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 immediately destroyed.
The Firestorm Defense project was used as Hammerfest's primary (and only) defense 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.
CABAL also used Firestorm Barriers to defend his core, along with the Obelisk of Darkness and CABAL Obelisk. It is unknown how he had acquired the technology to construct the Generator and the wallings, though.
A modified and enhanced version of the technology was used by ZOCOM to protect the Rocky Mountains Complex after the Third Tiberium War. The complex contained the Tacitus and the lab responsible for studying it, and keeping it safe was considered important enough to justify the high cost of keeping up the barriers.
The barriers were double layered, consisting of two impregnable energy fields, the inner one protecting the Tacitus lab, and the outer one protecting the rest of the complex. The barriers were maintained by a well-protected control center, responsible for upholding them and keeping them online.
The Cheyenne Mountain barriers are in many ways superior to the old ones, and a lot of technological improvements have been made since the technology was developed in the Second Tiberium War. 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. The only building needed to maintain the energy field is the control center. However, the new systems are entirely dependent on the control hub, and if it was seized by an enemy force, they would be able to gain access to the systems and shut the barriers down.
Despite the extensive security measures the GDI took, the Nod AI LEGION was able to defeat the GDI forces surrounding the complex using the cybernetic soldiers of the Marked of Kane. LEGION gained access to the control hub, and was able to hack the systems, and disable the Firestorm barriers around the Cheyenne complex. Without the barriers to protect the complex, it was soon captured by the AI, and the Tacitus was brought back under Kane's control.
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