Deposition of GDI Watch Commander, detailing the Alien invasion of Cologne

To be honest, even after the [expletive] hit Munich, we didn't think Cologne would draw much in the way of attention. We've been running simulations since 2038 or so and Cologne has never rated anything more than 'minor strategic value.' We figured that this would count for the aliens too...guess we were wrong.

?By the time we detected the first wave, it was too late to form anything more than a basic defense. Fortunately, we'd been evacuating civilians for the better part of the day, but we were way behind on erecting defensive structures, let alone planning any kind of strategy. Things fell apart fast, those infernal air...uh...spacecraft came streaking in, wiping out half of our troops before they could even fire a shot. The rest of us scattered, taking shelter in whatever structures we figured were solid enough to withstand fire, at least temporarily. Then the power went out, and with it our communications, our radar and any damn chance of us taking the city back.

?At one point the insane hell of combat calmed down and it was almost quiet on the battlefield - the odd burst of laser fire, a scream, some radio static. Then, all at once, the sky lit up bright green and the silence became a deafening explosive howl. My heart sank...the [expletive] had taken out the Tib silos, all of them...the entire reclamation project, years of work, undone in a few seconds...a giant [expletive] Tib field spawned right at the heart of central Germany.

?Then their ground units came...giant walkers and little disintegrator things taking out our tanks, clouds of razor sharp buzzing things reducing our infantry to unidentifiable piles of wet flesh on the sidewalk.

?I called a retreat, grabbed my gun and ran...

Audio Transcript - Deposition of GDI Watch Commander Elliot Gruber, Cologne

GDI值班指揮官的證詞，詳述外星人入侵Cologne（科?。┑那闆r

老實說，就算在（臟話）襲擊慕尼黑后，我們也不認(rèn)為科隆會吸引太多關(guān)注。我們從2038年就開始進(jìn)行模擬，對于任何項目科隆的評價都不會超過“次要戰(zhàn)略價值”。我們認(rèn)為這對外星人也是一樣的……看來我們錯了。（譯注：我沒記錯的話絲巾的戰(zhàn)略是亂打一通給閾限之塔轉(zhuǎn)移注意力，只能說科隆運氣不好咯2333）

當(dāng)我們探測到第一波襲擊時，除了形成基本的防御什么都為時已晚。幸運的是，我們一天大部分時間都在疏散平民，但是在建立防御設(shè)施方面我們遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)落后，更別說制定什么對策了。形式很快就崩潰了，那些地獄般的飛……呃……太空船猛沖過來，我們的一半部隊還沒來得及開槍便被屠殺殆盡。我們剩下的人四散而逃，尋找任何我們認(rèn)為足夠堅固能抵御炮火的建筑躲藏，哪怕只能暫時躲藏。然后停電了，我們的通訊系統(tǒng)，雷達(dá)和任何奪回城市的機(jī)會都隨著該死的停電消失了。

?瘋狂的地獄般的戰(zhàn)斗在某一時刻平靜下來，戰(zhàn)場上幾乎一片寂靜——只剩那些奇怪的激光造成的爆炸，一聲尖叫，和一些無線電雜音。然后，突然，天空變成明亮的綠色，寂靜變成了震耳欲聾的爆炸聲。我心中一沉——那些（臟話）炸了泰礦倉，所有的一切……整個泰礦修復(fù)工程，數(shù)年來的工作，在幾秒間化為烏有……一個巨大的（臟話）泰伯利亞地帶誕生在了德國的中心地帶。

?然后它們的地面單位來了……巨大的步行機(jī)甲（walkers）和小的粉碎行者（disintegrator）一樣的東西干掉了我們的坦克，一群嗡嗡作響的鋒利的云狀物把我們的步兵變成了人行道上無法辨認(rèn)的一坨濕乎乎的肉。

?我要求撤退，抓起槍就跑……

音頻記錄——證詞來自GDI值班指揮官Elliot Gruber，科隆