I stood alone with the burden.

Of a truth too dark to be spoken.

A whisper the world refused to hear.

WEEK ONE

July 9-16, 1993

The exclusion zone has been up since July 6. All personnel beyond the Louisville boundary checkpoint have been ordered to stand by and maintain all current evacuation points and checkpoints. In short, you have been left to die. There is some hope, though. The few operational labs run by PharmaGen may have information, along with some experimental drugs. One is located off Muldraugh, directly across from March Ridge. This is the only known facility by your unit. Others are... top secret. But those zombies in hazmat suits might have information.

The only thing left for what little remains of the National Guard within the exclusion zone is to survive and protect the people. But it’s never that easy.

"<bzzt>..Muldraugh... <bzzt>...West Point.. <wzzt>..Infection Rate: Total.<fzzt>"

The situation worsens everyday, and it seems that the checkpoints are going dark by the hour. All you can do now is hope. There’s talk of the Delta Force moving in soon, but are they really here to reinforce us? Or are they being used for something else...

PFC. Elias Woodsman

1st Battalion, 149th Infantry Regiment, KYARNG

"Fight As Kentuckians"

Elias is as generic as they come, his father a Vietnam War veteran and his ancestors all soldiers in the Civil War. Elias was quickly activated upon the incident, making him one of the last of the first wave of military to respond to the Knox Event. Now he sits in the Muldraugh Refugee Camp, the thousands of civilians cooped up in military tents the only thing really keeping him from just deserting.