Strain Zero

In 2020, humanity faced the first global lockdown in modern history as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the planet. But what most governments never admitted was that COVID-19 wasn’t the beginning of the end — it was just the opening act. It was the first detectable mutation of something far older, far more insidious. What followed were waves of increasingly virulent pathogens: Strain Delta, Strain Theta, and then… Strain Zero.

Unlike its predecessors, Strain Zero wasn't just a disease — it was a catalyst. It reactivated dormant genetic fragments, awakening something ancient and unnatural in human biology. Those infected didn't just die — they changed. Reason vanished, hunger remained. Civilization collapsed in months. Cities were quarantined and then bombed. Satellites fell silent. The global digital archive was erased in massive solar flares coinciding with the outbreak — a coincidence no one trusts anymore.

In the aftermath, survivors speak of The Lock, a worldwide protocol of enforced blackouts and jamming fields designed to contain the spread — not just of the virus, but of information. Maps were scrubbed. Communications silenced. Humanity now hides in shadows, cut off and surrounded by the Fog — an electromagnetic interference cloud seeded by orbitally deployed aerosol drones during the final phase of The Lock.

But not all hope is lost.

Scattered across the land lie Beacons — relics of an abandoned project called EXODUS, built before the collapse to pierce through the Fog of War. When activated, these towers clear the surrounding interference, revealing terrain, lost data, and even buried caches of pre-Fall technology.

You are one of the few immune — or maybe just not yet lost. Your mission: activate the Beacons, uncover the truth of Strain Zero, and take back a world where every corner is a threat... and nothing is as it seems.