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Angel Moon Variations (Aug 2019 ver)

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Given the recent buzz about a possible Homeworld 3, it felt right to revise this with their new teased version of the Angel Moon Logo. I also had to catch up from Deserts of Kharak.

From top to bottom, left to right;

The Guidestone Pedestal Relief is on the pedestal that held the guidestone, found in the ruins of the Khar-Toba. We can guess this was also the sigil of the ancient Hiigaran empire. I tried my best to trace it in Illustrator, but this is the hardest of the angel moons to logo (Every other logo after it was vector-based).

The CD Cover one is the graphic used on the install, for the GOTY CD cover, for the startup icon, and the logo for Fleet Intelligence in the game. Basically, this is HW1's logo.

The Main Menu Icon is actually in a minor location; on the main menu for Homeworld 1 in the lower-right corner. It was so different in the dimensions of the wings that I decided to document it as a variant.

The game manual graphic I didn't know where it came from, until I opened the Homeworld 1 manual and found it. This is the 'modern' HW1 logo, and is used mostly whenever anyone references HW1. The change between this and the "First" HW1 logo are principally in merging the spheres with the wings.

The Promotional site graphic was on the splash page for a countdown to information on Homeworld 2. The date came and went with no information, but the logo remained. Apparently this logo was the alpha version of the game before HW2 was scrapped and re-designed from the ground up.

The Homeworld 2 one is the one that made it into the final retail version of the game. Used for the badges, any official Hiigaran logo, etx. Wider than the HW1 versions, with the feathers of the guidestone pedestal and HW2 alpha.

The Decade Interceptor one is present on the interceptor drawn by Dave Cheong, on behalf of Relic to thank the fans for a decade of dedication for Homeworld. The Interceptor is new, so is the logo, and this is my attempt to replicate it. Since it IS from Relic, and IS an Angel-Moon derivative, it MUST be included here and before RedPanther's HW:E logo.

The Homeworld: Empire is actually unofficial; it was made by OneRedPanther when rumors were abound of a Homeworld Massive Multiplayer Online game. While I oppose MMORPGs and don't want Homeworld anywhere near them (noting what happened to the Warcraft universe when WoW happened), I nevertheless thought the logo was interesting enough to include as a variant of the Angel Moon.

Remastered

Based on their file names I wonder if the HM badges were alternate Homeworld Mothership icons that were considered for replacing the classic angel moons. Just my guess. Since I'm not able to extract these badges I had to free-hand all of them as best as I could. Even HM3, used for the menus, refuses to be screencapped for some reason.

HM1 is very similar to the Dave Cheong one. HM2 is an approximation and an interesting version. Probably the most radical-yet-original of a list of thumbnails I can imagine exists around BBI or Gearbox. I had a hard time with this one and might try another go at it again when I have the inclination.

HM3 Is a close permutation of the HW1 CD Cover version. The lower circle is set higher and the higher circle imposes on the wings. This is used for the main menu graphics and is the "Homeworld 1" Icon for remastered. A very nice throwback logo.

This Remastered Pedestal Relief is from the same image with the different guidestone. Certainly different from the older relief carving... whichever one is "proper" is significant because it represents the identification of the old Hiigaran empire (which the exiles redesigned for their own use no doubt). Here is the outer outline of the glyph since there were three inset tiers, I only wanted the silhouette.

The Second Decade
Deserts of Kharak came and went after Remastered, but as we approach 2020 it seems like the slumbering giant of Homeworld is rousing again. Since 2010 we've had a couple of Homeworld standalone entries I want to commemorate here.

Deserts of Kharak Main is a bit of an odd entry, because it's a little hard to find. DoK itself is absent of many of the traditional Angel Moon Logos (apt, since it's set before the first game) but you can find it in places. This is the first of two, one of the rare places you can find it is on the soundtrack covers. Since this is the most ornate, and since it resembles the Remastered Pedestal Relief, I'm calling this DoK's main logo.

Deserts of Kharak Side Menu appears in the top-left corner as you are playing the game, as a menu button. Like the Main logo there's no explanation for why this iconography appears now, before the recovery of the Khar-Toba. There's also no reason it has to be different from the rest of the Angel Moons, yet here we are. I consider it as legitimate as any other variation.

City of Khar-Toba is certainly the largest of the Angel Moon variations. Visible briefly after doing a ground-survey scan of the area surrounding the crashed spaceship. Where HW1 gave us a small city surrounding the remains of the vessel, DoK suggests a larger city sprawl beyond the circular rim. Clearly, the Angel Moon has tremendous significance to the Hiigaran people.

Homeworld 3: Revised! Here it is, Homeworld 3. Announced 8/30/2019, for a projected 2022 release. This is the logo they have given us, a pleasingly angular take on the recent Remastered Pedestal / Deserts of Kharak arrangement (less of a peak at the top, more of a drop). Vs my earlier version, it appears BBI's "definitive" take on the logo does not have the tilt to it that happens at the end of the trailer. So I'm presenting it straightened, fill color, as shown on promotional images for HW3.
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At fisrt I thought (or hoped) the HM1 might have been inspired by one of my own from R.E.A.R.M.: media.moddb.com/images/groups/… (the one in the middle). But when I look at it, the HM1 is way better and the thing is just a coincidence.