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The Holy Order of
The Children of Mercy
Psychotic Dictatorship

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The Cleansers

When The Order needs something done...

They could always rely on The Cleansing Torch of Jesus Christ, often called The Cleansers to get it done without so much as a complaint. Led by Father Fred Phelps (internally codenamed TENCENDUR) with brutal efficiency, this small, elite force operates directly at the behest of The Most Moral Priesthood, existing outside of the official Order's military. Equipped with the best, they often rove outside of the borders of The Children of Mercy, pillaging, slaughtering and shackling communities or engaging in border struggles against other factions. Under the growing berserk fervor of Phelps, who lost his young daughter in the St. Paul Massacre, The Cleansers are widely regarded as the single most extreme force in the post-war United States. As stated by New American Union Private Janice Welles: "They make [the Order] look like puppy dogs."

Operating under extreme mobility tactics influenced by the early successes of Nazi Germany, The Cleansers operate as a 'ghost division', irregularly communicating with their own high command. The entire fleet of working tanks and a majority of trucks and armored personnel carriers in use by The Children of Mercy are directly held by The Cleansers. Permitted to be autonomous raiders, they are uniquely suited to complete their tasks with brutal efficiency, while being well-equipped enough to rout most quickly-mustered forces that rally to oppose them in their lightning operations. They pillage entire towns efficiently, leaving suburbs in ruins with little more than riddled corpses and ashes to show for it.

Their numbers are difficult to estimate, with FEDCOMM and the New American Union creating a ballpark estimate of 10,000 members. According to intelligence gathered by NAU agents, the recruitment process is shadowy, with "rituals carried out by masked men in caves and forests." Cleanser casualties recovered have been anywhere from fifteen to forty years of age. It is estimated that a wide majority of membership is made up of fanatical youth driven to train and fight.

Interestingly, it is from The Cleansers where the NAU recruited confidential informants and contacts.

The Holy Order of The Children of Mercy

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