Baird here. Welcome to the Locust Thread. This is where all Locust related subjects will take place.
What is the Locust Horde?
Frankly, other than the fact that they want to kill every man, woman and child out there, we know nothing about them. We've tagged them Locusts since this degree of death has only been seen in times of plague. They're subterranean in nature. That's obvious. Aside from that, I'm afraid...
— An unidentified human scientist dubbing the name of the Locust Horde
The Locust Horde was a race of reptilian humanoids that until Emergence Day, have lived in and established their civilization in the subterranean regions of Sera, known as the Hollow. It is unknown for how long the Locust Horde have lived in the Hollow, but it has come to be understood that their creation was after the research project lead by Niles Samson that oversaw the research on several Lambent-infected Imulsion miners at the New Hope Research Facility, the eventual shutdown of the facility, and Niles Samson's trip with a group of scientists and Sires to inside Mount Kadar. At some point, the Locust Horde has decided that its secondary goal is the extermination of the human race down to every man, woman, and child. The Locust Horde's primary goal is to populate the surface of Sera. The Locust wage a tactically beneficial war of genocide against the Humans due to the existence of a civil war between the Locust Horde and the Lambent Locust. This civil war has been going on for an undetermined amount of time, but it is gradually forcing the Locust out of the Hollow and into a war with humanity over who controls the surface world.
All known attempts of the Humans negotiating with the Locust Horde have ended in violence, although Adam Fenix believed he could end the war peacefully. The Locust Horde consist of a common race of drones and all manner of other animals that are indigenous to the underground tunnels known as the Hollow, which is a common name used to describe the hollow portions of the underground of Sera which is mainly controlled by the Locust Horde. Located under Mount Kadar is the Locust capital known as Nexus.
The majority of the Horde's technology was stolen or salvaged from what the Humans dumped, or reverse engineered from their enemies' technology. However, the Locust Horde was able to develop some of their own technology, including small-arms, large weapons and armor placed on their tamed beasts, munitions, architecture and a considerable grasp of computer technology. The Locusts' small-arms appear to be at around the same level as that of humans with similar small-arms although the Locusts' arsenal seems to be more biologically based with the use of Tickers, Nemacyst, Brumaks etc. Locust troops will use nearly any weapon, whether it is one of their own design, reverse-engineered Human technology or human-made.
[From the GoW Wiki]
That's all for now.
Baird out.
