Decaying Void

Zombies.

They always were a popular subject in pop culture. It seemed that no matter which generation you'd look at, each had their own take and fascinations surrounding the shambling undead. From books to movies, video games to music; the allure of the possibility that civilization as we know it would come to an end, replaced by the romanticized plot of the latest zombie trend, seemed to clutch at the hearts of most everybody.

If asked, the majority of people might say they would stand a pretty good chance at surviving said apocalypse. Usually entailing their plans of finding the nearest blunt object, bashing a few rotting skulls in and locating a hidden gem of stockpiled resources to live out their days as kings.. however reality is never so kind and, more often than not, much more brutal.

The year is 2105. The world is gripped in terror as a real world epidemic has spread to nearly every corner of the globe. The dead are rising, not simply devouring the living but ripping them to shreds. The unforeseen destruction and sheer amounts of visceral gore left in the wake of the undead hordes has left the majority of the civilized world in ruins.

Fast forward to the year 2115; the last remaining survivors are holed up in a handful of walled off cities awaiting either salvation or destruction. The governing bodies within each city have spent the last few years constructing, what most hope will be, the solution to this crisis: Eden. A massive, low earth orbit, space station capable of housing and sustaining 250,000 human beings for the next 300 years in the hopes that, upon their return, the virus that has claimed 80% of the worlds population will have died out and the corpses of those infected will have long since turned to dust.

To make certain that the process of entry into Eden is fair (and to avoid possible riots as well as the collapse of the remaining beacons of civilization) a lottery is put into place...