Hammer of Dawn counterattack
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- "As all of Sera has learned, peace is fragile. This new, ruthless enemy has rendered most of Sera's leaders either helpless or dead. This enemy believes Sera is finished. Some in the Coalition of Ordered Governments also seem to believed Sera is finished - a sick,feeble animal waiting for slaughter. But today, citizens of Sera, we - Tyrus,the heart of the Coalition - will take back our planet. To ensure your safety and cooperation, we are reinstating the Fortification Act. All of Sera will be under martial law. No one is exempt. Survivors should immediately start evacuating to Ephyra. These unclean creatures, these Locust, are unable to penetrate Jacinto's granite base. Therefore, in Jacinto, we are safe - for now. We won't let this rampage go further or surrender power. The Coalition will employ Sera's entire arsenal of orbital beam weapons to scorch all Locust-infested areas. For those citizens who cannot make it to Jacinto, the Coalition appreciates your sacrifice. Please forgive us. This is the only way."
- — Chairman Richard Prescott, 30th day of Bloom, 1 A.E.
The Hammer of Dawn counterattack was a major Tyran/COG offensive against the Locust Horde in occupied territories across the Coalition. The decision to use a weapons of mass destruction was a difficult one for Prescott and his military advisors since all of them had family outside of Jacinto Plateau. However, it was the only way to deny the Locust from any more human military technology.
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[edit] Fall of Ostri
After the fall of Ostri, under the command of Premier Deschenko, retreat was ordered to Pelles.[2] Newly elected Chairman Richard Prescott realized the remaining of the COG nations would not look past their own borders (expect for the South Islands).[3] Chairman Prescott decided he must go back everything the late Chairman David Prescott believed in and had Attorney General Milon Audley to draw up papers to enact the Fortification Act and requested his cabinet and Gen.Salaman, Col.Hoffman, and Adam Fenix to decide a timeline on the retreat to Jacinto Plateau.[4]
[edit] The debate
- "This is wholesale slaughter"
- — Adam Fenix to Chairman Prescott
With less then a month for the nation of Tyrus to survive, Chairman Prescott announced his plan to his cabinet. Prescott's military advisers reminded him that the Hammer of Dawn strike is not a tactical but a strategic one.[5] The news did not set well with Adam Fenix, knowing he will kill his fellow country man and millions other across Sera, but Prescott surprised Adam when he told them they are going to evacuate every citizen they can into Ephyra city with a three day deadline.[6] Gen.Salaman reported that the Locust may figure out the evacuation and retreat or speed up their offensive into Tyrus.
- "I have to tell the people what the stakes are, but we want to catch the Locust on the wrong foot, too"
- — Chairman Richard Prescott on his decision on giving only three days.
With Adam Fenix's "ethical" disagreement of the plan, an enraged Col.Hoffman, who was recommended to assassinate all the civilians from Aspho Point by Adam Fenix to prevent the UIR from building another Hammer of Dawn, reminded Adam that he built the Hammer of Dawn and how many men and women lost their lives to capture it.[7] Adam and Hoffman debated on how much of humanity would have to die to "save" the COG, what the Hammer was built for and reminded them how both humans and Locust would be killed off from the Hammer of Dawn. From instantiation to aftereffect from debris in the atmosphere and the water being contaminated.[7] Adam had one alternative plan but no time to launch it,[8] leaving only the Hammer of Dawn strike on the table.
After Prescott's military advisory agree to his plan, he brought in his Cabinet to let them in on his plan, not a single one having a problem for the Fortification Act but objected to millions of humans heading for Tyrus while destroying the whole planet. The cabinet, however, had no say in the matter, only the "luxury" of finding out before the public.[9] With the dismissal of the Cabinet, Adam followed Richard to his office and revealed his alternative plan by sinking key cities.[10] Unfortunately the plan would ask for too much time which Sera does not have. Unable to convince him, he ask the Chairman to rescue his son who is still outside the security line, which Chairman agree he will do.[11]
[edit] The Hammer is dropped
The Hammer dropped according to plan three days after Bloom. While it was the duty tactical officer's job to fire the weapon, Prescott decided to take that burden upon himself and personally pressed the two buttons that fired the Hammer of Dawn and effectively ended the world. All of Sera was burned outside of Jacinto Plateau. Among the dead are Colonel Hoffman's wife Margret and her sister Natalie who couldn't make it back in time and millions of other humans.
[edit] Aftermath
In the aftermath of the Hammer strike of Sera, massive environmental damage with firestorms across the planet. The air was clogged and filthy for weeks, it took five days for enough of the debri to settle enough to get just a little sunlight through, cities were completly leveled, massive firestorms caused damage for kilometers, forests were burned and would likely have fires smouldering in their soil for years to come and exploding chemical plants put massive pollution into the ground and air that they'd likely have to deal with for decades if not centuries. All of the Locust on the surface were presumably killed, but the ones underground survived. It took the Lightmass Bombing and the flooding of the Hollow (which was an alternative plan Adam Fenix had to this but lacked the time to be put into action) to end most of the Locust threat.
[edit] References
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 53
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 52-53
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 65
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 67
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 69
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 70
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 71
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 142
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 146
- ↑ Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant pg 147
