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OPERATION PLAGUE 5 - 2011 - STORYLINE
After several attempts at coordinated evacuation, the government has dissolved into a regroup of all military and political forces in the United States. The infection runs rampant across the entire globe and chaos reigns supreme. What isn't being ravaged by the hordes of infected is being torn apart by desperate civilians and ruthless gangs. Starvation has begun to settle into areas where civilians have grouped together. A war against the infected has turned into a war for survival for basic supplies such as food and potable water.

Yet even in all the chaos, some groups of survivors and law enforcement have begun to carve out territories that are safe from gangs and infected. Word has spread and desperate people have come to their locations and look to join the fight. With safety in numbers, these bands of survivors have setup safe houses and started working together.

Although the military has retreated in full, there are still some soldiers out on the frontlines. Some soldiers refuse to back down and let the country die and press the fight. Some call them deserters for disobeying commands and others call them heroes for doing what is right. Military command also has been pouring resources into some research facilities. It is suspected that with the blood samples and bio-matter recovered from the mutant super zombie, they are close to finding a cure.... or something worse.

The struggle for survival continues.

 
Op Plague 4 teaser trailer courtesy of Ping & Red Leaf Pictures

OPERATION PLAGUE 4 - 2010 - STORYLINE
Panic continues to grip the roaming bands of survivors as evacuation efforts grind to a halt. Military aid has been reduced to sporadic air dropped pallets of food and supplies into areas where survivors have been discovered. The primary task of the military has been missions in order to find ways to combat the infection.

In the middle of the chaos, Russian security teams landed on US soil and went after the infected Dr. Krauser. After several firefights broke out between these teams and local survivors and US military, Dr. Krauser was captured and taken away, presumably out of the country. The US military, spread too thin combating the plague of infected, were unable to track down their final destination. The exact whereabouts of Dr. Krauser are unknown.

Weather, time, hunger, and temperature are unable to stop the infected as their bodies seem able to cope with anything that would normally kill a living organism. Vast stretches of forest, fields, and vegetation have been discovered stripped completely barren of all biological life. The scientists and medical researchers still in the area suspect that in the absence of flesh, the infected consume any biological material to sustain themselves. The hope of the infected starving to death are shattered with these new findings, forcing the military to adopt a more aggressive approach.

Law enforcement personnel continue to protect and coordinate the survivors, but gangs and looters have increasingly become a problem. The lawless nature of the plague has given these groups a perfect environment to further cause chaos.

 
Fan video courtesy of Ping

 
Pre-Op Plague 3 storyline video.

OPERATION PLAGUE 3 - 2009 - STORYLINE
With the initial spread of the outbreak, the US military has been stretched to the breaking limit with trying to contain and then destroy the infection. The speed of infection and the inhuman strength and endurance of those infected have been impossible to stop.

The only hope for survival for people has been to band together for protection and move to military checkpoints. At first, these checkpoints were safe havens but eventually ran out of supplies. After reinforcements and supplies never arrived in a timely manner or never arrived at all, this forced all survivors... military and civilian alike... to leave the safety of their barricaded checkpoints to find them.

In the midst of this, the government flew in a german medical prodigy, Dr. Krauser. A hematologist for many years, there was never a blood born pathogen or disease that could not be examined, researched, and handled by Krauser... until now. The resilience of the blood born bacteria forced the research to take much more time than originally intended. After weeks of tireless work, Dr. Krauser was no where closer to finding a cure.

It was suspected that something was wrong with Krauser or that he had a hidden motive. It was uncovered by the local military and police units that Dr. Krauser was secretly performing experiments on kidnapped civilians, forcing them to become infected. When Krauser was confronted and arrested, he attacked a nearby soldier and injected him with blood he had been experimenting on. The soldier rose again and began a violent mutation, turning into a behemoth of claws and muscle. This abomination turned on the nearest humans, escaped, and is still roaming the area near the Poynette, WI checkpoint.

Krauser, shot and left to die, injected the last bit of the blood sample into himself. The mutated strain of the bacteria began to change him, but not to the extent of the abomination he had just created. His intellect remained intact... and his thirst for knowledge and power in regards to the bacteria and its powerful abilities is only rivaled by his new thirst for human flesh. Dr. Krauser is missing and presumed to be in the area as well.

As Dr. Krauser's mutation and the hordes of infected populace descended on the last checkpoints and barricades, the soldiers and civilians could not hold them back for long. The barricades fell and a majority of the survivors were slaughtered. The last remaining few are now displaced and wandering the countryside.

Fan video courtesy of Ping.

 
Fan video courtesy of SuperDestructiveSheep.

 
In game storyline videos.

OPERATION PLAGUE 2 - 2008 - STORYLINE
With the mysterious infection running rampant through Wisconsin, military checkpoints have begun to close up and the civilian traffic has almost completely stopped. Extreme measures have begun to be taken as the military bombs infestation points. Civilians continue to try and survive with shortages on food and running water, but people fear that it might only be a matter of time before the military begins an aggressive cleanup of infected areas.

Medical records in the Eau Claire Hospital related to some of the first reported infections were not discovered or reviewed and with the city completely overrun by the infected, there may be no way to retrieve this data. A HAZMAT Ranger unit on station near Fairchild continues to hold its location even through the dramatic increase in infected. Military science techs have begun drawing blood samples of captured infected, but as of yet any information regarding the infection has not been released. Although civilian safety and evacuation used to be a priority, it seems that the shift has been to containment and research.

After weeks of destruction, the infection has jumped past military checkpoints to multiple states and continues to spread. Pockets of resistance and survivors dot the landscape. Even though weeks have passed, the infected still roam the countryside and it seems as if the need to regularly eat, sleep, or drink is not necessary for life after infection. Some say they are the walking dead, zombies out of fictional stories. Others think that the infected are turning towards other means of food. The exact answer to this is unknown.

Although checkpoints have become increasingly dangerous, they are still some of the safest places to be. Recently, a military unit escorting a scientific research team has been dispatched to Fairchild and is due to arrive shortly. The military has relayed this information to numerous checkpoints, stating that this team is making its rounds to numerous checkpoints gathering research.

Op Plague 1 Teaser Trailer.

OPERATION PLAGUE 1 - 2007 - STORYLINE
Thursday - October 4th, 2007
A mysterious illness is reported in a hospital in the Eau Claire area. The patient checked himself into the ER at 9:00am Saturday morning with complaints of pain in his muscles, dizzyness, nausua, and intense bloody vomiting. Two hours later he became so disillusioned that he viciously attacked and bit several hospital staff. Hospital security detained the man in a secure room. Hospital staff, fearing the man was infected with rabies, immediately began treatment on the bite victims. While underdoing treatment, the bitten hospital staff began to show symptoms the man had earlier that day and were immediately locked into additional secure rooms. Fearing an outbreak of a biological virus, HAZMAT teams were assembled and the hospital was quarantined.
Six hours later, local broadcasting was interrupted with numerous breaking news announcements that an outbreak of a vicious strain of what appears to be rabies has local law enforcements and HAZMAT teams securing sections of Eau Claire. Fearing a biological terrorist attack, people have been advised to lock their doors and stay out of the streets until further notice.

Saturday - October 6th, 2007
Local news channels have been showing conflicting reports displaying warnings of a viral outbreak. Emergency evacuations have been in effect for the Eau Claire city area and surrounding cities. National Guard units have set up road blocks and quarantine zones around the city as well as shelters for evacuees in outlying cities. Radio messages continue to display the warnings. Looters going into and out of the city have become a problem for military and law enforcement units that are attempting to maintain the quarantine.

Sunday - October 7th, 2007
Radio stations continue to broadcast warnings and emergency information but Eau Claire TV stations have gone silent. Widespread panic and chaos has gripped the northwest portion of the state as a confused populace is unsure of what to do during this kind of crisis. Radio communication from the Fairchild area suggests that there may be survivors inside the quarantine.

Monday - October 8th, 2007
Full scale evacuation of Wisconsin begins as National Guard, Army, and USMC forces attempt to aid in the evacuation and maintain quarantine. People living near Eau Claire have witnessed large scale aerial bombardments of the city, causing massive destruction. Any traffic going into and out of the interstate by the Wisconsin Dells is inspected and regulated as military forces maintain a large buffer quarantine zone.

Saturday - October 13th, 2007
Looped radio messages continue displaying information about secure military checkpoints that evacuees can travel through. Radio communication has been lost with the military checkpoint in the Wisconsin Dells and any military personnel in Poynette are awaiting further orders. Any remaining survivors are encouraged to move to those locations in order to be evacuated to a safer location.

Sunday - October 14th, 2007
Reinforcements due to arrive in Poynette are late and radio communication has been lost with nearby command centers. Several survivors have managed to make it to Poynette but the number of infected people in the area has grown considerably.

As the infection ravages across the state, widespread panic and desperation spreads quickly. Religious followers have stated that the last of God's great plagues has been cast upon the earth, scientists say the virus is biological but unlike anything we've ever seen before, and government officials claim it is a new terrorist attack. Which explanation is more accurate is unknown. Tens of thousands have been killed in less than two weeks and survivors struggle to escape.

One last question remains... what would you do to survive?

Here are some links to zombie related flash games that helped inspire this event.

The Last Stand
Autumn War
Zombie Rampage
Zombie Horde