Parker's: Red Faction

The Red Faction (or Red Faction State) was originally a militant guerrilla organization, founded circa 2075 amongst the Martian miners who were virtually enslaved by the Ultor Corporation. They fought and were victorious in the First Martian Revolution with the aid of the Earth Defense Force.

On Earth, the Commonwealth government suppressed the common people, leading to the creation of the Nanotech Enhanced Civilian. This sparked the Commonwealth Civil War, that ended five years later with Red Faction becoming the earth's transitional government.

Whilst the Red Faction appeared to have melted away over the next half-century, they were not forgotten amongst the colonists of Mars. When the Earth Defense Force's governance turned sour, the Faction was resurrected and began to resist the regime. This quickly sparked off the Revolution of 2125.

After Mars was liberated from the EDF, the Red Faction became the military/peace-keeping wing of the colonist state. They continued to track down the remnants of the EDF after the Second Martian Revolution, and believed they had wiped them off the face of the planet until the White Faction emerged twenty-five years later. They eventually defeated the White Faction, but its leader, Adam Hale, disappeared only to reappear decades later as the leader of the Cultists.

The Cultists destroyed the old EDF Terraformer, which forced the Martian colonists, the Marauders, and Red Faction to relocate back beneath the ground, as they had lived before the surface reterraformed. When that happened, Red Faction faced the most catastrophic event yet seen, the one that devastated the entire states. The Plague Armageddon swept across the planet, killing approximately 85% of the Marauder and Colonist populations, becoming the worst outbreak of all time.