At the end of the Second Great War, Rigasia ran the numbers and decided that the best option to put things to rest was to drop their newly created Π Bomb in some targets on the enemy side: Nuskom was one of these.

The entire city was levelled and the surrounding region devastated, but things did not end there. The aftereffects of a bombing did only become apparent after some time, with a lot of the wildlife that had either survived or came in after the fact mutating into something else.

In time, the city and part of its surroundings were walled and a permanent guard of both Nuskom Militia and Rigasian Army placed to prevent people from coming in and things from coming out, forming the Zone.