The game will feature online multiplayer with ranked play. Instead it is set on the desert planet of Kharak, featuring ground units such as the 'Baserunner', land carrier, land cruisers, and fighter aircraft. Unlike the previous games, Deserts of Kharak is not set in space.
Therefore they will do anything to stop the Coalition of the Northern Kiithid's expedition to find the primary anomaly. However the Kiith Gaalsien, who occupy the Great Banded Desert, believe that it is against the first commandment of their God, Sajuuk, to enter into space. The new story features Rachel S'jet leading an expedition with the the land carrier Kapisi into the Great Banded Desert to find the Jaraci object or the Khar-Toba. The game is set around 1110 KDS, around the time of the discovery of the Khar-Toba. It charts the progress of a military expedition led by Rachel S'jet (presumed to be an ancestor of Karan S'jet), sent into the southern deserts of Kharak after an orbital satellite discovers an anomaly. Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is set on Kharak 100 years before the events of Homeworld.
