dude that's some fine detective work you've got there. more strip sacks would be awesome, fits perfectly with our bend-but-don't-break maybe-shitty-maybe-not defense we have going.
turner was average at the end of 2011 too, he just had a couple big games that inflated his stats a bit. I was still pretty shocked at how far he fell, though.
locusts are kind of confusing. they really didn't seem to touch on what they are at all in the games, you just had to look deeper. the Sires level in gears 2 gave most of it away, with the collectibles giving the final clue. basically, they were doing genetic testing on shit, shit got out of hand and made mutants (the Sires) using the immulsion. after some more shit happened, they sealed all the mutated humans and their families and sealed them up inside a mountain, where eventually the mutations were passed down and formed the different types of locusts. some of them (like serapedes and brumaks) were just monsters that lived under the surface that the locusts tamed, though. the queen is actually (and obviously) 100% human, dunno how she came to be worshiped by the locusts but I think she's related somehow. before e-day, she met adam fenix and tried to get him to help cure the lambency issue that was touched on in gears 2-3, but when that didn't work she tried to gtfo onto the surface so she could flood the inside of the planet where all the lambent locusts were.
no, I didn't cry when dom died. it was pathetic storytelling, really. me and the three people I was playing with at the time thought it was kinda funny, how bad it was.
of course I unlocked prescott, what am I some kind of plebeian? like i said, only one onyx medal away from getting seriously 3.0, where I will ascend beyond the mortal plane of gears players and become a gears god.