This short story may be found in Starcraft: Frontline Vol. The only place to my knowledge that this place is ever mentioned is in the short story titled Last Call by manga-writer Grace Randolph. If you haven’t read the Starcraft mangas the location where this heroics took place will mean nothing to you-you will overlook it and move forward. Where the heck did my lore-nerd spider sense tingled with that? Meteor Station. Jim Raynor heard the call for help through a mayday transmission and decided to rescue all these people aboard the Hyperion. All the fringe-worlds are abandoned without military support, risking to be overrun by the renewed zerg invasion. The news says that the Terran Dominion forces are retreating from the fringe-worlds, recalled by Emperor Mengsk to protect the core-worlds. There you see a photo of Jim Raynor carrying an orphan girl through a fire. You can click the newspaper and the view zooms in to let you read the news report. On the bulletin board by the wall is a piece of newspaper pinned to it. I could recognize certain details from the stuff I have read in the novels and manga.įor example, in the very first encounter with Jim Raynor, you are in Mar Sara at the Joey Ray’s Bar. That means, I stopped many times to look at something and after a quick glance I had a pay off. And my lore-nerd spider-sense tingled the whole ride. I played through six missions of the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty single player at a room within Blizzard Entertainment campus in Irvine. This is a work of ten years of jammin’ ideas in the making integrating both media as time goes to make everyone’s experience much more rewarding. And from there, it branched out into the novels and manga. Chris Metzen told me the single player stories and ideas came to be first. I’m sober, maybe drunk with excitement and euphoria, but nothing beyond that.

No … I am not smoking anything, in fact I have never smoked or done any of the other stuff. You will be analyzing every bit of info and details in each mission and most importantly you will recognize them and understand how much work and passion the developers have put into making your printed media lore knowledge and the single player missions be seemlessly one and the same-integrated as one flowing continuity of the wholesome that comprehends the Starcraft universe. However, if you are a lore-nerd such as me, who have read most of the Starcraft novels and manga, every step of yours through the missions will be filled with awe and drool.

You will probably overlook them, and discard them as you go through the missions. If you are among the fans who have never read a Starcraft novel or one of the Starcraft: Frontline manga you will play through the single player shrugging at many unknown characters, and wondering what certain objects or symbols’ meaning is. It is no secret to fans who have followed my news reports over the past seven years that I am a hardcore collector of all Blizzard games licensed products such as novels, mangas and most recently subscriber to the Starcraft comic book. The latter means much more than just the single player. That sounds redundant, but I will explain how different both terms are. Not just as the player who enjoys RTS games in single-player mode and enjoys to go through the whole storyline, but also as the lore-nerd. Starcraft: The Dark Templar, Shadow Huntersĭuring my visit to the Blizzard Entertainment offices, I had the opportunity to be among the first few mortals beyond Blizzard developers to be able to play and experience the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty single player back on July 20, 2009.

Starcraft 2 campaign continuity