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The Trans-Pacific Alliance

or: How I Learned to Love Shadow Governments
or: Preventing America's Fall with Time Travel and Unorthodox Diplomacy
A C&C: Red Alert-based AAR

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This is my second AAR, my first in the standard (sort of) World War 2 timeline. My previous AAR, the Soviet Union in Kaiserreich, failed due to hard drive failure. I have a new computer now, so hopefully we'll finish this one.

This AAR was inspired by my frustration that in the Command and Conquer: Red Alert timeline, the sequels always follow up on an allied victory in the last one. Even if the Soviets had completely annihilated the Allies at the end of Red Alert 2, I still wanted to see what people would do about it. So this is what I think would happen. There will be some glaring inconsistencies here (Nazi Germany never existed in Red Alert timeline, etc.) but I don't care.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Death of the Eagle
Chapter 1: The Scientist's Coup
1. Oops, I Forgot A Name
2. Setting Up Base
3. Asking For Disaster
4. Means to an End
5. Military Networking
6. Halls of Power
Chapter 2: Quadripolarity
Prologue
1. National Unity
2. Damage Control
3. Paint Them Black
4. To Hell With Naming These Things
Part 5
Interlude 1: Moscow
Part 6: Chink in the Armor
Part 7: Mind vs. Malice
Part 8: Mass Confusion
Part 9: Race Against Time
Part 10: Peering Inside the Gates of Hell Itself
Part 11: Stirring Up the Hive
Part 12: Up, Up, and Away!
Part 13: Canton is Burning
Part 14: Just a Little Bit Further
Part 15: War Of Words
Chapter 3: The Communist Conspiracy
Prologue
Part 1: The Alpha Program
Part 2: The World Revolution
Part 3: The Washington Protocols
Part 4: Preparations
Part 5: The Inspiration That Never Happened
Part 6: The Knox-Yamamoto Doctrine
Part 7: Into the Lion's Den
Part 8: The Battle of Bristol Channel
Part 9: The First Bit of Good News


Pre-Answered Questions:

What nation will you be playing as?
My homeland, the United States.

Puh, who cares? What's gonna be so special about a USA AAR?
Time travel and a shadow government comprised of a bunch of morons from the future.

What difficulty/aggressiveness?
Normal/Normal plus some added bonuses/maluses for both the USSR and I. Mostly the USSR getting bonuses though.

Is Red Alert 3 good?
No.

Is Red Alert 3: Uprising good?
I'll tell you after I play it on my friend's computer.
EDIT: Not really, no.

Any self-imposed rules
No nukes, no coups, no naval bombers, no cheating, plus some territorial negotiations that will happen later.

Modding Progress:

*Graphics for New Nations - DONE
*Events - 25% Done
*Creating Countries - UES done
*Creating OOBs - UES done
*IC redistribution - Haven't Started
*AI files - Haven't Started (I want to screw with the AI focuses so that the regional powers of the TPA focus in their regions. Build priorities for the new nations would be nice too)
 
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Death of the Eagle

Tom, Dick, and Harry were three normal guys once. They were dock workers in New York. They talked smack about each other, talked about sports and their sexual exploits. But normal guys can become extraordinary in lots of ways. One of them is during an all-out Soviet assault on your home city.

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The three friends fled the city at first sight of the Soviet onslaught, walking through the traffic jams of refugees trying to escape all the way to Newark, New Jersey, where they were greeted by a Soviet airborne division and promptly imprisoned. This is where history loses track of them.

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Some months later, after severe Allied losses, the Soviet Union closed in on Alaska, the last Allied stronghold. As their massive air armada closed in, Allied scientists fled into the countryside, hiding in secret bunkers and basements. Einstein was, unfornunately, captured by the Soviets. Interned in the same prison as our old friends Tom, Dick and Harry, Einstein found a way to communicate with a remeant of the Allied army and agent Tanya of silo-busting fame.

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The team busted into the above prison, rescuing Einstein and his three new buddies and taking them to a hidden base on Baffin Island. Under hot pursuit from Soviet aircraft, the helicopter carrying Einstein barely made it to the base in one piece, having eaten a missile and tons of cannon fire from MiG interceptors. Einstein revealed the experimental time machine hidden in the base.

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As the Soviet land forces closed in on the base, Einstein scrambled to prepare the time machine, setting the date for September 1917, to avert Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution. Tom, Dick, and Harry were selected to be Einstein's travelling mates. With the coordinates entered and explosions rocking the building, the time machine began its long process of bending the space-time continuum with its flux capacitor. The Soviet forces were inside the building now.

15 seconds remaining...

The shouts of Soviet troops can be heard from the room over.

10 seconds remaining...

A brave GI pins down the Soviet troops in the doorway to the time chamber but is cut down.

5 seconds remaining...

The troops are in the chamber now.

3 seconds remaining...

A Soviet fires at the machine, striking the control unit, which flashes 1/1/36 then reverts to 9/1/17.

1 second remaining...

A bright flash of light renders the Soviets blind and unable to stop the machine.

0 seconds.

The foursome have succeeded. They have traveled to the past. But instead of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, they are greeted with the Empire State Building in New York. Something had gone terribly wrong.
 
Shark-theeted zeppelins over the USA?

Interesting!
 
Ive got to find my Red Alert (#1 was the best one i reckon) and reinstall it, But this AAR looks very interesting and look forward to more
Red Alert 1 was the best in my opinion. Red Alert 2 was pretty corny but still fun. Red Alert 3 was just a disgrace. EA has really put the bullet into Westwood's legacy.

Haha cool, someone must of seen my request :D

I didn't see that, but glad I'm fulfilling it, even if by accident.

The next couple updates are story updates, with our four friends getting their bearings in this alternate history to their alternate history, even though it is our true history. Don't worry, Einstein has all the answers. Gameplay will start later.
 
The Scientist's Coup: Part 1 of 6
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Tom: Gee, the Winter Palace sure looks a lot like the Empire State Building.
Dick: I didn't know people in St. Petersburg spoke English.
Harry: Umm... I think we might not be in St. Petersburg...
Einstein: Mein Gott, you are idiots. Of course we're not in St. Petersburg. This is New York. The space-time fluxarator on the time machine must have malfunctioned when that Russian shot it and set our coordinates and time to New York in whatever date this is. Speaking of the date, Dick, can you go get a paper from that stand over there?
Dick: You're the boss, Doc.

Dick walks over to a newstand and asks for a paper, digging in his pocket for two quarters. The paperman doesn't appear to notice him. Dick shouts at the man, to no avail. Finally Dick decides to just steal a paper.

Dick opens the paper to find that:


It is January 1st, 1936.

Dick: Hey, Einstein! It's New Year's Day 1936!
Einstein: Well... I suppose we can work with this.
Harry: Say... Where's the time machine?
Einstein: Umm... Well it has a higher mass, so it would take longer to move through the space-time quantum fabric, so I'd say it should be here in about, hmmm... now.

A bright flash of light startles the foursome, although none of the other bystanders appear to notice it.

Einstein: Hmm... I get it. We are in a quantum bubble. After a little bit our bubble of existence is going to merge with this reality.
Dick: Well then how did I pick up this newspaper?
Einstein: Hell if I know. I just made up the concept of quantum bubbles.
Dick: Well you fooled me.
Tom: Me, too.
Harry: Me THREE.

The time machine sits in the middle of the empty street, with oblivious hungover New Year's revelers walking by it like it doesn't exist. Einstein rummaged through the small cargo compartment in the time machine, collecting the nearly half a trillion dollars worth of Allied prototypes before he programmed the time machine to teleport to a nondescript garage in Princeton, NJ.

Dick: Say, guys. We need a place to stay.
Einstein: I already got that figured out, my friend. We're going to my home in Princeton.
Harry: Well, if I understand this correctly, is there another copy of you living in that home right now?
Einstein: Precisely. On our way there, I'm going to don this prototype face reconstructing device. It will be simple for me, because I will simply be de-aging myself.
Harry: What about the other you?
Einstein: Well.... I'm going to replace him. We'll have to kidnap... me and bring me to somewhere safe.
Tom: My brain.........
Einstein: What?! Is there some lingering effect from the time travel?
Tom: No, I'm just really confused.

The foursome boards a train at Penn Station. By this point, people appear to notice the presence of the foursome. The train has very little riders, so Einstein is able to use his de-aging device while Dick and Harry keep a lookout.

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becomes:

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Dick: Hey, you look great!

The train conductor shouts into the car: Princeton stop next!

Einstein collects his gadgets and prepares to unboard the train. The foursome pack into a taxi.

Cabbie: Where to?
Einstein: 112 Mercer Street
Cabbie: You got it.

In the back of the cab, Einstein fiddles with the Hypno gun from the secret research base in Baffin Island.

Tom: Gee, Al. Can I call you Al?
Einstein: Umm... Sure.
Tom: Al, that's quite the magic bag you've got there.
Einstein: Indeed. Our research team spent months in Baffin Island developing all of these technologies. Its a shame that the Prism Cannon had to stay behind. I wonder what those damned Soviets are doing with it now.
Cabbie: Soviets? They ain't doing a damn thing. Sooner or later, that big-mustached clown Stalin is gonna get himself into a damn war with that other clown Hitler. As long as we ain't involved, let those damn Reds and Nazis kill each other.
Einstein (with sudden terror/"DADOOM" look on face): Hitler?!
Dick, Tom and Harry: Who the hell is Hitler?
Cabbie: Ah you know, that nut who runs Germany. Calls himself the Fuhrer, hates Jews and communists and likes to yell a lot. Have you been living under a rock or something?
Einstein (aside to the other three): I'll explain when we get to my house.
Cabbie: Well, here we are. That'll be ten.
Dick: Dollars?
Cabbie: Naw, cents. Jeez, this ain't a limousine.

Einstein is in deep thought, his mind in chaos thinking of how Hitler could have possibly made it into this timeline. In his shocked stupor, he places a 20 dollar bill in the cabbie's open palm to the shock and gratitude of the cabbie.

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The foursome vacate the cab, and Einstein sprints into his home, being sure that his real self was out on his usual walk, and his wife was in bed.

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Einstein: Goddammit!
Dick: What's up?
Einstein: My map... It's... The Nazis are still here.
Harry: Who the hell are the Nazis?!
Tom: What is going on, Al? Who's Hitler? What about the Soviets?
Einstein: Sit down. Over there. Our little trip before wasn't the first time I've traveled through time......
 
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Red Alert 1 was the best in my opinion. Red Alert 2 was pretty corny but still fun. Red Alert 3 was just a disgrace. EA has really put the bullet into Westwood's legacy.

Totally agree. RA1 was just ace: the fact it took itself seriously actually made it even better. RA2 was good, but took it just a bit over the edge. RA3 just looks awful. Aside from the insane copy protection (I'll be damned if I buy a game I can't reinstall at will. I know I've reinstalled Red Alert 2 more than five times), the whole thing just looks one big 'cartoonish' mess. The fact that it seems to be playing totally to the 'ZOMG hot babes' crowd is also irritating/patronising. I can play a fun video game without the need to stick my hands down my trousers...


Great update btw
 
RA3 just looks awful. Aside from the insane copy protection (I'll be damned if I buy a game I can't reinstall at will. I know I've reinstalled Red Alert 2 more than five times), the whole thing just looks one big 'cartoonish' mess. The fact that it seems to be playing totally to the 'ZOMG hot babes' crowd is also irritating/patronising. I can play a fun video game without the need to stick my hands down my trousers...

Well, that's pretty much EA for you :rofl:
 
Sorry for no update yesterday, I was pretty busy. I'll have one up tonight. I'll be able to play ahead at least five or six years next weekend so expect nothing but story updates until then. Don't worry, setting up a shadow government is quite a complicated process. Plus Einstein and his cohorts need to set up their base of operations. You won't be bored, I promise. :D
 
Hmmm, I thought you were gonna play as America in Red Alert storyline.

That would be intresting, but this is more intresting. And mad! :D
 
The Scientist's Coup: Part 2 of 6: Setting Up Base​


Einstein: Alright, I'll start from the beginning. Right now, it is 1936. There are seven major powers in the world at this moment in time. They are the United States, the Soviet Union, The United Kingdom, Italy, France, Japan and Germany. These countries are split roughly into three camps...... [notefromauthor]here he explains the historical events of WW2 to the three from the future. I won't bore you with what you already know.[/notefromauthor] ...and so, after the war, the world was split into two huge superpower factions, the USA leading one and the USSR the other. In total, the war killed tens of millions of people. It was a truly terrible thing. So in 1947, I and another scientist decided to develop a time machine and eliminate Hitler from history, creating a world where peace would reign. Without Hitler to attack Stalin, the Soviets would never come to such huge power and democracy would spread throughout Europe, or so we thought.
Harry: Yeah, you screwed up that one. Stalin attacked us anyway.
Einstein: Exactly.
Tom: Alright, so let me get this straight. We had to forge an unholy alliance of sorts with Stalin to destroy an even more paranoid and maniacal Hitler.
Einstein: More or less.
Dick: I'm still confused on one thing. Why did Japan attack us at Pearl Harbor?
Einstein: Well Japan had many imperialistic ambitions, in China, in Indonesia and in the British colonies in the area. Our government kept putting pressure on Japan to stop, eventually stopping all trade with us. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor with hopes to destroy our fleet and then be able to seize European colonies without fear of our reprisal.
Tom: Why were we putting so much pressure on them? They hated communists too, right?
Einstein: Well, yeah, but... Japan had done some really bad things. They attacked China and massacred civilians in the capital. They were also very totalitarian which was against US public opinion.
Tom: Hmm.... well. The four of us have the most powerful weapon of all. We can anticipate their actions because we know the history of what will happen.
Einstein: Well that is a powerful tool. But it's not the most powerful weapon...
Harry: What do you mean?
Einstein: We have the capability not only to anticipate the actions of Japan, but to influence them.
Dick: How can we influence their actions? We're just four guys. I mean you're a world-famous scientist, but still, we're just four guys.
Einstein: I want to show you something...

From outside, the gate opens, and a familiar whistle sounds through the air.

Einstein: Crap! It's me! Over there, quickly! Wait, Dick, throw me the Hypno gun!

As the three dock workers scramble to their hiding places, Einstein sits up against the wall with the Hypno gun charged and ready.

The other Einstein opens the door, and to future Einstein's terror, yells out to his (their?) wife, "Elsa, I'm back!"

Future Einstein blasts the past Einstein with the Hypno gun, causing him to go into a trance, willing to accept any order.

Einstein: Go downstairs! Now!
Past Einstein: Ungh...

He walks off to the basement.

Elsa comes down the stairs, seeing Einstein and his three friends.

Elsa: Well, Albert. I didn't know we were having company.
Dick: Hi, I'm Dick, I'm a dock worker.
Elsa: Umm... That's great. Albert, why is there a dock worker in our home? Who is he?
Einstein: He is not a dock worker. Dick, you silly prankster who should just SHUT THE HELL UP. Dick, as well as his friends Tom and Harry here are all researchers at Princeton University. I met them in the park and we had a lovely discussion about relativity, didn't we, boys?
Harry: Yeah, relativity. Right. Umm........ Yeah.
Elsa (suspicious): That's splendid. Albert, may I have a word?
Einstein: Umm.... sure, Elsa. Excuse us, gentlemen.

Einstein is led off by an angry-looking Elsa.

Tom: Hey, I got an idea. Gimme the Hypno gun!
Harry: Jesus Christ, Tom, don't do it.
Tom: What the hell do these knobs do? What does Neutralize do?

Tom pulls the Neutralize trigger, which causes the gun to emit a bolt of energy directly into Dick's chest, knocking him out cold.

Harry: YOU KILLED DICK!!!!!!!!!!!

Einstein and Elsa both peek into the room to see Harry sobbing over Dick's body.

Einstein: He's alive, Harry! I can see him breathing!
Dick: *cough* You @*$&ing #*&$off, I'll #%@!ing kill you!
Tom: It was a $%@#ing mistake, you @$@#ing #%$hole!

Dick leaps up from the ground and tackles Tom, who immediately starts shooting the Hypno gun in every which direction in an attempt to get Dick to realize his hands from his neck.

Elsa: FOUL LANGUAGE! FIGHTING! SHOOTING... laser guns? SHOOTING GUNS IN MY HOUSE, AND BREAKING MY FURNITURE! OUT! OUT! OUT! ALL FOUR OF YOU!
Einstein: Four of you? Aw, Elsa, don't be that way...
Elsa: NO! YOU'RE SO SMART BUT SO DUMB, ALBERT, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF -

Tom and Dick are still fighting on the ground, with Tom still blasting the Hypno gun every which way. Elsa is struck by a stray bolt. She immediately collapses to the ground, striking her head hard on a countertop. Einstein and Harry are too occupied trying to pry Tom and Dick apart to notice. Finally the Hypno Gun is knocked loose, and Einstein uses the Pacify option to stop the fight. After 10 seconds, Einstein depacifies the two, who have lost their energy to fight.

Harry: Hmm... You guys did break the table. Hope it wasn't worth much.
Einstein: That was a one of the kind table from 1848 from Prussia. My old scientist colleague gave it to me.
Tom: I... uh... I'm sorry.
Einstein: Hmm. I have bigger problems.
Dick: Say... why isn't your wife screaming at us, right now?

All four spin around to see Elsa lying still on the kitchen floor.

Einstein: Elsa?
Dick: Tom, you goddamn idiot. You shot her with the Hypno gun.
Tom: I... didn't mean to.

Einstein gently rocks Elsa trying to get her to come to. He feels for a heartbeat.

Einstein: *sigh*... She's dead.
Harry: Dead?
Tom: Woah... I.... I'm so...
Dick: YOU $^&@ING KILLED HIS WIFE, TOM!
Tom: I... I...
Einstein: Don't worry about it.
Tom, Dick, and Harry: WHA?!
Einstein: She was going to become ill and die this December. I have already mourned her once. No need to do it again.
Tom: Well.
Dick: Well, indeed.
Harry: I guess we should call the hospital.
Einstein: I suppose so.
 
Great idea, combining HOI2 and RA1&2 is just amazing! :D