Gears of war why is the locust queen human

I think maybe the books gave a name? User Info: crynryan. The Locust were already there before Myyrah showed up, as seen from the immense amounts of architecture and just sheer numbers the Locust had. All the New Hope facility churned out were Sires, and Myyrah who had bonded with whatever was done to her. User Info: foodeater4.

I thought the sires left the New Hope facility and ran off to mount doom, or whatever they call it, and became the locust? Never really understood what happened there. User Info: comperko. First born locust are children of sires and they ran off to mount khadar with queen myrrah and eventually stayed underground. Myrrah pretty much raised them.

User Info: hoeleng. If that were true, how would their immense architecture and numbers be possible given the amount of time they had at years? Obviously we have no idea how long it would take a Locust to become old enough to start working, but if they took even a couple years that severely limits how long they had to build everything. Besides, they knew about the imulsion for a very long time before coming up to the ground. So while fighting the Lambent they were able to build everything they did in under half a century?

They worked really really hard. Like on weekends too. Seriously though, it's Gears of War. Don't think about it too hard. It's a game about roided up football dudebros with chainsaw machine guns fighting rock people.

The story is not worth the brain cells. At that moment, our people broke free from our subterranean, erupting into the domain of these ground walkers, and wiping out whole cities. We fought and killed the humans on their fine boulevards, in their homes, on their battlefields. Queen Myrrah explaining Emergence Day. Six weeks after the Pendulum Wars ended, the Locust Horde invaded the surface, attacking all major cities and slaughtering billions in the first day.

Only after Chairman Dalyell's announcement that the attackers were subterranean in nature did the Seran people discover they were not the only intelligent species on the planet. The Locust Horde easily overwhelmed the COG on E-Day and advanced from their captured cities, moving from one city to another only leaving destruction. The war against the humans allowed the Locust to advance their technology and war effort by using stolen human technology and equipment.

Kilo Squad led by Lieutenant Damon S. Baird attempted to stop him with the Lightmass Missile in hopes that killing him would stop the Locust, but failed though they killed hundreds of Locust with the Missile and in their efforts to fire it. After a fierce fight with Karn and his mount Shibboleth, both were killed and the Locust lost their military leader. However, this was a minor victory as the Locust quickly replaced Karn with General RAAM and continued on their mission to destroy humanity.

The Locust survived the Hammer, but were not able to accomplish a swift victory like they had hoped. Cut off the head of the snake and the body dies. We will win this war. It's only a matter of time. With the COG's almost apocalyptic effort in using the Hammer of Dawn to potentially destroy some of the Locust Horde's forces, the Horde returned to continue the war.

Having caught humanity off-guard and having slaughtered a vast number of the human population during the first five years of the war, enjoyed the advantage of sheer numbers. With many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of the most battle-hardened Gears in the COG Army having been killed in the initial attack, the COG was forced to recruit from the infirm, the young, and the imprisoned to try to hold off the advancing Horde.

As a result, not only did the Locust also benefit from an advantage in quantity of troops, but in the average quality of soldiers as well. As a result, the war went horribly for humanity, but went exceptionally well for the Locust, who seized Landown in 5 A.

In 14 A. Victor Hoffman, the highest-ranking COG military leader, directly underneath Chairman Richard Prescott, devised a plan to win the war once and for all. Squads of Gears were deployed in what was known as the Lightmass Offensive across Ephyra city.

Though many suffered heavy, if not total, casualty rates, a single squad of hard-bitten veterans of the war was able to break through the Locust forces and deploy a device known as the Resonator, a sonic-mapper that was, ideally, supposed to map out the tunnel networks of the Hollow.

The device was severely limited in its capabilities, barely mapping even a fraction of the network. Not all was lost, as Delta-One , the aforementioned squad, was able to find a new data source, located in East Barricade, that provided a much more sufficient geo-mapping of the Hollow. Upon securing the data, the squad was deployed to Timgad East to retake control of the captured Tyro Pillar, a train which held the Lightmass Bomb.

This act resulted in the destruction of the entire Outer Hollow, causing incredibly high casualties to the Locust Horde and the near-complete annihilation of the entire population of the Kryll. Despite the Human's best efforts, the Locust proved incredibly persistent, even in the face of the most powerful weapons of mass destruction in history being delivered right onto their doorstep.

The Locust continued to mobilize and rebuild their forces, determined to break the back of humanity. Bolstered by the awakening of their deity, the Riftworm, the Horde launched a major counter-offensive across Jacinto Plateau, attacking the city of Jilane and butchering the entire population sans a small group of renegades , depriving the COG of another breeding farm.

They proceeded to use the Riftworm to sink several cities surrounding Jacinto City, and destroy several COG military bases. Across the Plateau the COG suffered heavy casualties, mainly in the Pirnah Badlands and in several failed search-and-rescue missions in Tollen and Montevado.

However, this was just a precursor to the Siege of Jacinto, which forced the COG's hand into retaliating with a mobilization on the scale that had not been seen since 1.

However, most of these Locust attacks were done out of desperation; throughout the entire war with humanity, the Locust had also been fighting the Lambent, and they were losing ground in the Hollow at an alarming rate. After months of fighting across Jacinto Plateau, the Horde was able to lay direct siege to Jacinto City itself, having cut off a great amount of its water and food supplies.

The Horde made its first incursions by attacking Pomeroy Depot, and then later Jacinto Med, though the latter was a total disaster for the Locust, who ended up having to make a hasty retreat.

With Adam refusing to leave and sending Prescott off to find Hoffman and Marcus to drive the Locust off, Adam waited in his office. Queen Myrrah finally reached his suite and was greeted by Adam on how long it has been.

After Myrrah discovered that he had been working on the Imulsion Countermeasure that will kill both the Lambent and Locust, Myrrah took over the island and had all the civilians executed except for Adam Fenix, who was locked in his room. Chairman Prescott was able to escape and returned to the CNV Sovereign so he could use reinforcements to take back the island. Myrrah returned to the Seran Deadlands a short time later, possibly to gain more troops. Myrrah was alerted of Gears nearby and wished to find them.

On her Tempest, being escorted by two Reavers near the Locust airport, Myrrah spotted Marcus Fenix and his allies while they fought through a Savage Locust outpost in the Deadlands. Knowing Marcus was aware of his father's status and location, she ordered that every outpost between there and Azura be alerted to Marcus's presence to protect her plan from human intervention. With Delta crash-landing near a human fortress, Myrrah sent a battalion of her forces to kill the squad and everyone in the fort.

Realizing the path the Humans would take, Queen Myrrah set up forces and roadblocks to prevent the humans from going on any further. When the humans pushed through and managed to drive into Mercy, Myrrah sent her remaining forces after them.

After Delta retrieved the fuel, they were cornered by the Queen's forces and the incoming Lambent, forcing Dominic Santiago to destroy the tanks and kill the Locust, Lambent, and himself to save the others. While retrieving the fuel for them and Aaron Griffin, Queen Myrrah personally attacked Griffin Tower , and left, while leaving her Palace Guards to sweep up any remaining survivors.

Myrrah went ahead of Delta towards Endeavor and saw them coming towards the base. While she noted that Marcus was similar to his father in persistence and predictability, she sent her forces devote troops to stopping Delta Squad from reaching Azura, ordering three Armored Kantus to stop them in the Endeavour Naval Shipyard.

The Armored Kantus failed to stop Delta Squad from using a submarine to reach Azura by travelling under the Maelstrom. With Marcus now inside the hotel and moving closer to Adam's location and the sudden appearance of the Lambent, Myrrah decided to personally stop Marcus. She burst through the hotel wall atop her Tempest , using its heat breath against Delta Squad and ranting about having given Adam twenty years to stop the Lambent.

Delta Squad dropped an enormous counterweight on her Tempest, sending her to the ground floor and leaving her for dead. Only slightly inconvenienced by being hit with a multi-ton weight, Myrrah and her Tempest followed them to the roof to try and stop Adam's weapon.

When her Tempest took enough damage, it fell to the roof, where the humans deployed the Hammer of Dawn against her. She attacked the weapon itself, demanding that Adam stand down and remarking about the similarities between humanity and the Locust: both were genocidal, hateful races that considered each other monsters.

Marcus kills Myrrah by stabbing her with Dom's Commando Knife. After multiple Hammer blasts, the Tempest finally died and Professor Adam Fenix's Imulsion countermeasure was activated.

Imulsion and all Lambent lifeforms across Sera disintegrated, while the majority of the Locust Horde and Hollow beasts collapsed into a comatose state and formed a Imulsion crystalline shell over their bodies. Professor Adam Fenix was also killed by the Imulsion countermeasure as he had high levels of Imulsion in his body due to experimenting on himself first.

Myrrah survived the Hammer blasts and collapse of the Tempest. Marcus then stabbed Myrrah with Dominic Santiago's commando knife to avenge Dom and the billions of humans that were killed by her in the Locust War.

Queen Myrrah died in a pool of her own blood while her Horde was neutralized from the Imulsion countermeasure. Unknown to the rest of humanity, the Locust did not die, nor did the consciousness of Myrrah. Niles Samson was successful in creating the Locust as an evolutionary species.

They were designed to adapt and survive generational conflict. The Locust Hivemind also remained intact, with the consciousness of Myrrah still alive within. After twenty-five years of peace on Sera, in 42 A. In order to rebuild their army, the Scions created the Swarm. The Swarm consisted of creatures that could capture humans and transform them into soldiers for the Swarm.

What the Swarm lacked, however, was a Queen. While the Scions were intelligent enough to lead the Swarm, they were in need of a physical Queen for them to be able to learn and grow.

Myrrah's consciousness was able to minimally guide them through the Hivemind, but was unable to fully act as their Queen without a body. However, through Hivemind, she discovered that her daughter, Reyna , had survived the escape attempt. Reyna had inherited her mother's connection to the Locust Hivemind as well. In order to lead the Swarm, Myrrah was in need of connecting her daughter to the Swarm in order to possess her body and become the Queen of the Swarm.

At the time of the Swarm emergence, Reyna was leading an Outsider village and had a daughter, named Kait Diaz , who also inherited a connection to the Locust Hivemind.

Myrrah guided the Scion, the Speaker , to attack the village and capture Reyna. While her people were transported to the Hive below Fort Reval to be transformed into Juvies , Reyna was then taken to the Tollen Dam where she was connected to the heart of the Hive, and was bound so that separation would be fatal. Kait Diaz then launched a rescue mission for her mother, uncle, and the rest of their people.

Accompanying her were Sgt. There, he saw Reyna being transfigured into their queen at the Tollen Dam. Once released, Marcus then directed the rescue mission towards the dam. However, unknown to the rest, Marcus knew that Reyna was being mutated beyond repair.

Arriving with reinforcements at the Tollen Dam, the Speaker confronted Kait Diaz and claimed that Reyna did not need to be rescued but instead left to be with the Swarm as their new Queen. Kait Diaz then killed the Speaker and continued into the Hive. Just as the connection began to mutate and possess Reyna, her daughter came to her rescue. Reyna then begged Kait for release and death, which Kait reluctantly obliged. Reyna's body was left in the heart of the Hive, as Kait was left with Reyna's amulet of the Locust Horde, that once belonged to Myrrah.

While Myrrah initially failed to possess Reyna, Reyna's body and consciousness was still within the Hive. Her attention, however, was now towards Kait, the next in line.

Using Kait's connection to the Hivemind, she began to haunt Kait with visions, premonitions, hallucinations, and nightmares. They were meant as messages and were attempting to cause Kait paranoia and distrust among her friends. Four months after Reyna's separation, Myrrah led an attack on Riftworm Village , where a Snatcher was able to capture Kait and officially connect her to the Swarm. Myrrah delighted in Kait's connection and forced her to command the soldiers within the Swarm to lead the attack, resulting in the death of her uncle.

However, Sgt. Marcus Fenix and Cpt. James Fenix were able to free Kait from the Snatcher. Kait then revealed her visions and the Locust emblem to her friends. Due to her connection to the Locust, she and friend Lt. After for traveling hours on the Skiff , Cpl. Diaz and Lt.

Entering through a hole created by the Swarm, Cpl. Diaz experienced a vision in which Myrrah, posed as JD, exploited Cpl.

Diaz's fear of JD not trusting her and betraying her friends. Myrrah, sowing doubt and paranoia in her granddaughter, asked Kait who could trust her now. Walker then arrived at the New Hope Research Facility. After traversing the lab, she discovered Myrrah's personalized cell and Dr. Samson's analysis file on Myrrah - detailing her boosted immune system and decelerated aging when exposed to doses of concentrated Imulsion. Walker then reactivated the A. JACK , entering the system, recovered corrupted files mentioning Kadar - the nearby mountain where the last of the New Hope scientists fled before the facility closed.

The Flock then entered the facility and hacked the mainframe, causing the facility to self-destruct. Walker managed to escape the facility. As Kait continued on her journey to the Mount Kadar laboratory, Myrrah increased the frequency and intensity of her visions. After Cpl. Diaz entered the first communications tower, Myrrah posed as JD Fenix and Del Walker in a vision - recreating their conversation that Kait observed before leaving the Riftworm Village. However, Myrrah continued to sow paranoia and mistrust as she displayed the two believing Cpl.

Diaz to be the enemy and to take her out. At the second communications tower, Myrrah induced another vision posing as Oscar Diaz, reinforcing Kait's guilt in his death by declaring that she killed him. After triangulating the signal from the two towers, Cpl. Walker found the lab to be under a frozen lake. Unable to get through, Lt.

Walker suggested an explosive that could be found in an abandoned Nethercutt mine. Upon entering the mines, Myrrah once again created another vision in which she replicated Reyna's last moments - asking Kait to cut her lose. Despite this, Cpl. Diaz recovered the explosive and deployed it on the frozen lake - gaining access to the lab below. Diaz to join the Swarm as their new Queen, but Kait resisted.

Myrrah physically appeared to Kait in one of the visions, but Kait ordered Myrrah to get out of her head and stabbed the vision with her Combat Knife , causing Myrrah to vanish. Kait and Lt. Niles also revealed that Myrrah conceived a human child with Dr. Torres and mothered Reyna , making Myrrah Kait's grandmother. Kait then learned that her grandfather fled with Reyna, and Myrrah's grief caused her to lead a rebellion to slaughter the scientists and declared independence.

However, Myrrah's stem-cells were what created the Hivemind that connected her with the Locust Horde, and that Reyna and Kait had inherited that very connection. Kait threatened Niles to sever her link to Myrrah and the Locust before she could be made Queen of the Swarm, causing them to evolve and become more intelligent and dangerous. Severing the link involved damaging the temporal lobe as that part is connected to the Hivemind. In order to so, Niles had to induce anesthesia in the imaging machine and transport Kait's consciousness into the Hivemind.

Niles then used Kait to physically awaken Reyna, who now she learned had survived. Myrrah was then able to be resurrected through Reyna and became the Queen once again. Myrrah used Kait's residual link to the Hivemind through the Matriarch in an attempt to distract her by projecting her voice into Kait's mind and distorting her vision, particularly as the Matriarch got weaker. However, Kait was able to kill the Matriarch despite Myrrah's attempts at distraction, severing her link to the Locust once and for all.

True to Niles Samson's word, after Reyna was resurrected by Myrrah and made Queen of the Swarm - the Swarm immediately grew and became more intelligent. The Drones began fighting more aggressively and tactically, with more precision and self-preservation. In the weeks after Reyna became their Queen, the Swarm was in the process of constructing armor and building their own weapons, such as the Claw Light Machine Gun , in similar fashion to how the Locust Horde built their army.

The Swarm were also able to intercept the humans plans and gain intelligence, as Queen Reyna was aware that the humans were attempting to reactivate the Hammer of Dawn, but the only available remnants resided in OZP of Vasgar. The survivors in Vasgar, known as Nomads and led by Garron Paduk , began to notice the advancement in Swarm intelligence and technology - as well as better coordination in attacks, such as cutting off their water supply and convoys. Several weeks after being reawakened, Queen Reyna traveled to the red desert of Vasgar to stop the Mission to OZP , in which the Coalition were attempting to launch the Union of Independent Republic's Hammer of Dawn satellites to prepare using against the Swarm.

Queen Reyna attempted to stop them by attacking them with her army and the gargantuan Kraken , an indigenous creature native to the Vasgar Hollow, but ultimately failed. Queen Reyna then personally witnessed the satellites being launched into space. Realizing that the humans revived the Hammer of Dawn and were in the process of fortifying New Ephyra , Reyna led an assault in the ruins of Old Ephyra in order to destroy the Hammer of Dawn targeting beacons and render New Ephyra defenseless.

Shortly after activating the satellites, the humans still needed to place the targeting beacons around the city.

After planting the targeting beacons in the Tomb of the Unknowns and East Barricade Academy , Queen Reyna led her army and the Kraken to destroy the beacons. After destroying the beacon at the Tomb of the Unknowns, Queen Reyna finally confronted Kait Diaz and attacked her and her friends, Cpt. James Dominic Fenix and Lt. Delmont Walker. She expressed disappointment in Kait for failing to chose to side with her legacy and attempted to kill her and her friends.

However, Kait was able to save herself and either one of them, prompting Queen Reyna to murder the other friend. Kait and her surviving friend escaped and reunited with the Coalition while Queen Reyna led the Swarm to New Ephyra's gates. Queen Reyna and the Swarm receded, and Sgt. Marcus Fenix warned Kait Diaz that she would return. Kait acknowledged this fact, but instead wished to hunt her down first before Kait discarded Myrrah's amulet.

The most defining trait of Myrrah is her maternal nature. As a child, she exhibited traits of selflessness, nurturing, and sacrifice. Aware that she was immune to Imulsion's ill-effects, she was eager to help the scientists find a cure for the other sick children with Rustlung. As the children mutated into Sires from Dr.

Samson's grotesque experiments, Myrrah still held fondness for them, despite their appearance and nature. After her embryonic stem-cells were used to create the Locust Horde, she adamantly protected them and acted on their behalf.

Her maternal instincts were finally realized with the birth of her human daughter, Reyna. Her connection with Reyna was so strong, that when Reyna was taken and Myrrah believed her to be killed by the scientists, she developed a hatred for the entire human race and vowed to destroy them all out of revenge.

She led her Locust children, as their Queen, to independence, and continued to grow their civilization. Her main objective was the preservation of her children - which led Myrrah to develop desperate tactics and tendencies.

Myrrah is also best known for her cynical and xenophobic views.