Mann Co. (Universe 174)

Mann Co. is a multinational division of TF Industries with headquarters in the Badlands, near Teufort, New Mexico. In the Badlands area alone, the company operates over 300 plants, office buildings, warehouses and outlet malls.

The company was originally incorporated in the United States as Mann & Sons Munitions Concern by the arms-dealer Zepheniah Mann, who co-managed the firm with his brother, Silas Mann. Upon his death in 1850, Zepheniah Mann bequeathed ownership of Mann Co. to close friend and hunter Barnabas Hale. The company was subsequently owned and operated by three generations of Hales.

Zephaniah Mann is persuaded by his sons Redmond and Blutarch Mann to purchase land in the United States. The land turns out to be useless and Zephaniah contracts various illnesses. He wrote on his will that the land will be split between his sons and the company would be given to Barnabas Hale. The sons each hire nine mercenaries to their companies, Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) and Builder's League United (BLU), Heavy, Scout, Soldier, Medic, Engineer, Demoman, Sniper, Spy, and Pyro, Leading to the Gravel Wars. They then hire nine more of the same classes once the originals retire. Blutarch, nearing his death hires Radigan Conagher to make a machine that will extend his life. Conagher also builds one for Redmond after the Administrator, who handles the affairs of both Reliable Excavation Demolition and Builder's League United, offers Australium to him.

In 1968 the Mann brothers hire nine more mercenaries after the second ones retire. The Administrator and Saxton Hale oversee the conflict between RED and BLU and provides weapons and gear to each side. Gray Mann, Redmond and Blutarch's long lost brother, sends them letters to trick them into a truce. Gray then kills the two of them so that he can get control of Mann Co. Gray then sends an army of robots against Mann Co. Hale gets the mercenaries of both RED and BLU to fight the robots. They succeed, destroying the robots. Gray approaches Hale and challenges him to a duel for control over Mann Co. Hale agrees but finds out that Gray is not who he would be fighting, he would be fighting Gray's daughter, Olivia. Hale refuses to fight and forfeits as he does not want to hurt the child. Gray takes over Mann Co and fires all of the mercenaries. Six months later, The Administrators assistant, Miss Pauling, finds the mercenaries and rehires them to take back Mann Co. Gray is then killed by a former Heavy Weapons Guy that worked for BLU. The former BLU team reunites and tries to kill the third mercenaries of RED and Miss Pauling. The majority of the former BLU team are killed except for Engineer and Medic (presumably).