Siege of Nexus

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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	14 A.E. Second Day of Frost
Place	Inner Hollows
Outcome	Destruction of Nexus
Combatants
Coalition of Ordered Governments
Locust Horde
Lambent Locust
Commanders
Chairman Richard Prescott Colonel Victor Hoffman Sergent Marcus Fenix
Queen Myrrah Skorge †
Unknown
Forces
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 Battle

The Highway and Work Camps

During Operation Hollow Storm, Delta Squad was able to locate the Locust Capital, Nexus, via the Highway from the entrance of Mount Kadar. Following a clue from the Stranded Chaps, Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago infiltrated the Locust work camps to try to rescue Dom's missing wife. After fighting off a Locust patrol, Delta located her prison and then had to fight off a massive Locust attack on the site while JACK opened the prison. To their shock, Maria was emaciated, tortured, lobotomized and not able to even recognize her own husband. With no other choice, Dom euthanized Maria and he and Marcus decided to go into Nexus "guns blazing" rather than sneak in.

Nexus

"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.

Civil War

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.

Queen Myrrah and Skorge

The Palace and Locust Queen

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.