Operation Zombie hunter
October 22, 2012
Reports of a high incidence of people in southern Mexico experiencing Hantavirus-like symptoms begin being broadcasted in the United States
October 24, 2012
Mexican government calls for UN aid to stem the spread of the virus. US forces are dispatched to guard the border; however due to the military’s overseas deployment, only a few National Guard regiments are available. They are unable to properly secure the border. First deaths are reported in Mexico due to spontaneous hemorrhage.
October 26, 2012
Tucson reports first confirmed case of the virus. Within 24 hours the first confirmed death in the United States occurs. Within hours an estimated 50 deaths are reported. Reports filter in from Mexico that the first people who died from the virus have risen from the dead and attacked the funeral home staff, but the mainstream media reports the events as robbery/homicides committed by local religious fanatics.
October 28, 2011
Governor Jan Brewer announces a state of emergency and requests federal aid to help control the spread of this still unknown virus in which has affected over 200,000 at this point. The federal government is slow to react.
October 31, 2012
Federal aid starts arriving; however at this point the virus has spread too quickly and became un- controllable. An estimated million people have been affected in Arizona alone, and a hundred thousand are already reported dead. Similar reports of reanimation are cropping up from American sources, but the media has stopped reporting on them altogether. Doomsday cults begin preaching the end of the world, as predicted by the Mayans. Several of the cults commit mass suicide.
November 2th 2012
Reports of infection begin filtering in from all over the world. The World Health Organization estimates 200 million infected worldwide, and ten million dead. America’s border states with Mexico are in a panic as the death toll in Arizona alone tops 750,000. Riots and looters overwhelm local law enforcement, and citizens are forced to fend for themselves.
November 4, 2012
The death toll in Arizona tops five hundred thousand from the virus, and an additional fifty thousand from hospital overcrowding and lawlessness. The first officially-confirmed cases are reported of the dead reanimating and attacking the living, and the government recommends citizens stay indoors. Panic redoubles, and citizens rush stores for weapons and emergency supplies. Thousands die in hours from the rioting mobs alone.
November 5, 2012
Reports begin coming in that the dead are showing a herd mentality, using sheer numbers to overwhelm law enforcement and what little military presence was on the border. Official updates on the progress of the virus become more infrequent, but the latest estimates show fully half of the state of Arizona infected, one-quarter dead, and 20% have reanimated. Most emergency personnel have deserted their posts. Reports from overseas were grim, and none have been broadcast for several days.
November 10, 2012
What little National Guard presence is left on the border has dissolved to the squad level. Command is nonexistent. The active armed forces have fully returned from overseas and created a cordon at the Mississippi river, and have pledged to hold the line there, saving the East Coast at the expense of the West. 95% of Arizona is infected or dead, over 80% has reanimated. Government aid in the west is nonexistent, and the dead roam in groups numbering sometimes over ten thousand. Buildings are still burning in the wakes of the riots, with blazes spreading uncontested into the wilderness with no fire service to halt them. What few survivors are left are scattered, but a call has come out over several Phoenix FM radio stations: the remnants of two platoons of National Guardsman have set up a camp in western Glendale and are taking in survivors for safety in numbers. You and your small group take down your ramshackle camp in one of Arizona’s many empty tracts of desert and set off to find the source of the signal and seek out other survivors.
Welcome to the Resistance.
