The Libertarian Gamer

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers-type plots--in which some sort of alien menace arrives on earth and start replacing people with mindless automatons--have long been a staple of sci-fi/horror cinema.

There have been three formal Bodysnatcher films, the original from 19XX and two remakes, in which real people are taken over by drone-like “pod people”. Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters ignores the pods, and instead goes with parasitic aliens which assume control of a person’s mind and nervous system. The Faculty,

The Maple Society

A secret society dedicated to absolute egalitarianism, with everyone being completely equal in every way. To this end, they seek to assassinate higher-colored individuals within the complex (particularly those who lord their power over others), steal from those who have more to give to those who have less, and conduct unending genetic experiments. Originally these experiments were designed to uplift mentally challenged individuals to normal cognition levels, but this proved to be too difficult. Now they seek to unleash a genetic plague that will reduce everyone to the same lowest-common-denominator level of intelligence.

This noble goal has been achieved numerous times, but unfortunately the geniuses that create the plagues inevitably tested it on themselves before telling anyone else how to deploy it. At this point, the group has accumulated several dozen contagions that it has absolutely no idea how to use.

Missions: Kidnapping researchers to help them determine the proper way of releasing one of their many plagues, test missions to release the self-same plague, equalizer missions aimed at killing higher ranking individuals, conformity missions designed to enforce conformity throughout Alpha City (e.g. if one section does not have heat, then all sections should not have heat).

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