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Edison Prime

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Overview[1]

Edison Prime was an ally exclusive to the Edison's Revenge gamemode.

Edison Prime was an exclusive entity that appears at the end of the Edison's Revenge gamemode. He has an appearance similar to Nikola Tesla, but with a robotic body instead of a Werewolf body. Additionally, the jar containing his brain is a domed cylinder, rather than a regular one. Edison Prime is immune to every attack in the game, including Lightning. His entire body is bulletproof. He attacks by rapidly shooting enemies with guns.

Stats

Behavior
Passive
Category
Supernatural, Exclusive Entity
Damage
~20-40
Dmg
~20-40
Hp
Immortal
Location
Outlaw's Town (Edison's Revenge)
Sell
Unsellable
Top speed
16

How to Spawn

Edison Prime only spawns in the Edison's Revenge Gamemode. Players must travel 40km to reach the Outlaw's Town and turn the crank. This spawns Edison Prime, along with Soldiers, Zombies, and Nikola Tesla.

Lore

See more in: Lore On October 6th, 1899, at the onset of the zombie outbreak, President William McKinley and his Cabinet fled the United States, leaving the government in disarray and letting the country to suffer from the plague. In the power vacuum that followed, the renowned inventor Thomas Edison stepped foward and declares himself as the new president of the United States of America. The military decided to recognize him as the leader in chief. On October 8th, 1899, a Covenant agent detonated a bomb laced with Agent-15 near the president in an assassination attempt. Thanks to the swift action of government scientists, his brain was successfully transplanted into a life support system. Engineers worked tirelessly to construct a robotic body for him. On October 10th, 1899, President Edison declared war on what he calls the "Empire of Evil". He claims the nation fell into chaos at the hands of an army of the undead, allegedly created and led by his longtime rival, the renowned scientist Nikola Tesla. Edison is now rallying the remaining survivors to join him in what he proclaims to be "the war to end all wars". Meanwhile, survivors began to enlist into the U.S Military to fight against Tesla's army. On October 18th, 1899, President Edison asked survivors to join him at the Mexican Border to fight Nikola Tesla once and for all as he saw America as a fallen collapsing nation, determined to reclaim the territories from the hands of the undead.

Trivia

Edison Prime actually has 5000 health according to the game files. However, this doesn't seem to take effect during the game, due to him being impervious to any form of damage. However, there is also a possibility that his health bar just isn't visible, similar to Lincoln's Ghost. Proving this may be difficult due to players' bullets being unable to deal damage to him. Edison Prime can easily defeat the entire final battle by himself thanks to the combination of good DPS and his immortality. Edison Prime is based off the inventor Thomas Edison, who is famous for inventing the light bulb. Similar to Nikola Tesla (who was also an inventor in real life), his brain was removed from his body and placed into a jar to prevent it from getting infected by the zombie virus. Edison Prime is the second exclusive entity from a gamemode. The other ones are the Easter Bunny, Aliens, Ghosts, and Ghost Horses. Edison Prime could be a direct inspiration of Fallout's "Liberty Prime" due to his frame/body. At one point of the Edison's Revenge game mode, he lacked any animations which caused him to slide around. This was later fixed. Category:Entities Category:Passive Entities Category:Unique Entities Category:Event Entities

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References

  1. 1.Sourced from deadrails.fandom.com · checked Aug 18, 2026
  2. 2.Image from Dead Rails Wiki (Fandom) · CC BY-SA · checked Jul 18, 2026

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