Talk:Team Fortress 2 Theory/@comment-24963135-20140601230504

There is an actual story for Team Fortress 2. I'll give you a shortened version now.

There was a wealthy businessman named Zepheniah Mann. He founded Mann Co. with his wife. His wife gave birth to two sons, Redmond and Blutarch Mann. They convinced him to buy a large amount of gravel pits in America, under their idiotic beliefs that gravel powered the steam engine. Furious at his children's foolishness, he gave them both the land in his last will.

To share.

The two brothers hated each other, and could never get along. Blutarch hired a team of 9 mercenaries to murder Redmond so he could take the land for himself. Redmond did the same shortly after, and the two teams, Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) and Builder's League United (BLU) went to work trying to destroy the other team, and take the land in the name of the brother they worked for.

Four years later, Blutarch was getting rather old, and was nearing death. He called in the BLU team's Engineer at the time, Radigan Conagher, to build him a machine that would allow him to live forever. An enigmatic young woman entered his lab and made him an offer. One hundred pounds of intelligence-enhancing Australium in exchange for an immortality machine for Redmond. It's also believed that he build a regenerator, to forever revive the defeated classes, so that RED and BLU would never need new mercinaries.

And here we are now. An unknown amount of years fighting over worthless gravel.

No shady 'Puppeteers', everything is fully explained in the official comics.