Free Talos Reclaimers
Native Talos II residents who see Endfield Industries as the new colonizers. The asymmetric threat.
⚠ Independent fan-made guide — not affiliated with Hypergryph or Yostar. Faction details below are fan interpretation of publicly-revealed Arknights: Endfield material; detailed lore will be replaced with verified content at launch.
The Free Talos Reclaimers don't see themselves as antagonists. To them, Talos II was inhabited long before Endfield Industries arrived — by descendants of the first wave of colonists, three generations of frontier families, and the survivors of the catastrophic events that nearly ended the colony before Rhodes was ever called in. From their perspective, the Industries arrived with corporate paperwork, called the existing residents "irregulars," and started enforcing claims with private security.
Mechanically, the Reclaimers are the antagonist faction in story content. Players will fight them through chapters 2-5, and they provide most of the human-scale boss encounters before the Eternal Crucible content takes over. Expect fire-element melee specialists, salvaged industrial mechs, and asymmetric ambush tactics.
Whether the player is meant to side with the Industries' "rule of law" or sympathize with the Reclaimers' "right to a home" is a recurring theme in the published narrative material. The early-game answer is "fight them anyway."