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The Infection of Mining Station 774-A was an outbreak of a zombie plague on an important Imperial mining station in the Isa System.

Mining Station 774-A

Mining Station 774-A was an imperial asteroid mining station in the Isa System. There mining a million of miners the most significant occurrence of iron, gold, adamantium, and 45 other essential minerals.

Station

The station has 4 habitats:

  1. 1. habitat: The main mining habitat. There were 10 great drills, the assort machine, and the hangars for the mining shuttles.
  2. 2. habitat: The factory habitat. There were machines for the making of the minerals and the main hangar.
  3. 3. habitat: The residential and service habitat. There was living the crew of the station with their families. And many shops and other service stations.
  4. 4. habitat: The administrative habitat. The station police, the administration of the station, and the astropath choir.

The Plague

Plague Zombie Poster 1

Imperial propaganda poster showing the various symptoms of the Zombie Plague.

The plague, later called Miner Rotting, was a plague from Nurgle. Symptoms occurred after 4 hours, and the patient died after 5 hours.

Symptoms

  • High fever
  • Nausea
  • A bloody rash over the full body
  • Cough

Infection

The chances of infection are as follows:

  • spittle 100%
  • blood 70%
  • Wounded by an infected person 100%
  • Skin or tissue contact with the blood or internal organs of an infected person 30%

Timeline of Event

The first person becomes infected on 001.055.M42.

  • 1 hour after the outbreak: 4000 people were infected.
  • 14 hours after the outbreak: 10.000 were infected and 1000 deaths.
  • 20 hours after the outbreak: 20.00 infected, 5000 deaths, and the first zombies were sighted.
  • 24 hours after outbreak: 100.000 deaths and public panic.
  • 30 hours after the outbreak: 200.000 deaths of it 30% because of public panic.
  • 48 hours after the outbreak: 500.000 deaths and total anarchy.
  • 50 hours after the outbreak: No more living people at the station, and the energy fell out.
  • 5 days after the outbreak: A rescue capsule leaves the station.
  • 10 days after the outbreak: The cruiser Flame of Terra arrived at the station and destroyed it.