Okay first official chapter the RF may seem a little overpowered, but I remind you it's them vs the entire galaxy here.
The main character is an OC of mine he originally was named Grayson Hale and I submitted him for a story wanting OC's. Anyways in this story his Name his Grayson Hunt, which I kind of ripped off from Bulletstorm. Anyways I renamed him because the antagonist in the movie and in Armageddon was Adam Hale, so I figure what the hell, anyone paying attention to the story will think he has some connection and will want an explanation why so to avoid that pain in the ass I changed his last name… kind of counterproductive to be explaining this instead isn't it?
Oh and another thing I'm using the RF uniforms from Origins not that I'm expecting much of you guys to watch that, but Google Red Faction: origins or look up the Red faction on the wiki you can get a pretty good idea of what they look like
Timeline update:
2173: A SA mining conglomerate ship lead a RF colonization expedition through the mass relay at Shanxi. And pointed out to a rich in ore planet, though suspicious the RF nevertheless colonized it but with a sizeable military force, planet is named Kepler after the revolutionary hero. Also the Nano forge enters limited production usually reserved for commandos or black ops, functions include repair, impact and regeneration. RF soldiers are outfitted with personal shields.
2174: five RF battleships are made and are named after the original colonization areas, Eos, Dust, Parker, Oasis, and the flagship Tharsis. Each designed heavily on earths cruisers from the 2nd revolution era. Normal battleships are about the size of the EDS Hydra and are armed with four plasma beams six rail drivers and a multitude of plasma and gauss cannons along with an armament of six TB (thermobaric) missiles. The Flagship Tharsis is 50% bigger than the other ships and has ten plasma beams and twelve rail drivers about twice the plasma and gauss cannons of the other ships and has armament of twelve TB missiles. Idea behind the making these ships were that "if we're outnumbered and outmanned we're sure as hell not going to be outgunned!" all ships have energy shields
AN: thermobaric missiles are much, much, stronger than a thermobaric rocket, also I'm not B.S.-ing with the energy shields the vehicles in Armageddon had shields so why wouldn't the ships
2175: Project Stonehenge is complete. The project is to make an array of massive rail drivers and use it for anti-orbital defense, one is to be put on every RF planet.
2181: A Volus mining company who had previously reserved Kepler a few years before the RF colonized, so when they found a bunch of humans digging up the place they were outraged and went back to the council.
Citadel council room
"What is it?" asked human ambassador Udina walking obviously irate it was the middle of the night and he gets the call so he has to wake up and meet three beings who couldn't care less about him. When he walked he noticed that the Volus ambassador was also there.
"Ambassador Udina we have something we'd like to discuss with you" said Tevos the Asari councilor "we believe that systems alliance overstepped their bounds"
"What are we talking about?" asked Udina annoyed "and why is the Volus ambassador here?"
"Calm yourself, ambassador" said Tevos in a clam voice of her own but also held authority "we found a human colony on planet reserved for the Volus"
"We wouldn't do such a thing" said Udina "the Systems Alliance has a list of what we can't colonize"
"Then how do you explain this" she said pulling up a hologram of what seems to be a large settlement. Close up reveals to be humans working on mining "also we found a symbol we did not recognize from the list of organizations in the Systems alliance" the image shifted to a picture of a fist clenched around a hammer of some sort
"No…no what are they doing all the way out here?" said Udina instantly recognizing the symbol "What are they doing here!"
"Calm down Udina you're muttering like an idiot" said Sparatus the Turian ambassador "and what do you mean by 'they'"
"Red Faction…" Udina said almost whispered
"Red what?" asked Sparatus not believing it.
"Around fifty-six years ago" started Udina "at the time Humanity discovered the Prothean ruins on mars, we also had a mining colony there ran by the EDF our previous governing body, the miners however thought they weren't being treated fairly so they rebelled and they fought a war against the EDF, in the end they fought the EDF off of mars and wining independence"
"Independent or not" replied Sparatus "that's no excuse to invade council space"
"I'm fairly certain they don't even know about the council" said Udina "in fact I'm quite certain that they have no idea about the Protheans or mass effect fields"
"What!" said everyone present in surprise
"How's that possible?" said Tevos shocked
"During the EDF retreat they destroyed the Prothean ruins so the RF guerillas couldn't salvage anything and took the data back to earth" explained Udina "and we kept them in the dark about council in case they tried something against us we'd have you to back us up if it got out of hand"
"So basically your saying that a profitable mining site…" started the Volus ambassador "Has been taken over by a bunch of terrorist that you failed to deal with fifty-six years ago!"
"That's enough" said Tevos trying calm the situation "Ambassador, Udina is there any way to deal with this peacefully"
"I doubt it" said Udina "the RF I heard on the news as boy portrayed them as violent and barbaric, I doubt they'll let that colony go seeing as how they developed it so far"
"Can you give us an idea on their military strength?" asked Sparatus now wary of this mysterious and possibly dangerous enemy.
"Well they lack mass effect technology that's a given" he said "but if they were able to beat the military superpower of our world as untrained miners, now that they have a trained military your guess is good as mine"
"What about their determination?" asked Sparatus
"I have no doubt that they'll fight to the last man" said Udina
"So will the systems alliance do anything about this" asked Tevos
"We can't" said Udina "We have a treaty with them that's probably the only thing keeping us from killing each other"
"Alright, it would seem brute force is necessary for this situation" said Sparatus "I'll call for a task force to remove this 'Red Faction' from the planet"
Planet Kepler, weeks later
There is a 21 year old man standing on the hill looking out towards the unexplored areas of the world. He is dressed in a black jumpsuit under a chest armor of some sort; he has a red clothe tied around his left arm and a jump-pack on his back. He has short brown hair and mismatched eyes one grey (left) the other brown (right). His name is Sergeant Grayson Hunt, and he is a Red faction commando, symbolized by his attire, while the other soldiers wear tan or dark grey jumpsuits, commandos wear black.
Now you would be wondering why an elite soldier such as himself be sitting around doing nothing. Well that's because there's nothing to do, commandos are suppose to blow up bases, sabotage vehicles, and fight impossible odds all by their lonesome. There is none of that to do, sure he had some combat like taking out drug runners or cultist remnants on mars but here there is nothing to do here this place hasn't been around long enough for people to start shooting at each other "I am bored out my freaking mind…" Grayson said with exasperated look "I'm almost wishing someone would start shooting at me"
"Grayson, that sounded sad" said his S.A.M. the AI living in the Nano-forge he got when he became a commando "are you feeling suicidal?"
"I was joking" replied Gray with an annoyed look. The S.A.M. AI program was useful but they did not get it when someone was joking "What the hell am I doing here anyway!"
"I believe it was because you destroyed an illegal arms dealer selling weapons to the cultist" replied S.A.M. "the mission was to apprehend the equipment not destroy it"
"Well at least I made sure the cultist didn't get it" defended Gray "and besides sending me to the ass end of nowhere seems a little harsh"
"That was the only tie they had to corrupt military personnel" said S.A.M.
"So, that's not worth getting shot across the friggin universes by a…" Gray paused he seemed to be recalling something "what the call that again?"
"Recent Intel has it listed as a mass relay" said S.A.M.
"That's a stupid name" muttered Gray "anyways nothing happens here if you're going to put a commando somewhere you might as well give it something to shoot at!"
"Actually a few weeks ago the planetary radar picked up a ship signature just outside the Stonehenge targeting range" said S.A.M.
"Really?" asked Gray then put on a frustrated face "why the hell does no one tell me about these things!"
"I believe it is because your eyes scare everyone"
"So now you're giving me shit about my eyes" said Gray. His eyes are a sore spot for him it sort of creeped everyone out growing up and eventually he was just generally shunned in school. It didn't help that his parents probably died in a cultist bombing incident a little after he was born there were many deaths but no one confirmed the bodies because it was a Nano-charge.
All of the sudden the proximity alarms went off "Warning, orbital sensors detect ships of an unknown design entering planets gravity area, does not match any SA design." Said S.A.M.
"Well, I asked for it" said Gray picking up his assault rifle and running to the closest RF station.
RF Command
Col. Jace Jackson of the RF was in total business mode "get Stonehenge array running!" he shouted "if they're hostile-"
"Colonel incoming landing!" said a comms officer just as the base shook
"Alright, fire with the Stonehenge!" said Jackson "get off as many shots as you can before getting the Shell up"
"On it sir!"
"Get the workers to the shelters!" he ordered "Have our soldiers prepare for a ground assault and set combat zones at choke points so we can bottle neck the invaders" he paused "and where the hell is our commando!"
"Sgt. Hunt has just reported at the outpost 7."
"Alright I want him to assist out troops in repelling the invaders"
Turian flagship: Invincible
Another impact shook the ship, Sarrus varen the Turian task force leader growled "What is shooting at us!"
"Sir it appears they have gun emplacement on the surface!" yelled a deckhand "one cruiser has been destroyed and a carrier is taking heavy damage"
"Find the gun batteries and destroy it!" said Varen with a snarl "I want ground forces on the planet now!"
"The first team is deploying, no resistance so far." Another salvo hit the ship and then nothing.
"What happened" asked Varen.
"The firing stopped when our first barrage landed near their guns, they ceased fire and now have some sort of shield"
"A Kinetic barrier?"
"Unknown. But the briefing did say they may lacked mass effect technology"
"I'll believe it when we analyze their structures after we dealt with them." Said Sarrus "If they do lack mass effect technology, then this should be an easy victory. Send salvo down to their barriers" Sarrus watched as the bombardment crashed onto the shields they watched for a few moments
"Sir the shields show no sign of deteriorating!"
"What!" exclaimed Sarrus 'not even the Destiny Ascensions shields are this good!'
With Grayson
They waited, the aliens were closing in almost in their fields of fire just a few more seconds 'Geez' thought Gray 'I ask for something to fight and the universe sends me aliens' around him was a concealed squad of RF soldiers and two tanks and a few LAV's all them having their guns pointed at the advancing troops 'here we go in 3…2…1' and like that all the concealed squads and vehicles hidden in the rocky cliffs unleashed a hail of fire. The infantry up front had shields that flared but collapsed under the barrage of bullets. The tanks also caused a multitude of bodies to go flying due to the alien's formations be so tight and neat. 'Impressive show force doesn't mean much when met with an impressive show of firepower' thought fray with a smirk it was kind of like fighting marauder cultist back on mars though architecture was nice it wasn't very strong.
It wasn't long before the invaders retreated and a cheer was heard among the entrenched RF soldiers, then an explosion was heard. "What the hell?" said a confused soldier before another explosion was heard Gray looked up. "Ah shit!" he said as he realized what was happening "they going to bomb the hell out of us from orbit!" he said over the open comm. "everyone head for the city I don't feel like getting cratered today!" apparently everyone either agreed with him or had the same idea because the whole detachment made a run for it. In case you're wondering their not intending to use the civilians as shields, RF settlements are standardized by being built with a catacombs of underground bunkers and passage ways basically each city is fortress. They built them for this purpose but with the EDF attacking instead of an alien attack, still it serves it purpose.
As they ran toward the city they saw the Stonehenge array drop its shield and fired a few volleys toward the invader fleet drawing its attention from the soldiers to the guns which got its shield up just in time to block the return fire, but this distracted the enemy fleet just long enough for the surviving soldiers and remaining vehicles into the bunkers.
No one was sure what will happen to him, but they are certain they'll fight to death for this planet,
Red Faction handbook
Marauders: they're the group of people descended from a group of Ultor scientist who escaped EDF and the RF during the first revolution, since then have attacked the colonist in a savage ways. This ended by the end of second revolution where the RF and Marauders worked out a peace treaty though tensions still run between them they won't hesitate to help each other out
Cultist: a group of marauders who believe mars belongs to them, even with their leader dead they continue to pull terrorist acts on both the RF and Marauders.
Red Faction: a militant group of colonist based of the guerilla movement during the second revolution, they defend the colonist from various threats and act as their police force also
RF soldiers: standard infantry men of the RF ready to defend the people of mars and their freedom at all cost their duty also extends to the colonies. Are armed with a variety of weapons and personal shields. Have basic training but are still a force to be reckoned with especially in groups.
Personal Shields: based off the shields used on the LEO EXO-suit RF engineers figured out how make a smaller power generator to power shields for infantry and comes standard issue for all RF armed forces.
Commandos: they are voluntary branch of the RF. Frontline soldiers trained to face numerous enemies head on and come out leaving a trail of corpses. They are not trained for black ops. They are the blow shit up kind of commando. Training was derived from the 2nd Martian revolution combat experience; basically they sneak into an enemy base and raze it to the ground causing as much mayhem as possible. Training includes advance hand to hand, jump-pack, and recognizing the weak points in an enemy patrol, security and base defense. They are also trained to resist torture/interrogation, and during their final lesson they are dropped off in the badlands next to the irradiated zone and are told to make it to the badlands HQ (old Guerilla camp during revolution) as fast as possible. By the end of training there are typically two types of personalities, emotionally closed off or cocky loud-mouths; the latter are either has extreme mental strength or lost their mind before signing up. They are trained to use all RF and Marauder weaponry so there is no standard loadout for them, but they always have nano-forge, a jump-pack, and a sledge hammer to honor the guerilla's favorite weapon in the revolution. Each commando is trained to use the sledge-hammer skillfully. Can be recognized by their black uniform and signature sledge hammer
"When the high tech crap fails, it's time to go back to basics"- Commando motto.
Jump-pack: based of the jet-pack designed during the second revolution, the Jump-pack is designed for faster lifts to get to vantage points quickly or to drop on the enemy with their hammer.
Stonehenge Array: basically six massive Rail-drivers made for anti-ship planetary defense, based off the mass driver and the rail driver.
(AN: got the name from ace combat 4: shattered skies.)
Kepler: a planet rich in ore the newest planet colonized by the RF. Named after guerilla hero Jon Kepler who died during the assault on the guerilla badland safe house. They were led there by a corporate ship from the Systems Alliance, though skeptical they didn't want to pass up the chance at getting a new planet one suited for mining at that.
RF Tanks: based of the EDF tank, looks almost the same except with a longer barrel and shoots projectiles at a higher velocity also they are painted black instead of EDF tan.
LAV's: Red faction light assault vehicle its generally an APC mounted with a heavy machine gun that rips infantry to shreds.
SGT. Grayson Hunt: he is one of the Cocky commandos and is slightly vulgar. He is also one of the most destructive commandos in the RF forces; he can be subtle up to the point the bullets star flying, due to an incident involving Cultist and an illegal arms dealer he is now on Kepler to keep him away from command. Though despite his attitude he actually has sad history grew up alone due to a nano-bomb going off just after he was born his parents are thought to be among dead his data regarding his family was also destroyed. His eyes are mismatched which caused him to be shunned by his age group. Eventually ended up joining RF and volunteering for the commandos he performed well in training and actually made friends but disaster struck on their final test half way through the badland test they were attacked by cultist and left-over experiments from Ultor details are sketchy but Grayson was the only survivor standing among the bodies of his four comrades and horde of cultist and Ultor experiments. Gray got accepted due to the circumstances, and has been great commando ever since.
(AN: a Nano-bomb is my idea if anyone played guerilla you know the nano-rifle? Well it's that except in bomb form. Disintegrates stuff.)
Shell shield: an impenetrable shield used to protect structures from attacks, the downside is that it's a two way shield while they are protected they can't return fire either.
Well that's that first chapter of the Red Faction Effect story, and what do you think of the Red Faction handbook, it's meant to explain what some of the things are in the story, I got the idea from Red Faction guerilla, the Guerilla handbook the explains everything about the game as they're revealed.
I didn't used the Codex because everyone else uses that.