Zombies

Zombies is a common term for an undead being with specific features. They are usually unintelligent rotting corpses which spread infection through biting, however there are many variations.

## **Types**

**Solanum-**The Natural Disease which is the root cause for the "Classic" undead.

**Inferi-** Inferi are magically created undead skeletons usually bound to a master. There was once a Relic that was able to summon Inferi and heal those afflicted by Dark Magic by the way of a sacrifice. It was first discovered by a student of Salazar Slytherin in the first millennium A.D., who recorded in his notes. Eventually, Sebastian Sallow sought out this artifact in the hopes of curing his sister, Anne, from a curse. Upon getting his hands on it, Sebastian summoned a horde of Inferi that endangered the town of Feldcroft, until the artifact was destroyed by his uncle, Solomon Sallow. Voldemort transformed many of his victims into Inferi. Tasking several to guard one of his horcruxes. They were used in combat during both his first and second reigns of terror.

**GenZ-** Teenager who were revived as a sentient Zombie around 2008. They find the term Zombie offensive. They include the Franchouchou, an Idol band.

## **Solanum Outbreaks throughout history**

**Beginning of Time**

There was only the Aether and the Keepers. Among them were two beings who would later be known by many names. One would be known as Doctor Monty, the other as the "Shadow man"(*Call of Duty: Zombies).*

### **Mesozoic Era(251.9 Million-66 Million B.C.E.)**

A Solanum Outbreak infects several Dinosaurs(*Primal*).

### **1.9 Million-1.4 Million B.C.E., Zarakal**

An infected Wooly Mammoth causes an outbreak among a tribe of Cavemen(*The Reluctant Prometheus,* David Dunwoody)

### **60,000 B.C.E., Katanda, Central Africa**

Recent archaeological expeditions discovered a cave that contained thirteen skulls on the banks of the Upper Semliki River, in Katanda, Central Africa. All had been crushed. Near them was a large pile of fossilized ash. Laboratory analysis determined the ash to be the remains of thirteen Homo sapiens.

On the wall of the cave is a painting of a human figure, hands raised in a threatening posture, eyes fixed in an evil gaze. Inside its gaping mouth is the body of another human. This find has not been accepted as a genuine zombie incident. One school of thought argues that the crushed skulls and burned bodies were a means of ghoul disposal, while the cave drawing serves as a warning; other academics demand some type of physical evidence, such as a trace of fossilized Solanum. Results are still pending.

If Katanda's authenticity is confirmed, it raises the question of why there was such a large gap between this first outbreak and the one that followed.

### **3000 B.C., Hieraconpolis, Egypt**

A British dig in 1892 unearthed a nondescript tomb, in Hieraconpolis, Egypt. No clues could be found to reveal who the person who occupied it was or anything about his place in society.

The body was found outside the open crypt, curled up in a corner and only partially decomposed. Thousands of scratch marks adorned every surface inside of the tomb, as if the corpse had tried to claw its way out. Forensic experts have revealed that the scratches were made over a period of several years. The body itself had several bite marks on the right radius, which matched impressions left by human teeth.

A full autopsy revealed that the dried, partially decomposed brain not only matched those infected by Solanum (the frontal lobe was completely melted away) but also contained trace elements of the virus itself. Debate now rages as to whether or not this case prompted later Egyptian specialists to remove the brains from their mummies.

### **500 B.C., Africa**

During his voyage to explore and colonize the continent's western coast, Hanno of Carthage, one of Western civilization's most famous ancient mariners, wrote in his sea log:

"On the shores of a great jungle, where green hills hide their crowns above the clouds, I dispatched an expedition inland in search of sweet water: Our soothsayers warned against this action. In their eyes was a cursed land, a place of demons abandoned by the gods. I ignored their warnings and paid the highest price. Of the thirty and five men sent, seven returned. The survivors sobbed a tale of monsters from the jungles. Men with fangs of snakes, claws of leopards, and eyes burning with the fires of hell. Bronze blades cut their flesh but drew no blood. They feasted upon our sailors, their wails carried on the wind. our soothsayers warned of the wounded survivors, claiming they would bring sorrow on all they touched. We hastened to our ships, abandoning those poor souls to this land of man-beasts. May the Gods forgive me."

Much of Hanno's work is controversial and debated among academic historians. Given that Hanno also describes a confrontation with large, ape-like creatures he dubbed "Gorillas" (actual gorillas have never inhabited that part of the continent), it can be inferred that both these incidents were a product either of his imagination or those of later historians. Even with this in mind, and disregarding the obvious exaggerations of snake's fangs, leopard's claws, and burning eyes, Hanno's basic description does closely resemble the walking dead.

### **329 B.C.,Helmajistan**

An unnamed Macedonian column built by the legendary conqueror Alexander the Great was visited many times by Soviet Special Forces during their own war of occupation. Five miles from the monument, one unit discovered the ancient remains of what is believed to be Hellenic Army barracks. Among other artifacts, there was a small bronze vase.

Its inlaid pictures show:

* (1) one man biting another;
* (2) the victim lying on his deathbed,
* (3) the victim rising up again; and back to
* (1) biting another man.

The circular nature of this vase, as well as the pictures themselves, could be evidence of an undead outbreak either witnessed by Alexander or related to him by one of the local tribes.

### **212 B.C., China**

During the Qin Dynasty, the Emperor ordered all books not relating to practical matters, like construction or farming, to be burned to guard against so-called "dangerous thoughts". While we will never know with certainty whether accounts of zombie attacks were destroyed, an excerpt from an obscure medical manuscript, which was hidden in the wall of the home of an executed scholar, appears to indicate a familiarity with zombies among the ancient Chinese.

"The only treatment for victims of the Eternal Waking Nightmare is complete dismemberment followed by fire. The patient must be bodily restrained, his mouth filled with straw then bound securely. All limbs and organs must be removed, avoiding contact with any bodily fluids. All must be burned to ash then scattered at least twelve li in all directions. No other remedy will suffice as the sickness has no cure . . . the desire for human meat, unquenchable. . . . If victims are encountered in numbers, with no hopes of restraining them, immediate decapitation must be used . . . the Shaolin spade being the swiftest weapon for this task."

While it was never mentioned that the victims of the Eternal Waking Nightmare were dead, the craving for human flesh, and the method of "treatment", does seem to indicate to prescence of zombies in ancient China.

### **121 A.D., Fanum Cocidi, Caledonia (Scotland)**

in: Recorded Attacks from the Zombie Survival Guide.

Even though the source of the outbreak is still a mystery, its events are meticulously recorded. A plague of zombies swept through the local villages. The local barbarian chieftain and his men, not knowing what they were dealing with, wrongly thought the un-dead were merely insane, and thus no real threat. Over 3,000 Pictish and Celtic warriors were sent to deal with the "mad uprising". In a series of disorganized fights with the ghouls, about 600 warriors were totally devoured, while the remaining 3,000 wounded warriors were turned into the living dead, including the chieftain. A Roman merchant traveling through the area, Sextus Sempronios Tubero, witnessed one of the battles. While he didn't know the exact nature of the undead, he noticed that decapitation appeared to be the only method that could stop the creatures.

Barely escaping with his life, Tubero made it to the nearest Roman installation, and reported his findings to the commander, Marcus Lucius Terentius. It turned out that more than 9,000 ghouls were moving south, following fleeing refugees toward Roman territory, and Terentius had only one cohort, about 480 men, to stop them . The zombies were less than a day away, so Terentius got to work immediately. He drafted a force of civilian laborers who dug reinforced palisades, and two seven-foot-deep, inwardly narrowing ditches that eventually straightened to form a straight, mile-long corridor. The ditches were lined with stakes and filled with bitumen liquidum (crude oil: common for heating lamps in this part of Britannia). The fortifications were finished just as the un-dead drew near. As the ghouls drew near, Terentius ordered the trench lit.

All zombies who fell into the trench were impaled on the stakes or trapped in its confines and incinerated. The rest of the zombies were forced into the narrow choke point of the funnel, where the outnumbered Romans were able to draw swords, raise shields and face their un-dead enemy. The battle lasted for nine hours, until dawn, when the last zombie heads were rolled into the ditches and cremated. All zombies were destroyed, and only 150 Romans were killed. There were no wounded among the Romans, knowing the nature of the contagion, the legionaires killed any of their number who were bit.

The knowledge learned that day were compiled into one comprehensive work known as Army Order 38, or XXXVIII, which Emperor Hadrian ordered to be incorporated into standard Roman military doctrine, and taught to every unit in the Empire. Included within Army Order 38 was not only information about zombie behavioral pattern and how to efficiently dispose of them, it also recommended overwhelming numerical force “to deal with the inevitable panic of the general populace.” It is also said that the outbreak prompted the Emperor to construct the massive "Hadrians Wall" across the northern border of Roman Britain, to guard against an enemy that might well return.

### **140-41 A.D., Thamugadi, Numidia (Algeria)**

In 140-41 A.D., Lucious Valerius Strabo, Roman governor of Thamugadi, Numidia (Algeria) recorded six small zombie outbreaks among desert nomads. All the outbreaks were crushed by two cohorts from the III Augusta Legionary base, with a total of 134 dispatched zombies, and the cohorts suffering only 5 Roman casualties. Other than the official report, a private journal entry by an army engineer records a significant discovery:

" A local family remained imprisoned in their home for at least twelve days while the savage creatures scratched and clawed fruitlessly at their bolted doors, and windows. After we discovered the filth and rescued the family, their manner looked near insane. From what we could gather, the wails of the beasts, day after day, night after night, proved to be a merciless form of torture."

This account is the first known recognition of psychological damage caused by a zombie attack. All six incidents, given their chronological proximity, make a credible case for one or more ghouls from earlier attacks "surviving" long enough to reinfect a population.

### **156 A.D., Castra Regina, Germania (Southern Germany)**

In Castra Regina, Germania around 156 A.D, an attack by seventeen zombies left a prominent cleric infected. The Roman commander that was sent to dispatch the outbreak, recognizing the signs of a newly turned zombie, ordered his troops to destroy the former holy man. The "death" of the zombified cleric enraged the local citizens of the region, and started a riot.

The aftermath of the outbreak and the unfortunate riot left 10 zombies killed, including the holy man, 17 Roman casualties (due to the riot), and the deaths of 198 civilians.

### **177 A.D., Nameless Settlement near Tolosa, Aquitania (SW France)**

Around 177 A.D., near what is known as south-western France, a traveling merchant sent a personal letter to his brother about his encounter with a zombie:

"He came from the woods, a man of stinking rot. His gray skin bore many wounds, from which flowed no blood. Upon seeing the screaming child, his body seemed to shake with excitement. His head turn in her direction; his mouth opened in a howling moan... Darius, the old legionary veteran, approached... pushing the terrified mother aside, he grabbed the child with one arm, and brought his gladius around with the other. The creature's head fell to his feet, and rolled downhill before the rest of his body followed... Darius insisted they wear leather coverings as they pitched the body into the fire... the head, still moving in a disgusting bite, was fed to the flames."

This passage should be taken as the typical Roman attitude toward the living dead: no fear, no superstition, just another problem requiring a practical solution. This was the last record of an attack during the Roman Empire. Subsequent outbreaks were neither combated with such efficiency nor recorded with such clarity.

### **700 A.D., Frisia, the Netherlands**

Although this event appears to have taken place on or around 700 A.D., physical evidence comes in the form of a painting recently discovered in the vaults of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Analyses of the materials themselves fix the date listed above. The picture itself shows a collection of knights in full armor, attacking a mob of ragged men with gray flesh, arrows and other wounds covering their bodies, and blood dripping from their mouths.

As the two forces clash in the center of the frame, the knights bring their swords down to decapitate their enemies. Three "zombies" are seen in the lower right hand corner, crouching over the body of a fallen knight. Some of his armor has been pulled off, one limb ripped from his body. The zombies feed on the exposed flesh. As the painting itself is unsigned, no one has yet to determine where this work came from or how it ended up in the museum.

### **850 A.D., Unknown Province in Saxony (Northern Germany)**

In 850, a Zombie outbreak spread across several unidentified villages in Saxony. Attempts to exorcise the horde were unsuccessful, and the survivors were able to isolate themselves in their lord's (or baron or count) castle. Some of the bitten survivors were taken in, no one in the castle survived. Local knights banded together to cleanse the area of the zombie horde through combat and cremation, but they could not access the castle, as the drawbridge was up, and all area were barricaded. It is said that the zombies could be heard in the castle decades later. This was recorded by Bearnt Kuntzel, a friar on his pilgrimage to Rome.

### **1073 A.D., Jerusalem**

The story of Dr. Ibrahim Obeidallah, one of the most important pioneers in the field of zombie physiology, typifies the great strides forward and the tragic steps back in science's attempt to understand the undead. An unknown source caused an outbreak of fifteen zombies in Jaffa, a city on the coast of Palestine. Local militia, using a translated copy of Roman Army Order XXXVII, successfully exterminated the threat with a minimum of human casualties. One newly bitten woman was taken under the care of Obeidallah, a prominent physician and biologist. Although Army Order XXXVII called for the immediate decapitation and burning of all bitten humans, Obeidallah convinced (or perhaps bribed) the militia to allow him to study the dying woman. A compromise was reached in which he was permitted to move the body, and all of his equipment, to the city jail. There, in a cell, under the law's watchful eye, he observed the restrained victim until she expired, and continued to study the corpse while it reanimated. He performed numerous experiments on the restrained ghoul. Discovering that all bodily functions necessary to sustain life were no longer functioning, Obeidallah scientifically proved that his subject was physically dead, yet functioning. He traveled throughout the Middle East, gathering information on other possible outbreaks.

Obeidallah's research documented the entire physiology of the living dead. His notes included reports on the nervous system, digestion, even the rate of decomposition in relation to the environment. This work also included a complete study on the behavioral patterns of the living dead, a remarkable achievement if actually true. Ironically, when Christian knights stormed Jerusalem in 1099, this amazing man was beheaded as a worshiper of Satan, and almost all of his work was destroyed. Sections of it survived in Baghdad for the next several hundred years, with only a fraction of the original text rumored to survive. Obeidallah's life story, however, minus the details of his experiments, survived the crusaders' slaughter, along with his biographer (a Jewish historian and former colleague). The man escaped to Persia, where the work was copied, published, and gained modest success in various Middle Eastern courts. A copy remains in the National Archives in Tel Aviv.

### **1253 A.D., Fiskurhofn, Greenland**

Following the great tradition of Nordic exploration, Gunnjborn Lundergaart, an Icelandic chieftain, established a colony at the mouth of an isolated fjord. There were reported to be 153 colonists in the party. Lundergaart sailed back to Iceland after one winter, presumably to procure supplies and additional colonists. After five years, Lundergaart returned to find the island compound in ruins. Of the colonists, he found just three dozen skeletons, the flesh picked clean from the bones. It is also reported that he encountered three beings, two women, and one child. Their skin was a mottled gray, and bones stuck through the flesh in places. Wounds were evident, but no traces of blood could be observed. Once sighted, the figures turned and approached Lundergaart's party. Without responding to any verbal communication, they attacked the Vikings and were immediately chopped to pieces. The Norseman, believing the entire expedition cursed, ordered the burning of all bodies and artificial structures. As his own family were among the skeletons, Lundergaart ordered his men to kill him as well, dismember his body, and add it to the flames. The "Tale of Fiskurhofn," told by Lundergaart's party to traveling Irish Monks, survives in the national archives in Reykjavik, Iceland. Not only is this the most accurate account of a zombie attack within ancient Nordic civilization, it may also explain why all Viking settlements within Greenland mysteriously vanished during the early fourteenth century.

### **1281 A.D., China**

The Venetian explorer Marco Polo wrote in his lournal that during one visit to the Emperor's summer palace of Xanadu, Kublai Khan displayed a severed zombie head preserved in a jar of clear alcoholic fluid. (Polo described the fluid as "with the essence of wine but clear and biting to the nose"). This head the Khan stated had been taken by his grandfather Ghenghis when he returned from his conquests in the west. Polo wrote that the head was aware of their presence. It even watched them with nearly decomposed eyes. When he reached out to touch it the head snapped at his fingers.

The Khan chastised Polo for attempting this foolish act. The Khan told Polo the story of a low ranking court official who had done the exact same thing and had his hand bitten off by the head. This official later "seemed to die, but rose again within days to attack his servants." Polo states that the head remained "alive" throughout his time in China. No one knows the fate of this relic. When Polo returned from Asia, his story was suppressed by the Catholic Church, and as such, does not appear in the official accounts of his adventures. Historians theorized that, since the Mongols reached as far as Bagdad, the head may be one of the original subjects of Ibrahim Obeidallah, which would entitle the head to the record of the best preserved, oldest "living" relic of a zombie specimen.

**1292**

**January 15th:** The Great War between humanity and the Apothicons begins(*Call of Duty: Zombies*)

**1294**

**April 14th:** Sir Pablo Marinus is saved from the clutches of a margwa by four unknown heroes. They would be later known as Primis(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**1299**

**December 31st:** Together with the Keepers, Primis defeats the apothicons, bringing The Great War to an end (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**1300**

**January 1st:** Before they seemingly disappear from history, Primis instructs the Wolf King to begin building Der Eisendrache (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**1318**

**September 19th:** Honoring the Wolf King's dying request, his loyal servant Arthur scatters and buries his bones in the grounds of Der Eisendrache, accompanied by the King's wolf(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 20th:** Temporal Rifts teleport Arthur to Resolution 1295 in 2025 Angola [Buried] (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1523 A.D., Oaxaca, Mexico**

"The natives tell of a sickness that darkens the soul, causing a thirst for the blood of their brothers. They tell of men, women, even children whose flesh have become gray with rot and possess an unholy smell. Once darkened, there is no method of healing, save death, and that can only be achieved through fire, since the body becomes resistant to all arms of man. I believe this to be a tragedy of the heathen, for; without their knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ, there was indeed no cure for this illness. Now that we have blessed their masses with the light and truth of His love, we must strive to seek these darkened souls, and cleanse them with all the force of Heaven."

This text was, supposedly, taken from the accounts of Father Esteban Negron, a Spanish priest and student of Bartolome de las Casas, previously edited from the original works and recently discovered in Santo Domingo. Opinions vary on the authenticity of this manuscript. Some believe it to be a part of a Vatican order to suppress all information on the subject. Others believe it to be an elaborate hoax along the lines of the "Hynkel diaries."

### **1554 A.D., South America**

It is said that in 1554 A.D. a Spanish expedition under the command of Don Rafael Cordoza penetrated the Amazon rainforest in search of the mystical El Dorado. Lead by the Native tribes, they were warned not to enter "The Valley of Endless Sleep." Cordoza and his men were attacked by dozens of walking dead. Cordoza, the only survivor, fled to Spain where he lost his titles for squandering the Crown's resources. This is an account recorded in the book The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead by Max Brooks

### **1579 A.D., Central Pacific**

During his circumnavigation of the globe, Francis Drake, the famous pirate and explorer, pitched anchor at an unnamed island to restock his supplies of food and fresh water. While he was buying supplies, the natives warned him to stay away from a nearby small cay that was supposedly the lair of the "Gods of the Dead". Local custom had the natives place the dead and terminally ill on the island, where the gods supposedly then took them, body and soul, to live on forever. Interested by the story, Drake decided to investigate. Watching from the safety of his ship, Drake observed a group of natives put a dying man on the beach of the island. The natives then blew several calls from a conch shell, then quickly returned to their boats and left. Shortly after, Drake saw several figures stagger out of the jungle to feed on the body before returning. He was startled to see the partly eaten victim rise up and follow the others. Drake never talked about the incident during his life, the account was discovered in a secret journal that he kept hid until his death. The journal passed from one personal collector to another, and eventually found its way into the library of Admiral Jackie Fischer, the father of the modern Royal Navy. In 1907 Fischer had it copied and gave it to several of his friends as a Christmas gift. In the journal, Drake provided the exact coordinates for the mysterious island, which he called “the Isle of the Damned.”

### **1583 A.D., Siberia**

A scouting party for the notorious Cossack Yermak, lost and starving to death, was rescued by a local Asiatic tribe. The scouts "repaid" the kindness by declaring themselves to be the de-facto rulers, at least until the reinforcements arrived. After gorging for several weeks on the villagers' stored food, the scouts cleaned out their entire stock, forcing them to turn on the villagers themselves - thirteen people were killed and eaten, and the rest fled into the wilderness. The Cossacks then spent this last-dtich source in a matter of days, leaving them to try cannibalizing the corpses in the village's burial mound, based on an assumption that the freezing temperatures would have preserved any corpses there. However, when the Cossacks dug up and dethawed their first body (a woman in her early twenties, with her appendages bound and mouth gagged), the "corpse" revived, and one of the Cossacks had the bright idea of removing her gag, hoping she could tell how she performed her apparent feat. The only thing he got was a zed bite to his hand, and the other Cossacks killed the woman, roasted her remains, and ate her flesh. Only two abstained from this fatally ignorant feast - the bitten Cossack (since the others believed the meat shouldn't be wasted on a dying man) and a superstitious man who believed the woman's meat to be cursed. And, in a sense, he was right - the men who feasted on the toxic zombie flesh would all die (quite painfully) that night. The bitten man expired early the next morning.

The lone survivor attempted to burn the bodies, but just as he set the blaze, the bitten man revived. The ensuing chase across the steppe only lasted about an hour, when the zombified Cossack froze solid (this being the first case of a zombie doing so with the possible exception of the woman). The survivor would be saved several days after by another scout group for Yermak, and his tale would be recorded by Father Pietro Georgiavich Vatututin (only for it to be stored in the remote monastery on Valam Island on Lake Ladoga, with the account only now being translated into English). It is unknown what the fate of the other villagers was, or even what their true ethnic identity was (the subsequent genocide of the populace by Yermak left few survivors).

The frozen zombified cossack was later recovered in 1998. It thawed out, reanimated, and attacked the archaeological crew handling it. (see 1998 A.D., Zabrovst, Siberia)

### **1587 A.D., Roanoke Island, North Catawba**

The English settlers of Roanoke cut off from England, regularly sent hunting parties to the mainland to find food. One day, one of those parties failed to return. Three weeks later, a lone survivor of the eleven member group appeared at the colony. He told of an attack by “a band of savages . . . their putrid, worm-ridden skin impervious to powder and shot!." Although only one member of the party was killed, four others were badly wounded, succumbing the following day and were buried in shallow graves, only to rise up in just a matter of hours to attack their former friends. The survivor stated that his comrades were eaten alive by the risen colonists and that he was the only one to escape. The disbelieving colony magistrate thought that he killed the other colonists and lied about it, ordering him to be hanged the next day.

Afterward, another expedition of five men was sent to the mainland to try to find and recover the bodies of the first group, “lest their remains are desecrated by heathens.” They came back in a state of near collapse, with scratch and bite wounds all over their bodies. They said that they were attacked by both the "savages" described by the executed survivor and the members of the original group. The men, after a period of medical examination, all died within hours of each other, with burial set the following dawn. However, that night, they rose up and attacked the other colonists. It is unclear as to what happened next. One version told of the eventual infection and destruction of the entire colony. Another had the Croatan Indian Nation, knowing what was happening, killing all the colonists by burning them. Yet another had the Croatans rescuing the uninfected survivors, and eliminating both the zombies and infected wound. All three stories have appeared in fictional accounts and historical texts for the last two centuries; however, none presents a perfect explanation as to why the first English settlement in North America literally vanished without a trace.

### **1598 A.D. Seongjeoyain, Hun Chiu**

The Village of Seonjeoyain was massacred by the Pajeowi military, leaving one survivor, Ashin, who had knowledge of the resurrection plant, which contains worms imbued with Trioxin. Ashin got Revenge by zombifying the villagers and the Pajeowi. She then gave the resurrection plant to t Lee Seung-hui, the Joseon King's physician, which led to its use against the Japanese at Unpo Wetland.

### **1598 A.D., Unpo Wetland, Hun Chiu**

The **Battle of Unpo Wetland** (Hangul: 운포늪 전투, Hanja: 雲浦沼澤之戰) was a famous battle that took place near the city of Sangju during the Japanese invasions of Hun Chiu. Japanese forces had occupied most of Gyeongsang Province, and the Hun Chiun army had retreated to Sangju. However, the governor of Gyeongsang, Lord Ahn Hyeon, managed to defeat a Japanese army of 30,000 troops with just 500 men, winning him the admiration of the Hun Chiun people. However, the dark truth of the 'heroic' victory was that Chief State Councillor Cho Hak-ju conspired with Lord Ahn Hyeon to turn the sick villagers of Sumang Village into Undead using the resurrection plant. They released these creatures on the Japanese army camped in the marsh, totally annihilating the enemy force. A Monument was dedicated to the event.

雲浦沼澤之戰蹟碑
尙州沼澤告捷之地日軍倭寇帶領三萬大軍人
致釜山東萊城蔚山城慶州城淪陷繼而寧川城
十月二十日爲拯救陷於水深火熱之中的國家
以安賢大監爲首于尙州沼澤一帶展開戰鬪
以五百名軍士取得首次告捷
慾將此奇跡般之勝利告知後代千秋
*Monument to the Battle of Unpo Wetland*
*The Sangju wetlands were the site of a victory over the Japanese bandits, who led 30,000 soldiers. Busan's Dongnae, Ulsan, Gyeongju, and Nyeongcheon fell to the enemy. On the 20th day of the 10th month, to save the nation from calamity, Lord Ahn Hyeon led a battle in the area of the Sangju wetlands and with 500 soldiers achieved the first victory. We desire that this miraculous victory shall be passed down to future generations for a thousand years.*
### **1601 A.D., Joseon, Hun Chiu**

Two Joseon guards find a group of 15 Pajeowi Jurchen dead, piled naked in a heap with a tattoo on the backs of their hands. Animals mutilated their bodies post-mortem, however the Deputy Commander of the Chupajin group, Min Chi-rok, discovers a bead in the hand of one of the dead Jurchen's that leads him to believe the group was actually killed by Cho Beom-il, a high ranking member of the Haewon Cho clan, and his elite guards. After Min Chi-rok confronts Cho Beam-il who confesses that he and his men murdered the 'trespassing' Jurchen, Min-Chi-rok travels to the Seongjeoyain village to conduct damage control and prevent an erupting conflict against the Kingdom by the Pajeowi.

The King of Joseon dies, an attempt is made to use the Resurrection Plant to revive him. This leads to an outbreak when he is zombified and bites a servant. Crown Prince Lee Chang goes rogue when he discovers the truth and discovers the plant is caused by worms within the Resurrection Plant which cause the undead to emerge only at night due to a decrease in temperatures. Submerging the bitten before they turn in water was shown to cure the effects. Prince Lee Chang faked his death after this incident and the outbreak covered up. Lord Ahn Hyeon was among those killed.

In 1608, As the new King was crowned, who contained a resurrection Worm within him, Prince Lee Chang discovered an empty village and a woman named Ashi who had trapped the undead in several boxes.

### **1611 A.D., Edo, Japan**

The record here comes from a Portuguese merchant, who was told this story by a missionary. Apparently, the missionary converted a samurai to Christianity. The samurai had told the priest that he belonged to a secret cult, called the “Brotherhood of Life”, a secret organization that was founded, and ultimately reported to, Shogun Yoshi Torunaga himself. The mission of this group was to covertly find, combat, and dispatch what can only be described as zombies. Initiates were trained similar to ninja, with combat emphasis on evading holds and decapitating the enemy. The reported final test was to have the initiate locked in a room for an entire night with only the still-moaning heads of decapitated ghouls lining the walls for company. Apparently, the samurai in question was assassinated before he could reach the pier.

Although the official account has a number of mistranslations, misconceptions, and unsupported facts, if the Society of Life did in fact exist, it may explain why there have been no major zombie outbreaks in Japan until the twentieth century. This secret society was likely the precursor to (or inspiration of) the tatenokai, founded in the twenty-first century, during World War Z.

### **1690 A.D., The Southern Atlantic**

The Portuguese merchantman named *Marialva* left Bissau, West Africa, with a cargo of slaves heading for Brazil -- and never reached its destination. Three years later, a Danish vessel named *Zeebrug* spotted the drifting ship. A party was dispatched to find and salvage anything of use. Instead they found a cargo full of undead Africans still chained to their bunks, writhing and moaning. Bite wounds were also found on their bodies. The only remains of the Portuguese crew was the captain's body, locked in his cabin with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. The Danish party, believing the ship to be cursed, immediately rowed back to their vessel and reported what they found to the captain. The *Mariavla* was then sunk with cannon fire.

No records from the *Marialva* were salvaged, and no clear evidence was ever found of the initial infected person, but since all of the Africans were chained, the initial vector was likely one of the crewmen. In this case, the slaves were left either to witness the crew devouring their countrymen or to watch as the infection crept torturously along the ranks of chained slaves and their increasingly closer neighbors turned.

### **1762 A.D., Castries, St. Lucia, The Caribbean**

A zombie outbreak of unknown origin struck the island of St. Lucia in 1862, beginning in the lower-class white segment of its largest settlement, Castries. The black population of the island recognized the symptoms of zombification and tried to warn the authorities but were ignored; white residents, lacking such cultural knowledge, imprisoned the zombies, then left those bitten in this effort untreated. Within two days, Castries was overrun with zombies. After the local militia failed to subdue the ghouls, the white islanders, including many bitten, fled into the countryside, taking the plague with them. The survivors of the second wave fled the island entirely or holed up in its fortresses of Rodney Bay and Vieux Fort. The black islanders, meanwhile, left to fend for themselves, organized into zombie-hunting units and systematically cleared the island of the undead within a week. When British and French military units from nearby islands arrived, however, they punished the remaining islanders for a "slave revolt." Surviving slaves were returned to their servitude, and all free black and mulatto survivors were enslaved or executed. British and French government records describe the incident only as a "slave revolt" with no mention of the zombies. However, the story lives on in local legend, and a monument to the event is rumored to exist somewhere on the island.

While the source of the initial zombie infection is officially unknown, it is possible that one or more zombies from the wreck of the *Marialva* shambled their way across the ocean floor and onto the island's shore. However, that undead could remain active for more than 70 years seems a bit far-fetched.

### **1807 A.D., Paris, France**

Chateau Robinet, an insane asylum, admitted a man who was apparently infected. Dr. Reynard Boise, the chief adminstrator of the asylum stated in his official report the following. "The patient appears incoherent, almost feral, with a insatiable lust for violence. . . . With jaws that snap like a rabid dog, he successfully wounded one of the other patients before being restrained.” The bitten patient was treated by having his bite mark bandaged, and given a drink of rum before being put back in a communal cell with over fifty other inmates who he attacked when he turned. The staff and the guards were too frightened by the screams coming from the cell to try to do anything until a week had passed. At that point, the only things present in the room were five zombies, and parts of several dozen people. Afterwards, Boise quit his position and returned to private life. Napoleon himself personally ordered that the asylum be closed, "purified", and turned into a rest home for army veterans. No one knows anything about the first zombie, where he came from, how he became infected, whether he infected anyone else before being sent to the asylum, or even what happened to him or the other zombies.

### **1807 A.D., Hertfordshire, England**

An Outbreak occurred in the English countryside, It is speculated the Zombie in Paris, France had crossed the Channel. This outbreak was eventually dealt with(*Pride and Prejudice and Zombies*). These Zombies notably rose after already being dead for some time, and infection was slow.

### **1824 A.D., Southern Africa**

H.F. Fynn, a member of the original British expedition which met with the Zulu king Shaka discussed in his diary how the Zulu people used zombies in a rite of passage type ritual.

He wrote: "The kraal was abuzz with life. . . . The young nobleman stepped forward into the center of the cattle pen. . . . Four of the king’s greatest warriors brought forth a figure, carried and restrained by the hands and feet . . . a bag fashioned of royal cowhide covered his head. This same hide covered the hands and forearms of his guards, so their flesh never touched that of the condemned. . . . The young nobleman grabbed his assegai [four-foot stabbing spear] and leapt into the pen. . . . The King shouted his order, commanding his warriors to hurl their charge into the kraal. The condemned struck the hard earth, flailing about like a drunken man. The leather bag slipped from his head . . . his face, to my horror, was frighteningly disfigured. A large knob of flesh had been gouged from his neck as if torn by some ungodly beast. His eyes had been plucked out, the remaining chasms staring into hell. From neither wound flowed the smallest drop of blood. The King raised his hand, silencing the frenzied multitude. A stillness hung over the kraal; a stillness so complete, the birds themselves appeared to obey the mighty King’s order. . . . The young nobleman raised his assegai to his chest and uttered a word. His voice was too meek, too soft to reach my ears. The man, the poor devil, however, must have heard the solitary voice. His head turned slowly, his mouth widened. From his bruised and torn lips came a howl so terrifying, it shook me to my very bones. The monster, for now I was convinced it was a monster, slouched slowly towards the nobleman. The young Zulu brandished his assegai. He stabbed forward, embedding the dark blade in the monster’s chest. The demon did not fall, did not expire, did not hint that its heart had been pierced. It simply continued its steady, unrelenting approach. The nobleman retreated, shaking like a leaf in the wind. He stumbled and fell, earth sticking to his perspiration-covered body. The crowd kept their silence, a thousand ebony statues staring down at the tragic scene. . . . And so Shaka leapt into the pen and bellowed “Sondela! Sondela!” The monster immediately turned from the prone nobleman to the King. With the speed of a musket ball, Shaka grabbed the assegai from the monster’s chest and drove it through one of the vacant eye pouches. He then twirled the weapon like a fencing champion, spinning the blade tip within the monster’s skull. The abomination dropped to its knees, then toppled forward, burying its abhorrent face in the red soil of Africa."

Fynn never mentioned what happened to the failed nobleman or the zombie's body. It was wondered how did the ritual first began, did the Zulus have more than one zombie for it, and if so, how did they get them?

### **1839 A.D., East Africa**

The travel diary of Sir James Ashton-Hayes, one of the many incompetent Europeans seeking the source of the Nile, reveals the probability of a zombie attack, and an organized, culturally accepted response to it. He describes a young African man returning to his village with a bite wound on his arm. The village witch doctor and tribal chief, after examining the wound and hearing the man's testimony, make a decision that shocks Hayes. The injured man bids goodbye to his family, then kneels before the chief, who smashes his head in with a large iron-tipped cudgel. Then ten of the tribe's warriors put down their spears, take up swords, and shout, “Njamba egoaga na era enge,” a Gikuyu phrase meaning, “Together we fight, and together we win or die." The party then leaves and, at an isolated location in the savanna, dismembers and burns the victim's body. When Hayes questions this, he is warned by his guide that the man would otherwise "rise again this night." Hayes neglects to identify this tribe, and his geographical data was later found woefully inaccurate, but the language of the battle cry was later identified as Gikuyu, locating the incident in what is now modern Kenya.

### **1848 A.D., Owl Creek Mountains, Wyoming**

The Knudhansen Party, a group of fifty-six settlers on their way to California to start new lives, mysteriously vanished in the Central Rocky Mountains. A year later, another expedition discovered what appeared to be their base camp. Arne Svenson, a teacher and farmer who was part of the second expedition, describes in his journal finding 45 corpses in a battle-ravaged camp, each with a gunshot wound or crushing blow to the head and each covered in bite marks. All of their livestock's skeletons being accounted for ruled out a Native American raid; the utter lack of wildlife in the area ruled out scavengers leaving the bite marks. Cannibalism, along the lines of the Donner Party, was considered the next best explanation but was incongruous with the settlement's ample food supplies.

As it turned out, at least one of the group had been infected earlier and, once turned, had attacked the other pioneers. A pair of Lakota Sioux came on the scene while they were out hunting, fifteen year old Elija Black and his grandfather. The two Indians eliminated a number of the zombies with tomahawk blows to the head, beheading and fire. One of the "survivors", a thirty-year-old-woman told them how the infestation spread and how most of the now-reanimated party had wandered into the wilderness. She then confessed that her wounds and those of the others were an incurable curse. Unanimously, they all asked for death. Afterwards, the grandfather revealed to Elija that he was bitten during the battle. Elija Black’s last kill of the day would be his own grandfather. From then on, he devoted his life to tracking down the remaining zombies of the Knudhansen Party. With each encounter, he grew in knowledge and experience. Although he never arrived at Piedmont, he had dispatched nine of the town’s zombies that had wandered into the wilderness. By the time of Hayward, Black had become, in all probability, the world’s leading field scholar, tracker, and executioner of the undead. Not much is known of the rest of his life or how it eventually ended. In 1939, his biography was published both in book form and a series of articles that appeared in English newspapers. As neither version has survived, it is impossible to know exactly how many battles Black fought. A dedicated search is under way to track down lost copies of his book.

### **1867 A.D., The Indian Ocean**

The English mail steamer, RMS Rona, which was transporting 137 convicts to Australia, came across an an unidentified ship stranded on a sandbar off Bijourtier Island. A party sent by the *Rona* to investigate and if necessary help, discovered a zombie with a broken back, who was dragging itself across the ship’s deserted decks. When the sailors from the Rona tried to help, the zombie bit a finger off one of the sailors, and was subsequently decaptated by the cutlass of another. The wounded seaman was taken back to the ship, and given a drink of rum, with the Rona's surgeon promising to look him over the following morning. That night, the sailor turned in his bunk, and attacked his mates. The frightened captain ordered the hold boarded up, with the result being that the convicts were trapped in with the zombie. For the rest of the voyage to Australia, the hold echoed with screams that turned into moans. A few of the crew swore they could hear the agonized squeaks of rats as they were eaten alive as well. The Rona reached Perth after six weeks at sea, with the officers and crew coming ashore to tell the magistrate what had happened; however it looked as if no one believed them. A contingent of Army soldiers was sent for, supposedly to escort the prisoners off the Rona; however, they failed to arrive for five days. On the sixth, a storm blew through the area, breaking the Rona's anchor chain, carrying the ship up the coast a few miles, and dashing it against a reef. The crew and the local people searched the ship, but found only human bones, and tracks leading inland, but no zombies. The story of the Rona was widely told among sailors from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Admirality records list the ship as being lost at sea.

### **1882 A.D., Piedmont, Oregon**

Piedmont, Oregon was a small silver mining town owned by the Patterson Mining Company, which also owned the nearby mine. For two months, the town was isolated, cut off from the outside. A relief party which was sent to investigate found the town devastated as if in a war. Many houses were burned, and those that weren't were strangely riddled with bullet holes, which were determined to have been fired from the inside, as if a battle had taken place inside them. An even more bizarre and gruesome discovery was when twenty seven mutilated and partly eaten skeletons were found. Initial guesses about cannibalism was refuted when Piedmont's warehouses were discovered to have more than enough food stockpiled within them for the winter. When the party investigated the mine itself, they made their last and most horrific and baffling discovery. They found that the entry shaft had been blasted shut, sealing the mine from the inside. The remains of fifty eight men, women and children were found inside the mine, all dead from starvation. The rescuers determined that the people took with them inside the mine enough food to last several weeks, indicating that the people were in there longer than that period. After all the bodies were counted, at least thirty two townsfolk were missing. The most widely accepted theory is that, for some reason, a zombie or more than one emerged from the wilderness and attacked Piedmont. After a brief but violent fight, the survivors carried what food they could to the mine, and sealed themselves in, waiting for a rescue that never came. It is suspected that, before it was decided to fall back to the mine, one or more survivors made a attempt to journey through the wilderness to the nearest outpost to get help. Since no record of this exists and no bodies have ever been found, it is likely that the would be messengers either died in the wild, or were killed by zombies. If it was a zombie attack, their remains have never been recovered. No official cover-up followed the Piedmont incident. Speculation on what happened ranged from plague, to avalanche, to infighting, to attacks by “wild Indians” (even though there were no Native Americans anywhere near the town.). The mine itself was never reopened. The Patterson Mining Company paid $20 compensation to each relative of the residents of Piedmont in exchange for their silence. Evidence of this transaction appeared in the company’s accounting logs. These were discovered when the corporation declared bankruptcy in 1931. No subsequent investigation followed.

### **1888 A.D., Hayward, Washington**

The incident began when a fur trapper name Gabriel Allens stumbled into Hayward with a deep gash on his arm. According to the town doctor, Jonathan Wilkes, who treated Allens, the fur trapper spoke of "a soul who wandered like a man possessed, his skin as gray as stone, his eyes fixed in a lifeless stare". Allens then tried to "approach the wretch" then the wretch "let out a hideous moan and bit the trapper on his right forearm. Little is known about how the infestation spread from this first victim to the other members of the town.

Fragments of data suggest the next victim was Dr. Wilkes, followed by three men who attempted to restrain Allens. Six days after the initial attack, Hayward was a town under siege. Many hid themselves in private homes or the town church while the zombies relentlessly attacked their barricades. Although firearms were plentiful, no one recognized the need for a head shot. Food, water, and ammunition were rapidly consumed. No one expected to hold longer than another six days.

At dawn on the seventh day, a Lakota man named Elija Black arrived. On horseback, with a U.S Army cavalry saber, he decapitated twelve ghouls within the first twenty minutes. Black then used a charred stick draw a circle around the town's water tower before climbing to the top. Between yells, an old army bugle, and his tethered horse for bait, he managed to attract every walking dead in town toward his position. Each one that entered the circle received a head shot from his Winchester repeater.

Soon, Black eliminated the entire horde of 59 zombies within six hours. As survivors began to realize what had happened, they rushed out to greet their savor...however Elija Black had dissapeared.

### **1893 A.D., Fort Louis Philippe, French North Africa**

Yet another recorded attack in zombie history. It is most recognized because of the French Foreign Legion's bravery, valor, and will power. This attack is most memorable because of its duration. It is the longest assault by zombies ever recorded (and survived). The brave men of the French Foreign Legion stood their grounds for an outstanding three years! These men, though trained in combat but not zombie survival, did survive three whole years, their ranks were thinned amongst the years because of many failed attempts to climb over their defensive wall and run for help. Those brave men were surrounded by their attackers and eaten. These men only survived because of the fact that their fort was built around a well, and that they had a multitude of supplies and ammunition. Although the situation seemed dire, the men had one last ditch effort. Their plan was to equip all the remaining men with all the supplies they had left and open the gates, and let in the undead scourge. Colonel Drax was the man to open the gates. He did so and ran to his remaining allies. As the undead chased Drax, he was pulled away to safety by his allies. By letting almost all the zombies inside the fort, the remaining survivors maneuvered themselves outside the fort and forced the gate shut, thus trapping the zombies inside Fort Louis Philippe (the main gates opened inward; the zombies, trying to get out, did not or could not pull to open them). After sealing the zombies inside, the remaining forces dispatched what few zombies remained outside the fort with hand-to-hand combat. After the ghouls were dispatched, the forces then marched 240 miles to the nearest oasis at Bir Ounane.

Outstanding enough, 50 years later, a U.S. Army B-24 had been returning from a night raid on German troop concentrations in Italy when the his aircraft began running low on fuel over the Algerian Desert. They landed near what looked to be a settlement, so they investigated; what they found was Fort Louis Philippe. An excerpt from the journal of formgunner Anthony Marno says "What we found inside looked like a kiddie's nightmare. We walked to the courtyard and found skeletons, mountains of them! Good thing none of them were in the well huh?" Marno and his crew were picked up by a group of traveling Arabs. When the squad told the Arabs about their findings, they said nothing and disregarded what they said.

No later expedition was ever mounted.

### **1905 A.D., Tabora, Tanganyika, German East Africa**

Trial transcripts state that a native guide referred to only as “Simon” was arrested and charged with the decapitation of a famous white hunter, Karl Seekt. Simon’s defense counsel, a Dutch planter named Guy Voorster, explained that his client believed he had actually done a necessary deed. According to Voorster:

"Simon’s people believe that a malady exists that robs the life force from a man. In its place is left the body, dead yet still living, without sense of self or surroundings and with only cannibalism as its drive. . . . Furthermore, the victims of this undead monster will rise from their own graves to devour even more victims. This cycle will be repeated, again and again, until none is left upon our Earth but these horrible flesh-eating monstrosities. . . . My client tells that the victim in question returned to his base camp two days behind schedule, his mind delirious and an unexplained wound on his arm. Later that day he expired. . . . My client then describes Herr Seekt rising from his deathbed to set his teeth upon the rest of his party. My client used his native blade to decapitate Herr Seekt and incinerate his head in the campfire."

Mr. Voorster then quickly stated that he did not agree with Simon's allegations and that he submitted it only to prove that he was indeed insane and did not deserve to be executed. However, because a insanity defense applied only to white men and not Africans, Simon was sentenced to execution by hanging. All records of the trial still exist, albeit in terrible condition, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

**1908**

**June 30th:** A meteor containing Element 115 crashes near the Stony Tunguska River(*Call of the Dead*).

### **1911 A.D., Vitre, Louisiana**

This common American legend, told in bars and high school locker rooms throughout the Deep South, has its roots in a documented historical incident. On Halloween evening, a group of local Cajun teens decided to take part in a "dare" to go in the local bayou and remain there from midnight to dawn. Local legend told of zombies descended from a plantation family that roamed the swamp, and who devoured or reanimated any people who were unlucky to come across them. By noon the following day, none of the youths had returned to the town. A search party was formed to comb the swamp to try to find them. The party was attacked by at least thirty zombies, which included the unfortunate teenagers, and retreated, unwittingly leading the ghouls back to Vitre. While townsfolk barricaded themselves in their homes, one local, Henri De La Croix, had the idea that splashing the undead with molasses would bring millions of insects to eat them. De La Croix's plan failed, and he barely escaped with his life. The townspeople decided to try to burn the zombies instead, so they splashed them with kerosene and set them on fire. While more effective than De La Croix's idea, the burning undead set fire to everything they touched. Some of the townspeople, trapped in their buildings died in the fires while the others fled into the swamp. A few days afterwards, a rescue party discovered that the town had completely burned to the ground, and that there were fifty-eight survivors out of a population of 114. Figures vary as to the number of undead versus human casualties. When casualties from Vitre's population were added to the amount of zombie corpses found, at least fifteen bodies were unaccounted for. Official government records in Baton Rouge explain the attack as “riotous behavior from the Negro population,” a pecular explanation because Vitre's population was totally white. Any proof of a zombie outbreak comes from private letters and diaries that exist among the survivors’ descendants.

### **1913 A.D., Paramaribo, Surinam**

In 1913, Dr. Vanderhaven arrived in Paramaribo, having been called to study a mysterious outbreak now recognized as a zombie infestation. Initially, the outbreak was believed to have been a form of leprosy, a specialty of Dr. Vanderhaven's. While he immediately ruled out leprosy as the cause of infection, Dr. Vanderhaven never realized the true nature of the outbreak, as he was never allowed to conduct a proper autopsy. However, Dr. Vanderhaven would go on to rediscover many of Dr. Obeidallah's findings in addition to new ones that furthered the modern understanding of the undead. At one point, a hospital orderly threw a live rat to a zombie, which was promptly devoured. From this, Dr. Vanderhaven was able to deduce that zombies were compelled to devour all forms of living flesh. Additionally, by conducting various experiments, Dr. Vanderhaven was the first to determine that the zombies were created by a virus, or "contagious living fluid" as they were called at the time. Finally, Dr. Vanderhaven proposed the name **"Solanum"** for the virus, though he did not provide any reasoning for this title. The term has since been adopted as the virus' official scientific name.

Following the conclusion of his study, Dr. Vanderhaven returned to Holland in 1914 to write a 200 page report on his findings. Unlike Dr. Obeidallah, Dr. Vanderhaven's report was not rejected by the scientific community and was officially published. However, with the onset of World War I the same year, Dr. Vanderhaven's work was quickly examined. Japan had learned of the Resurrection Worm during their occupation of Hun Chiu. Herbert West obtained the corpses and Solannum for his own experiments during the War. He would be killed after the war by his own creations(*Herbert West, Re-animator*).

### **1923 A.D., Colombo, Ceylon**

This account comes from *The Oriental,* an exatriate newspaper for Britons living in the Indian Ocean colony. Christopher Wells, a copilot for British Imperial Airways, was rescued from a life raft after fourteen days at sea. Before dying of exposure, Wells explained that he had been transporting a corpse discovered by a British expedition to Mount Everest. The corpse had been a European, his clothing of a century earlier, with no identifying documents. As he was frozen solid, the expedition leader had decided to fly him to Colombo for further study. While en route, the corpse thawed, reanimated, and attacked the airplanes crew. The three men managed to destroy their assailant by crushing his skull with a fire extinguisher (as they did not realize what they were dealing with, the attempt may have been to incapacitate the zombie). While safe from this immediate danger, they now had to contend with a damaged aircraft. The pilot radioed a distress signal but had no time to send a position report. The three men parachuted into the ocean, the crew-chief not realizing that a bite he sustained would have dire consequences later. The following day, he expired, reanimated several hours later, and immediately attacked the other two men. While the pilot wrestled with the undead assailant, Wells, in a panic, kicked both of them overboard. After relating what some would call "confessing his story to the authorities", Wells lapsed into unconsciousness and died the next day. His story was reported as ravings of a sunstroke maniac. A subsequent investigation produced no evidence of the plane, the crew, or the alleged zombie.

**1925**

**August 30th:** Doctor Edward Richtofen joins the Illuminati(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1929 A.D., Kotzebue, Alaska**

**1931**

**February 4th:** Large deposits of Element 115 are discovered near Breslau, Germany. Doctor Ludvig Maxis, a German scientist, is sent to investigate(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**May 10th:** Maxis forms Group 935, an international organization dedicated to the study of Element 115. Maxis tells his scientists they "represent the future of technological advancements" and will be "pioneers of human discovery." The group swears to work in secrecy from their respective governments. As Maxis says, "we cannot afford to let this power fall into the wrong hands." (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**1934**

**November 5th:** Samantha Maxis is born. Her mother dies in childbirth(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**1936**

**August 11th:** Maxis invites Richtofen to join Group 935. He agrees, secretly acting on behalf of the Illuminati's interests(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**1937**

**April 10th:** The Imperial Japanese Army discovers Element 115 meteor fragment in a swamp within Japanese territory. They build the Rising Sun Facility [Shi No Numa] to continue research. Division 9 is created to oversee its operation (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 14th:** The United States Government discovers deposits of element 115 at Groom Lake (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**1939**

**July 2nd:** Maxis and Richtofen begin teleportation experiments with the Matter Transference Prototype, to mild success. The subjects are teleported, but their chemical composition is altered, leaving them catatonic and changed (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**August 5th**: Using Element 115, Maxis and Richtofen resurrect one of the teleported corpses for the first time. Initially it obeys, but soon becomes rabid and attacks them. The test subject is euthanized (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 3rd:** Richtofen begins development of the WunderWaffe DG-2 using Element 115 (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**November 23rd:** Maxis turns to the Reichstag for additional funding. Germany agrees to the request, expressing interest in their weapons research, teleportation technology, and the reanimated undead subjects (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**December 4th:** During Test Trial 131, Richtofen and Doctor Schuster successfully teleport a walnut. This is the first successful test where chemical composition of the object is maintained throughout the process (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**December 5th:** "Edward's Walnut Delivery" fails to impress Maxis who declares it a waste of time. He reveals to Richtofen that Group 935 will soon be funded by Germany. Richtofen worries this will lead to massive defections; he and Schuster decide to continue their teleportation experiments behind Maxis' back (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1940**

**January 4th:** Richtofen and Schuster conduct their first human teleportation test. Richtofen is so confident in its success, he volunteers himself. Teleported to the Moon, he encounters the MPD, the Aether Pyramid hidden by the Apothicons. While inspecting the device, Richtofen is electrocuted and begins hearing many voices of corruption, including that of the Shadowman. The device then teleports him to Shangri-La. Corrupted by the Dark Aether, Richtofen is gradually being driven insane by an obsession to find Agartha (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 5th:** Richtofen is worshipped by the natives of Shangri-La; an altar is built in his name. Richtofen encounters the Focusing Stone for the first time (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 23rd:** After near month absence, Richtofen returns to Schuster with a plan to build Griffin Station (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 24th:** Richtofen renounces his involvement with the Illuminati. When asked how he could abandon his obligation to the Order he says "Teddy was a liar" (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**March 13th:** Construction of Griffin Station on the Moon begins. Frustrated with Maxis' alignment with Germany, other disgruntled Group 935 scientists join the cause (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**July 13th:** Maxis instructs his assistant Sophia to write a letter to the Reichstag High Command requesting additional funds. Though he reports that mass production will soon be underway shortly, Der Riese lacks not only the funding, but sufficient volumes of Element 115 (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**August 1st:** In response to Maxis' request, Germany creates two new facilities for Group 935. They are the Kino facility, a repurposed theater, and the Asylum facility at the Wittenau Sanatorium in Berlin (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**August 18th:** As per Germany's request, the Japanese Imperial Army hands over the Rising Sun Facility to Group 935. Division 9 remains involved on site (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 3rd:** Group 935 establishes a research facility in Siberia near the Tunguska River [*Call of the Dead*].

**November 6th:** Group 935 establishes a facility at Der Eisendrache (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1941**

**January 11th:** Maxis gives Fluffy to Samantha. The dog is expecting a litter (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 20th:** Maxis tests the first file for storage on the data servant (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 26th:** On the data servant, Maxis catalogs locations with prominent Element 115 deposits. He includes information about its various application and cites that the reanimation of dead cells is a possible side effect (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 30th:** Richtofen completes the WunderWaffe prototype (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**February 1st:** With Griffin Station completed, Richtofen names Doctor Groph lead scientist, and returns to Earth to continue the charade with Maxis. Working alongside Schuster, Groph is left to discover how to power the MPD (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**February 2nd:** In a speech to his staff, Groph talks optimistically about Griffin Station's establishment as a permanent base of operations (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**April 17th:** Maxis develops the Ray Gun prototype at the Rising Sun Facility. H. Porter works on developing the 2nd Generation Model (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 13th:** As result of temporal Rifts in 1963 Kino, Monty reaches across time and offers little nudges. One nudge is developing Group 935's Element 115 fused elixirs. They created four medicinal beverages known colloquially as Juggernog, Quick Revive, Speed Cola and Double Tap (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 24th:** Nikolai Belinski's wife is killed during the German advance into the Soviet Union. In an effort to numb his pain, Nikolai increasingly turns to alcohol (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 28th:** Group 935 continues development of a Weapons Upgrade Machine (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**July 18th:** Groph and Schuster unwittingly discover how to charge the MPD. When Schuster kills a rat near the device, its death inexplicably begins filling the tank, charging the device. They report their findings to Richtofen (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**July 20th:** Richtofen begins sending soldiers and scientists to the Moon to be sacrificed; their souls used to charge the MPD (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**November 5th:** Takeo Masaki is dispatched by the Emperor to oversee the work of Group 935 and Division 9 at the Rising Sun Facility (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**December 8th:** Richtofen shares the Element 115-based Elixir recipes with Griffin Station. They develop Mule Kick (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**December 9th:** Nikolai's brother is killed in the Battle of Besstrashyygrad(Stalingrad)(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**December 14th:** Richtofen creates the Monkey Bomb (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**December 16th:** In a personal log, Maxis expressed concern over Element 115's impact on Richtofen's behavior. No longer trusting him, he wondered if it was a mistake to invite him to Group 935 (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**December 20th:** Accompanied by Sophia, Maxis is transferred to the Kino facility to focus on creating Germany's undead army. Samantha is left in Richtofen's care (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1942 A.D., The Central Pacific**

During Japan's initial advance, an SNLF (Special Naval Landing Force) platoon was sent to garrison Atuk, an Island in the Caroline Cain(site of the Rising Sun Facility) . Several days after landing, the platoon was attacked by a swarm of zombies from the inland jungle. Initial casualties were high.

Without information about the nature of their attackers or the correct means of destruction, the SNLF were driven to a fortified mountaintop on the north end of the island. Ironically, as the wounded were left to die, the surviving troops spared themselves the danger of taking infected comrades with them. The platoon remained stranded in their mountaintop fortress for several days, lacking food, low on water, and cut off from the outside world. all this time, the zombies were besieging their position, unable to scale the steep cliffs but preventing any chance of escape.

After two weeks of imprisonment, Ashi Nakamura, a platoon sniper, discovered that a headshot was fatal to a zombie. This knowledge allowed the Japanese to eventually combat their attackers. After dispatching the zombies surrounding them with rifle fire, they advanced further for a full sweep of the island and were rescued(*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

### **1942-45 A.D., Harbin, Japanese Puppet State of Manchukuo (Manchuria)**

In 1942, the Japanese government encountered a small infestation of zombies on a pacific Island mentioned in the travels of Francis Drake. They captured eight, and started the experiment "Cherry Blossom" which attempted to breed zombies using knowledge gained from Dr. Jan Vanderhaven's report 28 years earlier. However, they could not find any traces of Solanum, meaning they could not create "fresh" zombies without making them breed. They tried to train them as mindless drones, but 10 of 16 instructors were bitten, and it was decided to drop ten zombies on British and Chinese forces. One plane was hit by British AA-fire, killing everyone onboard. The zombies that dropped were killed by Chinese snipers, who had been habitually trained to aim for the head (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

### **1943 A.D., French North Africa**

This excerpt comes from the debriefing of P.F.C. Anthony Marno, tail-gunner on a U.S. Army B-24 bomber. Returning from a night raid against German troop concentrations in Italy, the aircraft found itself lost over the Algerian desert. Low on fuel, the pilot saw what looked like a human settlement below and ordered his crew to bail out. What they found was Fort Louis Philippe.

It looked like something out of a kiddie’s nightmare. . . . We open the gates, there wasn’t no bar on it or nothing. We walk into the courtyard, and there was all these skeletons. Mountains of them, no kidding! Just piled up everywhere, like a movie. Our skipper, he just kinda shakes his head and says, “Sorta feel like there should be buried treasure here, you know?” Good thing none of them bodies was in the well. We managed to fill up our canteens, grab some supplies. There wasn’t no food, but who’d want it anyway, you know?(*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

Marno and the rest of his crew were rescued by an Arab caravan fifty miles from the fort. When questioned about the place, the Arabs would not respond. At the time, the U.S. Army had neither the resources nor the interest in investigating some abandoned ruin in the middle of the desert. No later expedition was ever mounted.

**January 8th:** Maxis worries he and Sophia have grown too close. He considers sending her away(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 16th:** Nikolai is captured by German Forces during the Battle of Besstrashnyygrad(Stalingrad). He becomes a subject in Group 935 experiments(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 27th:** Maxis reports success with Subject Two-Six, whose "violent outbursts have been greatly reduced." Maxis believes "this method of treatment will be 100 percent effective in most cases." (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**February 2nd:** The Battle of Besstrahnyygrad(Stalingrad)ends (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**February 10th:** Maxis reports the treatment has been perfected. He believes if "Subject Two-Six can retain the impressions longer than twenty-six hours, then the delivery of the zombie army can be accelerated."(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**February 12th:** After attacking a handler, Subject Two-Six is killed and deemed "another setback."(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**May 18th:** Harvey Yena begins his work with Group 935(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 4th**: Primis arrives from Dimension 63. In an effort to prevent the events that are about to unfold, they formulate a plan to stop this dimension's Richtofen(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 11th:** Richtofen is contacted from the House by Maxis, who warns that "The test subjects must never be allowed to be awakened; the havoc that could be wreaked upon the future by such simple-minded individuals would be catastrophic."(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 13th:** Takeo reports to the Emperor that the work being done at the Rising Sun Facility is "unacceptable."(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**July 19th**: Primis Richtofen is teleported to the House in Agartha, reuniting him with Maxis(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**July 24th:** On the orders of the Emperor, Takeo is taken prisoner by Group 935 and Division 9. He is used as a test subject for experiments (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1944**

**July 14th:** After the setbacks with Subject Two-Six, Maxis reports new success with the Undead Army. However, he maintains his belief that the undead cannot be controlled or maintained (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

A newly integrated paratrooper unit parachutes into an old church in Germany to shut down a radio signal. They uncover a laboratory experimenting on Trioxin, actually the army created by Maxis moved there and most of the squad is killed to destroy the church and all evidence before it could be deployed during D-Day(*Overlord,* 2018 Film).

Defectors Frederick Vought and Josef Merkwurdgliebe provide their knowledge of Trioxin experiments to the allies to help nullify the use of such weapons.

**September 2nd:** Pablo Marinus, a Mexican spy, is captured by Group 935 at Der Eisendrache (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1945**

**May 9th:** In his cell, Pablo writes of visions of a great war. He describes a "great Battle against strange demon-like creatures who [were] trying to devour the Earth.' In his vision, he sees four knights protect him from certain death. He makes a note that the knights wore tunics similar of those in Der Eisendrache (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 4th — NACHT DER UNTOTEN:** An Allied plane malfunctions over an airfield and crashes. German Army trucks, transporting the undead and Element 115 between Group 935 facilities, are struck in the crash. The Marines surviving the crash hold out against the undead as long as they can (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 17th:** Peter McCain infiltrates Group 935 at Der Riese (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**June 29th:** Groph and Schuster develop the Wave Gun (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**July 15th:** Richtofen travels to the Siberian Facility to do further research on "live specimens." As her temporary guardian, he takes Samantha with him. Group 935 begins transferring three test subjects for experimentation: Nikolai, Pablo and Takeo (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**July 29th:** While Richtofen works at the Siberian Facility, Group 935 begins development of Deadshot Daiquiri (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**August 1st:** The test subjects arrive at the Siberian Facility for Richtofen's experiments (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**August 31st:** CEA(CIA) Handler Cornelius Pernell confirms that Peter McCain has successfully infiltrated Group 935 and has been transferred to the Asylum Facility. Cornelius suspects Group 935 is losing control of their experiments and has sent in a Marine Recon Unit to extract McCain. Tank Dempsey is to lead the squad (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 1st:** Peter is outed as a spy and captured by Group 935 (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 2nd:** Richtofen reports Pablo has died following a spleen removal. He also reveals he's been performing experiments on Samantha (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

World War 2 ends. Group 935 continues their research (*Call of Duty: Zombies*). This time they are working for Wilhelm Strasse and his continued resistance.

Temporal Rifts begin to affect the Asylum facility. An Orderly reports increasingly problems with test subjects. Many in the facility have begun hearing voices coming from the walls, including the sobbing of a boy and a girl's, screaming, and "man shouting to close the windows."(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 3rd:** An outbreak occurs at the Asylum facility. Peter McCain escapes (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 6th: VERRÜCKT:** Dempsey, John Banana, Smokey and Paxton Ridge arrive at the Asylum facility to find it overrun by zombies. They fight off the horde as long as they can. Dempsey is apprehended by Group 935. Paxton escapes and makes it back to America (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

John Banana writes messages and records his last words while being eaten alive by an undead Smokey (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 10th:** Richtofen reports another spy has been captured and will be brought in to replace "the Mexican." The subject is Dempsey (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 13th:** Cornelius Pernell attempts to send a transmission to Peter McCain, telling him to rendezvous at the Rising Sun Facility (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 17th:** Dempsey arrives at the Siberian Facility (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 20th:** Richtofen documents the personality traits of his test subjects. Dempsey's "intellect seems low, but his will is strong." Takeo is "still staring at the floor, muttering what sounds like some kind of proverb over and over again." Nikolai has "recently begun responding to stimuli, but only after injections of a new serum made primarily from vodka." Richtofen notes that their minds have been almost entirely broken, with no memory remaining of who they once were(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 24th:** Maxis returns to Der Riese. He orders Richtofen to do likewise so they may continue their work on the Matter Transference Device(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**September 27th:** Richtofen returns to Der Riese with Dempsey, Nikolai, Takeo and Samantha (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 1st:** Maxis reports on Richtofen's findings with his live test subjects, noting that while their baseline psyche remains intact, all specific memories have been lost (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

Infuriated to learn that Maxis has not been mass producing the DG-2 as he swore he would, Richtofen revels in his plot to destroy Maxis and Samantha, vowing that he will no longer continue to work on his undead army (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 8th:** Groph reports to Richtofen the MPD is nearly ready (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 12th:** Groph radios Richtofen to inform him that the device has been powered up and is awaiting the conduit. Richtofen says he will proceed with Operation Shield and dispose of Maxis and Samantha (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 13th:** Though frustrated that the "matter transference tests... have been largely unsuccessful," Maxis acknowledges "that the test subjects [departure] from their original point of origin is undeniable." However, Richtofen's suggestion that the subjects have been transported not through space, but time itself causes Maxis to worry if his "irrationally may soon prove a liability to our endeavors".

Maxis and Richtofen perform teleportation test trials on Test Subjects number 3, 4 and 5. All fail, including test 5, where Maxis uses Fluffy. Test 6 fails, Fluffy — now changed — is teleported back into the chamber. Samantha sees Fluffy and runs into the teleporter. Maxis chases after her. Richtofen seals them both in the test chamber and teleports all three of them.

Samantha is teleported to the moon while Groph and Schuster work out the MPD. Running into the MPD, she is drawn inside of it, where she becomes corrupted by the Dark Aether.

Maxis is teleported to the Crazy Place and develops the power to merge with electricity.

Richtofen returns to the moon. Learning Samantha is trapped in the MPD, he orders Groph to teleport Maxis there to coax her out of the device. He also warns Groph to keep an eye out for an "evil looking dog."

In an effort to free Samantha, Maxis approaches the MPD and persuades her to come out. Once she does, Maxis gives her an instruction: "Kill them... all." Maxis kills himself and merges with the technology of Griffin Station, while Samantha unleashes the undead upon the base(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 14th:** H. Porter activates the alarm as an outbreak occurs at Der Riese. Before taking a cyanide capsule, he says he's "all out of hope, God forgive us all."

Richtofen returns to Der Riese and awakens Dempsey, Takeo and Nikolai. With no recollection of who they are or who Richtofen is, they agree to help him. The four would become known as Ultimis.

**October 18th:** Peter McCain parachutes over the Rising Sun Facility. He dies shortly after (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 21st: SHI NO NUMA:**Ultimis travels to the Rising Sun Facility to recover Richtofen's diary. Upon reading it, Richtofen begins to form his plan to defeat Samantha (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 28th — DER RIESE:** Ultimis returns to Der Riese. With his diary, Richtofen plans to use the teleporter to return to the moon and confront Samantha. Unfortunately, the Wunderwaffe DG-2 overload the teleporter and sends them through time — causing Richtofen to drop his diary (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**November 5th:** Group 935 is disbanded(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1946**

**January 19th:** The United States and the Soviet Union share the resources recovered from Group 935's various research stations. Richtofen's diary is among the items recovered by the Soviet Union (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**January 27th:** The Pentagon hires many former Group 935 scientists in an effort to replicate their work(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

As with their US counterparts, the Soviets hire many former Group 935 scientists. Among them is Harvey Yena, who forms the Ascension Group (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1947 A.D., Jarvie, British Columbia**

A series of articles in five separate newspapers recount the bloody events and individual heroism associated with this small Canadian hamlet. Little is known of the source of the outbreak. Historians suspect the carrier was Mathew Morgan, a local hunter who returned to town one night with a mysterious bite on his shoulder. By dawn of the next morning, twenty-one zombies were prowling the streets of Jarvie. Nine individuals were completely consumed. The remaining fifteen humans barricaded themselves in the sheriff’s office. A lucky shot by an embattled citizen had proved what a bullet to the brain could do. By this point, however, most of the windows were boarded up, so no one was able to aim their weapons. A plan was hatched to crawl out to the roof, make it to the telephone-telegraph office, and signal the authorities in Victoria. The survivors made it halfway across the street when the nearby ghouls noticed them and gave chase. One member of the group, Regina Clark, told the others to continue while she held off the undead. Clark, armed only with a U.S. M1 carbine, led the zombies into a blind alley. Eyewitnesses insist that Clark did this on purpose, herding the undead into a confined space to allow her no more than four targets at one time. With cool aim and an astounding reload time, Clark dispatched the entire mob. Several eyewitnesses observed her emptying one fifteen-round clip in twelve seconds without missing a single shot. Even more astounding is that the first zombie she dispatched was her own husband. Official sources label the event “an unexplainable display of public violence.” All newspaper articles are based on Jarvie’s citizens. Regina Clark declined to be interviewed. Her memoirs remain a guarded secret of her family.

### **1952**

**July 29th:** The Pentagon begins experiments involving their own versions of the undead(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1954 A.D., Than Hoa, French Indochina**

This passage is taken from a letter written by Jean Beart Lacoutour, a French businessman living in the former colony. The game is called “Devil Dance.” A living human is placed in a cage with one of these creatures. Our human has with him only a small blade, perhaps eight centimeters at most. . . . Will he survive his waltz with the living corpse? If not, how long will it last? Bets are taken for these and all other variables. . . . We keep a stable of them, these fetid gladiators. Most are turned from the victims of a failed match. Some we take from the street . . . we pay their families well. . . . God have mercy on me for this unimaginable sin.This letter, along with a sizable fortune, arrived in La Rochelle, France, three months after the fall of French Indochina to Wong Chu’s Communist guerrillas. The fate of Lacoutour’s “Devil Dance” is unknown. No further information has been uncovered. One year later, Lacoutour’s body arrived in France, badly decomposed, with a bullet in the brain. The North Sarkhanese coroner’s explanation was suicide.

### **1955**

**May 12th:** The US Government transfers a number of Element 115 experiments to the Groom Lake Facility (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 19th:** Gersh and Yuri Zavoyski begin working for the Ascension Group (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1956**

**April 23rd: SHANGRI-LA:** Explorers Brock and Gary discover Shangri-La. During an eclipse, they're unwittingly trapped in a time loop. Sally, sent back in time from 2011, is trapped in the same loop. Ultimis arrives in Shangri-La. With the help of Brock and Gary, they acquire the Focusing Stone (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1957 A.D., Mombasa, Zarakal(Kenya)**

This excerpt was taken from an interrogation by a British Army officer of a captured Gikuyu rebel during the Mau Mau uprising (all answers come secondhand through a translator):

Q:How many did you see?

A:Five.

Q:Describe them.

A:White men, their skin gray and cracked. Some had wounds, bite marks on parts of their bodies. All had bullet holes in their chests. They stumbled, they groaned. Their eyes had no sight. Their teeth were stained with blood. The smell of carrion announced them. The animals fled.

**An argument erupts between the prisoner and the Mosai interpreter. The prisoner grows silent.**

 Q:What happened?

A:They came for us. We drew our lalems (Mosai weapon, similar to a machete) and sliced off their heads, then buried them.

Q:You buried the heads?

A:Yes.

Q:Why?

A:Because a fire would have given us away.

Q:You were not wounded?

A:I would not be here.

Q:You were not afraid?

A:We only fear the living.

Q:So these were evil spirits?

**The prisoner chuckles.**

 Q:Why are you laughing?

A:Evil spirits are invented to frighten children. These men were walking death.

The prisoner gave little information for the rest of his interrogation. When asked if there were more zombies out there, he remained silent. The entire transcript appeared in a British tabloid later that year. Nothing was made of it.

An alien race led by one Captain Eros initiates Plan 9 in attempting to conquer Earth, using a test run to revive a small group of recently deceased humans including the vampires Dracula and Vampira. Upon their ship's destruction the undead where seemingly reduced to skeletons(*Plan 9 from Outer Space*).

### **1959, Punchbowl, Keystone**

**June 3rd:** The Pentagon constructs their own prototype teleporter, and commence experimentation(*Call of Duty:Zombies*).

Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield, a traveling salesman killed in 1933 is revived as a zombie. He gather an army and attacks the town of Punchbowl Keystone, an experimental future city created by Andrew Monday. Andrew's mother Maggie Monday recognizes Stubblefield as Andrew's father when he was alive. Maggie is zombified and the town of Punchbowl is nuked to contain the infection with only Stubblefield and Maggie surviving on a rowboat, both being sentient(*Stubbs the Zombie*).

### **1960 A.D., Byelgoransk, Soviet Union**

It had been suspected, since the end of the Second World War, that the Soviet troops who invaded Manchuria captured most of the Japanese scientists, data, and test subjects (zombies) involved in Black Dragon’s special project. Recent revelations have confirmed these rumors to be true. The purpose of this new Soviet project was to create a secret army of walking dead to be used in the inevitable Third World War. “Cherry Blossom,” rechristened “Sturgeon,” was conducted near a small town in Eastern Siberia whose only other structure was a large prison for political dissidents. The location ensured not only total secrecy but also a ready supply of test subjects. Based on recent findings, we are able to determine that, for some reason, the experiments went awry, causing an outbreak of several hundred zombies. What few scientists were left managed to escape to the prison. Safe behind its walls, they settled down for what was believed to be a short siege until help arrived. None did. Some historians believe that the town’s remote nature (no roads existed, and supplies had to be airlifted) prevented an immediate response. Others believed that, since the project had been started by Fearless Leader, the KGB was reluctant to inform Pre-mier Dmitri Kissoff of its existence. A third theory holds that the Soviet leadership was aware of the disaster, had ringed the area with troops to prevent a breakout, and was watching and waiting to see the result of the siege. Inside the prison walls, a coalition of scientists, military personnel, and prisoners was surviving quite comfortably. Greenhouses were constructed; wells were dug; power was improvised both by windmills and human dynamos. Radio contact was even maintained on a daily basis. The survivors reported that, given their position, they could hold out until winter, when, hopefully, the undead would freeze solid. Three days before the first autumn frost, a Soviet aircraft dropped a crude thermonuclear device on Byelgoransk. The one-megaton blast obliterated the town, the prison, and the surrounding area.For decades, the disaster was explained by the Soviet government as a routine nuclear test. The truth was not revealed until 1992, when information began leaking to the West. Rumors of the outbreak also surfaced among older Siberians, interviewed for the first time by Russia’s newly free press. Memoirs of senior Soviet officials hinted at the true nature of the devastation. Many acknowledge that the town of Byelgoransk did exist. Others confirm that it was both a political prison and biowarfare center. Some even go so far as to admit some kind of “outbreak,” although none describe exactly what broke out. The most damaging evidence came when Artiom Zenoviev, a Russian mobster and former KGB archivist, released all copies of the government’s official report to an anonymous Western source (an act for which he was paid handsomely). The report contains radio transcripts, aerial photographs (both before and after), and depositions of both ground troops and the bomber’s air crew, along with the signed confessions of those in command of project Sturgeon. Included with this report are 643 pages of laboratory data concerning the physiology and behavioral patterns of undead test subjects. The Russians discount the entire disclosure as a hoax. If this is true, and Zenoviev is nothing more than a brilliantly creative opportunist, then why does his list of those held responsible match official records of top scientists, military commanders, and Politburo members who were executed by the KGB one month to the day after Byelgoransk was incinerated?

### **1962 A.D., Unidentified Town, Nevada**

Details of this outbreak are surprisingly sketchy, given that it occurred within a relatively settled part of the planet within the latter half of the twentieth century. According to fragments of secondhand eyewitness accounts, scraps of yellowed newsprint, and a suspiciously vague police report, a small outbreak of zombies attacked and besieged Hank Davis, a local farmer, and three hired hands in a barn for five days and nights. When state police dispatched the ghouls and entered the barn, they found all the occupants dead. A subsequent investigation determined that the four men killed one another. More specifically, three men were slain, while the fourth took his own life. No concrete reason is given for this occurrence. The barn was more than safe from attack, and a small stock of food and water was only half depleted. The present theory is that the zombie’s incessant moaning, coupled with feelings of total isolation and helplessness, led to a complete psychological breakdown. No official explanation was given for the outbreak. The case is “still under investigation.”

Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai free Gersch from the casmir mechanism, but then shoots them into the Gersch device, and this causes them to be shot forward in time again after 1996.

Meanwhile, James T.Cassidy(Kennedy), Peble Haugland(Robert McNamara), Alejandro Costa(Castro) and Ferris F.Fremont(Richard Nixon) fight zombies at the pentagon[five](brought there accidentally by the experimental transporter). After this incident, James T.Cassidy orders an end to all experimentation with Trioxin.

**March 13th:** Studying Group 935's medicinal elixir research, the Ascension Group develops PhD Flopper and Stamin-Up.

**November 11th:** Gersh begins work on Project Thunder.

**December 12th:** Gersh and Yuri begin work on the Gersh Device, codenamed Project Mercury(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1963**

**June 15th:** The Pentagon begins development on their own version of the Wunderwaffe DG-2

**August 17th:** The Pentagon begins on development of their own version of the Winter's Howl (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 28th: KINO DER TOTEN:** From Der Riese, Ultimis teleports to Kino. This marks the first time Ultimis travels across space and time. Temporal Rift occur across dimensions. In light of these developments, Monty feels obligated to step in, and begins to make changes in the background across time. He helps Group 935 invent Perk Machines. He adds chalk drawings to walls. Little nudges. Ultimis locates a Lunar Lander and fly to the Ascension Facility (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**October 29th:** Gersh informs the senior staff that Yuri has been removed from Project Mercury and has been transferred to Rocket Research.

Yuri begins to notice the appearance of children's toys around the facility (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

**November 1st:** Upon reading Richtofen's diary, Yuri begins to hear Samantha's voice. Over several days, her voice will consume him, driving him to the brink of insanity. She orders him to resume work on the Gersh Device. He obeys (*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **Post-1966**

Dr.Oswall Spencer finds the Spencer Foundation, an effort to develop a superhuman race which includes the study of Trioxin(*Resident Evil, Dead by Daylight*).

### **1967**

James Marcus discovered the Progenitor's ability to revive dead E. coli cells and excitedly shared his discovery with his cynical colleague, Edward Ashford(*Resident Evil*).

### **1968 A.D., Eastern Laos**

Oswald E.Spencer, James Marcus, and Edward Ashford came together to form Umbrella pharmaceuticals and study the Progenitor virus. Project: Veronica was led by Alexander Ashford and had government support.

One story was related by Peter Stavros, a substance-abusing patient and former Special Forces sniper. In 1988, while under psychological evaluation at a V.A. hospital in Los Santos, he related this story to the attending psychiatrist. Stavros stated that his team was in a routine search-and-destroy mission along the Sarkhanese border. Their intended target was a village suspected of being a staging area of the Pathet Lao (Communist guerrillas). Upon entering the village, they discovered the inhabitants were in the midst of their own siege against several dozen walking dead. For unknown reasons, the team leader ordered his team to withdraw, then called in an airstrike. Skyraiders armed with napalm plastered the area, destroying both the living dead and the human survivors,

No documented evidence exists to corroborate Stavros' story. The other members of his team are either dead, missing in action, missing within the United States, or simply declined to be interviewed.

### **1971 A.D., Nong'ona Valley, Rwanda**

Jane Massey, wildlife journalist for *The Living Earth,* was sent by her magazine to document the lives of endangered silverback gorillas. This excerpt ran as a small anecdote among the larger and more popular story of rare and exotic primates:

*As we passed a steep valley, I saw a movement of something in the foliage below. Our guide saw it too and encouraged us to pick up our pace. At that moment, I heard something pretty rare for that part of the world: complete silence. No birds, no animals, not even insects, and we're talking some pretty loud insects. I asked Kengeri, our guide, and he just told me to keep it down. From down in the valley, I could hear this creepy moan. Kevin, the expedition's photographer, turned even whiter than usual and kept saying: "It must be the wind." Now, I've heard wind in Sarawak, Sri Lanka, the Amazon, and even Nepal, and that was NOT the wind! Kengeri put a hand on his machete and encouraged us to shut up. I told him that I wanted to go down into the valley to check it out. He refused. When I pushed, he said, "The dead walk there" and took off.*

Massey never explored the valley or discovered the source of the moan. The guide's story could have been local superstition. The moan could have simply been the wind. However, maps of the valley reveal it to be surrounded by sheer cliffs in all directions, making it impossible for ghouls to escape. Theoretically, this valley could serve as a receptacle for tribes wishing to trap but not destroy the walking dead.

### **1975 A.D., Al-marq, Egypt**

Information concerning this outbreak comes from a variety of sources: eyewitness interviews of the town’s inhabitants, nine depositions from low-ranking Egyptian military personnel, and the accounts of Gassim Farouk (a former Egyptian Air Force intelligence officer who recently emigrated to the United States), and several international journalists who have requested that their identities be kept secret. All these sources corroborate the story that an outbreak of unknown origin attacked and overran this small Egyptian village. Calls for help went unanswered, both from police from other towns and the base commander of Egypt’s Second Armored Division at Gabal Garib only thirty-five miles away. In a bizarre twist of fate, the telephone operator at Gabal Garib was also an Israeli Mossad agent who passed the information along to IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. The information was discounted as a hoax by both the Mossad and the Israeli General Staff and would have been forgotten had it not been for Colonel Jacob Korsunsky, an aide to Prime Minister Golda Meir. An American Jew and former colleague of the late David Shore, Korsunsky was well aware of the existence of zombies and what threat they posed if left unchecked. Amazingly, Korsunsky convinced Meir to assemble a reconnaissance mission to investigate Al-Marq. By now the infestation was in its fourteenth day. Nine survivors had barricaded themselves in the town mosque with little water and no food. A platoon of paratroopers, led by Korsunsky, dropped into the center of Al-Marq and, after a twelve-hour battle, eliminated all zombies. Wild speculation surrounds the ending of this story. Some believe that the Egyptian Army surrounded Al-Marq, captured the Israelis, and prepared to execute them on the spot. Only after pleading from the survivors, who showed the soldiers the zombie corpses, did the Egyptians allow the Israelis safe passage home. Others take this possibility further, believing it to be one of the reasons for the Egyptian-Israeli d'etente. No hard evidence exists to substantiate this story. Korsunsky died in 1991. His memoirs, personal accounts, army communiqu'es, subsequent newspaper articles, and even film of the battle purportedly shot by a Mossad cameraman, have been sealed by the Israeli government. If the story is true, it does present one interesting and possibly disturbing question. Why would the Egyptian Army be convinced of the living dead’s existence simply by eyewitness accounts and seemingly human corpses? Would not an intact, still-functioning specimen (or specimens) have to exist to prove such an incredible story? If so, where are those specimens now?

### **1979 A.D., Sperry, Alabama**

While on his daily rounds, Chuck Bernard, the local postal delivery man, stopped at the Henrichs farm to find that the previous day’s mail had not been collected. As this had never happened before, Bernard decided to carry the mail himself up to the house. Fifty feet from the front door, he heard what sounded like gunshots, cries of pain, and calls for help. Bernard fled the scene, drove ten miles to the nearest pay phone, and called the police. When two sheriff’s deputies and a paramedic team arrived, they found the Henrichs family brutally slaughtered. The only survivor, Freda Henrichs, was obviously experiencing the symptoms of advanced infection. She bit both paramedics before the deputies could restrain her. A third deputy, last to arrive and new to the force, panicked and shot her in the head. The two bitten men were brought to the county hospital for treatment and died soon afterward. Three hours later, they rose during their autopsy, attacked the coroner and his assistant, and moved out to the street. By midnight the entire town was in a panic. At least twenty-two zombies were now at large and had completely devoured fifteen people. Many survivors sought refuge in their homes. Others tried to flee the city. Three schoolchildren managed to climb to the top of a water tower. Although surrounded (several ghouls tried to scale the tower but were kicked back to the ground), these children remained safe until they were rescued. One man, Harland Lee, left his home armed with a modified Uzi submachine gun, a sawed-off, double-barreled shotgun, and two .44 magnum pistols (one a revolver, the other an automatic). Witnesses reported seeing Lee attack a group of twelve zombies, firing first his Uzi then the other weapons in turn. Each time, Lee aimed for the zombie’s torso, causing extreme damage but no kills. Low on ammo, and backed against a mass of wrecked cars, Lee attempted head shots with a pistol in each hand. Because his hands were shaking too violently, Lee produced no hits whatsoever. The self-appointed town savior was quickly devoured. By morning, deputies from neighboring towns, along with state police and hastily assembled vigilante groups, had converged on Sperry. Armed with sighted hunting rifles and new knowledge of the fatal head shot (a local hunter had learned this defending his home), they quickly dispatched the threat. The official explanation (provided by the Department of Agriculture) was “mass hysteria from pesticide release in local water table.” All bodies were removed by the Centers for Disease Control before civilian autopsies could be performed. The majority of radio recordings, news footage, and private photographs was immediately confiscated. One hundred and seventy-five lawsuits were filed by various survivors. Ninety-two of these cases have been settled out of court, forty-eight are still pending, and the remainder have been mysteriously dropped. One lawsuit was recently filed for access to the confiscated media footage. A court decision is said to be years away.

### **Dec. 1980 A.D., Juruti, Brazil**

This outpost, more then 300 miles downriver from Maricela, became the scene of several attacks five weeks later. Zombies rising from the water attacked fisherman in their boats or clambered ashore at several points along the bank. The result of these attacks- numbers, response, casualties-is still unknown.

### **1984 A.D., Cabrio, Arizona**

A fire broke loose at an elementary school in Cabrio, AZ., killing 47 children. There was only one survivor, Ellen Aims, who escaped by jumping out a broken window. She suffered deep lacerations and loss of blood. A hurried transfusion is the only thing that saved her life. Within half an hour, Ellen began to suffer from the symptoms of Solanum infection. The medical staff did not understand this and suspected the blood to be contaminated by other diseases. While tests were under way, the child died. In full view of the staff, witnesses, and parents, she reanimated and bit the attending nurse. Ellen was restrained, and the nurse put in quarantine.The doctor on call relayed the details of his case to a college in Phoenix. A couple hours later, doctors from the Centers for Disease Control arrived, escorted by local law enforcement and "nondescript federal agents" Both Ellen and the infected nurse were airlifted to an undisclosed location for "further treatment." All hospital records and the entire blood supply were confiscated. The CDC never revealed any further details and refuses to comment on the matter.

### **1987 A.D., Khotan, China**

In March 1987, Chinese dissident groups informed the West of a near disaster at the nuclear power plant in Xinjiang. After several months of denying the story, the Chinese government officially announced that there had been a “malfunction” at the facility. Within a month, the story had been changed to “attempted acts of sabotage . . . by counter-revolutionary terrorists.” In August, Tycka!, a Swedish newspaper, published a story that a U.S. spy satellite over Khotan had photographed tanks and other armored vehicles firing point-blank into what appeared to be disorganized mobs of civilians who were attempting to enter the power plant. More photographs revealed that some of the “civilians” surrounding certain individuals were tearing them to pieces and feeding on their corpses. The U.S. government denies that its satellite produced such images, and Tycka! has retracted the story. If Khotan were a zombie outbreak, then more questions exist than answers. How did the outbreak start? What was the duration? How was it eventually contained? How many zombies were involved? Did they actually enter the plant? How much damage was done? Why was there not a meltdown on the scale of Chernobyl? Did any zombies escape? Have there been attacks since then? One piece of information that gives credence to the story of the outbreak comes from Professor Kwang Zhou, a Chinese dissident who has since defected to the United States. Kwang knew one soldier involved in the incident. Before being sent to a reeducation camp with all other witnesses, the young man stated that the code name for the operation was “Eternal Waking Nightmare.” One question still remains, how did this initial outbreak start? After reading David Shore’s book, specifically the section on how a Black Dragon zombie was captured by Chinese Communist troops, it is logical to theorize that the Chinese government had, or still has, its own version of “Cherry Blossom” and “Sturgeon,” its own project to create an army of undead.

### **1988**

Umbrella Pharmaceuticals murders Dr.James Marcus and falsely believes it killed one of his creations, the Queen Leech as well, which continues to mutate(*Resident Evil*).

### **Dec. 1992 A.D., Joshua Tree National Monument, California**

This mini-outbreak occurred when a vacationing couple (Sharon Parsons and her boyfriend, Patrick MacDonald) went camping in the park. At some point, Sharon was attacked and bitten by a zombie: the likely "culprit" is implied to be Devin Martin (on account of his skin fragments appearing on Sharon's fingernails), a loner/wildlife photographer who vanished a month earlier. Back at camp, Sharon apparently zombified in her sleep, and attacked and bit Patrick, forcing him to bash her head in with a rock. When several witnesses found the gruesome scene, the police made a thorough investigation of the park, which turned up nothing outside the initial scene of the crime (likely implying that Devin either was killed by Sharon, but in a way that didn't leave any remains, or wasn't killed, and stumbled out of the park). MacDonald was last seen (well, *alive* at least) at a gas station in Diamond Bar, California, reported by the clerk on duty to be half-crazed, nursing a bite wound on his shoulder, and heading west, to Los Santos.

### **Jan. 1993 A.D., Downtown Los Santos, California**

An investigation is reportedly still underway in identifying the early stages of the outbreak, although it's heavily implied that it involves Patrick MacDonald succumbing to his bites sometime before he could seek professional help in the city, and spreading it to the homeless populace in the area. The actual "story" starts when members of a street gang known as the Venice Boardwalk Reds (VBR for short) rolled into the area in order to avenge the murder of one of their members, which was committed by another gang called the "Los Peros Negros" (lit. "The Black Dogs"), which used the post-industrial cesspool of the city as their hangout. After driving into the region at about 1 AM, the first thing the VBR members noticed was the lack of homeless people - the area was notorious for a large shantytown set up in a vacant parking lot, but the whole area was seemingly deserted, with the various junk the hobos had (cardboard boxes, shopping carts, etc.) strewn all over the street. Paying little attention to the road, the VBR driver didn't see a "slow-moving pedestrian" until he ran him over and careened the gang's El Camino into the side of a building. His gang members proceeded to berate his driving skills (or lack thereof) before realizing the pedestrian was still crawling at them, in spite of broken back. Panicking, one of the gang-bangers blindly shot at the zombified vagrant with a 9mm pistol, but only wasted ammo to the ghoul's chest while alerting several others over a multi-block radius. By the time the Red finally head-shotted the zed, the gang would find themselves surrounded by a mob of over forty zombies, closing in from all directions.

The gang, now realizing the magnitude of their undead nemesis, quickly ran for their lives, literally "running through" the thinnest line of the undead. After fleeing for several more blocks, they run into (ironically) the survivors of the Los Peros Negros, who had to abandon their hideout when it was overwhelmed by zombies. Quickly chucking the gang-banger rivalry for survival, the gangs hastily called a truce, and continued to flee. While the area was full of easily fortified buildings, the majority of the warehouses were locked up or (in the case of the abandoned ones) boarded up, making entry impossible. Since they knew the turf better, the Peros suggested De Soto Junior High, a small school within running distance. With the walking dead merely minutes away, the gang members made it to the school, and broke in the second story window. The good news was that, thanks to the solid concrete construction, barred and mesh-covered windows, and steel-covered, solid wood doors made the two-story building easily defensible. The bad news was that it also triggered the burglar alarm, which alerted all the zeds in the area, swelling their ranks to well over a hundred. The gang acted with remarkable foresight once inside: establishing a fallback position, checking the doors/windows for security, filling any recepticle they could with water, and taking stock of their guns and ammo. Naturally thinking the cops would be worse than the undead, the gangs used the school phone to call up their allies rather than the police. While they didn't believe what the guys were talking about, the other gangs promised to get there anyways.

Overall, this is one of the few recorded cases of an outbreak with an "overkill" factor in the favor of the survivors:as the two gangs were well-protected, well-armed, well-led, well-organized, and extremely well-motivated, they managed to exterminate all the undead in the area, without losing any of their own. However, they (along with the promised reinforcements) were all arrested by the LSPD, who covered-up the incident as, quote, "a shoot-out between local street gangs", and the eye-witness accounts were delusions brought on by narcotics. The undead were removed and cremated, with almost none being identified or missed, and the VBR and Pero members in the school were all convicted of first-degree murder, sentenced to life in various California state prisons, and would all end up dead within a year of incarceration ("supposedly" by rival gang members).

The story would have ended there if not for the private investigations of an CEA detective who to this day remains anonymous - after reading about the Parsons-MacDonald case, the detective was intrigued about the bizarre details, which led him/her to at least partially believe the stories. Most of the coroner reports on the corpses (skin decomposition not matching brain decomposition, scratch/claw/bite marks, human flesh in the digestive tract, etc.) matched the details of Parsons autopsy. And, finally, a wallet out of a more "well-to-do" corpse revealed said cadaver to be Patrick MacDonald (although he couldn't be physically identified on account of a twelve-gauge solid slug blowing his face off). The detective knew better to turn the details to his/her authorities, and rather presented it to the author of the Zombie Survival Guide.

### **Feb. 1993 A.D., East Los Santos, California**

The outbreak is recorded by Octavio and Rosa Melgar, owners of a local *carneceria* (or Spanish butcher) that doubled as their home. At about one forty-five AM, the couple was awoken to the sounds of frantic cries beneath their window. Fearing their store was being looted, Rosa called the cops while Octavio raced downstairs with his pistol. What he found was a Department of Sanitation worker who had his overalls torn to shreds, and his right foot bitten clean off. Screaming for Octavio to shut the manhole, the bewildered store owner reluctantly complied, evidentially right before the he could see anyone in the sewer. As Rosa did her best to dress the man's wound, he jabbered about how he and five other sanitation workers were inspecting a storm drain junction when they were attacked by a bunch of "crazies". He described the attacked as covered in rags and wounds, moaning, and moving with a slow, methodical limp. After that, the man (who is still unidentified), slipped into a completely unintelligible babble before passing out. The police and paramedics would arrive roughly an hour and a half later, and, by this time, the man was pronounced as dead. Octavio took the the liberty of informing the police of the moaning he heard just before he shut the manhole, and, while the cops noted this, they didn't say anything else about it.

However, the next morning, the Melgars saw a startling news report where the ambulance that took the dead man crashed and exploded on the way to the county hospital, and that the last-known radio transmission consisted of intense scuffling and personel screaming at the "dead man" literally tearing his way out of the body bag (how the station obtained the transmission is a mystery unto itself). Roughly half an hour after the report, about four police trucks, an ambulance, and a national guard truck pulled up to the Melgars *carneceria*, and the couple (along with a small crowd of onlookers) could only gawk as the LSPD sealed off the area and pitched a olive drab green tent over the manhole, with an identical cover running from the tent to the truck. In the matter of an hour, the tent was snapped back up again, and the force tore off (during which time an unknown number of men presumably moved into the sewers, eliminated all zombies there, and carried out the bodies).

The aftermath is quite unusual for events of the modern era, - The Melgars decline to comment on the issue further (for "personal legal reasons"), the LS Department of Sanitation denied the loss of any employees and the LSPD explained it was a "routine health and maintenance inspection".

### **Mar. 1994 A.D., San Pedro, California**

The major source for the information of this outbreak was provided by Allie Goodwin, a crane operator at this Southern California shipyard, and her twenty-four-frame disposable camera. An unmarked container was offloaded from the SS *Mare Caribe*, an Isthmus-flagged freighter out of Davao City, from the Philippines. After it sat for about a week awaiting pickup, a watchman heard sounds from the container. He and several guards, thinking it to be full of illegal immigrants, popped the container open, only to be eaten alive by about forty-six zombies that were inside. The other personnel quickly scrambled for shelter in the warehouses, office buildings, and anywhere else they thought was safe - and, while some buildings provided adequate shelter for the night, others became deathtraps. Allie, along with three other crane operators, quickly climbed into their machines, and helped create an ad-hoc fortress compromised of shipping crates, saving thirteen other workers from a grisly fate of cannibalization/zombification. After they did that, they used the cranes for offensive purposes, grabbing crates and dropping them on any zombies they could. By the time the police finally arrived (since entrance was prevented from multiple locked gates), they put down the eleven remaining zombies in a hail of gunfire (with eleven lucky headshots, of course). About twenty humans were cannibalized that night, and the zombie dead tallied to about thirty-nine. The seven unnaccounted for were presumably knocked into the harbor, and washed out to sea.

And as per the usual, the incident was covered up. News stories reported the incident as a break-in, the government refused to release any statements, and almost all parties involved- including the security company that had eight of its employees literally eaten alive, zombified or otherwise killed has remained silent on the issue - (the original container of also vanished, and the SS *Mare Caribe* also denies any knowledge of its contents). Goodwin's photos and statement was branded as a hoax, and she would later be fired for "psychological incompetence".

### **April 1994 A.D., Santa Monica Bay, California**

Three Palos Verdes residents, Jim Hwang, Anthony Cho, and Michael Kim, reported to police that they were attacked while fishing in the bay. The three men swore that Hwang had been bottom fishing when his line hooked a large, extremely heavy catch. What broke the surface was a man, naked, partially burned, partially decomposed, and still alive. The man attacked the three fishermen, grabbing Hwang and attempting to bite him on the neck. Cho pulled his friend back and Kim smashed the creature in the face with an oar. The attacker sank beneath the surfance while the three fishermen headed for shore. All three were immediately subject to drug and alcohol tests by the Palos Verdes Police Department (to be found clean of all counts), were held overnight for questioning, and were released the next morning.

### **1996 A.D., The Line of Control, Srinagar, India**

This excerpt was taken from a post action report by Lieutenant Tagore of the Border Security Force:The subject approached at a slow stagger, as if ill or intoxicated. [Through binoculars] I could observe that he wore the full uniform of the Sharzadi Rangers, odd since none were reported to be operating in this zone. At three hundred meters we ordered the subject to halt and identify himself. He would not comply. A second warning was given. Still no reply. He seemed to be moaning incoherently. At the sound of our calls his pace increased slightly. At two hundred meters he tripped the first mine, an American “Bouncing Betty.” We observed the subject receiving shrapnel wounds to his upper and lower torso. He stumbled, fell on his face, then regained his footing and continued forward. . . . I deduced he wore some type of body armor. . . . This action occurred again at one hundred and fifty meters. This time the shrapnel tore the subject’s jaw from his face. . . . At this range I could observe that the wound did not bleed. . . . The wind shifted in our direction. . . . We detected a putrid odor from the subject similar to decomposing meat. At one hundred meters I ordered Private Tilak [platoon sniper] to dispatch the subject. Tilak placed a direct shot through the subject’s forehead. The subject dropped immediately. He did not rise, nor make any further movement.Subsequent reports document the recovery and initial autopsy of the body at the military hospital in Srinagar. Shortly thereafter the body was removed by the National Security Guard. No subsequent information has been released regarding their findings.

**March 17: Call of the Dead:** Sarah Michelle Gellar, Danny Trejo, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker are attacked by zombies when making a film with George Romero on a siberian island by a sunken ship. They hear Tank, Nikolai, Takeo and Richtofen trapped behind a door, after being shot forward in time again. The celebrities get the Golden Rod for Rictofen and they are teleported to Shangri-La.

Umbrella Pharmaceuticals helps to rebuild Raccoon City following its destruction in the 1996 Harvester Invasion, gaining a good amount of good will from its citizens despite some odd architecture choices(*Resident Evil*).

### **After 1996**

Two adventurers, Brock and Gary, find Shangri-La, but they are later attacked by zombies. Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai, time travel back and save Brock and Gary, only for them to end up where they started. Richtofen takes the Focusing Stone from Shangri-La.

A battle ensues in a Nuketown area, a bomb is dropped killing everyone and destroying the town(*Call of Duty: Black Ops* Nuketown multiplayer map).

Marlton Johnson somehow ends up in the town zombies attack. He locks himself in a fallout shelter.

CEA(CIA )and CDC are dispatched to the town to fend off zombies. Meanwhile, Richtofen, Tank, Nikolai, and Takeo arrive in Groom Lake and use a teleporter to arrive at griffin station.

Richtofen carries out his grand scheme, merging the Golden Rod and Focusing stone together, which he then uses to switch souls with Samantha Maxis. Richtofen gains control of the zombies.

Maxis launches three rockets to earth in an attempt to lower Richtofen's control, however this creates an alternate universe where the world is obliterated.

Samantha **somehow** travels back in time to 1918 but arrives in Agartha.

CEA(CIA) and CDC are dispatched to fight zombies at a Bus Depot, Town and a Farm. A CDC solider loses communications with his team and becomes stranded at a Diner.

The CEA(CIA) and CDC agents are wiped out and Misty, Samuel Stuhlinger, Marlton Johnson and Russman arrive at these areas, which together become known as TranZit.

The four survivors power a tower for either Maxis or Richtofen. Afterward, Richtofen teleports them to a skyscraper in China, where they power the second tower in either Maxis' or Richtofen's favor.

The four survivors get to Southern Angola by foot, where the rift is, a gateway to Agartha. They descend into an underground town [Buried] and power the last(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1998 A.D., Zabrovst, Siberia**

Jacob Tailor, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker for the Canadian Brodcast Company, arrived in the small Siberian town of Zabrovst with the intention of photographing an intact, and potentially cloneable, Smilodon carcass. The body of a man in his late twenties, whose clothing matched that of a sixteenth-century cossack, had also been found. The shoot was due to take place in July, but Tailor arrived with an advance team in February to familiarize himself with the area and his subjects. He believed the human corpse would not be the subject of more than a few seconds in his film, but asked that it be stored with the tiger’s until his return. Tailor and his crew then returned to Toronto for a much needed rest. On June 14 a few members of Tailor’s crew returned to Zabrovst to prepare their frozen subjects and the dig site for filming. That was the last time they were heard from. When Tailor arrived by helicopter with the rest of his film crew on July 1, he found all twelve buildings at the site deserted. There were signs of violence and forced entry, including broken windows, overturned furniture, and blood and pieces of flesh on the walls and floor. A scream brought Tailor back to the helicopter, where he found a group of thirty-six ghouls, including local villagers and the missing members of his advance team, feasting on the pilots. Tailor did not understand what he was seeing, but knew enough to run for his life.The situation seemed grim. Tailor and his cameraman, soundman, and field researcher had no weapons, no supplies, and, being in the middle of the Siberian wasteland, nowhere to turn for help. The filmmakers sought refuge in a two-story farmhouse in the village. Instead of boarding up the doors and windows, Tailor decided to destroy the two staircases. They stocked the second story with whatever food they could find and buckets of water filled from the well. An ax, a sledgehammer, and several smaller tools were used to destroy the first staircase. The arrival of the zombies prevented the destruction of the second one. Tailor acted quickly, taking doors from the second-story bedrooms and nailing them onto the second stairway. This created a ramp that prevented the approaching zombies from gaining any traction. One by one they attempted to crawl their way up the ramp and were pushed back down by Tailor’s team. This low-intensity battle went on for two days; half the group kept their attackers at bay while the other half slept (with cotton stuffed into their ears to deaden the sound of the moans).On the third day, a freak accident gave Tailor the idea for their eventual salvation. For fear the ghouls would grab their legs if they attempted to kick them back down the ramp, the filmmakers had resorted to shoving the zombies down with a long-handled wooden broom. The broom handle, already weak from so much use, finally snapped as it was grabbed by one of the attacking fiends. Tailor managed to kick the zombie back down, and watched in amazement as the sharp, broken tip of the handle, still clutched in the falling monster’s hand, went right through the eye socket of a fellow ghoul. Not only had Tailor unwittingly killed his first zombie, but for the first time he realized the proper way to dispose of them. Now, instead of trying to force their attackers back down the ramp, the film crew aggressively encouraged them. Each one that came close enough to attack was given a devastating blow to the head with the team’s ax. When this weapon was lost (stuck in the skull of a dead zombie), they switched to their sledgehammer. When its handle broke, they resorted to a crowbar. The battle took seven hours, but by the end the exhausted Canadian filmmakers had dispatched every one of their attackers.To this day, the Russian government has no official explanation of what occurred at Zabrovst. Any official asked about the incident will explain that it is being “looked into.” However, in a country with as many social, economic, political, environmental, and military problems as the new Russian Federation, there is little interest in the deaths of a few foreigners and backwoods Siberians. Tailor, amazingly, kept his two cameras rolling throughout the entire incident. The result is forty-two hours of the most exciting footage ever recorded, digital video that the Lawson Film cannot hold a candle to. Tailor has tried, for the last few years, to have at least a portion of this footage released to the general public. All international “experts” who have viewed the video have labeled it as an expert hoax. Tailor has lost all credibility in an industry that once hailed him as one of its finest. He is now in the process of settling a divorce and several lawsuits.

**July 22:** Beginning of what Umbrella Pharamaceuticals called "X-Day". An unknown figure, actually Marcus revived by fusing with the Queen Leech, begins attacking Umbrella. S.T.A.R.S. is sent to investigate. Wesker sabotages the S.T.A.R.S helicopter but there are several survivors(*Resident Evil*).

**July 23:** **The Ecliptic Express Incident:** The Queen Leech, one of Dr.Marcus's experiments believed murdered and dumped with him, attacked the Ecliptic Express, an Umbrella Subway system train with an army of leeches(*Resident Evil*).

**July 24:** Surviving members of S.T.A.R.S. bring down Umbrella with Wesker believed dead but infected(*Resident Evil*). The Queen Leech attacks a Mansion in the Arklay Mountains, killing roughly 200 people. Rebecca Chambers caused the mansion to self destruct. Other survivors include Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Barry Burton, Brad Vickers, and Albert Wesker(*Resident Evil*).

**September 22: OPERATION: NESTWRECKER:** Dr.Birkin had cut off all contact with Umbrella for two months, An agent of Umbrella within the US government informed them of his efforts to sell a sample of a new experimental strain, the Golgotha Virus. An Umbrella Secret Service Squad was sent in but Dr. Birkin drew a gun and was shot. He injected himself with several rats being infected as well and spreading the virus to Raccoon City(*Resident Evil*).

### **Raccoon City, US**

**September 23-October 1:** Raccoon City is overrun by the T-Virus. Eventually unable to contain the situation, President James Marshall was forced to authorize the nuking and destruction of the city to prevent the spread of the infection, which led to his resignation((*Resident Evil*).

### **Sheena Island, Europe**

**November 22-26:** In a deliberate act of sabotage, Commander Vincent Goldman released bio-weapons into the streets on Sheena Island, on which Umbrella was performing experiments. This, and Umbrella's countermeasures, resulted in the near-total annihilation of the island's population(*Resident Evil*).

### **Rockfort Island, South America and Antarctic Outbreak**

**December:** A rival company known as "the Organization"(possibly Vought) led by Umbrella Turncoat Albert Wesker, attacked the Umbrella Island of Rockfort. Claire Redfield was held captive on the island and escaped. Chris Redfield learned of Albert Wesker's survival. Survivors fled to Umbrella's Antarctic base only to inadvertently spread the infection. Chris Redfield would set the base to self destruction, destroying the virus (*Resident Evil*).

### **1998-2003**

**The Raccoon Trials:** The Government sues Umbrella Pharmaceuticals, eventually finding them guilty for the events in Raccoon City.

### **2000, Penamstan, Southeast Asia**

Umbrella based progenitor-virus weapons are used during the Penamstan Civil War(*Resident Evil*).

### **2001 A.D., Sidi-Moussa, Morocco**

The only evidence of an attack comes from a small article on the back page of a French newspaper:

Outbreak of Mass Hysteria in Moroccan Fishing Village—Sources confirm that a previously unknown neurological condition has affected five residents, causing them to attack their relatives and friends in an attempt to eat their flesh. Acting on local custom, the afflicted were bound with rope and weights, taken out to sea, then dumped into the ocean. A government investigation is pending. Charges range from murder to negligent manslaughter.

No government trial materialized, and no further reports appeared.

### **2002 A.D., St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands**

A zombie—bloated, waterlogged, with skin completely dissolved washed ashore on the northeast coast of the island. Local inhabitants were unsure of what to make of it, keeping their distance and calling for the authorities. It is thought this was only known instance of a zombie traveling long distances undersea before the war. The police eventually fired shots at the zombie’s chest, but it wasn’t until a curious boy was grabbed and almost bitten by the zombie that a recent immigrant commandeered an officer's sidearm, and shot the zombie in the head, killing it. It is unknown what happened to the body after the incident(*Zombie Survival Guide*).

The Anti-Virus Weapon Protocol No. 7600 is implemented as a US Executive Order, demanding the complete destruction of any and all potential Trioxin Viruses(*Resident Evil*).

**Operation Javier:** An outbreak in a South American region. which spread in the Amparo region of the Amazon Rainforest. It was an intentional release of the t-Virus on the part of Javier Hidalgo, a local war-lord as an act of vengeance for the disappearance of his daughter and his tense relationship with the collapsing Umbrella Corporation. The incident, also known as Operation Javier, was one of the earliest known implementations of Anti-Virus Weapon Protocol No. 7600, an American policy of direct action against groups possessing the t-Virus and was also the earliest known operation of the Anti-Umbrella Pursuit and Investigation Team (prior to another incident that same year), a unit within USSOCOM that was founded as a dedicated anti-bioterror organization. Another account of the incident suggest Krauser had a team on the operation. All of his team was wiped out except himself as a result of neglecting evacuation request from the US. An unnamed journalist was trying to expose the truth and was "dealt with" as a result(*Resident Evil*).

### **India Bioterror Attack**

samples of t-Virus were smuggled to India and used to start an outbreak. From there Dr.Frederic Downing, via his WP Corporation position, supplied India with the prototype vaccine to prevent it spreading beyond ground zero(*Resident Evil*).

### **2008**

The 2008 Reanimation led to many dead teenagers being revived. While they lacked factors of living beings such as respiration or digestions, they were intelligent and otherwise fairly normal. They faced discrimination despite efforts to reintegrate them into society by the Hunter Foundation founded by Alish and Angela Hunter, to support he living impaired. Anti-Undead violence led to several teenagers being reterminated by having their brains destroyed. No laws protecting them existed since they were already dead(*Generation Dead*).

### **2010**

Greendale Community College is accidentally sent "Taco Meat" from a Government Base, leading to an outbreak, fortunately the Virus was only experimental and lowering the temperature near the infected caused the virus to die(*Community* Episode "Epidemiology).

### **2014**

Rumours that the Haitian National Quidditch team was using Inferi to intimidate other teams were dismissed by the International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee as untrue. However, the rumours proved true when Inferi attacked crowds in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, devouring those who tripped. In the end, 300 casualties from shock, broken bones, and bites resulted from the disastrous opening ceremony, one being an infected Sasabonsam bite on Jamaican keeper Kquewanda Bailey

### **2018**

Sakura Minamoto and six other girls are revived by Kotaru Tatsumi and form an idol group known as Franchouchou. To avoid persecution they hide their zombielike nature under makeup and use aliases(*Zombieland Saga*).

## **Alternate Universes**

When Samantha Maxis launched nukes at Earth this created two alternate timelines. On Earth One, the nukes were intercepted and Richtofen successfully mended the rift. In the two alternate universes the nukes hit, What changes is is Richtofen or Maxis succeeded.

### Richtofen Universe

Richtofen mended the rift and the earth began to repair itself. Richtofen then sent Maxis' soul into non-existence and possessed Samuel's body as a physical host.

### Maxis Universe

Maxis revealed his true intentions, to open the gateway to Agartha, but in the process the earth and it's survivors would be destroyed. He sent Richtofen into the body of a zombie.

## **"Origins" Universe**

### **Unknown Time before 1918**

Group 935 go to France to unearth Element 115

Maxis makes staff replicas

Maxis creates the Mauser C96

Maxis is contacted by a girl named Samantha, who claims to be his future daughter and is trapped within Agartha. This makes him go crazy, and causes Richtofen to hate Samantha(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### Sometime Between January and November, 1918

Element 115 wakes the dead and several members of 935 die.

Maxis gets infected and Edward Richtofen removes his brain, who is then confronted by American Tank Dempsey, Russian Nikolai Belinski and Japanese Takeo Masaki, soldiers who were sent to capture him.

Tank, Richtofen, Takeo and Nikolai team up and fend off the zombies in the battlefield. They activate the six generators, get the staff replicas and upgrade them.

Richtofen makes a flying drone and places Maxis' brain into it, allowing him to live.

The four survivors are instructed by Samantha to free her, which they successfully do, and are rewarded.

The zombie population is contained.

The Maxis drone enters Agartha(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1920**

Following the battle against the undead outbreak in Northern France, Doctor Edward Richtofen went on a quest to learn about the concept of alternate timelines, and the existence of different worlds. After retrieving an ancient book known as the Kronorium, Richtofen learns of the Summoning Key, an ancient artifact that can be used to fix the universe back to its original state. Doctor Ludvig Maxis instructs Richtofen to seek out specific versions of the three Allied soldiers who fought with him at France: Corporal Tank Dempsey, Sergeant Nikolai Belinski and Captain Takeo Masaki, as well as a specific version of Richtofen himself, and acquire their souls with the Key once found. In the process, he also learns of the Keepers, an ancient race who acts as the wards of all universes, and the Apothicon, former Keepers who were corrupted and mutated by the dark energy of the Aether.

Richtofen sets out to acquire the summoning key, residing at another universe in morg city during the 1940s. In this universe, four individuals who have come to reside in the dimension; Nero Blackstone, Jessica Rose, Jack Vincent and Floyd Campbell have defended the Key from Keepers, whilst following the Shadow Man. Richtofen enters right after the four defeat a giant Apothicon tentacled monster. He rushes in, takes the Key which the Keepers were giving the four, thanks the four for their efforts and rushes off.

### **1933**

**December 31st:** Albert Arlington, Salvatore Deluca, Finn O'leary and Billy Handsome attempt to escape from alcatraz on a plane of Arlington's design. The plan fails and the plane is never built. The three mobsters kills Arlington for the failure.

### **1934**

**January 19th:** Finn O'leary, Billy Handsome and Salvatore Deluca are sentenced to death by electric chair for the murder of Arlington. The four mobsters are sent into a purgatory pocket dimension which is under control by the Warden of Alcatraz(*Call of Duty: Zombies*).

### **1945**

Richtofen travels forward to another universe, a slightly altered version of the original timeline, and kills his original, nazi self within the Der Riese facility. His former allies, Dempsey, Nikolai and Takeo, from the battle in Nothern France in 1918, also arrive at the scene as they all begin to fend off zombies at the Der Riese facility. The team use a giant robot to exit the area and proceed towards Osterlich(Austria), that houses a Group 935 facility called Griffin Castle. On a mission to recover a cryostasis pod containing the original Dempsey, the team kill a giant Apothicon, prior to launching a barrage of rockets to destroy the moon, in order to eliminate Group 935 member DR. Groph. Dempsey's pod crashes back into the area, and Richtofen informs the others he must be eliminated to save the universe. Origins Dempsey takes it upon himself, and cuts off the life support in the pod, ending the life of the Original Timeline Dempsey.

Afterwards, the group attempts to teleport to a Pacific island, where the Japanese research group Division 9 is holding the original Takeo prisoner. However, they end up on a Division 9 boat near the island, and are caught by the officers on the boat, who demand to know the origins of the Summoning Key. After a brief struggle, the boat sinks into the sea, while the group swims toward the island, where Division 9 has been experimenting on the animal and plant life, resulting in monstrous mutation of various kind. The four fight off a combination of undead zombies and mutated spiders, as they dive in deeper into the facility. They finally discover the original Takeo, who has been mutated as well, into a horrific creature. After a long, ensuing battle, they manage to release him from the mutation. Takeo is shocked to learn that it was the Emperor who betrayed his other self and sent him to this island, out of petty jealousy. The young Takeo finally resolves himself, and allows his original self to commit seppuku, with him acting as his kaishakunin. After using the Summoning Key to absorb the original Takeo's soul, Richtofen then notes to the others that there is somewhere else they need to go to before they can go after the original Nikolai.

The crew later teleports to Besstrashnyygrad(Stalingrad), where they find the city has been torn apart by the ongoing war between Germany and Russia. Russia has employed Group 935's technology and created their own versions of giant robots and mechanical vehicles, while Germany is aided by ancient dragons that were resurrected and bred by Division 9. Amidst the chaos, the original Nikolai has taken control of a mech and goes on a rampage against the zombies as the city's last line of defense. He attempts to kill the Origins crew upon spotting them, but then is swung into a building by a dragon. As the crew traverses across the city, they are forced to help S.O.P.H.I.A., an artificial intelligence designed to be Dr. Maxis' assistant, to initiate the Ascension Protocol by performing various tasks. They also hear the voice of Dr. Monty, an omnipotent being who reveals the true nature of the universe and its current state. Afterwards, the group finally meets up with the original Nikolai, who teams up with them to destroy the alpha dragon. However, upon the dragon's death, he turns on them instead, forcing the four to battle and destroy his mech suit. After finally defeating him, the young Nikolai approaches his original self and reminds him of the pain he tried to forget by drinking. The original Nikolai attempts to shoot his younger self, causing young Nikolai to kill him in retaliation. With all souls collected, Richtofen calls out to Dr. Maxis to summon a portal, and release the souls into it. Afterwards, Dr. Monty contacts Dempsey, Nikolai and Takeo, promising to explain everything once they get to "the house".

### **1983**

**November 13, Die Maschine:** An abandoned Nazi research facility (Remake of Nacht) for a particle-colliding experiment responsible for opening a rift into the Dark Aether known as "Projekt Endstation" in Morasko, Arztozka(Poland).

### **1984**

**June 15th, Firebase Z:** Firebase Z is also known as Outpost 25, an Omega Group research facility in the jungles of Sarkhan(Vietnam) that has provided the organization with countless Dark Aether-powered technologies and armaments as a result of their extensive Dark Aether research from the facility's on-site dimensional rift./

**June – November 1984, Outbreak – Operation Threshold:** As Requiem continued to fall behind in the arms race against Omega Group following the events of “Firebase Z,” various regions in the Ural Mountains have erupted into the world’s largest Outbreak Zone. Before Requiem even discovered this breakthrough, Omega Group was on the scene already, harvesting Aetherium in extreme numbers and in its purest form.

**November 16 1984, Operatsiya Inversiya:** Dr. Peck was able to supercharge the power of Aetherium Crystals for Omega Group’s reality inversion warheads, making this astronomical leap in research and development with only one remaining eye (as the other was removed forcibly by Kravchenko at Outpost 25). Fortunately for Requiem, Ravenov was able to meet a squad of agents at the launch site deep below the forests of Ruka in a previously undiscovered missile silo to stop these warheads from creating additional Outbreak Zones.

**December 14, 1984, Operation Excision:** Shortly after this successful mission, Requiem identifies eight scientists within Omega Group who are willing to defect for their safety, known as “The Omega Eight.” Requiem’s top team of agents arrives after multiple jumps with a special device to contact Ravenov for more intel.

### **1985**

**February 2, 1985,** **Mauer der Toten:** captured Requiem agents are forced to do Kravchenko’s bidding in exchange for their freedom... and their lives. Then they all get betrayed by Requiem team whom is controlled by Eddie(Richthofen).