Why did prescott kidnap adam fenix

Prescott told him that he had chemical weapons. Deschenko told him that the chemical weapons were the last resort and that they would kill them along with the Locust. Prescott told him he realized he was asking a lot, and that he knew the other leaders thought of him as a newcomer who didn't know how things worked, but they needed to break the back of the Locust. Deschanko told him that most of the main Locust forces were located in Tyrus, and that it seemed like Prescott was trying to save his own nation over the others.

Prescott shot back that there were no national boundaries anymore, and that if anyone was to survive, they needed to band together and try to beat them. He asked one more time if Deschanko would join him, and after a moment of silence, Deschanko told him he could not join him. Prescott told him he understood, and told him goodbye and hung up on him. He spent the next few minutes looking out the window, thinking about what options were available to him, eventually deciding on the Hammer of Dawn.

Prescott was determined to end the threat of the Locust, and try to save what he could of humanity. Victor Hoffman for a meeting to his office. He also told her to try and see if she could get her sister to the Jacinto Plateau in the next few days. A few hours later, everyone had arrived except for Adam, and Prescott got the meeting going. He asked Audley what his options and powers were under the Fortification Act. Audley told him he could declare martial law in part of or all of the COG territories, and a vote was needed to put it into effect.

Prescott told him that there wasn't going to be any voting and that he had the authority to declare martial law without consulting the assembly. Audley said that he could, but it would be ill-advised and would technically be declaring war on the other COG states. Prescott just wanted to know it was legal and constitutional, and Audley nervously confirmed it.

Prescott was glad, and Adam then arrived and apologized for being late, but Prescott told him it was fine. He told them all he was reinstating the Fortification Act, and then asked for their opinions on the state of the war and how long they would last.

Salaman told him they wouldn't last a month, and Hoffman informed him that all of their emergency command bunkers had also been overrun. Prescott understood their dire predictions, and then calmly announced to them that he was going to use the Hammer of Dawn.

Adam thought he was just seeing what they thought of the idea, and told him that it wasn't possible to deploy it strategically, and it wouldn't benefit the kind of war they were fighting. Prescott corrected him, telling him that they were not fighting a war, they were losing one, and that he was not going to let that happen. Salaman pointed out that the Locust didn't take and hold cities, but just cleared them out and took what they could, so targeting individual cities for destruction wouldn't stop them.

Prescott understood that, and told them he was thinking worldwide coverage that would deny all assets around the world to the Locust, with the only area spared being the Jacinto Plateau , which the Locust were unable to breakthrough. He told Adam to plan out the stages in which they would need to use the Hammers, but Adam was too horrified that he was even considering using the Hammers in such a way, and told him that they couldn't evacuate the entire population to Jacinto.

Prescott told him he realized that, and that three days would be given after the announcement for anyone who could to get to the Plateau to get there and survive. He told them that an ethical balance needed to be struck between giving who they could enough time to get there, and using the Hammer before the Locust realized what they were doing. When Adam continued to argue against the Hammers use, Prescott demanded if he had a better solution, and if he disagreed with the others estimates about how long they would last.

Adam admitted he didn't, and if they had more time he could come up with another solution. Prescott told him they had no more time, and Adam finally agreed to help plan the counterattack. Prescott then asked to see Salaman and Hoffman's activation keys to make sure they were intact, and then told everyone that what they had discussed was confidential, and not to tell anyone about what they were planning before the official announcement.

With one week to go before the Hammer strike, Prescott met with Salaman and Hoffman in his office to go over more details.

He talked with Adam over the phone, and learned he had almost finished making preparations for the strike, and would be ready by the next day. Salaman asked if he was still going to give a three-day warning before the strike, and Prescott confirmed that, believing that if it was any longer, the Locust might be able to stop them somehow.

Hoffman argued that they should begin pulling Gears back to the Plateau now, in order to have a sufficient fighting force to keep the massive amounts of civilians under control, and to finish off any Locust that might survive the Hammer strike. Prescott agreed with him, and ordered Salaman to begin pulling back all Gear and navy units back to the Jacinto Plateau as quickly as he could.

He was happy to learn she had taken his advice and gotten her sister and family to Jacinto, and felt that maybe at least one person wouldn't hate him after the strike.

Once all the remaining Cabinet members had settled into their seats, he told them that what he was about to tell them would be announced tomorrow, and that nothing would change his mind. He informed them of the Hammer strike to come in four days, and it was the only hope any of them had to survive the Locust, and that the three day warning was to allow as many people as possible to reach the Jacinto Plateau. Prescott asked Infrastructure minister Jerome for opinions about how many people they could take, and he told him that they couldn't take the entire Seran population, and that they would have no way to all reach there in three days.

Prescott then told them that even if they had room, they wouldn't have the time, and that any fallout from this decision would rest on his shoulders alone, not any of theirs.

They all began arguing and shouting at once, telling him that it was insane and horrible, and that they wouldn't go along with it. Only Adam argued for it, and told them all it was the last hope they had. As they argued, Prescott leaned over to Jillian, and told her that she could go now.

She was pale, and asked if he had warned her. He told her he had, and she thanked him several times before leaving. Prescott then returned his attention to the others, and told them not to tell anyone before the strike tomorrow.

Justice Secretary Janeen Mauris told him that he couldn't just walk out on them, and that they were not going to condemn millions to death without talking about it. Prescott told him they were, and left to return to his office.

Several minutes later Adam arrived as well, and told him that there might be another option. Prescott felt his hopes rise, and asked what it was. Adam told him they could try to flood the Hollow using Hammers strikes on key costal areas. Prescott thought about it, but realized that it would take more time to do, they wouldn't know if it would work, and they would still be losing cities and heavily populated areas. Adam agreed, and said if they had more time it could work, but acknowledged that they didn't.

Prescott asked if his hesitation had to do with his son who was still on the frontlines, and Adam said that he was very worried about him. Prescott told him that he would have him evacuated from the frontline and flown back to Jacinto, and that they would need Gears like him in the coming days. He asked for forgiveness, and claimed that this was the only way to defeat the Locust. Two hours before the Hammer strike, Prescott waited in his office for the hour to come.

He found himself staring at the door, expecting Adam to arrive saying he had found another solution, or Salaman with news that the Locust leadership wanted to talk terms. He realized that this was not going to happen, and just wished he knew what was going to happen in the future.

Adam entered his office, and Prescott asked him if he had any miracles. Adam looked taken aback, and told him that he just had data. Prescott decided that that would have to do, and poured himself a drink. He told Adam that he had done his best to keep his son close to Jacinto, but that he kept going back out on more missions. As they sat there drinking, Adam told him that people thought he was bluffing, which disappointed Prescott, and he pointed out that there was no one to bluff.

All the other COG leaders had given up, and they had no idea if the Locust even knew what was going to happen. Prescott told Adam that he knew he was conflicted about everything, but that his weapon could be the salvation of the human race.

They discussed the ethics of what they were doing, but found that there was no easy answer. The then headed to the ops room, stopping at a security station on the way.

Prescott saw a reporter on TV, reporting on the situation in Gerrenhalt , a city that was a four-hour drive from the Jacinto Plateau, and realized that the reporter would be dead in a matter of hours, and was still doing his job.

He wondered what kind of man would do that, and then what man would want to do his job. Prescott decided he was the only one willing and able to do it, and that he had no choice when it came to the hard decisions. Prescott met with the others in the ops room, and asked Salaman and Hoffman for their activation keys. After they inserted them into the activation console, Prescott put his in, and looked for a moment at the activation buttons.

He then pressed them and activated the Hammer of Dawn satellites, and hoped that people would forgive him for doing what he had to do. As zero hour approached for the Hammer strike, Prescott began organizing an operation to take down Ukkon , the Locust's resident geneticist who created monsters such as the Corpsers and Brumaks.

Prescott chose Gabriel Diaz for the job who had chosen to demote himself to Sergeant and motor pool following the Battle of Gatka Ridge [4] due to Diaz's tactical genius and ability to carry out dangerous missions with few resources. After making it back to Aldair Army Base , which had been devastated by Ukkon, Diaz reluctantly contacted Prescott from the motor pool. Prescott explained about Ukkon and how he needed Diaz to take him out before he could create anything worse, but Diaz was reluctant to take the mission due to his refusal to run operations after the Battle of Gatka Ridge.

Prescott impressed upon him the necessity of the situation and told Diaz to recruit whoever he could find along the way since Prescott couldn't spare any supplies or resources. Diaz reluctantly accepted the mission, but informed Redburn that he would be working for Diaz, not Prescott. Following the Mission to Claybourne , Diaz contacted Prescott at a late hour where Prescott was enjoying a drink. Diaz revealed that he'd seen Ukkon get his head blown off and stand right back up and demanded to know what else the Chairman wasn't telling him.

Prescott dismissed Diaz's question, stating that Diaz's orders were to kill Ukkon, not to write his biography. Diaz reminded Prescott that the COG had put him in a situation before where keeping secrets got good people killed, but Prescott told him that "some secrets keep people alive," and ordered Diaz to do his job before cutting communications.

Frustrated and angry by Prescott's unwillingness to answer questions, Diaz punched and cracked the monitor screen. Thirteen days after the Hammer strike, Prescott boarded KR Four-Two with Adam, and they flew to an area hit by the strike near Ephyra to view the devastation.

Prescott was fascinated by the beautiful and colorful sunrise, but realized it was because of the debris that had been kicked up into the atmosphere. Below him, he saw a charred wasteland with the ruined stumps of buildings in it. Adam told him that the strike had been effective in its objectives, leaving little for the Locust to take and use against the COG, but also meant the COG now had to rely solely on what they could produce on the Jacinto Plateau, and some shortages had already started.

He also told Prescott that environmental contamination and pollution was severe, and it would take the planet years to recover. They again discussed the ethics of what they had done, and both wondered why they kept having the conversation, and Prescott suspected they were trying to rehearse their excuses for the future.

They headed back to Ephyra, and Prescott viewed the cleanup efforts going on around and near the city. He remarked that no Locust had been spotted since the strike, but Adam said there was no way they were all dead, and that some had to have survived underground. After landing, Prescott returned to the House of Sovereigns and his office.

Jillian was there, and handed him several reports to look at, and mentioned that the catering manager was worried they were going to run out of coffee soon, and asked if she should start putting some aside.

Prescott told her he could make do with herb tea, deciding it would be good for him to be seen making some small sacrifices. After she left, Prescott sat in his chair and stared at his phones. He realized the one that could connect him to any COG leader around the world would likely never be used again, and thought back to his last conversation on it with Deschenko, as Pelles was overrun by the Locust, and how he had called Prescott an evil, murdering, genocidal bastard, and that it wouldn't be long before he joined him in Hell.

Prescott decided that hell was too far in the future to worry about, and decided to get to work rebuilding what he could of the world. Gabriel Diaz contacted Prescott who called Ukkon's escape unfortunate. Prescott expressed confidence that they would manage to corner Ukkon again and ordered Diaz to execute Redburn. Prescott claimed that he hadn't heard of it and asked for Diaz's current coordinates, claiming that he was sending a King Raven to arrest Redburn and bring Diaz reinforcements.

Diaz sent Prescott the coordinates and Prescott stated that he was sending the King Raven and that it had been a difficult mission for everybody. Having anticipated that Prescott would send a kill squad instead of backup, Diaz had actually sent him the coordinates for a nearby plateau. However, rather than send a squad, Prescott launched a Hammer of Dawn strike on the plateau, destroying it.

With Prescott believing that they were dead, Diaz refocused on the mission of killing Ukkon using Redburn's knowledge of Ukkon's weakness. Diaz and his forces succeeded in their mission of killing Ukkon and, unable to ever return to the COG without Prescott killing them, dedicated themselves to hunting down Ukkon's remaining creations.

Following the Hammer of Dawn strike, Prescott led the COG through the next nine years fighting against the Locust, but the war did not go well. During the Locust campaign towards attacking Ephyra, a Kryllstorm threatened the city of Ilima , and an evacuation was begun. However, they failed, and the city fell to the Locust Horde. During the battle, Prescott had Adam kidnapped from the wreckage of his home, and sent him to Azura to work on special projects for him. He allowed the rest of the COG to think that Adam had died, even his son Marcus, who was put on trial and sentenced to forty years in prison for abandoning his post and trying to save his father during the battle.

Prescott also learned that Adam had been in contact with the Locust before E-Day, trying to stop them from invading by finding a way to prevent the spread of the Lambent. During the first visit, after seeing how depressed Marcus is, Prescott gives him hope by hinting that he will release him someday to fight the Locust and that he needs to be prepared for that day.

To this end, Prescott talks to Hoffman about potentially releasing Marcus, but Hoffman is unsure of what to do, not wanting Marcus in prison but aware that it may have a detrimental effect on the Gears. He leaves the decision up to Prescott as Chairman and Prescott chooses to keep Marcus in prison, but considers releasing him in the future to go on a suicide mission.

At one point, Prescott reveals to Anya Stroud his awareness of her romantic relationship with Marcus which is against regulations, but instead of charging her, offers her support for her decision to wait and personally delivers a letter to Marcus who learns that none of his return letters ever reached Anya as a result. After choosing to release and conscript the inmates after the Slab is overrun, Prescott informs Dom of the fact that Hoffman chose to leave Marcus behind due to the severe risk to people's lives to go after him, knowing Dom will confront Hoffman and do something about it.

One week after the Bombing, Hoffman, who had risen to become Chief of the COG Defense Staff, briefed Prescott on its effects, telling him that the number of Locust forces being encountered had dropped significantly. Prescott asked him if the bombing had worked, and Hoffman told him that the biggest Locust stronghold they could identify had been destroyed, and that no Kryll had been spotted since then.

He recommended that Prescott focus on getting the armed forces in the best shape possible, in case the Locust came back. He said they should divert civilian resources to accomplish this, but Prescott asked him how he was supposed to justify that to the civilian population when there were fewer incursions.

Hoffman said he needed to focus on getting the army in the best shape possible, since they might have a chance to finish off the Locust once and for all. Prescott told him he would look into it, and dismissed him. Prescott asked Hoffman for options and Hoffman recommended evacuating the Depot, and Prescott told him to use whatever resources necessary, and that he was going to alert the emergency management team.

He told Hoffman to keep him informed of the situation and cut off the comm link. Chairman Prescott talking to the Sovereigns Press Corps. Two months after the Lightmass bombing, Prescott briefed the Sovereigns Press Corps on the current situation of the war. He told them that the Kryll had been completely wiped out, but that many Locust forces remained and were still a threat.

He spoke about how it had been the site of a valiant COG defense during the Winter of Sorrow , and now would be the perfect place to take the fight to the Locust.

Six months after the Lightmass Offensive, Operation: Hollow Storm began, and was an all-out attack on the Hollow by thousands of Gears. As the operation began, Prescott gave a rallying speech to hundreds of Gears in a plaza, with Hoffman and Lt.

Anya Stroud standing beside him. His speech rallied the Gears and citizens, and the Operation began with an Assault on Landown. Prescott ordered that all information related to this mission be classified on a need-to-know basis, and that no one outside of Delta-One, who were sent to New Hope, and Hoffman was supposed to know about it.

They discovered that the Locust were fighting a mysterious enemy known as the Lambent , and that they planned to leave the Hollow and flood it by sinking Jacinto, killing the Lambent and the humans.

Prescott and the rest of the command staff decided to preemptively sink Jacinto before the Locust were ready, and began an evacuation of Jacinto, and all Gears currently in the Hollow. Marcus Fenix that he had thought he was insane when he first sent this plan in, but that it now appeared that his father had been right all along about them needing to sink Jacinto and flood the Hollow.

They decided to use the Locusts own sinkhole that they were using to invade Jacinto against them, by detonating a Lightmass Bomb inside it.

This would devastate the foundation of Jacinto, and cause the ocean to come pouring into the hole as the city sunk. He reflected on how Adam had suggested this plan to him years ago, but never said anything about sinking Jacinto. Hoffman then arrived, and Prescott asked him if everyone had been evacuated yet. Hoffman told him that the Locust had arrived, and that there was no more time to evacuate. They headed for the CIC, and Hoffman mentioned how the whole situation was giving him a sense of deja vu.

When they reached the CIC, Prescott asked Anya how they were doing, and she told him that she was targeting a Lambent Brumak with the Hammer of Dawn, since the Lightmass Bomb was lost after it was put into position.

Prescott, Hoffman, and Anya engage three Drones that had cut them off from their Raven. Prescott, Hoffman, and Anya then began running to the HQ building's exit, in order to reach KR , which was waiting to evacuate them.

Anya tried to contact them, but was unable to because the comms network had failed, but Prescott told her not to worry, since the pilot had orders to wait for them to arrive before leaving. When they got outside, they found the streets cracking and flooding, with debris blocking their route to the Raven. They took a detour around another street, but as they ran, Prescott heard a rumbling, and they looked behind themselves to see the street collapsing.

They ran and jumped up to grab railing along a building, and pulled themselves to safety. They looked into the collapsed road and saw water rushing past with Locust and humans caught in it trying to escape. Prescott said this had to be the last time they ever destroyed their own people, and Anya wondered how many people they had lost.

Prescott said that they had gotten the majority out, which was more than they could say for the Hammer of Dawn counterattack.

In Gears of War 3, Adam Fenix appears in the beginning of the game, informing the surviving Gears that he has a solution to the Locust and Lambent problem, as well as revealing that Imulsion has been responsible for the troubles occuring on Sera. From then on, the primary mission of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad is to find Adam and help him deploy the tool he has developer to save humanity.

Marcus and the rest of the Delta Squad spend the majority of the game trying to get to Azura, a secret COG base in the middle of the ocean where Adam has been conducting research ever since his "disappearance", which was actually a kidnapping at the command of Chairman Prescott, who tasked Adam to do research on how to defeat the Locust.

Once they reach Azura, Adam initiates contact with Marcus and the rest of Delta Squad through the use of security cameras throughout the base. He informs them that he needs the COG's help in administering his solution to the Locust and Lambent problem. Eventually, Adam reunites with his son, Anya, Cole, and Baird, and after a fierce battle against the Locust Queen, in which Delta Squad protects Adam, he is able to activate his ultimate weapon to eradicate the Locust and Lambent; an energy wave that destroys everything containing large amounts of Imulsion.

The weapon works, destroying every Locust and Lambent life-form on the planet, but also ends up killing Adam, who injected himself with Imulsion earlier in his research in order to test his cure.

He says goodbye to Marcus and tells him to live a good life, and do his best to help rebuild the human race, before he is killed by the cure. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users.

This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Tweet Clean. A veteran of the Pendulum Wars, Fenix held the rank of Captain and was the commanding officer of Howerd Company, but later accepted a position designing weapons to try and end the war faster. The multiplayer map Escalation uses the courtyard as the basis for a battleground in both Gears of War and Gears of War 3. Having no intentions of becoming the Swarm Queen, Reyna pleaded with Kait to end her life.

Kait disconnected Reyna from the Hive and supposedly killed her. However, the Swarm managed to reconnect her body to the Hive and was brought back to life. Reyna had strong romantic feelings for Jason Grace. The both of them kissed passionately.