The Locust War, was a planet wide conflict between the Serans and Locust races raging between both the surface of Sera and the Hollows. The War began on Emergence Day when the Locust Horde emerged from the depths of Sera and eliminated one quarter of the human population. The months after E-Day, the Locust advanced across the surface and attacked Coalition controlled cities and the nations of the UIR holdouts. Nearly a year after E-Day, total Locust victory seemed inevitable when newly elected Chairman Richard Prescott used the Hammer of Dawn to eradicate all Locust controlled cities and the entrapped human population. The Hammer strikes only slowed the Locust advance across the surface and the survivors of the Hammer strikes formed independent clans known as the Stranded. Locust forces co