Big Red Alert TL (Not mine)

[gtrof]

Like what you two put up. A couple of things: the picture you used for the dreadnaught, while cool, doesn't look much like the ingame model, but what the hell.

BlackWave I know its not like the RA2 model but I was trying to keep in the style of the TL which has as much realistic equipment as possible for items. For example the image of M-60s used as Grizzy tanks or my image of Chinese tanks for Soviet Rhinos.

Loved your robotic section. Redeem you should see about adding this to the Wiki for AH.com.

 

[Redem]

Very good if you ask me and well I don't know about putting it on the wiki since most of it wasn't written by any of us.

Ok here my attemp for the Chronosphere huh a lot of it come from the fact I know sqat about physic.

Maybe propaganda poster and leaflets might be a good addition

Chronoshift

The brainchild of Albert Einstein, the Chronoshifting technology was created during World War I as a way to drop allied troops and equipment deep into Soviet Territory, behind the enemy lines. Albert Einstein spent most of his post-war year refining the process. The Chronospheres became essential for the allied invasion of Moscow and for the victory over the Yurian Movement. While the side effect of the original version had been remove and even a mobile version had been created, the chronoshift technology was prohibited after WWIII as the ability to move anywhere in time or space was seen as a danger to world stability.

It is define among the world scientist that the Chronoshifting technology was born lived and died with Einstein. Among the first paper on wormhole were done by Einstein and got a great deal of attention through the European scientific community and manage to greatly to benefit the spirit of European cooperation through the 30’s to further the work on the understand of Time and Space. However much of it before of the war was relayed to purely theoretic field and the feeling was that it would remain for the decades to come as the science was far too complex for what the technology could give at the time. Einstein pointed out how unstable the wormhole would be if created often leading to the belief that if created the machine would destroy large area of the earth in a single second. Since they was a lack of a model, no people was willing to finance the research seeing nothing more than a money pit that was hazardous.

However the human understanding of the mechanic of the universe went on through the 40’s mostly coming from American universities as most of the European brain trust went on devising new war technology. Progress in physic also went on in Soviet Union however much more focus on Molecule and how they reacted which later went to develop the Iron Curtain and the Atomic Bomb. While it main seem that the soviet research was totally unrelated to the some of the Soviet Research was critical to the creation of the Chronosphere.

When the Soviet kidnapped Einstein in 1946, the soviet wanted to help him on their iron curtain technology. The soviet were much more advance in finding a way to make atoms work abnormally in practise. During his detention Einstein had access to an experimental particle accelerator that allowed him to test several of his theories on wormholes, however he was very far from creating one he communicated his advance on wormhole technology to the European Leaders that now thought that with sufficient funding a device that could travel through space might be devisable. Seeing how large the Soviet Union and its occupied territory was getting a way to cut the travel short would bring a critical advantage to the allied.

After the entrance of America into the war, Einstein was for his security transferred to the United States. The first wormhole machine were devise in the early 50’s much of the research trying to make a stable wormhole. The first living being to manage to go through a wormhole was a monkey called Albert Bernstein. Who manage to go from one side of the lab to another only to find himself fuse on the wall of the Lab. The later Albert II was much more successful, but a strange event called a timequake, shock the New Mexico facility and a few moment later the monkey was back at his previous position. Most of the scientist that worked on the device (along with Einsten himself) said that the prototype was far too dangerous to be use on military personel, however the military pushed along to work on making bigger wormhole from their working technology rather than making it safer.

The chronospheres was invented in the last days of the war, it was first put in Philadelphia Harbor and used to move the USS Eldrige on a very short distance. Mostly as a way to demonstrate the stride of the technology and how relatively safe it was. Luckily the test was successful without much problem except that many of the pieces of the engine of the Eldrige had melt onto themselves. Still the allied propaganda machine tried to stress the fact that most of the time the machine was successful and safe for soldier providing information leaflets to troops about to be teleport to reassure them. However the Chronosphere quickly gained a bad reputation among both troops and commander as to its usefulness past a certain point. Interestingly enough, Stalin never seemed to see anything wrong with the Allied Chronosphere and much of the report of his later day show how obsess he became to acquire it. One report tell how he dreamed of teleporting himself to London to kill Gunther Von Esling himself and bring his head onto his office. He was known to sen a commander for execution for failing to capture the Chronsophere even though his failure was clearly due to a failure of intelligence service.

Due to the damage it caused and the energy required the Chronosphere was mostly abandoneed by all except Einstein. After he came back to Germany and established his lab in the black forest he worked around a major report as to why the chronosphere had so many problem and different way to solve them. Becoming not only one of the few scientist still working on the vortex technology but the best. Most Scienstist abandoned wormhole research thinking that vortex would always have those problem. Einstein research proved that much of the machine problem was due to its location, the magnetic field of the earth having a great effect of the vortex. Albert Einstein proposed a second Chronosphere plan post-war but failed to bring much attention to it as it was still consider a very inefficient way to travel as only one “perfect” chronosphere could be build. He also started to work how the chronosphere working could be use to work in the fourth dimension.

Several years after WWII, a mouse called Mr. Jingle (who was use in the early day of the project) lived several decades (an amazing feat as the common mouse usually only living). The vortex proved themselves to be able to stunt or slow cell aging either by indefinitely expanding one person life span, but kept them aging, or have them stunt in their aging keeping them young for years only to have them suddenly age in their twilight years and die with a lifespan in the average. Some tried to use vortex technology for medical or in the hope of never aging, but with little success as only a little number of people in contact with vortex ever managed ever had their life affect by them in a positive way.

World War III allowed Einstein to devise both his time machine and his “perfect” chronosphere, teleportation leading to the capture. However, the international community quickly pressured the United States to destroy the chronophere in Florida saying that the Chronosphere gave the United States an unfair advantage over every nation of the world and its allied and that now that Einstein had destroyed its blueprint maintenance and repair were impossible making the machine extremely hazardous. The Chronosphere was eventually destroyed in 1976.

Also Einstein devised a portable device that created a miniature vortex that created an controllable event horizon that led one person to be a state of flux through the time, that person could teleport through large distance using a G.P.S. making the person appear at two area at the same time. However the transit was not instantaneous and the person moving while in transit was very vulverable. However if the traveller was in fix state he could send project the energy from his quantum singularity to a target to make it vanish from the timestream and space. However after a while it was discovered that the chrono legionnaire themselves were pulled into the vortex making them vanish. Leading to a ban on the technology.

The time machine was used once to prevent the Psychic Dominator to be use as it was establish that the timeline could be modify but that consequence of one over the timeline could not be determine time Travel technology was ban. Also the time machine proved itself to be quite a gambit when it came to when the time traveller would arrive. A second time travel essay was attempt after the end of Yuri Conflict and the time machine landed millions of years in the past during the time of the dinosaurs, which could have had disastrous result to history.

The ban of Chronoshifting technology was mostly obeyed, most of the project surronding teletransportation after WWIII were centered around using them for space travel for Faster than light travel.

 

[RCTFI]

Hm, I was reading this and a thought came to mind - you might want to have the Ion Cannon in orbit be some sort of descendant of the original RA2-era Prysm technology, just for the sake of the in-universe tie-in. It just seems like the fewer types of weird technology that there need to be to make the TL work, the better.

 

[BlackWave]

Hm, I was reading this and a thought came to mind - you might want to have the Ion Cannon in orbit be some sort of descendant of the original RA2-era Prysm technology, just for the sake of the in-universe tie-in. It just seems like the fewer types of weird technology that there need to be to make the TL work, the better.

Meh, I always liked to think of prism tech being the predecessor of Nod's obelisk of light technology. Anyways Redem, like the piece on the chronotech. One problem--are you sure it was first developed in World War 1?

On that topic, here's something I did for Prism technology:

Prism technology has gained a reputation for being one of the most unorthodox, but effective, weapons system of the Third World War. Capable of stopping Soviet tank assaults with ease, the only real weaknesses prism networks had were their inefficient use of power and their lack of anti-air capability. Indeed, some Soviet commanders branded the turrets 'overpowered' and 'typical Allied cheating'.

The origins of prism tech can be traced back to Einstein's various attempts to research new technologies for civilian application in the 1960s. Various theories attempt to explain how he first came across this technology, but the accepted one is thus: During his research to create new telescopes to study his theories of light bending, Einstein discovered that channeling too much power into a light refraction unit resulted in an intensely powerful beam that caused a large hole in his ceiling. Said light refraction device would eventually become the basis for the Prism Tower. Fearful that his research would again be used for warlike means, Einstein abandoned his prism experiments.

However, when the Third World War broke out in 1970, the German government pressured Einstein into producing new weapons. Reluctantly, Einstein rediscovered his prism research and designed the first prism tower, which used an intense light refraction generator, using various carefully aligned diamond prisms, to project a searing beam of light capable of melting tank armour. Prism towers placed nearby each other were also capable of focusing light energy into each other's prism refractors, increasing their power. However, his new invention was put to use following the disabling of Soviet nuclear missiles in Poland, allowing the European countries to go on the offensive against the Soviets. The Germans explained the prism technology to Michael Dugan in a meeting in early 1971, and Dugan expressed great interest in its application. Einstein then made the blueprints available to an Allied commander, who then had them programmed into Allied construction yards.

The Prism Tower was first deployed in note during the Allied liberation of Washington DC, where a network of them was set up around the Pentagon, decimating Soviet sorties. It was thanks to this that the Allies were able to keep a sustained assault on the Soviet facilities in the Washington Mall. The Soviets were astounded by the new technology, having had no prior intelligence concerning it, but Soviet propaganda still held that prism towers were cheap copies of Soviet tesla-based defences.

Nonetheless, Soviet commandoes fretted greatly over prism technologies. As Soviet hold in America collapsed, Soviet shock troops raided a Californian military base and stole several prism tower blueprints and nodes. They were transported to a Soviet facility in the Yucatan, where the Soviets succeeded in replicating the technology, albeit shoddy, unstable versions. However, before the Soviets could start applying it, an Allied commando group eliminated the base, destroying the prototypes and killing the Soviet researchers there. Frustrated, Romanov abandoned attempts to copy the technology and instead focused on new anti-prism doctrines.

However, the allies were still focusing on new ways to apply prism technologies. Einstein succeeded in decreasing the size of the prism refractors and lessening their power sources, decreasing power but also increasing portability. French and American researchers working with Einstein applied this to create the M7-ZAP 'prism tank', a lightly armoured vehicle equipped with a prism-beam generating weapon. This prism tank had considerable range, a positive side-effect of the minaturised refractors. Nonetheless, Allied desires to mass-produce this tank resulted in inferior armour, meaning that the prism tank was nearly useless in close combat. Allied commanders improvised, using it as an improputu artillery weapon.

Prism tanks were used widely in the last stages of the war, especially in the strike into Moscow, where a division of them eliminated a tactical missile silo set up in Red Square. The image of the tanks taking down the silo became a common image in Allied propaganda casts. Allied researchers initiated plans with Einstein over the possibility of further shrinking the technology to apply prism tech to handheld weapons.

However, this never bore fruit. Prism technology was banned in the disarmnament drives following the war, and Einstein himself destroyed all known blueprints. Under the drives, all prism towers were dismantled, and all prism tanks were refitted with conventional weapons. Some surviving papers concerning the technology were used in research into ion focusing experiments in the early 1990s as guidelines.

Until recently, it was believed that prism technology was lost forever. However, the CIA recently announced that some of Einstein's research papers concerning the tech have been stolen by the Brotherhood of Nod. Military analysts speculate that Nod could be planning some sort of laser-based defense system, but for now, this remains unknown.

 

[Astronomo2010]

fantastic timeline, hope it continues to see where this will lead.

 

[Redem]

fantastic timeline, hope it continues to see where this will lead.

Sadly I seem to have miss the train on that guy, he was away in Africa a while after his TL was lost, the only way I ever found I could contact him was on his wikipedia profile, he seem back after a while but quickly vanished much to my disapointement

but I would like to extend on the minor providing I'm not the only one

 

[RMcD94]

Why was the meteorite not shot by the Ion Cannon?

 

[BlackWave]

Why was the meteorite not shot by the Ion Cannon?

Too small to be noticed, I'd imagine. That and the ion system not being fully operational.

 

[Redem]

Too small to be noticed, I'd imagine. That and the ion system not being fully operational.

Yup the meteorite seem barely bigger than a hand, they didn't know it was coming or filled with toxic tiberium

Anyway here some additional biography to get thing going feel free to add your own.

Dmitry Pavlov
1897-1950?
Like the bulk of the Russian people at the time he was born in a poor peasant family in the village of Vonyukh he fought in the calvalery in both World War I and the Russian civil war embracing the red army cause in 1919 after being taken out of a German prisoner camp after the war. He took part in many military initiative of the Soviet Union through its early history. Due to his importance in the General Coup, his life was very much investigated by international researcher but also much of it was repress both by Soviet Propaganda machine and the NKVD who sought to destroy any trace Pavlov existence but also. Some believed that some aspects of his life were romanced by Anti-communists Russian who view as a hero and allied nations.

Most of his life up to 1950 seems rather unremarkable for Russian officers. He is believed to have taken part of a minor group of soviet military advisors that supported republican Spain under the codename Marco successfully avoiding the purges that were going on back at home by staying abroad until Franco Victory.

Pavlov was at first supporting that Tank should only have a supportive preferring having infantry at the basis of the attack. Suffering from a rather crippling political position as the tank seemed to gain massive popularity within the rest of the army. He himself changed his position after the war with China seeing how effective tank warfare could be against infantry. He redefined himself as one of the main backer of armoured warfare and building link with other generals and politicians over the years but still trying to keep a low profile in order not be targeted by purge. Many accounts talk about of a friendship he stroke with Pyotr Gradenko, some said it was purely pragmatical relationship on the Palvov who thought that Gradenko would allow him to be save from the many purges that were taking place. Some historians believe he took part in the design of the Mammoth tank however this has disputed.

He was given a post in Xiangjian in 1944, but was quickly recall back to Europe in 1946 where he took part in the push to invade Europe. The soviet archive describe him has rather confident in the soviet ability to crush the nations of Europe taking part on German front, managing to gain minor prominence despite being a overall mediocre general. He seem to quickly realise that thing the tide was turning facing many difficulties in his demand to the central command in Moscow. Other generals in the red army started to talk about the necessity of a truce between Allies and Germany giving control of Half of Europe to Soviet Union and letting the rest to the allies. Stalin was quick to declare that any officers speaking of truce would be executed.

Pavlov was put in a rather difficult position knowing that if the Allies would manage to put a successful offensive he might be among the first one to be targeted to a new purge. He decided to risk it all organising a coup d’état against Stalin hoping to rally the best generals in the staff in order to have the best chance if the armies were to split after the coup in case thing he would have to deal with a situation like after the Russian revolution. While It was known as his brainchild it is unknown if he himself planned to take over the Soviet Union politically considering he both lacked the prestige and the charisma to be able to claim the power for himself. Still the coup date was meant to take place on January 2 1950.

Dimitri however had underestimated how much the NKVD had infiltrate the red army (Some rumours mention a NKVD agent pretending to be a general who might have been contacted by Pavlov). The mandate against him was sign by his friend Gradenko on Christmas Day. The next day no one ever saw or heard of Pavlov ever again. However he appeared in some of the soviet archive after the mandate, probably as he was being torture in order to give the name of every general involved in the plot. However the great number of generals involved made the whole affair rather high profile, but most allied command thought it was simply was another purge brought by Stalin paranoia rather than anything like some

Most of the plot was unrevealed until 1972, when United Nations research of the Soviet archive revealed most of the detail about the general coup. However he stayed a relatively minor figure because of the lack of public interest in the story

In 1977, while still a somewhat controversial figure in Russia he was given his own statue in his own town, it suffered many attack by communist Russians over the year. In 1988, Bob Hoskins won the Academy Award for his interpretation of Pavlov in the movie “the December plot”, Hoskins last line just before he is executed on screen “I hope someone else has a worst day” became something of a popular catch-phrase.



I wonder if Georgei Kukov are the same or name bending? (like the whole McArthur/MacArthur in 191)

 

[BlackWave]

You mean Kukov-Zhukov? Well, they don't look anything like each other IMO.

 

[Redem]

Well basicly the guy was stand-in for TL Zhukov

So anyone else interested in doing those bio and description?


Dag Hammarskjöld
1905-1970
Born from a high profile political Swedish family, Hammarskjöld, he proved himself in the economical domain during the 1930’s at the bank of Sweden. He was among on the early advocate of unified finance for the European Alliance working on the many treaties in the preparation for the war. He was a minor participant in the negotiation for the European Economic charter as an observant for Sweden. He openly didn’t support the government neutrality position favouring an Alliance seeing that war with the Soviet Union seemed to be inevitable using his contact within the government to pressure Sweden to stand with the rest of Europe.

The Soviet eventually invaded Sweden in 1946, while Sweden was finally entering the alliance he hardly could be satisfy by the condition. The siege of the bank was destroy in the bombing of Stockholm. Hammarskjöld decided to flee the country knowing a bank manager might have very little sympathy in a Soviet occupied Sweden. He decided to flee to London hoping the red army would never reach the island. He started to work for the Alliance full-time, assisting in the negotiation of the lend-lease treaty with the United States and working on the inner economic working of the alliance all the way through the war. He moved back to Sweden after the allied liberation, participating in the allied reconstruction program. Investing quite a lot in the reconstruction of the Soviet Union, he had an ear on what was going in the country becoming increasingly worried with time at the situation .

Nominated as European union as the head of the economics ministry, he tried his best to heal the fracture relationship with the United States. He hoped to build a growing economic relation between the EU and the USA who might end up give birth to a unified currency between the two super-power. The Hammarskjöld memo that propose a move toward such thing was very ill receive by both superpower eventually leaked to the press and he eventually led to him quitting his post.

He worked for the private enterprise for the rest for the rest of his life, taking a growing fortune with time. However in his later years he would be under growing worry that war with the soviet was immininent. He did a trip to the Soviet Union after the government ceased the property he owned there. On his way back his plane crashed down in the Arctic Circle over Finland. No one know what led the plane so far off path. Being straight on the border of the Soviet Union, investigation proved turn out out to be difficult because of the difficult political and only got stalled further with the war.

The wreckage were finally found in 1977, his remains brought back Stockholm. While UN declared it an accident, numerous conspiracy theories tells about the pilot being a KGB agent or being under the control of Yurian agents all of it covered up in order to keep good relationship with Russia. The United Nations investigators fully deny theses claims as frivolous.

 

[Xgentis]

Sorry to bring it back from the death but linking the Red Alert universe to that of Coommand and Conquer make no sense. I know that originaly Red Alert was suposed to be a prequel but the link was dropped and it's fine like that.