Plot~
In 2001 a real world exercise tested the emergency response on a bioterror attack on the continental United States.
The project was called DARKWINTER.
Within just a few days the simulation spiralled out of control. The operation predicted a rapid breakdown in essential institutions, civil disorder and massive civilian casualties.
DARKWINTER has revealed how vulnerable we've become. Our lifestyle, our security, our safety, depends on a delicate and unstable economy.
We've created a system so complicated, we don't understand how to control it. Oil, power, shipping, transport. We live in a complex world, and the more complex it gets, the more fragile it becomes.
The system is based on a global supply chain that gets things where they're needed, just in time. We've built a house of cards, remove just one, and everything falls apart. And what's fuelling this system?
Money.
Americans can spend 90 billion dollars in a single day of shopping. Last year 200 million people swarmed their local stores on November 23rd. We call that day, Black Friday.
Did you know, a flu virus can survive on the surface of a bank note for up to 17 days?
One day there will be a pandemic.
It could happen in the crush of Black Friday sales. A pathogen will jump, from tainted bank notes to human skin, to food, toys, children, and loved ones.
By the time patient Zero feels the first sore throat.
Millions of people will already be infected.
From this point the breakdown will happen fast.
Day 1
Hospitals will reach capacity, panic will strike.
Day 2
Quarantine zones will be established, resources will be rationed, transport will go into lockdown.
Day 3
International trade will stop, the oil will dry up, the stock market will collapse.
Day 4
The power will fail, the shelves will be empty, the taps will run dry. And once hunger and despair take hold, people will do anything for survival.
By Day 5 everyone will be a potential threat.
In 2007 a new presidential directive was signed quietly into law. This maps out the governments response to a crisis. A plan to cope with a real DARKWINTER. It is known as Directive 51.
There are rumours of Shadow Agencies, Sleeper Cells, Covert Agents. But nothing can be confirmed.
Our complex world is prime for breakdown. And once the chaos strikes. There won't be resources to save us all. The only question left is;
What will it take to save what remains?
***
A devastating pandemic sweeps through New York City, and one by one, basic services fail. In only days, without food or water, society collapses into chaos. The Division, a classified unit of self-supported tactical agents, is activated. Leading seemingly ordinary lives among us, The Division agents are trained to operate independently of command, as all else fails.
Fighting to prevent the fall of society, the agents will find themselves caught up in an epic conspiracy, forced to combat not only the effects of a manmade virus, but also the rising threat of those behind it. When everything collapses, your mission begins.
In 2001 a real world exercise tested the emergency response on a bioterror attack on the continental United States.
The project was called DARKWINTER.
Within just a few days the simulation spiralled out of control. The operation predicted a rapid breakdown in essential institutions, civil disorder and massive civilian casualties.
DARKWINTER has revealed how vulnerable we've become. Our lifestyle, our security, our safety, depends on a delicate and unstable economy.
We've created a system so complicated, we don't understand how to control it. Oil, power, shipping, transport. We live in a complex world, and the more complex it gets, the more fragile it becomes.
The system is based on a global supply chain that gets things where they're needed, just in time. We've built a house of cards, remove just one, and everything falls apart. And what's fuelling this system?
Money.
Americans can spend 90 billion dollars in a single day of shopping. Last year 200 million people swarmed their local stores on November 23rd. We call that day, Black Friday.
Did you know, a flu virus can survive on the surface of a bank note for up to 17 days?
One day there will be a pandemic.
It could happen in the crush of Black Friday sales. A pathogen will jump, from tainted bank notes to human skin, to food, toys, children, and loved ones.
By the time patient Zero feels the first sore throat.
Millions of people will already be infected.
From this point the breakdown will happen fast.
Day 1
Hospitals will reach capacity, panic will strike.
Day 2
Quarantine zones will be established, resources will be rationed, transport will go into lockdown.
Day 3
International trade will stop, the oil will dry up, the stock market will collapse.
Day 4
The power will fail, the shelves will be empty, the taps will run dry. And once hunger and despair take hold, people will do anything for survival.
By Day 5 everyone will be a potential threat.
In 2007 a new presidential directive was signed quietly into law. This maps out the governments response to a crisis. A plan to cope with a real DARKWINTER. It is known as Directive 51.
There are rumours of Shadow Agencies, Sleeper Cells, Covert Agents. But nothing can be confirmed.
Our complex world is prime for breakdown. And once the chaos strikes. There won't be resources to save us all. The only question left is;
What will it take to save what remains?
***
A devastating pandemic sweeps through New York City, and one by one, basic services fail. In only days, without food or water, society collapses into chaos. The Division, a classified unit of self-supported tactical agents, is activated. Leading seemingly ordinary lives among us, The Division agents are trained to operate independently of command, as all else fails.
Fighting to prevent the fall of society, the agents will find themselves caught up in an epic conspiracy, forced to combat not only the effects of a manmade virus, but also the rising threat of those behind it. When everything collapses, your mission begins.
