The Red Union: An Overview
It has been made apparent to me that some are against the group marked as the Red Union. Most of these complaints against the Red Union are through misunderstandings of the positions, culture and overall organization of it. I will attempt to explain what the Red Union is generally about in hopes that it will clear some things, concerning us, up.
Firstly, I would like to talk about what I think is the most important part of the Red Union and that is the relations of it towards everybody else. This is the most important part, not of any arguing, as it will host the largest affect to the server and gameplay of all those involved. He have specific relations towards: CP's(Combine), Loyalists(including CWU), Regular Citizens and Rebel/Resistance Groups. I here will say the Red Union's objective and that is to, put crudely, take over the world and recreate man in its own image (which I will expand on later). It is here we find our positions towards all others. It is obvious that we are opposed to the Combine, as they are our largest barrier in between us and our objective. Nothing complicated about that view. Second on the line is our view towards loyalists (including CWU). We, the Red Union, are against loyalists, obviously. These citizens have sold their bodies, their minds, and their will to the Combine in order to live safe lives. This, in our eyes, is prostitution, which cannot be forgiven. They also help our barrier of the Combine, which is never a good thing. Now is one of our more radical stances and that is of common citizens. I am talking of the citizens who don't bend onto either side, or hardly do. If you recognize Combine authority, get aid from them (anything from rations to security) and are therefore dependent of them, rather than struggling to fight against them as you obviously could, we are against you. Now what I will admit the oddest relation is that towards Rebel/Resistance groups. Simply put, if you are not fighting for the Red Union, you are against it. Let me expand on this. The Red Union is no humanitarian group, we could care less, rather it is a group dedicated to the creation of a new world. Now if you are not fighting for that goal and are just fighting the Combine or just helping people without this end in mind, we are against you. This isn't to say we are as hostile to Rebels as we are to CPs, but we are not friendly with them. I would like to maintain that we will attempt to dissolve any groups into the Red Union. This is our standard position towards others.
Now, due to the arguments, I would like to explain what the Red Union is. How I think this will be best explained is through the explanation of our culture and organization.
Our culture is a very prominent part of the Red Union. We are culturally based on the Roman Empire, more specifically, for those who care, early post-meridian Roman culture. This is not to say that the culture is exactly that of Rome, but it is that we have picked some parts from it. I do believe that this is a valid stance because Rome has always been made a sort of mystic ever since it fell and there is plenty of proof of that. This does fit in our cultish side, which I will expand on later. We use Latin often. Our names are Latin numbers that express what we are in line. An example of this is that if a person has the 15th to be recruited, he would be given the Latin word for 15. This fact has been found on the CP Objective List and it is very obvious that they have not gotten that legitimately as we have never told anybody else that ICly. Going back to our objective of recreating the earth and the greater good, we attempt to recreate our men as a sort of machine. Taking away names takes away individuality. We often speak Latin in things like speeches, but do not use it for something like conversation.
The organizing of us is also very important in telling what we are. More so than anything, we are militaristic. The Red Union is based on the creation of a new world and violence is how we will accomplish it. We maintain drills, training, studies, and this takes up much of our RP. One of our most radical ways to maintain discipline within our ranks is in the most brutal way. If a person is to step out of line, he will be beaten. If he is to say something wrong, he will be beaten. If he is to do anything wrong, even the smallest of things, he will be beaten. Now if he were to fail in a certain mission, he would be beaten.. to death. We maintain that failure in missions result in generally 1/4 of the members involved are to be beaten. Even more hardcore, they are to be beaten to death by the 3/4 of members who were also in the mission. This is how we maintain discipline in the Red Union, but it is generally only for the new members. It is proportional by ranks our two methods by how low or how high their rankings are. The second act of maintenance of discipline is through indoctrination. That is, that we mind control our members, somewhat like CP's, but we actually RP it. I don't think that anybody will deny how powerful the mind is and how oblivious it can make somebody. This is my argument against us, the Red Union, to FearRP, at least as much as a regular citizen. Both the mind and the threat of beatings would, what I think, be legitimate to not be so afraid of the Combine.
As I previously have stated, the Red Union is very hateful towards most everybody. It is by this reason that we do move to kill anybody, preferably is mass numbers. That is why we would arson or bomb buildings. That is why we would kill somebody indiscriminately.
I've rambled too much. I will someday detail how we recruit and our position on slavery. I hope this gives a basic understanding of the Red Union and with that I will give a couple of closing words for those who will claim us to be lolwebelz:
We are against the Combine, but we are not a rebellion. We are for mankind, but we are not a resistance. We are, simply put, a union.. a Red Union.