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>as we know there basically a blank for why X retired from the fight to begin with.
The game's explanation was that X was dissatisfied with the fighting or something to that effect.
There was a smarter way of going about it though: Assuming that Sigma was truly gone (given that he only returned in the first place due to Gate and was in bad shape both physically and mentally), X could have felt like the rest of the Hunters could take care of things and step down to focus more on helping people who were affected by the past incidents, unaware of how badly his absence would cripple the rest of the Hunters.
Granted, him not getting immediately involved is more questionable. I guess you could write it as him having dropped off the radar after stepping down and returning once it became clear how much damage Red Alert was causing, allowing for a build up to his return.
>Red is either a survivor of the Repliforce incident, or was a former Repliforce soldier.
The prequel storylet stated that it was rumored that Red was part of Repliforce, though it's unconfirmed since Red doesn't like talking about the past (though Red claims not to like the Maverick Hunters, so take that as you will).
Another backstory facet for X7 it mentions is that Axl himself has no idea where his own admiration of X and hatred of mavericks comes from.