RED

The RED Corporate Logo

Founder and CEO, Redmond Mann, 1850

Team RED

RED's architectural style

Reliable Excavation Demolition is a holding corporation, specializing supposedly in "demolition operations". In reality, from behind a myriad of sub-fronts, it secretly controls half 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, the 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 continue through hundreds of years to 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 mercenary contract. Despite this, the RED Demoman and the BLU Soldier became fast friends after meeting at a projectile weapons expo. However, once this was brought to the attention of the Administrator, she pitted them in deadly competition with a mysterious new item promised to the winner, twisting their former friendship into a bloody war.

RED favors a more rustic style of architecture than BLU. However, while its dress code is rather liberal in terms of clothing, it is required that employees adopt a red color scheme for easy identification.

Sub-fronts

See also: List of companies

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

Trivia

• Valve has often depicted players using PCs as being on the RED team, as in the Mac update trailer. This is probably due to their more rustic style of architecture.
• The RED team is arguably the "face" of Team Fortress 2, appearing more prominently than BLU in box-art and promotional materials, as well as being portrayed as the "winning team" in the Meet the Team videos.
• Ironically, Reliable Excavation Demolition is always the defending team in some control point and Payload maps, although its name would suggest that they are the attackers, rather than BLU.
  • However, their control points are usually linked to some sort of weapons, like a rocket or a laser gun, so this is somewhat justified.

See also

• Administrator
• List of companies
• BLU

External links

• "The Administrator" comic
• Reliable Excavation Demolition – fan-made website