The year is 2007. During the summer, several rumors about sabotage on military bases circulated globally. Few actually noticed that every country's military bases were somehow involved, yet all these issues were minor to the global community and were soon forgotten and replaced by other, more glamorous news items. Naturally, the military never divulged anything nor gave any public credit to the rumors, as it always does.

Several months later, on May 13, every capital and major city of the world experienced what started as mass riots and degenarated quickly into mass cannibalism. Soon, the whole world realized the threat that had beset him- the dead were coming back to life to haunt them. After the cities were nearly decimated, the zombie plague soon made it's way to the countryside and rural areas of the world, seeking to eradicate all human life.

The military could have easily stopped this thread with the available firepower- but it was rendered incapable. Witnesses reported that at the same time the riots started, lightning raids by small groups of black-clad soldiers sporting skull-like helmets dropped from helicopters, appearing out of nowhere and decimated what little military personnel remained unaffected and had set up resistance points. All of said soldiers were highly trained and efficient, and some of them were reported to even be invincible to gunfire, shrugging anything short of .50 caliber machineguns.

Several months have passed yet again, with survivors running away from zombies, alone or in small groups, attempting to maintain their existence. Whenever survivors managed to band together in sizable groups numbering in the dozens, driving away zombies and establishing a fortified community, they were attacked by helicopters dropping dark-clad warriors who were aided by hordes of zombies, both manlike and horribly mutated- zombies whose form was drastically altered into a more deadly form. Everything was burned to the ground and survivors that fled these slaughters were talking about things never heard before- that the leaders of these groups wore some strange, ornate armor with a skull-faced helmet, armor that shrugged off small arms' fire like an umbrella shrugs off rain, and that they were armed with large-caliber pistols and surprisingly, large swords of various designs which they used to cut down whoever was lucky enough to get his hands on bulletproof and tactical armor. What was more frightening, however, was the ability of these men, whose face was hidden, to command the zombie hordes that aided them...

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