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 world wide, 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. "