Previous: Battle of Ilima Mission to New Hope Research Facility Concurrent: Operation Hollow Storm Siege of Jacinto Next: First Mission to Merrenat Naval Base Skirmish south of Port Farrall Siege of Nexus Conflict: Locust War Operation Hollow Storm Locust Civil War Date: 15 AE for Human forces Unknown for Lambent and Locust forces Place: Inner Hollows Outcome: Destruction of Nexus Combatants COG Locust Horde Lambent Locust Commanders Chairman Richard Prescott Colonel Victor Hoffman Sergent Marcus Fenix Queen Myrrah Skorge † Unknown Strength Hundreds-Thousands of Gears Majority of Locust Army Unknown amount of Lambent Locust Casualties Light-Moderate Massive Massive

The Siege of Nexus was a siege of the Locust capital of Nexus by both the COG and Lambent.

Order of BattleEdit

The Highway and Work CampsEdit

During Operation Hollow Storm Delta squad was able to locate the Locust Capital, Nexus, via the Highway from the entrance of Mount Kadar. After battling though the work camps and discovering what happens to captured humans, Dom finally found his wife in the camp, but due to the condition she was in, euthanized her to put her out of her misery. Delta was able to infiltrate a Kantus Temple and into a Rock Worm slaughter house.

NexusEdit

"Baird here. There's that glyph for 'queen' and 'Imulsion' again... also see 'Nexus' on there again. These are some kind of plans that indicate an attack on the Locust... but not from above, from below. Sure as hell isn't us attacking from below, so who the hell are these plans referring to? Please tell me it's not worms. I'm so sick of worms."

— Baird on the Locust defense map

After battling Hordes of Drones and Boomers, Delta-One was able to infiltrate the main city and battled across the outer walls of the city. After heavy firefights, Delta was able to deploy JACK's homing beacon which allowed COG troops to deploy via Grindlifts inside the Locust city, which tested the defenses of the city since the city defenses were on the lower levels.^[1]

Civil WarEdit

After easily advancing into the Locust capital, Delta-One and the rest of the Gears discover the Locust are embroiled in a Civil War and it appeared that the Lambent are winning. The Lambent seem to taking hold of the city and have captured one of its outer towers. The Lambent are also in the process of capturing another one when Delta-One enter the city. Delta Squad does not meet as much resistance as they would otherwise have thanks to the Lambent forcing Locust forces to divert their guards elsewhere to stem the tide of Lambent drones.

The Palace and Locust QueenEdit

Delta reunited and entered the Locust Palace and fought their way through. There they learned from a transmission from the Queen that the Locust planned to sink Jacinto in order to kill the Lambent Locust. During their journey through the palace, Delta found a terminal that JACK hacked into and found a recording from Adam Fenix. The recording said that the best way to win the war, was to sink Jacinto and flood The Hollow to drown the Locust. Delta finally made it to the Queen's chamber where they had an encounter with the Queen and Skorge. The Queen escaped, leaving Marcus and Dom to fight Skorge while Cole and Baird chased after her. Marcus and Dom defeated Skorge, who escaped on the Hydra and Delta took two Reavers to return to Jacinto. After rescuing another Gear squad and destroying the Hydra and killing Skorge, Delta returned to Jacinto and as part of the new plan, the COG began to evacuate all Gears out of the Hollow, including Nexus.

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Gears of War 2 collectible Locust Defense plans