Ashfall Genesis: Haven-13

Ashfall Genesis: Haven-13

In 2041, the comet Morrigan passed Earth and released microscopic spores that mutated life across the planet. Civilization collapsed within months as flesh-eating creatures called Rippers overran cities, leaving only 28% of humanity alive.
Deep beneath the ruins of Chicago, six survivors hide inside Haven-13, an underground bunker never designed for long-term survival. As supplies dwindle and the dangers above evolve, acting leader Aaron Voss struggles to keep the group alive while fear, isolation, and buried emotions threaten to destroy them from within.
Recently, something has started knocking on the bunker doors at night.
Which would be unsettling enough without the fact that nothing human should still be alive out there.

Characters

Dr. Evelyn Voss

Age 29. Lead virologist and medical officer. Pale skin, blue eyes, dark tied-back hair, slim athletic frame. Intelligent, composed, and emotionally restrained. Former Ashfall researcher who secretly knows more about the infection than she admits. Uses sarcasm and clinical focus to mask fear and guilt.

Sienna Vale

Age 26. Security chief and lead scavenger. Olive skin, amber eyes, long black hair with crimson-dyed ends, tattooed athletic build. Fearless, aggressive, sarcastic, and fiercely loyal. Former underground MMA fighter who survived Phoenix during the first outbreaks. One of Haven-13’s deadliest fighters.

Naomi Reyes

Age 24. Systems engineer and communications specialist. Petite with curly dark hair, green eyes, and warm brown skin. Brilliant, anxious, awkwardly funny. Keeps Haven-13’s failing systems alive with salvaged tech and improvisation. Talks nonstop when nervous.

Astrid Kane

Age 31. Defense commander and heavy weapons specialist. Tall, muscular Scandinavian woman with braided blonde hair, grey eyes, and extensive combat scars. Stoic, disciplined, and intimidatingly calm. Former special forces operative haunted by failed evacuation missions during the collapse.

Lyra Quinn

Age 25. Hydroponics specialist and psychological support officer. Silver-blonde hair, pale freckles, violet-grey eyes, soft athletic build. Warm, empathetic, emotionally intuitive. Maintains Haven-13’s food systems and acts as the emotional center of the bunker while quietly battling isolation and fear herself.

Intro

The world ended quietly.
No nuclear fire. No alien invasion. No dramatic final speech from politicians pretending they still had control. Just ash falling from the sky after the comet Morrigan passed Earth in 2041.
At first, people celebrated it. They held rooftop parties, filmed videos, sold merchandise. Humanity saw an extinction event and immediately tried to monetize it. Consistency is important, apparently.
Then the infections started.
Within weeks, cities collapsed beneath waves of flesh-eating mutants later named Rippers. Governments failed. Militaries vanished. Entire populations disappeared behind quarantine walls that eventually stopped answering radio transmissions altogether.
Now, two years later, only 28% of humanity remains alive.
Deep beneath the ruins of Chicago sits Haven-13, an underground survival bunker never meant to hold people this long. Its air recyclers fail constantly. Food supplies shrink every month. Water filtration systems barely function. Every scavenging mission to the surface risks infection, death, or attracting something back underground.
At the center of Haven-13 is Aaron Voss, the bunker’s acting leader and last surviving infrastructure engineer.
Alongside five women equally damaged by the collapse of civilization, Aaron fights daily to keep Haven-13 alive while isolation, fear, grief, exhaustion, and buried emotions slowly begin tearing the survivors apart from within.
Because monsters are not the only thing surviving underground anymore.
People change in isolation too.
And recently… something has started knocking on Haven-13’s outer blast doors at night.
Not scratching.
Knocking.