The research-station mission had valuable capital ships cut off from any reinforcement by a super nova, making it (relatively) easy to capture large numbers of them-but the worst was Mission 14, with dozens and dozens of Ion Cannon Frigates ripe for capture (the last one was intentional on the developers' part, given what you have to blow up in the very next mission). The first major example was the Kadeshi multi-beam frigates, which can shred pretty much anything because they have four Wave Motion Guns, while the most expensive ship the Kushan could build at the time only had two.
Game-Breaker: The Salvage Corvette in the first game went Off the Rails quite quickly, as it could steal the enemy's Game-Breaker ships."To apply mousse (moose?) to your enemy ships." Funny Moments: You wouldn't expect one in the dead-serious Homeworld franchise, then you have Karan Sjet's VA Heidi Ernest coming in with a seriously adorkable outtake reel.
Despite appearing in only two missions from the first game and possibly getting completely wiped out by the player they are quite popular. It's intentional, of course, as both instances of them appearing are siege missions and you're not supposed to win, just hold out until the plot lets you proceed.
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They're carrier-sized battlecrusiers with two fast-firing ion cannons, armor that shames anything you've got and then some, the ability to launch powerful drone fighters that can take incredible punishment, the ability to go to hyperspace and bounce to the other side of the field should those fighters be destroyed (where it will launch more), and finally the ability to phase out of the game itself and return with full health should you damage them enough. Seeking power at the expense of everything that lives, Riesstiu is reviled throughout the galaxy. When the Kushans arrive at their true home world Hiigara, he mind rapes fleet control Karan S'jet, and then personally attempts to finish the very genocide he started. When the peaceful Bentusi give aid to the Kushans, Riesstiu orders his fleet to attack one of their motherships, intent on slaying everything on board. He then broadcasts the footage all across his empire, threatening hundreds of worlds with the same fate. When the Kushan unknowingly violate a treaty forbidding them from developing space technology, a treaty long forgotten by everyone except historians, Riesstiu orders the genocide of the entire Kushan civilization and has his fleet firebomb their planet Kharak, roasting alive untold millions.
Before the events of the game, he was a corrupt and unstable ruler whose brutal policies have reduced his empire to a mere shell of its former self.
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