Albert Einstein

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**Albert Einstein** was a theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the Allied war effort. He was instrumental in making the Chronosphere a practical weapon. In an alternate *Red Alert* timeline, he was later erased from the timeline by Anatoly Cherdenko.

## Biography

### Altering the Past

Einstein was involved with a United States project based at Trinity, New Mexico in 1946 - the project that resulted in the Chronosphere. Einstein used the project to travel back in time to 1924 - with prevention of the Second World War in mind by eliminating the source. There, the scientist met Adolf Hitler, a World War I Austrian grunt who would later become the one large and in charge of Nazi Germany, upon the latter's release from Landsberg Castle after his failed *putsch*. Seeing this as the perfect moment to change history for the better, Einstein removed Hitler from the timeline, effectively preventing the rise of Nazism prematurely.

Alas, the scientist who would later be the one who made the Allies invincible had not sufficiently thought through the consequences and paradoxes temporal manipulation would bring...

### Second World War

The Second World War as Einstein knew it was avoided, but was unfortunately replaced by another against a burgeoning Soviet Union, which grew in political, economical and military power in the Great Depression. Einstein's reputation was preserved in the new timeline and his expertise much sought after. This was demonstrated as he was captured by the Soviets in Hungary to advance their own research, being subsequently rescued by Allied forces.

Back in Allied hands, Einstein worked to perfect a control system for the Chronosphere, allowing the Allies to launch surprise attacks on Soviet forces. He also lent his expertise in assessing the Soviet Iron Curtain. When the main Chronosphere research center near Liechtenstein was attacked by the Soviets, Einstein also urged the Allies to protect scientists working inside the facility.

Einstein penned the work called *A History of Allied Weaponry*.

### Third World War

By the beginning of the Third World War, Einstein was established in a Black Forest laboratory in Germany where he continued work on exotic technologies. After the nuclear threat to Europe from the resurgent Soviet Union was neutralized, Germany released Einstein's expertise to the Allies. Among the new weapons derived from his research were the Prism tower and tank, the Mirage tank, and the Weather Control Device, a WMD that can unleash a thunderstorm bludgeoning anything within the target area - the very reason why Einstein initially resents its battlefield deployment, calling it "God's toys".

Einstein directed the Allies to deploy the Chronosphere in the Florida Keys.

### Altering the Past Again

The Third World War was followed immediately by what Einstein termed the Psychic Dominator Disaster. Einstein's prototype Temporal Displacement Device was used to send a messenger back to the beginning of the Third World War and galvanize the Allies to the threat posed by Yuri's Psychic Dominators.

Yuri moved quickly to accelerate his plan, accelerate Psychic Dominator development and deployment. Einstein was captured and taken to Egypt for this purpose. The scientist rigged the local Psychic Dominator to explode before being rescued by the Allies.

#### Soviet Response to Yuri

The Soviets also sought to pre-empt Yuri's scheme. They stole Einstein's prototype time machine and returned to the beginning of the Third World War. This time the Soviets prosecuted a successful attack on Einstein's Black Forest lab and destroyed the Chronosphere. This led to the Allies' surrender.

### Einstein Erased

Einstein's time machine inspired the Soviets to create their own, with defeat imminent after the disastrous events of the Psychic Dominator Disaster and the crisis that followed, activating the device to travel back to the Solvay Conference in 1927 and, as their last-ditch attempt to prevent the Union's final collapse, Cherdenko personally erased Einstein, just as he erased Hitler, in a vile act of "chrono-assassination" - much to the dismay of Dr. Zelinsky, who always dreaded the consequences of changing history. As a result, the conflict was changed with the Soviets on the verge of victory, poised to paint the world red by wiping out the remaining Allied resistance.

But as the Soviets learned the hard way, temporal manipulation was something humanity has no godly right to. Einstein's removal forestalled the development of nuclear weapons, and to make matters worse, that prevented the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings of 1945 from taking place, giving life to a new, oriental superpower based on Japan, the Empire of the Rising Sun, in an unchecked hyper-evolution in technological, ideological and military might, leading to a new Third World War.

Who knows what nightmares have the Soviets created with Einstein gone, to paraphrase Dr. Zelinsky...

## Appearances

Albert Einstein appears in some role throughout all three *Red Alert* universe games except for *Uprising*.

## Behind the scenes

* Humorously, the "remote" Einstein shows in the first Allied briefing cinematic in *Yuri's Revenge* is actually a *Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace* Comlink Toy, which would have been readily available at the time of the game's creation.
* Since *Red Alert 2* takes place in 1972, Einstein (born 1879 and died in reality in 1955) should be more than 90 years old by then. In a Q&A chat with Westwood developer Chris Rubyor, he jokes that chrono technology "does wonders on the skin" in response to why Einstein appears to be the same age as in the original *Red Alert*.

## Gallery

* Einstein in the *Red Alert* mission, In the Thick of It
* *Red Alert 2* unit animation
* Einstein in the *Yuri's Revenge* mission, Tomb Raided

## See also

* Albert Einstein
* Philadelphia Experiment

## References

1. ↑ Real world birth date and place of Albert Einstein.
2. ↑ Date of the Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics; 24 to 29 October 1927.
3. ↑ Westwood Pacific, *Command & Conquer: Red Alert*. Cinematic: "Introduction", prolog.vqa.
4. ↑ Westwood Studios, *Command & Conquer: Red Alert*. Allied mission 1: "In the Thick of It".
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Westwood Studios, *Command & Conquer: Red Alert*. Allied mission 8: "Protect the Chronosphere".
6. ↑ Westwood Studios, *Command & Conquer: Red Alert*. Allied mission 6: "Iron Curtain Infiltration".
7. ↑ *Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Field Manual*. Hart, Victoria. Las Vegas, Nevada: Westwood Studios, 1996.
8. ↑ News Items 0-1482 (archived). TiberiumSun.com (1 September 2000). Retrieved at 22 November 2000.