After more than ten days of relocation—and another month-plus of expansion and reorganization—the Atlas Federation's "great merger" was finally, at least on the surface, complete.
They'd cleared the roads of zombies ahead of time, but the sheer scale of the movement was still too loud to hide. It drew in zombies and mutant beasts from farther out, and there were casualties along the way.
Still, the losses stayed within an acceptable range.
Now that the merging was done, all that was left was time—slowly grinding down friction until the new combined compounds actually felt like a single whole.
After the mergers, the Atlas Federation's remaining major compounds formed five regional hubs: Atlas City compound in the north, Heartland City compound in the central region, Fallen Star City in the south, Goldcrest City compound in the west, and Clearford City compound in the east.
