This actually makes me worried, because this game was developed by several people from Blackbird core team, who are working on Homeworld 3, as a form of side project, an evolution of the old Hardware: Shipbreakers and then Homeworld:Shipbreakers project, a free-to-play RTS about dismantling spaceship wreckages (although on planet's surface, not in space), that changed overtime to an RTS game, Deserts of Kharack, set in Homeworld universe. I REALLY do hope the story update was not done by those people, but by some new, lefty interns, who decided to project their idyllic vision of the future of workers unions.
Also, the game is not part of the Homeworld universe, it had shed its links and became its own thing.