Reapers (InFamous)

"Before the blast, they were just a bunch of junkies dealing drugs... Now they own the Neon District. Taking whatever they want..."

- Cole MacGrath The Reapers were a major antagonist organization during the first game of the game series ''InFamous. ''They were the most feared and chaotic organization throughout the game, they were responsible for brutally increases the crime rate in Empire City as to make the United States put the town under quarantine and small period of time they took to Empire City, killing all officers and gradually all bailiffs were disappearing from the streets.

Foundation
Before the day of the explosion that spread magic fragments that were able to empower human beings they were mere traffickers or drug dealers, many of them after the explosion became Conduits; humans with supernatural powers and after that day they were forming more organized groups and became bigger and bigger, they do not trafficked more common drugs or weapons, but a black liquid called Black Tar which was created by former scientist Sasha that was now leader of the Reapers, the power of black Tar was the power of mind control, brainwashing, over the days the Reapers were kidnapping people and forcing ther to drink the black liquid through the water or simply polluting the water tanks of city ​​to make people drink the liquid.

Biography
Under the command of Sasha, the Reapers had made several plans to expand the organization using normal people through the use of force and contaminate the water supply of the Empire City; use the water system and infect the population with the drug for all people of the city serve Shasa. They made all the ways to contaminate the population, the techniques included barrels pump mounted on water towers, an armored tank truck that pumped tar the main system water under the bridge and through the use of valves city holding civilians captive while spraying tar.

They were successful in getting possession of the poison mind and an untold number of civilians, but through the combined efforts of Trish Dailey, Cole MacGrath and medical survivors across the city, the drug was gradually decreased until no more citizen was left not being controlled.

In addition to contaminating the water supply, the Reapers had done several other crimes and operations to try to keep citizens in the Neon and Empire City in fear, as the mass murder of civilians, wars and other smaller gangs, the police massacre and among many other crimes that were considered inhumane.

After Cole destroy the operations and resources of the Reapers Neon, Cole was finally confront the task of Sasha in the main hideouts Reapers which was located beneath a flooded point that was connected to the sewer, however, the sewage was surrounded black with many people trapped liquid being forced to drink the black liquid. Upon entering the tunnel that connects the District of neon to the slums of Warren, Cole met strong resistance from the Reapers and black tar itself, due to his hallucinogenic properties.

The fight between Cole and Sasha, Sasha was defeated, however, she was rescued by another faction, the Firsts Sons, the faction that was in control Kessler, after the fight, the morale of the Reapers was strongly degraded and the group was decreasing gradually without leaders. Despite losing their leader, some Reapers continued to operate without Sasha, but over time the Reapers s forces were decreasing more when the police returned to the streets and exterminated a large parts of the Reapers.

The End
It was later revealed that Kessler and the Firsts Sons were using Sasha to extract her black tar that was used by Kessler for the benefit of his own faction. Sasha was later able to escape from captivity and returned to the Reapers, which made them active again. Moya Jones and the NSA later attack the Reapers in their new dark background, and abduct Sasha. The Reapers were probably all wiped out by Moya, however, some Reapers survived and fled in menoros groups, after this they were destroyed with the destruction of Empire City that caused by the beast.

Trivia

 * The Reaper Skin is available for Evil Cole in Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale.
 * Reapers are similar to another faction in the Mass Effect series, also known as Reapers; Both factions use a form of 'indoctrination,' controlling a persons a mind and forcing said person to serve them.
 * The Reapers made ​​plans with certain similarities to plans Scarecrow in Batman Begins, both manufactured as a drug and used to water the city to infect the population in general.