SDI Codex

Timeline
1928 – February: Albert Einstein successfully goes back in time to just outside Landsberg Prison, where he proceeds to remove Adolf Hitler from time, before returning to Trinity, New Mexico in 1945.

September: The Soviet Union under Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin begins to build a research complex over the Tunguska event site. An Isolationist Policy is enacted to begin leaping technology forward, largely due to the Red Army's humiliating defeat by the Polish in Stalin's recent attempt to seize the lands lost in Brest-Litvosk. Seething, Josef turns to several scientific minds, and enigmatic figures in the Union, that will result in wondrous advances.

As well this year see's Admiral Isoroku Yamamato lead a coup against the Army Conservatives entrenched in the cabinet, and personally acts as Prime Minister Tojo's Kaishakunin, when he commits Seppuku for the dishonour he has caused the nation by forcing it to stagnate. This leads to steady changes in the policies of the Empire, ones that lean on towards the increased efficiency of military units, and gaining more firepower-armour-mobility.

December: Albert Einstein warns then President Hoover that it is possible that Josef Stalin is using his power as unmatched Dictator of the former Russian Empire to build advanced technology and arm his armies with such weapons. The President begins to listen when the FBI informs him that Nikolai Tesla has been reported missing from his New York apartment.

1933: The Second Sino-Japanese War starts. As the Communist Part in China has received weapons, arms and massive resources in exchange for some secret agreements from the USSR, the Japanese Empire gains funding and resources from the Allies. This Proxy War shall rage and begin to leap technology that is visible to the world ahead, and also will have the effect of, making the Western Allies a little complacent in their superiority once the Japanese win.

The Commando's are formed at first as a volunteer legion in America, alongside the OSS, and begin to see action against Communist forces internationally. These two forces will begin to become vocal about the United States rearming and aiding the various nations facing Communist threat abroad, and begin a gravitation towards America slowly pulling itself from the Great Depression through building a mighty Military-Industrial Complex.

1945: The Empire declares victory over China, after 12 years of grinding conflict, of facing hordes of communists armed with automatic rifles and their large tanks. The Japanese develop powerful Heavy Close Air Support Fighters, Hunter/Killer Jets, Heavy Strategic Bombers, Main Battle Tanks, Helicopters, Auto-rifles of their own, and rapid-fire Artillery support to seize victory. They have massive debt to the Allies after the War, and it is only managed by the advanced electronics and metallurgical industries they built during the war to manufacture their weapons from the resources and designs they got with the brightest minds they have.

Over the next five years, Japan will take the parts of South-East Asia that don't belong to Europe, and the European countries will begin to discuss a defence pact should the Soviets come out of Isolation. Considering their combat capabilities in China, each country at the conference needed to look at their armies.

1950: The Second Great War begins with Stalin sending 10 million men, and 8,000 tanks into Northern, Central, and South-Eastern Europe. China is a secondary theatre, with Mao crossing from Mongolia with an army of 5 million Conscripts, and 4,000 tanks at the extreme West of China, before beginning to sweep East.

The Allies, resist as hard as they can, but the Russians constantly and easily build reinforced bases on the front lines, that then pour out hundreds of Conscripts, Tanks, and Planes. The Allies have few answers for this. Agents of every intelligence agency struggle to discover how the Russians do this. Despite Germany's modern and 88mm equipped Panzer Legions, the Russians destroy most of them in a tide of Hammer and Apocalypse tanks. Despite the Air Force the Western Allies possess, the MiG's and Tupolev's screen and scream through the sky in multitudes.

1951-2: Halfway through the year, the Soviets have the Allies on the ropes. France has only a massive border strip, Italy is contesting it's south, Portugal is using it's terrain, and Britain is near defeat despite the Royal Navy's and Air Forces. Having helped the Latin countries industrialize to meet the massive demands of the Japanese, and the rearming Europeans, the United States leads an Economic Zone in the Western Hemisphere that has pulled them out of their Great Depression and is now truly the Arsenal of Democracy.

This truly enrages Stalin.

In an act that echo's throughout history, he sends the Soviet Atlantic Fleet out to make a statement, and they set their sails to the Western Hemisphere. 5 Carriers, 12 Battleships, 18 Cruisers, 32 Destroyers, and 46 Subs in protecting packets around the Fleet. Their actions would forever be remembered as a date that would live in infamy.

"My fellow Americans. Today, January 1st, 1952, The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by Naval Air Forces of the United Soviet Socialist Republics. Rest Assured, this will be a day that will live in infamy, one that we will forever remember."

New York City is subjected to waves of attacking aircraft's, naval gunfire, and submarines torpedoing as many boats and ships as they could get their hands on undiscriminating between civilian and military. The Soviet Fleet Commander had a cold response to the American President.

"Let it be known that the USSR will not tolerate the continued funding of our enemies with free handouts by Capitalist Pigs like America, who get rich off the misery of those who are at war. Dasvidanya Chyort Svoloch!"

Once the translation was understood, this only enraged the American public further, if a thing was even possible. Recruiting centre's exploded, production was switched to war-time, and all of America's allies began to tool up and ramp up. As current casualty lists and the technology of the Soviets is assessed, a critical question is raised by the military, given needed bodies for the expedition to liberate Europe. Women are volunteering to serve, are demanding the right to kill those who've torn their families apart, and loved ones away. A small, trial program is initiated, in the Commando's, the only formation besides the OSS willing to accept women despite the War to test the willpower and strength of a women's will to serve.

Tanya Parker blows expectancy's out of the water, her determination, and natural abilities exceeding many of her class and matching many of her instructor's. Welcomed quickly into the ranks, despite views held in America and abroad, the Commando's train add her to their ranks. Her actions on the Western Front saw rapid promotion, with Tanya reaching the rank of Colonel by the end of the war. A massive expedition force was assembled, before it is reported that the Russians were head-faking with the New York Attack.

Einstein was missing.

1953: The Operations enacted in this year bring the gains made by the USSR back to their Brest-Litvosk holdings, and the Japanese now only hold Manchuria, the Chinese coast, and the South-East Asian Republics.

May 18th: Einstein is rescued, and the Chronosphere begins to be used as a tactical teleportation device, to defeat the massed Soviet Conscripts and Armoured formations with the Allied Battleships and other large-calibre gunfire. Outflanking the larger Soviet Armies with their more surgical formations, the Allies gamble on one massive push, to eliminate the current obstinate Soviet Leadership primarily Stalin. Slowly but surely, a concentrated spearhead begins to push towards Moscow.

October 10th: Weather-Control Technology is used alongside the Gap-Generators to outmanoeuvre and delay the formations that are not engaged by the Naval and Rocket assets the allies have in play, as they stride at a breakneck pace to Moscow. The MLRS comes into play as the main artillery for the allies, matching and frightening the Soviets with it's advanced power. The Abrams MBT begins to match the Hammer tanks, and packs take on the Apocalypse Tanks.

November 15th: Nuclear Threat. Allied Commando Colonel Tanya disables a silo holding an ICBM, that is preparing a nuclear attack on the Pentagon.

December 8th: Operation Downfall. The End of the War. Iron-Curtain Technology is used to shield the Kremlin and the Moscow Core, so conventional assault is used. 1.5 million men, and over 4,500 tanks are used in total by both sides, with casualties ringing up to 800,000.

However, most of the Union is still intact, and only the Spearhead to Moscow is conquered territory. The peace treaty concludes with the Union receding and restoring Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, but not Poland, Bulgaria, the Slavic Balkans, and they stand firm on this. Their negotiating stance is their nuclear technology may have been prevented from being used in the war, but that doesn't mean they don't still have it. The USSR keeps the Ukraine, the Baltics, Finland, the Caucasus Republics, alongside Xinjiiang and Mongolia.

The Chinese are a completely exhausted/shattered state from fighting Japan, and after WWII, they are admitted to the Soviet Union as an S.F.S.R.(Soviet Federated Socialist Republic). Japan has gained the important economic provinces on the coast from Manchuria to Hong Kong, and China is in serious need of rebuilding, which the Empire see's to as it works hard to annex the population and territories it's gained peacefully. Yamamato's reforms has seen the military enshrined as the power in Japan, like the Samurai Class, with the Emperor's power reaffirmed, and the Civilian Ministries gaining autonomy in their matters.

The world begins to recover and advance, as it all settles into the Cold War, with armed camps on both sides, and the Second World War having wasted nearly 85 million lives. The Three Great Powers divide the world between themselves, with the Empire sticking to rebuilding it's current projects, the Americans rebuilding Europe and integrating it's Latin American territories as states, and the Soviets fixing the crumbling Chinese civilization.

1956: The Allies put a Satellite in orbit.

1958: The USSR lands on the Moon.

1975: The Third Great World War begins. Premiere Romanov, a puppet of Yuri, orders an invasion of the mainland United States, with massed formations slid under the radar and a few new weapons letting them get their troops in prime position to land on all of America's coastlines. The European Allies do nothing, as Romanov's nuclear arsenal remains untouched(and pointing at his enemies, ie THEM) despite rumours of the American Arsenal exploding in their silos. At first the Soviet make great headway before going through a succession crisis, and Yuri revealing himself to having been the one to orchestrate the whole thing, starting with manipulating the Premier into thinking taking the USSR on course into attacking the USA and it's Allies again was a wonderful idea that would secure his Legacy.

This happens as the Allies begin to push the Soviets out of DC, and New York, when Yuri reveals the Psychic Dominator, that he has hidden in the Statue of Liberty. Agent Tanya Parker, daughter of the first, kills who she thinks is Yuri by detonating C5 under his command chair on the Lady Liberty's torch. However, it is then that Yuri reveals himself to actually be in South America, where the Prime Psychic Dominator unit is. As well, he's now using clones, which are being directed by his sheer consciousness across the world. Luckily most have been dealt with.

A concerted effort, by the Soviets, Americans, and Empire of Japan, begin to assault the Metropolis-Redoubt in South America, finally levelling all trace's of Yuri and breathing a sigh of relief over the crisis the Madman had started. The biggest surprise, contrary to all the weirdness of Yuri, is the reveal of the Empire's combat capabilities. They have quite a great amount of soldier enhancing technological weapons, and their mech's, and fighters were outstanding. The Three Great Powers celebrate their victory.

1976 – 1992: With the end of the War, and all parties now looking at each other in a different light because of their survival, slowly the idea of a global, binding, strategic defence initiative was proposed and developed. One that would pull the three factions together. The Empire, Soviets, and Allies would continue internal policies, but it was now time to develop something more binding and international now that they could trust each other somewhat. At least their militaries could, so they could begin with that, regulate with some civilian oversight and see how the project went.

Technologies begin to be shared, and a golden age seems poised to begin for Earth. The first space station becomes active in the late 70's with many to follow so they can begin hauling asteroids back. The first Fusion reactor goes online in 1984. Conscripts would make up the base of the army for the new initiative, but the Soviets would only part with it once certain changes were made to the army structure, the training of officers had to be harder and more demanding for one. The Allies would force the liberties of the citizenry to be recognized which, and all these concerns would take time for a constitution to be worked out between the United Nations.

Nick Parker is born to Tanya Parker during this time, and joins GDI's version of the Commando Program, as it's being initiated. Dr. Mobius is born.

'88 – December: Albert Einstein dies of old age. Proud of having achieved Fusion energy, and done much to help humanity from being ruled and oppressed by tyrants, he passes off in his sleep peacefully. One thought passes through his head, that industrialized genocide had not been put into practice, because he had prevented the rise of Hitler's Germany and thus the Holocaust. The number of people who remember the 1st timeline, drops to one.

'92 – May – Kane takes over Czecho-Slovakia, and begins to preach and spread the Brotherhood of Nod, which also gains headway in Africa, and other 3rd World countries in the Mid-East and such.

Dr. Mobius begins to work for GDI, writing a dissertation on the Ion Cannon Satellite proposal, and how experimenting with the Ionizing Effects of the Weather-Control Device could generate an Ion Blast.

1995 – 1998 – The Meteor carrying Tiberium lands on Earth.

The First Tiberium War begins.

Only after destroying the Temple Prime at Prague, with their brand new Ion Cannon Satellite, does the newly minted GDI(Global Defence Initiative), begin to pick through the ruins carefully and see if they can salvage Nod technology, and contain Tiberium.

What they have learned thus far about the mineral is very worrying, whether it is Soviet, Allied, or Empire labs analyzing it.

Project ReGenesis is hi-jacked by a combination of Tier-1 Ops from the Three Great Powers, as Tesla Shock Troops, Hi-Frequency Samurai, and Cyro Legionnaires join Commando's in an assault on the Nod Brotherhood's secret Mutant Experiment. The reason is obvious, the Project had produced viable Super-Soldiers, from what the good Dr. Mobius had reported once Havoc rescued him.

2006 – A joint project between the powers leads to GDI having next generation MCV's, and All-Terrain Structure's.

Michael O'Neill-Parker born.

2012 – The Ion Cannon Network is proposed, and then put into action, for GDI to launch. The idea is to make next-generation Ion Cannons, and launch enough to have a self-supporting lattice in the sky at all times for their units.

2015 – The Ion Cannon Network is deemed ready for launch, and modules begin to be sent into space with STV's(Space Transit Vehicle) using Ion Propulsion.

Gabriella Boudreau born.

2020's – Test Fire of Ion Cannon Satellite #432, seems to go horribly wrong, as a raging firestorm is created in South America, taking nearly 5,000 square miles of Rain-forest with it. Relief efforts are largely held in scorn, but the Great Powers do so anyway, knowing the price of peace is power.

Various shipyards begin to be constructed in orbit, so GDI can make larger ships that will be able to move across the system, and bring resources back to the increasing number of complexes in space.

Fully Functional, Que-able, Semi-Automatic Buildings are now apart of the GDI's Mobile Construction Arsenal.

Deep Industrial Design is adopted by GDI.

The Empire purchases many Pacific Islands, from the declining British Commonwealth(inside the Allied State), and negotiates for the Pacific possessions of America. Originally, planes were drawn up to bring India and the Middle East into the Empire, but the spread of Tiberium was beginning to make long-term life on the mainland untenable for now. Thus The Empire began developing it's technology further, and soon floating habitats were seen, Fortresses that linked their territory and population together.

General James Solomon, the officer in charge of the Commando's Department, reviews and revises a report by EVA and Nick "Havoc" Parker, on ongoing Nod redevelopment and rebuilding efforts. A Second Tiberium War seems possible. The report is presented to the GDI council, who begins arming for war once more, because even if there's the smallest possibility he's returned...

Kane was a single man.

Implicated from the rise of the original Soviet Union under Stalin and it's acceleration, to the Third World War and the Psychic Dominator Incident. He also single-handedly was able to launch a world war, and strike successively powerful and decimating blows against GDI, by starting only from the small country of Czecho-Slovakia which for most of it's life has been a principality known as Bohemia-Moravia.

The Great Powers wouldn't take any chances, and GDI once more began to enter a mass buildup, producing newer and more powerful units, toying with electromagnetic anti-gravity and other useful avenues. However the Russians refused to change the proprietary model of the Apocalypse tank from anything but a tracked behemoth, so any effort emulate the old AT-AT from the Lucas Star Wars trilogy became moot before a soft and firm, Nyet. The Empire's technology aid's in the development of the armoured suits and shock units, giving GDI significant bite

2028 – The Second Tiberium War Begins. The Brotherhood emerges in the steadily more infected area's of the world(which happened to be Third World Countries again, as it was deemed unreasonable for the territory to recover with Tiberium beginning to reduce it to deserts, but Nod managed), and Anton Slavik reunifies the factions by force. However, as he keeps moving from victory to victory, he would scream "For the Glory of Kane!".

Anatoly Sarkov born.

2030 – January – Kane returns. Pleased at the progress of his Marshall, he instates Anton as his Military Headman, rewarding him for all his hard work. Anton never once masqueraded as a saviour, and only secured territory, while awaiting Kane's return and enlightenment, thus he is rewarded.

December- Michael O'Neill-Parker "kills" Kane, and the Second Tiberium War ends. Nod disappears, with half the population from it's occupied territories going with them. CABAL places Kane in a stasis tube.

2030-2034 – Firestorm Crisis. CABAL rebels when a massive Ion Storm ravages Earth. A joint GDI/Nod strike ends him, and recovers a significant amount of research.

The Tacitus fragments are recovered by the GDI and merge into one sphere. Dr. Gabriella Boudreau begins to recover a lot of data from the device, and she is transferred to a research station above Earth, that cycles scientists in from the Three Great Powers and GDI.

Anton Slavik is assassinated, and the Nod Fracture begins.

2034 – Rio Insurrection. GDI deciding not to invest in the region due to rapid Tiberium growth, begins to have a problem with stubborn local who won't evacuate, but want aid. They begin to riot and firebomb the GDI embassy, and the units eventually withdraw from Brazil as it is overrun with Mutants, Nod, and Insurrectionists.

November - John Parker-O'Neill is born to his father, as he celebrated his time home after the Firestorm Crisis by treating his wife to a vacation

The Liquid Tiberium Facility in Manila, The Philippines is raided, and attempted to be blown sky-high by Nod Agents. Luckily, The Empire has a tight-cordon of security cells on the island to protect the experiment and it's resources.

2036 – Anatoly Sarkov begins designing the fundamental engineering principles, of next-generation of GDI weapons, and buildings, after his genius is noticed in the USSR and brought to GDI's attention.

2037 – The Mutant Exodus. The Forgotten willingly enter the Red Zones of the earth, to escape discrimination.

2038 – Apocalypse Tank Generation III's enter prototype stage.

The Tacitus is moved to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in the Rocky Mountains.

2040-2049 – GDI begins deploying automated War Factories.

GDI begins to aid the Forgotten populations by establishing bio-domes on the edge of Red Zones.

The Last CABAL Bunker is destroyed in the late 2040's.

Nod begins preparing for the Third Tiberium War in Australia.

GDI begins to approach becoming a Super-State, as the last steps to integrating the Three Great Powers are finally being overcome.

When Crown Prince Genyushima, Secretary-General Bilyushnikov, and President Ackerman were simultaneously killed aboard the GDSS Philadelphia, by a Nod Nuclear Missile, it is apparent that the time for disunity is over and only the full might of their integrated nations will suffice to remove Nod from the Earth.

After a series of massive campaigns against all Red Zones, and a thorough sweep of their space assets, the GDI begin the final assault into the Balkans. The Soviets come in from the East, the Allies from the West, and the Empire from the South. Nod has no chance.

In a final act of defiance, they detonate 1,000 Megatonnes of H-Bombs beneath Temple Prime, setting off the Liquid Tiberium Deposits beneath. The power of the explosion vaporizes a significant surface portion of South-East Europe.

The Scrin come shortly afterward, signalled by the explosion. GDI's highest offices having been warned of some-kind of extraterrestrial contact between Nod and parties unknown since Havoc discovered the ship in Prague's Temple Prime in 'Tib War One, have prepared defence in depth in their province's but are simply not ready for the scale and power the aliens wield.

The Scrin are defeated in Italy, the Third Tiberium War Ends, and Kane achieves his goals beyond his wildest dreams. Humanity is united, they are powerful, and they have technological advancements one can only dream of.

2052 – The Marked of Kane are activated. Rumours of cyborg activity spread. The Tacitus becomes unstable due to GDI experiments, and inexperience.

In an assault on the Rocky Mountains Complex, with back up from the Black Hand, Nod forces capture the Tacitus.

2054 – Kane presents the Council of Humanity with a Fait Accompli, to convince them to join with Nod, so they can finally push the brinks of research and achieve their destiny.

He brings the Tacitus with him, and after several hours of discussion, the leaders agree to integrate the Brotherhood of Nod.

They wanted a collaborative view to be present for them to go forward, and Kane agreed. No more were there Nod, or GDI, now was born the Stellar Defence Initiative(SDI).

Four years of collective research and prototypes are put forward and tested before being used, as a second Scrin probing invasion begins in Italy.

2058 – Colonel John "Havoc" Parker deploys in newly advanced, shielded, and armed powersuit, with Commando brethren to take on the Scrin, with powerful and fast Tanks, Aircraft, and Artillery. The mass production of fine tuned Gen-IV Iron-Curtain Shield Generators made even their Conscripts deadly to the Scrin who now chittered a little higher pitched when they saw the endless Red Horde approaching. For aesthetics, it was decided to keep the uniform the same over the armour, to inspire fear.

The Scrin in the Italian Peninsula are routed.

2059-2075 – From this time, research and development is given an unlimited budget, and focus is created on making a space-worthy fleet, and creating Faster-Than-Light-Travel.

Laser research, and upgrades to the aging Nod weapons arsenal are made glaringly apparent when what happens next surprises Kane's loyal Tank Commanders. A wide-sweeping over-view of Nod arsenal is personally undertaken by Kane, now that he has better resources, and already other people are working on the things that are necessary for combating his ancient foe.

There are those Nod factions that still exist, and refuse to allow GDI and Kane to wreck their plans of Messianic Delusion. As the Tiberium Control Network plans are unveiled, and Tiberium begins to become reduced to manageable in most countries, the splinter groups of Nod assemble, and gamble on attacking the network as it is being set up.

A big mistake, as they are swiftly suppressed by Rapid-Response forces, with Powered Armour, Assault Tanks, and Powerful Aircraft with following rolling bombardments of Ion Precision Strikes.

By 2069, the last Separatist is hunted down, and destroyed.

In 2073 the Tiberium Control Network is completed.

CABAL, Kane, and Nod work alongside the Soviets, Allies, and Empire of the Rising Sun.

The Future seems bright indeed.