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A-Z backlog challenge: Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

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I am a huge fan of the original Homeworld. It was an epic Space RTS in which you traveled across the galaxy to find the world where your people originally came from. Homeworld DoK is a prequel which sees you travelling through the desert to find technology which will both save your people in the present time and then be used to make the events of Homeworld 1 possible. Like in the original, there is no basebuiding. You have a massive aircraft career which acts as a production and research center but can also fight quite effectively once you have built up the energy reserves. You send out salvagers which collect CUs (construction units) and RUs (resource units) to allow you to do both. You start off building light attack vehicles and over the missions move up to building larger armoured vehicles, cruisers as well as fighters and bombers. You can also build upgrades for the vehicles you already have as well as finding artifacts which when returned to the carrier give various boosts.