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[Sgt. Rho]

I've been thinking on the backstory a bit. I basically have two main ideas.

One is that the Scrin have been on Earth for a while within the Red Zones.

The other is that the Scrin are coming, very much Covenant style, to harvest the Tiberium, but also to flatten any splinter of civilisation that may be left, and GDI knew about it due to the Tacitus, and spend the time between TS and TA preparing, making the GDI UNSC's mini-me.

Thoughts?

[Destiny]

I prefer the Scrin invasion fleet. If the Scrin had been in the Red Zones all the time, they would already be well-known...

[Sgt. Rho]

Not really. The Red zones are permanently ion-stormed, covered in clouds and essentially not acessible to the GDI. The ion-storm clouds even block satelites.

[Destiny]

Hmm, you'd have to be VERY deep in Red Zones to stay hidden...Nod does like Red Zones after all. Oh and notice how Ground Zero was...well...not very doom-like?

[Sgt. Rho]

That is TW. TW and TA are story wise very different.

Earth is separated into Green (mostly unaffected), Yellow (lotsa Tiberium, but still mostly inhabitable, few ion storms), and Red zones (24/7 ion storms, unbreathable air, nobody is in there if it's no absolutely completely necessary.

The blue zones are mostly polar regions and high mountain regions, Yellow zones are the places furthest away from Italy, like all of america, most of asia, near-polar regions, Australia, and all of central Europe and north Africa is red, ground zero being the worst of all.

[Raven]

But the RZs appeared after sometime isn't it? When do you think Scrin should have first come here? After the meteor near Tiber or even before that?

I also like the invasion Idea. Perhaps Scrin scouts look for worlds which support Tiberium growth and Tib life. Perhaps Kane can be dragged on to this as a scrin Scout .

[Destiny]

Red Zones hadn't formed yet even during the first Tiberium War IIRC, only during the Second/Third Tiberium War...not even Ground Zero. Not that it matters, but...I hope you'll make a Ground Zero map look really, really bad/doomish/apocalypse-y.

[Sgt. Rho]

I'm not a good mapper, but I'll see if a friend of mine can do something about it

The Red zones formed during the second tiberium war, Kairo for example, was a red zone back then. Only now, in TA, so 20 years later, it looks even worse.