Redeemers

*"Pray before God, for he forgives, but we do not."*

Flag of the Redeemers

--William Sanders

The **Redeemers** are a renegade military group featured in **The Dark Future trilogy** and one of the antagonist factions.

## History

The **Redeemers**, the **Salvationists**, or the **National Authority**, an ultranationalist group of renegade soldiers, made up of remnants of the US Army and SWAT, who were left behind after the Nuclear Holocaust in which the great powers launched nuclear missiles at each other, destroying the Earth and wiping out almost all of humanity. They have vowed revenge against the remnants of the US federal government, who mostly form the government of another faction, the Greater American Republic (GAR), which was organized after the Nuclear Holocaust, and who have a strict immigration policy and will not allow anyone in or out of their borders.

Organized sometime around 2060, it was proclaimed by former army commander Lieutenant Colonel William Sanders after a bloody civil war in southern Portland, Oregon.

The Civil War began when the corrupt Colonel Richard Sullivan's GAR armed forces rebelled against William Sanders and his loyal renegade gunmen, because they were not appreciated and abandoned. Many of them died because they could not escape to the underground shelter in time. They hunt down any survivors they perceive to be a threat or guilty so that their identities are always hidden. In 2070 they launched "Operation Black Storm" whose goal was to liberate Portland and drive the Communist People's Republic, the cultist Great Flash Cult, and the corrupt GAR forces out of the city, in the process suffering a severe defeat and building a strong defense in the areas they controlled.

They have a strict codex of honour, which they enforce on all saviours, anyone who commits crimes, consumes alcohol or drugs, steals, lies, kills, is punished and executed immediately. These persons are "redeemed" in their view to seek admission before God.

## Structure

The Redeemers are a mysterious paramilitary group with militaristic and ultranationalistic views, one of the most dangerous and ruthless factions. Former members of the US Armed Forces and SWAT are unconditionally committed to William Sandsers, who believes himself to be a superior and an emissary of Jesus himself, who leads the faction with an iron fist. He believes in a militaristic, ultranationalist, fanatical theology, which he holds everyone to, that anyone can be saved by kneeling before God. Those who, according to the Redeemers, deserve to die for their sins, since they can repent before death, and can be saved after death if they believe in Christ. Anyone who is deemed "guilty" or has committed "sin" is immediately mutilated and executed in the belief that they will "repent". Symbolically, as was accomplished by Christ's death on the cross, so one who believes in Christ the Savior is freed from "sin" and the "eternal death" that follows sin. Their conviction and holy aim is to free the people from all sin, and to free the people and the nation before God, and they want to achieve this by another crusade, killing even those who are innocent.

## Equipment

The Redeemers are one of the best equipped and trained factions, made up of Portland Army and former SWAT members loyal to Sanders. They use SWAT's finest ballistic helmets and gas masks, as well as bulletproof vests. They also use a variety of melee weapons ranging from the M48 Commando Type SWAT FBI Axe Hatchet to the S&W Tactical Knife and Military Tactical Combat Knife to the Scabbard Machete.

Firearms range from the G20 handgun, MP7 submachine gun, and M4A1 assault rifle, to tactical shotguns and heavier firearms, to the best weapons developed after the war.