Humanity's Last Stand

Even in an era of mass-communication, no one can say with absolute certainty where or how the virus began. Anyone you talk to will tell you that the zombies shuffled into their town first, but to listen to President David Petraeus and top military scientist Dr. William Crawford, the epicenter of disease was found in Nanjing. In his now-infamous “Humanity’s Last Stand” speech, President Petraeus called for immediate nuclear action. The collateral damage was astounding, but for the first time in half a century America’s spirits were high, after all, it saved the world from destruction and crippled an encroaching rival in the process.

But the disease kept spreading.

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So that's the rough draft of the exposition I'll give my players. Essentially, this is just background and I doubt any of this will come into play as part of the actual game. I just like having this kind of background for the players, hopefully it will help them create a clearer picture of where they're coming, so that I may in turn shape where they're going. There's nothing particularly groundbreaking in this 'zombie origin,' (it owes probably too much to World War Z) though I am sort of proud of the parallels between this and the AIDS virus. Has there ever been a zombie story that played with that before? Well, this one will.