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Storyline FAQ For Command And Conquer's
Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn And Tiberian Sun
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" There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed
to the advantage of others "
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
The Birth Of The Command and Conquer Alternate Universe: Red Alert
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The Events that set it into motion 60 years ago
1. Introduction:
May, 1945. The end of World War II. The defeat of Adolph Hitler and the destruction
of Germany. The flight of the Enola Gay over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The surrender
of Japan. The extermination of over 6 million Jewish people and several hundreds of
thousands of other people that were marked for death by the Nazi ideology. 5 years
of war that ravaged the European continent, drew the United States of America into a
massive naval battle against Japan, caused the first nuclear strikes in history and
resulted in the loss of over 30 million human lives.
Up to here, reality as we know it and the reality of the alternate Universe of Command
and Conquer are completely parallell... Until 1949, 4 years after the end of the se-
cond World War. During this year, in a classified military research facility at
Trinity, New Mexico, a chain of events was set into motion that seperated our reality
of the Command and Conquer Universe. The person who was responsable was a man known
as Albert Einstein.
2. The Paradox Equation:
A genious mathematician, scientist, and theorist who lived in the early part of the
20th Century created the theory of Relativity and in doing so became the first human
being to gain an understanding of the fabric of the Space -Time Continuum. His name
was Albert Einstein. A man considered to be one of the greatest thinkers in the
field of science, mathematics and philosophy in the 20th Century, and quite possibly