(spoilers for 3 and 5) i just finished act 2... this appears to be one MASSIVE mistake

[Uncle Crispy]

if i understood everything right act 2 essentially says that queen myrra was bred by humans and cant age. not only that but somehow she had a daughter AND a grand daughter over the course of 20 years after her death. in gears of war 3 its revealed that marcus' father knew about the locust before emergence day AND that the entire reason behind of the locust invasion was to escape the lambent. yet in gears 5 in act 2 the reason for the invasion was that niles told myrra that her daughter died....

i've never read the books and i really dont read the collectibles... did i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ miss something? been playing through the series for the first time lately and with 4 i was very interested to find out not only how the locust are back but why they are since the lambent are all dead and imulsion is no longer around so they cant come back.

[Chimz]

You misunderstood. Took me 2 playthroughs of Gears 5 to completely understand too.

That wasn't an invasion. That was just an escape from the labs. Myrrah's husband, fearing what experiments they (scientists) might do to their child, ran off with her and survived. Niles lied to Myrrah that they died to keep her there, "Underestimating Myraah's maternal feelings" (towards the locust). She broke them out of the lab and escaped with them, going underground of Mount Kadar where they established a living, away from humans.

Years AFTER that, when the lambent problem occurred she wanted to save her children (locust) from the lambent and contacted Adam Fenix to find a way. Adam kept it a secret from everyone and tried his best to do so, but it took too long and Myrrah decided that they can no longer wait and invaded the surface on E-day, to conquer it and then flood the underground tunnels, ridding the lambent. In Gears 2, we learned of this and flooded the tunnels BEFORE the locust could make it out, drowning both them and lambent. Of course this didn't eradicate neither of them and you know the rest.


This was all explained in the games. What the books and others added to this (that I know of, cause I don't have them either) was that at when Myrrah's patience was getting thin, General RAAM and Skorge advised invading the surface and taking it, and after taking command from SRAAK, the general at the time, they managed to convince Myrrah.