In 2015 after the plague has decimated the population, the remaining US political leaders founded Project Spearhead with the intention of gathering survivors, and finding a cure to the plague.

In the 2030’s, after a further virus mutation the leadership decide to abandon the site and move to a more remote area, however Jonathan Foster stages a bloody coup as he is determined to continue his work on finding a cure, After murdering the Spearhead leadership Foster takes over the group, and Katerina Jones with a party of other scientists and spearhead residents including Marcus Whitby leaves for the abandoned Raritan site, taking with them one of the two DARPA power cores.