The Three Hyperspace Cores, also known as the Three Cores, or the Trinity, were relics created by the Progenitor Sajuuk in the First Time. They are three ancient Hyperspace cores that allow Far Jumping. The Three Cores were originally created to power the Great Network of Hyperspace Gates that spanned the galaxy, connecting the Progenitor civilization together. After the collapse of Progenitor civilisation, the Three Cores were separated. They were rediscovered many thousands of years later by three civilizations: the Bentusi, the Hiigarans and the Vaygr. They were ultimately reunited by Karan S'jet and used to reactivate the Hyperspace Gate Network.
Overview[]
The First Core[]
Main article: First Hyperspace Core The First Core was discovered by the Bentusi in the First Time. The Bentusi used it to spread their hyperspace technology among the other races in the Galaxy, creating the Outer Rim Trade Routes. The First Core was used as the hyperdrive of the Great Harbor Ship of Bentus until 115 AHL, when the ship detonated itself to save the Pride of Hiigara from the Keepers. It remained on board the Pride until the completion of the Trinity.
The Second Core[]
Main article: Second Hyperspace Core The Second Core was found by the Hiigaran people in the Great Wastelands, and became the tool of their greatest victory, as well as their greatest disaster. It was installed on the Sajuuk's Wrath, the Hiigaran flagship, and thanks to it they managed to defeat the Taiidan Empire. The Hiigarans destroyed the ship rather than surrender it. They made it appear that the core had been destroyed, but in reality were able to recover it and smuggled it to Kharak. The Core was lost in the cavernous hold of the Khar-Toba, but even in passive mode it created a hyperspace interdiction field around the Kharakian system, preventing the planet from being attacked or discovered by hyperspace-capable ships. The Core was later rediscovered by the crew of the desert carrier Kapisi and, alongisde the Guidestone, allowed the Kushan people to construct the Mothership and return to Hiigara. The Core was later placed on display in the Hiigaran capital, but when the Vaygr War began it was transferred to the Pride of Hiigara, and subsequently the Sajuuk and Khar-Sajuuk.
The Third Core[]
Main article: Third Hyperspace Core The Third Core was found by the Vaygr warlord Makaan. With it, he became the leader of his people who then worshiped him as the Sajuuk-Khar. His forces became one of the greatest powers in the Galaxy around the year 115 AHL, when the Vaygr made war with Hiigara in an attempt to regain the ancient Cores and claim Sajuuk, key to the Eye of Aarran. Makaan was defeated and the Core claimed by the Hiigarans, who placed it on the Sajuuk and, later, the Khar-Sajuuk.
Powers of the Cores[]
Each Core was a Far Jumper, a hyperdrive capable of moving ships great distances in almost no time.[1] The powerful quantum wake it produced could drag additional ships into hyperspace, allowing flagships to take whole accompanying fleets as an escort. It was first used in this capacity when the Hiigaran flagship "Sajuuk's Wrath" took the entire Hiigaran fleet deep into Taiidan space[2], and both motherships were also capable of this feat[3]. The cores were also capable of summoning their fleets from a distance, as Bentus proved by hyperspacing the Bentusi fleet to Hiigara from a nearby nebula[4]. The Cores also double as a very powerful and very efficient power source.
People connected to a Core - often referred to as the Unbound throughout the series, but also known as Navigators in Homeworld 3 - could feel the presence of other Cores[5], and it is also known that the Cores could extend the lifetimes of those connected to it. Thanks to it, Karan S'jet was still physically young by the events of Homeworld 3 despite being well over 240 years old. Connection to the cores also changed the way she saw the world and stars[6]. Navigators could communicate one another via the medium of hyperspace through a dream-like state[7].
United, the Three Cores become the drive and power source of the Godship Sajuuk, an ancient starship hidden within Balcora.[8] It was armed with a Phased Cannon Array powered by the Three. Also, the Cores, united with Sajuuk, were the key to the Eye of Aarran, the Progenitor hyperspace gate, itself key to the Great Network of Hyperspace Gates.[9]
It was discovered that when the Three were united, they could generate an ultra-powerful quantum wavefront unaffected even by large gravity well area, such as Balcora.
Even when not connected to a ship, the Cores had the ability to generate hyperspace interdiction fields large and powerful enough to enclose an entire star system out to the distance of possibly several light-years. Any hyperspace-capable ship attempting to enter the field could be torn out of hyperspace and reformed inside solid rock, or in the atmosphere of a planet in the system where it subsequently crashed. At least dozens and possibly hundreds of ships, of Taiidan and other origin, attempted to enter the Kharak system and were consequentially destroyed in this fashion. It was only when the Second Core was attached to the Mothership that the interdiction field vanished, allowing the Taiidan to destroy Kharak.<ref>Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Fate[]
Prior to the events of Homeworld 3, it is discovered that Karan had sequestered the three cores with her on the failed expedition against the Anomaly. As a result of the events of Homeworld 3, all cores are placed into a gateship and subsequently lost forever, thus bringing an end to the Holy Trinity and ensuring that no other person could reawaken Sajuuk.
Behind the Scenes[]
Originally, the Mothership's hyperspace core is not described as being unusual or harbouring unique powers in Homeworld itself. The distinctions between Far Jumping and Short Jumping, and the importance of the Three, are all retcons introduced in Homeworld 2 and expanded upon in Deserts of Kharak and Homeworld 3. However, they do retroactively explain anomalies in the plot of Homeworld, such as the Mothership's ability to greatly outrange Taiidan pursuit and the protection of the Kharak system from Taiidan attack until the launch of the Mothership.
Appearances[]
- Homeworld (retroactive)
- Homeworld 2
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
- Homeworld 3
References[]
- ↑ Prelude to the End Times, Page 5
- ↑ Prelude to the End Times, Page 10
- ↑ The single-player campaigns of all Homeworld games
- ↑ Prelude to the End Times, Page 14
- ↑ Prelude to the End Times, Page 3
- ↑ Prelude to the End Times, Page 24
- ↑ Homeworld 3
- ↑ Events of Mission 14
- ↑ Homeworld 2 End Game cutscene