The ARM is one of 2 playable factions in the popular 1998 RTS computer game Total Annihilation. Set in the far future, the ARM are the sworn enemies of the CORE, who declared that all who resisted the patterning process, a method of safely and reliably transferring a human consciousness into a machine. would be exterminated, thus prompting them to flee and form their faction. It is assumed they are fighting for the freedom to remain biological.