[Leeko]

Anyone remember Homeworld? I just realized that in both you return to your home to find it burning, and in both you find a ship that shows you what happened. Of course, in Homeworld it was a Taidanii frigate, and not an escape pod. And it wasn't really their home, either.

[Colonol Dekker]

Yep and the sanctuary is like the mothership too, but I try to ignore it as I enjoy BP regardless

[General Battuta]

You don't have to ignore it. Most science fiction stories reference each other pretty heavily. Intertextuality is neat.

[Leeko]

Yeah, and Homeworld was a great game. Heavy reference to it doesn't detract from BP at all.

[Leeko]

Also, both involve the better part of your race being saved in cryogenic stasis.

[Aardwolf]

Yep and the sanctuary is like the mothership too, but I try to ignore it as I enjoy BP regardless

Wait, what? The sanctuary, how?

[General Battuta]

Yep and the sanctuary is like the mothership too, but I try to ignore it as I enjoy BP regardless

Wait, what? The sanctuary, how?

Also, both involve the better part of your race being saved in cryogenic stasis.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Anyone remember Homeworld? I just realized that in both you return to your home to find it burning, and in both you find a ship that shows you what happened. Of course, in Homeworld it was a Taidanii frigate, and not an escape pod. And it wasn't really their home, either.

Eh . . . that's a bit of stretch I think. I don't see any similarities between Homeworld and BP at all.

[-Norbert-]

No? Let's see...

The Homeworld is obliterated by a superiour enemy force. The last survivours flee in a massive ship. Most of the people in the ship are inside of stasis pods, but some are awake to crew the ship and it's attending escorts.

And now tell me wether I wrote about Blue Planet or Homeworld...

[Colonol Dekker]

Homeworld, the crew are defrosted. Whereas the sanctuary pilots were born on it
 

[-Norbert-]

Small wonder considering that the whole oddesy of the Mothership took only month, while the Sanctuary was hiding from the Shivans for decades....

But looking back it does seem really stupid for Homeworld to unfreeze pilots and shove them in a cockpit, but I guess they didn't really have any other choice in the matter.

"Oh hey, sorry to wake you up prematurely, but you have to pilot a warship. And by the way, our homeworld was toasted while you were asleep."
Now that's a hell of a wakeupcall....

[Leeko]

I believe the cryo-tray sleepers weren't awakened until they returned to Hiigara. There was something in the HW:Cataclysm historical and tech briefing manual about that. Which is why mimics are given suicidal pilots - sleepers who couldn't bear to live without their loved ones who stayed on Kharak, and decided to do something meaningful with their deaths.

[Colonol Dekker]

Only the kith saam-tàw emo-sleepers became mimics. The rest just got on with it.

[-Norbert-]

Yeah right... the others just commited "normal" suicide instead of "kamikaze suicide"....

[Leeko]

From the aforementioned history brief:

One of the most difficult aspects of the Hiigaran Landfall was the retrieval of our so-called "Sleeper Kiithid", the 92% of our current population who traveled from Kharak to Hiigara in cryogenic suspension... The Sleepers began their mission with a willingness to sacrifice themselves... In the first few weeks after Landfall, there were dozens of suicides... There were no children on board the Mothership, nor any of our elders... Sleepers lost their blood links to both past and future...

And there were only about 10,000 Kiith Somtaaw sleepers around. So I'm inclined to believe that Somtaaw emo mimics aren't the only suicidal Hiigarans out there.
Hmm... I never really realized how dark Cataclysm is by comparison. Its themes are hubris, suicide, and disease. Not to mention the Bentusi turned into serious jerks. Though I think the units voices were rather... comical. Like how mimics screamed when you gave them kamikaze orders, and processors sounded like really old guys. I also giggled on the inside a little anytime tactical said "Destroyer destroyed." But that's just me.

[Commander Zane]

The unit voices on Cataclysm were how they should've been on the other two Homeworlds, they had a unique voice for each class of ship, instead of EVERYTHING being the same voice except the Mothership.

[-Norbert-]

Like how mimics screamed when you gave them kamikaze orders

Interresting I gotta try that out.
What does it say about my character that I never once initiated a single kamikaze command in my numerous playthroughs of Homeworld and Cataclysm?

[Leeko]

That you never got desperate on the mission where you get jumped by 3 heavy cruisers and 8 destroyers due to sabotage.
MY LIFE FOR YOURS! AHHHHHHHHHHH! Boom. Suffice to say, I do not believe in ramming frigates.

The unit voices on Cataclysm were how they should've been on the other two Homeworlds, they had a unique voice for each class of ship, instead of EVERYTHING being the same voice except the Mothership.

It wasn't a criticism, if you were thinking that, I do agree.

Oh and speaking of desperate measures, I just realized after years in my last playthrough of Cataclysm, which was about a week ago, that I can give my ships self-destruct orders while they are being infected. Made things so much easier.

[Darius]

Hubris, suicide and disease coupled with desperate measures. Sounds like a game I should try out. Played HW 1 and 2, but never got to Cataclysm.

[Leeko]

A lot of die hard HW fans condemned Cataclysm and don't consider it canon, but it's my favorite of the three. Partly because I'm a sucker for space parasite stories, but also because it had the best out-of-cutscene (well, except the return to Kharak mission) storytelling of the three IMO. The standard units have the most personality out of any of the three, and the main characters (Fleet Command and Tactical) are much more emotive than in HW1 or 2. It also had good music; the only memorable tracks from HW1 in my opinion are the Turanic Raider theme and the a capella rendition of Adagio for Strings.

I highly recommend it.