Gear’s Horrifying Emergence Day & Locust Backstory | FULL Gears Lore & Origin Story

Emergence Day was the darkest day for the humans on Sera. Billions would be killed as the Locust Horde savaged the land killing all in their way, leading to humanity destroying their own civilizations just to survive.
But why did this happen? Are the Locust aliens? Why did they attack humanity? Well in this video we look at the origins of the Locust and look at why they chose to wipe out humanity on that fateful day.
This is the story behind Emergence Day!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:48 - Finding Imulsion
6:21 - Creation Of The Locust
12:58 - Lambent War & E-Day
19:32 - Thanks For Watching
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[@WiseFish]

Hope you guys enjoyed this first glance into the Gears Of War universe. Let me know if you wanna see more from this game!

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

Always good to hear something from the Gears of War universe, maybe Half Life could be next?

[@akramgimmini8165]

@@LazyLifeIFreak Hell yeah

[@TgamerBio5529]

Lore on the tank

[@LucasSouza-kw1wl]

Pendulum Wars

[@maracourier6718]

Yes please!

[@MIATeddyBear]

After that trailer just dropped for Gears of War E-Day, this video's about to have a resurgence in views!

[@LaggerVidz]

thats exactly why im here baby! cant wait for e-day. been dying to see the beginning of gears and before all the really tragic stuff. top 3 gaming stories ever made imo.

[@SmittenAce]

Yepp!!!

[@kevingame3198]

​@@LaggerVidz other than genshin impact cataclysm

[@d1vinexchaos802]

@@LaggerVidzcrying and shitting my pants for Dom rn, I hated to see him go in Gears 3

[@KA-dx2kz]

The books are great, really like actually hearing what characters really think and feel. Made me really appreciate The Cole Train, who is the hype man but still writes his dead parents as away to cope

[@andreadebernardis4390]

damn...that's fucking terrible, I never knew Cole did that

[@deussalt4479]

One of the things I love about the Gears of War universe is that while they are humans the world is not earth and the society that exists has nothing to do with ours. It grants a certain freedom and mystery to the game world

[@FlatterNewt1036]

I always saw it as earth in a parallel universe.

[@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr]

@@FlatterNewt1036 earth does actually exist in the GOW universe! It’s just a myth since the human kind moved thousands of years ago to sera so ancient it kinda doesn’t exist to the people of sera

[@NikosM112]

@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr That's false. It's just 15yo fan made up stories by kids. Sera is the only planet humans know of. It's an alternate universe to ours.

[@tommymclaughlin-artist]

I remember playing through the series originally, and finding the Locust to be much more terrifying and mysterious when their origins had yet to be revealed. When it came out in the story that they were created by humans, it sorta became a lot less plausible to me. It was believable that an ancient civilization had been down there for millions of years, but it wasn't plausible that they had scaled so drastically in numbers and had an ancient religion and ancient ruins and stuff in so short a time.

[@CarmineKar98K]

Agreed

[@shadowpersonoftheunknown6245]

I feel like the New Hope facility in Gears 2 basically explained how the Locust came about with the Sires (although at the time the devs denied that the Sires and Locust where connected). It left out a lot of the details but your imagination could fill in the blanks. I just didn't think it was as recent at it is.

[@Jack10016]

Completely agree. The whole ‘humans that were experimented on’ origin story feels so worn out and overused.

[@voxpopuli7910]

@@Jack10016 the idea was basically created by epic, the coalition just got to try to elaborate on it

[@vegetac4]

That origin is a retcon when the studio decided to forward with gow4. Check out the interview with the original writers and read the first five novels. The locust always existed underground. An Ancient civilization that worshipped worms.

[@WowSuchGaming]

Im about to hit this video up like a Boomer, BOOOOooommmm

[@Jellythetuber]

Ok boomer

[@kuinnamationsanimations2716]

I always wanted to play this game but j was scared

[@dillinsutherland2301]

Ah my guy

[@Nolongerhereanymore]

The gears 5 locust origins sucked

[@akitohakuso854]

Surviving the Locust when?

[@aamirwalker247]

Who’s here after the trailer ?

[@Mobuislorecast]

Same im definitely going to do a marathon wen eday come out

[@myferretollie9235]

Me🎉

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

I'm going to play through the trilogy again on XSX been a decade.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Absolutely Crushed it

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Oh man, I really want to see more Gears videos, maybe a video theorizing on what'll happen in Gears 6? Gears has always been one of those franchises that I've followed ever since I was a kid on the Xbox 360. I fell in love with this franchise and never grew out of it, it'll always remain as one of my favorites.

[@seamoose5654]

Do you get paid to watch KZbin videos I see your comments everywhere

[@bachelorsensei9437]

This video's about to blow up after E-day trailer.

[@MintyCow101]

here after seeing the new trailer, i want to cry im so happy. 😢

[@jessescharett]

GOW was basically my sleepover coop game for my buddys and me growing up. I never understood why the locusts were the way they were. Just blast'em ya know? As I began lore hunting and seen this now. I think " Next time I'll be nicer when I aim for the head" haha.

[@jacobrobinson787]

I felt you made Niles Samson out to be too much of a saint. The man himself - or what was left of him - stated the Cog wanted soldiers, he gave them gods. Samson was enraptured in his research to an extreme degree, and billions suffered for it. Ultimately, Humanity is responsible for the Locust War but Samson was the one who chose to go even further. Otherwise, I love your lore videos; your narration is captivating and you have a great understanding of the Gears universe as a whole aside from that one objection I mentioned earlier.

[@WiseFish]

Wasn’t my intention I was just telling the story, Dr Niles was a real nasty bit of work tbf. But thanks for the compliment man really appreciate it :)

[@demilung]

Not sure what gave you that impression. The video blatanly says that he did numerous experiments with no moral reprecussions and in no way justifies his actions

[@szasstam5131]

I always thought the locus were ancient living mostly to themselves underground until the humans discovered imulsion and the subsequent gold rush to extract as much as possible brought the imulsion near the locus resulting in them forced to attack the surface in order to escape the lambent. Which makes sense how the locus are so well developed and numerous. Saying locusts were created like 50-60 years before E-day is insane how did they become to advanced and numerous in such a short period of time?

[@iRyanB]

I was thinking the same thing. That was very stupid for the devs to do. They should have been an ancient civilization and not man made monsters. Kinda ruins it all.

[@thenewadventuresofhenry6998]

Adam was a noble man in an evil world. He kept running out of time.

[@Kokichi-ro2ys]

Gears is such an underrated game series. It deserves more praise! I also love your channel, The Metro Content is amazing just like this!

[@jessehenderson2967]

4 main entries, 1 spin off title and 1 strategy/rpg hybrid game. yup, underrated.

[@juliendacoolien3454]

@@jessehenderson2967 That's not what underrated means but okay

[@jessehenderson2967]

@@juliendacoolien3454 I was being sarcastic....

[@5xg378]

@@juliendacoolien3454... That was the point

[@Reyma777]

Personally, I think the Locust should have been aliens native to Sera. The Locust being native to Sera would clean up the Locust population issues associated with the lore. Also think the COG would have been better off as being written as the descendants of genetically engineered colonist that lost and regained their technology.

[@comandercarnis]

@@Veachie wait since when could the locust turn humans into more of themselves?

[@reeart3614]

Same, I just assumed they were an underground army taking the planet back. The real lore is cool and all, just seems like an army that can pop up anywhere kind of explains itself.

[@5xg378]

@@comandercarnis since always

[@jayzavala1431]

@@5xg378 but how I think he’s asking and me too.

[@5xg378]

@@jayzavala1431 I dont think exactly how they did it was ever revealed. We know how the swarm does it but not the Locust

[@KM____________]

I did wonder why the labs went unexplained (to me as a child) but its frankly boring that the locusts were man made mutants. Feels like the canon was wrapped up this way to justify the story in the microsoft sequels

[@itsmegareth9663]

Gears of war is the reason i bought a 360 over a ps3. Favourite game franchise, just wish we could get the original trilogy ported to pc

[@kidbuu_theguru]

Here again after the E day trailer dropped 💪🏾

[@nikhilgowda6729]

Here after watching Gears of War E Day announcement on xbox showcase 😊

[@KingAbzTV]

The Gears of War lore master approves of this video 👍 Although your pronunciation of Gorasnaya was…interesting 😅 Nice work 💙

[@WiseFish]

Haha I know I could not pronounce it at all!

[@user-kw4fq3ly4v]

Thanks for the great back story/history of the origins of the Locust Horde & “Emergence Day.” Am NOW looking-forward to playing the NEW “Gears Of War - E-Day,” on my X-Box Series X console once this new “Gears,” game is finally launched on Game Pass!!!!!

[@deemer1092]

The one thing that the lore seems forget is that there had to have been some form of sentient creatures living in the Hollow before Myra and the locust arrived. Structures and writings in the hollow were described as ancient. Idk about y’all but 80 years (at most) doesn’t seem ancient to me. I’ve heard somewhere that the Kantus are actually native to the hollow but I can’t remember where.

[@CrAcKcHeeZe]

I think some of the in game collectibles stated the ruins were ancient. It might just be a big oversight in the writing but I think it’s far more interesting if the kantus and some others have been running around the hollow for a long time.

[@benjaminabarca1586]

That's my biggest gripe about the locust lore, that the amount of time they existed related to what they built does not make sense

[@FreezyPop]

The Kantus were in the hollow before Queen Myrah and the locust arrived.

[@Underrated_History1863]

@@FreezyPop where did you find that information?

[@FreezyPop]

@@Underrated_History1863 the books

[@ulyssesflag3062]

I came back to video after the Gears of War E-Day trailer

[@mattyspoons777]

It always makes my morning when you drop these videos! Makes that morning commute to work that much better. Thanks mate!

[@Raven.Bloodrot]

Whose here after gow e-day announcement?

[@NoahX2002]

letsgoooo

[@Raven.Bloodrot]

​@@NoahX2002this is all we wanted.

[@josiahgonzalez942]

Prime dom and Marcus in the heart of the most talked about event in all gears games. 🔥 Can't wait

[@Cothfotmeoo]

Another amazing lore video. I didn't know any of this about the Locust. Well played!

[@Ushanka.hathome]

Wow-what an awesome video, it was so well written, edited, and such a good voice! This makes me wanna boot up GOW again after years

[@Fen_Wolf]

Great Video been loving the content so far I love how you tell the lore

[@Kaiju-Driver]

I never knew how epic this Lore was! Wow!

[@akramgimmini8165]

Great Lore Video as Always 👌 Keep up the good work 😃

[@ActiveSufi]

I’m so happy Gears is back. I was so sure that we weren’t going to get a new one after Tactics.

[@Destroyerofnations]

Ngl I’ve been waiting for a nice summary of this important day, certainly helps with researching Gears lore to write stories XD

[@jackmcdowell3338]

Never really have the time to play games but your fine work keeps me posted thank you 👍

[@Pmartz3]

You’re better than most of the lore videos channels I follow

[@grizzz8576]

Great videos keep up the great work dude

[@christillman8578]

Excellent video as always!

[@Aaron_Somers]

Anyone else here after the new Gears Of War E-Day trailer from the Xbox showcase 2024?😮

[@thenewadventuresofhenry6998]

I wonder how many Humans lived on Sera before E-Day? They mentioned that billions of people lived there before E-Day and only hundreds of thousands had survived. They also mentioned 99% of Humanity had perished, which literally would be 99.99% if you factored billions down to hundreds of thousands. So I'm gonna assume the Pre E-Day population ranged from 2 to 8 billion people, meaning anywhere from 500 million to 2 billion people died on E-Day. I wonder how many people lived in Tyrus? Since it was one of the wealthier and more powerful countries, maybe a few hundred million? It had a lot of big cities so...

[@Sir_Twiggy]

Very sweet coverage, thanks 😋

[@dangjohnson_]

I love this video! Great job man and the best part is that it's 21:12 seconds ;)

[@goawayihavecommentstomake1488]

I had no idea that the humans created the Locust. It had always seemed odd to me that an intelligent species lived under ground but humans had no idea of their existence, even after millennia… Or, as i assumed, a few centuries of human colonisation from elsewhere in space (ie: Earth).

[@Kre-s]

Who’s here after the reveal trailer of gears of war E day

[@DrFly-26]

I love that the locust turned out to be made by humanity due to military experiments. COG is literally the villain lol

[@anzac407]

Great video, good job!

[@clarencezer]

Came here after Emergence day trailer and wanted to learn more about it. Glad to have found this video!

[@oliverwatson8241]

Great Video Man

[@xXLilSmurthXx]

This was amazing!! Haven't completed Gears 5 so maybe a lot of this back story comes from it, but I always wondered where the Locust came from and why they "emerged"

[@thesauce7289]

Really wish they just kept the backstory of the locust as an ancient civilisation that lived underground rather than being created by humans

[@TactWendigo]

Another stellar video. My only complaint is that they aren't longer. Lol

[@wellofinfinity]

Thankz for your work❤

[@ladydimitrescu8096]

Poor young Myrrah 😔

[@Normalguy1690]

The old gears were just pure OGs new gears games don’t hit the same

[@aresix8239]

Playing 5 rn. I feel ya

[@xILLxChronic]

Great video, it's so jarring seeing how drab and grey the 360 games were compared to the rest.

[@otf.111ghosty]

perfect video

[@NameorsomethingIdunno]

Me: *sees this* My brain: HUMANS ARE NO STRANGERS TO WAR

[@couldntfindaname966]

Beautiful 👌🏾

[@Damnjam19]

Awesome Video! If I could make a suggestion about the next one Father Elijah from Fallout New Vegas.

[@strikeforce1500]

CoG's government: "Well, well, well, if it ain't the consequences of my actions"

[@raymore544]

Good lore reading sir

[@DEATH-px6mh]

Wisefish I know you must be busy on other works etc but may I request you look into persay the horus hersey or some stuff from warhammer 40k maybe the unification wars to the great crusade your videos are always well researched and quite entertaining so it would be dandy if you could maybe branch into warhammer lore? again thanks for your great videos!

[@WiseFish]

I’ll look into it dude. Tbh I don’t really know much about 40K franchise, wouldn’t know where to get the footage from for the lore.

[@flightkidd123]

I would love to see a mature animated/anime style take on e day and a spin off of maybe another squad, the lore in gears of war is huge they don’t have to just settle with delta squad I mean if they do they better do it right but making something new would only make the gears universe feel bigger and it should be with all the characters and enemies

[@reecechapman7286]

Could you do a lore vid on the native life of the hollow and loved the video

[@DavidB1124]

I've always feel sorry for the locust. They had the right to live.

[@AresdarkKaOs]

The obvious solution is establishing a society that embraces them and the vicious genocide would immediately stop. The Locust made their choice.

[@DavidB1124]

@@AresdarkKaOs they never had a choice, they never asked to be created. And they never asked to be sick due to the imulsion. #LocustReparationsNow

[@Bkeny1999]

@@AresdarkKaOscant really blame em when they watched the surface wage war against eachother for 80 years over fuel supplies

[@Bkeny1999]

@@AresdarkKaOslike imagine you’re grey and almost reptillian like and these mfs see you, not only that but the fact that locust are man made makes it worse. I highly doubt the government that created them would let them prosper

[@trevorslinkard31]

I just started playing the Gears of War trilogy again. Such a visceral story

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

Wen one fights against the extinction of one's species every day is a victory

[@hawkegarret7678]

The biggest question I wanted answered is what if the pendulum wars never happened and the cog and uir were at full strength how would the locust war have went would it have went the same or would locust not been able to get as far as they did with everyone weakened

[@5xg378]

Iirc, if the Pendulum Wars didnt happened, the Locust war wouldnt either. As the locust were the result of super soldier experiments for the Pendulum wars

[@chief3449]

As a gears of war enthusiast I can agree yellow stuff bad

[@WiseFish]

Dr Niles bad as well

[@Hyperion9700]

Control on Mercy is why I love Gears lol also RIP Maria

[@Flood_Pro]

Bottoms up!

[@geoxev9423]

The Cole Train brings the Whole Grain Baby. Wooooooooooooo

[@daswordofgork9823]

2:25 Hey you got Andorea. Realistic sword fights in movies

[@GrayShadowFOX]

The footage from 16:55, was that a mod or from one of the games? Great job on the video!

[@divius98]

Gears of War 4 prologue

[@mongooseunleashed]

Look at all that JUICE!

[@albish6260]

For yo gears lore playlist, you should re name it to gears of lore

[@jeffersonmason3780]

Since you know so much about Gears lore, I was join g you could explain the difference between Ephyra and Jacinto? At first I thought Jacinto was a separate city, but I think it’s maybe a district in Ephyra itself?

[@matthewheistand2340]

Marcus said is gear of war 2 that they could those men who fell in the pendulum wars and I felt that 🫡

[@MonSpeed32]

Why doesn’t this video have more views?? 0_o

[@iopohable]

nice voice man

[@kicokyaw1039]

this was a great video but I do wanna say that the lore behind the Locust and E day doesn't make any logical/rational sense. According to Gears of War 5, the Locust were created at max 50 years or less before E day after a max few hundred locust escaped with Myrrah into the hollow from the lab. In addition to that, the reason why the locust invaded the surface was becausing they were losing the war against the Lambent in the Hollow. This means that in 50 years, the Locust had created a civilizaton as well as a population that was advanced and plentiful enough for them to fight a 2 front war with the humans on the surface and the one against the lambent in hollow which they were losing. E day was a simultenous invasion of every major city on the surface that killed billions in a single day, this would take millions upon millions of Locust to do, and they were still fighting the lambent. Lastly, what makes this the most implausible is that the primary means of reproduction is with a male drone and a female bezerkers (which were so violent they killed anything they came across and had to be tied down to be mated with). Such as small timespan and such a impratical repoduction method, means that there is no way the locust could do what they did in. It would be more believable if the Locust had existed for centuries rather than just a few decades

[@WiseFish]

I mean don’t have a go at me that’s what the lore states I’m just reading the story

[@kicokyaw1039]

@@WiseFish oh no sorry, I'm not having a go at you. You made a great video. Just wanted to express my thoughts about the locust lore! Keep doing what your doing!

[@WiseFish]

@@kicokyaw1039 I do agree with you though there are some bits that a bit questionable I guess because after the original trilogy they added new bits but that screws it up a little. I do enjoy the story but it’s a bit messy

[@pitster1105]

@@Veachie I think your missing a Key point. The lore also states that locust would have wiped out humanity with in a couple of years if it weren’t for the hammer of dawn counter attacks. That’s why the cog burned sera. Every time the locust captured a city they would use its infrastructure to move troops and weapons. The cog calculated at the rate the locust were advancing humanity would be gone with in a year or two. So they used the hammer of dawn to burn sera and deny the locust access to factories and other infrastructure they were using in their war effort,killing millions of them in the process. That’s why war lasted 17 years.

[@pitster1105]

@@Veachie sorry that was a typo

[@LouSassholes]

More plz

[@Uknown76]

Holy shit boys i never thought we would get an e day game

[@feralprocessor9853]

Very devastating

[@theticklingpickle]

That fucking music man

[@thecontainmentunit2610]

You should do more of Gears of War, I've always loved this game series (except for Four and Five)...

[@CoolSmoovie]

This setting is perfect for a RTS game

[@andrewaiello6110]

There's still one unanswered question: What happened to the fringe party and are they truly gone, or are they still out there?

[@Ch3wyy98]

Damn so this basically happened over oil like real life wars lmao

[@doomnationalist]

As a kid I used to think this was happening on Earth and the locusts were an underground civilization.

[@Flood_Pro]

Id say "heads up!" But its more like heads down.

[@NewGuy2534]

So basically, COG’s greatest enemy is themself.

[@warhawk4494]

Bulletstorm is set in this universe. And I love it. I just don't know why this planet couldn't call the alliance or earth for help against the locust.

[@user-DrKritz115]

Seriously

[@Bkeny1999]

Not sayin ur wrong but it jus blew my mind. Never played BS but can gell the guy in the cover art is supposed to be marcus fenix, but when i look it up it says Bulletstorm takes place in the same universe as Borderlands. Does this mean Gears of War and Borderlands are set in the same universe?

[@RUGER5264]

Oooo a corpser!

[@ipwntheponies]

COLE TRAIN BABY

[@na23jk]

I miss gears of war💔

[@bingcom5250]

Huh, I really always thought they were aliens

[@Nolongerhereanymore]

8:26 thats what ruined the locust in the origins....but hey this can be uncannon one day

[@Nolongerhereanymore]

The miners became the sires while their children evolve differently aka the locust

[@dazzaMusic]

This is what made GOW great, a sense of desperation with an overwhelming enemy and odds of winning were almost zero basically what 4 and 5 were missing entirely.

[@tarryattorney1414]

So technically they were just recycling worm poop?