COG Soldier Physiology Analysis | The Strength of the Serran Origins in relation to Locust
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- In Gears of W @ R (incredibly lame) we see that the COG range in size from average looking people, to straight up tree trunk extremities. However, these swole goals are never explained but the pieces are there throughout the games if you know where to look. In this episode I will discuss why Marcus is pushing quite literally 60 years old, but still looks like he could punch a tree down.
Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy COG Soldier Physiology Analysis | The Strength of the Serran Origins in relation to Locust
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Nice to have you back mate
What if it's a mutation, which doesn't let the hormone you mentioned to drop in levels, essentially keeping people at swolegoals levels? OR it's a side effect of some sort of medication? (My mother has diabetes due to a botched medication by a mockery of a doctor).
Roanoke! You gotta do the creatures of the GTFO game. If i could, i would help get you through the lvls too!
Sounds like CRISPER.
Cog roid rage...*shudder*
Missed your vids! Great your back, hope you had a lovely holiday.
In the planet of Sera, the atmosphere is composed of 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, 1% argon and 100% testosterone.
MY PECKS HAVE PECKS
abra kadabra THAT SENTENCE HAD TOO MANY SYLLABLES, APOLOGIZE!
makes sence
And steroids in the water
I SUCK UP THAT AIR LIKE HOW A FAT KID SUCKS UP A JAR OF COOKIES!!!!!
*NOW I WANT COOKIES!!!!!!!!!*
"When faced with extinction, EVERY alternative is preferable."
They ain't wrong.
-The Director
Nice rvb reference
Time to get the nukes
Death isn’t the worst thing that can happen.
"Humans are no strangers to war. After all, we've been fighting for as long as we can remember."
-Chairman Prescott
seems like ALL humans are like that
well we have been fighting each other from the beginning of civilization
Do we humans really "war"?
Does wolf packs go to war for territory?
Do wasps declare war on bees when they go after their híve?
Does a cat is at war with a mouse when hunting?
Or is it all just nature doing what it always did, making the strong survive.
I feel like i failed the wording to sound nice, but I made my point.
@@10011110011 yes because war is different war isnt simple self defense. Its using force for political gain sometimes that's resources territory or just influence. War is an evolution of these things in the same way burglary is an evolution of shop lifting
@@mondaysinsanity8193 war requires self awareness and conscious thought, no other species so far has been discovered to contain both, aside from humans , species can mimic behavior and learn patterns, but do not understand these things just the outcome if they do it, while humans are aware of what they do(for the most part from beginning to end).
Marcus is like 70. He was a veteran of about 20 when the locust invaded. 35 at the end of the war. 65 at the swarm invasion.
Idk how old Clayton Carmine is in Gears 5, but when he sits down in one scene he seems old lol
@@yanke3564 probably about 5 years younger than marcus. He can be heard in judgement in his home with Anthony and Ben, so we assume hes about 17 at the start, and joins up soon after.
And he doesn't look a day past 45-50 lol
Hes like 62 or something
How do you know their age? When I'm looking at Marcus in Gears 5 he seems about 60 years old and, Clay, I think is 52 years old 'cause he was young during the event of Gears 3 (27 years old I guess).
4:45 A bullet ricocheted off coles back and he just didnt give af.
The absolute unit
He had plot armor the whole time xd
hes the cole train why would he care :D
The whole grain that the Cole train runs off gives him invincibility.
Probably.
Well the dude in 3:41 can’t ignore things... blew his insides out... if only he ignored it....
"look at Dom after the locust wars... I mean during"
*Cries gears of war 3 tears*
Never thought itd end like this huh?
@@RoanokeGaming DOM.... NOOOOO
Amazing video man, love watching your gears content... Love the content as a whole
Roanoke Gaming *HUH? HUH MARIA?*
Bro noooo Dom was my favorite
Maaaad world
"all i have to say is i didnt lose" Is that pride i hear there Roanoke?
It could also mean that he ran away XD
@@BalkanGames erm no
I mean I don't think I'd want to fight a guy who knows more about my genetics than I do, that sounds like the type of person who could fuck you up in ways you can't possibly understand
Abysmal Rapture
And this is a channel about Anatomy too, so its safe to say he is familiar with the human body and its weak spots.
Hell of a lot of ways to break a hell of a lot of things. Not very fun.....
Bright side, he might know enough to break something without permanently ruining it... still not fun.
"Grubkiller, Swarmkiller, whatever..."
-Clayton Carmine
Grubkiller, Swarmkiller, etc.
What
@@holidayangel1225 a line from the Grubkiller, Clayton Carmine
@@zawarudo7806 I was uhh, jokin buddy
Boomer Carmine
@@holidayangel1225 oops, seems I'm legally classified as a dumbass
Sera's second-biggest industry behind Imulsion-based energy was protein powder and the dairy products.
Imagine the protien farts bro 🤢
if they just sent in the planet's greatest military chefs down to the hollows to treat them to a state dinner like dignitaries the way IRAN did to all the world leaders in the 70s, we'd probably have hollow tourism and locus powered people movers and daily trips and trading communities.
The dude who made the game said 'I'm built like a log, so my characters will be too'.
Simple as that.
Inquisitor Krieger actually it wasnt cliff it was the art director chris perna
Nice 😎
Can't wait to meet Roanoke and find out he's built like a COG soldier
Give me about 4 months, currently on a super high protein diet and daily lifting!
@@yayeet8679 a b s o l u t e *U N I T*
@@RoanokeGaming Can you maybe suggest where to look for high protein diets? Atm trying to stuff as much protein as possible, but its proving to be quite difficult, My go to foods are cottage cheese, chicken, eggs.
Roanoak's voice will not match his build when he reaches his goal.
Its an amusing thought, though. A voice that sound like: "you're THEE Marcus fenix? From aspho fields?"
With a body that clearly says "shut the fuck up, fahz."
Harshhaze look at his twitter, he’s already somewhat of a unit
Well, life on Sera started with monocellular life and a bottle of steroid. Even their flats screens are huge. And Sera is probably a planet where Neanderthals won.
When even Single cell organisms are tearing up the gym.
Seran neanderthals won? Headcanon accepted.
@@WisdomThumbs Homo sapiens are better fighters than Neanderthals
@@draco_1876 also Locust says themn "sapiens"
@@jager2749 What bro?
I think it was in the GoW book “Aspho Fields” where it was briefly mentioned that COG soldiers were continued to receive extra rations (even while others starved) and the rations contained steroids and hormones. Wish I could provide a citation.
You’re right, though. Getting roided up does not make you a super soldier. It just makes you a moody flesh monster with a shrunken weewee. So there has to be something else and gene editing does fit in with the story.
I like his theory because the COG do definitely have a history of genetic alteration, but these two things can certainly fit together
Roids don't shrink your penis they shrivel your testicles from exogenous testosterone production. Testosterone increases RBC count and increase blood flow and libido. It works quite the opposite. Makes your dick bigger and work better. Don't belive stereotypes lol the more you know.
It was in the book " jacinto's remnant" I can't remember the exact page but they were having a food distribution and someone got made that the army got most of the food and a civilian were like " gears need the extra calories you don't want a skinng guy like me fighting out there do you?" And at another point in the same book NCOG marines call gears "overfed assholes" and they do have weight and height requirements (shown in anvil gate)and my own knowledge in trying to join the military that the COG army requirements for muscle and size is at average by the characters 5'11 and up the shortest being Benjamin Carmine who's actually my height at 6'0 and the biggest gears are Tai and Cole at 6'6
Lover Deadly I admit that gears on roid rage flipping shit at the local McDonald’s gives me a big smile
No small peepee. I did steroids at one point and there was actually in increase in size, they are supposed to make the testicles shrink. I did not notice this, but it does make sense since you are getting an external dose of testosterone, so your body shuts down most of it's testosterone production since it is unneeded. This leads to shrunken testicles. However to an experienced soldier in this situation, the steroids would actually make them perform far greater. Running farther, able to lug around heavier loads of ammunition and armor, greater pain tolerance, ability to control the firearm when firing.
However I don't exactly think gene editing is necessary to get these desired results. If you were to have something to stimulate the pituitary gland to produce extremely high levels of HGH and testosterone you could get these results. Either that or have an artificial addition to the pituitary gland that allows for this.
"It would make them even more violent in the process"
[Footage of dom coercing someone in the background]
illogically no it ain't bad, logically and strategically yes verry much so cause 1. You can't order them to do something without being beaten black and blue if your lucky 2. They gonna die fast 3. Infighting gives the a advantage so yeah :D
(Sees Gears video)
Ah! Thank you, this is going to be a phenomenal day.
Hope you have a great day!
Yes; the youtube commentator that has achieved transacendance and controls every section; the descendant of Justin Y.
I can imagine this nigga, sitting at his computer...... just trying to think of some shit to say.
Why do I see you everywhere, every comments section man, are you omnipresent or something?
Hey, one comment per video you. Your rules, f o l l o w t h e m.
But while you're here, do you sleep and eat?
Little JD:"Hey, Dad?"
Marcus:"Yeah, James?"
Little JD:"How you get your Muscles?"
Marcus:" S#%t *(In his mind)* Uhh, Beef!"
Little JD:"Beef?"
Marcus:"Yes. And they tastes
Marcus:" *NICE!* "
I can see that, and its adorable
In the post-Locust War era, genetic engineering has reached a level such that the COG use it as a means of helping to replenish the population of Humanity. Women who were previously unable to conceive, like Jinn and Anya Stroud, were able to have children thanks to genetic engineering. It's certainly possible that another form of this was used for the COG's soldiers.
from how they can stay extremely strong even around 60
im guessing something similar to Spartan I and Space Marines
They're actually closer to the level of SPI equipped Spartan IIIs, though not in the speed department, they're a lot slower.
@@cripplingdepression8067 yeah they dont have the wire implants running threw there nerves
CripplingDepression I doubt there that strong
@@gabenewell3955 They can pulverize Locust Skulls with a punch. Remember, Locust are genetically engineered to be vastly superior to humans, enough to where a drone can effortlessly tear a civilian into pieces with no effort.
To pulverize a human skull requires a ton of force, let alone something that is essentially a genetically enhanced superhuman.
They are the poor man’s Astartes.
In one of the novels, it's also mentionned that soldiers get bigger rations than civilians, since the survival of everyone depend on them being combat ready (in fact, only the pregnant women got as much food). Most of the CoG civilians and the Stranded are mostly under rationing, maybe even on the brink of malnourishment, which also explain the size difference.
The first argument, "their trials", might be related to epigenetics. Serans might be more epigenetically prone to grow muscle/bone than us. The environment itself might cause epigenetic evolution. Maybe related to microbiota? The planet does have Imulsion, so life in Sera is not as we know it. Another interesting idea would be Sera having a little bit stronger than gravity than Earth. Serans are definitely already stronger than us even without having a lot of muscle. Case in point: Kait, who is an athletic but not huge woman, without much muscle visible on the bare arms, can impale a Drone with a long rebar, and *THROW* it across the room! Drones weight what, over 100 kg? She tosses it like it was made of feathers! Now imagine what a big man like Marcus could do.
In addition, there are notes and even mentioned by that president woman that there is a sort of eugenics based breeding program going on. So serans may already be beefy meat-tanks, and having a breeding program based around getting beefier soldier boys exacerbated that
Gotta agree that the gap between male and female strength is pretty much ignored in the game, if kait and other female characters could do that stuff then cole or clayton would be straight up punching through a drone's chest
Oh yeah, Roanoke is back!
I have returned! haha
Clayton also suffered from the Death of his Two Brothers. Which pmuch changed him and made him the absolute beast of a grub killer he is.
Can confirm. I got stronger than I’ve ever been in my life after my older sister passed. That was during the last six months of my military service.
If you didn’t feel any emotion at the end of gears 3 you might not be human lol
A mixture of pride, relief and sadness that Dom didn't live to see it
Nah man gears 2 was the train of feels
@@ZachofPotatoes732 especially carmines death
"How weren't the humans able to stop the locust with a full scale response"
Goes on to explain
"The locust invaded four weeks after they had a civil war"
Err...
It was a public holiday?
On E-Day Victoria parades and partys were happening
In the books (I believe it was Coalitions End) it was explained how after the Pendulum Wars ended, most of the military was on leave throughout the country celebrating the end of the war. It was 6 weeks of constant partying. When E Day hit, there was a mass recall of all Gear and military personnel. Also, many Tyran civilians were unarmed
In Gears 5 they mention a breeding program to have more kids mainly Anya and the first chair woman. If the soldiers were genetically altered to be bigger there is definitely a possibility of reduced "fertility." Really like your theory and how well it fits into the world nice work man.
So they basically gave them Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy.
(I hope got that right)
This is exactly what I was trying to remember! Glad someone has been doing their own research!
What is that=
Basically, Myostatin is a protein that limits your muscle mass unless it's needed by your body. COG soldiers are given a procedure that removes or lowers the effect of this protein, but there are rare instances in nature that some mammals are born with Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy.@@jager2749
Great vid. In my head them wearing really heavy armor all the time was the reason. Your answer makes way more sense.
Roanoke how about some Warhammer 40,000 studies from orks, tyranids, elder, and so forth?
will be covering those this year!
Especially Nurgle
@@darkmatteracid2353 that might be interesting seeing him try to explain all the plague that has ever existed and will exist be stored inside one astartes
The Space Marines! Or a psyker. Or daemons.
Magic, done
Considering the COG had access to advanced AIs, cryogenic technology, orbital weaponry and some crazy advanced genetic science at least a few decades before E-Day, some impressive genetic engineering for their soldiers would absolutely make sense. Even if you look at characters during Judgement they mostly had a lighter build too, I imagine they probably implemented it en masse once the situation started getting really desperate, probably just before or after the Hammer Strikes.
I remember hearing somewhere that there was a theory that Serrans were actually originally from earth as a colony ship but they lost their technology long ago and regressed into what they became until they could slowly build themselves back up to similar levels with the COG.
Might explain why they have English names and Latin Alphabets
Actually no. That's just fan theories. It's an alternate universe where earth doesn't exist and humans evolved differently on a planet like earth. It's fiction.
So... basically a death world in WH40K. These guys are ideal recruits for Astartes. In fact, they kinda look like scouts. Changed, but not fully post human.
9:06 Roanoke out here throwing hands for science
5:32 I didn't know I have golden shorts in my anatomy. Thanks Roanoke!
Can you go more into that story about how you got into an altercation with a roider? That sounds like an interesting tale.
Really it doesn't take much to set a roider off
I believe 'If my friend shoved a banana somewhere' is much more than just a hypothetical assumption
I just want to point out. That it has been stated that the armor that the main cast and other High skill level COG wear is extremely heavy. We see Marcus take a shot and it not do shit. Multiple times actually. I just thought that they ran around in this armor for so long that they just naturally built the size.
*Bro:*
You lift bra?
*COG:*
No *I Rip*
*Bro:*
?
Doom slayer: *im so proud*
Just have to say I love your videos as usual! You always put a lot of detail and humor into each one and we definitely appreciate your work!
Keep em rolling bro love ya hard work and appreciate u takin time to do it was great!
I think pro longed exposure to heavy equipment and gear would definatly contribute plus if u gain muscles naturally its harder to lose it
I always assumed they put something in the rations that functioned as a steroid in a sense only without some the drawbacks that regular steroids have.
They probably just put some stuff in it to dull down the side effects, or since its advanced humanity they may have invented the perfect steroids.
Thanks for doing this video. It's actually quite intriguing.
The sea of comments is inevitable
let it come!
I suppose this would explain how The Emperor in Warhammer 40,000 was able to so readily/easily able to create the space marines if he already had so much information to go on
I always just assumed that Cogs were just discount space marines.
Gears should make a deathwatch game.
Happy new year Roanoke! Can't wait for another year of fantastic videos!
I learn more from your videos than I do from my actual honors bio class because you actually make it interesting and easy to understand
9:07 Now I imagine Roanoke as Mr. X in a lab coat
Would you do a face (or at least abs) reveal at some point?
He already has his face revealed on his other channel, that talk about real life biology and such.
You could always watch his streams on twitch either
*SORRY THAT I DIDN‘T KNOW GUYS*
That would be both terrifying as fuck and absurdly funny at the same time
They could also be using a cocktail of S.A.R.Ms and other drugs that change the heat shock proteins function. And someone else down here said Myostatin Induced hypertrophy.
Great video chief hope you enjoyed the well earned time off though it's good to have ya back
always love your videos 🙂 love all the information you put into them
I believe we've caught the Serans in a time of evolution... In the comics, they mention... Serans frick chambers, which is not really useful for them, cuz a strong baby daddy doesn't cause a strong baby unless baby daddy has genetical altered muscles
Your theory would also explain why Baird is smaller, because he was kept at a low rank regardless of accomplishments as punishment for disobeying orders. If I am not mistaken, Baird does show increased mass in 4 and 5, after he has been given actual credit for his accomplishments. It might also be possible that the Serran people evolved only slight changes in the body’s chemical processes, not enough to make too big a change, but enough to make enhancement more viable.
I love the positivity from January of this year looking forward
Love this video it makes sense of the size of the soldiers on what i always said about them in game.
I just remember something even the regular stranded that their are stronger the regular humans
Gears will forever be my favorite franchise I grew up on gears 2 and 3 coming out and seeing what it’s become is amazing to me
Keep up the good work Roanoke
Thanks man!
Been waiting for this video for years
In aspho fields the book it’s mentioned in like a sentence how the rations work a bit were they feed the cog a LOT to keep up there muscle mass so no toothpick is fighting somthing equally as huge.
I'm surprised that haven't done an analysis on Issac clarke.
The man gets thrown through fucking walls and doesn't even flinch
@@AnyHeroBlake that's mostly thanks to his suit, but it could also be attributed to him having extremely high levels of adrenaline at the time. I mean you have space zombies popping out of vents at complete random, you're going to be living off adrenaline the entire time
@@AbysmalRapture the suit protects against lacerations, not high speed impacts
@@AnyHeroBlake I think it depends on the suit, I have to look into it again but you would think his Engineer suit would protect against lacerations, punctures and impacts cause his actual job would involve all of those
@@AbysmalRapture the suits were created for hazardous environments, usually deep space mining and security. So just lacerations and punctures. There's no way it or anything would protect against a high speed impact because we regularly see Isaac get smashed to bits and slammed into things and dying
When you were hinting at something earlier in the vid i thought you were going to say imulsion exposure , but then again that wouldnt make sense considering the imulsion countermeasure went off and that delta are still beefcakes . Anyways rant aside , awesome video man , hope you had a great christmas !
Hey Roanoke love your channel and I'm so happy to see you doing a gears of War video again. If possible can we please get a video on the banshee from mass effect 3
I like how you unlike others mention how much of a Warrior like society they already live in and thats how they dont go insane with so much death and years of war. The only difference was really how it became a free for all defensive fight
It's been years since I read the books, but if I recall COG soldiers have a ration of about 8000 calories a day (which causes much animosity among the starving populous), along with their physical activities causes their larger than average size. Other than the fantasy setting for the huge size of COG soldiers, this would be the reason for the size disparity.
In the pendulum wars mission, that’s not Dom, that’s his older brother
Nice first video of the new decade 🤘
Ben carmine is my favorite carmine with clayton coming in at a close second
:|
@@holidayangel1225 Unlucky Anthony
I Think Some Dedicated Video's On Each Of The Mutants On The Forest.
Damn, your videos always make me want to learn more about biology!
Love your Channel, I'm 17 so it's cool for me to realize some of the people that I watch weight lift like I do. I started in August
Sera has slightly higher gravity. Everyone is a bit stocky. Helps that COG troops probably do PT in full battle-rattle.
Been a hot while since I’ve caught a video early
Here’s a fun question, have you thought about analyzing some of the monster from monster hunter world?
Love watching this it’s fun in the books when they talk about how they give most of there food to the gears to maintain there size
Good video! Definitely earned a subscribe.
If they artificially or genetically modified their genetic makeup to have more Testosterone and higher IGF-1 and GH production levels would make them larger overall.
Wouldn't for the muscle to be functional at that size youd need to increase bone size as well
@@mondaysinsanity8193 GH and T increase bone growth as well even skin is thicker.
@@mondaysinsanity8193 human growth hormone increases bone density and size.
or they are descendants of the pillarmen
for me the cog soldiers never seemed to big because i just have monster sized people in my family so they looked familiar
Post physique then
Now I want working out tips from you lmao. Would be a cool video exploring the human body and how to improve it with our current readily available technologies
Lmao...wearing my GoW shirt and was wandering if there was a Gears video and I see this first...ur the best, Roanoke
You could do state of decay one on the screamer I am quite interested in how that turned in the horde summoner himself.
When the serans were fighting each other, how did they tell each other apart, dude look all the same
@TBG Jesus oh
@Jefferson Mason what u sayin
I love this channel soo much
Keep these videos coming.
Could it be an after effect from radiation of Imulsion? Like the way it affects your body under extreme stress and tension? Perhaps that explains why when they start their military career they are smaller but through extended stress of their bodies it alters their cells? Idk though as Marcus was retired for a while and was still a UNIT. Potentially as a permanent side effect?
How would a Space Marine fair in a battle against the Baron of Hell from Doom?
will need to cover 40k first!
Single adeptus astartes Has little chance, a team would obliterate baron
Baron isn't that powerfull
@@whiteeye3453
They are pretty strong physically. It's a pretty good question to ask how does a Astartes compares to them both physically and with gear on. Barons from what I heard can rip tank metal apart.
@@thorshammer7883 Baron was taken by normal bazooka
This may be old, but this would explain the contrast to someone like Preston and the onyx guard around him. Preston, being the top of the Cog and not being a full time soldier would probably never have received this treatment, and all up to Gears 3, he wasn’t as ridiculously buff as the soldiers, but the onyx guard were extremely taller, larger and more toned than any of the main group, including dwarfing someone like Preston or your average survivor. Kinda making sense a bit.
Just finished my exam week now i cant stop seeing COG as cost of goods
Could the planets gravity and atmosphere also play a part in the muscular growth? Or could it possibly be a Genetic Augmentation similar to the Spartans from the Halo universe?
If it was something with the planet then all the Serans would be jacked, but if you played the more recent Gears games you would see that the civies are about average size. Not only that but all of the COGs after the Locus/Lambant war are noticeably smaller
Can you do videos on the Stellaris end game crisis factions?
hmmm having played it but I can look into it!
Awesome bro
i like how marcus' hand was like a fucking giant mascot glove vs anya's normal hand
"Hypothetically, if my friend shoved a banana somewhere.."
You know TJ Kirk? :P
We all agree that the Half Life: 🅰lyx; shall give *a Lot* of fresh material for the glorious scientist TH-cam'r Roanoke! Much more moralizing than a 'family' life of Combine soldier anyway ! :)
Looking forward to that! :)
@@RoanokeGaming The People that live throught the WWIII memes agree ! ⚛
I was gonna fall asleep until I got the notification that Roanoke released a video...
I'm not going to lie, I actually listen to these videos while I work out, for some reason it motivates me lol
Do a Gundam UC Newtypes
If u can see this comment :
The secret of cog soldier's size lies in their diet and every daily labour
In the novel Ashford field, it was mentioned that a cog daily intake is around 7000 calories and the average mission time on the field is 8 hours per day fully equipped under their armors and equipments
Kind of like in Halo how he Insurrection strengthened the UNSC and readied it as best as it can for the Covenant. The Pendulum Wars did the same for the COG against the Locust, but like the UNSC, It was still a hard war won only through sheer luck and fate.
Love this Channel watching since dead space