User talk:DCoder
Graph, uploaded ages ago. Crude, I know. chpatrick 09:53, 1 May 2005 (CDT)
I saw that. It's incomplete (only deals with RA2/YR and part of RA1), so it's technically not a "CnC timeline", but rather a "RA2/YR timeline". Not to mention, RA1 allied win does not logically relate with RA2. Else Dugan's claim "I was the one who put you in office!" wouldn't make much sense - US was not mentioned in RA1, so how would it have influence over the selection of the new USSR's puppet dictator? IMO, RA2 is a different, completely unrelated storyline. So is Generals. As I mentioned in the article, the PlanetCNC's Encyclopedia is a very detailed read regarding this subject. -- DCoder
As far as I know, Westwood/EA specifically stated that RA2 is not part of the C&C timeline.
- Renegade 12:45, 1 May 2005 (CDT)
Though does the RA2 setup not show the events of RA1 won by the allies followed by the events before RA2?
- chpatrick 00:31, 2 May 2005 (CDT)
Yes, but it seems like EA decided that RA2 is still not a prequel to TibDawn. What's possible is that RA2 plays in some kind of alternate reality to TD...or that EA decides to ignore what they said and connect both timelines through RA3.
- Renegade 09:19, 2 May 2005 (CDT)
AFAIK Kane only appeared in the Soviet ending, therefore the alternate reality is explained as in my diagram. If the Soviets win, the world goes into the Tiberian universe and if the allies win, the world goes into the Red Alert 2 universe. What is unexplained is why events changing on earth would stop the Tiberium meteorite. Perhaps they haven't, and Generals turns out to take place between allied YR and the RA tiberium age. I omitted post-RA2 in the diagram because it lacks time travel. The only problem with this theory is a newcaster mentioning GDI in the RA1 Allied campaign.
- chpatrick 11:15, 2 May 2005 (CDT)
It's not only a newscaster. IIRC, the generals talk about the GDI in some briefings as well.
- Renegade 15:05, 2 May 2005 (CDT)
