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Unused Ships

This is a sub-page of Homeworld (Classic).

DefaultShip#

DefaultShip
It's not a Borg ship.

mass

25 tons

max velocity

280 m/s²

ship class

none

build cost

100 ru's

build time

24 s

max health

100

Placeholder model. Has no ship class so it's not classified as a ship.

P3 Megaship#

Megaship

mass

100000 tons

max velocity

295 m/s²

ship class

CLASS_Mothership

build cost

3200 ru's

build time

300 s

max health

600000

The game resources define a race called P3 that is not shown in the game. The Megaship (a.k.a. lavaship) is a mothership class with only a S_LargeIonCannon class weapon that fires repeatedly. with a max health of 600000 compared with the Bentusi/traders ship (400000) and the R1 and R2 Mothership (160000), the Megaship is the toughest ship in the Homeworld universe.

Bentusi's Cargo Barge#

Cargo Barge

mass

30 tons

max velocity

350 m/s²

ship class

CLASS_NonCombat

build cost

300 ru's

build time

60 s

max health

20000

It appears in the mission 11 cutscene when the Taiidan attacks a Bentusi ship. the cargo barge comes out from the ship and is destroyed seconds later. The ship is actually a non combat class ship that, if you edit the resources to play with it, does nothing. You only can move it around.

Derelict's Models#

There is a lot of models in the entry /derelicts in the big file, most of them are models of debris and junks. And mostly are used in the mission 13 Karos graveyard. Also contains leftover models from fully functional ships.

Derelict's Ion Cannon Frigate#

Derelict's Ion Cannon Frigate

mass

400 tons

max velocity

300 m/s²

ship class

CLASS_Frigate

build cost

650 ru's

build time

60 s

max health

60000

An older model of a Kushan Ion cannon frigate. It's interesting the huge amount of max health of 60000 compared to the final Ion cannon frigate that only has 15000.

Derelict's Light Corvette#

Derelict's Light Corvette

mass

25 tons

max velocity

375 m/s²

ship class

CLASS_Corvette

build cost

135 ru's

build time

28 s

max health

20000

max fuel

20000

fuel burn rate

0.029

An older model of a Kushan Light Corvette. It has less mass and it moves slower that the final light corvette and stores more fuel.

Derelict's Repair Corvette#

Derelict's Repair Corvette

mass

150 tons

max velocity

500 m/s²

ship class

CLASS_Corvette

build cost

150 ru's

build time

20 s

max health

1200

An earlier model of a Kushan's Salvage Corvette. This one is armed with a medium energy cannon. The final Salvage corvette has no weapons of any kind.

Derelict's Multi-gun Corvette#

Derelict's Multi-gun Corvette

mass

25 tons

max velocity

385 m/s²

ship class

CLASS_Corvette

build cost

225 ru's

build time

40 s

max health

20000

max fuel

20000

fuel burn rate

0.029

It appears as a junk ship in Karos graveyard mission but is a playable ship if you edit some resource files. It's a lighter and slower version of the final multi-gun convette and it has more max health. (Almost 15 times more).