Jacinto Plateau

From Gears of War

[edit] Fortress

Jacinto Plateau was the only place that the Locust Horde could not penetrate the ground with their Corpsers, though natural fissures and utility systems riddled the rock. While the Locusts tried their hardest to break through the granite substrata of Jacinto Plateau, the Human command flooded these openings with Nerve gas, or sealed them. The surviving Military Leaders then fortified what had once been Sera's most beautiful cities such as Empyra, transforming them into Military Installations and securing the area with the Fortification Act.

[edit] Emergence

The Human Leaders knew that it would only be a matter of time before the Corpsers broke through to the Plateau, and were proven right when the Locust emerged through the granite some ten years after Emergence Day. Jacinto Plateau was then made into yet another battlefield, but though new tunnels could be created it took much longer than elsewhere on Sera. With nowhere for the Humans of Sera to retreat to, they merely dug in even further and held on while the Lightmass Bomb was developed.

This was once the only place that the Locust couldn't break through and offered the Humans of Sera respite and safe haven from their relentless foe, but now the Locust may come and go as they please, anywhere on Sera.