Walking Dead Explains The CRMs Origin Plan & Future

Walking Dead Explains The CRM’s Origin, Plan & Future

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The Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2 reveals a vital piece in the long-running CRM puzzle, revealing the group’s origin, plan and future.

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Walking Dead Explains The CRMs Origin Plan & Future

The Walking Dead just dropped a stunning reveal that maps out the past, present and future of the CRM. First signs of the Civic Republic Military’s existence came during The Walking Dead season 8, when Rick Grimes spotted mysterious helicopters hovering around Jadis’ junkyard like loud, narrative-heavy flies. The choppers were subsequently identified as belonging to Walking Dead’s CRM – the franchise’s largest settlement yet, harboring at least 200,000 citizens. The Civic Republic formed the Alliance of the Three alongside similarly massive communities in Omaha and Portland, and life in these camps is as comfortable as before The Walking Dead’s outbreak… more or less.

Walking Dead: World Beyond has led the charge into CRM territory, debuting important figures such as Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Kublek, and highlighting the level of weapons and resources these villains can access. Audiences also learned how the CRM’s science division plans to (eventually) bring the zombie apocalypse to an end thanks to the wonderful world of fungi. Nevertheless, many Walking Dead CRM questions remained heading into World Beyond season 2. What’s the overarching CRM plan? What was the CRM’s origin? How does the CRM connect to wider Walking Dead mythology?

Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2’s “Quatervois” provides a huge clue toward untangling these conundrums – a newspaper Huck (a.k.a. Jennifer Mallick) and Dennis read in a CRM canteen. Though not all the print is legible, there’s enough clarity on the front page to read all about The Walking Dead’s grand CRM plan, as well as key details regarding the franchise’s big bads in black.

Walking Dead Explains Its CRM Origin

Walking Dead Explains The CRMs Origin Plan & Future

Previously, The Walking Dead kept its CRM origin story deliberately vague. Given the Civic Republic’s sprawling territory and scientific advancements, these guys obviously aren’t amateurs, and must’ve started building sometime near the apocalypse’s beginning in order to make such progress. Alas, no character has ever laid out a chronological CRM origin, but Walking Dead: World Beyond’s newspaper finally narrows down a time frame for the Republic’s foundation.

The big, front page headline (which Huck and Dennis then discuss over coffee) is the Civic Republic’s Founding Compact, a central pillar of which is a 10-year plan. Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2 takes place slightly more than 10 years after the outbreak began, so if the CRM’s 10-year plan is due to end soon, this tells us the Civic Republic was founded in the weeks and months after folk started getting a hankering for flesh, roundabout The Walking Dead’s early seasons. This CRM origin detail supports the theory that government figures sit at the organization’s center, since it’s ridiculous to think ordinary civilians in the first year of the apocalypse had time to write a 10-year plan with a founding charter to match. The Walking Dead’s CRM must’ve been established by those already in power.

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Another vital Walking Dead CRM question helpfully answered by Huck’s newspaper is the inner leadership structure. The CRM is supposed to be just the Civic Republic’s military arm, but Major General Beale and his pals seemingly do as they please, with no sign of oversight or accountability. As stated by the Civic Republic Tribune’s article, the 10-year plan means power will transition from the military to a “civilian government” following a 10-year period. That confirms the Civic Republic is currently under CRM control, and has been since the very start. A civilian government exists, presumably comprised of elected officials, but Dennis complains how the relationship between they and military has been about as smooth as Rick Grimes’ chin in season 5. At least the newspaper article explains why the CRM act like they own the place… because they do.

The Walking Dead’s CRM Plan Explained

Walking Dead Explains The CRMs Origin Plan & Future

Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2’s newspaper scene sets up an almighty power struggle between the CRM and the people it presides over. On one hand, the 10-year period of military rule is coming to an end, and the civilian government is obviously keen to ensure promises are honored. On the other, Dennis and Huck worry it’s too early for the CRM to relinquish control. World Beyond’s husband and wife duo are among the less detestable Walking Dead CRM characters, so you can bet the likes of Elizabeth Kublek and Major General Beale really want to avoid giving up their throne.

The impending handover of control is almost certainly behind the CRM plan to destroy Omaha and Campus Colony. The newspaper report is littered with lines such as “the right time” and “under control,” proving Civic Republic public sentiment leans toward becoming a fully-fledged democratic society. Dennis, very tellingly, worries, “After Omaha, we’re back to square one” and his concern could reveal why Major General Beale ordered his CRM to decimate Omaha and Campus Colony. The people of the Civic Republic feel secure enough to demand full civilian oversight, but if their confidence was shaken – for instance by a massive community such as Omaha getting wiped out in the blink of an eye – public support might swing back in favor of CRM leadership. Major General Beale is likely hoping to scare citizens into begging the CRM to remain in charge.

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The CRM’s Future In The Walking Dead Franchise

Based on what Walking Dead: World Beyond has shown of Lieutenant Colonel Kublek and her military minions, it doesn’t seem the CRM is seeking power for the sake of power. Elizabeth has a nice apartment, sure, but she’s hardly living in luxury at the expense of her subjects. This isn’t a Negan situation, where the CRM is clinging to leadership so the top generals can live as comfortably as possible. Instead, every The Walking Dead CRM character appears completely, genuinely indoctrinated by the sanctity and importance of “the mission.” When Elizabeth wipes out Omaha, she isn’t doing so because the civilian government will take away her precious penthouse – the Lieutenant Colonel’s grave expression displays her firm belief that these 90,000 people must die… for the greater good.

From Major General Beale to the young teens on decontamination duty, every single CRM member is committed to the cause, and this can also be seen in The Walking Dead’s Jadis, and Fear The Walking Dead’s Isabelle. In many ways, this brand of villain is more dangerous than a Negan type, who subjugates people just so they can have the softest bed. Given the setup in Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2, the Omaha and Campus Colony incidents will inevitably convince Civic Republic citizens to waive their 10-year plan and keep the CRM in power – so who’s going to save the day?

Only a handful of Walking Dead: World Beyond characters know the truth – the Endlings as well as Felix, Will, Huck and Leo. Unfortunately, their grand, save-the-world plan is “tell Portland.” Assuming Portland even believes the Endlings, there’s little they can do. Open warfare is hardly an option with zombies all over the battlefield, and the CRM almost certainly has a superior military force to Portland. If the heroes of Walking Dead: World Beyond can’t stop the CRM slaughtering their way to power, that task may fall to the main show’s protagonists – specifically, Rick Grimes. The Walking Dead season 9 saw Andrew Lincoln whisked away by CRM helicopter, and he’s been absent ever since. If anyone can bring such a morally compromised, well-armed, hypnotically indoctrinated group to justice, it’s the one and only Rick Grimes.

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