DEAD BLOCK

// INCIDENT REPORT — DAY 0

IRONGATE MAXIMUM SECURITY FACILITY. Population: 2,400 inmates.

At 03:17 hours a containment breach in Sub-Level 4 released an unidentified biological agent into the ventilation network. Within six minutes, the first reanimations were reported on Cell Block C.

By dawn, the facility was dark. No distress signal was received. No survivors have been confirmed.

// PROJECT DEAD BLOCK — ORIGINS

Three years prior, AXIOM DEFENSE LABS were contracted by an unnamed government entity to develop autonomous combat units capable of operating in biohazard-level environments. The result was the ROBO series — armoured synthetic soldiers hardwired for survival.

ROBO-A was built for raw force. ROBO-B for battlefield medicine. A third unit — designation ROBO-C — was sealed in the lab's deepest vault after early testing produced… unexpected results.

// THE VOID SIGNAL

Three weeks into the Irongate outbreak, AXIOM scanners detected a pulsing energy signature emanating from Sub-Level 9 — a frequency matching no known weapon or power source on record.

Field analysts labelled it THE VOID SIGNAL. Whatever caused it had reanimated something far worse than the inmates. The walls of the facility began to warp. The dead began to change.

// MISSION PARAMETERS

You are deployed with one objective: reach the signal source and shut it down. There will be no extraction until the source is neutralised. Reinforcements are not coming.

Survive the waves. Descend deeper. Find out what Irongate was really built to contain.

// KNOWN THREATS

STANDARD INFECTED — reanimated inmates. Fast, aggressive, drawn to sound and movement.

BRUTES — guard corpses. Heavily built, resistant to damage. Do not let them close the gap.

THE WARDEN — whatever commanded this facility in life still commands it in death. Approach with extreme caution.

VOID ENTITIES — classified. Origin unknown. Do not engage without ROBO-C protocols active.