Connecting The Walking Dead: World Beyond Quatervois
By Liam O'Leary
The Civic Republic Military doesn’t want oversight but, why?
It seems like the CRM is providing the Republic’s scientists with living people to serve as their test subjects in attempts to find a cure for the zombie virus, or at least, an effective way of quickly neutralizing the dead as a threat.
This is something the CRM wouldn’t want the republic’s civilian government finding out about, so in the short term, why they don’t want civilian oversight isn’t much of a question.
The question is this: Is that the only reason they don’t want civilian oversight?
Lieutenant Colonel Kublek’s destruction of Campus Colony and Omaha was brutally efficient. Granted, this could be down to her being a long-time military veteran, and the CRM is a well-organized military unit. Part of me wonders if this brutal efficiency was borne out of experience, as in the CRM have destroyed communities before and have gotten very good at it.
The CRM has had a decade to prepare for this change in oversight. Yet, they’re afraid the CR’s government will freak out over their current policy of taking involuntary medical test subjects? You’d think they’d have a plan in place to hide this from the civilian government or delay the project until things following the change in oversight had settled. Yet, they resort to creating a false flag operation to serve as an excuse to ask for an “emergency delay” in oversight?
It makes you wonder if this human experimentation project is just the tip of the iceberg, and Major General Beale has a massive collection of skeletons in the CRM’s collective closet. Something so big that he and Kublek concocted this plan to destroy Omaha and Campus Colony years in advance to both serve as their excuse to delay oversight, as well as distract the civilian government from whatever else they may be up to.
Maybe, Omaha and Campus Colony weren’t the first places they’d done this to and decided to dust off an old play, this time to keep the civilian government from learning that it was an old play.