After The Whittown incident, several new groups of fanatics appeared in the enclave. There was The Church, a remnant of the old Christian and Muslim religions who saw the zombies as Satan’s army on earth and refused to have anything to do with them or with humans who dealt with them. They tended to shoot their dead members in the head to prevent zombification. They believed in the old idea of heaven, and that the path to it was not paved with zombies. They tried to stay out of the limelight and kept to themselves.

Churchers were the passive members that emphatically stated they would never harm a zombie. However, there were always rumors that stated to the contrary. There were the rebellious members of the Church who felt if zombies were indeed the armies of Satan on earth, where was the harm in destroying them when the opportunity arose? Older, stauncher members of the Church, worked feverishly to squelch these rebellious statements. They did not want to draw attention to themselves or to their religious actions. Live while you can, they reminded their brethren. Do not draw attention to our Church from those we seek to cleanse from our soul.

Those rumors were of a hidden force within this group that stayed far underground in the old sewer and subway tunnels. They were said to kill outsiders who wandered into their lair, keeping their location hidden. The rest of the information on them seemed to be a confusion of misinformation spread to further their vague agenda.

Repeated efforts by the Z-Police to find and deal with that hidden group were complete failures. Their philosophy was a simple one: Live while you can. Die human and stay that way.

A second group of fanatics were the Brotherhood of Humans. This group was not shy about their hatred of the zombies. They did not ignore them the way that most of the Church members did. Instead, they actively hunted them down when possible, to destroy them. They frequently sent out raiding parties to do just that. The Zips were on constant guard against this group as they occasionally tried to shoot the Z-Police as well, when they attempted to recover rogue zombies. Members of the Brotherhood also shot themselves in the head to prevent zombification. Their philosophy was similar to that of The Church’s: Live well, die well. Stop the spread of zombie filth.

The members of the Brotherhood were harder to reason with than the Churchers. For the most part, the Churchers wanted to avoid society. Not so the Brotherhood. They often sought fights with humans and zombies alike. They enjoyed engaging in physical and intellectual battles. They saw zombies as a sub-class of existence and had no problem in crushing each and everyone like an insect under their feet. There was no secret mission of this group. What you saw was what you got.

They were open about their agenda to wipe out the zombies and anyone who got in their way. Their raiding parties spent days in the Zombie Nation doing just that. With their superior firepower, they rarely had any losses from their massacres. In fact, they didn't consider wiping out hordes of zombies as massacres. To use their phrasing: "How the hell can you massacre a dead person?!"

Unlike the Churchers, these members were part of the normal population and, except for their outspoken leaders, harder to identify. However, they did have an armed compound in the south of the Lower City. It was heavily guarded. There was talk that the President was a secret Brotherhood member or at least sympathetic to their ways. The Brotherhood faced daily conflicts with a variety of opponents. Ironically, their biggest battles came not with zombies, the Zips, or even everyday humans. Their greatest enemy was the third group of fanatics—the Deaders.

The Deaders, or the Church of the Holy Dead, was a group of humans who saw the zombies as the more perfect form of existence. They actively advocated zombification for everyone—whether they wanted it or not. It was not certain, but numerous deaths in the enclave were attributed to this group. Their motto was a simple one as well: Perfection through zombification.

They worshipped the zombie form. For a human to become a zombie was theultimate goal in the Deader religion. It was a religious experience that transcended birth,death, and salvation, they told their members. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood attacked theirphilosophical teachings and argued how a church could promote the glory ofzombification while the leaders of the church were, themselves, human. Needless to say, wars between the Brotherhood and the Deaders broke out on a regular basis with the civilian population often caught in the middle.

All three groups contributed to the general apathy of the population that didn't know what or who to believe. All three were suspects in any suspicious deaths in the Enclave, but it was hard to prove any connection. They hid their killings well.