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Despite this, BLU and RED remain in a protracted stalemate and still hire mercenaries to continue the fight. The build-up of the military-industrial complex leads to massive amounts of funds being placed into Research & Development at various facilities across the world, perhaps influencing the gradual shift from manufacturing to research at Aperture. The massive social and economic changes in the aftermath of World War II may have permitted such consolidation of power to happen. Perhaps a certain German Medic was amongst them.ġ953- Cave Johnson founds Aperture Science as a manufacturer of shower curtains.ġ956- Aperture is awarded a contract to provide shower curtains to all branches of the military except the Navy.ġ968- By now, the feud between Blutarch and Redmond Mann has developed to the point that their companies Builders League United (BLU) and Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED) each have control of roughly half the planet. Several German scientists are brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. ( The events of Day of Defeat and Day of Defeat: Source occur.)ġ945- World War II ends. His sons Blutarch and Redmond begin fighting over the land left to them.ġ890- Radigan Conagher builds a life-extending machine for Blutarch and Redmond, extending their feud indefinitely.ġ944- United States troops invade Europe, fighting German forces. Early 1800s- Zephaniah Mann purchases large tracts of land in frontier America, as convinced by his twin sons, Redmond and Blutarch.ġ850- Zephaniah Mann passes away, leaving behind a last will and testament written on his own skin.