Terror of the Mavericks

A group of reploids, calling themselves Mavericks are gathered by one named Sigma.
- Though most of the details about their exploits are lost, what is known is that they targeted non-reploid settlements to raid, pillage, and put to the torch.

After over a hundred years of terrorizing the people of the Cleft, the Maverick leader, Sigma, is destroyed during a raid on Rocket Town.
That same year, the reploid Jedo would find the remains of the Maverick Virus in an abandoned building and would be infected.
- Jedo would assume leadership of the Mavericks, forcing all others to serve him.

Jedo and his Mavericks continue oppressing, terrorizing, and slaying the non-reploids of the Cleft for another thirty years.
- Reploids they managed to capture were either infected with the virus, or slaughtered for rejecting Jedo's gift.
The reploid Rockman X rises up and determines that he would do everything he could to stop the Mavericks.
The Maverick Hunters form, but under the leadership of the reploid Signas, since Rockman wanted to remain unfettered with administrative duties while hunting the Mavericks.

A Maverick, Saneron, breaks away from the slaughtering and raiding to form his own little group he called the Chosen.
- Saneron was driven insane by the Virus and is mostly harmless, concerned more with celestial dragons, pie, and boots than killing all non-reploids.
- The Chosen draft a set of laws and try to enforce them in the town of Truce.
  - The Chosen are mostly ignored.
The reploid Seikou appears in the Cleft and joins the Maverick Hunters, carrying with him a dormant strain of the Maverick Virus.

Most of the Mavericks, including Jedo and Saneron, are discovered missing after the Forgotten Year Event.
- The Maverick Hunters are quick to claim the Maverick disappearance as a victory and declare the Virus contained.
  - The only Maverick on record to still exist in the Cleft after the Forgotten Year was Vice, and he was overlooked in the Hunters rush to claim their victory.
- With Saneron, and their other reploid member, Pears, gone, the Chosen disband.
After Vice encounters Seikou, activating the virus in him became the Maverick's singular focus.
- Massacres Cosmo Canyon and frames the reploid Aura.
- Attacks and prods Seikou at every opportunity.
- When attacking fails to work, he kidnaps Seikou and convinces him that he had killed the reploid Variance.
  - Seikou would give up and let the virus take over after he thought Variance was dead and Aura a killer.

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