Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Chrono Rift

Chemical Mortars is one of the Alliance's support powers.

Overview
"It felt like a minute passed when I blinked."

-Alliance soldier account of being in a chrono rift

Since it is able to manipulate time itself, the Chronosphere has been a constant source of Alliance experiments on temporal manipulation. While some experiments have attempted to create a rapid destabilization and breakup of molecules due to decay, other experiments on freezing time have proven more successful.

Put simply, the usage of the rift manipulation technique is to essentially separate a portion of Gaiaterra from time's flow. Men, machines, and even bugs are frozen inside, impervious from harm due to the fact that they are completely separated from the normal time stream. This has started to save Allied forces against the Minutemen from harm, but it has also meant that enemy forces have been frozen, helpless to do anything against the Alliance forces advancing right past them.