Yes. The Gears of War series.
Okay, stick with me for a moment.
artanis_neravar said:
Zeh Don said:
Gears of War.
The Locust are attempting to flee their War Torn home, beseiged by new and terrifying creatures from the deep. They develop a plan to escape to the peace of the surface world to re-group and save their people. Unfortunately, they've never set foot "topside" before.
In order to ensure that they're able to evacuate as many civilians as possible as fast they can, they send their largest animals to the surface first, to literally carve tunnels through the earth big enough to move them all at once. Humans, unfortunately, live up top. They see the presumed intentional destruction caused by their emmergence as an act of war.
Meanwhile, the Locust Governmental Sub-comittee responsible for the evacuation is lombasted by the Locust government for not doing their job - they literally dug into the middle of a densely populated city that they didn't even know was there. Attempts to communicate with the Humans are rejected by a never ending stream of bullets and blood.
The Humans further retaliate, slaughtering millions of Locust civillians without hesitation at the hands of American Super Soliders - claiming to be defeating the Locust Horde of monsters from the deep.
Unintentional or not, the Locust are forced to fight an un-winnable war on two fronts. With their civilisation in ruins, their families dead and rotting and no chance at survival, they abandon hope.
They throw themselves endlessly and mindlessly upon the waves Human soldiers, begging for the sweet release of death to free them from the horrors of their shattered lives, and hoping to be reunited with their families in the afterlife.
Wrong, the locust queen specifically says "we thought about making peace with you before we emerged but didn't believe that this was possible, so we choose war" not to mention that the locust killed off something like a quarter of the population of the planet before the humans could even mount a defense, and they chose to emerge in eery city across the globe
No, I recall the entire reason for E-Day coming to pass was because Marcus' dad did not stop the emulsion infection.
If I remember right the locust were perfectly happy derping underground when they suddenly realized the emulsion was a parasitic entity. Marcus' dad made a deal with the locust queen that he would find a way to stop it, and this deal was supposedly made twenty years before E-Day, I believe it was. He took to long because he was having trouble finding a way to set off the weapon he created so that it WOULD NOT kill all of the locust as well as the emulsion. Eventually the locust began to come topside to try to clear the humans out so they could get away from the emulsion.
Then the queen got all bitchy and went all, "KILL ALL THE HUMANS!"
And in the end his father didn't find a way to spare the locust from his emulsion-killing weapon, and so all of the locust were killed at the end of Gears 3.