my thoughts and questions. can anyone answer?

[megaguns2021]

first i'd like to say that was probably the best story they've had, and the multiplayer's perfect. i did find a couple glitches in campaign but other than that it's excellent. but i can't help but ponder some of the things characters have said and some of the observastions made... here's my list of questions/thoughts that i deemed note-worthy throughout the series (granted i never read any of the books so there may be answers here that i didn't know about.). 1: how did mirra (queen) meet adam to begin with? they just bumb into each other on the street one day? 2: and what the hell is she? sure she's queen of the grubs, but she looks human and wasn't affected by the tower like the rest of the locust. 3: if she IS human (and i'm guessing she is) how did she come into power over the locust? they seem to shoot at everyone else. 4: how come there was moving blood in number two when cole killed a lambent that jumped for them? it just went right up the wall and left... they didn't really explain that. i know the immulsion is alive now but i didn't know it could just float away on it's own. plus that was the only time i we see it happen. soooo... what? 5: how were the cogs "misgiuded efforts at retaliation" so misgiuded? seemed pretty spot on to me. didn't drive us any closer to extinction at all. 6: dunno why the queen says we brought the war upon ourselfs either. cause we couldn't make a cure for you?... seems they started it when they just busted out and started shooting everyone. 7: and last but certainly not least. the f**k are the sires?... i have no idea where they come into the story at all. i thought gears 3 was gonna go somewhere with that, but they seemed to just sorta drop it. :/ anyway if your still reading this please answer if you can and leave your own thoughts.

[II Coffey II]

There is still a final book yet to come. That will be answering a lot of questions.


The sires where the human miners who first got infected by imulsion. They where taken to new Hope facility to be tested on. (for a cure a etc)

[megaguns2021]

why did niles refer to them as a "genetic bridge to our future"... was it just for a cure or did they think they could use it?

[matman1813]

The sires where the human miners who first got infected by imulsion. They where taken to new Hope facility to be tested on. (for a cure a etc)

This, I feel is a slight plot hole. Why were they mutated and not the people who work in refineries? Surely people who work in the refineries are exposed to larger amounts of pure immulsion.

[TroyMcClure]

Pressing enter to create breaks in that giant paragraph mike make it easier to read

[cab395]

This, I feel is a slight plot hole. Why were they mutated and not the people who work in refineries? Surely people who work in the refineries are exposed to larger amounts of pure immulsion.

My thoughts exactly. The Sires just don't seem to fit in as the first humans infected, but that is the official explanation we have gotten. One would think they would be mutated like you said. Furthermore, were these infected humans the start of the Locust? Is THAT why the Locust all died from the device? Because they all have a bit of Lambent in them inherently?

[II Coffey II]

My thoughts exactly. The Sires just don't seem to fit in as the first humans infected, but that is the official explanation we have gotten. One would think they would be mutated like you said. Furthermore, were these infected humans the start of the Locust? Is THAT why the Locust all died from the device? Because they all have a bit of Lambent in them inherently?

This, I feel is a slight plot hole. Why were they mutated and not the people who work in refineries? Surely people who work in the refineries are exposed to larger amounts of pure immulsion.

You two need to pay more attention to the game.

They where the first humans to be affected by the lambency/imulsion parasite. The strain hadn't mutated properly yet to infect humans in the way they later become infected. It took the lambency longer to mutate for humans. The Locust are all kind of infected from the start, which is why their appearance is the way it is, which is why they turned full lambent quickly.

[matman1813]

My point was that the sires are supposedly the immulsion miners, they got infected and mutated. Wouldn't all of the workers in the refineries have turned into sires? They would have been exposed to as much immulsion if not more than the miners, it would have been purer too. But they remained human until the virus mutated. Why?

[II Coffey II]

My point was that the sires are supposedly the immulsion miners, they got infected and mutated. Wouldn't all of the workers in the refineries have turned into sires? They would have been exposed to as much immulsion if not more than the miners, it would have been purer too. But they remained human until the virus mutated. Why?

A lot of my family work or have worked in the oil industry. (mostly engineers/riggers) So i know a bit about this sort of thing. The imulsion in the refineries wouldn't be as high a concentration as the imulsion when it's being mined and the miners would be a lot closer to the imulsion while digging/drilling. Where as in the refineries it's pretty much in pipes/tanks etc. Then on top of that they are down underground in mines with hardly any fresh air, so the imulsion fumes would be less diluted down mines than above ground where there is fresh air in abundance.

To put it simple miners are a lot closer and more surrounded by imulsion than the people in the refineries who would hardly be near the stuff.