StarCraft: Frontline: Homecoming

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Homecoming
Author(s)	Chris Metzen
Interior artist(s)	Hector Sevilla Letterer: Michael Paolilli.
Series	StarCraft: Frontline
Parent	StarCraft: Frontline: Volume 4
Pages	6-27
Publisher	Tokyopop
Published	October 1, 2009

StarCraft: Frontline: Homecoming is a story in the four-part StarCraft: Frontline series. It is authored by Chris Metzen and illustrated by Hector Sevilla.

Contents 1 Description 2 Synopsis 3 Characters 3.1 Main Character 3.2 Other Characters 4 References

[edit] Description

Chris Metzen, Blizzard Entertainment's Senior Vice-President, Creative Development, brings you a never-before-seen story of Jim Raynor's past on Mar Sara—a tale that leads directly into the highly anticipated videogame StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty!

[edit] Synopsis

A solitary Jim Raynor traveled by vulture through the Diamondback Wastelands of Mar Sara. Locating a trove of mementos, Raynor recalled his life with his wife Lidya. They had settled down after Raynor's previous wild years.

Sometime after leaving the Confederate military, and with an outlaw background, Raynor made a deal with the local magistrate—Raynor's old army record would be cleared if he would become the local marshal and keep the peace. Lidya made him promise he would always stand for what he believed in.

The Raynors had a son, John. When John was still a young boy, he had been tested for psionic potential. The Tarsonis Institute of Health and Research chose him to take part part in government trials, and reminded the parents that it was their duty to turn him over. Raynor mistrusted the Confederacy, but Lidya believed it would lead to a better life for their son. Sometime later, they received a report that John had been killed in a shuttle accident. Lidya blamed herself and died of grief. In the present, an upset Raynor burned some of his mementos.

At Joeyray's Bar, Raynor drank Old No. 8 Whiskey. He watched a news report by Kate Lockwell: The Terran Dominion had recently annexed Mar Sara, many of whose colonists had returned to terraform the mining planet after its destruction. Local citizens worried about an increase in Dominion military presence, which could even spark an uprising.

The bartender, who had known Raynor for years, asked why he kept fighting the Dominion so hard. Raynor replied that he had made a promise, and he wouldn't quit until his ghosts were silent.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main Character

[edit] Other Characters

• Kate Lockwell
• John Raynor
• Lidya Elizabeth Raynor

[edit] References

Metzen, Chris (w), Hector Sevilla (p, i). "Homecoming." In StarCraft: Frontline: Volume 4 (paperback binding), pp. 6-27. Tokyopop, October 1, 2009. ISBN 978-1427-81698-6.

Official Fiction
Novels	Archive	Uprising • Liberty's Crusade • Shadow of the Xel'Naga • Speed of Darkness
	Other	Queen of Blades • I, Mengsk • Heaven's Devils
The Dark Templar Saga	Firstborn • Shadow Hunters • Twilight
StarCraft: Ghost series	Novels	Nova • Spectres
	Ghost Academy	Volume 1 · Volume 2 · Volume 3
StarCraft: Frontline	Volume 1	Why We Fight · Thundergod · Weapon of War · Heavy Armor, Part 1
	Volume 2	Heavy Armor, Part 2 · Creep · Newsworthy · A Ghost Story
	Volume 3	War-Torn · Do No Harm · Last Call · Twilight Archon
	Volume 4	Homecoming · Fear the Reaper · Voice in the Darkness · Orientation
StarCraft comic	StarCraft: Book 1 — 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7
Short Stories	Amazing Stories	Revelations • Hybrid
	Web Stories	Changeling
Proposed and canceled products

The next article in this series is StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

The next article in this series is Liberation Day.