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Locust-Human War

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Previous:

Pendulum Wars

Concurrent:

Locust Civil War

The Locust-Human War
image Clockwise from top left: Emergence Day, The Lightmass Offensive, The Sinking of Tollen, and Operation Hollow Storm.
Conflict:

World War

Date:

A.E 0-current

Place:

Sera - mainly the Jacinto Plateau

Outcome:

Conflict ongoing

Combatants

The Locust Horde

Commanders
Strength

Locust Horde

Casualties
  • 99% of the Human race killed since E-Day[5]


"We could have cooperated with the groundwalkers for our mutual salvation, but they are humans and they only understand dominance and ownership. All that we have left is a war to the death. For all their so-called intelligence, humans are blind to the threat right before their eyes. We never stood a chance of enlisting their aid, so now we fight alone. And we will stand on their corpses to do so."
— Queen Myrrah on the Locust justification of the genocide of the human race in ordered to defeat the Lambent Locust

The Locust-Human War (also called the Locust War[6]) is a planet wide conflict between the Serans and Locust races raging between both the surface of Sera and the Hollows. The War began on Emergence Day when the Locust Horde emerged from the depths of Sera and eliminated most of humanity. For 14 years of the war, Sera's top and remaining scientists were unable to find the Casus belli for the war until Operation Hollow Storm when the COG discover the Lambent Locust and the Locust Civil War[7][8]. The surviving humans continue to struggle for survival 15 years after the attack.

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[edit] Emergence Day and the first 5 years

After the shock and sudden ferocity of the Locust emergence and subsequent attack, humanity was unable to mount a effective counterattack or even to unite under the newly elected Chairman Richard Prescott, after the fall of Ostri, Jannermont, and Andius. One year after E-Day Prescott decided a denial strategy was the only option left for humanity. He enacted the Fortification Act and issued a three day retreat to the safe haven of Jacinto Plateau, their last refuge, before using orbital weaponry and chemical weapons to deprive their foe of victory. Over ninety percent of Sera was destroyed to drive back the Locust temporarily and to deny the Locust all urban, military, and manufacture centers, leaving the planet forever scarred and what's left of the human population homeless[9][10].

Jacinto Plateau would not hold forever, and humanity braced itself for the final onslaught. Five years after the E-Day attack, the Locust breached the plateau at the Fall of Landown, a days drive away from Jacinto City.

[edit] The Lightmass Offensive

Seemingly defeated in every major land engagement, the Coalition's only hope was Col.Hoffman's operation: the Lightmass Offensive. The plan was to end the war for once and for all. They hoped the Lightmass Bomb would wipe out all the Locust in the Hollows. The operation began with Col.Hoffman pardoning all the prisoners at the Slab except for Fenix, hoping to bolster the shrinking COG army. At the same time Alpha Squad and Sgt. Kennel's squad were trying to deploy the resonator, while the Lightmass bomb was placed on a train heading for a Imulsion sinkhole[11].

But the plan soon hit a roadblock when Alpha was ambushed and took heavy losses. Delta Squad was sent to aid Alpha Squad to retrieve the resonator. They took heavy casualties and lost a King Raven. Delta Squad was then able to get data from East Barricade and able to downloaded it into the Lightmass bomb. They detonated the Lightmass bomb, killing millions of Locust soldiers, and destroying the Outer Hollows.[12]

[edit] The Locust counterattacks

The Locust Horde survived and came back more powerful than ever. The Lightmass Bomb awakened a Riftworm, one of the Locust deities, which the Horde began using to sink cities around Jacinto Plateau. At the same time Locust forces began attacking COG control zones, forcing them to abandon North Gate Agricultural Depot[13]. Drones soon began killing off Gear Squads in the Pirnah Badlands. which forced Coalition High Command to send in Delta-One on a Search and Rescue Mission[14] This only led to more losses. But in the aftermath of the Lightmass Offensive, COG forces did let their guard down and try to recuperate. These actions and the suddenness of the Locust attack at North Gate lead to the Siege of Jacinto City and a new phase of the Locust-Human War.

[edit] Operation Hollow Storm and the Locust Civil War

The motivation for the Horde in all of this was they were in a civil war with their Lambent counterparts and were moving to the surface in order to survive. Their plan was to sink Jacinto City to flood The Hollow and kill the Lambent Horde after escaping the Hollows themselves. While the Locust were sinking cities, Col.Hoffman and Chairman Richard Prescott planned a counterattack into the Inner Hollows to attack the Locust in their Homes. The plan called for a massive attack on Landown, which had been under Locust control for 10 years. The soil in Landown is soft enough for Grindlifts to dig through them, which would allow Gears to enter the Hollows. The Assault on Landown resulted in heavy causalities for both the COG and Locust Horde. But COG forces were able to hold the city and launch the Grindlifts. During the course of the Operation, the Sinking of Ilima occurred and the Riftworm was killed by Delta Squad. COG forces also discovered the existence of Locust work camps.

Towards the end of the Operation and the near falling of Jacinto city, another Lightmass bomb was sent via King Raven into the Hollow. After it was knocked out of commission by a Brumak, which subsequently became Lambent, Delta Squad used the Hammer of Dawn to kill it, using the massive explosion that follow to detonate the bomb, causing Jacinto to sink and sending millions of tonnes of seawater flooding into the Hollow, drowning the Horde and hopefully wiping them out for good. But the Locust Queen was able to escape the flooding and a message left by Adam Fenix indicates that either the Horde wasn't completely destroyed, or there's another, more powerful enemy out there.

[edit] After Jacinto

In the retreated from the sinking of Jacinto. The COG army and its citizens head for a frozen wasteland and dealing with the last of the Locust and hostile Stranded[15].

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Gears of War:Jacinto's Remnant
  2. ↑ Gears of War:Aspho Fields
  3. ↑ Gears of War:Jacinto's Remnant
  4. ↑ Gears of War:Destroyed Beauty
  5. ↑ Gears of War:Jacinto's Remnant pg 214
  6. ↑ "Pendulum Wars were a bitch, But they were nothin' like this LOCUST WAR 'COUGH' no time for livin' now." Barrick, Gears of War: Hollow, Issue One
  7. ↑ Gears of War:Aspho Fields during a conversation with Baird and Col.Hoffman
  8. ↑ Gears of War:Sourcebook Dom dialogue on the Locust Horde
  9. ↑ Gears of War:Destroyed Beauty
  10. ↑ Gears of War:Jacinto's Remnant
  11. ↑ Gears of War:PC
  12. ↑ Gears of War 1
  13. ↑ Gears of War:Aspho Fields
  14. ↑ Gears of War:Hollow.
  15. ↑ Gears of War:Jacinto's Remnant
Battles of Locust-Human War
A.E.O Emergence Day
A.E.1 Fall of Ostri · Battle of Jannermont · Battle of Andius · Ambush on Voslov Bridge ·Hammer of Dawn counterattack
A.E.5 Fall of Landown
A.E.10 Battle of Ephyra
A.E.14 Lightmass Offensive · Ambush at Sovereigns Boulevard · Evacuation of North Gate · Jilane Massacre · Mission to the Pirnah Badlands · Sinking of Tollen and Montevado · Mission to Tollen · Battle for Fucked · Mission to Montevado · Second Battle of Jilane · Siege of Jacinto · Operation Hollow Storm · Assault on Landown · Battle of Ilima · Siege of Nexus · Skirmish south of Port Farrall
Unamed battles Battle outside of Jacinto · Unidentified M.O.U.T. battle · Battle near Jacinto
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