Crates

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With the advent of highly mobile armies, the need for equally fast transportation of ordnance and equipment was needed. As such, many quartermasters decided to package vital equipment and supplies into crates and have them delivered to the battlefield. First were generic wooden crates, but after the First Tiberium War, in order to rectify the fragility and easy destruction of the wooden crates, a new multi-sided version of the crate was developed, made from advanced polymers that allowed it to withstand most environmental hazards. The most common version is the G-771g cargo container. Hundreds of these are strewn around old docks and military depots. Several of these provided help for both Nod and GDI when they stormed the Hampton Roads naval base.

Crates were often forgotten and left behind. These remnants of military power can still be found in cities, especially Yellow zones and can be opened by any personnel, quote from Brock Littleford's memo, "...with a little bit of elbow grease...". The contents may include emergency medical supplies, surplus ammunition, or even forgotten guidance systems or resources.

Crates remain in active use, as they are an easy method of providing cranes and construction yards of the Third Tiberium War with parts, technology and raw materials for construction and repair of structures as well as maintaining existing ones.