Despite these setbacks, the Kuun-Lan manage to locate their sister ship and finally get vital information to their homeworld, whose territories were on the verge of buckling with both attacks from the Imperialists and the spreading Beast infestation.

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It was published by Sierra Studios, as was the original, but it was developed by Barking Dog Studios.

The game reappeared on the gaming website GOG.com in June 2017 as Homeworld: Emergence, as the name Cataclysm was trademarked by Blizzard Entertainment for its third expansion to World of Warcraft.

The players Command Ship is now capable of attack; though slow, the Command Ship is capable of delivering a high amount of firepower, most notably the Siege Cannon capable of crippling an enemy Command Ship with a single well aimed shot.

The games resource collectors perform the same functions that they did in the original Homeworld, however, when upgraded they can be used to capture enemy vessels, harvest crystals and repair friendly vessels; functions that were carried out by separate, single-function ships in the first game.

Where Homeworld was biased towards large fleets (as the players main ship was a full-fledged mothership and the opposition was an empire of galactic scale), Cataclysm down-scales the fleets (as the players main ship is a simple mining vessel and the adversaries are all limited in resources).

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After destroying the Taiidan Emperor and reclaiming their ancient homeworld of Hiigara, the Kushan re-establish their clans, or kiith, in a great council, though some clans have precedence over others.

Meanwhile, the Taiidan Empire has collapsed after years of civil war, and a new Taiidani Republic has arisen as an ally of the newly minted Hiigarans, while the Imperialists and their Turanic Raider allies continue to raid both Hiigaran and Republic space.

While aiding a Hiigaran destroyer attacked by Turanic Raiders, they soon find a derelict beacon pod, which the crew decides to capture and research with the aid of the research vessel Clee-San, sent by their clan leaders back on Hiigara, who order that the beacon and its technology be kept within Kiith Somtaaw in order to gain an advantage over the other clans.

The part of the ship containing the derelict is jettisoned; the Clee-San then scans the jettisoned part of the ship to determine what happened.

As it scans, the jettisoned portion of the ship fires a beam at the Clee-San that subverts control of the ship and its escorts.

Turanic Raiders arrive and are also subverted, forcing the Kuun-Lan to flee.

The Kuun-Lan seeks a Bentusi trading ship for help, and find it being attacked by a Beast fleet.

The trading ship is hit with an infection beam and self-destructs to avoid being subverted.

While other ships are assimilated by the Beast, the Kuun-Lan discovers that while the true origins of the Beast are unknown, it was first discovered by an alien vessel called the Naggarok, which had come from another galaxy a million years earlier and had picked up the Beast in intergalactic hyperspace.

Before the Naggarok was fully assimilated, the drives and communications of the ship were destroyed by the crew, but the ship automatically released a distress beacon - still infected by the Beast - which the Kuun-Lan discovered.

As the Kuun-Lan hunts for the Naggarok, they must also contend with the Imperialist Taiidani, who are experimenting with the Beast in an attempt to weaponize it.

Unfortunately, the Caal-Shto becomes subverted by unknown means and leads the Kuun-Lan into a trap, where the Hiigarans have to fend off a massive Beast fleet led by a mothership class vessel.

This ship was no other than the former research module that they jettisoned early in the campaign.

It was not only capable of communication, but was also seeking their origin point of the Naggarok.

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