Red Sun Military Forces

==History==
===2015-2016===
The Red Sun, RSMF, or RSA, was formed originally as a terraria group for the purpose of entertainment, the group name being set as Red Sun Military Forces as the intended name, Red Sun Army, was taken by a steam group centred around a historical strategy game.
During this period a group called "The Ghost Clan" would declare war on RSMF, though no battles would be held as The Ghost Clan was based around gmod and consequently had little to no ability to fight RSMF in its primary and only game.
===2016-201?===
Around the beginning of 2016 RSMF would extend its operation into gmod, this would come with an attempt to fight The Ghost Clan, however, this attempt would fail, as by this time the only remaining active member of the group had jumped ship and joined RSMF.
Some time between 2016 and 2018 3 or so members would temporarily break off from the group and engage it in a civil war, this war would primarily be fought using Daktek and MelonWars:RTS, consisting of roughly 3 battles and resulting in a Loyalist victory. All members of the civil war group would return to RSMF after the event's conclusion and still currently remain members.
Some time during 2017 due to personal disagreements with the owner RSMF would attempt to declare war on the server Digital Gaming. As a result of a lack of understanding of the intent behind this the event would almost result in a mass banning, however due to a sizeable presence of RSMF members in Digital's staff, sizeable internal support for the group, and RSMF staff members on Digital telling the owner that the steam group was padded, and that the majority of actual RSMF members weren't even in it, this would not come to fruition. 
===2018===
====GMAP & Introduction to the meta====
On 22/07/2018 via an RSMF member engaged in activities within other groups RSMF would be invited to the Garry's Mod Alliance Pact for the purpose of aiding in a war against FOXCBM and SDF (Now ULSCI). While not entirely new to ACF, the group would avoid major conflict involving it, as most members had no experience with meta-level ACF technology and the rulesets that apply to the aforementioned tech. Despite extremely limited direct combat, RSMF would obtain a security council position in GMAP due to the way in which said council was initially set up, and would play a semi-significant role in the non-combat side of the GMAP war(s). Following victory in these conflicts and the break-up of the opposing alliance and groups, and the subsequent partial break up of GMAP itself, RSMF would return to a state of minimal involvement with the meta.
====Late 2018 Miscellaneous activity====
After the partial break-up of GMAP RSMF would continue to hold a security council position until its archive in 2020, but would become more involved in other alliances briefly. RSMF would for a short period of time become a member of The Entente, either withdrawing or being removed from it before any major events relating to it would occur. The group would begin to become less involved in the wider meta and instead focus on internal affairs, discord related events, and interaction with other organizations, documenting the contents of an intelligence discord formed by groups it fought during the GMAP war(s). At some point during late 2018 or early 2019 the group would drift out of involvement with the meta entirely
===2019===
RSMF would remain uninvolved in the main sphere of factions for much of 2019, interacting minimally with groups it had encountered previously. Near the end of 2019 RSMF would begin to return to the meta as it was invited to various alliances, eventually making its way into G10 and The Orzel Alliance. It would also join GDI with the intention of passing information and technology to Orzel and otherwise undermining it due to disdain for its initial use of GMAP's name and attempts by specific members of GDI to convince RSMF members to leave the faction and/or switch groups before RSMF entered the alliance.
===2020===
====IZK War====
=====Introduction=====
In early 2020 Izakia and by extension the Petrograd Pact would issue a sweeping declaration insulting and taunting the rest of the gmod faction community as well as declaring war on all other groups within it. A day or so following the initial announcement both Orzel and GDI would invade dirtbox, one of the primary servers of IZK and an important historical site.
=====Dirtbox battle=====
RSMF, FCF, GKR, and other Orzel/GDI forces set up on the server and messed around for several hours whilst waiting for a response from Petrograd members. After some time IZK members first, then other Petrograd states, would begin to join the server and engage in combat with the occupying forces. The fight would quickly dissolve into somewhat of a clusterfuck, IZK forces immediately resorting to using wiremod tech against ACF before the first shots had even been fired. The battle would change back and forth between illegal ACF drones fighting illegal wiretech and turrets/ground vehicles fighting IZK tanks. Despite m9k nerve gas and wire explosives being used to temporarily disable RSMF turrets, by the end of the fight no turret had been disabled, the most significant damage one having received being the destruction of its top plate of spaced/extra armour (Approximately 100mm out of 400mm of high ductility armour), despite little to no damage or losses to RSMF equipment RSMF anti aircraft guns and AT towers would destroy 13+ IZK tanks, combined with the damage done by allied forces concluding the battle as an easy victory.
=====Colourful Crew Battle=====
Immediately following the conclusion of the battle on Dirtbox the fight moved to Colourful Crew, as IZK members switched over in an attempt to invade it, abandoning their home server. RSMF would change servers as well, alongside FCF, but they would see minimal involvement, killing a few more IZK tanks and vehicles without losing any turrets before withdrawing from the battle as it was agreed that IZK and FCF would fight 2v2s. Tank fighting between FCF and IZK would go on for several more hours, FCF achieving a massive lead in the first 5-10 fights, then losing more of the later fights as IZK tanks grouped together and hid in a corner to avoid being flanked; Though despite their failures in the second half of the 2v2s FCF would still end the battle with the lead in both tank kills and rounds won. After 2v2s FCF and IZK would hold 1v1s, in which IZK would win significantly more duels.
=====IZK Embassy Walkout & internal conflict=====
Following several battles across Colourful Crew and Dirtbox the two largest non-IZK member groups of Petrograd would withdraw from it, IW accusing IZK of using illegal ACF in an announcement on their steam group regarding their withdrawal. UNR would also leave, however they would not leave any messages insulting IZK or have as significant an effect on the war, as they were primarily concerned with non-acf combat and man-power.
As a symbol of the wider faction community's rejection of IZK due to their use of illegal technology and toxic behaviour during the war, RSMF and several other factions would work to organize a mass walk-out from the IZK Embassy, as well as in order to sever communication between IZK and the majority of active groups to prevent future interaction between them and the meta. This walkout would be initiated with each involved party sending a mass ping block with an attached image then leaving the discord, and went forth successfully with roughly 30 out of the 40 non-petrograd members leaving the discord, with the remaining members being mostly inactive, unimportant, or alt accounts left to keep track of what was going on there.
=====Illegality=====
During and after the war IZK would be accused of numerous violations of ACF rules including but not limited to: Clipping of their internal components, using vehicles over the maximum allowed weight for their vehicle type, and using setpos to aim/move some of the weaponry on their tanks.
Claims of illegal tech went both ways however, with the same accusations being aimed at FCF by IZK, though there is no currently recorded evidence to suggest they did. Some invisible weapons around the map spawned by FCF during the dirtbox battle was found however, and for this evidence was provided.
IZK also claimed RSMF turrets to be over the maximum weight several months after the event had concluded as a reason for why they immediately used wire explosives instead of ACF, however it is believed this was due to extremely outdated and inaccurate evidence provided by IW, and it does not seem IZK bothered to check the total masses of the turrets themselves during the battle. 
=====Related footage=====
War summary video made by RSMF and sponsored by other involved factions
GMTV 2020 Recap's coverage of the war (contains IZK footage)
====TEC vs NATO War====
RSMF joined TEC shortly after its formation via an invitation from an Ally for Hire and before the introduction of the groups that at that time made up IA. They would see involvement in numerous battles however during those where NATO was actually present the number of members present would be severely limited, often only having one member present in contrast to the (Roughly 5) RSMF members that were present in the discord and showed up for less important/eventful gatherings.
RSMF would remain in TEC with the sole goal of entertaining themselves until Ally for Hire was couped by several other members, at which point RSMF withdrew from both the war and the alliance.
==Uniform==
===R.S Infantry===
R.S Loyalist Infantry are given a semi-optional uniform pac3 designed around the group's aesthetic/themes with a few built in features designed to help in combat situations such as a toggleable strobe light and footstep silencing when crouched, as well as a handful of other useful tweaks that allow minor advantages without breaking common server rules about pac3. The pac3 also comes with a toggleable backpack/flag (An altered version of this can be seen on Profantic's version of the R.S Engineer). Several other projects relating to the improvement of the user's performance exist in varying stages of production, however most are currently on hold due to the lack of need for new technology and the time investment associated with completing them. The uniform currently comes in 4 different forms, the default colour scheme, Arctic camouflage, Desert camouflage, and Forest camouflage. There is currently a 5th version designed specifically for light grassy areas partially completed, however it is not being further invested in due to the lack of active need for better camouflage. Infantry are allowed to request custom variations on their pac3 relating to proportions and other small changes, however large changes like extra 'equipment' are not.
====Default====
====Arctic====
====Desert====
====Forest====
===R.S Engineer===
The Engineering branch of RSMF has their own separate pac3 with a significantly different design and some additional aesthetic features such as a PDA and drone replacing the physgun/tool gun. Similarly to Infantry engineers are allowed to request custom proportions/small changes to their pac3, however they are also allowed to request larger changes such as differing equipment, armour, or anything else they wish to be added. Examples of this can be seen below in the custom variants section.
====Default====
====Desert====
====JonahSoldier's custom version====
A custom commander/leader version of the Engineering pac3 used by the leader of RSMF. This version has a separate decoration on the cap as an indicator of the wearer's status as a general, as well as a badge on the chest indicating an officer rank, and an altered armband denoting membership of RS High Command. The most recent version also has a crown stacked on top of the cap with the 1-47 Union logo on it as ownership of it was recently transferred to the leader of RSMF (aka the owner/user of this version of the pac3). This pac3 also comes in desert camouflage form, but is missing the crown in that version.
=====Default=====
=====Desert=====
====Profantic's custom version====
Profantic's variant of the Engineering uniform replaces the drone physics gun with a robotic arm attached to a backpack which extends when the physics gun is drawn. Like the drone it aims in the direction the player is aiming and fires a beam that replaces the physgun beam. This version also features a badge on the chest indicating an officer rank. This variant comes in normal and in desert camouflage.
=====Default=====
=====Desert=====
====The Head of Engineering's custom version====
The RS Head of Engineering, whose actual name is being kept private as they are not present in many meta-related discords and whose identity is relatively unknown to other faction members, has their own custom version of the RS Engineering pac3. This version comes with a backpack with various tools attached to it. The pac3 also has a slightly modified cap, decorated similarly to the commander variant used by JonahSoldier but leaving the Engineering logo intact. There are also two other indicators of rank on the pac3, those being the modified armband showing the wearer is a member of RS High Command, and a badge on the chest indicating an officer rank.
===R.S Reserve===
====Default====
====Desert====
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