Beginning of a Legacy
The overhead clouds were calm, rare for this day and age. It was fitting though, that the sky is a direct contrast to the ground below, which is being rocked by plasma, explosions and the very best weapons of 3 armies.
This is the end of the Firestorm Crisis, the chaotic event which took place shortly after the end of TW2. The Brotherhood of Nod had created an advanced Artificial Intelligence, an AI for short, and with the end of TW2, and the death of Nod's charismatic leader Kane, the AI CABAL, short for Computer Augmented Biologically Assisted Lifeform, took steps to break away from the Brotherhood.
The first thing that CABAL did was to order a young Nod commander to assassinate the mutant leader Tratos, the only other entity capable of translating the Tacitus, a spherical data storage device of unknown origins. With Tratos dead, CABAL was the only thing with access to the information hidden in the Tacitus.
When Nod forces could not retrieve the Tacitus from GDI's possession, CABAL then assassinated Nod's Inner Circle using well-placed cyborgs. The only exception to this was the leader of the Black Hand sub-faction, a man by the name of Anton Slavik.
By this time, GDI desperately needed to translate the Tacitus because of rising environmental problems (AN: I am not explaining Tiberium and its environmental effects). GDI brass had the radical idea of seizing CABAL, and sent a young commander to do so. The commander succeeded, but only because it fit Cabal's plans.
When CABAL had been activated in GDI custody, it informed GDI that the Tacitus was incomplete, and that another piece had to be recovered to speed up data translation. GDI achieved that task, and once the Tacitus was complete, CABAL's cyborgs stormed the facility and evacuated both CABAL and the Tacitus.
After many attempts to destroy CABAL ended in failure, both GDI and Nod decided to ally together to destroy CABAL. With the available intel from both factions, CABAL's primary core and base was discovered. The alliance sent their best commanders to eliminate the base.
The GDI elements focused on destroying CABAL's cyborg production capabilities, which was accomplished with the aid of a viral infected cyborg. Nod destroyed CABAL's harvesting capabilities to stem reinforcements. Both factions then worked together to seize the command codes to the Firestorm defense systems of the base, which was surrounding the entire base.
As a last resort, CABAL activated a prototype bipedal machine, codenamed 'Core Defender'. Despite taking an impressive amount of damage and destroying significant numbers, the Defender was eventually vanquished and both armies targeted the CABAL Core. And this is where the story starts…
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AN: Hello folks. If any of you have read my profile, you know that I thought that I would never write. But, when a plot idea comes along, there's no ignoring it.
Anyway, this chapter is just a brief review of the Tiberian Sun: Firestorm. It's not mine. In fact, the only reason this fic is in the C&C category is that it provides background info that might be wanted in future fics.
Disclaimer: Not Mine. If it was mine, Westwood would also be mine, and would still be in service. Of course, if that was true, Petroglyph wouldn't exist and we wouldn't have Star Wars: Empire at War. So either way, I lose. Just to be clear, all of the above is NOT mine. Wait for the next chapter, then we get original ideas.