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There’s a game not many of you may be familiar with. I tried to play it once, but my piece of junk computer couldn’t run it because it was the REMASTERED version. So, yeah. Go figure.
Anyhoo, looking at the cutscenes and the dialogue in the game as well as the story: Homeworld, the first game, focuses on a mothership, which can create a fleet of a variety of ships. It’s strategy game, in essence.
The plot is: you’re from a planet that is setting foot outside of its solar system. Your people have discovered that your homeworld, Karak, is not your original homeworld, it’s actually another world called Hagira ‘our home’. The mothership, your unit building ship, is like an ark, military base/factory in one. It was constructed to take colonists to Higara. However, as usual, not everything is good.
So, you go to link up with a ship, only to find it destroyed and encounter an enemy race that seeks to destroy you. You go home, and everyone on your homeworld is DEAD, it got essentially nuked and the survivors are either your ships or the cryotrays full of colonists that you need to save. So, you rescue the colonists that are frozen (the number of saved depends on how many you actually saved, but generally it’s assumed around tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands).
You find out that your people were exiled from Hagira for crimes unknown until later on in the series, and you were exiled to die in the wilderness of space by your enemies. So, you go on a long journey, helping out a rebellion, finding long-lost relatives who are so scared of going home and not encountering their old enemy, that they just stay as shut-ins in a nebula.
So, your goal is to get to Hagira… and stay alive! At the end of the first game: you arrive at Hagira and you finally defeat your enemies, though you encounter the remnant of said enemy in the second game and there’s another spin off as well. A prequel was made that was set on Karak before they went off to space, in which they found the ancient human technology that allows them to get off-world, called Deserts of Karak.
Now, I realize a lot of people DON’T like video games. And I can understand both sides of the fence as I am a somewhat occasional gamer now, but I can also see that our primary goal is indeed the true spiritual homeland: Heaven.
I couldn’t help but notice that Homeworld kind of draws parallels with the Books of Exodus and Genesis in the sense that your mothership carries the last remnants of your people AND that you are off to get to your homeworld.
In Genesis: it was Noah with the animals of the world and his family in the ark… but unlike the 600,000 (Maximum number I think personally, I could be wrong). It was 8 people in the Ark with Noah among them.
In Exodus and onwards until about Joshua, the Israelites arrive at their homeland after wandering due to 40 years… no thanks to Moses and his anger and the constant grumbling of the 12 tribes.
That’s all I’m going to say as I don’t want to take up too much space. But, I’d be interested if anyone else could share some thoughts or connections that they saw in certain games and several things they read in the Bible?
Anyhoo, looking at the cutscenes and the dialogue in the game as well as the story: Homeworld, the first game, focuses on a mothership, which can create a fleet of a variety of ships. It’s strategy game, in essence.
The plot is: you’re from a planet that is setting foot outside of its solar system. Your people have discovered that your homeworld, Karak, is not your original homeworld, it’s actually another world called Hagira ‘our home’. The mothership, your unit building ship, is like an ark, military base/factory in one. It was constructed to take colonists to Higara. However, as usual, not everything is good.
So, you go to link up with a ship, only to find it destroyed and encounter an enemy race that seeks to destroy you. You go home, and everyone on your homeworld is DEAD, it got essentially nuked and the survivors are either your ships or the cryotrays full of colonists that you need to save. So, you rescue the colonists that are frozen (the number of saved depends on how many you actually saved, but generally it’s assumed around tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands).
You find out that your people were exiled from Hagira for crimes unknown until later on in the series, and you were exiled to die in the wilderness of space by your enemies. So, you go on a long journey, helping out a rebellion, finding long-lost relatives who are so scared of going home and not encountering their old enemy, that they just stay as shut-ins in a nebula.
So, your goal is to get to Hagira… and stay alive! At the end of the first game: you arrive at Hagira and you finally defeat your enemies, though you encounter the remnant of said enemy in the second game and there’s another spin off as well. A prequel was made that was set on Karak before they went off to space, in which they found the ancient human technology that allows them to get off-world, called Deserts of Karak.
Now, I realize a lot of people DON’T like video games. And I can understand both sides of the fence as I am a somewhat occasional gamer now, but I can also see that our primary goal is indeed the true spiritual homeland: Heaven.
I couldn’t help but notice that Homeworld kind of draws parallels with the Books of Exodus and Genesis in the sense that your mothership carries the last remnants of your people AND that you are off to get to your homeworld.
In Genesis: it was Noah with the animals of the world and his family in the ark… but unlike the 600,000 (Maximum number I think personally, I could be wrong). It was 8 people in the Ark with Noah among them.
In Exodus and onwards until about Joshua, the Israelites arrive at their homeland after wandering due to 40 years… no thanks to Moses and his anger and the constant grumbling of the 12 tribes.
That’s all I’m going to say as I don’t want to take up too much space. But, I’d be interested if anyone else could share some thoughts or connections that they saw in certain games and several things they read in the Bible?