my fallout 1 and 2 disks and my planescape torment discs and put them in a safe. For future generations.

>>3676614
Jesus, that's horrible. Just have Fleet reading out casualty reports while showing the space battles in progress, interspersed with desperate radio chatter and pleas for help from doomed fighter pilots, rising into suddenly cut off screams as they're blasted into their component atoms.

GRIMDARKEST SHOW EVER.

>>3676709
I would like to see the comedy spin-off : "The Adventureas of Kiith Somtaaw And the Siege Cannon"

>>3676703
and they say piracy and filesharing is evil

just look at how many old games and other software has been saved because of it or lost without

>>3676709
Oh god it would be like seeing those disposable fighter pilots in Star-Wars all over again, but a billion times worse.

"They're swarming all over me! God dammit, where are our fighters?! I'm getting pounded to hell here!"

"Hold out Assault, reinforcements en route. You MUST protect the resource carrier's line of retreat."

"Mayday Mayday! I'm being overwhelmed, I can't shake them! Dear god, there are hundreds of the- I'm hit! I'M HIT! AAAAUGH-"

"Frigate lost. Green squadron, cancel assist order and move to fighter-screen the resource carrier."

>>3676723
That got me thinking...

BRING SAJUUK TO BEAR vs. Burn, You Monstrosity!! BURN!

Sajuuk maing guns vs. The Siege Cannon

>>3676709
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mLjJwr6i60

Dammit where'd i put that Cataclysm CD

>>3676851
in my butt

I'm sad that Kiith Som-Taaw wasn't int he original Homeworld manual.

WHY IS THERE NO YOUTUBE OF THE FINAL BATTLE IN CATACLYSM

>>3676983

Because you should play the game instead.

>>3676983
there is also ne decent jewtube with awesome speech the Somtaaw Fleet Commander gave to those damn Bentusi.

Nearly all the HW related YouTube videos are crap and badly edited.

Play the game for best quality. You won't regret it.

IT'S LIKE I'M REALLY PLAYING BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

>>3677093
dude, this is fourth homeworld thread, and I'm OP to all of them. You think your petty trolling will have any effect? now? After 12 hours of fuckwin?

One of these days I need to beat cataclysm. It's the only one I haven't beaten, but every time I try, I just get bored. HW1 was hard as fuck but fun. Cataclysm is stupid hard and not fun.

It sucks when you don't have any decent ships in between fighter and destroyer weight.

>>3677120
What about the multi-beam frigate?

>>3677166
Multi-beam frigate was good against fighters, yes. But you had Somtaaw's uberhax bentusi fighters to kill fighters. There wasn't a real good anticap ship till you got destroyers.

Ramming frigates? Mimic ships? Cute, but give me a good old fashioned assault or ion frigate any day. Most of the Cataclysm ships were too gimmicky and not very practical.

>>3677205
I usually captured that teladi heavy cruiser, missile destroyer and regular destroyer on that mission where the fleet is supposed to sneak past a research station.

Never really noticed the lack of firepower in the game because of this.

>>3677222
That is a very valid point. I haven't tried cataclysm since I learned how awesome salvaging was. Perhaps I'll give it another go.

>>3677205
ramming frigs were usefull. they made the bad ships go away while i deal with the enemy

>>3677117
I'm not trolling, I'm just pointing out the obvious.
>the 'rag tag fugitive fleet' idea has tremendous potential for stories, RPGs and resource management heavy wargames.
is Battlestar Galactica in a nutshell, as well as Home World. And both are equally awesome.
Alas, it looks like >>3676331 beat me to the comparison, and others probably beat me to them before in the other threads. Maybe I should have put more blatantly IT'S LIKE I'M REALLY PLAYING BATTLESTAR GALACTICA! AWESOME!, but you shouldn't have gotten so defensive or bloated. If I had put down "sage for /v/," by all means brag about a successful thread count that has been dwarfed by the amount devoted to fluffing out and statting sergals, but otherwise, as you put so humbly yourself, your topic is doing fine.

An anime series would be badass.

I'm imagining that an officer would speak to the assembled pilots using the movie scripts from the game.

"... the subject did not survive interrogation."

Hearing that line, everyone in the room with a mix of hate, sorrow and determination on their faces.

Fuckwin.

>>3677249
ALL CAPS must've led my trollsensens astray. You know, I had no sleep for the last 24 hours, so I really have no fucking idea what you wrote in that lengthy message of yours, but i agree completely

These threads are AWESOME

GJ tg/

>>3677278
Heh, same here. Probably why I wrote such long reply back. Let's shake and be friends and agree that this is an awesome thread about an awesome topic.

>>3677378
Indeed it is.

Now, has anyone Commissars Hat template? I wanted to photoshop something like "Kun-Laan is the new commissar" or something, but I don't have it :<

>>3677459
New. Fucking. Thread.

>>3677378

FUCK YOU NIGGER

>>3677556
IMPOSTOR

>>3677598

I AM SPARTACUS, YOU CUNT KNUCKLE

>>3675219
>Homeworld anime
>no mecha
What is this I don't even...