Transcript:Recover the Tacitus

This page includes a transcript of Recover the Tacitus, the first GDI mission of Tiberian Sun - Firestorm.

Boudreau's call
EVA: Priority transmission, eyes only. Dr. Gabriella Boudreau. Director. Daedalus Team. Awaiting security identification.

Gabriella Boudreau: EVA, this is Dr. Boudreau. Security code DELTA-EPSILON-FOUR, access transmission.

Tratos appears in the transmission.

Boudreau: Tratos? Have you any idea what time it is?

Tratos: Doctor, I'm sorry to awaken you, but the Daedalus Team must be recalled to the complex at once. I have made a grievous error.

Tratos plays back footage of Umagon suffering in a straitjacket.

Tratos: Gabriella, that creature was Umagon. My original antigen doesn't work and time is running out. The creatures here in my sanctuary are the most advanced Tiberium mutations I have seen...

GDI forces in Cairo pack up and prepare for Tacitus retrieval.

Tratos: The team has been assembled to retrieve the Tacitus data matrix and deliver it to us. I want you to be there in Cairo to oversee the operation. We must have all of Kane's. We must have the Tacitus and Kane's notes to uncover the secret. Doctor, my time is very short. I need you to pick up where I left off. I need you to continue my work...

Tacitus retrieval
Video uplink changes to transmissions to Southern Cross.

GDI personnel: Say again Southern Cross, you're breaking up! We're under heavy sniper fire, but the data matrix and Kane's are ready- [static]

EVA: Accessing... video com sat uplink signal lost. Searching...

''The Kodiak arrives at the Cairo base. The Tacitus is loaded onto the ship. Weather conditions worsen.''

GDI personnel: The package is being loaded. Repeat, the package is being loaded! HURRY- [static]

EVA: Accessing... video com sat uplink signal lost.

Paul Cortez: I need that feed now! What the hell is going on?!

EVA: I am unable to sustain a link with Philadelphia. Attempting to reroute signal.

Kodiak's final flight
Video uplink shows Kodiak taking off.

Chandra: Way clear, five-by-five. Thanks Southern Cross. Stand clear for Kodiak dust-off. Watch yourselves people. Heading three-zero-niner at north by north-west.

Weather conditions worsen into an ion storm as the Kodiak is in transit.

Chandra: Southern Cross, come in. Experiencing increased high ion particle activity.

The Kodiak is struck by thunder.

Chandra: What the hell was that? Could anyone hear? Anybody?! Mayday, mayday, may-

''The Kodiak crashes. Video uplink turns to static.''

Desperate Measures
EVA: Unable to reestablish contact. Image lost. Stand by. Accessing GDI command base, Southern Cross.

Cortez: Commander, you've been recalled from Operation Lazarus to head up the Firestorm Taskforce. We've got a crisis here. We're at OPCOM 2 Tactical Alert. EVA, bring the Commander up to speed.

EVA: Initiating global search for Kodiak location. All global satellites, down. Contact with the Philadelphia, down.

Cortez: Southern Cross is assuming GDI global command until the situation can be rectified. Be advised, what you are about to see is classified, eyes only. This is the Tacitus data matrix. Our scientist's claim Kane's Tiberium experiments were conducted using knowledge gained from the device. Unfortunately, the Kodiak crashed off the coast of North Africa while transporting the device. EVA, do you have that report online yet?

EVA: The Kodiaks beacon has allowed us to pinpoint its location. Uploading tactical data now.

Cortez: Tacitus was en route to Tratos when the Kodiak went down. Tratos is the only person that can translate the damn thing. This is a straightforward recovery operation, Commander. Get to the site, locate any survivors, recover the Tacitus, return to base.

Briefing
The Kodiak was lost en route to the Philadelphia. We believe it has crashed somewhere in the area. The Kodiak was carrying the recently recovered Tacitus when it went down. Take a small team and locate the crash site and determine if the Kodiak can be repaired. Recover the Tacitus at all costs. Be advised, there are reports that NOD forces and hostile Tiberian life forms have been sighted in the area. The ion storm is still in full force, so advanced units cannot be used.

END TRANSMISSION.


 * First Objective: Find the Kodiak and determine if it can be salvaged.
 * Second Objective: Recover the Tacitus and return it to the pickup zone.

Mission script
[Warning: Ion Storm here!]

First objective
[First Objective: Find the Kodiak.]

[Use the truck to transport the Tacitus when you locate it.]

Mutant: You've picked the wrong place to surface, Nod scum!

[Thanks! We saw something crash to the east. We also spotted a Nod MCV. Be careful.]

Engineer: Sir, they've done the best they can, but the damaged is too extensive. Look's like the Kodiaks a loss.

EVA: Tacitus found.

Second objective
[Tacitus recovered and loaded on the truck. Proceed to the beacon.]

EVA: Tacitus acquired. Proceed to beacon for extraction.

[Transport has arrived.]