>Confidential Recording
Four months ago, a town in New Mexico known as Truth or Consequences went dark. Many weren't sure as to why such measures had been struck upon them but within hours the National Guard were reported to have fenced off the rest of the United States from ever reaching or hearing from such a place. Very few questions were asked at the time as more and more governmental figures silenced off what they had been questioning from the day 'it' began. Some attempted to break into the town to try and find what was wrong but reports of explosions, gunfire and sightings of combat aircraft launching from overhead scared the trespassers away with little effort. Conspiracy after conspiracy rose up after the first week, wondering what kind of situation was going on there. Some pondered if it were a terrorist plot, turning the town into a warzone, whilst others predicted that it was a live-fire testing ground for new military technologies. Both couldn't be further from the truth.
Under black ink, that fateful day showed the tainted world a new foe that could not be anticipated. After a local, blacked under many lines of ink and lost amongst shredded papers, spotted something falling from the sky. When investigating what he'd found, a Soviet-Era satellite was found crashed into a nearby barn. What happened from there remains completely unknown, but less than two hours later the town was under complete lock-down. Distress signals that quickly shot up to the highest chains of military command resulted in the town being segmented off from the rest of the world. Phone lines were cut, signal jammers were put in place and other meaningful methods to suppress all knowledge of the incident were underway. Thousands from the National Guard were stationed throughout the state, blockading roads and setting up fencing all over. It was almost as if the entire settlement was wiped from existence when in reality it was. Reconnaissance aircraft, including helicopter patrols staged by both the Guard and Air Force assets available on hand left their pads and circled to find a very different, alienated world that had been trapped by their own government. Only a few scouting parties were officially brought into the light at the first week's notice, trying to limit all the suspicion it could.
Below their rotors and spotlights stood a town that didn't even seem human anymore. Strange formations of rocky spikes, tipped with red glows and cracks of the same colour, stretched for the 33km of territory that had been formally called into Quarantine. Amongst them were humanoid lifeforms, roaming around in numbers in delusional fashions reminiscent of Romero's old works. Closer inspection was called by calling specialised ground teams to enter the area and investigate via communication and scientific scrutiny. Within thirty minutes, that team was never heard of again, with their last radio broadcast indicating that these 'monsters' were incoherent, violent monstrosities of the people that acted as puppets for their manifestation. Many speculate that it was from the Soviet-Satellite in which a virus, dubbed Chimera for the vicious product it had created, that forged and mutated these innocent lives beyond repair. Thousands began to fall to the infection. Not only were its original inhabitants brought to their knees but those sent in to observe and combat the threat were soon thrown into the clutches of this violent epidemic. By the first week, the numbers in which dictated who had lived and died were lost in the confusion, with the barricades locking the infection in becoming more and more unstable every day.
On Day 19, since Patient Zero infected the town, radio chatter reported that the Northern, Southern and Eastern barracks and defences were breaking apart. Those available and on-site were soon lost in the panic. Like a crack in a glass, the contained substances were starting to ooze out and leak into the rest of the world. More of the strange rock formations leapt across the state quickly. Splits between the National Guard and Special Operators led to mass confusion and ruined organisation. Bombing tactics became inefficient and somewhat dangerous, occasionally catching friendly military and civilian personnel in their wake. And still, the officials behind these operations were trying their hardest to suppress all knowledge of such a disaster coming about. It was inevitable for the world to soon know.
Before any announcements or evacuations could be made, Santa Fe was laid under heavy isolation. Creatures of the unknown, some mutated to the point of looking anything except humanoid, spread throughout, wiping out life and flooding all forms of resistances. The outbreak had grown quicker than anticipated. Full military strengths were beginning to amass into the state as a defensive perimeter was once again set up, this time on a larger scale, whilst preparing the full might of this force. And on the last day of that first month, Truth and Consequences became the birthplace of a virus that had started to spread throughout Central, South and North-America, with strains being reported in Europe, Indonesia and Asia alike. This was the beginning of the end of days, and those involved had theirs numbered.
Welcome to The Chimera Virus: Pandemic. This is a speculative scenario based off a limited time mode within Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege known simply as outbreak, in which a New Mexican town was infested with a strange and unexplained virus, resulting in military operations called to suppress and eliminate the threat through conventional means. Debates of nuclear options were set aside as high-valued targets were reported within the area of operations, hence why it had to be dealt with on a more personal level. This scenario, however, is not to be tied in heavily with the game itself and instead focuses on a lore of its own. Following the same origins and setting, this scenario looks towards what happened if the quarantine failed and the infection broke loose, spreading to other states, countries and continents with some ease.
Now, for discussion, the choice of characters is up for debate. Originally the roleplay was going to focus on the military side of combating the threat, resulting in several missions into the lost-zones to root out the virus' source, but there is also the option of the civilian/survivor's tale. Both can easily be mixed yet I want to see what people who are interested would like to view more of. Plus, there is the discussion of how far we want this virus to have gone. Options from the confusion amassing as the virus spreads, throughout the bottom of the US and Mexico etc, to the aftermath and stalemate created from the world beginning to fall. It doesn't even have to focus on the United States, if the demand goes for it. However, unlike the game it is based off of, there will be a more realistic and gritty side to it, focusing more on the horror and tragedy it causes than the victories gained. I will leave all of this up for discussion, but for those interested I thank you for giving the time to read through this!
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