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Woodbury=

Major Gene's Leadership of Woodbury
The outbreak left the town in Georgia untouched and deserted, as a result the many of the 1,102 residents leaving to the "safe zone" in Atlanta, 52 miles away which killed off most of Woodbury's population when the military fell, leaving Atlanta to the undead. Hiding out in a National Guard depot close by to Woodbury, Major Gene Gavin and his fellow companions (6) came across Woodbury, cementing ownership on the town. The remaining Woodbury residents that did not leave such as Detroit, surrendered to Gene's leadership as a result of the firepower and strength that they carried.


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Brian's Leadership
After Brian overtook leadership of Woodbury, he opened the gates to Woodbury, letting travelling survivors looking for a safe haven inside. After Woodbury gained over 85 new residents, he started to create crews that would have their own choirs to complete inside Woodbury, such as the construction crew, scavenging crew and more. The construction crew were one of the most important, to help expand Woodbury over to new blocks, and to create a wall around Woodbury to block of the walkers. Many of the residents without skill, would often have to trade work for their ration of food, or sell one of their possessions as part of the barter system run by Davy. After a fight broke out between two Woodbury residents, many of the other residents cheered on the fight so Brian decided to reinstall the Woodbury race track to create a gladiator fighting arena where many residents or prisoners would fight. Brian Blake, as a source of entertainment in his apartment building, with the help of Scott Moon travelled to the nearby Wal-Mart, scavenged the remaining fish tanks, set them up against a wall in his apartment and when residents of Woodbury or others would die, he'd chop their heads off, place them in the fish tank full of water and either feed parts of the body to Penny, or feed it to the walkers that are chained up that surround the arena.


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Arrival of the Prison
Woodbury for many months stayed a sanctuary. After the helicopter crash of a Fox News chopper, a group of survivors led by Officer Rick Grimes holed up in the Meriwether County Correctional Facility followed the tracks to Woodbury, and upon their arrival they were taken prisoner. Rick Grimes, the leader had his hand cut off by the Governor, Glenn was locked up, and Michonne was raped and tortured multiple times by the Governor. After Rick and co. escaped with the help of Dr. Stevens and Alice, and Michonne stayed at Woodbury, captured the Governor and from there proceeded to graphically torture The Governor until near-death: gouging out his left eye, nearly severing an artery, and cutting off his right arm. Bob Stookey with his medic training, done little he could to save his life.
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War with the Prison
After convincing the Woodbury residents to fight the prison survivors, nearly all the Woodbury residents, except the ones that couldn't fight or had others to take care of stayed at Woodbury. The Governor gathered all the fighting residents and guards of Woodbury, along with a tank driven by Jared to the prison. During the initial attack on the prison, many of the residents wasted their ammunition taking out the walkers at the fence, and Johnny Aldridge, Simmons, Jake, Evan, Ronnie, Alex, Andy and one other resident were all shot down by Andrea. After the Governor retreated with his soldiers, they were followed by Michonne and Tyreese, residents of the prison and after the duo caught up to the army, James Lee Steagal and Raymond Hillard where both killed, however they captured Tyreese, and tried to use him against the prison, however the prison didn't take the bait and Tyreese was decapitated.

During 2nd assault on the prison, one of the prison residents, Billy Greene threw a grenade, blowing up a car and sending jagged pieces of shrapnel which led to the deaths of Don Horgan, Rudy Warburton, Bart, Teddy Grainger, Daniel and Charlie Banes. Soon after the prison started to retaliate and shoot back at the Woodburians leading to the deaths of at least half of the Woodburians including Gabriel Harris, which also led to massive counts of walkers arriving. Many Woodburians who where injured in battle were quickley devoured by the walkers, and many Woodburians who stayed stagnant in the one spot or tried to escape were also cornered by the walkers and devoured.

The Woodburians who survived the 2nd assault, drove the remaining forces in the prison out. Alice, the former doctor of Woodbury was shot by Johnny while trying to escape, and Tom Blanchford along with Smitty and Red where sent into the prison to find any remaining survivors, but where overrun and the three where devoured by walkers. After Lilly was forced by The Governor to shoot an escaping woman, it was revealed that she was holding a baby, and Lilly in rage shot the Governor in the head and pushed him into the walkers as bait. Upon trying to fight off the walkers, Clint Mansell, Johnny, Jared and three other residents where devoured by walkers, and the remaining survivors, Lilly Caul, Austin Ballard, Hap Abernathy, Matthew Hennessey, "Speed" Wilkins, Ben Buchholz and Gloria Pyne locked themselves up in the prison.

Woodburians such as Wes, Albert, Haynes, Miller, Hines, Travis, Lou, Denny, Jameson, Earl, Johnny Pruitt & Dean Gorman's fate were never revealed, however it is assumed that they were all either shot down or devoured by walkers during one of the two prison assaults.


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The Descent
As the remaining Woodburians locked themselves in the prison, without anyone knowing Austin sacrificed himself to lead the walkers away, letting himself get devoured and letting the others escape the prison. After arriving back to Woodbury, Lilly went into the Governor's apartment and put down every zombified head in the fish tanks, and also put down a zombified Penny. Lilly soon after became the leader of Woodbury, trying to rebuild the community, however, the population of Woodbury went from over 85 to less than 30. Lilly as leader let the Dupree family into Woodbury, and during a run for medication Hap was bitten on the ankle by a walker and put himself down. As a herd tried to run through Woodbury, the few able residents fought of the herd, and Meredith Dupree sacrificed herself, letting herself get eaten and blowing up half of the herd with the explosives she was holding.

After saving a group of Catholics holed up in a church, the leader Jeremiah became the new Woodbury leader, and as part of their pact they all planned to kill themselves and the residents of Woodbury, however Bob Stookey ruined their plan when he swapped the poison they were going to use with H20. As part of their original plan, they were blowing the gates of Woodbury to let the mega herd in to clean up their bodies, however as the plan failed, without knowing Stephen blew the gates, accidentally paralysing Mark Arbogast and Wade Pilcher who were near the gates, leaving them as sitting ducks to be devoured. In Woodbury, Matthew Hennessey was gunned down by the church group; and long time Woodbury residents "Speed" Wilkins, Marianne Williams, Calvin Deets, Davy, Lydia Blackman, Elizabeth Sizemore and many more were all devoured by the walkers that overrun Woodbury. Along with the Woodburians, most of the church group except for Jeremiah Garlitz, Stephen Pembry and Reese Lee Hawthorne were also overrun, and Harold Benjamin Stauback was the only survivor known of the group.

Jeremiah Garlitz, Stephen Pembry and Reese Lee Hawthrone tried to escape Woodbury in an SUV, however the car flipped with Reese and Stephen receiving life threatening injures. Ben Buchholz fate became unknown as he disappeared before the herd came into Woodbury, and only 14 people survived the herd, and all went down to the tunnels under Woodbury to live, as Bob Stookey fixed the tunnels incase of a emergency situation like this.


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Invasion (Jeremiah Garlitz)
After escaping from Woodbury in the SUV, Jeremiah and Reese are left with minor injures, however Stephen has suffered a punctured lung. Jeremiah's plans are to pass the Florida state line and travel to one of the larger cities, such as Lake City or Gainsville. While travelling, Reese spots a sign providing information about the Calvary Baptist Church located in Jasper, Florida. The three find and enter the church, where Jeremiah puts down multiple, African-American walkers which used to the the church choir, all chained up. Inside, the also find the soul survivor Norma Sutters, who provide them with medical supplies, food and water. Norma informs them that the best chance for survival is to locate a convoy which travels across the coast searching for any boats so they can make distance from the infected (as said by Miles). During their travels, the group locates the convoy, which contains 33 members in total, commandeering fifteen vehicles, including 6 RV's and three heavy duty trucks. The group is accepted into the convoy due to Mile's knowing Norma, making the current total of members now 37.

After stopping the convoy during a night, they set up camp in a KOA campground, where Jeremiah begins his plan to invade and take over the convoy, becoming the leader. He successfully does this by leading walkers into Father Murphy's RV, then entering the RV to "save" him, making him trustworthy to the group. While inside the RV, he takes out the walkers, then shoots Father Murphy in the head. He stages the scene by forcefully making a walker bite his ankle, demonstrating that he had to put Murphy before he turned to the convoy. Leaving the convoy to 36 members.

With Jeremiah voted to be leader, Jeremiah leads the convoy in the RV. Reese and Stephen also bring good news to Jeremiah when he finds that Lilly and other Woodburians are alive, hiding in the underground tunnels. On the road, Jerermiah and the convoy comes face to face The Skorpions, a biker gang fueled on crystal meth, that banded together after the outbreak. James Frazier believes they will cook you on a barbecue after they kill you. As they beginning to attack, Jeremiah lurches his RV at the 6 bikers. During the battle, Jeremiah kills three of the bikers, and leaves three mortally wounded. Jeremiah loads the surviving three onto Leland's truck, and uses the three to train his walker army. Jeremiah tortures one of the bikers, recording the sound of his scream to use to attract walkers. He then begins to use the second biker as bait, hanging him from the convoy's tow truck with barbed wire around his stomach, however he dies from the wounds inflicted. Jeremiah then perfects it, being able to hang the last biker up without him bleeding to death from his wounds.

Due to Jeremiah's terrible acts, Norma and Miles slip away from the convoy without anyone noticing leaving the convoy's population to 34, however not before Norma gains knowledge that Jeremiah plans to use an army of walkers to unleash on the Woodburians underground. The convoy's numbers slim down even more, when during one night half of the survivors turn their backs on Jeremiah, including the Thorndyke's and the Kenton's, leaving the convoy population to 17.


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The Invasion (Woodburians)

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The Saviors=

Group Formation
The Saviors were throughout the start of the apocalypse all individual survivors; some were families, friends or part of a gang. Sometime during the apocalypse, a group started to form, led by a man named Negan, and recruited survivors physically strong and violent. It is shown that Negan has recruited fighters all ages, being just in their 20's to over the age of 40. However, other than the strong, Negan also let in the lone survivors, children and couples. After being let into the group, the females may volunteer to be one of Negan's wives, and in reward themselves and family no longer earn points to trade for goods and services, however it's total devotion and if you don't swallow the pill, you will get the iron like Dwight and Mark received.

Threat
Negan's crew had become one of the largest organized survivor groups in the apocalyptic world. As the group grew, they became more and more violent with their ways, and they eventually degraded into committing crimes against other living survivors of the apocalypse, which included murder, blackmail, theft, and other various transgressions. At some point, Negan declared his group the Saviors, demanding half of all the rations and supplies from the nearby communities, which consisted of the Hilltop Colony. When the Saviors did not get what they wanted, they started to give out deadly messages or severe beatings to show how much of a threat they can be to the colony. However, in return the Saviors would kill all zombies surrounding the Hilltop Colony.

Other than demanding supplies, with the numbers growing with strong members, they were sent out to scavenge what stores they could, coming on top with dangerous and deadly weapons. The Saviors became more threatening, and enjoyed using what melee weapons they found to pose as a threat which included small to large knifes, crowbars, chainsaws, sledgehammers, baseball bats, golf clubs, metal pipes and axes. Negan decided that melee weapons were easy to carry and fight with hand to hand, and only gave what firearms they had to the fighters who went on missions or on watch. To others, seeing that they only carried melee weapons on hand could leave room for a weakness, however Negan has the marksmen hidden in the surrounding that enclosed them.

The Sanctuary
As the Savior's grew in numbers, so did the safety of the main base of operations, showing to be formed in a heavily fortified factory with a secure fence surrounding it. The only entrance has shown to be surrounded by a horde of chained and impaled undead, to discourage any from attacking, and which also forces entries and exits into a small path only big enough for a vehicle or on-foot without the risk of being eaten by the undead.

Inside, unless you become a wife for Negan, you have to earn points to trade for goods and services. Most likely, becoming a fighter for Negan would earn you points to trade, or participating in services inside the Sanctuary.

Group Numbers
The approximate number of members in the Saviors is currently unknown. It has been shown that there are over 200 living soldiers, around 40 non fighting civilians, only few kids, but also with more soldiers mentioned having taken position around various parts of the wasteland watching each survivor community, including several surrounding the Alexandria Safe-Zone.

Negan's Rules
"The Rules keep us alive. That's right. We survive, we provide security for others, we bring civilization back to this world.. we're the Saviors. And we can't do that without rules. The rules are what makes everything work. No matter how small, or insignificant, the rules are to be followed. I know it may seem trivial, or even callous on my part. There's no fucking truth to that at all. When I choose a new wife, the process is completely voluntary. It's an honour to be with me, to no longer earn points to trade for goods and services. But it comes with a price... total devotion... and that sometimes can be a hard pill for others to swallow. But swallow it they must or it's iron for you."

- Negan

Volume 17: Something To Fear
On the road, four Saviors were sent out to attempt to make contact with Rick Grimes and lay out the terms of Negan's rules. The five Saviors finally encountered Rick Grimes while they were on the road back to the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Three of the Saviors sat silently as the leader demanded that Rick gave all of the group's supplies over. Rick responded by calling out to his group, causing two of his group, Andrea and Michonne to jump out of the van and kill them. Two were quickly gunned down by Andrea, the other one being decapitated by Michonne, and leaving the leader alive to send a message to Negan.

Later, after one of the trusted Saviors, Dwight, uses he crossbow to kill a member of Rick's group. Dwight and the Saviors who accompany him capture the remaining survivor and hold him hostage at the front of the Alexandria gates. After the hostage, bites Dwight's crouch, the Alexandria members start to fire at the Saviors, killing 4 of the 12 Saviors that accompanied Dwight.

As Negan, the leader of the Saviors leave the Sanctuary with over 50 heavily armed Saviors, they ambush Rick as he is driving to the Hilltop Colony. Negan kills one of Rick's group, Glenn, and while Negan is gone, over a dozen Saviors arrive at the Alexandria Safe-Zone with multiple vehicles, however they failed to do any damage to the Safe-Zone as the ones who tried to ram the walls and gates died in the crash, and the rest being killed by the Safe-Zone residents, or being overrun and devoured by walkers.


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Volume 18: What Comes After
As the Alexandria Safe-Zone recover from the attacks and their losses, Negan and the Saviors regain control over the communities, after ransacking half of the Alexandria Safe-Zone's supplies, Carl hides behind a mattress inside one of the Savior's trucks. After arriving back to The Sanctuary, two Saviors start to unload the truck, and while doing so Carl shows himself while unloading a assault rifle clip into the two Saviors, and as Carl looses control of the assault rifle, he accidently kills two other Saviors that try to retreat.
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Volume 19: March To War
After Negan again visits the Alexandria Safe-Zone for supplies, he extends his stay as Rick is said to be by Olivia to be out with a group scavengeing for supplies, but are actually planning war with the Saviors. During the Savior's visit, Negan guts Spencer Monroe after he wants to Rick killed. After Rick arrives back, Denise Cloyd informs Rick that Negan has killed Spencer, and as the Savior's start to leave, Rick gets Andrea into the bell tower overlooking the area, and as she arrives to the top she shoots and kills the driver of the truck which Negan is in. Seth exists the back of the truck but is quickly sniped by Andrea. After Rick thinking that the Savior's only have melee weapons, he exists the Safe-Zone along with a few others, but are shot by unknown shooters. As Negan gets out of the truck, over a dozen Savior's come out of hiding with their rifles. During the conflict, Connor who followed Andrea into the bell tower tries killing her, but during the struggle is kicked off the bell tower and instantly killed.

Negan prepares himself and sings the same song he sang while choosing Glenn to be executed. However, Paul Monroe, who was hiding in a trench, grabs a Savior's leg, and uses him as human shield as the rest start to shoot at him. Paul then starts to attack the Saviors, causing some to indirectly shoot and injure their comrades. Negan finally intervenes, but Paul is able to use Lucille against him and holds Negan as a hostage against the Saviors. Suddenly Shiva pounces on the Saviors, killing and mauling one of them; following, the Kingdom soldiers existing from buses and shooting the remaining Saviors, with one Savior being shot in the back, and causing the others to retreat along with the injured in trucks. During the commotion, Negan is able to free himself and flee, and Rick demands that they follow them but Ezekiel says they are still outnumbered.


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Volume 20: All Out War - Part One
As the Kingdom, Alexandria Safe-Zone and the Hilltop Colony residents all unite and declare war on the Saviors, they make their stand armed with weapons in front of the Sanctuary. However as the Saviors start shooting at the united community, three soldiers are killed, but Richard shoots the sniper up top the roof, sending him down to the ground. Along with the sniper, one other Savior who was outside was caught in the gunfire and was shot down.

After the capturing of one of the soldiers Holly, David one of the Saviors, attempts to rape Holly in exchange that he'll give her water, however he is soon interrupted by Negan and stabs David in the neck.


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Volume 21: All Out War - Part Two

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After the War
The Saviors are currently still stable after the two year time skip, and are now part of the trade system between the communities, with the Saviors offering protection under the leadership of Dwight.
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