Allied Nations

Faction

The Allied Nations (also known as the Allies or Allied Forces) were an international military coalition between several European, North American, and Pacific nations. Its primary goal was to protect the western world from the expansionist Soviet Union, and later, Yuri's Epsilon Army.

By 1982, the Allied Nations consisted of three principal members: the United States, the European Alliance, and the Pacific Front who contributed the majority of technology and manpower to the Allied cause.

Since the Second Great War, the Allies had a long tradition of using highly mobile units, alongside advanced technology and air & naval superiority to counter Soviet heavy armor. This tradition had continued well into the Mental Omega War and was expanded with the addition of new technologies, such as cryogenic weapons and lasers, to meet the Epsilon threat.

The Allies are one of the three original factions from Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. In Mental Omega, vanilla units in the Allied arsenal are reworked and new units are added.

History[]

Second Great War[]

The Allied Nations were founded in 1946 and were originally an alliance between European countries including Great Britain, Germany, France, Greece, and Spain. It existed to counter the expansionist threat posed by the Soviet Union during the Second Great War ^[1].

The Allies were assisted by the famous physicist Albert Einstein, who created the first Chronosphere for the Allied war effort. Afraid of the dangers posed by time manipulation, Einstein encrypted his research, in particular, the Paradox Project, to prevent it from falling to the wrong hands ^[2].

After its victory against the Soviets, the Allied Nations went on to include other countries, such as the United States of America, Canada, Korea, Japan, and Australia.

Post Second Great War[]

After the war, the Americans occupied Russia and appointed a puppet premier, Alexander Romanov, to preserve stability in the country and improve relations. Nonetheless, relations began to deteriorate after the appointment of the new Russian advisor, Yuri ^[3].

With uprisings flaring across Russia, the Americans were forced to withdraw their forces from the country ^[3]. Unbeknownst to the Allies, the Soviets had begun to rebuild their military and the Russians were joined by new allies: the Latin Confederation and the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Third Great War[]

By 1982, at the eve of the Third Great War, the Allies were composed of three different sub-factions: the United States of America, the European Alliance and the Pacific Front.

On 7 March 1982, the Allies were pulled into war once again, when the newly formed Soviet Union launched a massive invasion against the Allied nations.

The Russians attempted to conquer the United States with the use of psychic beacons to mind control the population. To stop this psychic threat, the Americans committed significant forces, led by a notable American commander, to destroy a psychic amplifier at the heart of the psychic beacon network. Unfortunately, this was a grave miscalculation, as the Soviets launched a nuclear MIDAS warhead at victorious American forces, annihilating them and causing a collapse of American military resistance.

Faced with no other options, the American commander and his forces fled to Europe to seek assistance from their allies. With the help of special agent Tanya, the Americans sabotaged MIDAS enrichment facilities and the warheads' Topol-M launchers, freeing Europe from intimidation by the MIDAS threat. Thus, Siegfried, the lead scientist of Europe's SteinsTech laboratories, began to share details of the Paradox Project, a weapon which could help the Allies defeat the Soviet threat. To advance this project, the Americans rescued Kanegawa Industries scientists in Japan and chronoshifted them to Europe.

With the loss of their MIDAS enrichment facilities, the Soviets began a blitzkrieg to overwhelm Europe. The Allies were forced to retreat to Great Britain, where their new Gladius Defense System would safeguard the survivors from MIDAS ICBM attacks. In an attempt to crush the Allies once and for all, the Russians launched a naval invasion of Great Britain to disable the Gladius, but were repelled by the Allied forces.

The Americans would learn that the Europeans and Pacific Front had exploited them to further their own national interests ^[4], from stealing U.S. technology to advance their arsenal, hijacking their prized Mercury satellite, and using the Americans as bait to draw out the remaining two MIDAS warheads. Despite this betrayal, the Americans had no choice but to cooperate with the Europeans and Pacific Front against the greater Soviet threat.

Interwar Period[]

For the next two years, the Allied survivors continued work on the Paradox Project in Great Britain. Allied insurgencies appeared in locations such as the former United States, including one led by U.S General Ben Carville, but were ultimately unsuccessful in toppling their Soviet occupiers.

Mental Omega War[]

On 1 September 1984, Yuri, a former Russian advisor, had betrayed the Soviet Union and launched a simultaneous attack on Soviet bases across the world with his new Epsilon Army.

The Allies were forced to leave their London Fortress to disable a psychic amplifier in Africa to prevent Epsilon from mind controlling Great Britain. Unfortunately, this turn out to be a ruse, as the Epsilon's true goal was to distract the Allied forces and leave London defenseless. The Epsilon had stolen an old generation Chronosphere and chronoshifted their Aerial Fortress Irkalla to decimate the city. This forced the Allies to prematurely launch their ultimate weapon, the Paradox Engine, a massive airship capable of freezing hostile forces in time.

With the Paradox Engine, the Allies were able to easily cut through Epsilon outposts across the Atlantic and link up with other Allied survivors, such as the Pacific Front commando Norio Tomokawa. At one such outpost in Cape Town, the Allies learned of a tower being constructed by Epsilon in the Antarctic, which was key to Yuri's ultimate plans.

Using the Time Freeze, the Allies secured a beachhead in Antarctica and split into two forces. Norio would repel incoming mind controlled reinforcements from the southern hemisphere, while Tanya, Siegfried, and the American commander advanced to Yuri's tower, the Mental Omega Device. The Allies began a long, grinding siege against the tower and gained the upper hand. However, the tides reversed in Epsilon's favor when they deployed a new psychic supersoldier, named Libra, to annihilate many of the Allied forces.

Libra had killed Norio and destroyed the Allied rearguard, allowing mind-controlled reinforcements from the southern hermisphere to join Epsilon in their counterattack. Backed into a corner, Siegfried proposed using the Paradox Engine to seal the Mental Omega in a pocket dimension, preventing its influence from reaching the outside world. However, this plan was thwarted by Epsilon, causing the Paradox Engine to collide with the Mental Omega, killing the American commander onboard.

With all other options exhausted, Siegfried chronoshifted the wreckage of the Paradox Engine, with Tanya and the few Allied survivors onboard, to Point Hope, Alaska, from which they received a mysterious communication over American channels. Siegfried, who was left behind, was seemingly killed by Epsilon's commando, Rahn, who declared the inevitable victory of Epsilon.

The Remnant[]

In Point Hope, the Allied survivors joined the Revolt, a multinational alliance of unlikely allies who opposed Yuri's global mind control. The Revolt repaired the Paradox Engine's time circuits and projected a time bubble, using Einstein and Siegfried's "Foehn theory" ^[5], to isolate Point Hope from the effects of the Mental Omega.

With the time bubble protecting the remnants of the free world, the Allied survivors worked together with the newly christened "Foehn Revolt" to rebuild their armies and one day reclaim the world from Epsilon.

Technology level[]

Chronoshift — A demonstration of the most widely used tech of the Allies, chrono technology.

Until the formation of the Epsilon Army and the Foehn Revolt, the Allied Nations were one of, if not the most technologically advanced faction. Allied military doctrine closed the gap between them and the Soviet forces through aerial, naval, and technological superiority.

The Allies' level of scientific sophistication was possible due to the efforts of the late Albert Einstein, and later, the European SteinsTech research group and Japan's Kanegawa Industries.

Chrono technology: The signature technology of the Allies. Originally invented by Albert Einstein, and later improved by SteinsTech and Kanegawa Industries, chrono technology controlled time and space to undo damage, teleport armor battalions instantaneously, or erase enemies from existence. The "negation field" technology was believed to be a type of chrono technology developed by Kanegawa.
Laser weaponry: Laser weapons were primarily employed by the Americans and used amplified light to incinerate foes. These weapons were typically effective against infantry, but higher powered variants could level entire structures or tear apart vehicles. The pinnacle of laser weapons was the American Mercury network, a series of satellites equipped with a powerful laser cannon that could strike anywhere across the globe.
Prism weaponry: Prism weapons focused light to vaporize structures. More powerful variants are capable of incinerating infantry and vehicles alike.
Weather control: Developed jointly by SteinsTech and Kanegawa, weather control was the ability to artificially generate weather, in this case, lightning storms, to devastate a target. The earliest applications of Weather Control were limited, such as the Thor Gunship, which generated a single lightning bolt, or the Weather Crystals, which could only form clouds. The pinnacle of Allies' weather manipulation technology was realized with the completion of the Weather Controller, a device which creates a localized lightning storm to decimate enemy bases.
Mirage technology: Mirage technology distorted the appearance of vehicles to appear as harmless objects such as trees or stoplights. This was used to deceive enemies and draw fire away from disguised vehicles.
Force shielding: Exclusively used by the European Alliance, the Force Shield generated a barrier that nullified incoming damage to buildings. There appears to have been at least two variants of force shields: one which created a temporary energy "dome" that protected enclosed structures and a permanent one which was emitted by a Shield Command (as seen in London).
Cryogenic weaponry: Extensively used by the Pacific Front, thermal inversion technology induced freezing temperatures onto enemy units. Victims of a cryogenic beam were slowed to a halt until they became brittle and break apart.
Advanced aeronautics: The Allied forces were highly advanced and contained a wider diversity of aircraft than any other faction. Each of its subfactions had a unique jet suited for their particular doctrine: the American Stormchild, the European Harrier, and the Pacific Front's Black Eagle. Additionally, the Allies employed stealth bombers, radar-jamming aircraft, and chrono bombers. Before Epsilon and Foehn, the Allies possessed the most advanced flight suit technology for infantry.
Adaptation systems: The Stryker IFV, Archon AMC, and Tsurugi powersuits used a complex adaptation system that integrated with an infantry weapon and deployed a turret with similar characteristics. For example, a Siege Cadre's prism rifle would be converted into a more powerful prism refractor turret.
Robotics: Although the use of robotics was relatively common between the four major factions, the Pacific Front, in particular, specialized in its use and development. Their arsenal included drones such as Zephyrobots, Hunter-Seekers, and experimental technologies like the Robo Tengu. Certain robots such as the Future Tank X-0 or Future Tank Alpha had rudimentary human-like "personalities" which suggests that the Pacific Front may have attempted to develop true artificial intelligence.
Orbital satellites: Spy satellites supported Allied forces by providing valuable intel on enemy movement and base camps, whereas the American Mercury satellite was used for orbital strikes.
Communications disruption: The Allied Forces used gap generators to conceal their bases from enemy radar, denying their foes intel about Allied movements. Additionally, the Black Widow stealth plane was used to disrupt enemy communications to provide cover for their airforce.

Subfactions[]

United States of America[]

Main article: United States

Possessing superior laser technology, the United States delivers precision attacks to their enemies through the devastating Mercury satellite, long-ranged Athena Cannons, and anti-air Aeroblazes, allowing them to easily neutralize threats from afar.

American ground forces are not lacking in firepower either, as their elite Riot Troopers, fast Bulldog Tanks and vaunted Abrams Tanks, supported by rapid assault Warhawks and Stormchildren, as well as the Allies' best field operative, special agent Tanya Adams, make them a powerful military force be it on the ground or in the skies.

European Alliance[]

Main article: European Alliance

With advanced technology provided by the SteinsTech research firm, the European Alliance employ their exotic mirage, chrono, prism and weather control technologies in the battlefield to safe-guard Europe from her adversaries. Their scientist-cum-field operative Siegfried leads the charge on his experimental Zeitgeist craft.

The Alliance heavily relies on defensive and combat support technology to withstand the relentless onslaught of Soviet and Epsilon forces alike.

Pacific Front[]

Main article: Pacific Front

Hailing from the Far East, the Pacific Front is the newest member of the Allied Nations, who joined in response to the looming threat of China. Pacific Front forces employ cryogenic weapons in their Black Eagle fighter jets, Blizzard Tanks, Hyperions and Hunter-Seeker drones, as well as long-range artillery in their Zephyrs and Hailstorms.

To protect the isolated, spread out Pacific nations, the Pacific Front also make use of several unusual additions to their ground forces, such as their hovering Kappa Tanks, Suppressor support infantry, and their airborne hero, Norio.