History NightmareFuel / RedAlert3Paradox

* How Atomic China treats its clones is absolutely horrendous. Since clones can be easily grown and programmed, they are treated like disposable robots rather than people, despite the fact that the WordOfGod explicitly stated that they are human beings with their own hopes and dreams. The Fenghuang Strategic Bomber's profile even mentions that the clones who are responsible for piloting them are routinely ''killed'', simply for doing what they were born to do.

'''China:''' In this timeline, the Chinese Civil War escalated into an outright [[NukeEm nuclear holocaust]], with both [[DirtyCommunists Red China]] and [[KnightTemplar Blue China]] [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen reduced to squabbling warlord fiefdoms]], and [[AfterTheEnd the rest of the country burnt to post-apocalyptic ash]], while pockmarked with the lethally radioactive "Jade" (a cross between nuke-grade Uranium and [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries Tiberium]]. Even worse is that the Atomic Chinese [[NobodyCouldHaveSurvivedThat have not just emerged from the ashes as the dominant Chinese faction in spite of this devastation]], [[FromNobodyToNightmare but with power on-par with the other major factions]]. And their goal isn't just to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave the planet for the galaxy at large]], [[KillEmAll it's to exterminate every other nation on Earth first]].

** When the Syndicate finally caught them (they had to send in [[MiniMecha Praetorians]] after the Satyrs simply killed off the [[ColdSniper Centurions]] they sent to restore status quo), [[EvenEvilHasStandards even some of its amoral executives were so disturbed by them that they wanted the program shut down]], but the others decided to use them in battle anyway. This proved difficult: it's virtually impossible to control them by force due to their tendency to [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoy any punishment inflicted on them]], and BehavioralConditioning proved impossible as well. So what did they do? They gave them ''free reign'' over the Sprawls [[MoralEventHorizon in exchange for not attacking Syndicate personnel in battle]].

** First there was Stalin, in our real life timeline he is already one of the worst dictator in history, in the Paradox universe everything evil about him was [[UpToEleven taken up to roughly 21]]. His spent his entire time in power doing nothing but preparing the country for a war that will allow him to conquer the world, with him completely ignoring the needs of his own people, and killing all those that speak out against him.

** Replicators: Unlike in {{Franchise/StarTrek}}, replicator technology cannot solve the problem of scarcity since the Law of Conservation of Mass [[note]]To create something, you need either mass, or energy to convert into mass.[[/note]] [[RealityEnsues still applies]]. Thus, China still need access to raw materials like anyone else. Green China does this by [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas collecting ore and asteroid mining]]. Red China on the other hand, created the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Hellmouths]]. A machine that recycles the dead bodies on the battlefield, transforming the carbon in corpses into coal, graphite, diamonds, and even an organic slurry that is used as food.

* '''[[AxCrazy Satyrs]]'''. To start off, you know that they're not gonna be sane when their opening quote is a ShoutOut. To ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram Carl Panzram]].'' [[FamousLastWords "I wish the entire human race had one neck, and I had my hands on it."]]

'''Allied Nations:''' Forget everything good and pure about the Allies. Throw it out the window, and replace it with an increasingly authoritarian socialist state in which the biggest rule is follow the rules. More and more the Allies are morphing from a well-meaning and desperate alliance on nations bent on fighting off Soviet aggression into an alternate-Soviet state, where state industries produce the people's goods under the beneficial direction of the leadership. Those happy-go-lucky spies you see running around? They're loose cannons, not beholden to any civil or military authority. The occupation of the United States is the "greater good" of the world being used as justification for the usurpation of lawful and sovereign government by paranoid overseers desperate to retain any edge they have against the Soviets.

'''Allied Nations:''' Forget everything good and pure about the Allies. Throw it out the window, and replace it with an increasingly socialist state in which the biggest rule is follow the rules. More and more the Allies are morphing from a well-meaning and desperate alliance on nations bent on fighting off Soviet aggression into an alternate-Soviet state, where state industries produce the people's goods under the beneficial direction of the leadership. Those happy-go-lucky spies you see running around? They're loose cannons, not beholden to any civil or military authority. The occupation of the United States is the "greater good" of the world being used as justification for the usurpation of lawful and sovereign government by paranoid overseers desperate to retain any edge they have against the Soviets.

* More specifically, they've started to give up on trying to follow any kind of ethical weapons development. Case in point, the [[http://wiki.paradoxmod.com/index.php?title=Pion_Isospin_Array Pion Isospin Array.]] It doesn't just kill a man, it flays the target while it's still alive. If a target's lucky, they'll just turn into a puddle of half-dissolved mush. If they're completely screwed, there will be ''nothing'' left to bury. Imagine being a regular soldier, fighting in the field, and suddenly your brothers in arms start vanishing all around you, their screams cut off by their own vanishing bodies. Then you look down, and your foot is starting to disappear.

* How Atomic China treats its clones is absolutely horrendous. Since clones can be easily grown and programmed, they are treated like disposable robots rather than people, despite the fact that they WordOfGod explicitly stated that they are human beings with their own hopes and dreams. The Fenghuang Strategic Bomber's profile even mentions that the clones who are responsible for piloting them are routinely ''killed'', simply for doing what they were born to do.

* How Atomic China treats its clones is absolutely horrendous. Since clones can be easily grown and programmed, they are treated like disposable robots rather than people, despite the fact that they were explicitly said to still be human beings with their own hopes and dreams. The Fenghuang Strategic Bomber's profile even mentions that the clones who are responsible for piloting them are routinely ''killed'', simply for doing what they were born to do.

** [[TeleporterAccident Teleportation]]: When the Nationalists first attempted to create a molecular teleporter, they decided to go straight for human testing, with Bruce Chen, a janitor, being the first person to do so. When he re-materialized, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he was turned into a pile of bloody flesh]], [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture exposed organs, and jutting bones]], [[GalaxyQuest which quickly exploded due to gases trapped within]]. The teleporter was redesigned as the Scrambler, which specializes as a weapon that scrambles its target's molecules until it no longer resembled anything it once was, turning enemy solders into shuddering piles of flesh and fusing tanks with their pilots.

* '''[[AxCrazy Satyrs]]'''. To start off, you know that they're not gonna be sane when their opening quote is a ShoutOut. To ''Carl Panzram.'' [[FamousLastWords "I wish the entire human race had one neck, and I had my hands on it."]]

** When the Syndicate finally caught them (they had to send in [[MiniMecha Praetorians]] after the Satyrs simply killed off the [[ColdSniper Centurions]] they sent to restore status quo), [[EvenEvilHasStandards even some of its amoral executives were so disturbed by them that they wanted the program shut down]], but the others decided to use them in battle anyway. This proved difficult: it's virtually impossible to control them by force due to their tendency to [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoy any punishment inflicted on them]], and BehavioralConditioning proved impossible as well. So what did they do? They gave them ''free reign'' over the Sprawls [[MoralEventHorizon in exchange for not attacking Syndicate personnel in battle.

** Hoo boy, Effigies. These nanite blobs take the form of their victims, and to take matters worse, [[SelfDuplication make more of themselves]] by destroying vehicles. Their

*** Cherdenko wasn't much better. Not only did he effectively erase Einstein (and with the good doctor the time line for Red Alert 2), he ensured that the people who travelled back with him would be in no position to challenge him: Gen. Krukov was killed in the Second World War; Romanov, Vladimir, Yuri ([[EvilOverlord though he really deserved it]]), and the RA 2 Soviet Commander were purged, and even Zofia was ReassignedToAntarctica. He, more than anyone else, is responsible for the madness that erupted, from the Empire of the Rising Sun to the five other powers that have started to destabilize the world.

*** Cherdenko wasn't much better. Not only did he effectively erase Einstein (and with the good doctor the time line for Red Alert 2), he ensured that the people who travelled back with him would be in no position to challenge him: Gen. Krukov was killed in the Second World War; Romanov, Vladimir, Yuri ([[EvilOverlord though he really deserved it]]), and the RA2 Soviet Commander were purged, and even Zofia was ReassignedToAntarctica. He, more than anyone else, is responsible for the madness that erupted, from the Empire of the Rising Sun to the five other powers that have started to destabilize the world.

*** Cherdenko wasn't much better. Not only did he effectively erase Einstein (and with the good doctor the time line for Red Alert 2), he ensured that the people who travelled back with him would be in no position to challenge him. Gen. Krukov was killed in the Second World War, and it's implied that he was the one who assassinated Stalin. He, more than anyone else, is responsible for the madness that erupted, from the Empire of the Rising Sun to the five other powers that have started to destabilize the world.

** Teleportation: When the Nationalists first attempted to create a molecular teleporter, they decided to go straight for human testing, with Bruce Chen, a janitor, being the first person to do so. When he re-materialized, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he was turned into a pile of bloody flesh]], [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture exposed organs, and jutting bones]], [[GalaxyQuest which quickly exploded due to gases trapped within]]. The teleporter was redesigned as the Scrambler, which specializes as a weapon that scrambles its target's molecules until it no longer resembled anything it once was, turning enemy solders into shuddering piles of flesh and fusing tanks with their pilots.

** The Protectorate Tripod's [[http://paradox-modfanmadebackup.wikia.com/wiki/Protectorate_Tripod unit description]], ''[[ApocalypticLog all of it]]''.

'''Electrical Protectorate:''' An infinite army of nanobots controlled by Nihilistic [=AIs]= that made a deal with an EldritchAbomination to wipe out all life on the planet? Yeah, these guys aren't going to be all sunshine and rainbows, that's for sure...

* Life in non-irradiated China regardless of which side you are on is absolutely nightmarish. If you live in an area controlled by Red China, you either live in the cities and work 14 hours a day in state factories and workshops to provide war materials for the army while being starved, or live in the countryside and get conscripted into the Red Guard in which you are expected to die in the thousands everyday just to rush enemy defensive positions in human waves. While in Blue China, you are expected to serve in World War 1-style trench warfare with no end in sight.

* Cryo-Prisons. The simple idea of cryo-prisons is terrifying. Any opposition to the Allied Nations, any attempt to question them more harshly than just writing an editorial is enough to have a person frozen, put on trial, frozen again, then shipped off to a human ice box in Greenland. There's already dozens of prisoners kept in stasis, and the prison guards themselves are apparently going mad from some kind of "ice sirens".

* Since in this timeline, the Soviets actually did attack the West, [[RedScare McCarthyism]] is much, much worst when compared to our own version. To the degree that merely being suspected as a Soviet sympathizer or having been a member of the USA Communist Party during your youth is enough to get you convicted of treason in a kangaroo court! In the case of physicist [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Arthur Leonard Schawlow]], the only reason he wasn't given the death penalty and executed was because the Allied Nations have ban on the death penalty in member states. Even afterwards, they still [[HumiliationConga get harassed and even brutalized by government agents constantly, having their life-long work discredited]], even [[AndYourLittleDogToo going after his family by keeping them under constant surveillance, and to prevent his autistic son from getting treatment]]. And remember, the Allies are suppose to be [[TheFederation the defenders of democracy and freedom]], yet this setting is so [[CrapsackWorld grimdark]] that they have been perverted to the point of being willing to go for an outright political purge.

** The Soviet Smelter. On the surface it might seem to be just a simple ore refinery that players have been building in the bases since [[CommandAndConquerRedAlert RA1]]. Here they are revealed to be [[NoOSHACompliance absolute death-traps that are affronts to worker safety]]. To start with, in order to keep up productions, there is no off switch for the machines, so even when an accident happens and someone dies, they will just keep on working. Resulting in small bone fragments of dead workers sometime being stuck in the frame of tanks. Furthermore, workers have to breath in so much ore dust that they often die from black lungs and poisoning. To make matters worst, the state deliberately shift workers in and out regularly [[KickTheDog in order to deny them government compensation]].

*** And as soon as the war started, in order to keep up their advantage in manpower, Stalin started dragging off entire collective farms and city blocks worth of Russian men, women, child, and elderly into the front lines, with citizens and POWs of occupied nations getting mass-conscript to replace them to keep the war machine running. Most of those that were taken by the Soviets ended up worked to death or killed in mass executions when they were suspected of sabotage or rebellion.

* The most chilling part about Green China's technology is that it is based heavily on the [[TheFederation Federation's]] tech in {{Franchise/StarTrek}}. Remember how SFDebris [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] how Starfleet is being WillfullyWeak since they never took advantage of their technology to help deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek or to win wars? Here we are given a picture of what would have happened if [[GoodPowersBadPeople instead of using that power to create a post-scarcity utopia, someone fully exploit that technology's military application instead]].

* The biggest problem of the Soviet Union is that in the Paradox timeline, since the death of Lenin and until Davidova's coup, the country has been ruled by a secession of insane, murderous, megalomaniac madmen:

* The Imperial subjugation of the Philippines. With the Empire transforming the entire country effectively into a breadbasket agricultural colony that focus entirely on food production for the Japanese homeland. With more than 90% of the Philippine land mass owned by Imperial noble families that never even bother to set foot on the islands. Furthermore, the Imperials keep the cost low by minimizing expenditures on things such as worker salaries, housing, and maintenance of any infrastructure not part of the Imperial agricultural system, resulting in terrible standards of living for the Filipinos. It is an illusion on what will happen to the rest of the world if the Empire had won WW3.
** As Masoko Okamura, a Japanese defector to the Order of Talon puts it, if the Imperials had it their way they would have "''...[C]onquering the planet and making like it's nineteenth-century Europe only with everyone outside Japan playing the part of the African natives''."

* Life in pre-nuclear China regardless of which side you are on is absolutely nightmarish. If you live in an area controlled by Red China, you either live in the cities and work 14 hours a day in state factories and workshops to provide war materials for the army while being staved, or live in the countryside and get conscripted into the Red Guard in which you are expected to die in the thousands everyday just to rush enemy defense positions in human waves. While in Blue China, you are expected to serve in World War 1 style trench warfare with no end in sight.

* The most chilling part about Green China's technology is that it is based heavily on the [[TheFederation Federation's]] tech in {{Franchise/StarTrek}}. Remember how SFDebris [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] how StarFleet is being WillfullyWeak since they never took advantage of their technology to help deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek or to win wars? Here we are given a picture of what would have happened if [[GoodPowersBadPeople instead of using that power to create a post-scarcity utopia, someone fully exploit that technology's military application instead]].