Renegades

Renegades is a "faction" in the Zone, formed back in 2011. Today, they are one of the major minorities in the Zone, having pushed all the way up to the Red Forest during the Faction Wars. The word is now applied to various nomads donning the rather iconic green scorpion patch.

> A bunch of vermins, basically. They only get the chance to bully us that one time. After the appearance of Scar, we steamrolled them. Now, they mostly roam around the North of this swamps, searching for... well... I don't know.
>
> - A Clear Sky stalker

## "Bandits wannbes"

"We also call them as the little green scorpions, or lil' greeny boys. They are just us but even more... 'strict' on the relations. I don't know why and frankly, I give no fuck. They should feel lucky to be alive since Sultan's too busy jerking off to some cheap porno mags..."

## Overview

A faction with no definite goal in a similar manner to the free stalkers, they are hostile to everyone but the "black coats". Their numbers are extremely limited, it's presumed that at their peak back in 2011, they were only somewhere around 25 men. Nowadays, they mainly roam around their proclaimed territories in the Great Swamps aka Marshes, getting into constant firefights with the local "Shreks" and free stalker squads looking for some artifacts.

## Background

A faction formed during the struggle for power among the Bandits' ranks, it's commonly believed that this group aimed to "restore the lost glory of the Great Syndicate of the Zone" by breaking away from the original Bandits group and form a new one, pulling in valuable manpower and seizing new territories at the same time. After the Third Disaster which led to a change in the Zone's formation once more at some point in May 2011, the roads which were once blocked away by deadly anomalies were wide opened, giving stalkers a chance for further exploration into the Zone's uncharted lands. This, of course, included the Great Swamps, a former agricultural area which was then home to a highly secretive faction known as **Clear Sky**. Seeing this land as an opportunity to expand, the green scorpions moved here and started to sting its' victims, real hard... They would continue to do this, all the way until November 2011, when Clear Sky managed to recover an unconscious mercenary after yet another enormous blowout, called **Scar**. After Scar's recovery, he began helping Clear Sky in bolstering its' standing in the Great Swamps, slowly then quickly regaining territories, up to a point where the Renegades were deemed no longer a sizeable threat. Of course, after the great CNPP raid led by Lebedev, the faction was left in a near extinction state, forcing itself to abandon its' former leader's goals and more into rebuilding infrastructure and establishing contact with the remaining men stuck in various areas after the emission.

Now, in the present days, with the return of Clear Sky, the Renegades have become a scattered faction, with various squads donning their gear walking across the Zone, searching for gears and essentials.

## Infrastructure

### Overview:

They function identically to the free stalkers. Each group is of their own control, with the leader being locally elected.

### Notable characters:

* Isis (played by Sebastopol): A menace to society. Command a small group of well-trained Renegades.
* A few characters played by George
* Jackass (played by MilsimMan)
* Raven and his merry gang (played by Razza)
* Iceman - deceased (played by Macabre)

### Ranks:

A mix of local titles and Bandits' ranks.

### Area of interest:

* Great Swamps: This is where they are the most numerous.
* Cordon
* Garbage
* Dark Valley
* Army Warehouses
* Red Forest
* Jupiter

## Equipment

### Overview

The Renegades' suits are in high similarity with the Bandits, since they are essentially the same thing, *but dumbed down even more...* However, it's somewhat documented that these lowlifes do actually make use of other factions' armors, *quite extensively*.

### Protective gear:

#### Helmets and gas masks:

* Helmets:
	+ Steel helmet
	+ ACH-7
	+ Screen helmet
	+ Exohelm: Rarely.
* Gas masks:
	+ Respirator
	+ Retrofitted PBF

#### Body armor:

Literally everything they can salvage. However, most of the time they would try to carve where the patch is a little larger to fit in their "very original green scorpion" patch since "you mofos ain't killing us, we do be ballin...".

* Renegade exoskeleton: How did they even managed to do this is beyond my imagination. It's stated by a few stalkers that the green scorpos were planning to assault the Clear Sky base after the failed raid to the CNPP. However, it never came to be as the Renegades would seen disintegrate themselves... Nowadays, only a few units survived the test of time, as some "proud motherfuckers" wear it to display the power of the once *"all high and mighty*" Renegades faction.

### Weapons:

One known fact: Most of the weapons they use are scavenged from dead bodies, henceforth the quality is usually low.

		1. PM
		2. Fort-12
	+ 9x19mm:
		1. Browning Hi Power
		2. Beretta 92FS
* Shotguns:
	1. Sawed off shotgun
	2. TOZ-34
	3. TOZ-66
	4. Remington 870
* SMGs:
	1. HK MP5A3
	2. OTs-02 "Kiparis"
	3. PP-19 "Bizon"
		- AKS-74u
	+ Bolt-action rifles:
		- Mosin-Nagant M91/30
	+ Assault rifles:
		1. AK-74 family
* Special weapons:
	1. AS "Val": A group located in the abandoned mineshaft in the Red Forest was armed with these rifles.
	2. OTs-14 "Groza": One man was documented as being armed with it. He was part of the group that stayed in the mines.

## Gallery

[No images available since they are so far and few]