RED

This article is about one of the two companies that employ the two teams of mercenaries in the Gravel Wars storyline. For the game roles of the red and blue uniformed teams those companies employ, see Teams.

Reliable Excavation Demolition
Information
Reporting mark:	RED
Sphere of activity:	Demolition operations
Locale:	Badlands
Chief Executive Officer:	Redmond Mann

“

Blast! I should have hired the RED team... Click to listen — Blutarch Mann

”

RED (Reliable Excavation Demolition), a subsidiary of TF Industries, also known as Team Fortress, allegedly specializes in "demolition operations". In reality, from behind a myriad of sub-fronts, it secretly controls half of the world's governments, led by founder and CEO Redmond Mann. Beneath the convincing exterior of their bases of operations can be found computer racks, satellites, rockets, and missile installations.

The other half of the world is just as secretly controlled by their rivals, BLU (Builders League United). Each corporation administers its half of the world with a multi-disciplined army of paper pushers. For any problem lacking an obvious bureaucratic solution, mercenaries are contracted to address the situation through a massive application of force. Conflicts between the two companies began as land disputes between their leaders, and have continued for about a century to the present day.

RED and BLU share an intense rivalry, with nearly all encounters between the two quickly escalating into brutal and often fatal violence. Inter-company friendship is also strictly forbidden by contract. Despite this, the RED Demoman and the BLU Soldier at one time became fast friends after meeting each other at a projectile weapons expo. Once this was brought to the attention of the Administrator, however, she pitted them against each other in a deadly competition that promised a mysterious new item to the winner, twisting their former friendship into a bloody war.

RED favors a more rustic style of architecture than BLU. RED's dress code, however, is rather liberal, requiring that employees adopt a red motif for easy identification. This could also be for identification by Sentry Guns.

The Administrator terminated the Director's interviews just as he finished with the RED team; so, in the Team Fortress 2 shorts by Valve, RED usually kills or defeats BLU.

Sub-fronts

See also: List of companies

Founder and CEO, Redmond Mann, 1850

Known sub-fronts of RED include:

• Alliance Towing
• Binski Paper Co.
• Brown Nugget Prospecting
• Cornwell
• Hampshire's Heavy Mining Equipment
• Happy Farmers Cooperative
• Husky Acres
• Imperial Mining
• Jenkin Coal Co.
• Old Geezer Draft Beer
• Red Bread
• Red Shed
• Red Valley Mining
• Sanders BBQ
• Sunny Hay
• Zippy Plow

Related merchandise

• 

  RED Cup In The Valve Store

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  RED Parking Pass

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  RED Patch

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  RED Sticky Bomb Plush

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  RED Team iPhone 3G Gelaskin Cover

• 

  RED Team Gelaskin iPhone 4

• 

  RED Team Ellis Hat

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  RED Tshirt

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  RED Sentry Poster

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  RED Team Scarf

See also

• Mann Co.; with the simultaneous deaths of the owner, Redmond Mann, and rival twin Blutarch Mann, both heirless, ownership of Reliable Excavation Demolition and holdings reverted to Mann Co.
• Administrator
• BLU
• List of companies
• TF Industries

External links

• Reliable Excavation Demolition, a fan-made website
• WAR! Update comic