Secure Crash Site

&nbsp Secure Crash Site was the third GDI mission in the Second Tiberium War as GDI locates an alien crash site and removed the Nod presence.

Background
After eliminating the Nod stronghold that attacked Phoenix base, GDI received intel of a crash site located in Texas and Nod was in the process of extracting its artefacts. Commander McNeil was given the task of securing the crash site as well as capture Nod's technology center for information. McNeil had already captured the nearby train station to prevent Nod from evacuating the artefacts quickly from the crash site and a train carrying GDI infantry was on its way to launch a surprise attack on the crash site.

Establishing a base of operations
Unfortunately the train was destroyed by the defence lasers at the bridge near the Nod base, so GDI deployed an MCV and two Titans in the town and proceeded to establish its base of operations. Training a few infantry, McNeil sent the squad as well as the Titans to eliminate the Nod patrols in the city and scout ahead. A Nod blockade was located northest of the GDI base so the scouting patrol returned to the base to buid up their army. The base was attacked several times by Nod tick tanks and rocket infantry which were beaten back by the Titans and Vulcan cannons respectively. Once the GDI base was well defended and secured, GDI split its task force into two - one to find the crash site and the other to find the Nod base.

Locating the crash site
The first strike force of titans, Wolverines and infantry set forth to the Nod blockade and promptly destroyed it. Coming across a small Nod-controlled village, the force proceeded to the southeast and found Nod engineers excavating something. Wanting to investigate this, the GDI team soon found the crash site - a ship of alien origin. GDI then destroyed the Nod excavation team there and the alien ship was secured. The group then proceeded to the Nod base from its southern entrance via a bridge.

Finding the Nod base
The second force consisted of only Titans and were sent to where the train was destroyed. The Titans destroyed the Lasers from the bottom of the cliff and created an access point to the tunnel that had been guarded by the lasers. The Titans used this tunnel and came across the Nod base itself. Alerted, the Nod defenders vainly attempted to repel the Titans but ended up being wreckage by the Titan's cannons, which proceeded to level the Nod base. At the same time, the first group breached the southern defenses and assisted in razing the Nod base. However both groups left the Tech Center unharmed. An engineer was called in and captured the Tech center.

Aftermath
McNeil managed to secure the crash site, but then Kane contacted GDI telling them he would not allow the alien technology to fall into GDI hands. Kane then sent a Nod army to destroy the alien ship, forcing McNeil to prepare his defenses and protect the alien ship.

Trivia
If the player points the cursor at the ship for a couple of seconds, the name of the ship will appear as the "Scrin ship". This would mark the first time the Scrin had been introduced to the Tiberium Universe.