Ultor Corporation

The Ultor Corporation is a fictional megacorporation prominently featured in the Red Faction and Saints Row series of video games, both of which are developed by Volition, Inc. The Ultor Corporation, or just Ultor, first appeared in 2001 in Red Faction, and have since played a large role in both the Red Faction and Saints Row series, serving as the main antagonist in each game.
Ultor is displayed as a multinational enterprise which invests in mining, clothing labels and city redevelopment, but is also shown to have a much darker and more sinister side than what is seen in the public eye with poor business ethics; often enforcing manual labor and failing to provide acceptable working conditions, and often having ties with street gangs purely for the purpose of providing a steady cash flow.
History
The actual history of the Ultor Corporation is non-linear, as each game it has appeared in has been during a different time period. The first two Red Faction games depicted Ultor during the late-21st century and early 22nd-century, respectively, and the first two Saints Row games depicted Ultor during the early 21st century It is also featured as a sponsorship in 2009 UFC Ultimate
fighter Game for the Xbox 360.
Formation and early days
In Saints Row, the earliest appearance of Ultor to date (set in 2006), the corporation is depicted as a small clothing company with its own stadium arena, the Ultor Dome in , the fictional city which serves as the setting for the game. Although Ultor is not referenced directly in the storyline, the player has the option to purchase Ultor sunglasses from a jewellery store and compete in a demolition derby held within the Arena, and some characters in cutscenes can be seen wearing clothing with the Ultor logo on it. By technicality, this would have been where Ultor was formed.
Redevelopment of Stilwater
During the five-year time period between Saints Row and Saints Row 2, it is said that Ultor funds hundreds of millions of dollars into the restoration of Stilwater, turning the "once crime-ridden third-tier city" into an "urban utopia" after it has been torn apart by crippling gangs and a major earthquake. The redevelopment of the city is witnessed in Saints Row 2 (set in 2011), where the player has full roam over the "new" Stilwater. By the time the player finishes Saints Row 2, Stilwater has been brought to rule by the , the gang to which the player character owns, resulting in the death of Ultor's Board of Development and CEO Dane Vogel, who is later replaced by Eric Gryphon. Notably, during Saints Row 2, Ultor are revealed to be developing experimental mining equipment within one of their top-secret bases; The Pyramid. Within the first downloadable content for Saints Row 2, a mission is featured which involves the player being chased by multiple new mining vehicles armed with rapid firing rocket launchers, and when the player asks "Where are Ultor planning on mining?", they receive the response "You wouldn't believe me if I told you". In the second downloadable content, the player tells an Ultor CEO that as long as they stop harassing the Saints, "Ultor can go to Mars for all I care."
Establishment on Mars
After the Earth's minerals have been depleted, Ultor sets up mining colonies on nearby planet Mars to bring liberation to Earth and keep its peoples from extinction. During Red Faction, the player assumes the role of Parker, a miner in one such colony who sparks a rebellion against Ultor following abuse of the miners' human rights and poor living conditions. After the miners successfully escape Ultor's mining industry and return to Earth, Ultor plunges into an obsolete state, before being resurrected by the Earth Defense Force, or EDF, in Red Faction II. Mars is soon terraformed, leaving most traces of Ultor destroyed, with the exception of the science labs Alec Mason encounters during Red Faction: Guerrilla and the Mauraders roaming the Badlands. The Mauraders are the descendants of Ultor scientists who hid in the mines when the EDF attacked the facility. You also encounter mutants from the first Red Faction in Red Faction: Armageddon.
Appearances
To date, the Ultor Corporation has appeared in four stand-alone titles within the Red Faction and Saints Row series. Ultor is also featured in the game UFC 2009 Undisputed.
;Red Faction
Ultor appears as a mining industry on Mars in Red Faction.
;Red Faction II
Ultor appears as an enterprise of the EDF on Mars in Red Faction II.
;Saints Row
Ultor appears as a clothing company in Saints Row.
;Saints Row 2
Ultor appears as a megacorporation in Saints Row 2.
;Red Faction: Guerrilla
Players discover the ruins of an Ultor facility as part of the plot.
;UFC 2009 Undisputed
Ultor Corporation is one of the sponsors within the career mode of the game.

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