The Locust Horde's Capital City NEXUS Explained // Gears of War Lore

The Locust Horde's Capital City NEXUS Explained // Gears of War Lore
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Welcome back to another Gears of War Lore video! In this video I'm going to be giving Gears lore on the Gears of War Nexus, Gears of War Riftworms, Gears of War Locust Horde, Gears of War Queen Myrrah, Gears of War Locust origins and much more!
In this video I run through the Gears of War story, I talk about the Gears of War Locust, including Gears of War Lambent, Gears of War Imulsion, Gears of War Kantus, Gears of War Locust lore, Gears of War RAAM, Gears of War Emergence Day, Gears of War Hollow Creatures and more!
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[@mrandrew1017]

It’s crazy how the locust built nexus pretty quickly❤️❤️

[@JJShurte]

The idea that the Kantus were a different species has been around for ages, along with the idea that Nexus is quite old - I never really put much stock in either of these ideas. The Locust are monsters not because how they look, but because they're just us - they're humans who have been warped and shifted, and our worst aspects made manifest. The Kantus being a separate species goes against this whole idea. The Boomers, Drones, Wretches and Ragers all look different, and so the idea that the Kantus is "too different from the others" doesn't hold water - they're all just deviations from humanity. The Nexus looking like it's an ancient structure is probably based on the fact that it's so large, and made from stone. With a large enough work force of slaves and monsters, and a lax attitude to workers rights, a city of that scope could be built in no time at all. The Gears lore has never been that coherent or consistent, but the fact that the Locust are intrinsically linked to humanity has always been core. Great video, keep it up. I love seeing Gears content coming out still.

[@KingAbzTV]

Great points , I thought it was worth mentioning and discussing in the video! Thanks for watching!

[@JJShurte]

@@KingAbzTV Totally worth mentioning, it was one of the theories of their origins for a decade. Besides that, the mysterious origins of the Locust is something that was baked into the series' story - so yeah, well worth looking into.

[@legalam]

@@JJShurte isn’t it canon that the kantus are a different species? I know it’s silly, I just thought it was confirmed.

[@silent_stalker3687]

There are the samples of the creature they found to try and make the people immune to the immulsion. I also think the locust could’ve been around in other forms given humanity could’ve made it into the hollow before- hence the tribal religion and so on. There is also the genetic engineering and so on. The locust would’ve been much better suited given their condition from the lab and would’ve likely been more than able to absorb into it bring others into their group. The locust don’t have to ‘be the tribe we fight’ they take over each other and others ditch their tribe to join others all the time. There certainly seems to be a divide on the locust- similar to the forerunners in the halo series of ‘are they human or not’ at least up until halo 4

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[@KingAbzTV]

😆😆yeah an older video here. Glad you enjoyed it though 🫡

[@Woodsy375]

@King Abz the timeline never made sense to me. It was far, far to short for the locust to set up a global underground civilization, build numbers and war supplies, establish a hierarchy, and genetically engineer all the war mounts. I really like the theory that they merged with another civilization

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[@KingAbzTV]

I will do but later down the line! Only because I have other locust lore videos planned, I also have more Halo videos planned. As well as doom and B4B lore videos too, lots that I have planned already

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Do you think The Tempest has it's own pen in the Royal Palace? Do you think she has MORE THAN ONE?

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I think the Tempest may be a standalone creature, it probably had its own pen too

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Really interesting video

[@travisreed1730]

I honestly wish that The Matriarch wasn't just some one-off filler boss fight from "5", but a regular member of the Locust Horde, (complete with lore) as possible general, (imagine that, a sentient, intelligent Berserker leading the Horde from The Hollow) an envoy of The Queen (her being used as the mouthpiece of Myrrah to relay her wishes to her troops) or her personal bodyguard and confidant. (Maybe after you kill her, Myrrah really starts hating you and devoting her time and resources into killing you)

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Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying them

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Thank you!! Got another Gears lore video on the way in a few hours so be on the lookout for that!

[@Snoozytube]

I do want an explanation from the coalition for doing this retcon because it does wonder how they could make their own civilization so fast. However if we take a look at history, the fastest city to ever be built from what I've searched is brasilia, the capital of Brazil that took 41 months or 3+ years. Its the fourth to third most populous city in Brazil with over 4.8 million living there today. So we can only assume that the locust growth, physical capabilities, and the leaders did they find a way to make all of it. Though it doesnt answer everything like making their own religion and culture, we can only assume they attained this thinking from humanity.

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[@sladewatts9316]

What are the other city’s you speak of in the hollows?

[@TheRealMightyEmperor]

Solid video, it's been a while since I checked up in gears. These regions confuse me so much, I thought the queen was a child durring the experiments, how did she had a kid? How did the locus establish such a large society in a relativeof short amount of time? How did they reproduce to the point of outnumbering humanity in the games? So unclear.

[@viktorvolkov5314]

I think it would be cool, instead of having the locust just be the bad guys maybe the coalition could make a game that puts you in the shoes of RAAM and his rise to leader of the Locust armed forces. Fighting the Lambent in the first two chapters and the humans in the next 3, ending with two endings, a cannon ending where RAAM dies, and one where RAAM stops the lightmass bomb and kills Dom and Marcus.

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The interest in gears ain’t what it used to be

[@bowenc24]

I wish we could see what daily life was like in a locust city. Do they kinda just live like us or is it completely foreign?

[@brianachim2670]

The palace guards sucked at their job!🤣

[@KingAbzTV]

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[@younggamer7655]

Nexus and the Locust Origins were never retconned in Gears 5, they are based on the original real origins that were initally planned out by Epic Games back in Gears of War 2. This is confirmed by Joshua Ortega on Twitter who mentioned the Locust Origins were planted all those years ago & Gears 5 is just a continuation of the original idea.

[@KingAbzTV]

The seeds were planted in Gears 2 of course they were. From New Hope, Kadar & Samson being introduced then. I think the locust origins were a continuation but Nexus itself being built a couple of decades before Emergence Day from Gears 5’s continuation doesn’t make the most sense

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How about Gears of war: Centaur vs Halo Reach: Revenant

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Do Halo: ODST vs Gears of war: Onyx Guard. You can also do Squad v Squad One rule, No special story snowflake characters unless you start having mental trouble.

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That would be an interesting comparison/match up

[@mcstudios5347]

First

[@KingAbzTV]

Welcome fellow soldier

[@brianachim2670]

Yeah the retcons make no sense

[@brianachim2670]

So do Locusts have emotions like a human does?

[@Eastcoasto4]

Most likely yes because the Locust have hate and anger for humans and In gears 3 DLC after raams Theron elite and mauler elites were killed by zeta you could hear raam say "vengeance." So It seems to me that yes they do have emotions like humans do

[@brianachim2670]

@@Eastcoasto4 I meant besides negative emotions

[@Eastcoasto4]

@@brianachim2670 yeah when killing humans

[@theblackswordsman3612]

I always did thought the kantus was a different species and was the reason for those ghost stories that people had of things coming up and stealing kids

[@enormousbird7980]

Did you say French?

[@daviescott1406]

The explanation from GEARS 5 sucks. Lazy writing that ignored time and the lore. Your explanation of NEXUS made more sense.