Jim Raynor Biography

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Jim Raynor was a Confederate marshal on Mar Sara at the time of the first zerg incursions on that world. Despite bravely fighting the alien aggressors and saving many lives, he was arrested by Confederacy forces on the pretext of destroying Confederate property at Backwater Station. When he was subsequently liberated by Arcturus Mengsk's Sons of Korhal, an anti-Confederate revolutionary group, Raynor chose to fight alongside them

Mengsk's hunger for power and his growing lack of scruples soon began to trouble Raynor. Eventually Mengsk's betrayal of his own lieutenant Sarah Kerrigan and his ruthless manipulation of the zerg to attack Confederacy-held worlds showed Raynor that Mengsk was no better than the oppressors he sought to overthrow. Raynor led a revolt within the ranks of the Sons of Korhal and seized Mengsk's personal flagship, the Hyperion, and a small fleet of ships. While attempting to rescue Kerrigan from the zerg planet Char, Raynor encountered protoss there and gained the respect of the valiant Executor Tassadar. Raynor's bluff honesty enabled him to forge a bond between Tassadar and the dark templar Zeratul.

Raynor and his troops went on to fight alongside the protoss in several campaigns and played a key role in battling the United Earth Directorate incursion that followed. A twist of fate found Raynor temporarily allied with Arcturus Mengsk and the Queen of Blades, the being reforged from Sarah Kerrigan by the zerg Overmind. Although these two tyrants fought against a common foe, it was only a matter of time until their tenuous alliance collapsed. In the end Kerrigan was the one who turned against her erstwhile allies and struck the first blow, and many of Jim Raynor's comrades died to her treachery.


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Raynor escaped the massacre and vowed to have vengeance at some day in the future. Even so, against the full strength of the zerg Swarm and the vast psionic powers of the Queen of Blades, his chances seemed slender at best. Eventually, exhausted and disillusioned, Raynor returned to terran space to lead a resistance movement against the spreading power of Arcturus Mengsk's Terran Dominion. Over the years this fight hasn't gone well. Arcturus Mengsk has used his greatest weapons – oratory, the media, and propaganda – to marginalize Raynor's efforts.

Raynor's Raiders remain public enemy number one to the powerful Terran Dominion. Mengsk sees Raynor's continuing existence as a challenge to his authority. However, Mengsk is also wary of creating a martyr by having Raynor assassinated, and so he has taken steps to keep Raynor and his followers constantly hunted and harried and deny them any chance to gain a respite and build their strength.

Years of skirmishing with the inexhaustible resources of the Dominion has whittled down Raynor's forces to a shadow of their former selves. Raynor has had to resort to occasional mercenary work just to garner enough funds to repair and rearm in the short term. Keeping his outfit running means that additional mercenary jobs will likely be needed in the future. Freedom isn't free.

Today Raynor seems to be losing faith: he's drinking heavily and blames himself for Kerrigan's being taken by the zerg. His hatred for Arcturus Mengsk has become a festering wound. Raynor's first officer, Matt Horner, still believes in him and in the revolution even though some of Raynor's doubts are spreading to his crew. Horner has done a lot to keep things going over the years, always having faith that Raynor's innate heroism will resurface and lead the rebels to victory.

Raynor is a good leader and an excellent tactician although he lacks any formal training or background. He has learned his skills through experience, and so he is unfettered by preconceived notions of what "the book" says is the right or wrong approach. Raynor will seldom plan things out in very much depth, but he has an excellent ability to improvise and turn the tables in a situation by using whatever he has at hand.

Raynor is also a man with a past. He is a known associate of notorious convict Tychus Findlay, the pair of them having served together in the 321st Colonial Rangers Battalion "Heaven's Devils" during the Confederacy/Kel-Morian Guild Wars almost twenty years ago. Their first meeting was in the brig at Camp McIntyre while serving 30 days apiece for insubordination.

Both men were listed as missing in action for almost nine months after a reconnaissance mission into Kel-Morian territory in the latter stages of the fighting on Mar Sara. Findlay was later turned over to the Confederacy by the Kel-Morians as part of a prisoner exchange after hostilities ceased.


Source: http://www.starcraft2.com/features/heroes/raynor.xml


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Sounds like my man Arcturus is still the top dog.
This is pretty neat. Not much new, but certainly a needed piece of info.

"Heaven's Devils"- lol.

 

Some of it is. His relationship to Tychus and Matt are new

I am surprised he is a diserter. He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would abandon the rest of his squad but then there is probably more to the story

 

Hopefully (and probably) we'll see more biographies. I am interested to see the backgrounds of Tychus, Horner and Mengsk.

 

im interested to see the bibliography of Zeratul and those new protoss heroes =]

 

When did Zeratul get turned into a book?

Whats up with the alternate coloring on the paragraphs? It looks bad

 

nice. i read it all. ^^

the bc armory looks nice compared to the low quality video. i thought it was over the top dark and gritty.

raynor. im still wondering what he will be like in battle. plus is he going to wear a marine armor or a different unique armor. whats up with the pistol? here we go again.

 

I want the bio of Tychus. Badly. And I really want an encyclopedic-sized manual with this game. I like to read the Starcraft manual before I go to bed sometimes and read about the histories of the different races hehehe

 

Agreed

We want Encyclopedia Starcraftia

 

Well, BoP, sorry for the edit, but it wasn't formatted in any way and had no pic. It was almost enough for me to use the other post but it was just made so late...

Next time format it in an aesthetically pleasing manner 'cause I don't have time to do it.

Feel free to edit the text.

 

Sorry but first of all I am not an artist so if I made a banner it would be a steaming pile of crap and second I was at school when I posted this so wouldn't have be able to make one anyway. I would rather leave that up to the people who can do that kind of stuff.

I formatted it exactly as it appeared on the SC2 site with the exeption of the pictures but I will try to do something with it

To me plain text looks a whole lot better than alternating colors.  Alternating colors is fine in FAQs in order to show differences between the questions and answers but in a single item like this itl ooks bad and detracts from the presentation.

Also if anyone can get me that moving image of Raynor from the top and send it to meit would be apreciated.  I don't know how to extract images from an XML page so I can't do it.

edit:  ARGH I officially hate the sidebar now.  It screws with formatting

 

How awesome am I

 

More biographies! I never knew much about any of the starcraft characters.

 

Nice, Jon. I always wondered how to do that.

Anyways, I really want to see Tychus' biography. I wonder what he must've done to be called 'nefarious.'

 

thelast line was very interesting i thought, i really wonder it and i hope it is revealed in sc2

 

what bothers me is that ranyor looks nothing like his old self i know hes been drinking and depressed but the old raynor looked 35 at worst but this new raynor looks 45 or 50 im not fimmilar with the story line but im pretty sure 15 years havent past since brood war

 

so will have different and many bio with all the characters or hero. my likes would be zeratul, tychus and some other terran random heroes (a ghost male hero would be nice in the campaign). ^^

i wonder if swan will make it. lol

nah i dont like the eggnog old looking raynor. i like the new raynor better, he looks NICE at the same time stress.

 

as nice as these new character info updates are, this just shows how far off the game is.. now we can expect infos on all important characters before the game is finnished.. and that i guess can be quite many..

 

I really don't like the "new" Raynor they've created...I find it very hard to believe that after the events of Brood War...ESPECIALLY Kerrigan's betrayal of Raynor and his closest commrades (especially Fenix)...that he would feel anything but contempt for her and what she has done. I'm very disappointed with that twist. Also...I thought he was just a marshall on Mar Sara...not an officer in the Confederacy? He was/is the commander of the militia, which usually is a "local" force. Perhaps that was just an assumption I had made...

 

Mmmmmmm...I though marshal meant the military rank above general, and since it says Mar Sara I assumed it means Raynor was the chief officer of the military on Mar Sara. But it seems kinda improbable actually...