District 1

District 1 is a fictional name given to the Docklands area featured in the 2007 film 28 Weeks Later. It is the designation given to the only fully-functional area of Greater London, following the viral outbreak of the Rage Virus that had occurred seven months earlier in the 2002 film 28 Days Later.

Purpose
In the storyline between the two movies, District 1 was created on order from NATO in response to the deaths of the last of the Infected due to starvation. It was meant to serve as the first step to reclaiming Britain, and had District 1 endured, more Districts would have been built.

Location
District 1 was located in London near the Docklands area on the Isle of Dogs. This strategic location served as solitude to the survivors while awaiting surrounding areas to undergo decontamination for habitation.

Specifications
District 1 took 5 weeks to create, and at its height held a population of approximately 15,000 British refugees from refugee camps on Continental Europe, and was defended by 7,000 soldiers from the United States Army.

District 1 itself features twenty-four hour water and power, a direct transit system to London City Airport, a supermarket and a pub.

The population itself lived in the financial sector skyscrapers, now converted into apartment blocks, to serve as a strategically-defendable position in the event of another outbreak, and the District is controlled from the U.S.-built Command Center.

The streets and boulevards are patrolled by soldiers, and an extensive sniper network constantly oversees the population from rooftops, and combined watch over the Security Zone, the protective border that encompasses the entire settlement, keeping civilians from leaving and any possible surviving Infected out. Outside District 1 is nothing but wasteland.

Leadership
* Head of District 1: Brigadier General Stone.
* Chief Medical Officer: Major Scarlett Ross
* Head of Sniper Battalion: Sergeant Doyle
* Head Technician: Don Harris

Code: Red
Due to fears of another Rage outbreak, an emergency response protocol was created in the event of an Rage-related emergency, named "Code: Red". Code: Red entailed;
* Stage One: Containment. Upon discovery of loose Infected inside District 1, the population would be rounded up and herded into specified "Safe Areas" (steel-reinforced cages) at the bottom of the apartment blocks in an effort to protect them from the . The command staff would be relocated to the emergency bunker beneath the command center and the armed garrison would then mobilize and surround known Infected areas and, upon eye-contact, terminate all Infected with extreme predjudice.
* Stage Two: Control. Should killing individual Infected fail due to problems with containment of civilians, all units are authorized to abandon selective targeting; both Infected and civilians would be terminated to prevent Rage from spreading.
*Stage Three: Extermination. In the event of mass infection, firebombs would be dropped by fighter jets upon the streets to kill the Infected hordes, with soldiers escaping to higher-ground to escape death.
* In the event of total/complete infection, the command staff would be evacuated by helicopter and chemical weapons used on the city to exterminate all human and Infected life, but any surviving military personnel would don MOPP gear and group together into extermination squads, use flame-throwers to burn the bodies and aid in possible reconstruction.

Destruction
When Alice Harris, a human infected with Rage but retaining her lucidity, was found by military personnel and taken to District 1, her exposure to Rage was discovered upon brutal quarantine procedures for entry and was promptly imprisoned in the medical center. However, she accidentally infected her husband, Don Harris, with Rage and he spread it into District 1, causing mass chaos. Stone, realising the infection couldn't be contained, ordered the execution of the Code Red protocol, and the civilian and Infected populations were promptly decimated by the firebombs and chemical weapons, and District 1 itself destroyed.

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