The Black Crusade

The Black Crusade are a zealous religious sect with their origins in Christianity. Their fanatical anti-robot ideology are a blight upon the post-war world.

Philosophy
While much of the Black Crusade's iconography and doctrine is drawn from Christianity, their beliefs are a far cry from the pacifist religiosity of the dawn of the millennium. Their principle tenet is that robot-kind is an affront to their god's creation and the world must be rid of all advanced technology so that the human race can be made ready for the second coming.

Methodology
The Black Crusade operate primarily out of several cathedrals scattered across the north american continent. These macabre churches serve to attract new followers The poor, the downtrodden, and the forgotten are lured in with promises of food, shelter and tales of the world made whole again. Once there are enough, sufficiently fanatical cultists in a cathedral the deacon dispatches a crusade.

A crusade is a war party of between 100 and 1000 cultists unleashed upon the world. They travel far and wide leaving devastation in their wake. They often employ shock tactics, striking hard and fast with blunt and electrical weapons specifically designed to cause maximum damage to robot bodies. They are also prone to psychological warfare and often employ musical instruments such as organs and bells mounted on trucks to intimidate and frighten their foes. Often they arrive at settlements to find them already abandoned, the residents fled in terror.

While in theory they only target robot populations, in practice they are often indiscriminate in their slaughter and those who encounter a crusade and live to tell the tale should count themselves lucky. A crusade only ends when every zealot is dead. Even a single crusader will continue the dread march.

Recent Sightings

 * A crusade was recently sighted destroying Halt's Junction, slaughtering it's population to a man. They then moved on to the town of Lone Hearth. They were, however, pursued by a party of Rangers including Gwen, D3NT and Big T0NY. They prepared the populace for the oncoming assault and ultimately the crusade broke against Lone Hearth's walls.