No the story actually goes like this : Parents used to tell their children to try to scare them in going to sleep that inhuman beings called the locust come up out of the ground and took children in the night. and the story started coming true then the locust came up out of the ground in great masses larger than whole army's they started killing and slautering everyone in sight but before they invaded there was a great war with the COG (coalition of ordered governments) against another army (not mentioned in story) many died. The COG won and soon after the war the locust invaded so the two army's had to team up to fight the locust , b ut they were fighting a loosing battle.