what is the story behind the locust are they monsters, humans that were forgottin ?

[BluntChain]

Really with gears 2 coming out i would like to know what they r and why they are so mad.
dont get me wrong i love killing the dumbass' with any gun becuase they r actually trying .

if any one has a thery or knows let me know

[Bizkitdoh]

Humans came to the LOCUST'S planet (sera) the humans colonizing sera's surface obviously Pissed the locust off. so technically speaking the humans are in a way the bad guys for killing the locust over the imulsion under sera's surface. hope i helped :)

Locust's were underground living inside Sera way before the humans came.

this is just what i think, who knows who got there first, well never know.

or will we???

[aceofspades]

i think they are forgoten humans doing experiments down under ground. but they stayed down there to long and mutated cause of all the imolsion down there. but that wat i think.

[yobob111]

so technically speaking the humans are in a way the bad guys for killing the locust over the imulsion under sera's surface.

well hey, the locust attacked first without warning. if the locust asked nicely i'm sure that would be the case :rolleyes:

[xXxGeArSxFrEaKxXx]

There are many theorys:
Theories of them being miners that got rust lung
but my theory is:

Dr. Helen Cooper has something to do with the locust,
she was the Doctor that discovered the way of converting raw immulsion into energy.
I think the Locust were living happily underground doing whatever they were doing, and all of a sudden, their immulsion started to dissapear on them.
When they found out that the humans were stealing their valuable source, they decided to wage war.
Also, I think Marcus's dad, Adam Fenix is a key part to the Locust Horde. He is the one who mapped their tunnels, therefore knowing more about them than anybody else ever did.
I think he was initially friends with the Locust and discovered them, and was going to do research on them and become famous. But when they found out their immulsion was being taken, they thought he was behind it, and killed him.
Remember in Act 3, when you have to go to the pumping station, that was human built, but how did the humans get down there without being killed by the Locust?
How did they build it without the Locust knowing?
because the locust have been there hundreds of years. did the Locust build it?
Hmmm.....

[yobob111]

well, a thought that slightly contradicts my theory. is how do the locust have lancers, longshots, and other supposable weapons manufactured by humans? perhaps they salvaged them from war? got human blueprints? but what i think may be a possibility is that the humans had a neutral standing with the locust, thus trading weapons with each other, but then humans started taking their immulsion, tearing apart the inviroment, or just plain annoying the locust, resulting is war. but the locust technically threw the first punch without compromise as far as we know.

[UKS_BulletPoint]

Check Officer Green thead which has all of the mainstream theories of the origin of the Locust. And Bizkitdoh, that article about the humans travelling to Sera was synthesised by the author, it hasn't been confirmed anywhere.

[mrTornatoZZ]

All that transforming stuff sounds strange to me. Ok, a human could tranform into a drone, but not into a corpser or a brumak.

[Prod1gyXFXA]

All that transforming stuff sounds strange to me. Ok, a human could tranform into a drone, but not into a corpser or a brumak.

some believe they evolved from apes or bigger species.

[TheRealBigBoss]

I think it's all bio-engineering by the Locust themselves. But rather than being science driven, it's more like it has a Religious basis, like something done by the Kanthus sect or something. Like the difference between standard medical science and herbal medicine today. Well that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. :)

[L3TS D0 TH155]

we are gonna find out in the novel, right?

[BattleTATT]

the facts and my theory: and yes i copied and pasted from my post in another thread didt feel like typing the same thing.

the pendulum wars was a fight between various human countries over a highly valued energy source called immulsion. This came to a conclusion when the Coalition of Ordered government, gained control of the planet sera.

Sera had a moment of somewhat peace until emergence day. The locasts attacked every major city, destroying everything in it path until jacinto.

when they deployed the resonator it failed to map all the locasts tunnels and strongholds. They then come to find that marcus's dad had maps in the basement of his house. This is why i believe he knew about the locasts, and did nothing.

wiether it was for greed and power, i dunno that is my theory, because it doesnt seem like marcus and his father had much of a relationship from what i gathered of the first gears. maybe his father had something to do with him being imprisioned.

its clear that his father knew about the locast, but did the rest of humanity? that remains to be seen, as well as why he had all the information stored away in a hiding spot in the basement of his mansion.

i believe the locast was under the planet of sera for years, as long as the planet was inhabited by humans. They sit and waited built up there army, breed soilders and such, until the countries of sera destroyed there numbers in the pendulum wars.

upon the coalition taking control the locast attacked when the humans was at there weakest state, in government as well as military forces. It was perfect timing, and they proved that by pushing almost all human existance into the fortress jacinto.

they fought for immulsion and power in the pendulum wars
now the humans fight for survival against the horde
the locasts are just fighting for there home and possible a differant reason for immulsion..i dunno.

But i believe thats why the locast wage this war.
Because we invaded there home for this immulsion.

and i just dont think it was some experiment gone wrong...or that humans became infected because of immulsion.

the locasts are that of a stable species a reproducing species if you will....and that takes generations of living to complete.

and in history locasts go back to biblical times of plaguing mankind. but they are rarely seen except for these swarming phases.

i think thats why epic decided to call them locasts. but hey i could be wrong.

just putting it all out there

im not so sure we will find out where the locasts come from or why humans are on sera, and not earth.

but do we know where we really came from in reality, it has created nothing but theories for years.
we dont know what really caused this world and everything in it..and we probably never will.

as far as the weapons they have there own, type's there was only a few that had lancers and they could have been found on dead soilders

the torque bow...counters the cog sniper. only found at the immusion facility
the boomshot..counters the hammer of dawn. only found after killing a boomer
the hammerburst..counters the lancer..and well we start with a locast gun? thats strange to me!
etc etc.

the only thing that makes sense to me is that living underground around this immulsion...creatures of all types was effected by this substance causing a triggering an evolution of the species over centuries of existance. thus giving us the locasts horde.

thats about as far fetched as i think this story will go.
but like i said im not so sure we will ever know exactly how the locast came to be...

i just beleive they was under the humans the whole time...and was unknown to exist...until marcus's father found the tunnels, and them wrecking havok at emegence day.

[Pur3_MaYheM]

well hey, the locust attacked first without warning. if the locust asked nicely i'm sure that would be the case :rolleyes:

i agree they are ugly enough to piss ur panties and say okay peace...:eek:

[Nov 7]

Marcus dis-obeyed his orders to save his dad and failed and imprisoned

[Nov 7]

I have a strong feeling they are not anywhere near human.

[BattleTATT]

i always wanted to know why his trial was a shame and why he was imprioned....i found it yesterday at wikipedia. I still get the this feeling like marcus and his father wasnt very close...and had they're disagreements.

[Bul1etSp0nge]

Maybe they are just native creatures of Sera that live underground.

[BattleTATT]

the reason i believe this is due to the fact that if the human colonies knew about the locasts....they wouldnt have been fighting agaisnt each other in the pendulum wars....they would have been allies agaisnt the locasts.

if the human race that exists today was to find a nonhuman being would we just shrug it off and keep fighting each other...i highly doubt it.

if the humans of sera knew that these inhuman genecidal monsters where beneath them why didnt they do anything about it? why where they fighting each other?

thats why i dont think they really knew all that lyed beneath sera's crust.

i heard some rumors/theories that immulsion is derived from human emotion and that the locast are a form of mother nature...this is kinda far fetched...but i kinda think it has some underlying meaning.

with all the fighting and wars us humans have created over the years...the damage to the ozone and enviroment killing each other with chemical/biological warfare....it just a matter of time till mother nature fights back!

humans have come to destroy there own humanity.

[DELTA TWO-SIX]

so technically speaking the humans are in a way the bad guys for killing the locust over the imulsion under sera's surface.

Actually, The humans didn't have any confrontations before E-Day. Before E-Day, there were sighting of what they beleived was "The Boogie-Man". I beleive that imulsion was some sort of life source or natural resource that the locusts used in some way. When the humans started taking the imulsion, factions started fighting over control over the imulsion and so began the pendelum wars. Since the humans were blind-sided by the war, the locusts had the perfect oppurtunity to strike. After E-Day, the humans realised they needed to work together and the different factions formed up to make the COG(Coalition of Organized Governments). That's my theory.

[DELTA TWO-SIX]

maybe his father had something to do with him being imprisioned.

Actually, his father had everything to do with Marcus going to prison. During the Fall of Jacinto, he disobeyed direct orders from his superior officer in order to save his father. The only problem is, that he got there too late and was charged with treason. Before he went to Jacinto Maximum Security Penitentiary, he was a seargent or a lieutinent or something along those lines.