Asheville

City of Asheville post-outbreak

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**Ashville** is a large city based on the east coast of Philadelphia. It plays as the main location for Sector 0. The city itself is identified as the primary location for the virus, H1NZ-23. Most of the 60,000 inhabitants that resided in Asheville either succumbed to infection, died or were evacuated out before the city was walled off. It's unknown as to what happened to any other survivors that were uncounted for during the quarantine. The city remains walled off from the rest of the world. Any entry to the zone is strictly prohibited.

## Pre-Infection

The details of Asheville before the outbreak are a bit scarce for the time being as it's been "wiped" off the face of the map as stated by Munroe in Episode 1. It can be assumed however that being such a large city with many inhabitants that it was like any other ordinary city within the United States. When the infection hit a majority of the residents in the city had been infected due to a mass contamination in the water supply; resulting in mass death among residents as both police and medical personal were not able to control the amounts of chaos. When the city began to get overrun the national guard stepped in to provide their relief efforts to contain the virus along with CEDA. However while strict martial law orders were in effect the army still had gotten overrun after 3 days and pulled out leaving many lives behind. To stop further damage the U.S Army had setup a large jammer on the outskirts of the town to prevent any news or whistle blowers from reaching bigger media platforms to stop nation-wide/worldwide panic.

## Post-Infection

When the last evac choppers left, the city was left behind to fend for itself leading to catastrophic downfall. Ashveville was walled off from the public, tunnels were collapsed to prevent infected from escaping, man holes were welded shut, even the forest was initially walled off. Without the ability of any communication, many people died as of a result and many others were left to fend for themselves.

The city is seen to be a ghost town in episode 1 as no signs of life besides wildlife and infected appear to be the only inhabitants left. A thick looming fog appears to cover the city resulting either from the mass fires that had once been started or the possibility of the large river that runs through out the city area. After the army had left, the only soul survivors left in the city seem to be Alpha Squad or what is left other than Jarred Houston. Vehicles and wreckage show the aftermath of the downfall. Without proper documentation even post-infection has scarce details.

Jarred Houston states that the Government had known about the virus contaminating the water plant long before the first signs of infection hit indicating that they had either let the virus go rampant to find out the true effects of it or they just didn't know how exactly to deal with a water borne virus in such a mass population. During the post-infection the Government had sent in squads of well trained private army personal to deal with the left over damage. Many teams however were never heard from after only a few days. Jarred and the left over alpha squad members seem to be the only humans that had managed to survive and escape the infected.

As of now Asheville is officially known as Sector 0.