Mahamarineru: Examining Imogen S'Jet's Journey as Fleet Command in Homeworld 3 through a Kristang Creole/Indigenous Cosmological-Archetypal Lens

This paper analyses and comments on Imogen S’Jet’s journey in Homeworld 3 as Fleet Command aboard the Khar-Kushan Mothership from a unique and little-studied but very significant perspective: that of someone, the author, a creole/indigenous scholar-practitioner who holds the same role in the creole/indigenous Kristang culture as Kabesa or leader of not just the Kristang community but of what in Kristang is called Gaia Tonakodra, the reawakened collective unconscious of the entire living planet, itself a fleet of individuated beings and collectives of individuated beings or eleidi in Kristang. Also analogous to the Cylon Hybrids of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, both Imogen and I, together with Karan S’jet and Tiaa’Ma, appear to be what both the Homeworld series and Kristang culture call Navigators or Mahamarineru – people who make a wilful and deliberate choice to sacrifice some of their own individual freedom to connect and immerse themselves fully, while still lucid and awake, into a collective unconscious to guide it forward and support it on an unconscious level. I here thus explore Imogen’s journey in comparison to my own in real-life, providing some insight through the Kristang cosmological-archetypal lens of Mahamarineru that emerges from this comparison into Imogen’s own psychoemotional individuation or development of herself as the Mahamarineru of the Khar-Kushan fleet, and the unique underlying challenges or struggles that she might face as Mahamarineru that are emergent in the Homeworld 3 narrative but not always fully concretised