Lorsh
Varlot
PRE-OUTBREAK
September 11, 2001
9/11.
October 7, 2001
American-led coalition forces invade Afghanistan.
January 5, 2002
Israel is admonished by Iraq Ba'ath Party official Mustafa al-Qassim, who accuses them of continuing their alleged biological weapons program from 1998.
March 20, 2003
The United States invades Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein's government.
September 11, 2001
9/11.
October 7, 2001
American-led coalition forces invade Afghanistan.
January 5, 2002
Israel is admonished by Iraq Ba'ath Party official Mustafa al-Qassim, who accuses them of continuing their alleged biological weapons program from 1998.
March 20, 2003
The United States invades Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein's government.
OUTBREAK
March 24, 2003
Egyptian security forces report a mass casualty event involving "cannibalism on a large scale" at a gypsum factory in the Sinai Peninsula. The attack is ultimately blamed on Bedouin bandits.
March 29, 2003
North Africa and many countries in the Levant region begin to experience a violent phenomenon that is variously described as a drug craze, riots, and mass hysteria. Various sectarian groups are blamed.
April 3, 2003
The violence spreads across West Asia and Africa.
April 4, 2003
In the U.S., the media speculates that Iraqi forces deployed a biological weapon of mass destruction to slow the American invasion.
April 6, 2003
The United Kingdom closes its borders and declares a national quarantine as continental Europe begins to experience a wave of violence and illness.
April 7, 2003
The World Health Organization describes the phenomenon — provisionally — as Contagious Aggression Syndrome.
April 8, 2003
The first cases are reported in Central and South America.
April 9, 2003
The first outbreaks are reported in the United States. American forces in Iraq suffer significant setbacks, but continue to press on towards Baghdad.
April 10, 2003
The infection reaches critical mass in most American urban centers.
April 12, 2003
President George W. Bush is attacked by an infected staffer at the U.S. Capitol, and later dies of his injuries at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
April 13, 2003
The U.S. military briefly seizes Saddam Hussein's presidential palace in Baghdad, before being repulsed by a counterattack lead by the Republican Guard and Feyadeen Saddam. Coalition forces begin to collapse in Iraq.
April 14, 2003
Martial law is indefinitely declared in the continental United States. The Necrotic Filovirus is identified by the CDC. The U.S. military begins executing infected civilians.
April 21, 2003
The U.S. military suffers a catastrophic defeat during their attempt to contain the flow of undead from Chicago at a defensive line along Route 66.
May 15, 2003
Israel and Iran have a thermonuclear exchange.
June 30, 2003
At least 100 million Americans are estimated dead, or infected. The true total is thought to be higher, potentially even double.
December 15, 2003
The remnants of the United States government are overthrown via a military coup. General William G. Boykin is declared General of the Armies of the United States.
January 5, 2004
The new United States military government, known as the 'National Provisional Authority', begins setting up 'Clean Zones' for uninfected survivors.
April 20, 2004
Just over a year after the initial outbreak, the NPA uses strategic nuclear weapons on New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
Late August 2005
Hurricane Katrina destroys the Gulf Clean Zones.
February 3, 2010
Expansion of the Clean Zones leads to overcrowding. The hardline faction of the NPA transition their military dictatorship's rule from authoritarian to totalitarian.
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