Alec Mason, the player character and a mining engineer, arrives on Mars Tharsis Region to reunite with brother Dan and begin a new life, and learns Dan is a member of the Red Faction. While on work detail, Dan testifies about the Earth Defense Force's cruelty to the Martian people and asks Alec to join their cause, he is soon after gunned down by air support from an EDF assault team. Alec is rescued from summary execution by Red Faction guerrillas and becomes a reluctant freedom fighter for the group alongside avid inventor "Sam" Samanya, rambling psychotic Jenkins, and commander Hugo Davies. Between Davies' command and Alec's skill and bravery, the EDF are quickly driven out of the sector known as Parker for the first time.
The campaign against the EDF continues in the Dust sector, and Alec is eventually assigned to routine surveillance of the Marauders, a mysterious and violent warrior tribe living in the inhospitable Badlands, in hopes of recovering stolen weapons. Alec tracks them to an abandoned Ultor Corporation base that promptly comes under massive assault from the EDF. During the fracas, Alec steals a strange device called the Nano Forge and escapes. This in turn brings attention to Admiral Kobel from a huge and powerful warship called the Hydra, along with General Roth, commander of the EDF forces on Mars, who declare Alec Mason a wanted man following this incident. General Roth turns his attention to Dust and the EDF responds by pulling out of the sector and ordering the artillery base in the Free Fire Zone to bomb Dust into oblivion. Alec is tasked with saving members of the Red Faction and intel on the EDF from the bombardment, which he succeeds in doing.
Alec temporarily loses faith in the movement, citing that no matter how determined their efforts are, the EDF will simply bomb them to submission. However, Sam analyzes the Nano Forge and discovers it can create catastrophic nanites that can disintegrate any object. She builds a prototype rifle from the device and entrusts it to Alec's care.
After determining a series of blind spots in its coverage a successful "suicide run" against an EDF artillery base is commenced, allowing the group to begin hostilities against the EDF in their own territories. Shortly thereafter the EDF stages an assault against the Red Faction, resulting in the annihilation of the Red Faction's Badlands Camp and the death of Davies. Only Sam, Alec and a handful of other fighters survive the assault, they learn afterward that the Hydra, the EDF's most powerful dreadnought spacecraft, is nearing Mars, with the Hydra's command intending to use its unparalleled firepower to put an end to the Red Faction and, if necessary, to all the life on the planet. Sam declares that they need support from the Marauders if their campaign is to continue, when Alec remains dubious, she reveals that she is a Marauder herself. The pair head to a Marauder stronghold to meet with their ruler, Vasha, Sam's sister. Sam requests the usage of the Marauders' particle accelerator technology, with plans to combine it with the Nano Forge, creating a weapon (essentially a gigantic Nano Rifle) capable of destroying the Hydra. Vasha agrees to let the Red Faction use their technology in exchange for possession of the Nano Forge once the war is finished.
After capturing a broadcasting station and using it to regroup the Red Faction, Sam and Alec lead the remaining Red Faction and Marauders to a successful final assault on EDF Central Command. The two groups converge on Mt. Vogel to begin utilizing the Marauder's accelerator, however, a surprise EDF blitzkrieg lead by General Roth wipes out the Marauders guarding the summit end of the accelerator and Vasha along with them. Alec storms the mountain with a modified missile-pod tank, defeating General Roth's army and killing Roth. Sam's plan succeeds and the accelerated Nano Forge is successful in vaporizing the Hydra, killing Admiral Kobel in the process. As the survivors of Mars celebrate, Sam declares the war over, but Alec knows that the EDF will come back. While Sam says that will be awhile, Alec responds with a confident "We'll be ready for 'em". Alec and Sam approach the crowds of civilians gathered, and Alec raises his hammer in the air, showing the sign of the Red Faction and their long-waited victory.
The campaign against the EDF continues in the Dust sector, and Alec is eventually assigned to routine surveillance of the Marauders, a mysterious and violent warrior tribe living in the inhospitable Badlands, in hopes of recovering stolen weapons. Alec tracks them to an abandoned Ultor Corporation base that promptly comes under massive assault from the EDF. During the fracas, Alec steals a strange device called the Nano Forge and escapes. This in turn brings attention to Admiral Kobel from a huge and powerful warship called the Hydra, along with General Roth, commander of the EDF forces on Mars, who declare Alec Mason a wanted man following this incident. General Roth turns his attention to Dust and the EDF responds by pulling out of the sector and ordering the artillery base in the Free Fire Zone to bomb Dust into oblivion. Alec is tasked with saving members of the Red Faction and intel on the EDF from the bombardment, which he succeeds in doing.
Alec temporarily loses faith in the movement, citing that no matter how determined their efforts are, the EDF will simply bomb them to submission. However, Sam analyzes the Nano Forge and discovers it can create catastrophic nanites that can disintegrate any object. She builds a prototype rifle from the device and entrusts it to Alec's care.
After determining a series of blind spots in its coverage a successful "suicide run" against an EDF artillery base is commenced, allowing the group to begin hostilities against the EDF in their own territories. Shortly thereafter the EDF stages an assault against the Red Faction, resulting in the annihilation of the Red Faction's Badlands Camp and the death of Davies. Only Sam, Alec and a handful of other fighters survive the assault, they learn afterward that the Hydra, the EDF's most powerful dreadnought spacecraft, is nearing Mars, with the Hydra's command intending to use its unparalleled firepower to put an end to the Red Faction and, if necessary, to all the life on the planet. Sam declares that they need support from the Marauders if their campaign is to continue, when Alec remains dubious, she reveals that she is a Marauder herself. The pair head to a Marauder stronghold to meet with their ruler, Vasha, Sam's sister. Sam requests the usage of the Marauders' particle accelerator technology, with plans to combine it with the Nano Forge, creating a weapon (essentially a gigantic Nano Rifle) capable of destroying the Hydra. Vasha agrees to let the Red Faction use their technology in exchange for possession of the Nano Forge once the war is finished.
After capturing a broadcasting station and using it to regroup the Red Faction, Sam and Alec lead the remaining Red Faction and Marauders to a successful final assault on EDF Central Command. The two groups converge on Mt. Vogel to begin utilizing the Marauder's accelerator, however, a surprise EDF blitzkrieg lead by General Roth wipes out the Marauders guarding the summit end of the accelerator and Vasha along with them. Alec storms the mountain with a modified missile-pod tank, defeating General Roth's army and killing Roth. Sam's plan succeeds and the accelerated Nano Forge is successful in vaporizing the Hydra, killing Admiral Kobel in the process. As the survivors of Mars celebrate, Sam declares the war over, but Alec knows that the EDF will come back. While Sam says that will be awhile, Alec responds with a confident "We'll be ready for 'em". Alec and Sam approach the crowds of civilians gathered, and Alec raises his hammer in the air, showing the sign of the Red Faction and their long-waited victory.
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