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| “ | Mary: Montana... Big Sky Country... The Treasure State... People got a lot of names for it. I just... call it home. Pastor Jeffries: Lived here my whole life. Still amazed at how beautiful it is. Nick: Maybe that's what blinded us to how ugly the people were gettin'. Pastor Jeffries: You don't understand. No-one took these groups seriously. Nick: They were different. Religious. Millitant. It was a goddamn cult. Mary: They started buying up every farm for miles. Then the radio station. Not long after that, they even had the f-ckin' cops. Pastor Jeffries: Their own sovereign religious state. Built right here, under our noses. Nick: Ain't no one comin' to help us. Government can't do sh-t. We're on our own. Mary: People don't want to believe groups like this exist. Nick: People are scared, man. Pastor Jeffries: We don't know what he's capable of... Who? Their leader. Nick: Joseph Seed. Mary: They call him "The Father." |
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| ~ Pastor Jerome Jeffries, Mary May Fairgrave and Nick Rye about the Project at Eden's Gate in Far Cry 5's opening. |
| “ | I am your father, and you are my children. And together, we will march to Eden's Gate. | „ |
| ~ Joseph Seed to his followers. |
The Project at Eden's Gate are the main antagonists of the 2018 video game Far Cry 5 and the overarching antagonists of its 2019 standalone sequel Far Cry New Dawn. The Project are a militaristic doomsday cult founded by religious preacher Joseph Seed, and led by him and his family. They believe that the end of the world, which they dub "The Collapse", is quickly approaching, and have taken it upon themselves to prepare what people they can to survive underground. The cult achieves their aims using weaponry, torture tactics, the use of a drug called "the Bliss", and even murder for those who refuse to join.
History[]
Past[]
According to Dutch, Joseph and his brothers John and Jacob arrived in Hope County very suddenly and began amassing followers using their fanaticism and specifically Joseph Seed's incredible charisma.
Increasing in power and followers through his own religious organization - the Project at Eden's Gate (the members pejoratively referred to as "Peggies" by locals), Seed claimed dominance of Hope County which is run by him and his Heralds - his siblings. Seed's iron-fisted rule sparked the attention of the authorities, none of whom could do anything to stop him as he had informants in the law enforcement and National Guard which made it impossible to arrest him or help the locals.
Any new members of the cult were broken by John whom forced them to confess and atone their sins through torture, then are trained and brainwashed further by Jacob. Resistance was further destroyed by Faith who supplies the inhabitants with "Bliss", a euphoric drug that keeps the user zombie-like and obedient. With their firepower and powerful influence over the Montana government, the police were eliminated and all outside help was cut off when Eden's Gate took control of the radio towers. In addition, the cult manage to locate missile silos and repurpose them into bunkers to wait out the Collapse. Although multiple federal agencies like the FBI and the US Marshals kept an eye on Eden's Gate, with no evidence of anything illegal going on, they were powerless to stop Joseph Seed who was protected by the 1st Amendment. With no help coming for them, the inhabitants of Hope County began to lose spirit under Joseph's dominion.
Far Cry 5[]
In 2018, a video surfaces online of a sermon by Joseph Seed being recorded but Seed notices the recording and kills the attendee. However, the video manages to make it to the wider world which allows the US Government to file a federal warrant Joseph Seed's arrest for kidnapping with intent to kill so Officers Hudson, Pratt, Sheriff Whitehorse, a US Marshal named Burke and a Junior Deputy deploy to Fall's End in chopper to arrest him. Upon landing, they are confronted with hundreds of well-armed cultists, although the cultists make no initial attempt to stop them.
They enter a church where a shirtless Seed is in the middle of a passionate sermon where he forewarns his followers of the oncoming "Collapse". He stops, however, when he realizes the police with the intent to arrest him. Despite the hostility of his followers who also realize this, Seed calmly allows himself to be handcuffed and marched to the helicopter, though he claims that God will not let them take him, and warns them that sometimes the best thing to do is to walk away. As the officers bring Joseph to the helicopter, the cultists become much more aggressive - one desperately clings onto the leg of the chopper and even allows himself to be sucked into the spinning blades to stop the Father being arrested. After the chopper crashes, Jospeh awakens and escapes, and interprets the attempt at arrest as the first sign of the Collapse, and initiates a full-takeover of Hope County. Although the Deputy manages to escape the Project and is saved by Richard "Dutch" Roosevelt, Hudson, Whitehorse and Pratt are pulled from the chopper and captured, while Burke is captured after helping the Deputy escape; Whitehorse and Burke fall under Faith's control, Pratt is indoctrinated by Jacob, and Hudson is imprisoned in John's bunker.
Over time, the Deputy is able to rally the entirety of the reluctant members of Hope County into a Resistance by rescuing hostages, helping locals out, and destroying cult property such as silos, wolf beacons, shrines, and cult outposts. In addition, the Deputy manages to kill John, Jacob, and Faith, each of whom warns the Deputy of the futility of their actions before dying. With his entire family dead and Eden's Gate crippled, Joseph tells the Deputy to meet him where it began; the Church of Eden's Gate in Joseph's Compound. Waiting for the Deputy, The Father reveals he has brainwashed the Deputy's allies, who have kidnapped Hudson, Pratt and Whitehorse and hold them at gunpoint. When the Deputy arrives, Joseph offers the Deputy a final chance to walk away with his friends unharmed if they leave him and Eden's Gate alone.
One of two possible endings then play but the canonical one has a nuclear bomb detonate and utterly destroy Hope County; turning it into a wasteland and killing almost all of its residents. With the destruction of Hope County, the Project at Eden's Gate is no more but the remnants of the cult, including Joseph, founded a new group known as New Eden.
Quotes[]
| “ | Televangelist: Tell me, why do we do the same things over and over thinking the result will suddenly be different? That, my children, is the very definition of insanity. With the tithes you'll be giving today, my church, we will send our missionaries to every corner of God's great and wonderful world. Vaas: No he did not. Copycat motherf-ckers. What kind of god needs money, huh? |
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| ~ Eden's Gate's broadcast where Vaas learns his "definition of insanity". |
Trivia[]
- The Cult logo heavily resembles the Church Of Scientology cross.
- There are documents in the game that reveal the US government is actually aware of the Cult Activities and has a plan in place to bring them down. This is further proved by speaking with Willis Huntley who also says The Cult has popped up on the government radar.
- They share the same logo of the SRS from Grand Theft Auto 2.
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Krieger Corporation Alliance for Popular Resistance United Front for Liberation and Labour Hoyt's Privateers Omega Force Royal Army The Golden Path The Disciples Project at Eden's Gate Fuerzas Nacionales de Defensa Shadow Place Others | ||