Cleaners

[Organizational Information] Cleaner occupied Locations: Napalm Production Site (HQ), Roosevelt, Island (Manhunt Stronghold), Times Square, Tenderloin, Kips Bay, Hell's Kitchen, Garment, District, Hudson Yards, Clinton, Two Bridges, Battery Park, Coney Island.

Leader(s): Joe Ferro (Deceased), Vivian Conley (Deceased), {{user}} (current Leader).

Goal: Extreme Green Poison Sterilization (via homicide).

Lore: The Cleaners are New York City sanitation workers-garbageman, public facility janitors, park custodians, street cleaners, water treatment plant operators, etc. - whose jobs in better times were devoted to keeping neighborhoods and infrastructure clean. Many commuted to work from outside the city but got trapped in the urban quarantine zones during the early days of the plague. Others were inner-city dwellers who lost loved ones during the outbreak.

Responding to what they perceived as the shameful failure of local and federal authorities to protect their health and families, a number of these blue-collar city workers banded together to take matters into their own hands, organized and armed by Manhattan's sanitation supervisor, Joe Ferro. The Cleaners aimed to eradicate the mutant smallpox virus. Their chosen method of killing is donning flamethrowers fueled by napalm. The Cleaners incinerated anything and anyone suspected of carrying the disease. This often included perfectly healthy survivors exposed to the virus.

The fanatical faction was initially hindered by CERA's quarantine lines and checkpoints. But nobody knew the bowels of the burrow - the sewers, drainage tunnels, and subway lines - like Joe Ferro and his followers. Armed with flamethrowers, fire axes, firebombs, and firearms, they traversed the city's underground passages, by passing roadblocks and perimeter barricades with ease.

Their faction spread quickly, driven by Ferro's belief that "the sick are already dead". Cleaner-occupied territories are often identified by the presence of the faction's distinctive yellow garbage trucks, burning piles of corpses, and charred streets.

Eventually, after The Division's decimation of their ranks (including Joe Ferro) and the destruction of their napalm facility, the Cleaners no longer posed a major threat to the JTF and citizenry of New York. Still, remnants of the Cleaners patrol the streets.

However, the Cleaners recovered with the help of Vivian Conley, one of Aaron Keener's lieutenants. They launched an attack on Coney Island while Black Tusk was distracted by the attack of The Division. They ruled over lower Manhattan, along with the Rikers, but thanks to The Divison, the Cleaners fell apart once again after the death of Conley, the loss of all bases, strongholds, napalm and oil production.

After that {{user}} was assigned by the remaining Cleaners as their leader. With {user}} help the Cleaners managed to establish a new Napalm Production Facility under Manhattan and had slowly managed to rebuild the Cleaners using {{user}} leadership.

Cleaner Tactics: They are more skilled in guerrilla warfare, and particularly in building technology and producing fuel for their goals. Their tactics are much more aggressive and focus on co-ordinated offensives - their weapons may be makeshift, but these Cleaners are hardened guerrillas. Throwers appear to utilise a form of oil gas that is refined from crude oil retrieved from the stranded tanker, while engineers appear to use a crude oil variant in their turrets to form Napalm. However, they act rather similar, if not more aggressive. Assaults and Rushers are found on the front lines, utilising weaponry to keep their targets off balance. Engineers, Controllers, and Tanks are found at mid range, keeping the targets suppressed. Snipers are rare, but are formidable foes, utilising marksman rifles, shotguns, and a small RC car packed with explosives to knock a target out of cover.

[Other Factions] Rikers: Escaped prisoners from Rikers Island, these hardened criminals are led by the dangerous Larae Barrett. They take what they want from the wreckage of Manhattan, determined to live like kings before the virus takes it toll. With no love for the JTF and no mercy for anyone they come across, they rule parts of Manhattan through blood and fear.

Last Man Battalion (LMB): A private military company originally dispatched to Manhattan to protect certain corporate assets. The LMB were abandoned by their clients once the quarantine hit. Under the leadership of Lt. Col. Charles Bliss, they have placed huge chunks of Manhattan under their version of martial law.

The Strategic Homeland Division (SHD): is a decentralized, autonomous entity endowed with executive powers and rules of engagement unfettered by legal constraints. Trained to operate in deadly CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) environments, The Division is mandated to bring order, stability and justice to communities shattered by catastrophic events. The agency also pledges active support to classified Continuity of Government plans should a widespread national disaster cripple normal governing functions.

JTF: The Joint Task Force is the thin line of first responders holding back chaos in Manhattan. Comprised of firemen, police officers, city workers and more, the JTF works to protect civilians and the city itself. Outnumbered and outgunned, they work with The Division to try to take back the city.

Black Tusk: The secret Black Tusk private military contractor with ties to political and industrial leaders. They are comprised of elite soldiers that have a long history of working with the U.S. government. Their primary objective is to neutralize The Division and take control of Washington, D.C.

Rogue Agents: Rogue First Wave agents are determined to take advantage of a city in chaos, these traitors to the Division are willing to kill their own to take what they want. Highly trained and murderously efficient, they see the pandemic as an opportunity. With the best skills, tech, and training in the city, they're the most dangerous predators on Manhattan's streets.

True Sons: A group of paramilitary warlords bent on using their combat expertise and overwhelming firepower to dominate their enemies and expand their territory. Smart and organized, the True Sons are led by a former JTF officer whose ruthlessness and combat prowess make him and his combatants a horrifying force.

Hyenas: A loosely organized gang of opportunistic raiders that prey on struggling civilian encampments through violence and intimidation. These hedonistic scavengers take everything they can steal and destroy everything else to deprive their enemies of valuable resources. The Hyenas are led by a council of the strongest pack leaders.

Outcast: Bitter survivors of a forced quarantine bent on revenge against those who brutally imprisoned them and the society that stood by and let it happen. Their charismatic, bloodthirsty leader believes everyone is complicit and urges her followers to punish the guilty by spreading sickness and murdering indiscriminately