SIDE BY SIDE
THE FACTIONS YOU’LL MEET IN PHOENIX POINTDISCIPLES OF ANU
A religious order which believes
that weaponising the Pandora
virus and its mutations is the key to
rebuilding the world. The virus
was, according to its scripture,
retribution for humanity’s sins.NEW JERICHO
A militaristic faction, New Jericho’s
goal is destroying the Pandora
virus and reclaiming the planet. It
believes in human purity, rejecting
any form of mutation and restoring
order through force.SYNEDRION
This faction believes that, having
learned from past sins, the world
can now be rebuilt as a utopian
society, with renewable energy,
freedom from persecution and a
focus on developing science and
technology.New Jericho is a faction led by a
powerful leader named Tobias West. He
was,before the outbreak, the CEO of a
major arms manufacturer and private
mercenary group, and has created a
militaristic society where soldiers have
highstatus. If combat’s your thing, side
withthem.
“Everybody is expected to serve
n West’s personal army, and their
approach to the Pandora virus is that
t has to be eliminated by eternal
vigilance,” says Gollop. “So they’re very
strict about killing infected people, and
anytrace of the infection they detect
s dealt with without prejudice. Tobias
Westis firmly against any kind of
corruption of the human genome.”CULT HIT
Verymuch opposed to New Jericho is
thecreepy, cultlike Disciples of Anu, a
religious order which believes that an
aliengodlike figure has come to save
theEarth in the form of the Pandora
virusand its mutations.
“They think that if they embrace
t, they’ll evolve with it,” says Gollop.“They’ve developed a technology
that lets them contain the virus so
that anyone infected doesn’t become
completely alien, which they think
will allow humanity to become better
than itself. The downside is that a lot
of these experiments fail, causing a lot
of death and suffering. But people join
them because their leader, the Exalted,
is highly charismatic. She’s a mutant
herself and has these powers, showing
people what they could become.”
And then there’s the Synedrion, a
highly ecological, anarchistic alliance.
The have a technology that allows
them to repel the virus, and believe
they can reclaim the land — even if the
seas are still infected — and rebuild
society. “They want a society built on
freedom, democracy, and other ideals
they think have been neglected by
previous civilisations. They think trying
to completely defeat the alien menace,
like New Jericho is trying to do, is a
futile task.”
All three factions have their own
agenda, technology, and solutions
to the alien menace. And you, as anp w m m m h w i a i v s a i W c C V t r a t vitYOU DO HAVE A
LOT OF CHOICE IN
WHAT BATTLES YOU
PURSUE.EX-COM