Karan S'jet (Homeworld)

 

Series Overview

Homeworld is a real-time strategy science-fiction video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios on September 28th, 1999. The game follows a group of exiles from the planet Kharak on a mission to reclaim their original homeworld of Hiigara from the Taiidan Empire. A direct sequel (Homeworld 2) was release in 2003, and both games received a "remastered edition" in 2015.

Biological Unit

A Kushan neuroscientist named Karen S'jet willingly volunteered to undergo an experimental surgery which would connected her brain to the core of The Mothership (the largest of the spaceships designed by the Kushan exiles for the journey to Hiigara). The surgery was a success, and Karen (under the title of Fleet Command) managed to navigate through the hostel regions of space and got the colonists back to their homeworld. After reaching Hiigara, Karen was relieved of duty as the ship's core, now able to experience the planet she had guided her people to on her own.

Years later, during an event known as the Hiigarian War, Karen would once again take up the role of a living core, this time for a new ship called The Pride of Hiigara. When this conflict ended, Karen would become known as "Sajuuk-Khar", a being mentioned in ancient prophesies as the one who would bring about over a thousand years of peace. What happened to her once "The Age of S'jet" had begun remains unknown.

Gallery

Karen S'jet in the original 1999 version of Homeworld.

2015 remastered version of the same scene.

Karen is released from duty as the ship's core at the end of the game (1999 version).

The ending sequence in 2015.

Karen in silhouette in the opening of Homeworld 2.

As seen in the second to last mission of Homeworld 2.

The ending of Homeworld 2.

Birth of "The Age of S'jet"

S'jet, as seen in the E3 trailer for Homeworld 2.

Concept art for Homeworld 2.

Concept art for Homeworld 2.

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