August 13th, 2021- Battle station Los Angeles
In the stations main foyers, dozens of representatives from all over the Earth, including the colonies and allied worlds, came together to activation ceremony of the Los Angeles.
Ever since the destruction of the brotherhood facility, strange things have happened in the surrounding area, the ground was giving off increasing amounts of unknown radioactive materials, the surrounding area was immediately quarantined to investigate, it baffled many of the men that scanned the area, either it was the Ion Cannon blast itself that mutated the soil, or it was something this brotherhood was doing…
"May I have your attention please." The man at the podium announced, many of the guest would remember him for what he did a decade ago, he was the one that finally brought disclosure into play, Former President Henry Hayes.
Once the crowd settled he smiled politely "I thank you all for coming here." He paused if only for a second, "Today is the day earth can finally breathe easy from the constant threat of Baal." He turned to face the majesty window display behind him. "This is the second of a soon to be global network of stations for the defense of earth, our growing fleets will soon depart for the colonies, and then to the frontlines."
"Today, earth stands proud against this threat, confident, and deservingly so, no longer will we bow to Goa'uld supremacy, for it no longer exists." He waited for the coming nervous response, it was shown clearly by the surprise some of the guests had on their faces. "Now I know I may be saying a lot, we are indeed out numbered in this war, but now we no longer cower in fear."
"Look at the Sirus sector, we have expanded our reaches, Earth is not the only world of the Terran people, look at our growing fleet, the united army, our allies fighting with us."
He smiled proudly at the statement, "Yes we still have a long way to go, but now we actually have a way to go, today is that point, and with it we will fight for our freedom, we will fight for our right to freedom, and we shall not yield." The guest broke into a fury of applause, the former president walking down the stand to greet the dozens of hand shakes waiting for him, his legacy for a united earth , an earth that took the Goa'uld threat, and spat it in the face, had come to pass.
The small chatter between diplomats, national leaders and such was interrupted by a slow clapping, a very loud slow clapping, "Well down Mr. Hayes, even years after your term you still sway the hearts and minds of the men and woman around you."
The booming voice echoed in the chamber, it was like a call from a deity of some form, the confused guest were growing nervous, much more then the former presidents statement caused them to be.
"You are right however, today marks the turning of the war, but what war some would ask?" with that a massive holographic image fazed to life, the golden light suddenly changing to the image of a man, Kane.
"I greet you all as the leader of Nod, a faction of the things soon to come, As long as man has had breath the Brotherhood has existed. For from the beginning - when man's struggle was with nature, not knowing where he might sleep, how he would eat, or whether he would survive to see the light of dawn - there have always been those who would lord over others. People who believe that they, by some unseen right, are granted power over others, and would push others down so they might climb, are the greatest threat to mankind's existence. For many years has one man or one race prospered on the sweat and work of others, we are those that oppose such things, the brotherhood will put an end to such things, from now on war has been declared, today marks the day of the Tiberium War, and you are its first victims." He man ended with a malicious smirk on his face, the hologram dissipated from its unknown origin.
Suddenly, the roaring of klaxons began, the computer screaming over and over again. "Warning, incoming missiles!"
Earth Orbit
While many of the confused guests, workers, and even military officers on the Los Angeles were baffled at the holographic display, and hacked sound systems, declaring an act of war against nearly the entire world in the process. Some still concentrating on their tasks, noticed the fast moving weapons from earths surface coming towards them.
"Sir we got incoming ICBM's, lots of them!"
Brigadier General Cortez turned to the reporting officer, "Are our shields up?"
The officer shook his head, "No sir, something jamming the activation sequence," he punched in a few more commands, turned nervously towards the general ", in fact its blocking our entire defensive network!"
The general's face grew with worry but it was just a mask, he was bloody terrified "Damn it, is there any nearby ships?"
"Only transports, nothing that could intercept them in time." The Ops officer next to them reported.
"40 seconds sir, rings are offline but we need to evacuate!"
Cortez nodded silently, quickly dashed to the comm. Panel in the other end of the room, "This is General Cortez, we are evacuating, incoming assault on the Los Angeles and Defensive Measures aren't activating, everyone get off the station now!"
Earth Orbit
6 ICBM, armed with naqaudah warheads, punctured the outer atmosphere, the now primitive rocket boosters propelling them towards their target, the Los Angeles. It was amazing in itself that no one picked them up until it was too late, the limited powered cloaking devices had kept the hidden until it was too late. Now out of the range of Earths planetary defense network, and the orbital network suffering 'minor setbacks' the missiles charged unopposed.
Los Angeles Station
With near 10 seconds to go, the few lucky enough to be near the escape pods quickly jumped into them, activated the engines and watched as the station got further and further away, floating hopelessly at the fast coming missiles. With only armour coming to the defense, the missiles slammed into it, detonating an enhanced nuclear explosion across the armour, washing over it with pure destructive force. Amazingly enough, the station held under the explosion, exposed sections of the hull were clear however, it would be a miracle if anyone survived.
In the Command Centre, the room was ripped to shreds, entire consoles were ripped out of the floor and thrown metres away, bodies littered the floor, however behind the smoke, a figure rose from the ground steadily and painfully, wearing a bloodied coat, General Cortez walked with a limp towards the comm. station. He slowly made the final command into the keyboard, starring out the main window to the fast approaching weapons, muttering only, "So it ends."
Earth Orbit
The second warhead impacts unopposed on the station, with my of the armour melted away in the attack, the explosion completely engulfed the massive station, before the inferno ended the last 4 missiles hit on their target, only enhancing the explosive force. After a good 10 minutes of watching the explosion died down, there was nothing remaining, but the feeling of death and decay where the once mighty symbol of hope stood.
United Nations -3 hours later
The room was noticeably thinner in numbers, many of the representatives of the United Nations were on the Los Angeles when it happened, however tragic the attack was, it did do one thing to the worlds favor, they stood together against this new threat. After a surprisingly quick debate about the subject, it was settled.
General O'Neill took the podium, realizing the implications of this change, for better or for worse. "Today we suffered an attack on par with the cowardly strikes of September 11, 2001." He sighed slightly, thinking of what to say on a very unprepared speech, "Today we lost the hope of unity, we lost some of the greatest men and woman that god gave us, we lost our new battle station, but we gained something, the renewed knowledge of betrayal."
"Today this Brotherhood of Nod did something that no terrorist group could contemplate, the senseless destruction of something designed to protect earth, including all its people, not just the western nations. Many of those people on the station fought for the Unity of earth in the struggle with the Goa'uld, many of the advocates of that ideal were celebrating their accomplishments, and they died bravely with it, today we honor that sacrifice with the treaty that many of them worked so hard to accomplish. Today the signing of the Global Defense Initiative Treaty took place, 89 members in total, starting immediately the unification of all of these members' militaries takes place, their objectives, the continuing battle against Baal, and the elimination of the terrorist faction known as Nod."
September 4th 2021 Hammerfest
The newly created GDI had immediately increased the number of ground force units coming out of the production lines, in the few light skirmishes against Nod, it was clear they had a huge infrastructure behind them, even advantaged technology, too often had Orca's come into engagement with Nod 'banshees'. The newly created Titan battle mech stomped towards the base, the massive railgun wielding tanks moved at a surprisingly fast speed, as both legs pounded into the ground with enough force to shatter the thick layer of ice below them. Colonel James Winter, field commander of the newly formed Taskforce Firestorm grinned from inside his 'Impact' variation Titan. It was a massive change from the now mass produced variation, it was the now tested orbital drop variation. Including a break-away heat shield, limited jump-jets, its own firestorm shield, a larger railgun as well as its own anti-personal light railguns for support. Coming into the base entrance, the shields constantly active ever since the new threat, Winter activated his comm. array.
"Hammerfest control, this is Colonel Winter, patrol complete, love the new Titan."
"Roger that colonel, the General's glad you liked it, he just hopes you don't forget that when your dropping from high orbit." The command centre inside the shield replied.
"Heh, inform General O'Neill that he needs to give it a try himself before he gets all pessimistic about its capabilities." The Colonel replied smiling , "Going to open the gate for me anytime soon?"
"Yes Colonel, gate grid deactivating."
In front of the mech, a small portion of the bubble like shield, disappeared, just enough for it to fit in. The giant marched through the opening, before it reactivated to fill the bubble once more.
Scout Force Epsilon- 9 kilometres outside Hammerfest
The trio of Wolverine battlesuits marched through the snowy forest terrain of the Norwegian outskirts, soon to head back to Hammerfest, Wolverine 2 picked up something.
"Hold it guys, got a strange reading coming in from the west."
"What? Its flat land for miles that way, what distance?"
"500 metres and closing."
"There's nothing there man, your systems must be stuffing up, check it out back at…..SHIT!"
Before he could end the sentence 5 massive tanks burst from the ground, seemingly covered in grinders, and numerous gun emplacements, it was definitely here for a fight.
"Take it out!" as the trio of Wolverines let loose with their twin Vulcan cannons, the bullets reflecting uselessly across the thick armour of the enemy tanks. A large cannon brought its way out of the armour like a pop-up turret, it was their turn.
Hammerfest
General O'Neill was starting to enjoy his day at his now command base, despite Solomon's suggestion he couldn't live it up there in orbit, he needed to know he's feet were on the ground and that's where they were staying.
Suddenly the command center's speakers blared to life "Mayday Mayday, this is Epsilon 3, we got an incoming strike force heading your way, its just growing in numbers, we can't hold them off for muc……"
O'Neill knew what it was, muttering the word "Nod."