Author's Introduction
This says "Author's Introduction" because I have a second introduction coming next ("What Has Come Before"). It is solely a timeline concerning the beginnings of this story. But first, I'll get to the basics.
This is a crossover between Doom 3 and the first Red Faction.
These are two games that I absolutely adore. Red Faction was the first post-2000 PC game that I didn't stop playing (must have beaten it 12 times in a week). Doom 3 was, is and will always be the best PC-to-Xbox game I've ever played (and, quite possibly, the best Xbox game I've ever played; hate me all you like, I despised Halo and I always fucking will).
These two games have influenced any sci-fi story I've ever written, and I always seem to run any sci-fi story I've ever read though a filter to see them either like Red Faction or Doom 3 (and to some extent the original Doom, but I won't get into that). I've never really been the same ever since, and I'm not sorry about that.
Anybody who reads Doom fanfics on this site will know I've got a little two chapter (three with a short message) fanfiction called The DOOM Chronicles: The Ultimate DOOM, which is a straight adaptation of The Ultimate Doom. I have, to a small extent, abandoned that story (a come-back is imminent, however), and replaced it with this one.
This, however, is not a straight adaptation of either Doom 3 or Red Faction. This is a combination of the two.
I was playing Doom 3 when this idea bombarded me. I felt like a goddamn idiot for not taking into account that both Doom 3 and Red Faction took place on Mars. Both took place in installations and in tunnels. Both involved trams to a small degree. Both were similar in many respects. And as I saw the similarities, I saw the connections that could be made.
Little reason exists for why, in Red Faction, the miners are treated like shit. All that really comes of it is that Capek wants to use them as fodder to test out his little science experiments. In Doom 3, you never get a sense of the paranoia and fear that comes from the impending invasion of the demons (I think you're supposed to believe that anybody driven crazy by it died as it happened, but that's a flimsy excuse). A solution became simple to me: the Ultor guards use the paranoia and fear of the miners (caused by the impending invasion) to manipulate and oppress them. In order for it to make sense as why Ultor and the UAC are both on Mars, I decided that the two banded together to colonize Mars; the UAC terraforming it, while Ultor mined it for natural resourses for use on Earth. UAC would also be the initial security for the Ultor miners (explaining why the DoomGuy is in the mines early on), but then Ultor started shipping up its own guards and the UACs slowly returned to Mars City.
After this initial brainstorm and idea-forming, several other things started coming into play and easily linking up:
1. Early on in Red Faction, some miners use a shuttle to try and leave, but get shot down. The crossover gives control of those missiles to the demons, who are trying to avoid any escape of the humans and any help from Earth from arriving, after Parker and DoomGuy shut down the missiles, Betruger decides that using the ships to invade Earth would be far better than destroying them.
2. Capek somehow genetically manipulates people to create monsters in Red Faction. With help from Betruger (ie, demon parts), Capek accomplishes this.
(Note: So far it seems like this, but most of this crossover material is not to explain plot-holish elements of Red Faction by using Doom 3.)
3. Ultor dug the Mars City tunnels and aided in the construction of the complex. They also discovered the teleporters that are used to go to Hell.
There are other connections that I've thought up, but I'd rather not bore you the fuck out with them. All in all, this fanfic has been thought out and will cover most if not all of both Doom 3 and Red Faction (starting primarily with stuff from Red Faction, and ending with portions of Doom 3).
Hopefully, you enjoy this hard work that I've done to entertain you with a crossover (the first I've ever done!), and know that, unlike every other story I've written, I've gone over everything with a fine-toothed comb. I'm damned certain that no matter what, I'm gonna have typos (it doesn't matter how much I spell-check this shit, they still keep coming!), and maybe even a plot hole or two, but overall, everything is accounted for.
Please enjoy, leave reviews.
