Power is slowly restored in a rebuilt New York City in the conclusion of the war.
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Power is slowly restored in a rebuilt New York City in the conclusion of the war.
A pre-Doomsday photograph of the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia. This was supposed to be the venue of the opening ceremonies of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. It was abandoned during the Zombie War and now remains a reminder of what could have been.
The U.S. Supreme court is evacuated as COG plans were enacted at the start of the Great Panic.
Photo of Kigali Capitol of the East African Federation. As the great panic swept across Africa many of the more unstable nations on the continent collapsed into chaos. Rwanda thinks to its small size, mountainous geography and relatively large and trained military managed to not only defend it’s borders against the walking plague but expanded them as well ultimately renaming itself the East African Federation..
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Gold bars from the Federal Reserve being transferred to a plane bound to the West Coast.
The Fukushima Exclusion Zone now overgrown with foliage. Evacuated during the nuclear power plant meltdown as a result of the 9.0 undersea earthquake and tsunami that hit east of Japan on March 11, 2011, reconstruction was expected to be delayed for the rest of the 2010s decade. Unfortunately, the outbreaks of the Solanum virus during the Great Panic would shift the priorities of the Japanese government from reconstruction to evacuation of the Home Islands. Post-WWZ, the Japanese government expects that the area would not be resettled until the 2040s or 2050s. The area still had radiation and irradiated zombies that could not be dispatched with melee weapons by the Shield Society.
Now that I think on it, there should've been more widespread usage of prop planes in the middle stages of the war. Would've been worth it to thin out the mega-hordes even a tiny bit ahead of any offensive, or even just to act as a giant noisemaker to draw them away from friendly troops (and then napalm the lot of them idk).
A North American T-6 Texan being used a bomber during the Road to New York Campaign in Tennessee, circa 2019.
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CDC personnel checking up status of bitten patients in a makeshift quarantine site before the Great Panic. Location unknown.
A Pre-War photograph of Vladimir Lenin's corpse at Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow. During The Great Panic, the mausoleum closed its doors in order to protect Lenin's body.
After the Moscow was reclaimed, while the interior of the Mausoleum was in average condition, Lenin's body wasn't, having been already skeletonized and rotted due to lack of maintenance. It was then decided to have Lenin's body to be cremated. He was placed in a urn which now sits at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis and Mausoleum itself was dismantled, however a historical marker was placed at where it once stood.
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Since Solanum zombies do not eat the dead, Lenin's body would be untouched but would rot. I think the same would happen for the bodies of Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Ho Chi Minh.
A Pre-War photograph of Vladimir Lenin's corpse at Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow. During The Great Panic, the mausoleum closed its doors in order to protect Lenin's body.
After the Moscow was reclaimed, while the interior of the Mausoleum was in average condition, Lenin's body wasn't, having been already skeletonized and rotted due to lack of maintenance. It was then decided to have Lenin's body to be cremated. He was placed in a urn which now sits at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis and Mausoleum itself was dismantled, however a historical marker was placed at where it once stood.
Israeli soldiers in combat operations. The above photo takes place during the (albeit brief) Israeli Civil War, while the bottom photo takes place during Israel's clearance of zombies after the imposition of national quarantine. Israel would be one of the few states to emerge in the post-WWZ world in a relatively stable position.
Looking at protesters in Hong Kong, Thailand and Myanmar, I wonder if some of the smaller countries would resort to medieval infantry to fight zombies. Think about it: the only mode of attack by zombies is their mouth (can they even grab onto things?), so as long as you keep them away from your skin you're good. Simple wooden boards for shields, tie a sharpened piece of metal to a pipe, plastic goggles to keep fluids out of your eye, and you have an old school infantrymen. All you'll then need is training.
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That's what happened in Europe and Japan. The defenders of Scotland were said to be armed with medieval-era weapons such as the claymore and shield. In Japan, they'd have the Shield Society which became an official anti-zombie arm of the JSDF in which only katanas are used.
While not outright stated, I would see countries in China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East break out museum pieces such as a kriss sword, a kampilan, a dadao, and other weapons of the centuries.
Igorot people in the Philippines. The Irogot survived the Solanum virus pandemic realitively better than their Filipino counterparts since they mainly settled in the mountains of Luzon far from major population centers. They also fought stray zombies with traditional weapons similar to the Maoris of New Zealand.
Various Igorot weapons used by the natives, military, and civilian defenders during the clearing of Baguio City.
Fort St. Angelo in Malta, which became a safe-zone since its walls protected survivors from zombies.
Bosnian soldiers in Sarajevo, they survived on the ruined city trenchered in some buildings
I imagine getting in close when the virus spreads through bodily fluids is a recipe for infection. Max Brooks says it can still be infectious 48hrs after the destruction of it’s host, which is one reason why the dead have to be burned. He actually says dead zeds should be treated as ‘highly toxic, highly lethal’ material. You’d have to fight with goggles/masks on, and burn or otherwise disinfect the clothes you’d fought in.
Obviously there are cases where people are forced into close combat in the books, but as a deliberate strategy it’s probably not great.