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Gears of War 4 (2016)

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Octopimp gets you up to speed on Gears of War 4!
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Written by Gainesaurus

Voiced by Octopimp:
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Animated by JulesGD3:
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Transcript:

On planet Sera, humanity battled for millennia during the Age of Armageddon before rejecting their warring ways. During the Era of Silence, humanity enjoyed peace, but as technology advanced, an energy crisis arose. Thankfully, Dr. Helen Cooper discovered the energy potential for abundant resource, Imulsion, using the Lightmass Process. So back to war it is! As nations fought in the Pendulum Wars, the Coalition of Ordered Governments covered up the fact Imulsion miners had become sick from exposure. A few secret experiments later, the Locust species was spawned because we needed something to shoot at.

The Locusts settled in the Hollow beneath Sera, but some were further mutated by Imulsion, becoming the Lambent and beginning the Locust Civil War. Locust Queen Myrrah contacted scientist Adam Fenix to cure Lambency, but he was busy building the Hammer of Dawn to win the Pendulum Wars for the COG instead. Lambent numbers grew and Locusts were forced to invade the surface and kill millions of people on Emergence Day. Eventually, humans turned the Hammer of Dawn on the Locusts, destroying 90% of Sera's surface in a generic commentary on WMDs.

Anyway, Adam Fenix discovered that Imulsion was in fact a parasite that would bring the planet to extinction! ...Probably. Activating the countermeasure he invented, he killed Locust, Lambent and anything infected by Imulsion, including himself. Dying, he urged his buff-n-stuff son, Marcus Fenix, to hang up his Lancer, leave the familiar faces and worn out places behind, and live a happier life.

25 years later, Sera is free of Imulsion but violent windstorms now plague the surface. Marcus has settled with Anya in one of COG's walled citadels, but his estranged son, J.D. and his pal Del were chased out for unknown reasons. After going AWOL on a classified mission, J.D. and Del befriend an outsider, Kait, and stumble on the hive of Sera's new dramatically convenient threat, the Swarm.

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