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 Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:53 pm
The History of Sera
Gears of War Back Story
Table of Contents
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:01 pm
Sera History
Human civilization had overcome their previous differences on this planet and entered a golden age of peace, prosperity, and beauty. The only thing that the planet suffered from was the constant need for new fuel sources. That is until a new substance called Imulsion was discovered lurking just under the earth's crust. A technique called the Light-mass Process was able to convert this material directly into energy and the cities built atop Imulsion reserves became targets for power hungry nations.
The attacks were launched by those countries without the new fuel source, and thus began the Pendulum Wars. The battles had been waged for 79 years. As humanity fought on the surface of Sera, a new enemy, the Locust, gathered underground and launched an attack unimagined in our worst nightmares. On this “Emergence Day” humans ceased fighting one another … they had to. Within twenty-four hours, one quarter of the human population perished in the Locust onslaught.
Human forces rallied, but divided by decades of fighting in the Pendulum Wars, it was too little, too late. The Locust captured most urban, military, and manufacturing centers. To deny our enemies this overwhelming advantage, humans did the unthinkable. The survivors formed a united front and fell back to a region called the Jacinto Plateau which rested on a layer of solid granite that was too thick for the Locust to break through. From here, the humans launched orbital-beam weapons and destroyed 90% of Sera's surface in a counterattack.
From Jacinto, the humans regrouped and a once glorious city became the center of an offensive. The Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) emerged as the new heads of society, and given the main task of organizing an army to defend the last bastion of humanity.
Human forces fell back to Jacinto Plateau, a geological region of solid granite the Locust could not penetrate. From this haven, human leaders unleashed chemical and orbital-beam weapons that burned the enemy … along with the locust-occupied cities, and the civilians who could not evacuate. Humans won the E-Day invasion, but 90% of Sera’s surface was left a wasteland. The Locust, secure in their underground warrens, survived.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:03 pm
The Battle of Aspho Fields
The battle of Aspho field was one of the biggest anti-locust offensives ever launched by the Coalition. It was the only time the locust mounted a large-scale battle on the surface of the planet. It went so badly for the COG that they had to retreat and sterilize the entire area form orbit.
Unfortunately, the Corpsers had time to dig escape paths, and so the locust suffered minor losses. Marcus Fenix left to save his father which died shortly after then he was charged with desertion and put in jail. Marcus's father was studying how the Locust were able to travel so quickly. He was the one who realized that the Corpsers were the ones that made the tunnels.
The attack came while the Battle at Aspho was in full swing, using the battle as a diversion. But Marcus's trial was in fact a scam. The council wanted a scapegoat for the failure of the battle, and Marcus was a convenient target. Charged with desertion Marcus was sentenced to death. It was only Dom's intervention that saved him from a public execution.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:04 pm
Planet Sera
Sera has endured millennia of conflict, teetering on the brink of a world war that guaranteed Armageddon. Humanity pulled back from this act of self-destruction and evolved into something nobler. For a time the hush of peace blanketed the land. There were still problems: skirmishes, crime, debates over liberties, and a demand for energy that outstripped Sera’s reserves of petroleum and nuclear fuels. There was, however, hope. Sera’s cities became sparkling examples for future generations that this was a new Golden Age.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:06 pm
Jacinto Plateau
The hush of death settled over Sera. While the Locust’s digging machines could not penetrate the granite substrata of Jacinto Plateau, there were natural fissures and utility systems riddling the rock. Human leaders sealed these passages of flooded them with nerve gas. The surviving military then fortified what had once been Sera’s most beautiful cities, transforming shining symbols of hope into desperate reminders that peace was fragile. We know that it is only a matter of time.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:11 pm
What is Imulsion?
Discovered by an oil-exploration drill, Imulsion is a phosphorescing, low viscosity fluid that was only a scientific curiosity until Dr. Helen Cooper invented the Light-mass Process. The Light-mass process converts a portion of Imulsion mass directly into energy.
It was the perfect solution for an energy-hungry world. The few nations lucky to have Imulsion reserves suddenly found themselves the owners of cheap, limitless fuel and the envy of other less-fortunate nations of Sera.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:20 pm
Who are the COG?
Long before the Pendulum Wars, the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) existed only as an obscure world-government philosophy in the mind of the fanatic socialist, Alexiy Desipich. Its austere canon was based on eight guiding values: ORDER, DILIGENCE, PURITY, LABOR, HONOR, LOYALTY, FAITH, and HUMILITY.
As the Pendulum Wars continued, however, the COG grew into a legitimate, albeit a minor, political party. After Emergence Day, COG leaders were the only ones willing to take the necessary steps to survive the epic devastation. They ratified the Fortification Act, which established martial law and transformed Jacinto Plateau into an unassailable fortress.
The COG’s methods proved wildly popular, despite the fact that they temporarily abridged civil rights.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:28 pm
Who are the Locust?
We don’t know what they are. Most Scientists believe they’re a mutated version of Sera’s native life forms. A minority claim they’re aliens. Ask any Gear and they’ll tell you the Locust come straight from hell. We know they live underground. How and exactly where are impossible to determine, however, because the cavern systems in Sera’s mantle are, for all practical purposes, endless.
As a result of dwelling in perpetual darkness, they have an aversion to light, one of our few advantages. All attempts at negotiating with the Locust have failed, and all overtures of peace have been answered with violence. The only conclusion we can draw from their action sis that they want every last man, woman, and child dead.
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:13 am
Letter from CliffyB
“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.” – Sun-Tzu, the Art of War
It has been said that the opposite of war isn’t peace… it is creation.
I’ll never forget the first time I went to London and experienced, firsthand, the beauty of Hampton Court Palace, Westminister Abby, and Saint Paul’s Cathedral. The afternoon was brisk as the sun set on the last tour of the day. I had just climbed all 532 of the damp cathedral steps to the very top. As I emerged into the open air, the clouds parted to reveal a beautiful sunset, and I had an epiphany. Seeing all of London sprawled out beneath me was humbling and inspiring. Right then I knew that the next universe I would help craft wouldn’t be about aliens or tournaments; it would be character-driven, centered on themes of loyalty, redemption, paranoia, and “destroyed beauty.”
We’re taught about the wars that have marred history, but we seldom comprehend their significance. We write our reports, we take our tests, but we don’t empathize. As children, we were preoccupied with kick-the-can, our paper routes, and, of course, our video games. Only later, when our lives are saturated with the vivid imagery of conflict do we understand the true price of war.
Since Emergence Day, the residents of Sera have been paying that price. Crumbled building that ruined monuments loom over the battlefield as somber reminders of what the Gears fight for. The glory of Sera and everything that mankind has struggled to achieve collapses in upon itself, yielding to an unstoppable force. A brutal and protracted war has dashed this planet’s veneer to pieces, and left the shattered bits to be picked up by the most unlikely few.
The Gears of War continue to turn.
Cliff Bleszinksi. Lead Designer, April 5, 2005
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:57 am
In-Game Dialogue
Coming Soon.
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:00 pm
I looked at it. A lot actually.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:31 am
Its nice to finally see some well assembled history of Gears, thanks for posting this!
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:24 pm
It has a lot of information I had no idea about. Good job 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:47 pm
Well, it definately shouldn't be ignored. And I read it when I put it on the walkthrough.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:02 am
wow.. thats a LOT of information that i didnt know.. thanks for sharing it with us =P
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