HOMEWORLD: DO BENTUSI DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHIPS?
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It's very symbolical that HW1, Mission 11, "Tenhauser Gate" mission creates an interesting link to the quote of "Bladerunner". Especially of the scenes happening there: Bentusi are facing their death.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
(c) Roy Batty, replicant of "Blade Runner"
And more symbolical is about person who speaks original phrase - it's an android/replicant, artificial human.
And this is very interesting and fitting the line of HWC, where we have found that the Bentusi is Unbound by the meaning of being one with their ship,
To understand our fear, you must know our nature. We are one with our vessels, as was your S'jet persona. We are Unbound. The solar winds blow across our skin. Hyperspace sings in our ears. The Universe unfold around our thoughts.
(c) HWC, Cutscene 15-16
As his human-evolved programming interpreted the inflowing data, he heard the hiss of particulate radiations cascading along the Galaxy’s magnetic fields and the symphonic tunings of distant radio sources, felt the tickle of dust motes adrift in emptiness, tasted the bite of gamma rays and X-rays announcing the long-ago deaths of suns.
(c) William Keith, Warstrider V
and the line of HW2 where we have found that Bentusi are something like watchers of the Galactic races to prepare them for the treasures or damnation or both of Progenitors…
Joanne Taylor remarks on the relation between Wagner's opera and Batty's reference, and suggests that Batty aligns himself with Wagner's Tannhäuser, a character who has fallen from grace with men and with God. Both, she claims, are characters whose fate is beyond their own control.
(c) Wikipedia
P.S: The Bentusi order against TMat chaos:
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