History Characters / TerraInvicta

* XanatosSpeedChess: Fiona believes that through good intel and outwitting the Aliens before the first shots are ever fired, humanity can stand a chance.

* ReluctantWarrior: The Academy initially seek peaceful communication and cooperation with the aliens. When it becomes clear the aliens have other plans, the Academy's leadership doesn't give up this hope. They just decide that the peace treaty will have to come [[EarnYourHappyEnding after humanity has proven it won't be beaten into submission]]. This gives them the hardest goal in the game: they have to simultaneously fight the aliens back while spending resources on opening up communication and finding anti-war factions among the aliens to make peace with.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Being comprised of corporate magnates and government elites with sketchy backgrounds, the Initiative is considered one of the least popular factions in-universe. In fact, ''nobody'' in the public actually supports their vision for the world. At the same time, however, it uses this to its advantage, purposefully invoking its members’ public notoriety to better conceal its ''actual'' plans. So instead of seeking public support for the Initiative's goals, they cultivate support for "various exploitable ideologies" that play into their hands. [[spoiler:This also explains why it opts to run humanity from the shadows in its ending, despite brainwashing the populace.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Being comprised of corporate magnates and government elites with sketchy backgrounds, the Initiative is considered one of the least popular factions in-universe. In fact, ''nobody'' in the public actually supports their vision for the world. At the same time, however, it uses this to its advantage, purposefully invoking its members’ public notoriety to better conceal its ''actual'' plans. So instead of seeking public support for the Initiative's goals, they cultivate support for "various exploitable ideologies" that play into their hands.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Being comprised of corporate magnates and government elites with sketchy backgrounds, the Initiative is considered one of the least popular factions in-universe. At the same time, however, it uses this to its advantage, purposefully invoking its members’ public notoriety to better conceal its ''actual'' plans.

** As much as she personally respects and admires the Hydras, she considers the Servants and ''especially'' Judith Howell's plans, as not only being illogical, but morally beyond the pale.

* MassHypnosis: [[spoiler:The Initiative not only uses modified pheromones to enslave the Hydras in the ending, but it's strongly suggested that said pheromones are ''also'' used to brainwash the rest of humanity, allowing it to rule Earth from the shadows]].

* MeaningfulName: It's no coincidence that the Alien advisor to the Protectorate shares the same name as infamous Soviet figure Lavrentiy Beria. [[spoiler:Lavrentiy, coincidentally, becomes one of the most powerful leaders in the Protectorate's VichyEarth, with implied leverage against his erstwhile co-rulers.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: A dark example. As ruthless and sociopathic as he is, he ''does'' genuinely care for the men under his command, and won't waste their lives needlessly. That said, he's also not afraid to sacrifice them if the situation call for it, in the name of saving humanity, or rather his selective definition of it.

** He also is one of the faction leaders that is most on-point as to what the Aliens want for Humanity, and happily exploits the disillusionment and trauma of the initial invasion to recruit in droves.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite her enthusiasm for space travel, she regards [[HomeworldEvacuation Project Exodus]] with thinly-veiled contempt, seeing them as {{Dirty Coward}}s abandoning their homeworld in its greatest hour of need.

* ServantRace: If the Servants prevail over the other factions and the alien conquest of Earth succeeds, humanity will become [[spoiler:the respected artist and diplomat "caste" of the alien empire, effectively becoming TheDragon to the Hydras.]]

* GoodIsNotSoft: At the end of their campaign, they're not afraid to use [[spoiler:the threat of a potentially extinction-causing bioweapon]] as leverage to broker a peace with the Hydra.

* EnlightenedSelfInterest: To bolster humanity's chances of surviving the extraterrestrial threat, the Resistance makes an effort to sway various countries of how cooperating with one another in fighting the Hydras, and giving support to the Resistance itself, would serve their own national interests in the long run.

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: They want to drive the aliens out of the Solar System and protect humanity's independence.

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Fiona would rather step aside and return to her children the moment the Resistance's objectives are achieved.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: As much as the Initiative is more concerned about profits and control, its members would rather that humanity, or more accurately themselves, be the dominant force rather than submitting to the Hydras. It also knows that simply milking the planet dry isn't good business.

* AFatherToHisMen: A dark example. As ruthless and sociopathic as he is, he ''does'' genuinely care for the men under his command, and won't was their lives needlessly. That said, his love for humanity is very selective.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: At worst, the Resistance is willing to look the other way when it comes to more questionable wetwork, if it means achieving objectives. It’s made clear, however, that it takes no pleasure in such actions and would pursue more morally acceptable options when given the chance.

* ApatheticCitizens: The Initiative garners the most support from the "Undecided" among the population [[spoiler:and seeks to cultivate this globally through modified pheromones in order to cement its grip over humanity by the ending]].

* GenreBlindness: Downplayed. Its members are opportunistically taking advantage of the chaos to fill their pockets and to accumulate more power. Even as the organization becomes more cohesive and develops more of an identity, it's not until they're forced to defend themselves from Hydra attacks that they treat the extraterrestrials as anything other than a means to consolidate more control and they’re quick to catch on. They're a nascent corporate/government conspiracy straight out of ''Franchise/MetalGear'' and ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', thrust into an AlienInvasion setting.

* TheFettered: The Resistance is one of the most restrained factions in the game, sticking firmly to its professed mission as much as possible and lacking any other ulterior motive. As such, it doesn't interfere ''too'' much into political, scientific or economic affairs unless absolutely necessary.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:If Humanity First succeeds, mankind itself becomes no better than the invaders, becoming a xenophobic, militaristic empire in the making]].

** Towards its ending, the Protectorate resorts to [[spoiler:framing the destruction of the UN Headquarters by its orbital weapons platforms, taking out New York in the process, as an accidental misfire. This not only eliminates the remaining organized opposition to Earth's [[VichyEarth new benefactors]], but also conveniently wipes out anyone who could know the truth about humanity's surrender.]]

** Even the rapacious Initiative will put some effort into stopping GlobalWarming and generally maintaining order. Though this is more to mitigate potential opposition and to consolidate power than anything else.

* ToWinWithoutFighting: PlayedWith. He's all for more power and control, so long as ''he's'' not the one pulling the trigger. Viewing bloodshed as too wasteful, he considers it much more prudent to either pull the right strings, intimidate foes to submission, or have others do the dirty work for the Initiative.

* WarForFunAndProfit: Soren is mentioned as having made a fortune in arms dealing. Appropriately, the Initiative has a knack for PlayingBothSides to both fill its coffers and strengthen its influence.

* MoralityPet

* TragicVillain: Their backstory portrays them this way. [[spoiler:They were once a peaceful race who evolved to commune with and form friendships with other lifeforms on their homeworld, but most of them were wiped out in a horrific OrbitalBombardment by the Salamanders, leaving only the most technically-minded of them alive due to being off-world. They subjugated the Salamanders soon afterward, but the brutality of the act, combined with the fact this was their ''first encounter'' with non-Hydra life, led to them becoming paranoid that all life in the universe would also try to wipe them out or enslave them, so they decided the only recourse was to proactively enslave any other race they came into contact with and force them to confine themselves to their homeworld. The Academy storyline makes clear that this is not a universal belief, however, and a growing number of Hydra wis to sue for peace and partnership instead, but it takes quite a bit to get them into a position where they can successfully advocate for this.]]

-->'''Commander Fiona Ayoade''': Never forget that the true power in any kingdom is not the man on the throne, but instead those who quietly stand at his shoulders.

-->'''Commander Fiona Ayoade''': Our goal is not to change the world. Our goal is to stop the alien invasion, and nothing more. Human society will be transformed by this conflict -– that is inevitable -– but the nature of that transformation is a matter for individual countries to choose for themselves. If we can protect our world, and preserve the independence of our species, that is enough.

-->'''Commander Fiona Ayoade''': You'd think a threat this big would finally make us abandon old grudges and band together, but humanity always finds a way to hurt itself, doesn't it?

-->'''Chairman Soren Van Wyk''': He who controls the water controls the world. That's where we're headed now. But hell, even I know that a dying world isn't really one worth controlling.

-->'''Chairman Soren Van Wyk''': Trillions of dollars, just sitting up there, yet still the regulators drag their heels. Maybe it's time I treated the President to another golfing weekend...

-->'''Chairman Soren Van Wyk''': Fake news, misinformation... It doesn't matter what they call it. The simple truth is that the powerful do it, and the powerless cry about it. And that is why the powerless will never, ever become the powerful.