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<blockquote data-quote="Ampolitor" data-source="post: 3757164" data-attributes="member: 11758">ideasOk, I'm going to use the running zombies but they're not going to be athletes, they'll be faster while they are fresh. Then as they compose they will become the standard shamblers. Now I want them to only come out during the night but I'm trying to figure out why? and where do they go? This helps make the world seem more hopeful. Some of the boks that I read were so bleak it's like whats the point, you're going to die sooner or later (usually sooner) with those type of odds. As for the weapons I'll try to keep to realism, of course it is set in the near future where space travel has just started to planets in our system. There are two or three colonies already set up on other planets, or dome cities. They are mainly research facilities though. I want to go a little into the future for more possibilties but not to far. I have weapons that are like the standard military rifles of today, except caseless rounds etc.. The story will go from the start of the disease from the eyes of the two characters, into the intervention of the CDC robots (ACS program, automated combat system) trying to quarantine the infected, to the burning of the infected and forced marches of the clean humans to safe zones, the discovery of the cure and battle with the CDC robots. Then the rising. It sounds erratic but comes together in the end. the focus will be on two groups a Police officer and a smal band of survivors and a US marine and his squad. I'm still deciding on a main plot rather than just survival, thats been done to death before. I'm kicking around a few ideas, I'll post them once I make the final decision. The book will be put on Lulu. com when I'm done. Anyway keep the ideas coming!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ampolitor, post: 3757164, member: 11758"] [b]ideas[/b] Ok, I'm going to use the running zombies but they're not going to be athletes, they'll be faster while they are fresh. Then as they compose they will become the standard shamblers. Now I want them to only come out during the night but I'm trying to figure out why? and where do they go? This helps make the world seem more hopeful. Some of the boks that I read were so bleak it's like whats the point, you're going to die sooner or later (usually sooner) with those type of odds. As for the weapons I'll try to keep to realism, of course it is set in the near future where space travel has just started to planets in our system. There are two or three colonies already set up on other planets, or dome cities. They are mainly research facilities though. I want to go a little into the future for more possibilties but not to far. I have weapons that are like the standard military rifles of today, except caseless rounds etc.. The story will go from the start of the disease from the eyes of the two characters, into the intervention of the CDC robots (ACS program, automated combat system) trying to quarantine the infected, to the burning of the infected and forced marches of the clean humans to safe zones, the discovery of the cure and battle with the CDC robots. Then the rising. It sounds erratic but comes together in the end. the focus will be on two groups a Police officer and a smal band of survivors and a US marine and his squad. I'm still deciding on a main plot rather than just survival, thats been done to death before. I'm kicking around a few ideas, I'll post them once I make the final decision. The book will be put on Lulu. com when I'm done. Anyway keep the ideas coming! [/QUOTE]

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