How would your nation deal with a zombie outbreak...

[The Children of Mama]

In the early days of the angel network, before Mama came on the scene, one of the greatest fears of our ancestors was that the network could be used to "hack" into a Child's mind, taking control of their senses and turning them into an automaton directed at another's will. This is why so many safeguards were put into the system. To this day, Children sometimes whisper stories of "zombie Children", Children whose minds have been taken over by some malevolent force and turned against their fellow Children.

[Mama adds: I keep reassuring them that such things can't possibly happen. My "prime directive", if you will, is to make sure the horrors of the Psychic Wars are never repeated. My Children's minds are individually precious; I'll never allow them to be tampered with.]

[Victorious Decepticons]

Cybertron, our main planet, harbors no biological life, so we don't foresee a way a true zombie outbreak can happen here.

Still, we Decepticons find this possibility very interesting, due to its implications for our Earth-based resource-extraction operations.

Research shows that zombieism is only transmissable to biological creatures, and turns them nearly invincible. Far from being considering this a problem, the prospect of breakdown-proof slaves is very intriguing! We could work them at full power at all times, without even the customary 4 hours off per day. Better yet, with their semi-functional brains, they would likely not even be aware of the working conditions, lack of light in the mines, and other such things that living humans have problems with.

We would capture some zombies (easily doable by simply picking some up in our hands), and take them to the Research Facility for complete examination. (Their attempts to bite through our armored metal would surely do nothing to us, though it may render them toothless.) Assuming the zombies can't be trained, the Facility's first job would be to come up with workable control-implants, which would be installed into the zombies' brain stems so we could directly control their bodies. This in itself would make them workable slaves.

Once we developed a release-grade zombie controller, we would grab up the rest of the zombies, implant said controllers, and use them as laborers. They wouldn't be as good as living clones from the Approved DNA Codec, due to their need to be directly controlled rather than being properly trainable, but they would still be good as cheap dumb labor. They would also serve as a terrifying incentive to the living slaves working alongside them: Those who slow down would be used to feed the zombies. Slaves watching a co-worker getting his brains eaten out of his head would surely be motivated to work harder!

Back at the Research Facility, the next job would be to determine how the zombie condition is spread. If it's a virus, bacteria, or other such biological agent, the desirable DNA would be extracted and inserted into a batch of Beta clones. There would likely be several rounds of Betas of this line, as we work to fully isolate the near-invincibility part of the code, and leave behind the stupidity-causing aspects. Once so isolated, we would then add this DNA to the Approved DNA Codec. Combined with the changes we've already made to the human genome, we would end up with completely loyal, intelligent (when it comes to doing their jobs, that is) slaves that never need ANY rest and that don't die unless we intentionally kill them.

The side-effect of the zombies needing to eat "Braaaainnnnnsss" could either be removed from the code, or we could simply let the new version of slaves feed on nearly-crashed slaves of the older version, complainers, and other such undesirable humans.

If it turned out that the zombie outbreak was the result of some toxic substance rather than a germ, we wouldn't be able to use the Codec to bring just the desirable traits to new slaves. In that case, we could still use the zombifying agent. Old living slaves that are ready to crash would get direct-controllers installed, and then be intentionally made into zombies. In this way, the slaves could be used for several more years, or sold off as a cheap alternative to regular workers.

Given that zombies appear to be a great source of slave labor, we would welcome such an outbreak on our other planet (Earth).

[Novus Niciae]

Cybertron, our main planet, harbors no biological life, so we don't foresee a way a true zombie outbreak can happen here.

Still, we Decepticons find this possibility very interesting, due to its implications for our Earth-based resource-extraction operations.

Research shows that zombieism is only transmissable to biological creatures, and turns them nearly invincible. Far from being considering this a problem, the prospect of breakdown-proof slaves is very intriguing! We could work them at full power at all times, without even the customary 4 hours off per day. Better yet, with their semi-functional brains, they would likely not even be aware of the working conditions, lack of light in the mines, and other such things that living humans have problems with.

We would capture some zombies (easily doable by simply picking some up in our hands), and take them to the Research Facility for complete examination. (Their attempts to bite through our armored metal would surely do nothing to us, though it may render them toothless.) Assuming the zombies can't be trained, the Facility's first job would be to come up with workable control-implants, which would be installed into the zombies' brain stems so we could directly control their bodies. This in itself would make them workable slaves.

Once we developed a release-grade zombie controller, we would grab up the rest of the zombies, implant said controllers, and use them as laborers. They wouldn't be as good as living clones from the Approved DNA Codec, due to their need to be directly controlled rather than being properly trainable, but they would still be good as cheap dumb labor. They would also serve as a terrifying incentive to the living slaves working alongside them: Those who slow down would be used to feed the zombies. Slaves watching a co-worker getting his brains eaten out of his head would surely be motivated to work harder!

Back at the Research Facility, the next job would be to determine how the zombie condition is spread. If it's a virus, bacteria, or other such biological agent, the desirable DNA would be extracted and inserted into a batch of Beta clones. There would likely be several rounds of Betas of this line, as we work to fully isolate the near-invincibility part of the code, and leave behind the stupidity-causing aspects. Once so isolated, we would then add this DNA to the Approved DNA Codec. Combined with the changes we've already made to the human genome, we would end up with completely loyal, intelligent (when it comes to doing their jobs, that is) slaves that never need ANY rest and that don't die unless we intentionally kill them.

The side-effect of the zombies needing to eat "Braaaainnnnnsss" could either be removed from the code, or we could simply let the new version of slaves feed on nearly-crashed slaves of the older version, complainers, and other such undesirable humans.

If it turned out that the zombie outbreak was the result of some toxic substance rather than a germ, we wouldn't be able to use the Codec to bring just the desirable traits to new slaves. In that case, we could still use the zombifying agent. Old living slaves that are ready to crash would get direct-controllers installed, and then be intentionally made into zombies. In this way, the slaves could be used for several more years, or sold off as a cheap alternative to regular workers.

Given that zombies appear to be a great source of slave labor, we would welcome such an outbreak on our other planet (Earth).

I think an applicable analogy for your species would be what would you do if a sufficiently advanced computer virus somehow infected your citizens and they ran amok attempting to spread the virus.

[Israslovakahzerbajan]

Thermobaric bombs.

[Isafero]

"There would most likely be a statement made by public officials to tell families to stay in their homes, as this is typically the safest place as many families should have plenty of food to keep going. It's not illegal for the leader of a household to carry a gun (Semi automatic or shotgun) so they would be able to at least defend themselves in case a zombie attacked their home. Law enforcement and the military would try to do everything they could to eliminate the zombie threat. If the zombie outbreak has only affected one city then we would attempt to evacuate any surviving citizens of the city, seal it off to confine the outbreak in one place and then send in the military to eliminate the zombie presence."
- Isafero representative Carari Grey

[Austria-russia]

anti zombie police

[Mid Lothian]

In ML, they'd remove the head or destroy the brain (like in Shaun of the Dead).

As every house in ML owns a cricket bat, the former would be no problem.

[Mr32]

our city's are build like wheel's ther is a spire at the center with severl distint rings built around them
the outer is recreation , next in is housing , then industry & citizens place's of work, and at the centre
the afore mentioned spire where research is performed and houses each city's main computer
(imagine youtube, wikipeida and google rolled into one) every house/place of work has a node conected to this centeral computer.the city's are connected to one another by a form of public transport , the surrounding land between each city is forest/jungle/field's

in the event of an out break of any highly contagious disease the transport between city's is shut down effectively isolating the city

although martial art's are taught within schools, weapon's of all sort's especially firearm's are unavailable to the stranded citizens.
in the event of a zombie outbreak most likely all the citizens in the outer rings would succumb.
those in the inner rings may have a chance to reach one of the many shelters, How ever these are mostly
designed to protect from bomb's viral outbreaks (anthrax for example ). not ground troop''s and would probably fall to the determined attacks of zombie hand's. the spire in the centre however is designed to
withstand siege from the worst the world has to offer and it would be very doubtful that one would fall to anything as pedestrian as zombies.

at this point the outbreak would most be recognised as one of zombie nature and the other cities would be
informed giving them a chance to raise their outer defences and prevent infection from breaching their walls

from this point on the main focus would be to capture several zombies and test them to determine exactly what we were dealing with.
by now the remaining zombies would have undoubtedly spread from the infected city and although unable to enter any other. would prey on all those living outside the city walls in the wilderness between city's

depending on what type of zombie it would be decided witch topic research would be made into;
1. a vaccination
2. a cure
3. a bioweapon

the bioweapon would ideally target only the virus leaving the fora and fauna unharmed
this could then (once sufficiently tested) be released removing the undead and enabling those uninfected to reclaim the city's that had been lost. and if this is deemed imposable specialised weapons and armour to enable zombies to be hunted down and exterminate.

undoubtedly the clean up would take ten's of years.

[Birnadia]

We would change channels, as it would obviously be nothing more than a badly made TV movie.

I was thinking of saying something like this.

[Smarac]

We would give them coffee and some burek... and we'll call them "buraz"...

[Toiletdonia]

Sign an equality treaty then this because they just moaned:



Of coarse this would mean half the nation would die but it's better than zombies isn't it? Even the whole radioactivity disease thing is better. Wait maybe we're better off with zombies.

[Allanea]

Given this is Allanea, the zombies would likely get shot in the face faster than you can say "Zombie movies are silly but fun."

[South Indies]

People in the South Indies have the right to own firearms, and so many people do own firearms. This would enable ordinary citizens to shoot zombies instead of becoming "infected" and turning into zombies themselves. This would have the affect of slowing the spread of the zombie outbreak.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Step 1: Declare war on anybody I don't particularily like ATM

Step 2: Herd zombnies into Pen

Step 3: Shoot those who resist, even those who claim "are not infected" or try holding us to some fictional 'Geneva Convention' of some sort.

Step 4: Strap zombies to ICBMs, remove nukes.

Step 5: Zombes in SPACE!

Step 6: ????

Step 7: PROFIT!!!

[Bonded Unity]

Saturation bombing until there is nothing left of the infected city. Quarantine the area. After bombing is done do a national zombie check for infected persons with house to house searching, zombie sniffing dogs, and inspection teams. Close all the airports and borders.

[JJ Place]

We have a little over 3.5 billion people in JJ Place, and a little over 4 trillion fire arms in JJ Place and a whole lot more ammunition to back those fire arms, as well as an intelligent population. So, a Zombie Outbreak would be quickly eradicated.

[Maraque]

Flame throwers. A lot of them.

[Victorious Decepticons]

Cybertron, our main planet, harbors no biological life, so we don't foresee a way a true zombie outbreak can happen here.

Still, we Decepticons find this possibility very interesting, due to its implications for our Earth-based resource-extraction operations.

Research shows that zombieism is only transmissable to biological creatures, and turns them nearly invincible. Far from being considering this a problem, the prospect of breakdown-proof slaves is very intriguing! We could work them at full power at all times, without even the customary 4 hours off per day. Better yet, with their semi-functional brains, they would likely not even be aware of the working conditions, lack of light in the mines, and other such things that living humans have problems with.

We would capture some zombies (easily doable by simply picking some up in our hands), and take them to the Research Facility for complete examination. (Their attempts to bite through our armored metal would surely do nothing to us, though it may render them toothless.) Assuming the zombies can't be trained, the Facility's first job would be to come up with workable control-implants, which would be installed into the zombies' brain stems so we could directly control their bodies. This in itself would make them workable slaves.

Once we developed a release-grade zombie controller, we would grab up the rest of the zombies, implant said controllers, and use them as laborers. They wouldn't be as good as living clones from the Approved DNA Codec, due to their need to be directly controlled rather than being properly trainable, but they would still be good as cheap dumb labor. They would also serve as a terrifying incentive to the living slaves working alongside them: Those who slow down would be used to feed the zombies. Slaves watching a co-worker getting his brains eaten out of his head would surely be motivated to work harder!

Back at the Research Facility, the next job would be to determine how the zombie condition is spread. If it's a virus, bacteria, or other such biological agent, the desirable DNA would be extracted and inserted into a batch of Beta clones. There would likely be several rounds of Betas of this line, as we work to fully isolate the near-invincibility part of the code, and leave behind the stupidity-causing aspects. Once so isolated, we would then add this DNA to the Approved DNA Codec. Combined with the changes we've already made to the human genome, we would end up with completely loyal, intelligent (when it comes to doing their jobs, that is) slaves that never need ANY rest and that don't die unless we intentionally kill them.

The side-effect of the zombies needing to eat "Braaaainnnnnsss" could either be removed from the code, or we could simply let the new version of slaves feed on nearly-crashed slaves of the older version, complainers, and other such undesirable humans.

If it turned out that the zombie outbreak was the result of some toxic substance rather than a germ, we wouldn't be able to use the Codec to bring just the desirable traits to new slaves. In that case, we could still use the zombifying agent. Old living slaves that are ready to crash would get direct-controllers installed, and then be intentionally made into zombies. In this way, the slaves could be used for several more years, or sold off as a cheap alternative to regular workers.

Given that zombies appear to be a great source of slave labor, we would welcome such an outbreak on our other planet (Earth).

I think an applicable analogy for your species would be what would you do if a sufficiently advanced computer virus somehow infected your citizens and they ran amok attempting to spread the virus.

That's easy enough; the Military would get busy deactivating the infected robots. Whether the deactivations would be of the permanent variety depends on if the afflicted were still a threat after being rendered immobile (for instance, if they still had the ability to try to use their mind-boards to try to upload the virus to new victims). If so, blasts to the mind-boards would be administered, with fatal results. If nonfatal deactivation is possible, the neutralized victims would be dragged into the Debugging Centers, where technicians would forcibly install anti-zombie-virus patches and restore them to sanity. Mechanics would then repair the blast damage.

Government-certified anti-virus updates would also be made available for the rest of the populace (they would be mandated if necessary, but most of us are very protective of our minds and are eager to download anti-virus updates without the need for prodding), and the public communications networks would be taken offline to prevent transmission of the virus via those means.

After the outbreak was contained, we would do an emergency census to determine how much of a population drop we suffered. Then we would determine how to facilitate rebuilding our numbers - through the factories, or by subsidizing small-shop craftsmen. We strongly prefer small-shop production due to the care they take in their task and the individualization present in their newly-built "offspring," but if the need is great, the factories that use high speed assembly lines would be activated. (With factory production, our numbers would recover extremely fast, but the new factory-built Decepticons would be rather unindividualized for their first few years of life while they developed their own personalities around their varied life experiences.)

Still, one thing must be noted - even if such a computer virus were to come into existence, our bodies don't have the changability of biological ones and couldn't be mutated to the near-invincible status of a humanoid (or other bioform) zombie even if the infected's minds were totally gone. A strong enough energy blast to the engine, battery, or motion-control boards could still be counted on to cause sufficient damage to end someone's ability to be a physical threat.

Therefore there would probably be no need to take drastic measures like bombing our own cities to contain this threat. The Military is sufficiently better-armed than civilians to be able to win.

[Eulor]

The relax gun laws(no gun laws) make our citizens really really well-armed. In other words, we're ready to kick some zombie rotten ass.

[Satirius]

1. Crash course on aiming for head
2. Penal Infantry goes kekeke
3. Militia goes kekeke
4. Regular Army goes kekeke
5. ???
6. Fun and PROFIT!!!!!

[The Shee of Sphericus]

With us as alians it's doughtful that the Z-germ could effect us. As for human zombies... that's what guns are for.