Dust Brigade

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A mysterious paramilitary group that is at the heart of many Anarchy Online missions and storylines. Very little about the organization is known except that they are very well equipped, funded, maintain their own insurance network, and are based somewhere in the Outzones.

History

The first appearance of the Brigade was on the 7th of October, 29466, when over a thousand Omni-Tek soldiers, their insurance patterns sabotaged so that they could not be regenerated, went to their final death.

The Dust Brigade are by no means supporters of the Clans or Neutrals, either. They wiped out the original Council of Truth, and practically besieged the city of Newland for years.

The Dust Brigade repeatedly meddles in Rubi-Ka politics. Both their simple threats and intimidation against politicians and wholesale slaughter of entire factions have affected RK history in significant ways, perhaps with unintended consequences.

Minor attacks, particularly in the Newland City area, were the only sign of the group for eleven years after their first strike, whereupon evidence surfaced that the Brigade was involved with the ostensible protectors of the city, the OT mercenaries lead by Loren Warr, brother of Ian Warr. This lead to an alliance of previously aligned forces into a coalition to oust the mercenary forces. The alliance proposed the 'Neutral Guard Initiative' that trained and paid for the first 'Newland Militia'.

At about the same time, Henry Radiman was working to unite the Clans interests under the single banner of a reunited Council of Truth. Assertions were made in a concerted series of Omni speeches and news reports that Radiman and the Clans were sympathetic to, supported, had connections with, or were powerless to stop the Dust Brigade (it could not have been all those things). This despite the fact that the Dust Brigade had destroyed the original Council. The campaign of rhetoric and propaganda to promote guilt by association was among the reasons Radiman removed himself from consideration as the Council's leader.

The leader of the New Dawn, pro-peace and the third largest Clan group after the Sentinels and Knights, stepped down after the DB threatened him with perma-death.

Omni-Tek has often given the reason, when occupying areas such as Sabulum, that their forces are protecting the residents from the Dust Brigade. Omni politicians conflate their own portrayal of the Clans as rogue factions and traitors with their reporting of all Dust Brigade attacks as terrorism, as they did with Henry Radiman and the Council of Truth.

Members of the Dust Brigade have the battle cry, "Dust to dust!" The dangerous rogue R-2000 Vermin Disposal Unit also processes this sound file, whether by coincidence or some connection with the Brigade.


Missions

  • Dust Brigade Missions
  • A long series of missions is initiated by Peacekeeper Constad, who may be found at the ICC HQ (formerly in the 'Nepal' region of Andromeda at coordinates 3260 x 920).
  • Dust Brigade Dig Site: An archaeological site linked to the Dust Brigade in the Perpetual Wastelands. It contains three major encounters, one of which is linked to the
  • Dust It Off: a mission that is a part of a rotating series linked to ICC Arbiter Vincenzo Palmiero where the player is asked to defeat a series of Dust Brigade targets.
  • Neretva Canyons: a Dust Brigade outpost in the Outzone and associated mission line.
  • Ground Chief Vortexx: a high level encounter in the outzone

Associated Tradeskills

Associated Equipment and Armorsets

  • File:303043.gif Dust Brigade Parasite Armor - Promotional Armor Set
  • File:269993.gif Enhanced Dust Brigade Armor - Parts drop from the DB1 and DB2 encounters

See Also

External Links

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