The transformed Reyna appears and attacks Kait, JD, and Del, forcing Kait to choose to save either JD or Del, leaving Reyna to kill the other. The Gears attempt to set up UIR targeting beacons to provide targeting data to the Hammer of Dawn, but the Kraken destroys them.

Before she can do this, however, the Swarm attacks New Ephyra. The group escapes when Paduk picks them up in a Raven to fly them home.ДЄt New Ephyra, Jinn attempts to arrest Kait, intending to forcibly connect her to the hivemind in order to find the central Swarm Hive. The squad manages to assemble and launch the rocket and acquire targeting beacons to help control the Hammer of Dawn, though they encounter a giant Swarm creature called the Kraken. JD and Fahz arrive to help, with JD apologizing to Del and Kait for his previous deception and subsequent behavior. They meet Baird's former squadmate Garron Paduk, who reveals that the UIR had a rocket loaded with Hammer of Dawn satellites ready to launch. Realizing that Reyna is now the Swarm's queen, Kait reaffirms the COG's need to reactivate the Hammer of Dawn.ДЄ few weeks later, Baird takes the group to the Vasgar desert, where the Union of Independent Republics' secret space program was located. Niles is destroyed by the revived Matriarch, and Kait and Del kill it before escaping the facility. Niles puts Kait in a special machine connected to a dormant Berserker called the Matriarch, which successfully severs Kait from the hivemind but also resurrects Reyna in the process, this having been Niles' true intention. Kait realizes that she is the next queen and demands to be separated from the Swarm's hivemind. However, when her newborn daughter Reyna, Kait's dead mother, was taken away by her father, Myrrah led the Locust to rebel against the scientists and gain their independence. He also reveals that Queen Myrrah was originally a human immune to Imulsion, who could control the Locust due to her genetics being used to create them. There, they find an AI construct of scientist Niles Samson, who explains that the Locust were the result of his experiments by hybridizing the DNA of Imulsion-infected children with the indigenous creatures of the Hollow. Kait and Del reach another secret COG lab hidden beneath Mount Kadar.

At the lab, they find clues leading them to Mount Kadar, a former Locust stronghold. Kait tells everybody about her visions, and Marcus recommends she head to the secret lab at New Hope to find answers, with Del joining her. COG reinforcements then arrive to evacuate the village. She escapes the Snatcher but is unable to prevent Oscar's death which she witnesses through her visions. Kait is captured by a Snatcher and experiences vivid visions of controlling the Swarm forces. The village chief, Kait's uncle Oscar, refuses, but they are suddenly attacked by the Swarm. Kait reveals her mother's Locust necklace to Marcus.ДЇour months later, Kait and Del go to an Outsider village located in the skeleton of the Riftworm to try to convince them to join the COG. While the Swarm forces are annihilated, the Hammer of Dawn malfunctions and begins firing wildly, severely injuring JD. As the Swarm threatens to destroy the evacuation convoy, JD orders Baird to fire the Hammer of Dawn prematurely. It is revealed during the battle that JD, Del, and their former squadmate Fahz Chutani had previously been deployed in Settlement 2 to quell a riot, which resulted in civilian deaths and prompted JD and Del to go AWOL, and that it was JD who gave Fahz the order to open fire on the civilians, causing Del and Kait to lose their trust in him.

First Minister Jinn receives word that Settlement 2 is under attack by the Swarm and sends JD's squad to assist in the evacuation. After doing this, they return to the COG capital, New Ephyra, where Baird informs them that he still cannot locate the other satellites. Reformed as the new Delta Squad, they travel to the ruins of Azura at Damon Baird's request in order to launch a Hammer of Dawn satellite and restore the Hammer of Dawn network. JD, Del, and Marcus are officially reinstated in the COG Army alongside Kait. James Dominic 'JD' Fenix ( Liam McIntyre), his best friend Delmont 'Del' Walker ( Eugene Byrd), and JD's father Marcus Fenix ( John DiMaggio) also return. As Kait, the player must uncover the origins of the Locust and the truth behind her family history. Gears 5 takes place months after the events of Gears of War 4 and focuses on Kait Diaz ( Laura Bailey), an Outsider who is descended from Myrrah ( Carolyn Seymour), Queen of the Locust Horde. In addition to single-player gameplay, the game supports three-player local split screen or online cooperative gameplay. This section needs expansion with: further explanation of gameplay and additional citiations.

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