haven't worked out the full deal. Basically the SSS folks found a site and while exploring it triggered something. Localized Aether jamming field knocked out most of the high power stuff. Trying to decide if I want to go with the Zombies, or a bioweapon of a mechanical nature. Perhaps small bio-mechanical spiders that burrow into the back of the neck and attach to the central nervous system.
Thinking the site would be a left over from the last war, a SMX weapon research site that was left after the SMX pulled out. The spider thingies being a precusor the current zombie bugs.