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* ''VideoGame/StarTrekArmada'' takes place in an alternate universe connected to this one, as the Mainheim Effect from the Temporal Research Facility seems very related to the Chronosphere, and the Corbomite Reflector might be an offshoot of the Iron Curtain project. The starbases roughly resembling the GDSS Philadelphia might indicate some bleed-thru from the Tiberium Universe happened.
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* Highly doubtful: Kane is vastly more competent conspiratorially than Hitler, shares few if any of his other interests (painting, dogs, etc), and lacks his irrational paranoia, his tell-tale illnesses (think the quaking hand Hitler kept hidden), and most of his overly irrational prejudices.
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* Highly doubtful: Kane is vastly more competent conspiratorially than Hitler, shares few if any of his other interests (painting, ({{painting|s}}, dogs, etc), and lacks his irrational paranoia, his tell-tale illnesses (think the quaking hand Hitler kept hidden), and most of his overly irrational prejudices.
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When one thinks about it, this makes some sense. First, let me state I have never played a game in the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series, and am basing this on second-hand fluff.
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When one thinks about it, this makes some sense. First, let me state I have never played a game in the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, and am basing this on second-hand fluff.
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[[WMG: Yuriko Omega is LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya.]]
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[[WMG: Yuriko Omega is LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya.Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya.]]
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[[WMG:Tiberium is Strange Matter]]
In the Intel Database it is declared that Tiberium can transform any matter it comes into contact with into more of itself. The process is actually quite plausibly explained even though there's no mention of any Strangelets. Basically the Tiberium being incredibly radioactive bombards all surrounding matter with heavy particles which break up the cores of said matter. Some of the released protons are then caught by Tiberium's attractive forces and incorporated into it.
[[WMG:Tiberium did not really evolve, its true form was always the same.]]
Even though it's stated that "first forms of tiberium were almost organic in nature" it always manifested itself as green (and later also blue) crystals. The fact that they sprouted from organic fungi-like pods does not necessarily mean the substance itself is organic in nature. It just mutated terran lifeforms to help it spread. By the time of the Third Tiberium War the Tiberium's most common form is a self-replicating proton lattice (which sounds pretty mundane baring the self-replication part) - the very same GreenRocks seen throughout the entire Tiberian Series. The reason it required organic life in the early stages is because its concentration was too low to affect heavier matter. Once the Tiberium's concentration became sufficiently dense, its forces were strong enough to affect even the heaviest elements and the drastic increase in radioactivity became too much even for the mutated lifeforms to handle, explaining why they gradually disappeared. In the end Tiberium itself didn't really change its nature. It just grew in mass.
In the Intel Database it is declared that Tiberium can transform any matter it comes into contact with into more of itself. The process is actually quite plausibly explained even though there's no mention of any Strangelets. Basically the Tiberium being incredibly radioactive bombards all surrounding matter with heavy particles which break up the cores of said matter. Some of the released protons are then caught by Tiberium's attractive forces and incorporated into it.
[[WMG:Tiberium did not really evolve, its true form was always the same.]]
Even though it's stated that "first forms of tiberium were almost organic in nature" it always manifested itself as green (and later also blue) crystals. The fact that they sprouted from organic fungi-like pods does not necessarily mean the substance itself is organic in nature. It just mutated terran lifeforms to help it spread. By the time of the Third Tiberium War the Tiberium's most common form is a self-replicating proton lattice (which sounds pretty mundane baring the self-replication part) - the very same GreenRocks seen throughout the entire Tiberian Series. The reason it required organic life in the early stages is because its concentration was too low to affect heavier matter. Once the Tiberium's concentration became sufficiently dense, its forces were strong enough to affect even the heaviest elements and the drastic increase in radioactivity became too much even for the mutated lifeforms to handle, explaining why they gradually disappeared. In the end Tiberium itself didn't really change its nature. It just grew in mass.
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Dewicked trope
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All about humanity's more warlike side? Check. Hot female officers in skimpy [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring uniforms]]? Check.
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All about humanity's more warlike side? Check. Hot female officers in skimpy [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring uniforms]]? uniforms? Check.
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* This fits with RA1: Kane is acting relatively open there (while presumably under an assumed identity he's an important enough advisor to Stalin that his one Allied campaign appearance is him standing close to Stalin during a public speech), but the Allies don't get Chronosphere technology in a mature enough form to field deploy until until relatively late in the war (unlike later games, where chrono-tech of one stripe or another come in ''far'' earlier), and he takes rather direct action in the Soviet ending -- which is shortly after ''the Chronosphere project was destroyed''.
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[[WMG: Nod used Bradleys as tanks in TW1 because that was the best option they had]]
While by ''Tiberian Sun'', the Brotherhood('s splinters) had built up a full industrial complex capable of supporting their entire military, in ''Tiberian Dawn'' they had to rely on corruption and sympathisers in the US arms industry to supply significant parts of their military, with the industry they themselves have going either towards refits or focusing on advanced Nod technology without the ability to support full mass deployment. As a result, what they could get from the US arsenal had limits, while their own industry wasn't up to the task of getting tanks to their forces that needed something to fill the role (until late in the War -- Renegade's light tanks is a sign of Nod transitioning towards the TS state of being able to supply their entire army with industry under their direct control) -- so Nod resorted to refitting the Bradleys they ''could'' get their hands on to drop the infantry-carrying aspect in favour of more tank-like performance, and so had a serviceable light tank that was better than the alternatives they had (mainly "make do without one").
While by ''Tiberian Sun'', the Brotherhood('s splinters) had built up a full industrial complex capable of supporting their entire military, in ''Tiberian Dawn'' they had to rely on corruption and sympathisers in the US arms industry to supply significant parts of their military, with the industry they themselves have going either towards refits or focusing on advanced Nod technology without the ability to support full mass deployment. As a result, what they could get from the US arsenal had limits, while their own industry wasn't up to the task of getting tanks to their forces that needed something to fill the role (until late in the War -- Renegade's light tanks is a sign of Nod transitioning towards the TS state of being able to supply their entire army with industry under their direct control) -- so Nod resorted to refitting the Bradleys they ''could'' get their hands on to drop the infantry-carrying aspect in favour of more tank-like performance, and so had a serviceable light tank that was better than the alternatives they had (mainly "make do without one").
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But, things make amazing sense if the Liquid-T bomb was used to destroy the Scrin Relay Node. After all, [[UpToEleven TWO Liquid-T explosions occurring so quickly after each other, in the same general area]] (southern/southeastern Europe)? That kind of thing was probably unheard of even by the Scrin. One can only imagine just how much havoc two L-T bombs detonating would have on the ecosystem of an already Tiberium infested planet. The result would likely accelerate Tiberium's spread and maybe even mutate it further to the point that GDI's sonic-based containment fields would be useless in halting its spread. Thus who needs Invasion when humanity will end up destroying itself anyway. Also makes for one hell of a NiceJobBreakingItHero if true.
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But, things make amazing sense if the Liquid-T bomb was used to destroy the Scrin Relay Node. After all, [[UpToEleven TWO Liquid-T explosions occurring so quickly after each other, in the same general area]] area (southern/southeastern Europe)? That kind of thing was probably unheard of even by the Scrin. One can only imagine just how much havoc two L-T bombs detonating would have on the ecosystem of an already Tiberium infested planet. The result would likely accelerate Tiberium's spread and maybe even mutate it further to the point that GDI's sonic-based containment fields would be useless in halting its spread. Thus who needs Invasion when humanity will end up destroying itself anyway. Also makes for one hell of a NiceJobBreakingItHero if true.
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* For irony's sake, the country to use Soviet March's tune as a national anthem could be at least ideologically socialist.
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* For irony's sake, the country to use Soviet March's tune as a national anthem could be at least ideologically socialist.
socialist. If we want to get really out there, [[DividedStatesOfAmerica an American successor state]] that happens to include California, or a [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain revived Russian socialist state]].
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* Then it wouldn't be "Red" Alert - unless the timeline getting scrambled causes another country to replace the Soviets. America, Germany, or Britain perhaps?
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The Americans and the Chinese may not trust one another in Generals, but the Chinese are still treated as one of the "good guy" factions, and their dominance over Europe is shown to be something worth celebrating in Zero Hour. Whether as a result of differences in history (perhaps Mao was less of a headcase) or natural political evolution, China has become a genuinely benign Communist society. Their political clashes with the US have more to do with questions of who will have economic supremacy, as well as misunderstandings due to their very different, but ultimately complimentary systems.
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The Americans and the Chinese may not trust one another in Generals, but the Chinese are still treated as one of the "good guy" factions, and their dominance over Europe is shown to be something worth celebrating in Zero Hour. Whether as a result of differences in history (perhaps Mao was less of a headcase) headcase or a different, saner leader emerged in charge sooner) or natural political evolution, China has become a genuinely benign Communist society. Their political clashes with the US have more to do with questions of who will have economic supremacy, as well as misunderstandings due to their very different, but ultimately complimentary systems.
* This isn't entirely insane. Among the protestors during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were people protesting economic liberalization (that is, restructuring the economy to be more capitalist without actually changing any government structures). A good number of the student protestors were communists, so a belief in more "legalist" or democratic communism could theoretically prevailed over Dengism. And this isn't even putting aside if Generals is secretly a Red Alert game, where China looked at the mess people like Stalin and Romanov made and proceeded to move away from such concentrated power structure if only to stay off the Allies' radar.
* However, the problem with this comes in the cancelled Generals 2 - the EU is independent of China (which HAS managed to expand, incorporating Asian nations like Vietnam and a unified Korea) indicating one of two things: a Communist reading, where the displaced international Capitalist class basically used what fiscal power they had to push their "Liberators" out of Europe after being trampled by the GLA, or a Western, Liberal reading: China is as authoritarian as our timeline (at minimum).
* This isn't entirely insane. Among the protestors during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were people protesting economic liberalization (that is, restructuring the economy to be more capitalist without actually changing any government structures). A good number of the student protestors were communists, so a belief in more "legalist" or democratic communism could theoretically prevailed over Dengism. And this isn't even putting aside if Generals is secretly a Red Alert game, where China looked at the mess people like Stalin and Romanov made and proceeded to move away from such concentrated power structure if only to stay off the Allies' radar.
* However, the problem with this comes in the cancelled Generals 2 - the EU is independent of China (which HAS managed to expand, incorporating Asian nations like Vietnam and a unified Korea) indicating one of two things: a Communist reading, where the displaced international Capitalist class basically used what fiscal power they had to push their "Liberators" out of Europe after being trampled by the GLA, or a Western, Liberal reading: China is as authoritarian as our timeline (at minimum).
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* For irony's sake, the country to use Soviet March's tune as a national anthem could be at least ideologically socialist.
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Thanks to their clearance in the former Soviet Union, in this alternative universe, Nod got ahold of Soviet high technology and based their cyborg program upon it. Their ICBM program was naturally taken from the Soviets' databanks.
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Thanks to their clearance in the former Soviet Union, in this alternative universe, Nod got ahold of Soviet high technology and based their cyborg program upon it. Their ICBM program was naturally taken from the Soviets' databanks.\\
