Mariposa Lily Order

Suspects

There are multiple Variants of them. Each would mostly be around their weapons. While they are randomized, they do have a set variant. The most unique is the sharpshooter, who wears a baseball cap, earplugs and moustache. The most common variants usually wear a helmet, balaclava.

Civilians

There are only two known Civilian models so far, they have suspect voice lines. One has a teardrop tattoo and the other that uses the head of Zahir.

Arsenal

Body Armor and helmet
Stims
Pistols
G18 (when fake surrendering)
Makarov (when fake surrendering)
Tec-9 (when fake surrendering)
Rifles
AKM
AKS-74U
M14
AR-180
Submachine Guns
MPL
M76
Knife (when fake surrendering)

Extremely Deadly Combatants

In A New America, the MLO are shown to be the most dangerous, accurate and skilled suspects in the game, by far. Their voicelines and behavior show how they have been psychologically conditioned for combat. They know the tactics used by your SWAT team - and are trained in it themselves - and know how to counter them. They use IR tripwires invisible to the naked eye, while the player usually looks out for long black wires. They bypass locked doors by kicking them down, but never when standing in the middle of the doorframe so they don't expose themselves to gunfire. When they know you're about to breach a door they will rush you. They use 7.62 battle rifles to bypass your armour. They flashbang you when they know you're behind cover. The MLO can and will blind fire through doors in very specific cases. If you wedge a door as they attempt to open, they will blind fire through it.

Early Access

Outfits and Appearances

In early access builds of the game, the MLO would appear in PVP multiplayer matches as a faction fighting SWAT. MLO also appeared as placeholder assets on Carriers of the Vine before the 1.0 Update overhauled the map completely. Their outfits usually are military based featuring helmets and army surplus camouflage patterns. Their armour varies between surplus kevlar and helmets to crude steel plates welded onto their clothing.

Psychology and Politics

Behaviour

In『ron/EVIDENCE_m.l.o/@1'』the MLO are seen to be acting very strangely: wandering around as if they are in a trance of some kind. If the connections to MKUltra are to be believed, this may be due to excessive dosages of LSD or other mind-altering substances. In A New America, MLO suspects appear totally fanatic and devoted to their cause - almost cult-like. Their voicelines make them seem like religious zealots, viewing battle as a religious ritual[3] and treating combat as nothing more than executing a series of protocols and exercises[4].

Hesitating Voicelines

When MLO suspects hesitate - unsure whether to fight or surrender to SWAT - they are seemingly flooded with emotions and memories. They will say things like "Something's... s-something's wrong", "We thought the pain was erased... ugh... it's still here", and "I... remember... uh, a name... the nothing!" This seems to suggest the experiments performed on them not only suppressed their memories - giving them amnesia - but also suppressed their emotions, making them struggle to process things like fear and pain.[5]

American Flag

The MLO seem to show reverence towards the old American flag, praying towards it and wearing it on their uniforms. It is worth noting the MLO seems to exclusively use the Betsy Ross flag - an early variant of the US flag featuring 13 stars and 13 stripes - famously used during the American Revolutionary War. This perhaps relates to a desire to start another revolution in America or to bring America back to the ideas it used to hold during the revolutionary period.

Mariposa Lily

The group is named after mariposa lilies, a type of flower belonging to the genus Calochortus and typically found in California or nearby areas. The MLO sometimes dress one of their members in a large headdress designed to look like a Mariposa Lily. The purpose of the headdress is unknown, along with its significance.

Background

The little information that was known about them before the 1.0 Update was that they were a radical, armed and violent cult of veterans and former-SWAT officers, and that at the least the acronym MLO derived from a 1970's USIA experiment involving LSD, similar to MKUltra. New evidence from the 1.0 Update reveals that the USIA was responsible for a psychological warfare experiment involving multiple subjects, including David "Judge" Beaumont, named the "Mariposa Plant," hinting that the MLO are the victims of this experiment.
First Cohort and Second Cohort

This experiment seems to have been performed on separate groups of people, dubbed "cohorts". There were at least two cohorts, and likely more. The First Cohort - active during the 1990s - had only three confirmed members, selected from the military and Secret Services. This group is responsible for attacking energy infrastructure around Los Sueños, shooting up numerous power transformers and executing an attack on the Los Sueños Dam. The 1990 Los Sueños Dam attack severely damaged the dam's technology so much that the city still hasn't recovered over three decades later. During the attack two members of the cohort were arrested but one escaped and was never caught. The Second Cohort was seemingly much larger and much more successful operationally. Most of the Second Cohort became people in positions of power, such as politicians and law enforcement officials. Most of the MLO's core membership were members of this Second Cohort.[1] It's unknown why the members of this Second Cohort began a war against the USIA, maybe because of resentment towards the agency's evil actions, or retaliation for the USIA assassinating Second Cohort members to cover up the experiment.[2]

Allegedly, the program was shut down after the 1990 Dam Attack, but it is possible the already top-secret project continued afterwards, just on an even more secret level.

Mariposa Lily Order (MLO), also called the Mariposa Lily Organization, is a secretive faction and terrorist organization in Ready or Not. First appearing in the YouTube video titled 『ron/EVIDENCE_m.l.o/@1'』, they were the main antagonists from the removed-PVP mode and the early-access version of Carriers of the Vine. For years, the only time the MLO were mentioned after Update 1.0 is on the map "A Lethal Obsession," which references that they are "the brainchild of the USIA", are associated with LSD and that Los Sueños is "their favorite playground."

For most of the game the MLO only appeared in the background, but in Ready or Not: Boiling Point, the MLO finally steps out of the shadows and reveal themselves to the world. The group orchestrates the 2028 LS riots, the attack on the Blackwood Pier, the robbery of UnityTrust, and personally led the attack on the Cordova Tower. Whether the MLO works for or against the USIA is unknown, but based off context clues it seems the MLO was created by the agency, but has since turned against them, now hiding in the shadows and waging a war against their enemy in secret. Their ultimate goal seems to be to tear down society and rebuild it their way.The little information that was known about them before the 1.0 Update was that they were a radical, armed and violent cult of veterans and former-SWAT officers, and that at the least the acronym MLO derived from a 1970's USIA experiment involving LSD, similar to MKUltra. New evidence from the 1.0 Update reveals that the USIA was responsible for a psychological warfare experiment involving multiple subjects, including David "Judge" Beaumont, named the "Mariposa Plant," hinting that the MLO are the victims of this experiment.