The Mutants

Many believe that mutants were caused by impact radiation, but the truth is that they are failed attempts by the Authority to control humans with Nanotrites. When an Authority experiment would go wrong, the by-product, a mutant, was tossed into the Wasteland where they massed together and began breeding. Their tactics are simple, but they attack in numbers and swarm their victims like locusts. Mutants have learned to use simple weapons—mostly clubs and knives fashioned from scrap metal found in the Wasteland.

Large Mutant

The Authority not only wants to control humans, but to make them super soldiers, and the large mutants are a direct result of this. The Nanotrites successfully transmogrified the mutants to increase strength and intelligence. The large mutants’ greater intelligence allows them to use weaponry, such as a homemade grenade launcher. Sometimes the transmogrification creates extreme mutations, leading to creatures with giant tentacles as arms.

Giant Mutant

The large mutants were early attempts at the giant mutant, an immense malformed creature created by Dr. Kvasir for Major Casey, General Cross’s right-hand man. When Major Casey discovered the giant mutant could be controlled, he ordered it to kill Kvasir, but the giant mutant’s love for its creator could not be overridden. It turned on Major Casey and crushed the life out of him. Driven insane by the order to kill its creator, the giant mutant broke free of its containment and now freely wanders the Dead City.