After Activation 1178 - Origin Universe
After Insertion 1139 - Cultivation Universe
Millennium 151-32M - 40k Universe
AD 2010 - C Red Alert/Generals - Rise of the Reds Universe
The Liquid Tiberium explosion as it was to be called was one that shook the world. It detonated in Saudi Arabia and the heat was enough to turn a large part of the county and those surrounding it to glass.
Worse was the manner in which it changed the world forever. It ignited with the force of a 500 megaton bomb, which was bad, very bad, enough to wipe out what was a very large part of the populations of the countries involved as well as the wildlife and the ocean itself boiled at the edges of the explosion, killing much of the ocean wildlife.
But the explosion as it was was not the worst part of it. What came next was even worse, for the Liquid Tiberium was not all destroyed, rather it entered the atmosphere in what looked like a gaseous form and was spreading out through the entire planet, all over the world, into the lungs of the peoples, into the heads and hearts of almost every single citizen, the amount of Liquid Tiberium that was being stored being enough to satisfy the needs of every single person on the planet with enough to spare.
It was a threat on a scale never before seen and the USA was facing worldwide condemnation for their act. What they had done was not merely war, it was an act of terrorism on a scale so large that entire chunks of the world would have to be evacuated.
What made matters worse was that the Tiberium was not confined to the atmosphere, but rather it was experiencing what was a revival on the ground. The world's Tiberium underwent a change that was at once deadly and incredibly worrying. The peoples of the world unable to comprehend the manner in which the crystals were now growing, ignoring the previous containment procedures. Something was happening and the change was not something that any of them were able to understand as the public panicked.
What was previously a safe zone could become a Tiberium field in a matter of days, the crystals seemingly emerging from nowhere. The entire planet was being corralled and it was very clearly the fault of the US president, very clearly the fault of they who had ordered the strike.
What made matters even worse for the entire world was the manner in which the explosion had happened. It was underground with large pipes that connected to it and delivered to it the Liquid Tiberium from multiple different refineries. All of which were affected all of which very clearly exploded as the spiderweb of Tiberium liquid underneath the surface all detonated, flinging millions of tonnes of dirt and sand into the atmosphere in a cloud that could be seen from the other side of the planet if one were in space. It was a moment of incredible danger as it represented the moment when everything changed and for the worse, the global climate took a massive hit, even cooling by 3 degrees centigrade, enough to cripple or even kill many biomes around the world. There was going to be massive food shortages as the large underwater currents that provided life for the vast numbers of marine life to feed the world slowed or even stopped entirely.
By the same token the large numbers of plants slowly died, their herbivores unable to feed on them and dying, an effect that ricocheted up the chain. It was the same message across the world, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia seen shrinking over time, the forests of the Amazon changing, dying.
The world had been forced to undergo a forced period of climate change and when the dust dissipated after maybe a decade, there was the question of whether or not there would be anything left as they knew it. The food crops were going to be affected, even the dumbest of city slickers knew that much. How much food could be produced when the temperatures were like this? How many people were going to starve to death because of some idiot over in Washington?
As for the Coalition's forces in the desert, they had been on the outer edges of the explosion, not a matter that one had to worry about too much, but it was a concern as the explosion had destroyed the containment facilities and sent Tiberium particles shooting into the NTU universe. Tiberium that was unable to be contained as they had previously thought.
A danger.
That was unfortunately not all, of course, the explosion was marked by an invasion from across the Atlantic sea by the USA, sending divisions of men through the narrow straits of Alaska and straight into what was formerly Russia. Another problem heaped onto what felt like an entire world full of them for the Coalition forces.
The dust blown by the air currents into Europe were causing very large issues, people forced to wear masks lest they choke to death on the debris. There would have to be a retaliation after this, of course, one did not bomb the NTU on this scale unless they were prepared for the consequences. The satellite that had destroyed the Liquid Tiberium plant had been disabled, it would serve well as a trophy after this was over.
The response of the coalition was two fold, their forces prepared and ready to show exactly why the US still existed. It was not that they had left them because they were unable to destroy them, they had allowed the US to live and the US had spit on their offer, on their generosity. There would be a reckoning and it was going to be very...loud.
The world finding out the true might of the NTU. Their ground armies were powerful, yes, but it was what they had developed for the air that marked their might, their danger, and why they were so reluctant to use these on civilian areas.
The combined technological and industrial might of the NTU had been necessary to begin work on what would be known as the Razorback, an aircraft that served very simply to completely and utterly crush any and all resistance to the might of the Coalition.
It was these planes that were then launched over towards Alaska, towards the divisions of troops marching their way deeper into Coalition territory. The Razorbacks flew their way in, slowly, steadily, as if they had all the time in the world. Which they did really, they were the epitome of weapons design for the coalition.
Each aircraft was approximately 20 meters long, 14 meters wide, a fat little bugger that carried with it the greatest ECM suite available to mankind, capable of scrambling the circuits of anything that got within 50 meters of it, a stealth suite that allowed for someone to be right next to it and never even see it, forced to rely on touch to identify that there was something there, let alone a massive aircraft. Underneath it possessed the eye of SINAA, a means of identifying targets for what came next, the eye of Thor.
A second ball mount had been installed, this one packing a laser system that was unrivalled in its ability to deliver a level of power that allowed it to simply melt through offending tanks, through infantry, through concrete bunkers, through anything that needed melting. The fact that it was on a ball mount ensured that the Razorback was able to simply fly in lazy circles over the target while SINAA picked out targets and Thor hammered them down.
They were not bombers of course, those were the ones en-route to Washington to demonstrate just how displeased the Coalition was with the stupidity of the American leadership. They were not aware of course that NOD had allowed for it to happen while also stealing the Tacitus. Some things just needed to be kept a secret.
0990's delivery of Tacitus as well as the delivery of the means to decode Tacitus weeks earlier allowed for the NOD scientists to simply plug it into their own version of CABAL, only without the masses of cyborgs being used for personality, that was just weird. Seriously, who used a multi-personality AI as a means to develop plans? It was better to use use the thing as a hyper efficient librarian and leave the killing to someone that knew what they were doing. AI's were too fundamentally different from people to ever understand them and predict them.
NOD therefore, was able to grab everything they wanted and prepare a solution for the Tiberium problem, it wouldn't do to have the home universe affected, after all, it was their primary concern.
As for those of the secondary, Tiberium Universe, they were… not needed, not needed at all. They had demonstrated amply their rejection of the ascension and NOD felt that it was a waste of resources to continue and try to convert them. There were of course one or 2 of them that accepted it, but the majority were still unbelievers, a waste.
Still, there was nothing they could do about that.
The Coalition had no idea that NOD had the solution to all of their problems and so launched their retaliation strike, Razorbacks streaming to the armies in North America, Ares bombers on their way to Washington.
These beasts were not what one would call ordinary craft, each and every one of them capable of flying near the stratosphere, all the way up and nearly into Space itself, using like the Razorback, a means of power generation that relied on Tiberium. This was kept isolated and was unaffected by the changes to the planet's Tberium, they could function… for now.
As to what they were doing, a complete eradication of Washington followed by an invasion which would allow for them to take the world under their control. It was necessary if the Tiberium was to be controlled and to prevent the planet from becoming a giant green crystal, that would be in none of their interests.
The Razorbacks flew over the armies, the multitude of laser systems installed on each craft allowing them to effectively just punch holes though anything that was launched at them, cutting through projectiles, through bullets, through missiles, soldiers, tanks and armoured vehicles. They simply flew down the army in what looked like they were harvesting crops on a farm, each one taking up a row, flying down, their lasers tearing their way through the poor unfortunates directly under them. Each one dying in a small burst of heat.
Enemy aircraft that tried to get in on the action had their missiles shot down from range, while those that tried to get into cannon range were destroyed almost instantly, the engines being shot out from under them. All of them unable to see what was happening, unable to comprehend why it was that they were being turned to ash. They just knew that it was happening and it was moving toward them like an unrelenting tide of death and despair. They were going to die, that much was a given as the saw the tens of thousands of men simply vanish in a steadily advancing wave of ash.
The US invasion was crushed in a matter of hours, their forces sent back in retreat demoralized, assuming they were alive at all.
As for Washington the Ares Bombers, each a gargantuan craft that carried not conventional munitions but solid rods of tungsten, were making their way to the target zone. As high as they were there was nothing capable of intercepting them except missiles, those shot down by the Thor lasers installed in the wings.
As the 5 bombers made their way over Washington, they began the pre-targeting systems. Each one arranging themselves in the optimal manner to best cover the entire city, each rod roughly 1 tonne in mass. With that established, the bomb bay doors opened one by one, the small calibrations to the tube allowing it to fall while accounting for wind, humidity and the like.
Down it went.
Each craft carrying 10 of them, 50 in total, arranged in such a way that the entire city was covered.
Each would explode on impact with the force of a megaton explosion, one million tonnes of TNT.
And so they did, 50 megatons in total, the entire city simply vanishing in multiple mushroom clouds that joined together to make one huge billow of smoke.
In the future, there would be a monument where the White House once stood, a memorial to the foolishness of the late American empire.
And with that chapter done, the Scrin who were coming would be coming to a world dramatically different from what they had expected.