Locust Horde (Earth-7954)

"We know almost nothing about them, other than the fact that they want to kill every human man, woman and child. We've tagged them Locusts since this degree of death has only been seen in times of plague. They're subterranean in nature. Aside from that, I'm afraid there's not much left to say."

- - Morpheus to Morpheus

The Locust Horde, also known as the Locust, was a race of sapient reptilian humanoids that, prior to the Second Renaissance, had lived in massive civilizations in a subterranean region of Earth which they named the Hollow. How much time they lived underground is unknown, but the most widely accepted theory is that they were "born" after Project Abraham devised a cure for the Imulsion-infected miners. When they rose to the surface, the Locust made their goal to either exterminate or imprison humanity in an alternate reality system they created named Matrix, in the hopes of learning more about the race and finding a cure for the Flood.

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"We can't stop them. We don't know where they come from. We don't know what they want. They don't even seem to want territory. All they do is kill. We can't even begin to negotiate with them, or work out their objectives, because we just don't know the first damn thing about them. That's not an enemy, Mr. Chairman. That's a monster."

- - Bardry Salaman