Furthermore, there were painful memories associated with the original HoD so bringing it back would cause a lot of backlash among the surviving population.įor Jinn and the New COG, whose goal is to bring all of humanity under its banner, making the public aware of a new network would push a lot of people away and wouldn’t really serve any tactical advantages none that they could have foreseen anyways. When the Locust War was won, there really wasn’t much of a purpose to maintaining the old system, or even developing a new version with the main threat thought to be gone for good. The decision to use weapons of the entire arsenal of the Hammer of Dawn weapons was made by newly elected Chairman, Richard Prescott after he was advised that the Locust were advancing upon the COG capital of. The original purpose of the HoD was a deterrent that the COG and UIR sought to gain leverage and win the war, never intended to be used beyond a show of force to coerce their rival into submission - but the COG couldn’t have imagined resorting to it anyways when the Locust showed up. Crapsack World: Sera is reduced to a total hellhole in the aftermath of the Human-Locust War the planets surface has been scorched to cinders and its water sources contaminated by orbital Hammer of Dawn bombardment, nerve gas killed whatever the satellites didnt, fallout from the end of Gears of War causes terminal respiratory illness in the. The Hammer of Dawn Strikes was a global, orbital strike counterattack against the Locust Horde in occupied territories across Sera.

The Satellite network was steadily degrading over the years and as was mentioned in Gears 3, they were barely functioning so the old system would have ceased operating all together soon after.

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