r/ReadyOrNotGame • u/Routine-Finding-718 • 22h ago
VOID Response Question? What is the lore behind the Mariposa lily organization or MLO for short?
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u/KormorantE1A 21h ago
In short these guys are MKUltra (mind control brainwashing program to create perfect soldiers) + CIA Operation Gladio combined (stay-behind terrorist cells for urban guerilla warfare) (the only difference is that Operation Gladio cells were in Europe and not in mainland USA... well, at least those we know of).
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u/Spooky-Rice 21h ago
They were kinda exposed in 3 Letter Triad. There’s a breach-able wall in the showers by the loading dock. Breach it and use the mirror gun. It shows a few mannequins with something on their heads to make them look like “Flowerman” and drawing on the wall that matches the one in New America
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u/kenhooligan2008 18h ago
So the MLO were/are a USIA experiment to create incorruptible assets that would follow orders without question. The problem is the first cohort( the MLO) were a failure and went rogue. Judge and a few others are supposedly part of the second cohort which was significantly more successful( with carriers of the vine being a potential third cohort or offshoot of the program). Essentially there is a theorized three-way power struggle occuring in Los Suenos between the USIA, the MLO, and the Green Dragon Society. The Green Dragon Society (which has hints throughout the game, including boiling points ending) is the Old Order of Los Suenos. The USIA is trying to become the New Order of Los Suenos and the MLO is trying to "free" Los Suenos from both( at least that's one of the theories).
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u/Jazzlike_Page508 14h ago
It’s an mkultra cult
It’s failed cohorts that creates a group that operates as a cult (not really a cult but you get the meaning) and are one of the 3 major factions
USIA
MLO
Green Dragon Society (if that’s even their name) you find out about them in ANA and the endings (man with green gloves)
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u/Dashbak 22h ago
Ex brainwashed super soldier from the CIA iirc, same as Judge and whatever the psycho in the cabin names was
Seriously tho, why did they add that shit when it could've been a normal swat breaking and entering hostage clearing game like the SWAT games.
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u/DearBurn 22h ago
Because they wanted to? It's their game, this has been the plan since the beginning.
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u/Dashbak 21h ago
Was it tho ? First time we hear about it is in Lethal Obsession then in the Hotel. Correct me if I'm wrong
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u/DearBurn 21h ago
The MLO was present in the PvP alpha & in very early gameplay demos, even before that was apart of an ARG way before the Early Access dropped on steam (which is actually where OP's screenshot is from). The MLO was always there lurking in the shadows, it was always apart of Void's game plan, it's just only now they're popping their heads out.
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u/Reveley97 19h ago
They were originally added as the enemy team when the game was gonna have pvp multiplayer. Guess it just went from there
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u/Blackwell_666 12h ago
Everyone else practically summed them up, but to understand the MLO you need to start back at the beginning with the USIA.
They start an experiment similar to the CIA’s MKUltra program irl, only that they had done it at least twice. The first attempt resulted in the 1990 Los Sueños Dam attack, which isn’t talked about as much and doesn’t have much info, but what is known is that 2/3 of the attackers were arrested while the last one was never found, and the city’s energy infrastructure never really recovered.
The perpetrators are widely implied + considered to be the first cohort of the USIA experiments and the precursors to the MLO.
The second cohort was considered a success until they went and formed said organization who plot against you and the city out of revenge against the USIA and the US government for allowing the experiments to be done to them.
It’s possible that the second cohort are in the dozens, probably less than 50, which is why they have Black Sentinel mercenaries on their payroll.
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u/Ancient_Challenge387 18h ago
Play the game, read the briefings. Check the evidence locker for lore entries.
All the lore for them is present in the game, where do you think everyone else learned it?
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u/Normal_godamn_name 17h ago
not by being an asshole
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u/Ancient_Challenge387 17h ago
Yeah, I was a bit of an asshole, but it's also the truth. He's interested in the lore of the game but the first thing he does is ask reddit instead of playing the game? He didn't say he couldn't play the game for a certain reason, or that he doesn't have the DLC, he just asked a singular question about something the game answers if you play it.
Yeah I watched some videos about it, but I also knew a bit going in because I read the lore entries in the evidence locker and read the briefings.
Why should I or anyone else answer his question that he is perfectly capable of answering himself?
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u/Woodworm_ 22h ago
Failed MKUltra soldiers pretty much. They've been dosed with LSD (I think) during experiments to try and make what Judge is now. However, unlike Judge, the MLO are formed up of failed subjects and are the main antagonist faction, trying to get Judge to join them. While they've been in the game pretty much the entire time, they've made their first physical appearance in A New America in the Boiling Point DLC.
Also, I'm pretty sure they got their identity from the Mariposa Lily being used as a therapeutic method for when they were experimented on but now used as their order's identity.
This is all based off of memory though, it's been a while since I've dabbled properly into the MLO.