Theories about Raydon Labs

[The Chosen One]

Hey guys! First post here, but something I just remembered... Do you remember back when Saul and Angel rescued Burt, and they ran into the "smart one". Didn't Burt mention he had a level 3 badge for Radon Labs. It seems pretty suspicious that a scientist becomes a "smart one".

Thoughts?

[yarri]

Smarter you are in life smarter you are in death.

[itsallgoodie]

yes yarri, but i think the point is also that the virus or contamination could have been in part or full due to radon labs yes?

[yarri]

[QUOTE=itsallgoodie;8920]yes yarri, but i think the point is also that the virus or contamination could have been in part or full due to radon labs yes?[/QUOTe

Yep.. sorry

[Eviebae]

Hey guys! First post here, but something I just remembered... Do you remember back when Saul and Angel rescued Burt, and they ran into the "smart one". Didn't Burt mention he had a level 3 badge for Radon Labs. It seems pretty suspicious that a scientist becomes a "smart one".

Thoughts?

Suspicious? As in, they plotted it? If I had any, ANY control over the process at all; I'm pretty sure I wouldn't become a zomboid at all.

As to whether or not it's their fault, yeah, that could have happened. KC is pretty original in his thinking so I'm beginning to doubt that they simply created it.

[wooly]

If Radon labs were the focal point, does the timeline fit? Weren't the outbreaks in LA and Hawaii simultaneous? Or am I mis-remembering the event sequence?

If they were simultaneous then the lab probably couldn't have been ground zero (for the world) due to the distances involved.

Unless Radon Labs = Umbrella Corp :)

[timberwoof]

Well, one of my questions is, with all the driving around the guys have done to scavenge, how come they haven't mentioned anything about rummaging around the possible ground zero. To me it sounds like there are more important things to deal with, and the search for a possible end to the infection has been put off. I have a feeling something will happen and this will be brought up again.

[LoadingGodmode]

I think that there was only one place the virus originated. I'm not sure if it was Radon Labs or not but that seems to make the most sense at this point.

[Arthur LaMarche]

I think the most important aspect is that Burt casually knows what a level three badge from Radon Labs would look like and suspects it before rolling the corpse over. Burt is an ex-marine, later he became the Manager or Franchise owner of Lock and Loaded. But, somewhere he got caught up in some really illegal stuff. Claymore Mines, Silencer, .50cal. etc.

[Makson]

I would like to say Raydon labs is connected with the outbreak. Reason for this is because in chapter 2. "Burt points out a badge on the one he killed, revealing it to be a Level 3 member of Raydon Labs" This gives a slight hint that they could be connected with the outbreak.


My theorie would be Raydon labs experimented on animals for medical/warfare/research/ other but they were immune/no use so they resorted to test on humans instead. Which brings Bill Roberts aka Ink in the picture.

("The TIVO reveals information of a plea of insanity in a murder case against a man named Bill Roberts aka Ink." found in chapter 2)


Raydon labs would test their experiments on deathrows (Easier to not be noticed by society since they are deadmen walking. Maybe they bribed the prison guards to get them) which leads to Bill Roberts aka Ink (maybe he was put on deathrow) being selected for the tests. He could of been strapped down on the experiment table but after the experiments he started to show symptoms leading him to break loose and attacl everyone and anyone in LA causing the outbreak to spread.

This could connect to chapter 1 when Michael says "The group of them moved past my car to the man honking behind me. their bodies were littered with scars and bruises and their eyes were glazed over. "


Problem with my theorie would be:


It happening all across the country. ("The reporter talks about riots all across the country before it cuts off with nothing else broadcasted after the report." found in In chapter 2)

In chapter 2 when burt points out the lvl3 raydon badge was just to point out "Smarter you are in life smarter you are in death" the clever ones and raydon doesnt have anything to do with the outbreak.


But still I would like them to have somekind of connection to all of this.

[rottenash]

Maybe the tests on convicts/deathrow were being done in many prisons. Only thing that doesn't really make sense is the fact that everything seemed to have happened all at once..everywhere. Theres no way a bunch of prisons around the country would breakout, theres way more to this. I still think scienists would be involved, but thers a larger picture that still hasn't enfolded yet. Hurry up next chapter.. hurry up

[Banvillin]

I agree with the popular opinion that Raydon Labs is connected in some way to the outbreak but we know so little about both Raydon and the nature of the zombies that all our theories are based on nothing but assumptions. There is no evidence that Raydon conducted experiments, research or is even a medical/biological lab.
I bring this to the forum so that the discuss is broadened to allow for other possibilities.

What if Raydon Labs were good guys, acting to contain and/or cure the first generation zombies? That seems like a twist worthy of Kc.

One possible cause of the nation-wide outbreak is that the "virus" was weaponized, spreading from a missile or crop duster rather than needle and gurney. Consider if Raydon Labs is an agricultural agency, making GMO's that reanimate dead crops.

I reiterate that these are only possible explanations behind the role Raydon Labs will have played in the origin of the zombies but they have as much evidence as the medical experiments/mental patient theories. If 23-3 reveals anything, even the presence of Raydon at the hospital, we will be able to narrow down the theories but right now I wouldn't discount any wild ideas about the type of science Raydon Labs conducted.

[cameron1223]

I actually touched on this subject in another theory section. Regarding Radon labs that very well could be where it all started and I have this theory that Skittles knows a whole lot more about the zombie out break then he is letting everyone know. We don't know much about him and he is studying the zombies. Perhaps Skittles worked at Radon as a leading scientist. Could the out break just be a bunch of test subjects that escaped? or worse were released onto the world?
I'm wondering if Kc will do anything with Radon labs and i don't think he will, I think he will stick with more originality after all Radon labs could be pretty much the same as the umbrella corporation from Resident Evil.
Just a thought....

[diosa]

I like the Skittles theory. I just get the feeling that he's too innocent to have had a hand in the whole apocolypse thing. I do think that Radon labs is just a random thing thrown in the story to show how smart that particular zombie was. Skittles did mention to stay away from book stores and libraries. Because that is where you can find smart zombies. I find that part hard to digest...

[cameron1223]

I'm with you on that last point!