A Brief Moment in Sera's History

With the COG army continuing to lose large numbers to Locust raids, the COG plan a counter-attack against the Locust by sending troops in Grindlifts deep below the surface to attack the home of the Locust, the Hollow. Though they suffer losses due to the leader of the Locust monks, Narrak, the human forces continue their plan. After their descent, Beta squad, consisting of Draco Yin, Aaron "King" Brown, Rain Tunamos, Jon Ray and Thomas "Tom" Kanes, later joined by Lance Coop , begun to search the Hollow and discovered that the Locust are taking prisoners, as they managed to save from imprisonment. Beta squad finds another imprisoned soildetr named Regenald "Reggie" Cheeke, who has suffered wounds inflicted by the Locust while they tortured him. Though Draco tries to arm Reggie for a fight, he instead commits suicide, the physical and emotional trauma too much for him to bear. Beta squad continues to search the Hollow and discovers that the Locust are using a giant Riftworm to eat away at the rock structures at the outskirts of Jacinto in hopes of sinking it. They try to evacuate, but are swallowed by the Riftworm. The squad manages to kill the worm from the inside, but Jon Ray is killed by parasites.
Beta squad manages to escape to the surface only to be given orders to investigate a nearby abandoned COG outpost where they encounter experimented creatures and learn of a back door entrance to the Hollow in the nearby Kadar Mountains. The team fights its way to the caverns in a Centaur tank and discovers that some Stranded have taken shelter near the entrance. Draco orders Tom and Lance to evacuate the Stranded while he, Rain and King search further. They find more prisoner cages and King convinces Draco to help him seek his sister. They manage to find her, but the Locust torture has left her too traumatized and unable to communicate, so King chooses to euthasize her. Draco, Rain and King continue their assault on Nexus, the Locust capital, and are soon joined by more COG forces from the surface, including Tom and Lance. Delta squad is able to break through the Locust queen's defenses. They then discovers that the Locust have messages from Drew Yin, Draco's father, that suggests an alternate way of ending the war, in case they can't take out the queen; to sink Jacinto in order to let water flood the Hollow and wipe out the Locust. They learn from the Locust queen herself that she is pursuing the same plan not only to wipe out the humans, but to also destroy Dark Locust that have been exposed to Imulsion, a legendary power source and are attempting to overthrow the queen. Draco realizes that humans must sink Jacinto first, before the Locust mobilize and escape to the surface.
Beta squad escapes the Hollow on a set of Reavers,after defeating Skorge and his Hydra, and then return to Jacinto where a mass evacuation is underway. The COG have decided that they can sink Jacinto using a Lightmass bomb and Delta squad is ordered to clear debris out of the way in the main sink hole, allowing a helicopter to safely transport the bomb into the caverns. Draco orders Tom and Lance to assist with the bomb, while he, Rain and King manage to kill a Brumak driver, hijack the Brumak, and use it to arrive at the Hollow and fulfill their objective. As the helicopters arrive, the Brumak, exposed to high levels of Imulsion, begins to mutate. As it changes, it attacks the helicopter transporting the bomb, which falls into the Imulsion. With the Lightmass bomb lost, Draco comes up with a plan that includes killing the lambent Brumak as a replacement for the bomb. He uses the Hammer of Dawn to kill the Brumak, which explodes, taking out the last supporting structures of Jacinto which sink it, flooding the Hollow with water, as the COG forces and civilians evacuate.