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She is sad that her memories of fighting the United Roman Empire will disappear when the era is restored. She tells Ritsuka that all roads lead to Rome, for Rome is the world like she and Romulus believe. Thus she will not say goodbye, but thanks for their efforts before they return to Chaldea. Exhausted from the trip, Nero demands the group to prepare a feast for her. She also convinces herself that the ship's owner is a civilized person who hates war. She and her companions are forced to fight the group however when X suddenly attacks her.

After the fight, Nero is glad to see Ritsuka and Mash again. But since she's confused if it's their first meeting or not, she introduces herself just in case.

Then, admiring Artoria Lily's swordsmanship, she offers to be her training partner. X rejects the notion since all Sabers except Artoria Lily are enemies, claiming she defeated Nero in their earlier fight. But Nero says she and her companions held back when they saw their opponents were Ritsuka and Mash. She wonders if X hated them while alive, but X reveals her mission to hunt Sabers came when she became a Heroic Spirit. Nero is shocked that X considers it more of a personal hobby of hers.

She believes X plans to be the strongest Saber, understanding they'll have to fight each other in the end. Liking the idea of a Servant dreaming of the now, Nero decides to help Artoria Lily achieve her dream to shape her ending. She claims only Heroic Spirits who live in the now like Artoria Lily can alter the past and the future. X reveals she traveled from the future to save it.

Tamamo wonders if Nero holding a world tour in the future is the cause. Nero is insulted, believing her concert would save the future. But X reveals it destroyed Space Rome, adding that it even caused Altera to flee.

X then reveals that the future is in economic crisis due to the oversaturation of Sabers. Thus she came to the past to destroy the Saber class before that can happen. She is then shot by Ultra Heroine Z while protecting Nero. Z is a paradoxical version of X and fights the group. Eventually, with Nero and the others supporting her, Artoria Lily defeats Z. Nero is summoned in her Bride form. She eventually comes to Alexandria, which is where Robin Hood met her.

Observed by Ritsuka's party, Nero treats the deserted town like a movie set. Though disappointed she can only do a western, she believes her acting skill will earn an Academy Award. She declares she'll concurrently be producer, director, writer, composer, leading actor. But she lacks a cameraman, so she contemplates trying to summon one. She believes her talent is profound enough to summon a legend, thinking she'll have to choose between Clint Eastwood and Randolph Scott.

When Fergus prepares to fight her, Nero calls out to the hidden Robin. After Fergus is killed, Nero reveals she plans to build Hollywood to the astonishment of Ritsuka and Elizabeth. She then declares she and Elizabeth are rivals and friends who appreciate the same art. But Mash points out to Nero that she'll have neither a camera crew nor an audience with the Celts destroying America.

This convinces Nero to join the group to defeat the Celts, telling Elizabeth that their showdown will be postponed until then. That night in the forest, Geronimo informs the others that the Celtic stronghold is the White House. He then assigns the group into two separate teams; One with Florence Nightingale to rescue Sita ; another to infiltrate the White House and assassinate Medb.

The next morning, the two parties prepare to split off for their respective missions. Elizabeth and Nero promise to successfully return from their missions and have their showdown. Nero compares him to a mindless beast and considers him unfit to be king for wanting to deny prosperity since everything is pointless to him.

Geronimo and Billy are killed by Medb and Arjuna respectively. She wonders what he seeks then. Nero is disappointed, finding it contradictory for a king to want nothing.

Nero suggests they all go to the beach, excited at the prospect of finally getting to wear a swimsuit. She then boasts that her swimsuit figure will be like a bolt of lightning, and spring break is merely a test. She decides to bide her time on the same deserted island Ritsuka was on for a month in until summer. Everyone then hears Mash over the intercom announcing Chaldea will receive their regular report from Seraphix. They all then go to the command room when Ritsuka wishes to visit Seraphix.

Chaldea attempts to contact the facility, but they receive no audio or visual, despite both feeds being active. Chaldea soon receives a video message from BB , who instructs them to check the Mariana Trench in A. The staff confirms Seraphix is m below the surface, along with the existence of a Singularity. BB tells Chaldea to save Seraphix's staff before the facility sinks 10,m while dealing with the Singularity manifesting there.

While rayshifting to the future is normally impossible, Da Vinci realizes BB can verify the existence of Ritsuka's party since is her present. BB warns Seraphix will reach the bottom of the trench in a few hours, at which point the water pressure will destroy it.

However, BB supposedly hacks the rayshift to separate the group to random locations in the facility in truth, it was Kiara who was responsible for the separation. They're eventually freed from her influence by Ritsuka.

While she finds a race nice, she promised she would to go to the beach with Ritsuka this year, even procuring a swimsuit for the occasion. She then notices Ritsuka and tries to invite them to come with her to Hawaii. She demands it be done tomorrow and offers to compensate Da Vinci handsomely for it. But the rest requires a welder, an artisan, and an engineer. Artoria Alter arrives in her swimsuit, declaring she will find these people. Nero tells her to leave until Artoria Alter points out each racer is required to compete in pairs, with one driving and one supporting.

Nero questions why Artoria Alter wants to ally with her. Artoria Alter answers she needs to win, so she needs a skilled race instead of a familiar subordinate. She explains she is racing for the honor of victory, not for a physical reward. But she will keep the reward for herself if it will help Ritsuka. She and Artoria Alter then shake hands to confirm their alliance. They then duel to determine who will be the driver. At the racetrack, Nero tells Ritsuka and Mash that all drivers are required to wear swimsuits.

They both wanted to be the driver, but neither of them would permit the other. Ritsuka asks why they both wanted to be the driver, to which they answer the driver gets the glory. Ishtar then shows everyone the ritual tools, which are key to erasing the Singularity and indicate a team is a legit participant. After commentary on each team from Ishtar, the race begins. A group of thugs soon appear before the racers.

Nero and Artoria Alter start the battle with their Noble Phantasms. After the thugs are defeated, their leader, Atalanta , arrives. Nero asks her why she is interfering with her driving, and who the thugs are. Calling the wasteland the Atalanta Plains, she tells the racers that its roads lead to where she and her children planted Seed Apples.

Everyone ignores her but soon learns she planted land mines to protect the seed apples. Eventually, though, Atalanta is defeated, and the racers move on to the next area. The race brings everyone to an active volcano, where they meet Boudica at its crater. She offers to cook them something, only to turn hostile. Nero asks the reason for her hostility, recalling Ritsuka said this has happened before.

She will do so through a game of chicken to the mouth of the volcano. Until the racers defeat her, they cannot cross the volcano since she set it up that way. The racers accept her challenge; Nero is grateful to Artoria Alter for letting her be the driver for this time.

After several racers drop out, Nero and Artoria eventually Alter near the mouth of the volcano. As she struggles against Boudica, Nero tells her she is enjoying herself. She tells Boudica she has every right to hate Rome, even giving Boudica permission to denounce her. Nero wishes they could be friends, so she asks Boudica not to sacrifice herself for victory.

She and Artoria Alter save her before she can fall into the volcano with her chariot. As Boudica disappears, Nero asks her who won her challenge. After Boudica disappears, Nero is disappointed in how things ended, but she is glad the former was smiling. She and Artoria Alter then retreat when the volcano starts to erupt.

Eventually the racers arrive at a river. Penthesilea appears and explains to the racers that the more beautiful they are, the faster they will go. She calls herself the manifestation of Venus, saying she has done nothing special to achieve this beauty.

She is insulted though when Mister B judges her and Artoria Alter to only be decently cute. Everyone soon beats him up after noticing his double standards, revealing him to be Blackbeard in disguise. The racers soon enter the fourth area, which has breast-shaped hills. Artemis and her copies fire upon them, warning they cannot go through Artemis Valley as they please. She will allow them to pass if they can find the real Orion among his copies and return him to her.

However, the Artemises fire a volley of arrows that force Nero and Artoria Alter to crash it into the hillside. The racers reach the final area, a bridge over a large ravine, with the Ishtar Temple at the finish line.

Nero notices the others are close behind them, so she tells Artoria Alter not to take her foot off the accelerator no matter what. However, everyone is sent plummeting when someone cuts down the bridge. The racers find themselves at the bottom of the ravine. Medb then arrives and arrests the racers for placing weird textures on her land without permission. Nero and Nobunaga attack Medb, but the prison negates their powers.

Medb tells the racers that she locked their vehicles up somewhere outside the prison after sensing a strange power from them. She calls her role dull and gloomy compared to her idol rival, Elizabeth, but Carmilla says it suits her. She determines the racers are too weak to escape and opens their cells.

In the courtyard, the racers meet Gorgon , who's only brought out of solitary confinement, exercise. She agrees to tell them about the prison if they help with exercises.

However, the fight is soon interrupted by Florence Nightingale , who leaves after Gorgons says none of them are injured. Minamoto-no-Raikou deduces Gorgon is a projection of her real self inside her cell. Carmilla then brings the racers back to their cells. There, Nero and Artoria Alter agree with Ishtar that they need to escape first if they wish to reach their vehicle before the others.

They see Quetzalcoatl training other prisoners to be luchadors. After some sparring, the racers are sent back to their cells. However, the racers' tunnels all converge onto Gorgon's cell, chained there by divine steel.

Gorgon asks the racers to stop Nightingale from spraying her with reptile sanitizer. But the racers remind her that they were never friends and that she only used them to vent her frustrations. Gorgon replies that she'll help them if they defeat Nightingale. Since they had a deal, Gorgon spews her acid into special magical containers for each team. Unfortunately, while digging, they discover the Prison Field extends underground.

They return to Gorgon's cell, who seems to be enjoying their predicament. After venting their frustrations, the racers realize they have no choice but to kill Medb to disable the Prison Field.

Nero notes they need to assassinate her since she is invincible inside the prison. She happily declares she knows a lot about assassination, as she has been on both sides. Gorgon reveals there was another prisoner who tried escaping by killing Medb. She defeated them and revealed she has a conceptual weakness to projectile cheese. The problem with the plan though is that Medb is always protected by her warriors.

Gorgon reveals there is a prisoner who knows everything about the prison, despite being in solitary confinement. She then gives the racers general directions to that person's cell. After sparring, Enkidu agrees to provide the racers with the necessary calculations.

Carmilla arrives to feed them, and attacks everyone after seeing Enkidu unrestrained. However, Medb kicks the cheese away thanks to training her body to automatically react to incoming cheese. Enkidu then reveals there is another way to remove the Prison Field besides killing Medb. Nero accuses Gorgon of lying them, but Enkidu says only they know of this alternate method.

They reveal the control device for the Prison Field is a stone above the ground. Enkidu then reveals there is a prisoner who is master of disguise that the racers can use to trick Quetzalcoatl into disable the Prison Field. They arrive in the prisoner's cell, only to find Carmilla there to their shock. They fight her, but in the midst of it, she turns into Nightingale. After being defeated, she reveals herself to be Yan Qing in disguise.

He agrees to disguise himself as Medb to trick Quetzalcoatl into disabling the Prison Field in exchange for fighting him. But Raikou has him sit in the corner and lectures him until he gets sore. Afterward, Yan Qing disguised as Med gets Quetzalcoatl to disable the barrier underground, allowing the racers to reach their vehicles in the warehouse. The racers escape to the outside, where Medb and Quetzalcoatl confront them. Medb deflects shots from X's cheese blaster and decides to execute the racers, accusing them of covering Connacht with textures of another place.

Nero declares she will imprison her inside her theater. The racers defeat Medb and Quetzalcoatl, then return to the race once they disappear. If Nero and Artoria are in the lead for the race, they come neck and neck with the teams whose vehicles can match theirs: Team Nobunaga and Team Fran. She then realizes she has enjoyed racing alongside Artoria Alter more than any other race in her life.

She happily declares Artoria Alter is the greatest enemy she must defeat. However after the race, an enormous storm moves toward the track as if it has a will of its own. Ishtar reveals this was her plan. The racers confront her when the relics she had them install in their vehicle are suddenly removed. The relics converge at the Ishtar QPS, which gathers the magical energy expended in the race. The purpose of all this was for Ishtar to create a new Gugalanna. After using the relics and the Ishtar QPS to do so, she declares she can use him to destroy the Singularity.

Quetzalcoatl then arrives to attack Gugalanna, revealing the her that disappeared before was Yan Qing in disguise. If Nero and Artoria Alter won the race, the former wants the latter to bask in the glory and celebrations alongside her.

They then recall how Ritsuka passionately asked them to race individually, saying the experience caused their Class Change. They decide to punish Ritsuka for their trickery before proceeding to duel each other for the Grail.

Nero sails Ritsuka and Mash to an island in search of treasure. After landing on the island they eventually reach a cave, where they encounter werebeasts. After killing them, Nero has Mash open the treasure chest, but most of the treasure has already been taken from it.

Nero then takes the remaining treasure, saying that she needs more capital for a surprise that she's preparing. Nero reveals that her treasure gathering from before was to rebuild her theater more extravagantly, thereby improving her Noble Phantasm. Golems then attack the group, but Nero reveals that she had her patrons draw them to their location so they could take the materials from them. However, she decides against using the golem materials to build a statue of herself due to them being too brawny for her.

But, she says that she will use them to make her theater even stronger. Nero reveals her living counterpart in the Singularity has passed away and she as a Servant must continue to protect the peace in her place. She asks for Mash and Ritsuka's help dealing with a mysterious problem that she doesn't seem to want to talk about.

They travel to a remote wasteland near Rome where Nero recounts her memories of her last moments in life,: driven out of Rome as a tyrant, she had delusions of hearing the people caling her name, and survived on the brink of death in this spot for three days. Only after a passing soldier found her and covered her with a cloth to protect her dignity did she pass on, happy that her final moments were spent with another. At this Nero's ghost appears before them and attacks.

They defeat her and Nero urges her ghostly doppelganger to disappear. The ghost makes the cryptic remark " I can hear it The call from the Capital Nero mourns "the girl who never went back to being me", but when questioned by Ritsuka says that she was just muttering to herself. Saber makes a brief appearance in Episode 8, during Taiga Dojo segment.

She makes another brief appearance in the bonus episode, citing it as her debut even though Rider points out her previous appearance. She later asks if she will soon get her own show, and becomes disappointed that her screen time is ending. She first appears with a tied Elizabeth and later with Gilgamesh, both using their swimsuit outfits in Exciting Splash. She has her live stream channel and she is seen playing Kantai Collection.

She debuted in the 22nd July and she is known as the Red Saber or Nero. Her class is Idol Emperor and she is from Rome. She says she can do anything as her Skills and Hobbies. In life, Nero was a megalomaniacal emperor who viewed herself as rival to Heracles. One of her legends tells how wishing to prove she was as mighty as him, she strangled a lion, while nude, in front of a public.

Although Nero claims that she snapped its neck, in truth, she only managed to make it faint, which according to her is victory enough. Nevertheless, taking into account that the bones of a lion are rather solid, along with her lithe, slender body, and that she accomplished this feat before she became a Heroic Spirit , there is no doubt that Nero was an ancient pro wrestler.

It is said that those of the Saber class are far superior to other Servants. Thus, it is obvious that she would make anything in her power to manifest as such. Due to Hakuno Kishinami 's deficiencies as a "pseudo-magus", Nero was unable to manifest her full glory.

Although all of her parameters are an extremely low E rank at the beginning, with Aoko 's and Touko Aozaki 's help they gained a medium growth rate. Her power ripens as a result, but she still expects to receive a tithing of items from Hakuno's hands. It is a hand-crafted crimson sword, made from meteor metal, brought with her when summoned under the Saber Class by a Master.

It has the following inscription carved on it: regnum caelorum et gehenna the kingdom of heaven and hell. She feels it is the ultimate instrument, and that muses would bow before the sound it makes. A Noble Phantasm is the symbol of a Heroic Spirit.

Thus, using it would disclose Nero's identity. Although it would be usable in time, Nero was reluctant to expose it on those she considers "small fry" in the first few rounds. Even with this disadvantage, Nero is surprisingly strong, being able to defeat most of her opponents who did use their own Noble Phantasms against her. Although Rin Tohsaka had initially assumed that Hakuno Kishinami and Saber had relied on a really potent Noble Phantasm to defeat Francis Drake and her Golden Hind , learning this made her rethink her opinion of them.

This is enough for them to hold their own for a round, long enough for the SE. PH 's forced termination to activate. Even when Li Shuwen restrained himself while fighting them by forcing himself to only use a total amount of 3 strikes throughout the entire fight, Nero is barely able to hold her own against him.

With Rin 's help, they were able to reveal Li's presence with an Anti-Spirit trap which nullified his Sphere Boundary skill that made him invisible. Even then, Nero estimated that she would very well lose in their final confrontation. This was not due to Hakuno's fault, who had matured sufficiently by this point, but Nero's.

When Nero fought Gawain for the first time, they were left struggling for breath, having to thank SE. PH 's intervention for their lives. His power surpassed even Hakuno Kishinami 's expectations. Her Noble Phantasm is unavailable to her for a number of rounds in the war. It is Aestus Domus Aurea , she performs three powerful strikes and implants her sword into the ground thus activating it.

It is an "absolute imperial zone" that resembles a Reality Marble and allows the owner to achieve their aspirations. It boosts Saber's parameters and negates an opponents defense, though its true effect as a phantasm is unclear. The skills she develops include powerful sword blows and support skills. Her skills appear to be named after aspects of her personality such as her love of flowers and her status.

The moment BB gained complete control over the core of the Moon Cell , there was nothing Nero and Hakuno Kishinami could do against her, and they were forced to retreat immediately the moment she started erasing the space they were on. The Ten Crowns is the beginning of human history, the dawning of the light of civilization. To summarize, it is the power of the Origin that began the human genome. It is something all human beings hold within them.

This is an origin that even the person themselves, in this case, Nero, can never know. The farthest point that became the cause of the birth of the entity known as Nero.

In other words, zero. By removing the limiter placed on her, Nero would be able to acquire the same level of "fundamental truth" as BB due to now being able to raise her spiritual rank according to her will. With this power up alone, the student council estimated that Nero and Hakuno would have a 0. In order to help Nero and Hakuno in the final battle, even if just a little, Rin Tohsaka redirected all the power that had been previously protecting the school building to stop BB and the Alter Egos from entering, and all the resources that comprised the building were transferred to Nero, to further empower her.

By the point Nero finally faces BB, her power is increased to the same rank as hers. Being able to match BB in capability and rank of powers wielded, the battle between the two becomes rather competitive.

Hakuno blames herself, saying they were just one step short, and that she's sure that if they were given another chance, they'd definitely be able to corner BB. In the good ending, Hakuno and Nero are successful in preventing BB from using her Noble Phantasm by severing her connection with the Moon Cell , defeating her in the process.

She becomes capable of feats like moving faster than light. Although Kiara Sessyoin had ascended to the position of a god after gaining complete control of the Moon Cell , she ended up defeated by Hakuno Kishinami , a mere human, and Nero.

Being regarded by Andersen as an omnipotent being, there surely was no reason for her to lose against them. Surprisingly, Hakuno just happened to be the only person she couldn't use her "omnipotence" against. It was because those girls whom she had taken as her core kept opposing her desperately inside her to protect their own love that Kiara lost.

She fought head-on all confidently while being unaware of her own weak points. Had she know this beforehand, Kiara claims that she would have just blown them away to some random realm, just to later destroy that realm alongside them. Because the Mythological Mystic Code a very powerful engine, its power places much burden on the Servant.

Sakura claims that the basic Servant frame is not capable of withstanding the power output of the Mythological Mystic Code, and she asks Hakuno Kishinami to limit its use to one time only. However, taking into account that they also had the Royal Authority of the Regalia , Nero claims to have the power to make miracles happen. Although Nero says that using this Mystic Code is not a bad idea, Hakuno isn't entirely sure it would work.

The descriptions of Britannicus' death suggest a rapidly-acting poison that was both colorless and odorless. Did such a poison even exist in the age of Nero?

In antiquity, the most effective poisons were plant toxins from yew trees, lily of the valley, hemlock and wolf's bane. Today, scientists in a modern forensic lab are testing whether any of these poisons could have killed Brittanicus in the manner described. The poison had to have been both colorless and odorless, otherwise it would have been immediately in the water. In order to put the poison in the water, the toxin would have had to be extracted from the plant first. The more the water is reduced during the boil, the more concentrated the poison will be, but the color and aroma also become more intense.

Tacitus writes that the poison is placed in a jug of water that was used to cool Britannicus' hot drink. If that was the case, the poison had to have been very concentrated in order to remain effective after being watered down…twice. Wolfgang Bicker If one considers all the steps that are required to create an odorless and colorless but which is sufficiently toxic to be effective, then one must accept that it was practically impossible at the time considering the methods that were available.

Wolfgang Bicker If a plant toxin is ingested orally, then it takes time for the poison to cross from the digestive system into the bloodstream.

Then it must still be transported to the part of the body where it takes effect. It is therefore fundamentally inconceivable that death could occur within seconds.

So, given the circumstances, is it not possible that an epileptic fit was seen as attempted murder? After all, people believed Nero was capable of anything.

Agrippina has not made Nero emperor out of a mother's love for her son. She sees herself as the true ruler of the empire, and Nero as a mere puppet. She is the power behind the throne and she makes no effort to conceal it, as coins from the era reveal.

Marcus Reuter When Nero ascends to the throne in 54 A. The first coins that are minted show both the reigning emperor and, at eye level and the same size, his mother. This hadn't happened before, and it would not happen again. Agrippina publically lays claim to power, and the first conflicts between mother and son soon follow.

The coins show this very clearly. Just a few months after the first coins find their way into circulation, a second coin is released.

The new coin still includes Agrippina, but she has now moved into the background. She no longer holds the same significance she did at the beginning of Nero's reign.

A few months later she has vanished from the currency altogether. Her declining influence, and the looming conflict with her son, are clearly visible on the faces of Rome's coins. Nero is an ambitious emperor with progressive ideas, building public baths and markets for his subjects. Nero is at the Baiae resort on the Gulf of Pozzuoli, north of Naples, where ancient Rome's rich and famous go to escape the city.

He has supposedly invited his mother to Baiae so they can share a meal and resolve their differences. Tacitus writes that Nero accompanies Agrippina as she leaves his palace in Baiae. His last glimpse of his condemned mother touches his cold heart. According to their descriptions, Nero has a trusted assistant prepare Agrippina's yacht with a trap door that will open and sweep her out to sea. Cassius Dio writes the mechanism would then close and the boat would continue sailing, as though nothing had happened Nero could easily have disguised a crime on the ship.

As Tacitus wrote, "Nothing allowed of accidents so much as the sea. Let us follow the evidence to determine whether the story told by the writers would stand up in court.

The aim of the experiment is to determine what kind of modifications would have been necessary to create an opening in the ship that someone could fall through. The experts are certain that trapdoors would have been the only possibility, and they install two flaps at the stern of the model. One opens inward, while the other opens out into the water. The door opening into the ship would have let water flow in immediately, stopping anyone from falling out and also quickly sinking the ship.

Approximately 2 tons would have been required to force the door open, but that would have sunk the ship before it ever left the harbor. Water would have flooded in and sunk the ship. Martin Zimmermann "Telling the truth" didn't mean providing descriptions or reconstructions of events that were one hundred percent accurate. Rather, the story had to be told well, and had to be built around a sweet center that increased the appetite and the attention of the readers. Efforts to tell a good story have made it difficult for modern-day experts to determine the truth.

And that is an important point: it is literature, rather than a scientific approach to history. Its primary purpose was to be exciting. To the people of the time, this was the pinnacle of writing: stylistically sophisticated, excitingly told and attractively presented. Cassius Dio claims that Nero has his mother's dead body uncovered so he can examine it himself, while Tacitus questions whether this is really true Martin Zimmermann There were no witnesses. We know that Agrippina was killed, but it is impossible to recreate the details of her death, which is why, in antiquity, this story was invented and passed on to create a particularly dramatic tale of how a son killed his mother.

Whether Nero gave the order to kill his mother or she died by other means, her death, and the rumors surrounding it, were a burden Nero carried for the rest of his life and beyond. The writers' horrifying stories about Agrippina's death continue to shape perceptions of Nero to this day. In summary, there are reports that Nero had his mother murdered, but there is no material evidence, and there are no convincing leads.

Rome, the summer of 64 A. The city is in flames…again. The blaze spreads faster and farther than any before it. We have been forced to accept that the writers were prepared to write down their own versions of the truth — for whatever reasons.

But what really happened in the days and nights while Rome burned? The fire starts late in the evening near the Circus Maximus, a popular night-time haunt in ancient Rome. The inferno rages for 9 days. Excavations have confirmed the blaze affected two-thirds of the city.

Corpses of NERO personnel are also occasionally encountered. They were likely used to protect NERO personnel and the refugees during the evacuation from the city. Even at the start of the outbreak, the situation was dire, as everything east of the Mississippi River was overrun.

As the situation progressively worsened, NERO attempted to stem the tide of the infection by setting up outposts and checkpoints to screen civilians, but by the events of the game most had been completely overrun, as abandoned stations can be encountered throughout the entire game. They appear to have been used as locations to identify and eliminate infected refugees and to redirect civilians to safe zones.

While many were set up throughout the wilderness, they did very little to stop the amount of infected and "freakers" in the area. As many as seventeen NERO checkpoints were overrun in less than six hours, according to one recording found.

One checkpoint was located at a key train rail to transport corpses easily, which were then taken to mass graves to be buried and burned. At least one train went silent and crashed into a NERO checkpoint. Notably, Refugee Camp Thirteen Delta or "13D", was overrun by a large freaker horde resulting in the deaths of over 3, civilian and the destruction of at least four NERO helicopters from other areas in the state that relocated to the camp to reinforce.

Although before all camps were overrun or abandoned there were two recordings, and , found at NERO locations that seem to indicate two things; there was a NERO headquarters located in Portland, Oregon and there was a clear communication line to D. NERO camps and checkpoints encountered during the game are noticeably sparsely defended. Walls of sandbags, chained link fences, and jersey barriers compose the majority of defensive structures.

Few military vehicles or equipment are seen with the exception of at least one armored vehicle spotted at the Horse Lake NERO checkpoint.

When approaching Infestation Nests , try to have at least two Molotov cocktails on hand. One to ignite the nest, and another to take out a big chunk of the group of Freaker that emerge from it.

You can also ignite the nest by placing a gas can next to it a shooting it, saving your Molotov cocktails for killing the Freakers instead. Fix your melee weapons if you need to, but hold on to at least some scraps. Keep some Scraps on hand at all time so you can fix your bike if needed. Sprinting at your bike will allow you to mount and take off faster than if you just casually walk up to it.

Try to avoid driving slowly near freakers if you don't intend to fight them. They can melee you and do damage at best, or at worst, they can dive and knock you off of your bike. Check inside caves for a glowing beacon, or even more out of way places. Keep an eye out for ramps leading "nowhere". There are additional Nero Injectors to be found at crashed helicopter sites, along with audio recorders. The crash sites are only accessible by jumping your bike off a nearby ramp or ledge, so upgrade at least one nitrous item before hunting for them.

In Tucker's camp, you'll eventually have access to a light machine gun, which looks great. But, by the time you've grinded out enough trust and credits at Tucker's Camp, you could have just progressed in the story to a newer camp with easier access to a better gun.