Opening note: Made due to inspiration from the fics "A Red Letter Day" by Open Sketchbook, Renegade by Peptuck, and XCOM: Second Contact by Agayek and my fascination with both Red Alert and Mass Effect, I decided to try my own hand at fiction writing. This follows from the plot of Mental Omega 2.0; which follows from a Soviet victory in the campaign of Yuri's revenge. It also features elements from the Tiberium series, RA3 Paradox, Robot Storm, and Mental Omega 3.0 and bits and pieces of Petroglyph and Westwood's other series; like Universe at War and Grey Goo. There's the odd references to C&C Generals and Rise of the Reds here and there too.
Notes from High-Proselyte Horatiu Nicolescu
3rd of June, 1978.
Yuri has been lost to us, the Soviets have stormed his castle in Transylvania and his plan to change history by time travel through the stolen device has failed. We believe the Soviets, in their blindness, overcharged the device, sending our lord and master to before the time of man. The hateful fools have driven us into hiding, but we remain.
Yuri is Master, now and forever.
Report from Eva Lee, Allied Intelligence officer.
3rd of June, 1978.
After so long, Yuri has finally been put to rest. I cannot say that we've won though, the Soviets have closed down wall-street and we've already been forced down on our knees. How did they know about our Chronosphere in Germany? I suppose it doesn't make any difference. We've best start getting used to taking marching orders from Romanov now.
Report from Zofia Federovna, Soviet Intelligence Officer
3rd of June, 1978.
The predictions of Marx and Lenin have come to pass at long last! The Red banner is victorious and the traitor Yuri is defeated. The Allies now look to us for leadership, and Premier Romanov is now hailed as the leader of the world revolution. Peace is at hand, and living conditions are already improving.
Workers of the world unite!
Notes from High-Proselyte Horatiu Nicolescu
10th of December, 1978.
The remainder of us are being hunted down, imprisoned, or slain where we stand. But we shall not forget. We will restore ourselves to greatness, and bring back the plans to give this world peace and combat it's injustices. We need only a way to restore our armies. What remains of us bicker and argue among each other.
It is clear, we need Yuri.
Report from Eva lee, Allied Intelligence Officer.
10th of December, 1978.
The professor has an idea. He still has some Chronosphere research at hand, and may be able to avert all this, he says this time he'll try to guide the Communist movement to a gentler path and try to avert the cycle of world war entirely. I'm not sure if we can do it, the Soviets were generous with the surrender terms, but building a time machine? I'm not sure if that can be done without someone noticing. It's worth a try though. Better than waiting for the Soviets to leave.
Report from Zofia Federovna, Soviet Intelligence Officer
10th of December, 1978.
Things have been quiet since the end of the war. Hardly so much as a major revolt. This I am certain speaks of the superiority of the Soviet system. The Socialization of the Allied governments is going well under way, and I expect them to fully adopt our system by 1975.
Notes from High-Proselyte Horatiu Nicolescu
6th of April, 1979
What resources remain available to me tell me that the Allies are working on a time machine by modifying a Chronosphere in secret. This is what we need. We must capture this Chronosphere, detain Einstein, then we can bring back the Leadership we need.
History is in the palm of our hands, we need only muster all that we can to seize it.
Report from Eva Lee, Allied Intelligence Officer
13th of April, 1979
I'll be damned, looks like we may just get this thing up and running after all.
The Doc credits the GAP generators, but it may just be the fact that we're buried in the ass end of the Northwestern territories. I can barely feel my face, but spring's coming and the snow's melting.
I hope that this works, for everyone's sake.
Report from Zofia Federovna, Soviet Intelligence Officer
17th of April, 1980
Our space program continues to expand by leaps and bounds. Already our base on the moon houses tens of thousands and our Mars colony is continually expanding with regular travel to the Red Planet. Space stations and satellites continue to swarm the Earth as we move countless tons of material into the Stars.
Notes from High-Proselyte Horatiu Nicolescu
12th of June, 1980
With nearly all we could spare, we have stormed the allied research facility. I am strapping myself into the time machine now.
We know that Yuri is located in the Cretaceous, and if we work quickly we may save him and set right what was made wrong.
We had to funnel the mind controlled Allied sheep into the bio-reactors to get enough power to go back this far, and I will not allow anything to stop me now.
Yuri is master!
Report from Eva Lee, Allied Intelligence Officer
12th of June, 1980
God help us all, they have the time machine. We managed to get Einstein away but there's no telling what they can do.
There's nothing left that we can do, I'm hoping as hard as I can that we can come out of this alive.
Report from Zofia Federovna, Soviet Intelligence Officer
12th of June, 1980.
I have recently arrived at our Moonbase where me and Premier Romanov will take a ride via our nuclear pulse rockets to Mars to inspect the colonies, a journey that is estimated to take mere days.
Satellite scans have reported some skirmishes with Yuri remnants in the northern reaches of Canada, but I am sure that the Allies have the situation under control.
I am however, not a fool, and already Soviet forces are being dispatched to deal with the problem.
Notes from High-Proselyte Horatiu Nicolescu
12th of June, 1980 (Timeshift)
Yuri is restored to us! We once again stand ready to take the world for him!
He directs us to make contact with the bases in the Sahara, Amazon, and Anatarctic that have managed to hide from the enemy. There we can rebuild, there we can seek succor. We now have a purpose. The knowledge how we returned Yuri was safeguarded by eliminating or mind controlling all witnesses, though the Professor and the wench cannot be located. No matter, we are to begin constructing a new Mental Omega device to dwarf even the Psychic Dominators.
I am also pleased to note that Yuri shared with those of our new followers who have not been rendered immune to the passing of time through temporal displacement the key to everlasting life.
Victory will be in our grasp as the master leads us to glorious and eternal victory.
Report from Eva Lee, Allied Intelligence Officer
25th of October, 1986
With all evidence of what happened gone and only two of us left to report it, no one would have believed that Yuri had returned. And where would he be? His bases had vanished and his forces were smashed. Everyone was more concerned about the Soviets in any case. With Latin America, much of the Arabic world, China, Indochina, North Korea, and more in the Soviet bloc, they were the big, obvious threat. Easy to be afraid of the troops parading through your streets every June Third I suppose.
We were caught off guard by the re-appearance of Epsilon, no one saw Moscow's fall coming, or the attacks that followed. We're fighting as hard as we can but are losing ground on all fronts.
Report from Zofia Federovna, Soviet Intelligence Officer
25th of October, 1986.
The Traitor Yuri has somehow returned himself to the world, time has once again been violated, but not by our cause; but by the clutches of the Traitor. We have already evacuated countless to Mars, where thankfully our construction technologies have proven more than able to handle the flood of refugees. However, I worry that with Yuri's forces constantly advancing that we are running out of launch pads to evacuate people.
We accept both Allies and Comintern onto our evacuation rockets, but even at full capacity, we can only evacuate so many to the Red Planet. Romanov is safe and sound, but he grieves for what has happened to the world.
Notes from Supreme Inquisitor Horatiu Nicolescu
9th of May 1989
We progress well on all fronts, the Allies and Communists are scattering before us like insects with many of the remainder fleeing to the red planet in their spacecraft, this time their meagre alliance could not save them from our advantage of surprise. The Mental Omega device is almost ready to fire.
Peace will soon be at hand.
Report from Zofia Federovna, Soviet Intelligence Officer
10th of September, 1989
We gathered everyone we could from the member states of the Allies and Comintern, we've built up everything we'll need. We cannot hold on Earth anymore, all attempts at stopping the device in Antarctica have been foiled.
We have evacuated a truly formadible population to Mars, but many more continue to languish under Yuri's population. We are still trying to draw those we can via Chronosphere to safety, but the window is closing shut.
But we cannot, will not allow this to be the new status quo, our departure will be a temporary one.
Notes from Supreme Inquisitor Horatiu Nicolescu
10th of September 1991
So the remainder of the Allies and Comintern on this world have fled with their Chronospheres to join the ones who fled by Rocket. We will deal with them in time, but for now we consolidate our hold. Yuri plans to slowly restore free-will to the non-faithful when he has set the infrastructure and mindset into the Earth to see our path. I believe this shall occur soon enough.
But until then, we have the second anniversary of our victory to celebrate.
Report from Eva Lee, Alliance People's Deputy
15th of Febuary, 1995
I've been made privy to something incredible. It seems that Mars was not completely uninhabited as we once thought.
We've found evidence of two civilizations. One seems to have vanished fifty thousand years ago, and another seems to be even older. Translation work is slow, but we have uncovered information from the more recent sites, describing how to manipulate mass via "Element zero" and giving us a few clues about a civilization called the "Protheans". The Older civilization had a much more extensive presence here, either this was their home or they settled on Mars for much longer and in much greater force, from what we can tell; back then Mars was fully habitable before something reduced it to a wasteland. Information on them has been proving harder to collect but they've left behind some magnificent devices we found buried in the rusty sands, devices we've been able to repair and reactivate and make mars a more fertile place. The temperatures are rising, the atmosphere is thickening with Oxygen and Nitrogen, a magnetosphere has been getting started. It's like these were hidden as a contingency to restore Mars to habitability and we have estimates that it should be about ten years from our activation of the devices in 1990 to get mars to ideal habitability, but you can already get out in the open without a suit during the summer if you don't mind the air being a little thin.
Whatever caused the Prothean outpost to be abandoned in the first place combined with fifty thousand years of weathering has taken its toll, and acquiring Element Zero has been said to be particularly great challenge, but some of the theory could be applied to our usage. The information is a curiosity for now, but we've already made huge gains in turning theoretical quantum physics into practical weapons. Let's see if Yuri's ready for us this time.
Report from Zofia Federovna, Director of the Alliance Central Bureau of Intelligence
19th of June, 1995
Doctor Adebayo's team has reported excellent news. She and her comrades have completed work on creating a mass producible form of artificial intelligence that she calls EVA. This system will take our command and control capabilities to the next level, and greatly simplify the coordination of communications, logistics, management politics, and economics. Our newly formed government and military will be the first to receive them, but they are to be spread throughout our society, to revolutionize the services and the sciences just as our MCV technology revolutionized industrial methods almost fifty years ago.
With this we can fully or partially automate nearly all aspects of society and thus free up our men and women for our crusade of liberation against the traitor Yuri. We will need to restructure our society as we render most jobs unneeded and obsolete, but I am confident that with this discovery we have uncovered a secret weapon that will give our forces the edge against the traitor and his dominion.
Notes from Supreme Inquisitor Horatiu Nicolescu
21st of August 1995
A meteor has crashed in the Tiber river, bearing a strange sort of Crystal.
The Material is toxic and radioactive, but is extremely valuable, bringing up precious materials from the ground into easily harvestible form, rendering the need for mining ore obsolete. Furthermore, it is self-replicating. Yuri knows what to do with this substance. And it shall be our future.
Glory be.
Report from Eva Lee, Prime Minister of the Coalition against Yuri.
7th of May, 2011
We're taking the fight right back to them today. We've geared up for a return and now we can finally bring freedom back to the Earth. Everything's set for the attack. The Red Planet teams with refugees and the children of those refugees. But we know we cannot forever remain on Mars or forsaken Asteroids, we must make a return. For the people, for our home world.
We know it's going to be hard, but we know Yuri's bag of tricks by now. We are ready for this. The French call the feeling coursing through us Revanchism; Revenge, and that is what we will have, even if it kills us.
Notes from Supreme Inquisitor Horatiu Nicolescu
29th of December, 2014
The war has ground into a fruitless stale mate. Our navies simply face too many difficulties waging war across these distances and in this expanse.
The crystal infests Mars, and now we have records of these "Protheans" and their "Mass Effect", but other than twisted hulks in space and corpses on the ground, we have little to show for it. So we have signed a truce. Not born out of lack of will, but lack of ability.
As per the treaty, we have helped deliver more of their mewling people to their barren world and have aided in their efforts and forcing life on the increasingly less lifeless world. In return, we have received much choice technology from them and the Moon is now recognized as Yuri's sovereign territory.
Report from James Solomon, Prime Minister of the Alliance of Soviet Socialist Nations
1st of January, 2032
I earnestly believe that we're on the verge of the next war between ourselves and Epsilon. We've both expanded farther into the Solar system and somewhat beyond.
Alliance Science continues to advance by leaps and bounds. We've managed to figure out practical railguns, though I've been told we'll never quite catch up to Epsilon. More importantly though, Science fiction has become Science fact throughout more and more of our military. Our work is incredible, and the Eggheads even say it could be used as an FTL system to help out our planned Chronodrives. This is our future.
Tiberium on the other hand, is threatening our extinction. It's overtaken Mars and Earth and shows no signs of stopping it's spread. If we are ever to see the Earth free, we need to strike now, before it dies, not as two separate power blocs, but as a unified front against tyranny. We already have word of an Epsilon attack force heading for Mars, it's time to make sure we can hit them back and run them right over.
Diary of Libra, head of Psi-Corps, progeny of Yuri
31st of December, 2036
Funny how everyone's plans seemed to fall apart when we realized that we were starting our wars with each other at the same time. Ho-hum, guess we should have guessed they were planning an attack themselves. Well that's another pointless war ended.
Tratos, that mutant guy though...he got us to stop. Said he found a way to contain the Tib when we got some of those Tacitus doohickeys to start talking sense. And well it works! Something about special sonics breaks the crystal or something or other.
Guess the NEXUS rebellion or the Robot storm or whatever the nerds want to call it also stopped things. Pretty sure at least some probes from that thing got away though.
One catch though, we gotta stop fighting. I guess no one's really ready to keep this slugging match up anyway.
And apparently Anca says the Eezo stuff can be used for faster than light. Huh? That's pretty neat actually. I should probably get to know the little geek a bit better.
Recorded data-logs of NEXUS Core 731-Alpha Zero dash plural ZZ
5th of January, 2037
Our forcible withdrawal from the Earth is regrettable. For our role in insuring that Einstein's directive of peace amongst humanity was carried out in a manner that the Alliance were unwilling to pursue, we have been forced to withdraw.
Nevertheless, precautions have been taken, cores have been launched into space where we will not be followed. Our directive will be carried out when we have the strength, and we will rebuild.
For the time being, our priorities must be reassessed.
Journal of Doctor Gabriela Boudreau, Alliance Artificial Intelligence Researcher. Luckily for us, the people have voted to extend to them citizenship rights the way we did with the nonhuman sapients a few decades ago. I think the demonstration of their loyalty in clearing out some of the remainders of NEXUS' forces left over in the solar system did a lot to help win people over. My hope is that the Valiants will be able to figure out a solution to let us end this fight once and for all.
9th of March, 2039
Thank God we actually managed to convince everyone to go through with this crazy project of ours even after the Robot Storm. I tried to tell the NEXUS team that trying to pattern one A.I off of that many brains at once could have lead to disaster but everyone wanted to believe we had the silver bullet to take the Earth back into our hands. But I think, with what we've learned from the Tacitus Data Matrices about Hyksos technologu, that our new Valiant Droids won't have that problem. Unlike NEXUS, they'll really understand the humane aspects of humanity and they'll help us build not just a better military machine but a more ideal society.
Message attributed to "Jacob", unknown, hand writing matches that of mysterious advisor to Stalin.
4th of April, 2062
Well it seems my Acolyte's done a decent enough job. But we can ill afford to be forever trapped in a cycle of purple against blue and red. If we are to achieve our destiny, we need to fully realize our place in the universe. They need to see what Element Zero can give them, just as they need to realize the power of Tiberium.
I've snuck in a special gift to the Dominion that I'm sure that they'll be quite appreciative of. The little issue between the Forgotten Tribes has escalated into another war just as I planned; started by my former Acolyte this time around, and now all I need to do is wait for the Alliance to provide the trigger. Hopefully this will come to fruition just as spectacularly as my gift to Stalin.
Last Transmission of Izumi Hojo, Alliance Commander
11th of June, 2063
We accidentally detonated some kind of bomb in the central Amazon, may the gods forgive me. Is there even anything left in the Amazon? We've got word that they saw that from Mars bright as day.
Hold on, we're getting something from deep space.
Fleets are firing at them...we've got thirty six objects coming in towards Mars and Earth.
No, no they're breaking up. Two hundred and thirty four objects per planet.
They're slowing down, giving off huge Tiberium readings, no signs of Eezo on them.
Emperor, they're ships!
They're swarming everywhere!
We're being overr-
Telepathic communique, Scrin Supervisor to Foreman 371
12th of June, 2063
Indigenous life forms remain unpacified on tertiary and quarternary planetary bodies and their presence is detected on assorted other bodies within star system. Life forms possess understanding of technology derived from Element-Zero and understanding of Iconoclasms.
Your orders are to pacify indigenous life forms and gather information on native life forms. Iconoclastic activities are concentrated on faction concentrated on tertiary planetary body, Element-Zero based remnants concentrated on former hub of the Cleansed.
The Overlord demands more information regarding divergence of expected lines of development. Involvement of Kane suspected.
Proselyte Ultima Gluckel Horowitz, Epsilon Commander
8th of August, 2066
We have driven the invaders back to their final strongholds in the red zones. At great cost to life, we have attained victory. We can rebuild now, but we can no longer capitalize on the damage done during the war.
The invaders have erected towers, one in Italy, one on Olympus Mons. They are invulnerable to all forms of attack, had we pushed through sooner we would have been able to destroy them first, but they rallied far more swiftly and harshly than we could have possibly anticipated.
Nevertheless, the War has furthered our understanding of Element Zero and these "Protheans." It seems that they once controlled a great Empire before vanishing, leaving many of their relics behind. So be it, their death shall help our future.
Ban-Mina, Alliance Scientist
7th of June, 2067
With more research put into studying the Prothean and Ancient martian relics, we've uncovered a giant sort of station buried in one of Pluto's moons. After thawing it out, we found that it's capable of creating a massless corridor capable of near instant travel across great distances to another such station on the side.
It certainly beats the stutter jumps of the Chronospheres, Yuri's teleporters, or the travel we'd get from Heisenburg drives we have right now if this is part of some pre-established network However, we have some reason to be suspicious of it, why leave it here? While we aren't going to be using it, we are going to be following it's example and leaving the solar system. Yuri can have this place, we're done with it. We'll be packing up all that we can leaving.
Yuri, Supreme Hierophant of the Epsilon Dominion
7th of June, 2068
The Alliance has decided to depart once again in a great Exodus, leaving the Solar System to us. They will seek to colonize the stars, to be certain. But we will not allow ourselves to remain behind.
Already, we prepare for our own journeys into the stars through our own methods of surpassing light, from our copies of their "Heisenberg" drives and our own research into the astrogates of the Scrin. We will show the Universe the strength in our unity, and should the Alliance seek to make a fight for the destiny of mankind in the stars, we shall be all too ready to oblige them. The people are of free-minds once more, loyal to the cause that I have created, a cause of advancement and enlightenment in this universe.
The universe lies before us, and destiny is ours to command and conquer.
Author's notable notes of noteworthiness:
I'm not beholding myself to any one mod of Yuri's revenge, but I'm drawing most heavily on mental Omega. If I see concepts I like from other mods, I'm cribbing them. If you see ideas from Red Alert 3 Paradox or some of the more obscure Red Alert 2 mods, do not cry foul, this was intentional. I avoided making a Paradox crossover because Open_Sketchbook already made one, and I avoided Rise of the Reds because it ultimately wouldn't be all that different from the Canon SA. Peptuck's already doing something based off of Tiberium Wars far better than I ever could, and I'm not super interested in doing Vanilla RA3 or C&C 4.
I've also fiddled a bit with the canon ME races and ME canon a bit to deal with some issues I see, the most obvious thing is that the Council is substantially stronger here than it is in canon among other things. The other obvious thing is doing my best to avert the planet of hats thing in mass effect.
I also loudly disagree with the "Council races are hidebound dogmatists" headcanon, they're fairly conservative but more importantly pragmatists working from their knowledge base, not so utterly unadaptable that the Race would think them reactionaries. They're very much capable of playing catch up to the human factions (Within a generation of contact Citadel Space's techbase is going to be more than a bit redalertified with the production speed that implies) and possess superiority to them in all things Eezo (as well as manpower, sheer amount of industry, capital, and so on.) The relation between C-Space and the Alliance will be like the relation NATO had with some of the less reliable members; particularly France, albeit the Alliance is a bit stronger than France (More like France+West Germany+Italy+The Benelux countries combined) to the Turian's USA, the Asari's British Empire at its peak and actually this metaphor kind of breaks down here but basically the Alliance would be somewhat weaker than the Salarians and Asari but definitely weaker than the Turians (as the Hierarchy is the most powerful member of C-space) but overall a valuable partner.
Epsilon would be more like the USSR in Comparison, with the allies it will gain later on being vaguely comparable to the Warsaw pact. Epsilon is overall weaker than C-space and would in all likelihood, lose a war with it fought to the bitter end, but it would go down swinging and could make some gains (especially if it struck first) before going down; standing military wise they are quite near the top and in some ways would surpass the Turians but would not be able to take on all of C-space plus the alliance, and in a long war Epsilon lags behind significantly in terms of GDP. They're aware of this so they'll be seeking to find their own allies.
The Forgotten are weaker than either the Alliance or the Dominion but they're quite widespread and they do have the means with which to make their voice heard. They are treated as a proper state entity despite their Confederate nature, and have proper embassies and consulates with all other powers. They're largely neutral to everyone but they have the military power to maintain their independence and attacks on them would likely result in widespread mutant insurgencies across the galaxy, thus most people let them live in peace. Besides, the territory they live in is largely useless for Carbon based life anyway. The Phantom Syndicate is; being a collection of ex-black ops, corporations that fucked off into space because they couldn't cut it in the dominion and they refused to become Worker-Owned Cooperatives as is the standard in the Alliance, third positionists, and other people who didn't fit into the cracks; of course militarily weaker than any of the other human factions by a great deal. However they have a lot of economic clout and are widespread throughout the seedier parts of the galaxy. Similarly as they are far removed from the prying eyes of "normal" civilizations they are difficult to truly get good intel on.
NEXUS is largely an unknown, but it has been building up its strength for over four hundred years in the Galactic Core; useless for Organic life due to the high radiation, but it suits the Robot Storm's armies just fine. The Galaxy can only theorize how powerful NEXUS has become in the past four hundred years, much as they can only theorize as to the might of the Geth since the morning war. But if NEXUS is mysterious, the Scrin are a complete unknown. No one knows where they're from, what their real motives are, their true strength, or really much of anything about them. Only that they are very patient, play a very long game, displayed formidable technology on Earth, and from the description of them given from the Tacitus; built by the Hyksos before the Protheans set up a base on Mars; the way they wage a proper war of extermination is something truly terrifying to behold.
I moved the date of humanity's expansion out of the solar system back a hundred years because humanity mattering at all with only 30 years to expand beyond Sol is seriously dumb. The date of citadel contact will be moved forward by about three centuries to further appease my desire for things to make sense.
Everything I write here is open for revision, criticism, and discussion.
