Firestorm barrier
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- This refers to the Defensive technology. You may be looking for the Firestorm Crisis, or the Firestorm Taskforce.
The Firestorm Barrier Defense System is a technologically advanced military defense technology, developed by the Global Defense Initiative in the 21st Century.
The system is based on a network of wall sections that were connected to a firestorm generator. These panels discharged a continuous, impassable energy field above them, high enough to even destroy incoming SRBMs. The field was impenetrable to any ordnance and impassable to any unit, except for Nod's subterranean vehicles. Any unit that was located on a Firestorm Defense panel when it was activated was destroyed.
The Firestorm Defense project was used as Hammerfest's primary (and only) defence grid, making the base impenetrable. While an effective defense, the generators could only store a limited amount of energy, and the Firestorm Defense barrier could only be active for a limited period of time. It was also very expensive to deploy and maintain. For these reasons, GDI discontinued the project.
A modified and enhanced verision of the tehcnology was used by ZOCOM to protect the Cheyenne Mountain Complex after the Third Tiberium War, as the comlex contained the Tacitus and the lab studying it, whose experiments nearly resulted in such a serious destabilisation that the artifact was on the egde of self-destruction.
The barriers themselves were double layered, consisting of two red coloured, impregnable energy fields, the inner one protecting the Tacitus lab itself, and the outer one protecting most of the complex. The barriers were controlled by a well-protected control center, resonsible for upholding and keeping them online.
The barriers located in the Cheyenne mountain complex are in many ways superior to the old ones, created by the old firestorm generators, and a lot of technologicial improvements have happened since the Secound Tiberium War where the Firestorm defence technology was developed. The new technology allows the barriers to be active for an unlimited period of time, and the energy barriers themselves are no longer dependent on a network of wall sections in order to stay up, as the only building needed to discharge a energy field is the control center and it's control systems - this means of cause that the barrier defence itself are extremely dependent on one single control hub.
The barriers will do no good if this single building is siezed by an enemy, as all they need to do is to storm the control center and have thier hackers to hack the security system and then shut the barriers down.
However, the barriers were unable to prevent the final raid on the lab housing the Tacitus, as the only control center, although very well protected, was stormed by LEGION's forces, and afterwards the energy barriers were hacked one at a time.
As the inner energy barrier was about to go down, the Tacitus itself began a countdown leading to its self-destruction. LEGION's forces however managed to defeat the GDI forces protecting the Tacitus lab, and after a quick initial battle and succesfull raid on the lab the AI's forces aquired the Tacitus, bringing it back into Nod's fold.
