The Junkyard Dog was a non-Combat Ship which patrolled for intruders of the Karos Graveyard in Homeworld.
Overview[]
This ship traveled through the Karos Graveyard using a variety of Hyperspace Gates scattered throughout the area. Despite being classified as a corvette and thus the speed of one, it possessed extremely heavy armour, making it able to handle any intruders without breaking down.
The Dog is unarmed, but its method of dealing with intruders involving capturing them. Unlike typical Salvage Corvettes, it could capture anything on its own using a pair of jaws that latched onto the target and dragged it off to a nearby hyperspace gate, apparently unfazed by any efforts to escape. Ships that have been captured by the Dog are disabled and no longer under the control of its original fleet, requiring them to be recaptured with salvage teams to bring them back online.
The heavy armor makes it very difficult to pin down and destroy, but because it is classified as a corvette, it will be impacted by the use of an active Gravity Generator near by, which will immobilise it and prevent it capturing any ships in the fleet. Once it is under the influence of a gravity well, the ship can then be destroyed, but this requires very strong firepower from Capital Ships and Super Capital Ships. Apart from destroying it, its work can be made harder by simply destroying the active hyperspace gates around the graveyard.
As a special ship in the game, it cannot be captured for use in the fleet.
Trivia[]
- The name of the Dog is often given in the slang form "Junkyard Dawg" after the in-game files for the ship being named "JunkYardDawg". Still though, the mouse-over text for the ship in the game itself is "Junkyard Dog."
- Despite the entire Mothership Fleet being an intruder, including the Kushan Mothership, the Dog will not attempt to capture the Mothership, presumably considering it to be too big to capture.
- The similarities between the Mover and the Junkyard Dog can lead one to believe that the Junkyard Dog is a Progenitor vessel. The Green engine glow (in classic) of the Junkyard Dog matches the Mover's green engine trails and the similar function also points to this connection. In the remastered version of the game, the trail is yellow. However, its origins or affiliation are unknown.