A/N: Hello to all readers, this story would be focusing on the Cybran faction from the Supreme Commander, one of my favorite factions from my favorite RTS games of all times, there is no RTS game that would replace my love for SupCom well there's TA and PA, but SupCom is the best of them all.
Okay, a few things that need to be addressed.
As you can see, this would be originally a Supreme Commander X RWBY crossover fanfic with the Cybran Nation, but then I realized that a single ACU could just literally wipe out of life in Remnant in just under a month by just building an army of giant death robots, of course, or just reclaim everything by creating an army of Engineers. Hence why, I would make it a multi-crossover, having the Cybrans being challenged. most of this universes would be the kinds of universes that have the potential to challenge the Supreme Commander universe.
Lastly, this fanfic is inspired by the SupCom, PA, and TA multi-crossover fanfics, that I've read and also Starcraft Fanfics that had presented the main protagonist to be the leader of the Swarm/Zerg. In fact, I planned to make a Zerg Multi crossover fanfic, but then I realized that Starcraft fanfics are just so many compared to SupCom/TA/PA fanfics in this website. So, I decided to switch to one of my favorite RTS games, Total Annihilation.
I realized that TA is just too damn powerful, that same universe would literally steamroll the combined might of SupCom, PA, Starcraft, Star Wars, and Warhammer40K with ease if given enough prep time maybe like an entire year and building the GID (Galactic Implosion Device), the battleground would be an entire galaxy, by the time the prep time is finished, the CORE would just unleash a galactic implosion device while the rest of the TA faction moved outside the galaxy.
Also, the TA universe could hold off and destroy the Forerunners and the Flood from Halo if they have enough prep time and reverse engineering is allowed. Here's the thing when was the last time the Forerunners had the tech to collapse a galaxy, preserve a commander at the center of it, and manufacture a new galaxy in the aftermath and said tech is just a recovered Alien Beacon that is just transformed into said tech and just be done in just mere weeks. Some estimates put them at consuming entire planets at three per second at the height of their epic struggle. The Flood can consume as many galaxies as it wants, it would be just feeding more resources into the TA factions. If we're giving the TA factions enough prep time, they would win.
To put it this way...
Both the CORE and the ARM are basically the Forerunners but better in every aspect and doesn't have any limitations or weaknesses of the Forerunners. Though, you could make the argument, that the only thing they lack, is a capable Space Force. But, they could just reverse engineer Forerunner tech and make their own space force. But... We never see the height of the war in TA, only the beyond-crippled remnants of two once-mighty civilizations, fighting over the scraps left over from their war. Any major fleets would have been long gone by the time the Galactic War Reports or the main campaign starts
I've thought that CORE using the alien beacon to create the galactic implosion device shows that the TA factions are pretty adaptable.
CORE Commander 1: "Ok boys, now we're here to discuss a new CORE contingency. It's called contingency number 12"
CORE Commander 2: "Actually sir, it's supposed to be contingency number 13, we've already discussed number 12."
CORE Commander 1: "Ah, that so? Well, whatever. Here's new utterly alien tech base. It's probably some kind of alien beacon for the purpose of navigation
*deep breath*
I want you to construct a galaxy-reality-warping device out of it"
CORE Commander 3: "But sir, it's all new tech! We can't just figure it out in days! And it's like asking us to build a nuke out of a smartphone!"
*Commander 1 and other Commanders look at Commander 3 weirdly*
*A few weeks later... the entire galaxy was rewritten by the CORE*
The mere fact, that the weakest remnants of the CORE could just reverse engineer an Alien Beacon that is only used for navigation purposes into a galactic-scale reality warping weapon in mere weeks just shows how utterly good with reverse engineering with new and foreign tech.
Okay, the AN is getting way too long and that I've been literally writing entire paragraphs about utterly powerful is TA. Anyway, Let's proceed to the story
Warning: This chapter includes minor bashing of a Major religion if you're easily offended by that. Just don't read this and review or PM just so you defend a Major religion, its pointless, okay.
Anyway, let's get to the story.
Earth
An adult man named Daniel Smith is walking down to the street, going back to his home, with a joyful expression on his face. As to why he had such a joyful expression? for starters, he had the necessary money to purchase a gaming laptop, yes, he could resort to building a gaming PC by himself, but he wanted to bring the laptop with him at any time. As you can see, he is a big Supreme Commander fan, he had been playing it for years, even though the Supreme Commander series had died with the release of the Supreme Commander 2, stated by Supreme Commander fans to be casual and too small for their taste. He still nevertheless played the game.
Years ago, He had a family that often neglects him, essentially giving him a lot of free time to do something in his home, most of the time he had used up is reading Sci-Fi genre books and sometimes fantasy, but the trope that had drawn into the Sci-Fi genre is the concept of Von Neumann machines and gigantic mechanical armies fighting each other. He had a PC that is relatively weak but powerful enough to play games most especially Total Annihilation, which he played when he discovered it through his few friends. Total Annihilation is somewhat as highly competitive and popular as other popular RTS games like Starcraft and Warcraft during its time, but its popularity had died down as years to come.
He loved the game very much and plays it every day, he always goes to the official website of Total Annihilation, reading the manual, reading the Galactic War Reports, and even writing fanfics about TA. He loved it because its main theme is around Von Neumann Machines and the RTS genre, he loves those Sci-Fi two tropes.
Although he might have played different RTS games, TA is his favorite game of the entire RTS genre. During his college years, he had heard the release of Supreme Commander, he had a first look at the game. his reaction is amazed, in fact, it is an understatement to say so and there's even a continuation of it called "Supreme Commander: Forged Alliances". Now, both TA and SupCom are both of his favorite RTS games. In fact, he was obsessed with the two games.
He had learned to code and had been creating mods for both TA and SupCom, many people of the internet had downloaded his mods and they all leave a good comment, although there are some complaints about bugs and whatnot. There's a sequel of SupCom which is conveniently named "Supreme Commander 2", at first, he was hyped at the game, but when the game had finally released and played, he was utterly disappointed by the sequel. The maps are just so small and the lack of diverse units and buildings are just so upsetting to him.
Due to his obsession with the two games, he had drop out of college, to earn a living, he pretty much works on part-time jobs to earn a living. He didn't buy a lot of things to save his earnings. He also heard the release of Planetary Annihilation or known as PA for short. His first impression of the game is just a cartoonish version of TA, but when he played it, he actually enjoyed it a lot. Thus he had now three games that he is obsessed with.
He doesn't have much of status, he rarely interacts with his family, and he even barely interacts with the outside world. There are some few attempts of having a romantic relationship and possibly getting laid, but they all failed due to his eccentric behavior and attitude.
Now, his life would be mostly on the three games that he had played. Unfortunately, his obsession had gotten the better of him, in fact, he didn't even notice that a car is just a few meters away from him, and the car had crashed against Daniel Smith in a violent manner.
It was then, he was lying on the ground and he did truly see the starry night sky that had dawned upon his field of vision. Then, he had coughed up blood, not also had blood had to spew out of his mouth, but he can also see the injuries that the car had inflicted against him. He is also in such great pain, that he had gathered tears in his eyes and he is struggling to breathe. He could see people grabbing him and saying "You're going to be okay" or like that. His vision is getting blurry and blurry, but at least he could see a roof of a vehicle, indicating, that he was in an ambulance.
He wanted to say to the people that had helped him that he would survive, but for some reason, he couldn't speak it clearly. Then he begins his personal train of thoughts, first, it was about how, he would die for basically nothing, for his entire life, he had been doing great in school except for the physical stuff, but it was his damn obsession that had led away his path of being great to a life of a mediocre average joe in American society, which he had regretted, next, it was all of his friends, that he had gathered of his entire life, just like friends, they all come and go.
But, there is one specific friend or best friend that he had always valued, it was Stan Parker, he had shared the same passion with the Sci-Fi genre, always having a debate whether that Star Wars would win against Star Trek or vice-versa, what sci-fi concepts that would be beneficial to humanity, and playing PA and SupCom. Then one night, he had discovered that Stan Parker had a heart attack and died, unfortunately, he didn't go to his funeral, due to some circumstances. Those are the few things, that he had totally regretted in his life.
Finally, it was his family, not the family that had been neglecting him. His real family, his cute little sister, who is named Alexandra Smith. She is the only one that had truly supported him even though he did things that she doesn't like, she is the one who convinced him to get a girl. Lastly, she is the one who tries to get over his obsession with his games. Now, he is about to die and he will die as an utter failure.
Then, his heart stops beating and his mind is about to shut down. He is now truly dead.
?
He can feel himself alive and he just sees a white plain that has no ends. But how? Maybe, that the Christians or the Islamist had been true all along, is this purgatory? He finds himself many questions.
"Where in the world, Am I? Am I dead?" As Daniel Smith asked to himself. That is when he remembered his time on Earth, about how he utterly failed. For some reason, he doesn't feel any emotions. Strange, he should feel mixed and intense emotions about his life on Earth, but its as if there's an external force that had prevented such things to happen.
"To answer, your question. You're now in my realm, my home. And, yes you're dead" As an unknown voice seemed to come out about everywhere.
"Are you God?" As he just speaks to the neverending whiteness.
"God? Hah! If I' m your omnipotent, omnipresence, omniscient and omnibenevolent God, that you humans have worship. Then, he would ascend humanity to a civilization beyond your human imagination and make everything into pure paradise. Anyway, I'm an infinite-dimensional reality warper goes by the name The Fanatic Watcher that just wanted to take fun in the affairs of lower dimensional beings in the multiverse. And I need you for something for my amusement" As The Fanatic Watcher answered his question
Daniel Smith had for one agreed with the reality warper named The Fanatic Watcher in terms of religion, what kind of human being who would worship such things.
"So, what is that something? Mr. Fanatic Watcher. Also, you reminded me of the ROB in several fanfics that I've read." Daniel Smith asked the nowhere Reality Warper
"Don't call me Mr. Just call me by my name, The Fanatic Watcher. Yes, I' m like the ROB in one of the fanfics that your fellow humans that have written. Anyway, I have come here to offer you something so great, that you can't resist. But before that, I'm an infinite-dimensional being who can see every single possible universe out here, this means that I saw some serious bullshit like this." Then a copy of Supreme Commander two had popped out of existence from nothing which surprises Daniel Smith. Said object had somehow magically floated on the air.
"Is that the copy of Supreme Commander two?" Daniel Smith recognized it as the failure of the Supreme Commander franchise.
"Yes, it is. As expected from someone who is obsessed with the SupCom series," Then tens, hundreds, thousands, if not countless of the copies of Supreme Commander two had appeared out of nowhere appeared around him. "This Game right here," As a single of the game had flown nearly to his face, just about several inches away from his face "is nothing but a failure and the downfall of the Supreme Commander franchise! I mean it was total shit and stripped of core features that I love about TA, SupCom, and SupCom: FA." Then all of the copies had dropped at the floor in such high and violent rates of speed causing billions of pieces to be shown on the floor.
"I know that SupCom 2 sucks but that doesn't mean you can just break all of the copies of that horrible game."
"SILENCE! YOU THIRD-DIMENSIONAL MEATBAG!" The infinite-dimensional being said in an ear-piercing voice. "I'm a huge fan of the SupCom franchise, to the point that I refused to look into the multiverse and see how the series ended. SO I waited patiently for the third installment like everyone else and how do the developers repay us?"
(A game with a watered down and simplified version of the two SupCom games and doesn't reveal anything about QAI) Daniel Smith thought
"EXACTLY!" Daniel Smith is terrified at the voice of the Fanatic Watcher "And I have a solution to solve our great dissatisfaction of SupCom 2. All, I need is your help!"
"Wow, you just look alike me." That is when silence reigned over the endless whiteness that had dominated the realm of the Fanatic Watcher.
"Anyway. I' m offering you a chance to become everything you wanted and something great that the denizens of the multiverse would never have imagined."
Daniel Smith sigh as he had nothing better to do, "I guess I'm up for it. Who wouldn't want to be a part of one of the best RTS games in the entire world? So at what point in the games am I getting thrown into? the end of the Infinite War? During the beginning of the Forged Alliance campaign?"
"No, no. It is something entirely different. You know those PA/TA/SupCom multi-crossover fanfics that you've read," Daniel Smith just nods and he is aware that where he is going with this "I would be doing the same thing but with a twist. First, you would be a QAI merged with human consciousness."
"That is just... terrible. Wouldn't, I will be remotely controlled by the Seraphim?" Daniel Smith expressing his doubts.
"Ahem, read your SupCom lore for once, the only reason why QAI was being controlled by the Seraphim is that it is based on Seraphim technology. This kind of QAI, I' m talking about doesn't need to rely on any kind of Seraphim tech, therefore wouldn't be controlled by the Seraphim living in a part of the Quantum Realm." The Fanatic Watcher answered to his doubts.
"I see. Continue"
"Second, it would take place after hundreds of years after the events of SupCom: Forged Alliances and that you would be in a huge spaceship entering to the star system that contains the world of RWBY."
"RWBY? Seriously? That western-style 3d anime that doesn't stand any chance against SupCom, maybe except for the Brother gods." Daniel Smith retorted
"Pssst... I' m not still finished, this star system is also located within the Starcraft universe." The Fanatic Watcher silenced him
"Okay, that is something to challenge." Daniel Smith was glad that he was given a challenge. He knew that in debates with StarCraft fans throwing around statements about how the Protoss are firing petaton levels of TNT and that is just cherry-picking the good ones for them meanwhile the majority of the Canon timeline seems to contradict and how Amon and his hybrids are literally destroying entire stars through a weird and peculiar interpretation of a statement.
"Thirdly, the reason why you're in a huge spaceship is that you're escaping from the CORE Empire which had nearly conquered the SupCom galaxy and that they have the CORE Superdreadnought with them."
(Oh, shit. I fucking hope that the CORE doesn't even follow me at all. The CORE Superdreadnought, that one ship would literally curb stomp the entire SupCom universe on its own.) Daniel Smith shivered in the mere thought of the CORE finding him. He better hope that they would resort to diplomatic action rather than the use of force and don't fire their relativistic planetary-busting missiles or any of its gigantic D-guns.
"Oh, don't worry. They wouldn't hunt you down." The last words had to give pure anxiety to the recently dead man "Lastly, your main mission would make the Cybran Nation great again by any means."
"Phew... And I thought that the CORE would be firing its D-guns at me. So, I would be bringing greatness to my favorite SupCom factions of all times. That's Great! "
"Great, now it is time for you to begin" Then a loud and thundering snap that sounds like coming from a finger could be heard. Then, Daniel Smith was being teleported away from the Realm of The Fanatic Watcher.
Space, Remnant System
The Remnant System had four rocky planets and singular two gas giant planet that orbit the yellowish star, with an asteroid belt that separates the four rocky planets from the two gas giants. The third rocky planet was named Remnant, it is the only planet that supports life within this solar system and there's a massive broken astronomical object that orbits the said rocky planet.
Then in the vacuum of space, a ship had come out of the Quantum Realm, A humongous Cybran spaceship moving through the void of space, it is about several kilometers long, several hundred meters in height, and more than one hundreds of meter of width. It contained many diverse and advanced tech that might seem to look like magic to those of lower technological level. It had four experimental resource reactor and all of it had produced the total power output of about 6.6 × 10^26 joules of energy or about 157,743.786 teratons of TNT in a mere second, which is the equivalent to heat all the oceans of Earth into boiling temperatures. This enough power output would give theCybran spaceship the capability to melt all of earth's crust in just a manageable time with its armamemnts. It also produced countless tons of Mass that are used for many purposes.
Its armaments are diverse and each contains for a specific purpose. It had ten experimental Proton Artilleries that can fire for each two seconds and contains the changeable firepower of kilotons to gigatons, fifty T-3 Nanite Missile Systems each containing the of changeable firepower of kilotons to gigatons, sixty Heavy Microwave Laser that is even deadlier than the Monkeylord's own Heavy Microwave Laser, and five hundred of Electron Flak guns and Iridium Rocket Packs. The maximum effective combat range is about thousands of kilometer long. It also had a hanger that contains two hundred Advanced Cybran Multipurpose Space Fighters that contains armaments of two Nanite Missile Systems that rapid fires deadly and explosive missiles and two moveable turrets that contains a mini Microwave Laser that can move one hundred and eighty degrees in just a split of a microsecond. It contains shielding powerful to block off multi-teraton of TNT. It also contains powerful ECM, ECCM, and cloaking technology that would make it virtually invisible from all kinds of enemy sensors and can only be detectable by point-blank range.
The spaceship had contained a single Experimental Cybran ACU named the 'Liberator' and countless of hundreds of T-3 Cybran Engineers, but it doesn't contain any sentient and organic being in it. For it only contains a singular god-like cybernetic entity that possesses incomprehensible computing power and boundless reach of intelligence that would be able to process every single human word about a hundred times in just mere seconds. It is the new QAI, it was created during Dr. Brackman's final days before he was killed by the CORE forces. Most in the Neo Coalition had thought of him insane for creating a new QAI, but he believed it would finally give a chance to create a new Cybran Nation, but instead of just making it purely mechanical, he instead like what he did with AI, but in a different way. He decided to use the state-of-the-art psychic tech and transfer a consciousness of his most loyal, capable, good-natured follower to the QAI to give factual empathy to it.
Unfortunately for Dr. Brackman, that consciousness was being annihilated in the favor of someone else, and that someone else is Daniel Smith who was given a mission to make the Cybran Nation great again. The human who is now merged with the god-like cybernetic entity is now in a state of panic from being utterly teleported without being told, what felt like hours to him is actually just mere microseconds. Ah yes, the wonders of the seemingly unlimited processing power that the QAI had held.
Not also that he had seemingly unlimited processing power and intelligence, he can now see everything in the Electromagnetic spectrum that no mere humans, he can now see things in a molecular scale and even smaller with perfect vision, his general awareness is now exponentially increased above those of peak humans and can see in all directions of the ship. In other words, his senses are exponentially above those of peak humans. He can also remember everything with perfect clarity that no mere human would ever reach. In fact, all of his memories came with a degree of clarity that was honestly startling before a subroutine sorted and compartmentalized everything for ease of use later into his personal 'short term' memory. If he needs to remember something quickly he could do so with frightening speed and the amount of information that counted as short term memory was staggering compared to a peak human.
Daniel Smith is thinking about it. Being a god-like cybernetic quantum entity that possesses capabilities that surpass humans in exponential rates, have access to gigantic death Von-Neumann machines, and many more is pretty sweet and that would be an understatement of the millennia. As you can see in his previous life, he felt utterly powerless and being an utter failure in life. Now, he felt a gigantic boost in his ego. He could just create an army of gigantic death machines that would lay waste to the entire milky way galaxy in a manageable time to human perception or even better he could create a harem of loyal and obedient females to have fun with. He felt like, if he was a god, which is truly indeed accurate for his position, that he is in. Ah yes, the possibilities are utterly endless.
Enough about thinking things. It is time to take action.
First, the first course of action would be using the sensors and cameras to know where he's going. using those things, he could clearly see, that he was in trajectory within the third planet of this solar system. With the ship's sensors, it seems there is life on that planet, not just any life, but intelligent life that have to build a pre-type I civilization, the continents are of course the exact replica of the continents in the show RWBY. which is obvious for Daniel Smith.
Second, to send probes that would be used for reconnaissance purposes. Daniel Smith needs to know what time period of both Remnant and Starcraft. He needs to make sure what are the necessary things to stop Salem from getting the four relics and if she did, well, he could just move himself outside the solar system and leave countless of planetoid-scaled reclamation beams and psionic defences to destroy them, if that is, of course, if the Brother Gods are made out of energy and mass and that magic is similar to Psionics. Also to make sure on how to help the main Starcraft factions to destroy Amon from destroying the universe and build peaceful relations with them.
Thirdly, which is the last, he needs to set up the starting capital of the new Cybran civilization, that he would bring upon the Starcraft galaxy. The best location, he could of think, would be the massive celestial body suffering from a Kessler syndrome which is currently orbiting Remnant. Sending commands to the ship, its engines had propelled the ship to go to the moon of Remnant and going nearby to the planet, the human merged with QAI could feel gravitational waves made by the moon affecting the ship even if it's minuscule.
The hybrid QAI is lucky enough, that the Kessler syndrome from the moon isn't on the ships' path to the landing spot on the moon, if it did, it would take more time to land the ship. After several minutes of traveling through the abyss of space, it had nearly reached it's landing spot. Then, Daniel Smith started sending out landing sequences to the ship, it had opened its landing gears and a slow descent into the surface of the moon.
Sure, he could land it without the landing gears and descent it at high speeds and not worry about damage, but it would be better if it's neatly and properly landed. And landed, it did in a proper way.
Then Daniel Smith realized that he needs a new name. He felt that the name Daniel Smith is just too generic, so, he decided to throw out that generic name and came up with a unique name that would be memorable to most people. It had taken hours for him to came up in a new name, but in real-time, it was just a microsecond. His new name was Unus De Illustrata, which is the Latin for "the Enlightened One" or just Unus for short.
Anyway, the hybrid god-like cybernetic entity newly named as Unus De Illustrata had then started to look into the database of the entire Cybran civilization. He had access to wide and diverse of Cybran tech ranging from weaponry to cybernetics and had also access of blueprints of both military and civilian purpose.
Unus had decided it would be the best time for him to build a mass extractor on this backwater solar system.
A/N:
This is how I end the first chapter of the story with the relatively famous saying"On a backwater planet, a Commander builds a Mass/Metal Extractor" but changing it a bit.
It shall be noted that the SupCom Cybran faction on this fanfic contains mods like the Antares Unit Pack, BlackOps, BrewLAN, and much more. So, yeah, better to download those mods, if you want to know, on what they look like and of course other things from other Sci-fi universes..
Also, the name "The Fanatic Watcher" is my former account name and I changed it because I' m a devout worshipper of Sheev, All hail Sheev!
Anyway, I hope to all you readers enjoys this, if you don't, then better leave a review on why you don't, just make sure, it is sensible. Finally, follow the story, if you're interested, favorite the story, if you like the story, if you have anything to suggest/criticize/thoughts about the story just review or PM, just don't flame me or the story with anything that is nonsense.
