Massachusetts

## Overview

While having no navy or marines, Massachusetts still had many air force and army bases. The state as a whole holds important documents and moments to history carefully captured in time. Despite this many of the residents revolted against the CDC and governments health advice to stop the spread of the deadly parasite. Hanscom Airforce Base was overrun by a large union of protesters, and Camp Mabry, with a large number of spare troops and reserves, stationed some of their squads to keep the peace. Massachusetts was using their own forces to keep their population under control from violent riots, while spare troops from other states were sent to defend and upkeep the bases. As the government decided to focus on itself rather than the rebelling population, all military forces were to retract to their bases and shoot any zombie on sight. Gather resources, materials, and survive. In 2022 when The Collapse finally happened, they were well fortified and had few casualties. Scouting squads were sent out from Hanscom Airforce base via jets to scour the United States for a status on its deterioration. They were studying the Nekros Flower spread and watching humanity struggle to survive while held in their rather upkept bases.

## Locations

### *Boston*

The city was an economic and cultural anchor for a wider metropolitan area, and was one of the most populated places before the apocalypse. It's swarming with undead and it's hard to get anywhere without running into infected. Its home to many key events within America's history and the founding of the country. While historic buildings and landmarks still stand the test of time the Nekros Flower still ravages the heavily urban landscape. Hosting a wide array of colleges from the MIT and Harvard it was a prime location for those studying law, medicine, and other advanced fields. It was the main area that was hit by the nuclear meltdown, and is now a irradiated, hellish land.

##### *Wasps Ikea*

It is an old, abandoned Ikea with most of its stuff still inside, used by the Wasps. It mostly looks like an Ikea on the outside, but inside, there are working people with lights on inside, different flags of the same design put up around the place. There are few specific stations, like in the staff area, there are the two cooking stations. In the public area, where people used to shop, there's stations with people, either already dead or being punished in dog cages, which is like a tiny prison. Everywhere else, there's people working, or simply wandering about on their breaks. When the nuclear reactor in the MIT building melt down, it was promptly abandon and the people in cages were left to become horrid monsters.

### *Cambridge*

Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, once also an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. It was also a big location to be hit by the melt down, as the nuclear labratory is located within the MIT building. Just like Boston it became irradiated and extremely inhospitable.

*Massachusetts Institute of Technology*

The Nuclear Reactor Labratory is located in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has since been enhanced by the former US government. The Remnants of Hope have spent 5 years upkeeping the facility in secret and slowly expanding its amount of nuclear power. They do not share it, but instead use it to power many bases and outposts all through Boston and Cambridge. It works in conjunction with the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in Texas. Despite getting the plant in working conditions their expansions didn't end so well, resulting in a nuclear fallout of the entire area in a 100 mile radius. However, the radiation has effected the plants and lifestock outside of the 100 mile blast zone and still lingers...

#### *The Charles River*

The Charles River is an 80-mile-long river in eastern Massachusetts. It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a highly meandering route, that travels through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. It seperates Boston and Cambridge from one another, and provides the Remnants of Hope that used to be stationed there with some sort of hydropower. Sometimes it smells like shit so no one really goes there for sight seeing anymore...

### *Springfield*

One of the oldest parks in the Six Flags chain and was most known for their *"Superman"* ride. It has the most infection population in Springfield and it's unknown if the backup generator works...