Nightmare Enemy
Nightmare Enemy is a futuristic, Zombie apocalypse, where the world has turned into a fight of Good versus Evil. Leading the side of Good is the Deity Shentef, Angels, Charribs, Reverand’s, and the Blessed. Leading the side of Evil is the Demonlord Kargoth, Demons, Overfiends, Heretics and The Damned. While the Zombies are a consequence of the Plague, their origin was unknown when people were first struck with the plague. It was eventually discovered that the Plague and the Zombie condition is a result of a direct Demonic power. Since their basic function in life is to consume the living, they are considered evil.
So how did all of this come to pass? Following is a brief timeline and some details to help explain. Around the year 2035 both medical and scientific research started advancing more and more and organized religion started to decline. Medical and scientific research were being driven by humankind striving to visit and settle the planet Mars. In 2052 the leaders of the Scientific Community and the World Wide Medical Board joined together as one entity called the Health and Intellect Association or HIA for short.
Since the newly formed HIA had the most brilliant minds on the planet and were highly funded by the world they decided to buy three of the US Virgin Islands. The largest of these three islands they converted into their base of operations and center for higher learning which they called Complex Alpha. Within Complex Alpha were the living quarters, their school, and an area where they sold their products and services of the higher sciences.
The second island they converted into their main labs for scientific research and development which they called Complex Beta. This was a secure facility where private scientific research and development could be conducted where theories and products could be tested which was considered too dangerous to test around populated areas.
The third island they converted into their main labs for medical research and development which they called Complex Gamma. This was a secure facility where private medical research and development could be conducted where theories and products could be tested which was considered too dangerous to test around populated areas.
All of the efforts of the HIA were driven by the goal to successfully travel to, colonize and survive on Mars. Along the way they sold scientific and medical discoveries to those who could afford them to continue to fuel their advancement towards their goal. The HIA did achieve their goal being the first of humankind to travel to, colonize and survive on Mars.
With the continual decline of organized religion since the late 2030’s the world population started turning to the HIA to solve all their problems thus increasing their influence in the world. Science was basically becoming the new religion. Most organized religions either collapsed or were forced to shut down by world governments save one, the faithful of Shentef.
It was about this time that the Reverend’s of Shentef made a statement to the press and all the world media outlets and then the Reverends and their followers just disappeared from society. What was their statement? They simply said, “You don’t know what you have done, but that is alright for it was foretold that this day would come. We will leave you now, to pray, repent, and weep for you. The end is coming, you just don’t see it yet. Goodbye.”
With the last remaining active church saying Goodbye and the gradual decline over the last 25 years of all other organized religions the world had known a time of peace. So the HIA publicly declared that organized religion was a primitive practice and that it had no place in modern society.
By the year 2060 a change was starting to be noticed in
modern society, civilization seemed to be declining. Religion is a double edge sword in the fact
that yes, many wars and conflicts are started over differences in opinion, but
Religion also gave humankind a reason to behave themselves. Most Religion’s promised a not so nice after
life for those who were evil and disrespectful of their fellow neighbors. Religion also gave guidelines for personal
conduct and preached them often with a side order of guilt to make sure people
were living up to them. With Religion
being replaced by science these moral reminders were not present in most people’s
lives. As a result crime against humanity
started to surface everywhere.
By the year 2061 each country’s government had decided that their way of life and their leadership was the best way forward for the entire world so each country started to isolate themselves and alliances between countries that had been in place for decades began to fail. The United Nations soon disbanded because world governments would no longer cooperate with one another.
Then one day, one country’s ship crossed another country’s territorial boundary and BOOM, WAR! Before long other nations join in the fighting and in no time the world was at war again. This world war went on for seven (7) years.
In 2068 another world event occurred. First livestock started to die off and nobody could figure out why or how. Then humankind seemed to fall victim and turned into Zombies. People started referring to this as The Plague.
To be continued…