- Alternatively, Queen Myrrah is a Time Lady.
- in fact. Sera isn't an alternative earth, is another planet, the humans find it because they completely wasted the energy resources from the planet... completely
Myrrah's monologue from the end of the first game indicates that the Locusts simply cannot stop fighting the war, and will continue to do so until they are extinct. Them fighting for their very survival would go a long way towards explaining this attitude.
- This theory seems Jossed by Gears of War 2. In fact, it seems Imulsion is The Virus to the Locusts.
- Alternatively, this might have something to do with the Kryll being extinct now. It's noted that the Lightmass Bomb obliterated the Kryll breeding grounds and there are no Kryll to be seen in Gears 2; perhaps the Kryll provided some sort of ecological balance and now that they're gone, it's starting to crack. After all, there were no Lambent in Gears 1 except some wretches, and the Lambent Wretches were associated with the normal Locust. Marcus does note that it's possible the civil war has been going on for a long, long time, but this seems unlikely given the visits underground in Gears 1 that showed no signs of it.
- The "visits" in Gears 1 was a single short commando raid into an uninhabited section of the Hollow, and Dom points out that no one has been underground since the start of the war.
- The Wretches are affiliated with the Locust, sure, but they seem more like attack dogs than a species of Locust. A Locust becoming Lambent is likely seen by Myrrah as someone would see a human who has contracted something like mad cow disease or rabies or something.
- Canonically, the civil war between the Locust Horde and Lambent Locusts has been going on since before the war with the humans, so that suggests more than a decade at least. In fact, it was the alleged reason for the war with the humans. The theory might still work, though; the locust could have lived near immulsion pools, even if the pools weren't safe to go in.
- Alternatively, this might have something to do with the Kryll being extinct now. It's noted that the Lightmass Bomb obliterated the Kryll breeding grounds and there are no Kryll to be seen in Gears 2; perhaps the Kryll provided some sort of ecological balance and now that they're gone, it's starting to crack. After all, there were no Lambent in Gears 1 except some wretches, and the Lambent Wretches were associated with the normal Locust. Marcus does note that it's possible the civil war has been going on for a long, long time, but this seems unlikely given the visits underground in Gears 1 that showed no signs of it.
- A bit of extrapolation on the last point: The draining of much of Sera's oceans at the end of Gears of War 2 (It'd take a HELLUVA lot of water to flood The Hollow) could have been what started the disappearance of Sera/Mars's Oceans.
- Another thing supporting this idea from Gears 2. The characters pronounce Sera with a long e, rather than a short e, which would be what you get if you pronounce Ares backwards.
- The Locust Queen's dialogue in Gears of War 2 seems to hint that this might be true.
Since the backstory seems to indicate Adam Fenix was executed by General RAAM, apparently he didn't do so good.
- Except the ending in Gears 2 shows you he's alive and kicking.
- He wasn't killed by RAAM. He was abducted by the COG and sent to Azura to continue his work on the weapon that would wipe out the Locust.
- Seems Jossed; Myrrah doesn't recognize Marcus as anything but his father's son.
- I can also imagine the look on her face as she read that...
- Could be jossed, but not necessarily. It's a fair explanation for how she knew just who Marcus was as soon as they met; she might have simply chose not to tell him for whatever reason.
- Jossed-the wiki says Marcus is the son of Dr. Elain Fenix and Adam, of course. Maybe Myrrah's his sister, or a clone of some sort created with Adam Fenix's DNA. There's also a WMG below about Myrrah being Ruth.
- I don't know, I think that when Elain went underground to look for Imulsion crystals she...changed. I can easily see her changing her name and appearance to the point where Marcus couldn't recognized her, not to mention he hasn't seen her in decades. I mean it's not the first time a woman that the main character knows was turned into the leader of another species.
- She changed into a dead body. Which was found by Marcus and Adam. Cliffy B has even said it would be very stupid and cliche if Myrrah was Marcus' mom.
- jossed. As of gears 5, we learn the fenix bloodline doesn't connect with myrrah's at all.
- Meanwhile, the Sires were created by Samir Duran, still up to his old tricks after millennia of hiding.
- And the name Sera is a corruption of the popular Terran planet-name-closer "Sara", as in "Mar Sara" and "Chau Sara".
- Jossed by the second game: Myrrah and Maria are both seen on-screen, and they are different characters Maria dies, too.
Also, for the apparent leader of the Locust Horde, Myrrah's voice sounds human, as opposed to the more alien speech-patterns shown by Locust soldiers and General RAAM.
- I think the Boomers fill this role as well.
- In the sequel, the tough but slow-moving minigun-wielding Locust position is filled by Boomers called Grinders, who wield their Mulchers just like they do the Boomshots. And yes, they do yell "GRIND!" right before they spin up their gun.
- Alternatively it's a sort of castaway prison/detention planet. Where the castaways were sent there centuries ago and they formed their own governments/civilization. Eventually forgetting or not teaching the younger generation on how humans came to sera, either out of spite or lost history.
- The novel says it's because he doesn't like his crew cut. So, close enough.
- Jossed in Gear 3, though maybe he just hasn't cut his hair recently.
Second - The Lancer's bullet calibur. The magazine of it is around the size of modern assault rifle magazines - maybe even smaller. You can try seeing it fall to the ground in Gears of War (well, 2, at least, that's what I checked it in). But since the modern assault rifle magazines I'm comparing it to use 5.56 x 45mm NATO rounds, and hold 30 rounds, that would mean the 60/50 magazines of the Lancer within Gears of War 1/2 have rounds which are roughly half the overall size of common real assault rifle ones. Bullets around half the size of standard assault rifle rounds could probably be shaken off by people under the effects of an adrenaline rush, and since the Locust have stronger and harder bodies than humans, could shake them off easily. Increasing the size off the bullets probably wouldn't affect most Gears negatively as the playable characters seem to be capable of firing on full automatic and still be aimed on the target for around 2 seconds (this is going into assumption - I've never actually fired a gun, and can't really say the effects of recoil on different competent people). In essence, the Lancer assault rifle's bullets are too small to effective fight the super-tough Locust.
Third: The standard Gear helmets which cause them to look like The Faceless. As You Know, you would not be able to see very well at all wearing those, which, naturally, would allow you to be easily flanked. The standard Drones of the Locust Horde are stated to use swarm tactics, which would be very effective against the 'can't see shit' Gear.
- My experience with the weapons in Gears 2 leads me to believe that the Lancer is, in fact, greatly superior to the Locust Hammerburst because of its full-auto-capable nature. While the Hammerburst does seem to fire larger, more damaging rounds, place two people twenty feet apart and have them open up on each other and the one with the Lancer will win every time. Also, the rounds for the Lancer are probably smaller, but the discarded clips are significantly longer than standard assault rifle ammunition, suggesting a longer cartridge with as much or more powder. COG Centaurs seem capable enough in good hands against Brumaks, but the King Raven does not seem able to defend itself adequately against Nemacyst or Reavers. The COG clearly could use some form of jet aircraft able to outrun these threats for close air support and removing Reavers/Seeders.
- Granted, the cartridges could be longer, but would that still mean a bullet which is overall smaller than a real-life one (so they can fit 50 cartridges in a magazine roughly the same volume as a real-life one) is hitting the super-tough Locust, who may be able to shrug it off as Its Just A Flesh Wound. The force of the bullet is presumably around the same as another assault rifle, to keep the recoil manageable (though as players would note, it's pretty easy in the hands of our inexplicitly strong protagonists).
- I, a Lancer-favouring person, get my ass kicked by my Hammerbust-using little brother's accuracy on a still target while mashing the fire button. Are you sure you remembered to do that in your test? Pressing the fire button real fast on the Hammerbust has its fire rate ramp up.
- I second the above troper. The Gears 2 Hammerburst is an overpowered win machine. It's the only weapon I have ever felt was overpowered aside from the quickly-remedied 50 HP Backburner.
- My experience with the weapons in Gears 2 leads me to believe that the Lancer is, in fact, greatly superior to the Locust Hammerburst because of its full-auto-capable nature. While the Hammerburst does seem to fire larger, more damaging rounds, place two people twenty feet apart and have them open up on each other and the one with the Lancer will win every time. Also, the rounds for the Lancer are probably smaller, but the discarded clips are significantly longer than standard assault rifle ammunition, suggesting a longer cartridge with as much or more powder. COG Centaurs seem capable enough in good hands against Brumaks, but the King Raven does not seem able to defend itself adequately against Nemacyst or Reavers. The COG clearly could use some form of jet aircraft able to outrun these threats for close air support and removing Reavers/Seeders.
- WRT "full gear:" Doing a mantle is difficult to do in "less" restrictive gear like what the modern US Army wears. You could ask a soldier in modern full kit to do that move, and he could do it, but it would be pretty hard, too.
- WRT rifle calibers: Single Lancer bursts have been shown to easily kill Locust in cutscenes. Also, Lancer magazines are twice the size of the magazines of your typical M16 or other NATO 5.56x45mm rifle.
- They look much larger, but I'm sure they are clearly at least half as thin as the common 5.56x45mm's magazines. So, it would presumedly hold around the same amount of 5.56x45mm's cartridges as them.
- The magazines look, to me at least, far wider than STANAG magazines, closer to triple- or quadrouple-stacked rather than STANAG's double stacked. Even with 5.56 NATO or 6.8 Remington, 50 or 60 rounds could easily fit in that magazine.
- Lancer bullets look like they shoot WAAAAYYYYY faster than what we have. Look at the bullet holes in concrete, the rounds go so fast that they burn holes in it. Stopping power isn't reliant on the size of the round, it's reliant on how many joules the round puts in the target. If a round is half the size of a 5.56 NATO, but it's shot at about 5 or 6 times the speed of a 5.56 round, it's gonna do more damage. The reason they don't seem to have much stopping power is because CO Gs where power armor made of space medal and Locust are 7 foot tall thick-skinned lizard men.
- LADIES AND GENTELMEN, THE ANSWER TO ALL YOUR GOW WEAPON-RELATED QUESTIONS; The Gearspedia: http://gearsofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Gears_of_War_Wiki. More importantly, a picture of the inner workings of the Lancer Assault Rifle on this page: http://gearsofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Mk_2_Lancer_Assault_Rifle
- In order to create a human-Locust hybrid, wouldn't the Locust have to have existed already?
- Part-way transformed Locust men would be more accurate.
- I agree and am willing to bet that The Locust were some sort of secret weapon created to be used in the Pendulum Wars. That would tie-in with all of Myrrah's babbling about how humans are responsible. That is also why The Locust started taking prisoners in 2, which surprised Delta. They were creating more soldiers.
- Consider the WMG below, that Myrrah is Ruth from the New Hope Medical File.
- Word of God essentially confirms this.
- It wouldn't surprise me. They've learned to associate the roar of a Troika with agonizing death, and while RAAM calls to them, they come looking for a meal, hear/see the Troika, and fly around him.
- Then why do the Kryll leave Raam and attack the player when Raam points at the player?
- "Hey, look. Humans! Go eat them and stop annoying me!"
- Then why do the Kryll leave Raam and attack the player when Raam points at the player?
- Very likely considering that, in one piece of collectible data, a human test subject at New Hope was described as undergoing physical changes (hardening, graying skin, loss of hair, etc...) that match the appearance of Locust Drones.
- It's more likely he was turning into a Sire, which seem to be unholy hybrids of human and Locust DNA.
- Another intel item has Baird remarking that it's strange that there are apparently no Locust children. So if there are no kids, where do the adult Locusts come from? Converted humans is a decent guess.
- Boston America is trying to turn us into Locust!
- Alternatively, it resurrects dead bodies. This would be really poetic and fit Go W's occasional "War is bad, mkay?" theme.
- Jossed in Gears 3; Lambent humans are just Lambent humans.
- When you get to the New Hope facility it is clearly overrun by Wretches right from the start, about halfway through the mission, the Locust turn up and Dom acts surprised. This suggests that the Wretches at least are separate from the Locust and exist as wild animals.
- Additionally, it has been stated that Brumaks share a remarkably similar DNA profile to that of a gorilla, possibly indicating an Imulsion-related mutation.
- Confirmed.
- Plausable. Sera has a twenty-six hour long day. But more likely, they're huge because of the training they get, the use of steroids in their food by the COG, and the armor they wear (which makes them look even bigger than standard)
- Well, you're at least partially right - there's a Dizzy Fan Club thread on Epic Games' forum, where he is naturally, a Memetic Badass.
- Here's hoping he'll actually be able to put up a fight or be on our side.
- Given the Deader than Dead treatment used for most deaths in the series, this is a real possibility.
- Combining this with another guess above, he will be around to compete with the new Big Bad lambent RAAM in Gears 3.
- Weird inexplicable glow? Check.
- Sentience, or at least semi-sentience? Check.
- Excellent Power Source? Check.
- Used by mad-scientist in weird experiments? Check.
- Unpleasant side-effects from exposure? Check.
This could also explain why the Locust were so hell-bent on eradicating the Humans. They were killing the planet.
- Not precisely true, obviously, but it's got all of Phazon's nasty qualities (sans radiation) and is a parasite of some sort.
- Combine this guess with the one below and you've got humans and locusts fighting a lambent-human-locust force, unless the idea above that lambentified humans become locusts is right. Still it is potentially awesome, two armies fighting together against a copy army that glows, using brumaks and centaur tanks together against partially lambentified brumaks(or some other big thing) and centaurs, with the hammer of dawn being the only advantage the non-lambent have, unless there's a bit where the hammer falls into enemy hands.
- Jossed. The only thing humans and Locust can agree on is that the Lambent need to be shot. That does not preclude them from shooting each other, and they do this quite a bit.
- Also, let's look at the post credits line where Marcus' Father seemed pretty miffed that Humanity has carried out the plan he was suggesting. Why? Not that they Had carried it out, But the Method they used to do so, Another Light Mass Bomb. Compare this to how the Locust were attempting to carry out the exact same plan, a more Natural method of using a Giant Worm. That was a safe, imulsion emition free solution. The Locust Understand the problem with Imulsion, which is why they're attacking humans, to stop them using it. Which is why they Get More And More Desperate with Each Big Imulsion Based Explosion we humans cause. Mark my words, now there's been a second Giant Imulsion Explosion, Rustlung, or maybe something even worse, will be on the rise in the third game.
- Fucking confirmed.
- I seem to recall some promotional material from Gears 1 that said Dom lost both his wife and a son on E-day, so this is possible.
- My Dom action figure's packaging says he lost two sons.
- And the novels say he lost a son and a daughter (Benedicto and Sylvia). Jesus, Dom. Keep track of your damn kids!
- My Dom action figure's packaging says he lost two sons.
- You Know, combined with some of the Above ideas, that could have some very Interesting Consequences...
- Note that Gears in full armour bear a passing resemblance to Space Marines. Also, the COG has conscription, something the Imperium is totally all about.
- The Locust seem more like Orks to me. Maybe Gears is set before the Age of Strife, and the Gear's armor was engineered into the space marine armor when humanity screwed itself over. The locusts themselves are Orks that haven't developed their Orkiness yet and Lambants are possibly the next step before the entire species turn green.
- My theory is that it takes place on a planet forgotten by the Imperium for whatever reason, and it's been like that for several centuries. At first they absolutely raped the indigenous aliens with their superior weaponry, but after being forgotten and stranded they eventually ran out of ammo and had to start making their own weaker weapons, and after a while the Locust noticed and started the war. The Gears are either the watered down offspring or watered down clones of Space Marines. The final game will end with the Imperium discovering the planet again and sending down Space Marines to take care of the Locust, and Marcus and the other Gears will be drafted into the Imperial Guard as super elite soldiers.
- I like the idea of EXTERMINATUS better. It'd at least be funny since it practically happened before.
- Of course, Carmine dying can only be done for so long. D. Carmine (the 4th carmine) will most likely survive just to confuse us.
- Of course D. Carmine survives. He's going to be a muscular powerhouse built like a Berserker who dual-wields Mulchers with Chainsaw Bayonets and who wears a tank top, Hulk-style ripped pants, boots, and a helmet (because no armor could ever hope to fit on such a wall of pure manliness). If he ever starts to lose, Dizzy will show up and give him his Cowboy Hat, which will turn him into a Brumak mounted with hundreds of Hammers of Dawn. The only thing you fight for the rest of the game are Wretches.
- You, sir, win the internet. And chances are he'll survive, depending on what the fandom thinks. One problem though, it's Clayton Carmine. Oh well.
- ALL MEN ARE WRETCHES COMPARED TO THE MIGHT OF D. CARMINE!
- It does fit into the Carmine Escalation Principle— Anthony was a dribbling moron who got capped by a little thing like a .50 Caliber sniper bullet to the head. Benjamin was an expert sniper who had to be killed by digestive parasites in a monster worm's stomach. Clayton can choke out a drone, starts off with a Torque Bow, and survives the events of the third game.
- Lizzie Carmine is actually disintegrated by a Hammer of Dawn direct hit.
Same as above, but either one act or one mission in Gears of War 4 will involve saving the fourth Carmine.
I don't think there will really be a fourth Gears of War game, what with the pervasiveness of the trilogy structure in modern entertainment and all. Instead, the third game will introduce the third Carmine who, following the pattern, will survive further into the game than either of the brothers that came before him. In fact, he is so long-lived that, by the time something comes along that can kill him, it's a serious enough threat to require a Big Damn Heroes moment to save Delta. And that Big Damn Hero will be the fourth Carmine, itching for revenge for his brothers...
- I will be very disappointed it they don't do that, or at least top that.
- ...but he dies anyway, because that'd be even more vicious and keep the theme of the Carmines' dying over and over.
- While Dizzy did survive Skorge, his family name is Wallin.
- Go to the main page. Look at Coles arms.
- Sera is so impoverished because all the food goes to Gears to keep them in fighting shape. I mean, come on. LOOK AT COLE'S ARMS.
- Of course! The Nanoblack and Necris are what they came up with to fight against the Imulsion filled Lambent and their shinyness since black and glowing white are complete opposites of each other.
- Adam Fenix is alive in Gears 3 and you get to see him in person.
There is a decent chance that Gears 3 will end with the planet being completely destroyed, but even if it doesn't, the Gears Universe already seems to be post-apocalyptic. There is almost no way that the locust or humans can get out of their war alive, and even if one of them does win, all they're going to inherit is an ashen wasteland that probably doesn't have very much arable land left (if any).
- Jossed. Its a Bittersweet Ending, but mankind survives.
Locust: come from underground.Darkspawn: Come from underground.
Locust: Huge numbers, swarm tactics, human weaponry.Darkspawn: Huge numbers, swarm tactics, human weaponry.
Locust: Kidnap people for slave labor.Darkspawn: Kidnap people for food and procreation.
Gears of War: Does not take place on Earth.Dragon Age Origins: Does not take place on Earth.
I rest my case.
- Note that the in-game codex for Dragon Age explicitly compares the way the Darkspawn swarm as "like a horde of locusts."
Also, Emulsion is found in way larger quantities and in more convenient locations than any naturally occurring substance logically should, so then I jumped from there to the conclusion that it is Sera's lifeblood, and it put it there so that the humans and Locust could use it. But, as we all know, Humans Are Bastards and Aliens Are Bastards, so they fucked up-the Locust caused whatever it was that made the Lambent, (The Locust are bastards. Desperate bastards but bastards nonetheless. They are definitely at fault for something.) and the Humans fought over the emulsion and eventually orbitally bombarded Sera, which got righteously pissed and went all Gaia's Vengeance on them, using the Lambent as its revenge against all who destroyed it.
- It all makes sense to me, Sera used to be one of the UNSC's main Colonies before the Covenant attacked, their attack on Earth forced the UNSC to stray and Sera was lost and eventually developed into its own government, which any minute, can be found by the UNSC.
- Assuming Sera was cut off at the absolute beginning of the war, there is still less than a 30 year period before the UNSC would be able to return there. That is not enough time for Sera's technology to change that much, especially with some of it becoming more advanced, while it is less advanced in other areas. The manufacturing capabilities are also too different Sera can mass produce armor on a level that would bankrupt the entire UNSC.
- Except the novels mention that the COG is literally running on fumes. Weapons and armour are now almost more valuable than the people who wield them. The UNSC, however, still had ships on the line at the end of the Human-Covenant war. In fact, they could technically out-produce the Covenant.
- Actually, it would make more sense if the colony was lost far before the Human-Covenant war, or never had alliance to the UNSC in the first place. After all, the UNSC at it's largest point consisted of over 800 planets, and it took about 300 years for it to get that big. It's also confirmed by the novels that not all of them were founded by official efforts. All that was needed was a large enough ship, and a large enough population. It's not to far a stretch to imagine a fed-up politician, possible one of the Kolsovic revolutionires that the UNSC defeated in the early 2100's, getting together his followers, packing up into a starship, and going to some unknown planet to escape the "tyranny of Earth," or whatever. 300 years is plenty of time for the COG to set it set itself up, discover Imulsion, and have the 60+ year long Pendulum Wars happen. Plus the 15 years of the Human-Locust War.
- However, Myrrah has a very Locust-Supremacist attitude and it seems highly unlikely she would allow herself to be transformed into a human if she was originally something else.
- Marcus should be done, since his storyline was always intended to be a trilogy. It also fits the escalation the first three Carmine brothers had.
- The ending does show non-Lambent Locusts dying. You mainly see drones, but if you look towards the backgroud, you can see all different types of Locust, including a Brumack, dying.
- Confirmed.
- The WMG would have made a lot more sense if it was made before Gears of War 2 came out, when the real cause of the war was detailied, or even Gears of War 3, which went into great detail about it.
- The Bad Guy Wins. That's a given.
- Minh's personality will be completely different. In this DLC, he will be a cocky, laid-back Cowboy Cop who plays by his own rules. The events of the DLC scar him for life and turn him into the rigid By-the-Book Cop we knew him as in Gears 1.
- RAAM's sword execution was recently shown in a G4 preview. He picks his victim up by the head just like he does to Minh in Gears 1, but instead of impaling them, decapitates them instead. At the end of the DLC, Minh stabs RAAM with a blade of some kind, staggering him long enough for Zeta Squad to make their escape; which is why RAAM doesn't settle for decapitating Minh in Gears 1 and instead gets his revenge Ulquiorra-style.
- Sometime in the future, nuclear weapons become far more destructive than present day. When the nations of Earth actually use these weapons, they radically alter the environment and the shape of the continents. In the ensuing dark age, nearly everything about the pre-war world-even the name of Planet Earth-is forgotten. Eventually, human civilization rebuilds itself into the form seen in the games' backstory. The Locust are actually humans who changed by several generations of mutation. Imulsion was created by lingering radiation from the bombs.
- Kantus seem to be able to control animals ( tickers, the rift worm, etc.) and it could be a learned ability. RAAM learned it, somehow, and decided Kryll were a lot more useful on the battlefield.
- They lack female secondary sexual characteristics (boobs) because the Locust aren't mammals (an aversion of Non-Mammal Mammaries, which is noticeable in the Berserkers as well). Ragers start out shorter and with slenderer frames that regular Locust, but temporarily mutate into giant Smash Mook enemies that attack extremely similarly to Berserkers when they're enraged. If they are adolescent Berserkers, then this means that as they age their "rage state" becomes permanent, and also grows larger and more heavily armored. The war with the Lambent stunting the growth of the Locust population would also explain why they don't appear in the later games (by that time, they'd all matured into Berserkers, with no new younger ones to replace them).
- John DiMaggio Fenix. Why? Because it would be hilarious, that's why.
- Alternatively, the D stands for Dominic.
- Jossed. His name is James Dominic Fenix.
- Important question: WHY DIDN'T HUMANITY DEPLOY THESE THINGS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO?! The technology is clearly so advanced that the oldest prototypes would have made Jack a relic of the past. Thing is, the COG wasn't some unified defense of humanity, but a ruthless oligarchy that was on the verge of world domination when one stupid mistake (not dealing with the mutants before they bred the Locust) screwed everything up. It's possible that these weapons of war were originally meant to industrialize the subjugation of humanity, which would complete the steam-cyber-punk theme, and kept in storage so that if humanity (or the Locust) eventually won the Locust war, the old leaders would have a robot army ready to subjugate the winners, and were slowly upgraded by would-be Emperor Scientist oligarchs.
- It's possible that someone is taking advantage of a second Human-Underworld war to raid the supplies they need to finish their Bunker, hunker down and send troops until the war and storms kill off the remaining population, and be the last faction standing.
- DeeBee = D.B. = Damon Baird. This can answer the above question as to why they weren't deployed during the Locust War. Baird probably used some of the research left by the scientists at Azura to help him come up with the idea.
- Yep, this is confirmed. Baird runs the company that made the Dee Bee's.
- After all, the only thing we have as prove she's dead is a tombstone and Marucs and JD's word. She might have pulled an Adam Fenix and is in hiding, or working on some COG project in secret. Marcus knows but has kept it secret from JD which will come to light in Gears 5 or 6.
- Jossed. Public documents say "the late First Minister Anya Stroud".
- During the trial Loomis shows disdain for Sofia betraying the Onyx guard by helping the others disobey direct orders, and it seems likely he wouldn't take too well to Sofia leaving to be with Paduk, a UIR soldier whom Loomis showed contempt towards, so he sent some other COG soldiers out to execute her for "treason" or something like that. I'm guessing this will be addressed in the fifth game where Paduk agrees to help the main characters in exchange for tracking down Sofia's killers.
Basically his entire family was killed by the Locusts/Swarm. Why not?