What if GDI and Nod failed to defeat CABAL during the Firestorm Crisis? With both organizations destroyed by CABAL, nothing was stopping the rogue AI from conquering the world, replacing humanity with cybernetics. The Forgotten, out of the way for much of the Firestorm Crisis, now find themselves being hunted down, conflicted between fortifying their sanctuaries and actively waging a guerrilla war for their own survival. The years of unchecked Tiberium growth would also eventually attract the Scrin, expecting Earth to be devoid of hostile life. Their ignorance would only end up thrusting them into the war between CABAL and the Forgotten mutants, a dangerous situation due to their unpreparedness but their desire for the Tiberium Ichor drives them to destroy anything that stands in their way. A new Tiberium War is about to begin between CABAL, the Forgotten, and the Scrin. Conquest, survival, addiction. For whom will you fight for?
* This support unit unique to the Sanctuary Guardians subfaction
Since they no longer needed to use slow and heavy cargo planes due to their Chemical Bombs being down-scaled to smaller Corrosion Bombs, the Guardians were in need of a small aircraft that could deliver the payload at a moment's notice. Dragoons and Smokers were out of the question, Arcadias were too slow, the handful of Shrikes they still had were too valuable to be converted into dedicated bombers, and training Gargoyles to carry and drop bombs was not feasible. They were at a dilemma, resorting to turning to their few mechanists they so loathe for a solution, who simply rolled their eyes and coughed up a simple one. All they had to do was scour some old airfield or barn for a small commercial plane, see if it still works, slap some armor on it, and called it a day. The Viper which they called it due to it's chemical payload is as simple as it gets: a small, light aircraft that is fast enough to go into the target zone, drop it's payload, then get out just as fast.
When?