The novel Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant is written by Karen Traviss as she continues to add more depth to the GOW cast. The book starts off with a letter from Colonel Victor Hoffman, asking future generations of humanity to forgive the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) for destroying Jacinto in Gears of War 2 as it was the only way to defeat the Locust Horde.
This part is mirrored with the chapters that take place in the past, as Prescott and Hoffman order the destruction of Sera via Professor Adam Fenix's Hammer of Dawn satellites. Citizens are moved in, but once the explosion goes off, those humans left outside Jacinto become the Stranded (those bums in all three games). These scenes run throughout the novel alongside the fight to save humanity after the evacuation of Jacinto as seen in Gears of War 2.
The novel starts where Gears of War 2 left off, with Cole Train, Anya, and the others in flight away from the watery grave that is Jacinto. Cole notices the tension rising between Hoffman and Chairman Richard Prescott over the Sires (a part of GOW2) and how late he was declassified and demands to be told everything. Prescott, for the rest of the novel, continues to hold everything, echoing his death in GOW3 where he reveals his final secret.
The COG are evacuated to Port Farrall in the middle of winter and people die as the COG struggles to stave off the remnants of the Locust who keep attacking. Hoffman, after a talk with COG Navy leader Quentin Michaelson, orders Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad to checkout Vectes naval base int he southern hemisphere of Sera for relocation. Upon arrival, they find that there are people living there who've been there since the Pendulum Wars.
The COG move in and end up facing a group of Stranded pirates, one of whom raped Bernadette "Bernie" Mataki. They hand them over to the Stranded leader who is blown apart by the remnant of the old Union of Independent Republic (UIR) members, the Republic of Gorasnaya and their leader Miran Trescu. The Gorasni want a treaty with the COG and it's made official.
Throughout the novel, we periodically meet up with Dom Santiago, still trying to get over from having to kill his wife Maria. I should mention that in GOW2, he finds her as an empty shell, withered and decaying. He doesn't know what to do and Marcus tells him "It's okay." Dom tearfully kills Maria to spare her the pain; he'd been searching for her for the last ten years and has now lost every member of his family except for his honorary brother, Marcus Fenix, the main hero of the series.
Everyone's giving Dom enough space to cope, but aren't sure how to help him along. This is a very powerful character driven story arc that Karen gave Dom and it was only natural because of how soon this book takes place after the second game and is a theme that is brought up again, loosely in Gears of War: Anvil Gate, Gears of War: Coalition's End and Gears of War 3, all of which (including the game) are written by Karen Traviss.
It's a very powerful addition to the series and comes with enough quips about the comic series that Joshua Ortega and later Karen Traviss wrote for the franchise.
This part is mirrored with the chapters that take place in the past, as Prescott and Hoffman order the destruction of Sera via Professor Adam Fenix's Hammer of Dawn satellites. Citizens are moved in, but once the explosion goes off, those humans left outside Jacinto become the Stranded (those bums in all three games). These scenes run throughout the novel alongside the fight to save humanity after the evacuation of Jacinto as seen in Gears of War 2.
The novel starts where Gears of War 2 left off, with Cole Train, Anya, and the others in flight away from the watery grave that is Jacinto. Cole notices the tension rising between Hoffman and Chairman Richard Prescott over the Sires (a part of GOW2) and how late he was declassified and demands to be told everything. Prescott, for the rest of the novel, continues to hold everything, echoing his death in GOW3 where he reveals his final secret.
The COG are evacuated to Port Farrall in the middle of winter and people die as the COG struggles to stave off the remnants of the Locust who keep attacking. Hoffman, after a talk with COG Navy leader Quentin Michaelson, orders Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad to checkout Vectes naval base int he southern hemisphere of Sera for relocation. Upon arrival, they find that there are people living there who've been there since the Pendulum Wars.
The COG move in and end up facing a group of Stranded pirates, one of whom raped Bernadette "Bernie" Mataki. They hand them over to the Stranded leader who is blown apart by the remnant of the old Union of Independent Republic (UIR) members, the Republic of Gorasnaya and their leader Miran Trescu. The Gorasni want a treaty with the COG and it's made official.
Throughout the novel, we periodically meet up with Dom Santiago, still trying to get over from having to kill his wife Maria. I should mention that in GOW2, he finds her as an empty shell, withered and decaying. He doesn't know what to do and Marcus tells him "It's okay." Dom tearfully kills Maria to spare her the pain; he'd been searching for her for the last ten years and has now lost every member of his family except for his honorary brother, Marcus Fenix, the main hero of the series.
Everyone's giving Dom enough space to cope, but aren't sure how to help him along. This is a very powerful character driven story arc that Karen gave Dom and it was only natural because of how soon this book takes place after the second game and is a theme that is brought up again, loosely in Gears of War: Anvil Gate, Gears of War: Coalition's End and Gears of War 3, all of which (including the game) are written by Karen Traviss.
It's a very powerful addition to the series and comes with enough quips about the comic series that Joshua Ortega and later Karen Traviss wrote for the franchise.
