[quote=@Dog] In short, some form of outside alien comes to Earth and invades some section of the planet after the first visits by those other aliens. A collaborative government is formed and citizens are expected to be collaborators, loyalists, to their new government. People are not really happy about it, but most follow in line to not die from starvation. It's a dystopia in nature. Only loyal collaborators with history supporting the actions of the government can have high positions. A central AI, Overwatch, manages the highest functions of the state while ensuring that no anti-citizen behavior is in the government. Our Benefactors (their alien overlords) have prepping humanity for their "ascend" or in other words their enslavement (tho, the full enslavement and integration of humanity is still ages off but it's getting there). [/quote] Short answer: No, but you could make [url=https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Monolith]The Monolith.[/url] [hider=Long answer] Why I say Monolith and not The Combine is due to the degree of separation between each one's respective overlord; The Combine is practically an integrated colony state whereas Monolith's exact ultimate hierarchy is left rather vague in most of the STALKER GAMES, until... [hider=Spoilers for STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl] It's ultimately revealed that the C-Consciousness communicates to the hierophants of Monolith, and even when Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness in Shadow of Chernobyl, this doesn't stop Monolith from receiving orders.[/hider] The reason for the level of separation being that there's only undeniable [i]proof[/i] that extraterrestrial life exists, and is capable of interstellar travel. However, the implication here is that nobody has ever seen or met one, so any NLC-induced phenomenon could [i]theoretically[/i] be supposed to their influence over the Earth's intelligent population, yet, this is intended to remain as just that: Speculation. However - and this is half my suggestion, half me bouncing off ideas - what you could do is instead have a faction which arose from an anomaly which, through the emission of anomalous waves, interfered with neurons within its area of effect, such that those who came too close to it had the neurons in their brain purely dedicate themselves to the over-creation of tyrosine hydroxylase (which is [url=https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/pages/2014-09-11-nuerochemical-imbalance-identified-schizophrenia.aspx]one of the most notable things about brain chemistry when learning about what causes schizophrenia[/url]) such that they grew attached to the artifacts in question causing this chemical imbalance via some manner of a trauma cycle. [/hider]