


The Matriarch remained alive and preserved within its stasis tank, which was maintained by an AI construct of Samson's personality over the following decades.

Myrrah and the Locust broke free and traveled to Mount Kadar, where they eventually created the Locust Horde, while the remaining personnel variously succumbed to their wounds or were frozen solid by a cryogenic purge of the facility that Niles had initiated before he bled out. Instead of settling the matter, Myrrah was enraged and directed the Locust to rebel against the lab's staff and guards. Torres became disillusioned with the lab's work and fled, taking his and Myrrah's daughter, Reyna, with him, Samson lied and told Myrrah that Reyna had been killed. The Matriarch was permanently housed within a stasis tank and connected to a mind-machine interface, through which Myrrah was able to attune with the Matriarch and use it as focus, strengthening her connection to and control of the Locust for the sake of turning the Locusts into COGs's obedient powerful soldiers.Īfter Dr. To nurture and enhance this ability, Samson had the Matriarch created using the DNA of Myrrah and a Sire. Niles Samson, they discovered that Myrrah, their most promising human subject, had a telepathic connection with the Locust. Only one has been known to exist.Īs the scientists at Mount Kadar Laboratory continued to study the mutagenic effects of Imulsion on humans, seeking the means to create an evolutionary leap for humans under the direction of Dr. She was what connected Myrrah's daughter, Reyna Diaz, and her granddaughter, Kait Diaz, to the Swarm. The Matriarch had an innate ability to integrate her mind into the Hivemind and allowed Myrrah complete control over the Locust. The Matriarch was the "mother" of the Locust Horde and reproduced the first generation of Drones. Niles Samson and his team of scientists by combing the embryonic stem-cells of Myrrah, a human with a natural immunity to Imulsion, and Sire DNA in order to create a new race of human hybrids that would be immune to Imulsion and be used as a strong military force. The Matriarch, or Subject UL-119-2, was the first Locust Drone created at Mount Kadar Laboratory, and was the original Berserker, the female species of the Locust Horde. I am skeptical but willing to entertain his flight of theoretical fancy." -Dr. He believes that by suspending her in cryptochromic fluid, the pyschomagnetic bond she and EV-194-9 appear to share could be amplified. Torres has developed a containment module for UL-119-2.

All at once, this mighty, matriarchal beast can be calmed into quiescence by no more than a glance! Dr. The bond she seemed to have developed with EV-184-9 continues to intrigue me. " UL-119-2 remains our most physically dominant and remarkable specimen, surviving longer than any hybrid developed with embryonic stem cells.
