

Sometime later, Myrrah conceived a human daughter named Reyna with geneticist Dr. It was discovered that a Hivemind had been established by the Locust, and that Myrrah was able to control them. At the Mount Kadar facility, Myrrah's embryonic stem-cells were combined with Sire DNA and created the first Drone of the Locust Horde. Samson agreed and relocated dozens of his subjects and remaining loyal employees to the facility. The group offered him a facility in Mount Kadar where he could continue his research. Samson's work could not only cure Rustlung, but also create an army of super-soldiers for the Coalition and help end the Pendulum Wars. Unknown to Monroe, a fringe political party within his administration believed Dr. Chairman Monroe discovered the workings at New Hope and demanded it shut down and all involved to be indicted. Due to the unethical experimentation and attacks by the Sires, the staff at New Hope began leaking details to the public and government. This transformed the children into Sires distempered, sterile, and aggressive mutated humans. Samson then attempted cross-species genetics, by mutating the children with the DNA of indigenous creatures of the Hollow, who he believed were immune to Imulsion. Samson attempted to replicate her immunity in the other children, but was unsuccessful. One of the children, a female named Myrrah, was discovered to not only be genetically immune to Imulsion, but benefited from exposure to it, such as resistance to aging. Children of Imulsion-poisoned miners were housed and studied in the facility under the Director, renowned geneticist Doctor Niles Samson. The Coalition of Ordered Governments Department of Health opened the New Hope Research Facility under the Monroe Administration to research, and cure Rustlung. The origins of the Locust Horde can be traced back during the early Pendulum War-era, when the health effects of Imulsion arose in the form of a fatal disease known as Rustlung. The Locust Horde's onslaught and assault continued for a year until the Hammer of Dawn strikes, in which the Hammer of Dawn technology was deployed under the newly elected Chairman, Richard Prescott. and had used the spoils of war to gather all available military and civilian technological equipment and resources to use against the COG and the few UIR nations that still existed after the Pendulum Wars. They were able to defeat all organized human resistance for over a year. The Locust Horde was able to deploy huge numbers of their forces into major cities on the surface at once. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the Coalition of Ordered Governments responded by countering the Locust invasion with its entire military arsenal. The attacks signaled the beginning of the Locust War. The goal of the Locust Horde was to exterminate the human race, allowing them to colonize the surface in order to escape the Lambent, an Imulsion-based infection that was spreading in the Hollow. Over a quarter of the total human population was killed within the first twenty-six hours, and millions reported missing. There were massive casualties reported everywhere the Locust arrived. All breaches were along the ground line, known as Emergence Holes, in what was a campaign of rapid dominance in a textbook military invasion. Six weeks after the end of the Pendulum Wars, nearly every major city on the surface of Sera was attacked by the underground forces from the Hollow, using both bio-engineered weapons and stolen human technology. An enemy that will force humanity to take their last, inevitable steps, toward extinction." - Queen Myrrah addressing the Locust before Emergence Day.Įmergence Day, otherwise known as E-Day, was a swift, full-scale, coordinated, and unprecedented planet-wide assault on the surface of Sera initiated by the subterranean race of the Locust Horde. But this was nothing, compared to a new threat from below. They ultimately did what they do best, destroy. " The humans of Sera built a glorious civilization, but humans are not destined to create. Billions of civilians and personnel in the first 26 hours.Chief of the COG Defense Staff General Bardry Salaman.

Combatants Coalition of Ordered Governments
