⁣Season 1
The series is set in a post-apocalyptic
near-future, in the year 2027. Fifteen years earlier, in the year 2012,
a worldwide event known as "The Blackout" caused all electricity on
Earth, ranging from computers and electronics to car and jet engines, to
be disabled permanently. As a result, trains and cars stopped where
they were, ships went dead in the water, and aircraft plummeted from the
sky and crashed. In the years after the Blackout, people adapted to
this new world without electricity. Because government and public order
collapsed, several areas are ruled by militias and their generals.[citation needed]
The series begins with the surviving Matheson family: Ben and his
two young adult children: daughter Charlie and son Danny, who now live
in a village near Chicago.
He wears a small pendant around his neck that is the key to not only
finding out what happened fifteen years ago, but also a possible way to
reverse its effects. Sebastian Monroe, Monroe Militia general and
self-appointed President of the Monroe Republic, whose borders are the Mississippi River and the old states of Kentucky and the Carolinas,
is searching for the pendants so he can use their power to take control
of the entire North American continent. In the series' pilot, Ben
Matheson is killed and Danny is abducted by Captain Tom Neville of the
Militia. The remaining Matheson family, joined initially by Miles
Matheson, Aaron Pittman, and Nora Clayton, now are on the run from the
Monroe Militia. Monroe's new benefactor, Randall Flynn, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense who fifteen years earlier ordered deployment of the weaponized
technology that caused the blackout, now works with Monroe in his
efforts after Ben's wife Rachel (working under duress for Monroe)
escapes from his custody. This technology is later revealed to be a form
of nanotechnology whose ability to drain electricity can be countered by the pendant.[8]
Opening Introduction:


We lived in an electric world. We
relied on it for everything. And then the power went out. Everything
stopped working. We weren't prepared. Fear and confusion led to panic.
The lucky ones made it out of the cities. The government collapsed.
Militias took over, controlling the food supply and stocking up on
weapons. We still don't know why the power went out. But we're hoping
someone will come and light the way.

In Season 1 Episode 5, "Soul Train", a map of the former continental United States, Canada, and Mexico is shown[9] and shows the continent of North America divided into six "republics" (including parts of present-day Canada and Mexico along with the contiguous United States): the Monroe Republic in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions and some of Eastern Canada; the Georgia Federation encompassing the Southeast; the Plains Nation in the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Canadian plains; Texas (including large swaths of southern and western Oklahoma, southern Arkansas and western Louisiana); the California Commonwealth incorporating the West Coast states of Oregon and Washington, along with western Idaho, British Columbia and Baja California; and the Wasteland.[10]
In the same episode, it indicates that the Georgia Federation and
Plains Nation have allied against the Monroe Republic; border
skirmishing in southwest Illinois,
near St. Louis, is also mentioned. According to the wife of Captain
Thomas Neville (Julia) in a letter to her husband, the Monroe Republic
capital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is relatively safe; however, life outside west of Pittsburgh is subject to rebel attacks and other dangers such as bandits.[11]




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