848-AB

"Gentlemen, a regrettable incident has occurred. And when a regrettable incident occurs which involves any branch of the United States Military, we don’t question the roots of that incident but rather how the branches may best be pruned. The service is mother and father to us. And if you find your mother raped or your father beaten and robbed, before you call the police or begin an investigation, you cover their nakedness. Because you love them."

- William Starkey

848-AB, known also as Captain Trips , was a genetically engineered strain of super-flu that the US Military bred as a means of biological warfare. It had a 99.4% communicability rate, and was noted for its antigen shift and mutation with high risk and excess mortality. It was this virus that decimated most of the world population.