The world that is Sera

[0poopPhrog]

this is a couple of my thoughts, so forgive me for sounding as if im rambling.

Now, first off, the planet is enhabited by humans. For a moment, me and my wife thoght that they were humans that came from earth the sera. But what with the COG still using helicopters and generaly modern weapons (other then the hammer of dawn) I don'y think they have quite achieved space travel.

In the art book that comes with the LE gears 1, they say that the Locust resemble the native people of Sera. Who are these native people? Were they forced to go under ground? I want to know!

The Brumak was said to have DNA of native apes, but it looks a little like a reptile. So we know they have monkies on this planet, but what else could they have? What creature could the Corpser come from? or the kryll? How come we never hear about anyhting like dogs, or cats, or even birds? I know birds exist, but are they birds we have here, on earth?

Which leads us the believe that this is an "alien" race. But an alien race wouldnt come from underground. They would have to be here before us. So did people come to sera from somewhere else?


also, what is its landmass like? Does it have 7 contenents like us, or what? I know they have countires overseas, but do they speak different languages? I know some are more porr then others, so that leads me to believe that they have different forms of goverment,
these are questions I want you to think about.

[Psychophrene]

im starting to think that the locust are what humans would be if we evolved from lizards rather than apes, missing links and all that jazz. just because humans are meant to have evolved on sera as there is no Earth in the gears universe.
however there is one massive hole in this theory. lizards are cold blooded and need the sun/heat to survive. but now that i think about it they could live off of geothermal heat... hmmm... i have confuseld myself...

i think Sera is much larger than earth, due to the size of the hollow. however gravity is at the same level due to density rather than size.

Sera is said to have similar cultures, but with twists. look at the new character Tai for example Aboriginesque tattoos and such. Also the currency appears to be in Dollars (just guessed from Dom owing Marcus $20, its the discussion they have after they meet up with Cole)

As for the Government, everywhere is now controlled by the COG, they gained power at the end of the pendulum wars.
There is an interesting screen shot of two Humans (Serans) fighting, probably during the pendulum wars as there is no chainsaw attachment... maybe we will play some post emergence day levels?
http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/GOW2/TheG...dulumWarsBegin

[WoolyPower]

however there is one massive hole in this theory. lizards are cold blooded and need the sun/heat to survive. but now that i think about it they could live off of geothermal heat... hmmm... i have confuseld myself...

Or Imulsion.

A substance providing light and warmth underground that is necessary to Locusts survival.

[Officer Green]

The Brumak was said to have DNA of native apes, but it looks a little like a reptile. So we know they have monkies on this planet, but what else could they have? .

I just copied and pasted this from my thread:

Brumak: The brumak was bred from a smaller native ape; this does not in any way mean that the brumak was bred from a monkey. Ape is used as a classification, and does not refer to any particular animal. Humans, monkeys, chimps, gorillas are all in the ape family; with that said, the brumak is bred from an animal in the same family as the Locust. It is highly likely that the Brumak is bred from a wretch, because they have similar body shapes.

Brumaks...jaint...bred...from....monkeys, and this belongs in Story and Characters. Furthermore, with all that being said, Locusts and humans are probably in the same "Ape" family, but took different evolutionary paths. That is all.

[0poopPhrog]

I just copied and pasted this from my thread:

Brumak: The brumak was bred from a smaller native ape; this does not in any way mean that the brumak was bred from a monkey. Ape is used as a classification, and does not refer to any particular animal. Humans, monkeys, chimps, gorillas are all in the ape family; with that said, the brumak is bred from an animal in the same family as the Locust. It is highly likely that the Brumak is bred from a wretch, because they have similar body shapes.

Brumaks...jaint...bred...from....monkeys, and this belongs in Story and Characters. Furthermore, with all that being said, Locusts and humans are probably in the same "Ape" family, but took different evolutionary paths. That is all.

id believe all of that, if it wernt for one thing. they specificly stated ape, knowing we would think of monkies. They even show a chimp yelling, and then a brumak yelling to show similarities. So it the whole telling me about how we are all in the same classification actually means nothing, other then random fluff.

Im wondering about the creatures on the planet, and stating that they could be using "apes" as a way to classify humans is completly taking my topic in another direction

talking about the story belongs in general chat. Id apriciate it if you didnt try to undermine me

[Psychophrene]

i can think one of the more interesting things that nobody seems to have picked up on is... how in the heck do reavers and nemacyst fly? psychokensis? gas bladders?

[Officer Green]

id believe all of that, if it wernt for one thing. they specificly stated ape, knowing we would think of monkies. They even show a chimp yelling, and then a brumak yelling to show similarities. So it the whole telling me about how we are all in the same classification actually means nothing, other then random fluff.

Im wondering about the creatures on the planet, and stating that they could be using "apes" as a way to classify humans is completly taking my topic in another direction

talking about the story belongs in general chat. Id apriciate it if you didnt try to undermine me

Underming you. You've got to be kidding me; there's a very specific "Story and Characters" section in the Gears of War forum created for the purposes of discussing the Story and Characters. And when I heard "created from a native ape" the first thing that popped into mind was a class, and not a monkey. They probably showed a monkey hootin' and hollerin' to throw people off. Humans would fall under the Ape class, and I believe that the Locusts would fall under the Ape class as well on the planet Sera. Random fluff... that's insulting.

[0poopPhrog]

i can think one of the more interesting things that nobody seems to have picked up on is... how in the heck do reavers and nemacyst fly? psychokensis? gas bladders?

EXACTLY! things like that! this is the response I was hoping for

Some squids and other water creatures actually have what they cal jet perpoltion, which lets them move threw the water without actually having to move their limbs. Maybe the Reavers have that, only it is able to be used in an enviroment with more oxygen and gravity? Idk, im not scientist.

[Tarheal]

im starting to think that the locust are what humans would be if we evolved from lizards rather than apes, missing links and all that jazz. just because humans are meant to have evolved on sera as there is no Earth in the gears universe.
however there is one massive hole in this theory. lizards are cold blooded and need the sun/heat to survive. but now that i think about it they could live off of geothermal heat... hmmm... i have confuseld myself...

i think Sera is much larger than earth, due to the size of the hollow. however gravity is at the same level due to density rather than size.

Sera is said to have similar cultures, but with twists. look at the new character Tai for example Aboriginesque tattoos and such. Also the currency appears to be in Dollars (just guessed from Dom owing Marcus $20, its the discussion they have after they meet up with Cole)

As for the Government, everywhere is now controlled by the COG, they gained power at the end of the pendulum wars.
There is an interesting screen shot of two Humans (Serans) fighting, probably during the pendulum wars as there is no chainsaw attachment... maybe we will play some post emergence day levels?
http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/GOW2/TheG...dulumWarsBegin

It may not be possible but maybe the dollar thing was a small oversite by devs.

[0poopPhrog]

Underming you. You've got to be kidding me; there's a very specific "Story and Characters" section in the Gears of War forum created for the purposes of discussing the Story and Characters. And when I heard "created from a native ape" the first thing that popped into mind was a class, and not a monkey. They probably showed a monkey hootin' and hollerin' to throw people off. Humans would fall under the Ape class, and I believe that the Locusts would fall under the Ape class as well on the planet Sera. Random fluff... that's insulting.

well I was insulted as well. If I sparked a confruntation I am sorry, and I didn't mean to. But I feel this is more then story or character, since its more of peoples opinions and speculation then tru facts. To say its the story and and chatacters, IMO would be making things up, and I dont want to do that

[Psychophrene]

i like your idea about the reavers, and they do almost seem to swim in air. i think they may have cartlidge instead of bone and have gas bladders around their body, explaining why they explode when they die.

as for the Kryll we would have to go back to sera to explain that one. i think that the hollow may have self contained enviroments. devoid of light but reliant on heat. if life can evolve and live on our planet at the bottom of the ocean (no light and exceptional amounts of pressure, then whats to say the kryll couldnt evolve in an inner world. it would also explain their hypersensitivity to light and the fact they were not encountered until the locust burst forth from the ground.

[xThErOn_GaUrD339x]

this is a couple of my thoughts, so forgive me for sounding as if im rambling.

Now, first off, the planet is enhabited by humans. For a moment, me and my wife thoght that they were humans that came from earth the sera. But what with the COG still using helicopters and generaly modern weapons (other then the hammer of dawn) I don'y think they have quite achieved space travel.

In the art book that comes with the LE gears 1, they say that the Locust resemble the native people of Sera. Who are these native people? Were they forced to go under ground? I want to know!

The Brumak was said to have DNA of native apes, but it looks a little like a reptile. So we know they have monkies on this planet, but what else could they have? What creature could the Corpser come from? or the kryll? How come we never hear about anyhting like dogs, or cats, or even birds? I know birds exist, but are they birds we have here, on earth?

Which leads us the believe that this is an "alien" race. But an alien race wouldnt come from underground. They would have to be here before us. So did people come to sera from somewhere else?


also, what is its landmass like? Does it have 7 contenents like us, or what? I know they have countires overseas, but do they speak different languages? I know some are more porr then others, so that leads me to believe that they have different forms of goverment,
these are questions I want you to think about.

Well the Gears of War universe is still forming, perhaps its possible that the natives of Sera were forced underground by another as of yet, unknown race, and then, to suite their environment, they evolved into the Locust we know now, and it might also be true that the queen was the very first one to evolve. Or it could be possible that the queen was a native and she went underground for reasons unknown, and when she spawned more of her race, they became became the locust, but she stayed the same, and that might explain why she has a much different voice than any of her offspring

[Officer Green]

All right, so I shouldn't have shot down your Brumak is derived from a monkey thing, because even though I don't think it is directly derived from a monkey, I think there still may be a link. I really want to say that Locusts and the humans of Sera are in the same family class, but they just split off in different directions, or mutated in different directions. Let's just say that you got one basic primal ancestor, and from there you got Locusts branching off in one direction, and humans branching off in the other direction. Humans have a more direct link to the monkey, and Locusts have a more direct link to wretches. The monkey to humans, is the wretch to Locusts. From the wretch, the Locusts created the Brumak. I can't say for sure if the Locusts and humans are from the same family class, but I at the very least believe that the Brumak is derived from a wretch, and for all we know, a wretch could be a horribly mutated and genetically altered monkey. My question that I have always had is to what extent can imulsion mutate and genetically alter? If imulsion can greatly effect the thing that has been exposed to it, then for all I know, the Locusts could be human and an effect of imulsion is growing extra teeth, forked tongues, rough skin, dense bones, etc. However, the similarites between humans and Locusts, like the Drones, are somewhat close, but would imulsion be enough to cause the drastic differences like thicker bones, forked tongues, extra teeth, etc? All I know is that Gears of War 2 will be one step closer to answering alot of questions that are floating around.

[xThErOn_GaUrD339x]

All right, so I shouldn't have shot down your Brumak is derived from a monkey thing, because even though I don't think it is directly derived from a monkey, I think there still may be a link. I really want to say that Locusts and the humans of Sera are in the same family class, but they just split off in different directions, or mutated in different directions. Let's just say that you got one basic primal ancestor, and from there you got Locusts branching off in one direction, and humans branching off in the other direction. Humans have a more direct link to the monkey, and Locusts have a more direct link to wretches. The monkey to humans, is the wretch to Locusts. From the wretch, the Locusts created the Brumak. I can't say for sure if the Locusts and humans are from the same family class, but I at the very least believe that the Brumak is derived from a wretch, and for all we know, a wretch could be a horribly mutated and genetically altered monkey. My question that I have always had is to what extent can imulsion mutate and genetically alter? If imulsion can greatly effect the thing that has been exposed to it, then for all I know, the Locusts could be human and an effect of imulsion is growing extra teeth, forked tongues, rough skin, dense bones, etc. However, the similarites between humans and Locusts, like the Drones, are somewhat close, but would imulsion be enough to cause the drastic differences like thicker bones, forked tongues, extra teeth, etc? All I know is that Gears of War 2 will be one step closer to answering alot of questions that are floating around.

I always refered to wretches as "monkeys" coz of their loud shriek, arms that r longer than its legs, and a short, squat body, a wretch shows abvious similarities to either the orangatang or the spider monkee

[Mortificus]

All right, so I shouldn't have shot down your Brumak is derived from a monkey thing, because even though I don't think it is directly derived from a monkey, I think there still may be a link. I really want to say that Locusts and the humans of Sera are in the same family class, but they just split off in different directions, or mutated in different directions. Let's just say that you got one basic primal ancestor, and from there you got Locusts branching off in one direction, and humans branching off in the other direction. Humans have a more direct link to the monkey, and Locusts have a more direct link to wretches. The monkey to humans, is the wretch to Locusts. From the wretch, the Locusts created the Brumak. I can't say for sure if the Locusts and humans are from the same family class, but I at the very least believe that the Brumak is derived from a wretch, and for all we know, a wretch could be a horribly mutated and genetically altered monkey. My question that I have always had is to what extent can imulsion mutate and genetically alter? If imulsion can greatly effect the thing that has been exposed to it, then for all I know, the Locusts could be human and an effect of imulsion is growing extra teeth, forked tongues, rough skin, dense bones, etc. However, the similarites between humans and Locusts, like the Drones, are somewhat close, but would imulsion be enough to cause the drastic differences like thicker bones, forked tongues, extra teeth, etc? All I know is that Gears of War 2 will be one step closer to answering alot of questions that are floating around.

if some imulsion will make you super resiliant and such, i would love to get my hands on that stuff.... i wouldnt care about the forked tongue or the extra teeth or any of the rest of it.

though seriously? i thought of the grunts on halo the first time i saw the wretch... same basic body structure, and they are both easy kill, cannon fodder enemies