Enemy Groups

From animals to armies of robotic killing machines, mankind is beset on all sides by things that want them dead or enslaved. This page outlines the basic enemy groups, with specific pages dedicated to specific groups and races.

Animals
The Animals of the Clean Zones are almost universally carnivorous and highly aggressive. They are one of the most diverse groups, but also as likely to attack each other as they are to attack humans.

Apocalypsed
The Apocalypsed are people whose minds have broken under the strain of living in a post-apocalyptic environment. They stagger around the Clean Zones, attacking anything that comes nearby, trying to bring them down with their bare hands or die trying.

Bandits/Carnage Cults
Every so often in the wastelands of Kent, people lose everything. While a minority of these groups will refocus their efforts and attempt to bring order back to their lives, the vast majority of them will make a decision to commit suicide by combat and attack random outposts. Usually, these cults will be destroyed in their first attack, causing a bit of damage in before getting wiped out but sometimes, the rare group will become more successful, destroying town after town in an orgy of destruction.

Bandits are similar to Carnage Cults (and use much the same weapons, organisation and tactics), but retain their self-preservation, and will flee if outmatched.

Children of Ichbaum
The Children of Ichbaum are a cult devoted to the twin gods of Adam Ichpaur and Adam Ichbaum. They believe that Ichbaum is the god of destruction, and worship him by destroying the unbelievers with radioactive fire.

Enforcers
The Enforcers are a group of pre-Invasion cyborgs and robots that were used in the police force. Despite the protests of the survivors in the Clean Zones, they are all criminals and must be taken down for justice. The Enforcers don't kill their targets, but they do lock them away for their crimes, which some feel is a fate worse than death.

Eternal War Initiates
Before an Eternal Warrior can be truly accepted into the ranks of the Faction, they must leave the safety of the fortress at Dover and survive for a set amount of time. While most join the Clans or die, a small number join groups of other initiates and roam the Clean Zones, fighting and killing everything they come across in a quest to become the strongest survivors in the wastes.

The Minions of Overlord
The Minions are a force of clones of the Transhuman known as Overlord. They frequently raid human settlements to get more biological mass to create more clones. The clones are entirely upgraded using Bionetics, and are frequently some of the more terrifying enemies of the Clean Zones.

Plants
As varied as the Animals, and almost as deadly, most plants in the Clean Zones have adapted to actively seeking out their own sustenance, with most being carnivorous or omnivorous. Along with the sky, most plants have turned a deep red, as they no longer rely on photosynthesis for food.

Radzombies
It is estimated that, while Radslummers give birth four times faster than normal humans, almost two thirds of their children are born with a severe mental condition that makes them lose their minds during puberty. These "Radzombies" are more terrifying than the Apocalypsed as they retain the Radslummer's natural immunity to the radiation seperating the Clean Zones, allowing the hordes of Radzombies to attack anywhere at will.

Steel Tide
An army of robot killers, the Steel Tide were unleashed on the world only recently by a group of adventurers. After their first attack which almost wiped out humanity, they have taken up conducting hit and run raids on Clans.

The Westminster Royalists
The "Seventh Faction", the Westminster Royalists are convinced in the divine right of their Queen, Rochana, to rule England. When this declaration was laughed down in the first meeting of the Faction leaders, the Royalists retreated to London and fortified it, turning it into a no-go area and launching constant raids on North Kent in an attempt to force the other Factions to submit to her will.

Wilders
The Wilders fervently believe that technology was responsible for the end of the world, and will do anything to destroy it. While most "civilised" humans happily believe they are a fringe cult that's on it's way to destruction, the sheer number of Transhumans in the group give it a terrifying edge.