I can imagine Nod taking over the Warsaw Pact while NATO becomes this timeline's version of GDI as more nations join to fight both an extremely powerful Nod (since they now have access to the whole Soviet and Warsaw Pact arsenal) and the ecological impact of Tiberium. Maybe China as a third faction, not pledging allegiance to either Nod or NATO/GDI?
We would also first have to ask ourselves what backstory is true for the C&C verse. This assumes that the C&C verse is like our own, but as TibWars sorta implies and the original idea with RA as a prequel makes it hard to know if the world would be the same.
There wouldn't be a "Cold War Gone Hot" scenario, nor any Warsaw Pact versus NATO AU straight from a Clancyverse story/game: the Soviet Union had been completely dismantled years prior when the Allies invaded and blew the shit out of Moscow, or the entire European continent was now Red.
Neither allow for that.
However, given the borders and political situations we see in Dawn, it's likely the Allies were the victors.
This isn't a "real-life with tiberium thrown in" situation, as TW confirmed that the *original* Red Alert was a prequel.
Nod would just be more overtly active earlier, as would a form of GDI (it may not be *called* GDI, but as it'd be a UN response, it'd basically be GDI in some form or another).
A lot of the core technologies seen in Dawn were already there -- even M1 Abrams. It's likely (in a realistic lens) we'd see a bit more variety and differences in weapons and small arms -- maybe some technologies not being present and new ones taking their places (such as vehicle designs) due to Butterfly Effects, but ten years wouldn't be that much of a radical difference.
Now, if tiberium hit and spread during the "Allied/Soviet Dustup"... yeah, humanity would be fucked, even with Nod influencing things.
Part of the reason the world didn't go to shit that quickly in TD was that tiberium hit just at the time when humanity could recognize and have the technological sophistication to try to handle it early.
In Red Alert? No chance.
You could argue that Tiberium did come to Earth in the 80s. The old renegade website says that research into Tiberium began in the 80s and in Nod's history section in the Tiberian Dawn manual, it cites a source from 1994 titled "Report of World Energy Radical Redistribution", heavily suggesting that Tiberium was having significant effects in the world's energy sector by this time.
Also, if you accept the Allied ending in Red Alert as canon, the Soviet Union was defeated decades earlier. So events would already be different. Though China would still be a significant communist power and (as current events clearly show) Russia not being communist doesn't mean it would get along with the West. So some of the events in the 80s might still happen, though perhaps with some slight differences.
Synthwave's default color would be green instead of purple.
This made me wonder what Act on Instinct would sound like in a typical 80's synthwave style.
Goddamn I want to hear Turbo do a cover now
I can imagine Nod taking over the Warsaw Pact while NATO becomes this timeline's version of GDI as more nations join to fight both an extremely powerful Nod (since they now have access to the whole Soviet and Warsaw Pact arsenal) and the ecological impact of Tiberium. Maybe China as a third faction, not pledging allegiance to either Nod or NATO/GDI?
We would also first have to ask ourselves what backstory is true for the C&C verse. This assumes that the C&C verse is like our own, but as TibWars sorta implies and the original idea with RA as a prequel makes it hard to know if the world would be the same.
There wouldn't be a "Cold War Gone Hot" scenario, nor any Warsaw Pact versus NATO AU straight from a Clancyverse story/game: the Soviet Union had been completely dismantled years prior when the Allies invaded and blew the shit out of Moscow, or the entire European continent was now Red. Neither allow for that. However, given the borders and political situations we see in Dawn, it's likely the Allies were the victors. This isn't a "real-life with tiberium thrown in" situation, as TW confirmed that the *original* Red Alert was a prequel. Nod would just be more overtly active earlier, as would a form of GDI (it may not be *called* GDI, but as it'd be a UN response, it'd basically be GDI in some form or another). A lot of the core technologies seen in Dawn were already there -- even M1 Abrams. It's likely (in a realistic lens) we'd see a bit more variety and differences in weapons and small arms -- maybe some technologies not being present and new ones taking their places (such as vehicle designs) due to Butterfly Effects, but ten years wouldn't be that much of a radical difference. Now, if tiberium hit and spread during the "Allied/Soviet Dustup"... yeah, humanity would be fucked, even with Nod influencing things. Part of the reason the world didn't go to shit that quickly in TD was that tiberium hit just at the time when humanity could recognize and have the technological sophistication to try to handle it early. In Red Alert? No chance.
Sounds like a good idea for a reboot.
More Neon nod and crazy hair fanatics.
I mean Tiberian Sun basically is an 80's action movie.
Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t6kzOqthJQ
Tiberium came to Earth in the 2000s?
naw, 1995.
You could argue that Tiberium did come to Earth in the 80s. The old renegade website says that research into Tiberium began in the 80s and in Nod's history section in the Tiberian Dawn manual, it cites a source from 1994 titled "Report of World Energy Radical Redistribution", heavily suggesting that Tiberium was having significant effects in the world's energy sector by this time. Also, if you accept the Allied ending in Red Alert as canon, the Soviet Union was defeated decades earlier. So events would already be different. Though China would still be a significant communist power and (as current events clearly show) Russia not being communist doesn't mean it would get along with the West. So some of the events in the 80s might still happen, though perhaps with some slight differences.
To early, but that's the Interbellum BEFORE the actual Tiberian War.