"Hell's Brink"

Hell?s Brink

Zombies became a reality in 2012 with what started as the ?Bath Salts? attacks. Random citizens attacked civilians and first responders in what appeared to be the side effect of a manufactured recreational drug. It was not until 2013 that a scandal was uncovered involving the American Intelligence community, Guantanamo Bay, and a plot to destroy enemy nations from within.

Patient X was shot to death by Miami-Dade Police in the first attack. The media and the global audience lost interest in the attacks after several weeks, with only diehard conspiracy theorists and the occasional media outlet monitoring what had waxed and waned as a fad of entertainment.

The facility that manufactured the contagion was reformed after the initial escape of Patient X, and its operations were permitted to continue in the secrecy they had held. It would later be revealed that Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp housed that facility in its underbelly, unbeknownst to even the compound?s operators.

In 2013, a terrorist attack, which was discreetly funded by Al-Qaeda, sought to liberate the Al-Qaeda sympathizers and members who were detained at Guantanamo. Mercenaries uncovered the contagion manufacturing facility in the process of their attack and unwittingly released the infectious material throughout the camp. As a result, two hundred detainees and a hundred American military personnel, and twenty mercenaries were infected.

Within days of the attack on Guantanamo, the entire surrounding Naval Base was also infected. Within a week, the infection had spread to the rest of Cuba. A misinformation campaign was launched by the CIA to hide news of the attack and its consequences as much as possible. American troops were shown unloading at Guantanamo Bay and were presented to the world as damage control for the terrorist attack. In fact, those Americans were sent to contain what was then colloquially called the ?zombie virus.?

While working to contain the virus, American personnel became infected. Many were killed by American military members, but some were subdued, sedated, and sent back to the United States for court martial and incarceration. It was then that some attacks were reported in those facilities, and many ?zombie? prisoners were relocated to facilities for the criminally insane.

The nature of the spread of the infection was initially mysterious, though it was quickly realized that it was not spread through contact with a victim of the contagion. It seemed that direct contact with the infected material (a powder with a texture similar to common household dust) was required.

What scientists realized far too late was that the virus grew within the respiratory system of its victims over a slow period. A victim could be sedated and treated, though treatment would only cause the virus to become dormant for a short time. As ?zombies? were arrested, sedated, tried, and incarcerated, prison attacks became more common. Sedation served as a temporary reprieve whereby victims could become rational again, though to less and less effect with the passage of time.

By the year 2020, the zombie virus had remained in its living victims long enough to mutate into what entertainment had caused delusional extremists to fear. The infection was spread in ways comparable to HIV/AIDS, which the public recognized before the government would admit it. ?Zombie? became less of an obsession with entertainment and more a common household term, as all lifestyles had some connection to zombie outbreaks.

Legal battles ensued over whether to treat victims of the zombie contagion or execute them after they had been subdued. The virus did not cause any physical hindrances for the victims of the contagion, but those who were subdued and made to speak rationally with law enforcement claimed no memory of the actions they carried out. Essentially, the zombies were enraged psychopaths with gaps in their memories.

As the infection spread and the attacks grew larger and larger, the government made the decision to deal with zombies with extreme prejudice. Rather than risk housing all of the zombies in separate facilities after subduing them, they were to be considered a threat to life and executed with extreme prejudice. This decision did not sit well with many members of the American population, and further steps had to be taken to quell the riots.

Despite efforts to eradicate zombies, the infection spread. A squad of mercenaries banded together to fight the zombies. Known as The Nameless, they work to kill zombies where they find them. The mercenaries are mostly former American military members, though some come from other countries as well as civilian backgrounds. Their base of operations is currently on a container ship they endearingly call The Romero.

?Hell?s Brink? focuses on the efforts of The Nameless to eradicate zombies from ?The Big Island,? Hawaii, which is The Romero?s current port. They begin in Hilo, where the zombie infestation is at its worst. Ten men and women versus two hundred thousand zombies.

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