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| - By 15 A.E., the Locust Horde was in the midst of a civil war between the Lambent and Horde. After the Lightmass Offensive by the Serans, the Locust Horde was forced to take drastic measures by launching a major offensive in the hopes of destroying the last human city, Jacinto, and flood the Hollow with ocean water in the hopes of drowning the Lambent. "Let me get this shit straight. The regular Locust are fighting the glowin' Locust? I thought they were all on the same side." — Augustus Cole, after seeing Lambent attacking Locust inside Nexus By Frost, the Lambent were laying siege to the Nexus, the Horde's capital. Entering deep into the city, the Lambent was able to overcome many of the Horde's defenses. By chance, the COG invaded the Inner Hollow and was caught in a potential three-way war. The COG Gears encountered many dead Locust and Lambent Drones, wondering what had just happened. During Delta Squad's arrival at Nexus, they arrived via cable cars. Marcus, Dom, Baird and Cole saw fighting through a gate; Locust Drones were retreating from unknown assailants, which they knew were not COG as they had just began to land in the area around Nexus. Later on, Delta Squad saw Locust forces retreating, and saw glowing Drones chasing after them. After fighting their way through Locust defenses, they arrived at a battlefield where the Locust were victorious. Baird inspected several Lambent corpses before more Locust ambushed them. They fought their way out, and saw more Locust fighting the Lambent. After going down to the next battlefield, they saw more Locust and Lambent corpses strewn across the ground. Delta Squad later fought a group of Locust that had arrived via lift. When they began to use the lift, the "glowing" Drones returned. One of the Lambent Drones attempted to board the lift, but was shot dead by Private Augustus Cole with a Gnasher Shotgun. The squad was surprised when the Imulsion from the dead Drone left the body and went back up where the rest of the Lambent Drones were, who ceased their attempt to board the lift.
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