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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Wait, you said 'nazis'? I thought Red Alert was cannon to Tiberian Dawn?
A: Watsonian: theres a conspicuous lack of chronospheres in the GDI arsenal by 1995-2000, ie Tiberian Dawn; and RA2/Yuri's Revenge is in the same general Gulf War time period as Tiberian Dawn, and uh... Tib Dawn Nod would get rolled by RA2 allies, and RA2 soviets
Also 2040 is long enough between Yuri and Tiberium Wars to have a solid counter to mind control.
Doylist: Red Alert is the wrong subgenre. Red Alert 1, let alone the sequels, are in the "Stupid Jetpack Stalin" pulp mil-sf genre, think inglorious basterds/man in the high castle, all the way to Wolfenstein at the most gonzo, the trope codifier, which latter Red Alert is absolutely inspired by.
The Tiberium saga is significantly harder milsf, and really isnt the sort of story that works with casual time travel. If i do time travel in OC, then, itll be via plausible theoretical physics, faffing abt with wormholes and relativity. And mybe psychics.
Q: (why) Is Nod/Cerberus or both in this?
A: Cerberus is evil GDI-coded as fuck, and Nod has its own distinct and opposing ideology. Also, Kanes pretty obviously not actually human, and he takes advantage of other people's xenophobia to get recruits. :)
Q: What C&C games/campaigns are cannon, and why are you using tib twilight, it suuuuucks?
A: All of them, the GDI ending at least for... most of them. Tib Twilight leaves the setting in a position to integrate near seamlessly with Mass Effect, without me having to figure out what Tib Wars's 'Tiberium Ascension' looks like when it's at home. Also yes, Tib Twilight sucks, but it sucks less than ME3's ending by a fair margin lol.
I have enough trouble already with 'How AM I gonna end this?', already.
I have integrated as much of both side's campaigns as possible though because that gives me maximum politics and alternate history to play with.
Finally, Tib Twilight leaves the story starting on a high note for humanity. The only place left to go... Is down.
Q: Where is Kane?
A: spoilers 😈. Kane is up to stuff, as usual, you can bet on that.
Q: Where's the Scrin?
A: A question very pressing for everyone who knows. the answer being... 😈 spoilers! again. they're up to nothing good for the non-gestalt species of the galaxy, bet on that much.
Q: What about LEGION (Nod), or CABAL or whoever else?
A: The status as of the end of Tib Twilight is applicable to everyone, so the surviving Nod characters are or were up to stuff, again, spoilers; surviving GDI characters had careers and memoirs and shit, we may see (or have seen, dependign on when you're reading this lol) those in epigraphs, and I'm up to some shit with some of them that I hope will prove as interesting a surprise to y'all as it will be a shock to the characters, he he he.
Y'all are great, btw, keep the questions coming
Not Frequently Asked Questions (getting out ahead of the obvious questions)
Q: Tiberium and Eezo interact explosively?
A: The strength of Tiberium and Mass Effect's Hard SF genre is that they worked out how eezo and tiberium function so as to figure out exactly what they can and can't do, and the practical upshot is, Eezo is an (unusually stable) heavy metal, Tiberium is mondo Radioactive, and Eezo can be destabilized by enough energy. The 'Island of Stability' thing is a plausible (watsonian) explanation for why we don't see Eezo in the solar system and why we haven't made it yet, and why it's not turbo-radioactive, and thus also means that, combining it with the way Tiberium functions equals really easy nuclear criticality if you don't keep 'em separated.
They need to make physical contact to start exploding, preferably with a radiation reflector (if you're doing something really ill-advised), but general rule, the kinetic barrier generator goes outside the barrier when you're using it to contain Tiberium, and 'don't touch Tiberium' goes triple for Biotics.