Team Fortress 2 is about a group of nine average, everyday, working-class mercenaries. Some of them work for the demolition company Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED), founded by Redmond Mann; some work for the Builders League United (BLU), a construction company founded by Redmond's twin brother, Blutarch. Both Mega-Corps are, in actuality, fronts for two opposing intelligence organizations, which each control one-half of the world's governments. Both organizations are given combat intel by the same Administrator, who supplies them with weapons provided by Mann Co. (a company which the twins' father left to the Australian Hale family), which is a subsidiary of The Administrator's own company, TF Industries. The Administrator is heavily implied to be masterminding the entire conflict, all in a Thanatos Gambit by the brothers' deceased father as punishment for their imbecility. Other developments include Australium, a strange element mined in Australia that turns those exposed to it into manly, ridiculously strong geniuses, and Gray Mann, the long-lost third brother who's actually not a moron. SAXTON HALE