The mod takes place around 200 years in the future when man has finally left its cradle and set about colonizing Mars and mining the surrounding asteroids for much needed resources.
An ambitious effort to terraform Mars has failed for unknown reasons.
The resulting chaos forced the Mars based government to flee back to Earth leaving the colonist leaderless and Mars in the hands of those with enough power to maintain order.
The struggle between mining corporations, the remaining remnants of the colonial military and the engineers behind the partial terraforming of the red planet is where we find ourselves.

The spearhead of each of these organization branches are:

- Toshida Mining Corporation (Toshida)
An earth based mining corporation with the largest holdings on Mars. It Controls most of the non-colonial areas of Mars and employs a private army to maintain peace and order within their realm of influence.Their corporate ambitions are to completely \"liberate\" Mars from the chaos it is in now and establish a corporate government for maximum profit.

- United Colonial Marines (UCM, Marines)
The remaining portion of the once might UCM continues to control the core colonies. Its solider chose to remain and protect the families and industries that make up these areas. Although essentially abandoned on Mars they have maintained order and kept the expansion of Toshida corps mining interests in check.

- The Masons (Masons)
Said to be mainly made up of ex-terraforming engineers (many of whom haven’t been seen or heard from since the collapse of the initial project) This almost phantom like group has no known bases or realms of influence but has recently begun numerous raids into the colonies and facilities in search of supplies and machinery as for yet unknown purposes.