New stories and missions will cover all three factions, plus experience an entirely new, dungeon crawler campaign centered on the Empire’s commando, Yuriko Omega.
How will the defeated Soviets react to the occupation and the presence of FutureTech, the mysterious company contracted by the Allies to develop new technologies in the Soviets’ homeland? How will the humiliated Empire of the Rising Sun rise up and defend itself against the former Soviet commanders who have invaded their territory in a post-war land grab? How will the Allied occupational forces quash the uprising of the former Imperial commanders? And who is the mysterious Japanese commando Yuriko Omega? The Empire of the Rising Sun is desperately trying to regain both honor and identity, and the seemingly victorious Allies find themselves in the midst of corruption and deceit within their own ranks. Set in the aftermath of Red Alert 3, the Soviet Union is still reeling from its crushing defeat. Perhaps, with time, we may solve the mystery of this crater and others on our planet.Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega. Within Canyonlands National Park, Upheaval Dome serves as a protected geologic laboratory where all can learn about, and be inspired by, the mysteries of nature. Recent research findings support the meteorite hypothesis, but questions still remain. Erosion since the impact has washed away any meteorite debris, and now provides a glimpse into the interior of the impact crater, exposing rock layers once buried thousands of feet underground. As the area around Upheaval Dome reached an equilibrium, the rocks underground heaved upward to fill the void left by the impact. The impact initially created an unstable crater that partially collapsed. The impact created a large explosion, sending dust and debris high into the atmosphere. Some geologists estimate that roughly 60 million years ago, a meteorite with a diameter of approximately one-third of a mile hit at what is now the Upheaval Dome. When meteorites collide with the earth, they leave impact craters like the well-known one in Arizona. If true, Upheaval Dome would earn the distinction of being the most deeply eroded salt structure on earth. Recent research suggests that a salt bubble as well as the overlying rock have been entirely removed by erosion and the present surface of Upheaval Dome is the pinched off stem below the missing bubble. When geologists first suggested that Upheaval Dome was the result of a salt dome, they believed the land form resulted from erosion of the rock layers above the dome itself. As a result, over millions of years salt can flow up through rock layers as a "salt bubble", rising to the surface and creating salt domes that deform the surrounding rock. In addition, salt is less dense than sandstone.
When under pressure from thousands of feet of overlying rock, the salt can flow plastically, like ice moving at the bottom of a glacier. Salt Dome HypothesisĪ thick layer of salt, formed by the evaporation of ancient landlocked seas, underlies much of southeastern Utah and Canyonlands National Park.
What caused these folds at Upheaval Dome? Geologists do not know for sure, but there are two main theories which are hotly debated. Surrounding this dome is a downwarp in the rock layers called a syncline. In the center, the rocks are pushed up into a circular structure called a dome, or an anticline. In the area of Upheaval Dome, approximately three miles (5 km) across, rock layers are dramatically deformed. What Happened Here?Ĭanyonlands is a place of relative geologic order, with rock layers that have not been altered, tilted or folded significantly in the millions of years since they were laid down by ancient seas, rivers or winds. For the best view, hike the one-mile roundtrip (1.5 km) trail to the first overlook (climbing 100 feet/30 meters). This unusually circular and tilted geologic formation is a bit of a mystery, obviously different from what's around it.