The Pure

The renegade faction known as "The Pure" appeared in 2045 after a group of experimental subjects escaped from a New Jericho cybernetics program. The program was being shut down at the time, and its apparent failure covered up. Acting as a nomad paramilitary organisation, The Pure are cyborgs - as close to a machine as a human can get. They share the belief that anyone that has exposed flesh could be infected, and is thus “impure”. While there are many instances of them attacking scavenging sites or convoys worldwide, none of their strongholds have been located so far.

According to the individual known as Subject 24, they are the result of advanced cybernetic New Jericho experiments that somehow went wrong. In particular, the mental state of subjects in the program suffered from the transition they had to endure to become cyborgs.

Subject 24

Little is known about the individual calling himself Subject 24. According to his own words he was involved in New Jericho’s cybernetic program ""Project Purity"", and later became the leader of The Pure faction. Classified records confirm the existence of a Major Zachery Richards who indeed worked for Tobias West, although he was marked as having died in a work accident. Any further information has been redacted and unavailable.

Supplementary: a behavior analysis has received with 89% certainty that Subject 24 is as resentful of the Phoenix Project as he is of New Jericho. There is a possibility for him to have been involved with the organisation at some point in the past.