They came so suddenly, like the frost on a chilly spring morning or the Locust swarm in the bible. Devouring all whom they touched, no one...and nothing was safe.

-July 5th, 2011-
Much of the population mysteriously contracted a virus with no previous name. The virus, the initial stages anyway, caused hallucination and a desire for copious amounts of red meat. That was just the initial attack. Over the next few days, people began to randomly die off and when they took them in for an autopsy, the bodies and the coroners both disappeared. Searches were put out for these missing, entire teams of people and dogs looking for the dead and missing. All they would ever find though, were mutilated remains. Human remains. The internet starts flooding with rumors of the dead returning to life, as well as supposed videos of attacks by the undead. At first these claims were taken as sick jokes and were immediately dismissed by all, but what happened next shook the world to it's very foundations. New York City suddenly came under massive attack by it's own people, reports of cannibalism and rioting were off the charts with all that was going on. Within hours Cincinnati and Houston came under attack, followed quickly by every major city in the US. It was total pandemonium.

-July 19th, 2011-
It was discovered that certain of the population were infected and had no chance of survival. The change to an Undead happened swiftly in some and slower in others, taking weeks to take place. Over the past two weeks the Military and the Center for Disease Control (CDA) had been evacuating the healthy off of Mainland America and onto massive refugee ships heading to Puerto Rico and Hawaii. But in merely recent hours both forces have begun to pull out of the Mainland, abandoning many still alive on land including their own forces. It became a fight for survival then, between the remaining military, the citizens left behind, and the Undead who simply desired a bite.