Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Weather Control Generator

The Weather Control General is the Lumeris' offensive superweapon that utilized weather as the main weapon.

History
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-Last words of commander, before entire platoon was wiped out by a freak storm

The Syndicate is motivated by profit. Seems obvious enough, but the Syndicate's mastery of weather control seems to run directly opposite to this. Expensive to create, expensive to operate, expensive to maintain, and expensive to use. The only possible cost-effective use of this technology would be subtle manipulation of sunlight for farming, not warfare!

However, weather manipulation has several bonuses for the Syndicate. The first is plausible deniability. If the Syndicate hoarded missiles, someone would notice, and the Syndicate would be caught with their missile silos down and put out of business. With weather control, it is hard to prove the Syndicate is responsible for destroying an enemy installation, and not just a freak hurricane in the wrong season away from any body of water. As well as this, weather control is infinitely more versatile; a missile cannot block radio contact with heavy cloud cover, have heavy winds and rough seas ground enemy air and sea support, or strike planes carrying informants out of the sky, all without conclusive proof. Finally, the Syndicate can use this technology for profit when not in conflict; the majority of the Syndicate's superfarms are tended by fertilizer, hard work, and orbital satellites playing god.

This building is the Syndicate's concession to those who oppose this expensive system. This building not only links up to the weather control system but analyses the battlefield. After a time observed, high-ranking Syndicate officials will vote yay or nay on whether the weather will be profitable; and, if so, give the commander permission to pound the enemy with gales, lightning, hail, and rain. As an interesting side effect, areas near this cataclysm often receive improved weather for a short time; this helps to grow food for the Sprawls which spring up wherever the Syndicate destroys their enemies.

How the Syndicate gain access to such a machine, however, is one of the many mysteries of them.

The most popular theory is that the Syndicate had stolen the plans from the late Einstein since one of Einstein's last invention showcased was a weather manipulation device but the plans for it, and the prototype he unveiled, was lost in a freak fire accident just a day after his disappearance before the Alliance could properly copy the data, though how much of it was an accident is still debated to this day. Though with the Aquilan's unintentional reveal of the Heaven's Wrath Storm generator the Alliance is now suspicious of the Aquilans of possible theft, and the Syndicate is now locked in a legal battle about who owns the right to a weather manipulation device.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Particle Cannon (Aquila)
 * Tomahawk Storm
 * ICBM
 * Heaven's Wrath
 * Missile Silo
 * Strategic Command Uplink (Task Force Eagle)
 * Proton Collider (Alliance)
 * Ion Cannon (ADI)
 * Psionic Decimator (Protectorate)
 * Solaris Array (Andora)
 * Solar Apocalypse
 * Atomic Palace (Empire)
 * Nuclear Storm
 * Hadron Collider
 * Scientifc Lab
 * Temple of Cantha (Community)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Vaccuum Imploder (Voshkod)
 * Temple of Asmodia (Brotherhood)
 * Soyuz Missile (Horde)
 * SCUD Storm (MLA)
 * Psychic Dominator (Collective)
 * Minea Elemental Missile Silo (Encantadia)
 * Rift Generator (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Tremor AGAS (Coalition)
 * Warp Missile (Heralds)
 * Firestorm Generator (Order)
 * Resonance Jackhammer (Survivors)
 * Weather Control Generator (Syndicate)
 * Omega Blitzer (Conglomerate)
 * Basilisk Magnus Apocalypse (Legion)

Bonus Factions

 * Kabandha Radio Center (ASA)
 * Guns of Windrunner (Bastion)
 * Lord Creep (Rangers)
 * Tempest Generator (Pirates)
 * Death Hand Hand ICBM (Ascalia)
 * Temple of Elona (Elona)
 * ICBM (Dominion)
 * Light of Dragalia (Security)
 * LEO Landing Beacon (Ascendancy)

DLC

 * Orbital Storm (Federation)
 * Coronal Storm (Corona)
 * Mother's Love (Party)
 * The Icon (Skynet)
 * Winds Grande Ode (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * The Great Sun Temple (League)
 * Erect Ground (Swarm)
 * ARK Superheavy Artillery Battery (Confederation)
 * Eldritch Cannon (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * Aggregat (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * Maw Missile (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * ... (Raiders)
 * Hammer of Sigmar (Theocracy)
 * Punisher Cannon (Insurgents)
 * ... (Guardians)
 * ... (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * Doomfire Missile Silo (Ecumene)
 * Shrine of Sadida (Concordat)
 * ARKNIGHT Dropzone (Contingent)
 * Scream of Elysea (Eden)
 * Meganulon Hive (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * Gandalf Scatter Launcher (Commune)
 * Stonehenge Strike Array (Clique)
 * Fugaku Air Tower (Guild)
 * Death Worm (Threat)
 * Schwere Gustav (Traders)
 * Bavarium Missile (Entente)
 * The Icon of Sin (Oblivion)
 * ... (Corporation)
 * ... (Institute)
 * ... (Commonwealth)
 * ... (Nimbus)
 * ... (Carnival)
 * ... (Wraiths)
 * ... (Chronophage)
 * ... (Privateers)
 * ... (Foundation)