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Omaha, Nebraska, more commonly known as simply Omaha after its partial reclamation, is a survivor community with approximately 97,407 survivors total in AMC's The Walking Dead: World Beyond. The city is located nearly 100 miles away from the Campus Colony and is said to be "10x bigger" than the colony itself. It is part of the Alliance of the Three, and actively trades with both Portland and the Civic Republic of Philadelphia, as well as the three having "joint protection" agreements. However, it was later destroyed by the Civic Republic Military.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Prior to the outbreak, Omaha was the most populous city in Nebraska, with a population of 408,958 at the time of the outbreak.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Establishment[]
At least one sizeable community was active in Omaha after the outbreak began. The population managed to erect massive walls surrounding the downtown area, as well as massive wind turbines, which helped provide power to the city's residences, buildings, and infrastructure. At some point early into outbreak, the city became part of the Alliance of the Three, alongside Portland and the Civic Republic of Philadelphia. Once the Campus Colony in Lincoln was inducted into the alliance, it was declared as a satellite to Omaha, and the "home city" of the colony's residents.
Infrastructure[]
Omaha is located north of the Blaze of Gory and northeast of Campus Colony. A university shuttle runs every two weeks between Campus Colony and Omaha, serving as a transportation system for the two settlements. The city provides housing for its inhabitants, with some living in row houses. The city also maintains a large school system. Omaha is mentioned to have a governing council, and has its own police department, as Silas was arrested by police officers after beating his father to death. However, despite his own mother testifying against him, the courts eventually cleared Silas of his charges, as it was declared he fought in self defense. He was eventually re-located to the Campus Colony. The Omaha Police Department also recommended Jennifer Mallick to the Campus Colony security force, due to her prior experience in the U.S. Military.
The city maintains an active electrical grid for its residents, although power rationing is implemented city-wide in order to conserve energy except on certain occasions. There is a large bazaar located somewhere within the city, that serves as a large trading post for residents to buy goods and services.
Genocide and Destruction[]
- Main article: Genocide of Omaha
Omaha was destroyed by the Civic Republic Military shortly before their destruction of the Campus Colony. Before destroying the city, the CRM cut off all lines of communications. Supposedly both were overrun by a massive herd, but it was later discovered that this was just a cover for the CRM killing everyone with a variant of chlorine gas devised by Dr. Lyla Belshaw and Dr. Samuel Abbott.
In a news report viewed by Rick Grimes and Pearl Thorne, the news anchor reports that initial surveys show a collapsed section of the city's perimeter barrier and that the CRM would investigate if it was caused by pressure from a herd in the coming weeks. The news report goes on to state that the city's outer walls fell to incursions with failed countermeasures, leading to six-hour periods of neighborhoods falling, eventually followed by the city itself. There were two collapses or possible detonations which effectively trapped the city's population. One building where hundreds of people gathered was the last to fall. Although its doors held, supposedly something occurred inside of the building itself to leading to some initial deaths, reanimations, and everyone inside ultimately dying. Thorne tells Rick that people were most likely responsible and suggests that Omaha letting other people know where they are unlike the Civic Republic had led to their downfall.
When Rick agrees to join his plan to change the CRM from the inside, Lieutenant Colonel Donald Okafor comments that there will be "no more Omaha's" if they succeed, suggesting that Okafor is aware of what really happened to the city and was possibly involved in it.
As a part of the Echelon Briefing, Major General Beale reveals the truth about the destruction of Omaha and the Campus Colony to Rick as well as the CRM's plans to do the same thing to Portland. Along with the destruction of Portland, the CRM plans to use the destruction of Omaha and the Campus Colony to justify declaring martial law over the Civic Republic itself to further the CRM's genocidal goals.
However, after Rick kills Beale and he and Michonne wipe out the Frontliners and the entire CRM Force Command, the couple reveals the truth about the CRM's atrocities to the Civic Republic Council. Taking emergency oversight of the CRM, the council determines that the CRM's command hierarchies and layers of operational secrecy indicates that infantry units didn't participate in the atrocities perpetrated by the highest levels of the CRM.
Inhabitants[]
- Mrs. Plaskett (Teacher)
- Ruth
- Margaret
- Daniel
- Galbraith (Police Officer)
- Gary Plaskett (Power Plant Worker)
- Thousands of unnamed residents
Formerly[]
- Silas Plaskett
- Jennifer Mallick
- Many unnamed Civic Republic Research Facility personnel and students
- Thousands of unnamed children
Deaths[]
- Gary Plaskett (Alive and Zombified)
- Galbraith
- Ruth
- Mrs. Plaskett
- Margaret
- Daniel
- Thousands of unnamed people
Appearances[]
World Beyond[]Season 2[]
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The Ones Who Live[]Season 1[]
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Trivia[]
- Omaha is the second largest community in the whole TV Universe with a population of about 97,407 people, followed by the Civic Republic of Philadelphia being the largest with more than 250,000 people.
- Interestingly, in "Years", a news anchor reporting on the city's destruction gave the population as being almost 90,000.
- Although it's unknown how much of the city has been reclaimed, it appears that downtown Omaha makes up the majority of the community (though in "The Sky Is a Graveyard", it seems that suburban areas of the city have also been taken).
- It is highly likely that, like with the Campus Colony, Omaha was originally a military safe-zone established for refugees to take shelter.