Could Humanity Survive If The Locust Invaded Today? (Gears of War)

I take a brief, almost topical, look at whether humanity could survive an invasion from The Locust Horde and I look at the challenges posed by such an event. (Gears of War)

[@CanIHasThisName]

Locust would have to employ vastly different strategies and tactics on Earth than they do on Sera.
Seran population has been in a full-on war for nearly 80 years and has exhausted much of it's resources. Civilians were concentrated in large cities untouched by the war. Earth population is much more spread out. Sera's continents were packed together, so much smaller area to focus on and nobody had a naval force comparable to what we have on Earth. Serans mostly relied on artillery, whereas we have a wide variety of bombers and other aircraft carrying explosive ordinance, including unmanned aircraft. The manufacturing of helicopters was lining pockets of a number of officials so no real effort was put into developing fast fixed-wing combat aircraft despite their advantages. Many nations on Earth have fighters which can land on highways and be refuelled and re-armed by mobile equipment towed by trucks. And with no way for the Locust to counter these fighters, they'd be detrimental to any emerging attacks. The Pendulum Wars were primarily about securing resources and mining sites, so their combat gear was mostly suited for holding ground, whereas ours is suited for quick deployment from remote locations. When it comes to communication and imaging technologies, they were probably about 100 years behind Earth, so we'd have much different options for coordinating during Emergence day, and tracking their underground movement after - as in we'd know where they're heading before they'd even get there. Although the Hammer of Dawn was in many ways more advanced tech than anything we have, it didn't have the destructive power and readiness of nuclear weapons. Right after Locust emergence day, because of our communications and much better ability to asses current situation, we'd start nuking major affected areas on the same day, as opposed to a year after, dealing devastating losses to the Locust right off the bat. And this is the biggest issue for the Locust, because their goal was to exterminate humanity and occupy the surface to escape from the Lambent. Serans held them back by the Hammer strikes and chemical weapons. Here on Earth, we could decimate the entire surface and make it uninhabitable for a better part of a century, if not more. We would have the option do deny Locust victory even if we lost the war, so they would probably never attack in the first place.

[@MrFederation]

When it comes to Emergence Day, the thing that needs to be considered is the fact Sera has one big continent but Earth has seven. Because of this, where do you think realistically the Locust would emerge first?
Also, Aberdeen in Scotland would end up being Jacinto because of the granite base it is built on.

[@wyattpeterson6286]

Depends on what the locusts wanted to get: resources, prisoners, weapons, etc.

[@MrFederation]

@@wyattpeterson6286 When it comes to our planet, I think they probably want our resources and weapons!

[@wyattpeterson6286]

@@MrFederation Probably the United States or Russia first.

[@wyattpeterson6286]

Unless they tried to simply capture land similar to Sera's climate, which I think they would go after South America, Asia or Africa.

[@jalejablonsky2396]

Funny you mentioned Air superiority because in the Gearsverse even during the Pendulum Wars neither the Air or Navy Corps are given much attention with COG doctrine being largely focused on the Army, artillery guns, and other Ground elements with special forces being a recent development. A COG general even stated in one the books, “The backbone of military aviation will always be rotary, and tactical airpower must remain in the hands of ground commanders. Fixed-wing costs too much to do little, I see no reason to waste any more taxpayers’ money on the Petrel strike-fighter program when we could spend that on helicopter-launched missile systems. These birds represent better value and can do everything we need, and do it better in most cases, transport, combat, observation, maritime, and special mission. We do not need to fragment our defense strategy by creating a separate Air Force.”

[@danielgutierrez702]

Another huge factor is geography. What if the locusts were only in Asia? It would ruin all the countries there but would give humanity as a whole a chance. In gears the locust wars were so desparate they used the hammer on themselves. I could see the world nuking the entire continent to kill like 90% of them and render the surface uninhabitable

[@ordinarymooseyt9378]

Found you through your Lancer video, you make some fucking amazing content.

[@siberian5089]

I’m not gonna lie but this video feels like a middle school presentation

[@JakubWielkiMistrz]

*Locust army emerges in the middle of Australia:*
~Where the fuck are everybody?

[@Jaymargera27]

We would wreck the Locust horde

[@gohan2791]

Tf is we gon do about kryll? Or lambent?

[@user-hj6on3ic6v]

our earth is divded into many parts most likey people are going to try to survive by them selfs while the seraians are one big army and worktogerther while us humans try to take over places like russa with ukraine and china with amerca we would survive the locust horde

[@Jaymargera27]

@@gohan2791we have Military technology that surpasses the COG, UAV lights would fry the krill, also killing Raam automatically defeats the Krill, the lambet on the other hand we could just Nuke the Underground or send EMPs that would trap the Lambet. We have F22 Fighter Jets that would speedblitz any Reaver in the sky. Our Barret 50 Cal would penetrate any Brumak, Besekers, and drones

[@Jaymargera27]

@@user-hj6on3ic6vwe would probably have a temporary alliance with the Communist Countries to defeat the the Locust Horde

[@gohan2791]

@@Jaymargera27 *Military technology that surpasses the cog*
Didnt know we had a space laser...

[@eg6571]

The humans of Serra had better technology than what we have today and locust still kept coming. Earthquakes can’t be avoided so how would anyone know and lastly do you really think government and our leaders in power would say anything if something like this happened. Humanity of serra was put into what seemed like a never ending war with the locust. Locust almost exterminated all humans. Locust fought and didn’t care if they died or not all for one purpose to end humanity.

[@stevenrodriguez763]

It’s actually worse. Everything they make, we could make better. It’s just that these so many easier ways to do things.

[@nuk3407]

Intressting video

[@justavianhernandez3134]

The rift worm

[@Jaymargera27]

Wouldn’t survive a Nuke

[@gohan2791]

^its under ground tho