Templars (Plague Inc.)

Templar Industries, or the Templars for short, are a multinational defense corporation from Plague Inc. Exclusive to the Shadow Plague DLC, they are dedicated to defending humanity from the player's vampire and the mind control plague it is spreading, and therefore serve as the main antagonistic force for that plague type.
==Description==
Templar Industries is a shadowy, yet powerful corporation specialized in fighting paranormal threats. It is first mentioned in news reports that appear after the player's vampire has begun to feed on humans, but before humanity realizes that it is a vampire. These reports will describe some of the Templars' activities, such as the corporation buying top-end missile systems, investing in medical research, and growing to become the world's biggest defense contractor. Some time after national authorities track what they believe is merely a cult leader, Templar Industries will make a public statement that the perpetrator of the recent series of murders is not a human cult but a supernatural vampire. Claiming that this creature poses an existential threat to humanity, they will quickly set up multiple fortresses around the world to defend citizens.
Templar fortresses are initially somewhat weak, but much like Z Com in the Necroa Virus DLC, they will grow stronger over time as governments are eventually convinced to hand over their entire armed forces to the Templars. Templar forces will militarize their home country and attack the vampire if it starts feeding on people there. They also send attack drones to destroy vampire lairs in any country, even those located far from any Templar base.
When it is confirmed that the Shadow Plague is spreading as a disease in humans, scientists at Templar Industries will greatly assist the World Health Organization in finding a cure; if left alone, their contributions to the cure effort through subject-matter expertise can dwarf even those of countries such as the USA or China. Some achievements in the game involve Templar scientists investigating possible origins to the Shadow Plague, and possibly returning with valuable information for humanity unless the player thwarts them in time. If the Shadow Plague spreads to enough humans, the Templars will begin to execute all infected people, claiming that there is no alternative.
To defeat the Templars and stop their cure research, the player must destroy each fortress in one of two ways. The most common method is through direct vampire attacks. Another is by infecting a large number of humans with the plague and turning them into "shadow slaves" through direct mind control; these fanatic followers of the vampire will wage war on civil society, which includes attacking any Templar fortresses and WHO labs. For each destroyed Templar fortress, a handful of surviving personnel will flee on planes to another base and provide that one with their valuable knowledge gathered during the attack. Thus, the last Templar fortresses will always be harder to destroy than the first.
If the player manages to destroy all Templar bases, the defense corporation is permanently defeated. From there on, the only forces left to combat the vampire directly (aside from poisoning it through cured humans) will be unspecialized military forces and local vigilantes.
==See also==
* Z Com
==External links==
* Templars at the Plague Inc. Wiki
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