Did Gearbox just retcon Hiigara into Earth? (Potential minor spoilers.)

[Arsene Lupin]

Just watched the launch trailer, and one of the final taglines is "save humanity."

[DA_Kimika]

No. Humanity does not mean earth. In all honestly. All the races are Human/humanoid. :V
As an added note... definition:


humanity
noun hu·man·i·ty \hyü-ˈma-nə-tē, yü-\
: the quality or state of being human

: the quality or state of being kind to other people or to animals

: all people

[Thoden]

humans do not equal earth.

[Cannery Frigate]

I doubt anyone thought hard about that one line, you know it being a trailer and all.

[David]

Homeworld noobie here, No aliens right? AS far as I can tell everyone's human and thats why this is upsetting too you guys... It didn't make sense to me either as their doesn't seem to be any threat to humanity in the homeworld universe

[X808X]

bumpp

[DA_Kimika]

Originally posted by Tiesto:

Homeworld noobie here, No aliens right? AS far as I can tell everyone's human and thats why this is upsetting too you guys... It didn't make sense to me either as their doesn't seem to be any threat to humanity in the homeworld universe

There is a threat to a PEOPLE(Culture AKA Hiigar.ians? and the Kudash.) though, and Humanity is a refrence to a people.

[BronzeLump]

im not totally sure, but i think the canon for it sets it in a galaxy two or three point away from here... (as in like the third closes galaxy to out own or something).

[Scabies]

Sigh... I remember buying this game in '98 and it had a small novel worth of backstory in this archaic contraption called a "manual"
Just... watch the cutscenes

[RipSteakFace]

Originally posted by Tiesto:

Homeworld noobie here, No aliens right? AS far as I can tell everyone's human and thats why this is upsetting too you guys... It didn't make sense to me either as their doesn't seem to be any threat to humanity in the homeworld universe

Pretty sure humans are the biggest threat to humanity, regardless of an alien threat.

[Cannery Frigate]

SteakFace come here, i have something for you here, it's called Homeworld: Cataclysm

[RipSteakFace]

I was speaking in general, as a universal truth.

[David]

Well I get that another faction of humans (vaygr) are threating the galaxy and overrunning everyone, I done some reasearch. Just didn't fully understand.

[Simon Knight]

Trailers are made by advertising companies to help the product interest more consumers. People who never played it aren't going to know what a Hiigaran is, and the people who have played it aren't the target group for trailers as they are already aware of the game. A line such as 'Save Humanity' is easily recognizable by everyone, and converys the essense of the storyline without needing to have knowledge of the backstory beforehand.
While the trailer does look like it was made by a spastic thirteen year old hopped up on Mt. Dew, it does not hold any grand meaning to the game itself.

[Koranis]

There is no humanity in the Homeworld universe. There are dufferent races, Kushan, Taiidan, Vaygr, etc, but the game never specifies if those are part of the same species or not. Kushan appear human in the cutscenes, yes, but this is an artistic direction that wants you to connect with those people. Also Vaygr might have been human if the image of Makaan is of any indication.

It is implied in Homeworld 2 that all of the races involved in the story descend from the Progenitors, a long extinct race that seeded the galaxy with life and whose hulking derelicts litter some regions of space. This is also confirmed in the development documents of the original Relic team.

It's obvious Gearbox just wanted to go "Michael Bay" with the trailer, but personally I think all they managed is to confuse people who're not into it only for some nice explosions.

[Lucifer]

old time HW player here. There is a very faint, tenuous link to earth, and by that I mean several hundred thousand years in the past. Basically you had these dudes called the progenitors, who were likely human or transhuman, that ruled the galaxy and probably the universe. The events in homeworld could be hundreds of thousands or even millions of years in our own future. Also Hiigara is near the galactic core. Earth is actually way out in the boonies of the Pegasus arm. so yeah, homeworld for the Hiigaran people but that doesnt mean the original world they evolved on.

Could also very well be that the galaxy the story takes place in isn't even our galaxy. The progenitors "arrived" in this galaxy a long time beforehand. Intergalactic travel is certainly possible - the Bentusi can do it in dire circumstances.

And yes, no aliens to my knowledge. some of them look pretty naffy, like the Bentusi, but they are still recognizeably (trans)human at a basic level. Here's a Bentusi http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060512165817/homeworld/images/8/84/Bentusi.jpg

Remember you're dealing with hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of years of divergent evolution (and deliberate modification in the case of the Bentusi) so yeah, things change. Any good sci fi writer incorporating deep-time will tell you that the one thing you must keep consistent is the eyes, as that is the mirror of humanity. Homeworld does this well.