GDI Structures

This section covers some of the structures available to the Global Defense Initiative.
All structures listed here are subject to change.

Fusion Power Plant Price: 400 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 750 Power: +200 Description: Thanks to developments by the Tacitus Research Team, GDI scientists have been able to harness fusion under controllable conditions. Fusion power provides a lot of power than previous power plants, however, due to the special resources needed for the fusion core, this building is expensive. This building can be upgraded with a Secondary Control Unit. Fusion Power Plant Upgrade - Secondary Control Unit Price: 180 Weapon: - Armour: - Power: +150 Description: An upgrade for the Fusion Power Plant. With this installation, the power plant can increase the fusion rate safely, drawing out more power, as the additional control unit helps to compensate for any fluctuations in the process.

Tiberium Refinery Price: 2000 Storage: 120 Armour: Concrete, 850 Power: -40 Description: The Tiberium Refinery is one of the most important structures of any base. It is the main source of income for a base. The GDI Tiberium Refinery differs from the Nod one by having slightly more armour and more storage for tiberium.

Tiberium Silo Price: 200 Storage: 80 Armour: Concrete, 450 Power: -10 Description: The ordinary Tiberium Silo is a self-standing structure able to store additonal tiberium when the refinery storage runs out.

Barracks Price: 300 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 600 Power: -20 Description: This is the training facility for GDI infantry. The GDI Barracks can be upgraded with a defensive tower. Barracks Upgrade - Defense Tower Price: 350 Weapon: Vulcan II Machine Gun Armour: - Power: -20 Description: The defense tower for the GDI Barracks is simply a manned Vulcan gun tower. The defense tower is good for central base defenses in that it can target both ground and air units. It is weak vs armour, however.

War Factory Price: 2100 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 850 Power: -40 Description: The GDI War Factory is the building where production of all vehicles takes place. Production of several helicopters are developed here also, and as such this building serves as a multipurpose factory.

Radar Price: 1000 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 700 Power: -30 Description: The GDI Radar facility is an important part of the base. Due to GDI's major roles in airbourne and spacebourne deployment, communication and survelliance is a necessity. The Radar facility can provide survelliance and communications uplink with various satellites and the Philadelphia. The facility can also be upgraded to house additional features; Base-Wide Sensor Array and Threat-Rating Node. Radar Upgrade - Base-Wide Sensor Array Price: 650 Weapon: - Armour: - Power: -15 Description: The Sensor Array upgrade installs a sensor array system similar to that found on Mobile Sensor Array Units, but with greater power and efficiency allowing a greater area to be covered. A single upgraded radar, if centrally placed can set up a detection radius to cover a small-medium sized base. Radar Upgrade - Threat Rating Node Price: 450 Weapon: - Armour: - Power: -15 Description: The Threat Rating Node is a way to enhance the effectiveness of your task force without producing additional units. This upgrade is a dedicated computer system designed to help you control your forces by issuing commands to units of which units to attack first to provide a more successful and efficient battle.

Helipad Price: 500 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 550 Power: -40 Description: The Helipad is the base for most GDI airbourne units. A few improved and new units have been built to not need to return to a helipad, but will still require one for its initial construction, also only helipads have the equipment required to repair aircraft.

Tech Centre Price: 1500 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 650 Power: -70 Description: The GDI Tech Centre is the research station for GDI. Disruptor Crystals are developed and refined here as well as other advanced materials, as a result this building has a high power drain. The Tech Centre also houses a communication uplink to the orbital command station Philadelphia. This too has an increased power drain for the building. The Tech Centre has room for three uplink units for communication access to orbital systems. Tech Centre Upgrade - Ion Cannon Uplink Price: 1250 Superweapon: Orbital Ion Cannon Platform Armour: - Power: -30 Description: First tested during the First Tiberium War, the GDI orbital platform based Ion Cannon is one of the most devestating weapons available to GDI. Recharging after each shot via solar energy, the platform fires a solid beam of plasma energy to a specified target. The beam is highly concentrated making it ideal for precision attacks, capable of single-handedly destroying several buildings in one strike, most can withstand a direct attack, barely. Tech Centre Upgrade - Droppod Reinforcements Uplink Price: 1250 Superweapon: Philadelphia Droppod Reinforcements Armour: - Power: -30 Description: Deployed from the Philadelphia through Drop pods, some of the elite troops of GDI are sent down to help on the battlefield. GDI Drop pod troopers are trained up heavily, and are ready for battle right after deployment, even under fire. Tech Centre Upgrade - Bright Star EMP Uplink Price: 1250 Superweapon: "Bright Star" Orbital EMP Platform Armour: - Power: -30 Description: GDI decided to move their EMP weapon to a spacebourne platform like the Ion Cannon platform. This enables the EMP be fired at any location above the battlefield. However due to the platform being further away, the area of effect is slightly less.

Dropship Bay [Mission Only] Price: 2000 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 850 Power: -40 Description: The GDI Dropship Bay is usually only found in fortified GDI bases. It is used as a landing pad for the GDI Dropship, for loading and unloading unit cargo. Dropships are used to carry groups of heavy units to and from the battlefield.

Firestorm Generator Price: 2000 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 700 Power: -40 Description: The Firestorm Generator is an impressive structure in itself, although alone it is potentially useless. Used in conjuction with Firestorm Wall, it can project an almost inpenetrable defense. The generator drains an enormous amount of energy, and has to build up a store of high-energy plasma for use in the shield. The plasma also has a limited lifetime before it ionizes with the air and disipates, resulting in the wall having to continually be fed plasma until the generator reserves are depleted. Once the plasma reserves are depleted, or the projectors disengaged, the generator begins to create plasma again.

Firestorm Wall Price: 500 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 1000 Power: -40 Description: Used in conjuction with the Firestorm Generator, the Firestorm Wall when in use will project a field of high-energy plasma up into the atmosphere. This high energy field will vapourise and create an emp effect on any object passing through. This makes it impassable to "solid" projectiles as well as units. The firestorm wall will hold back ordinary Nod missiles. However, it has been found that energy-based weapons are able to pierce through the plasma with little difficulty.

Component Tower Price: 500 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 800 Power: -25 Description: The Component Tower is GDI's primary method of base defence. Although in its basic form it is useless, when upgraded with one of a selection of defensive turrets it becomes an effective method of defence. It can be upgraded with anti-infantry, anti-armour and anti-aircraft weaponry. This weaponry will change as technology improves. Component Tower Upgrade - Vulcan Machine Gun Price: 150 Superweapon: Vulcan Machine Gun Armour: - Power: -5 Description: This is the simplest form of weaponry avaliable to the Component Tower. Cheap, low power drain, the Vulcan Machine Gun is doubled barrelled and fires rounds of bullets in seconds at hordes of infantry. Its bullets are small and are not designed to pierce armour and so are ineffective against armoured units. Replaced by Energy Cannon. Component Tower Upgrade - Energy Cannon Price: 250 Superweapon: Energy Cannon Armour: - Power: -15 Description: The replacement to the Vulcan Machine Gun, but with similar properties to the Gauss Cannon. The energy cannon fires a small ball of plasma, which although no particularly good against heavy armour, can severely damage light armour melting it away, and will scorch flesh, making it a very effective anti-infantry weapon. Its plasma has a good rate of fire, but each shot has a slight spread meaning it is still effective against grounds of infantry. Component Tower Upgrade - Gauss Cannon Price: 250 Superweapon: Gauss Cannon Armour: - Power: -15 Description: The Gauss Cannon is a new refinement of anti-armour weaponry. Firing a magnetically accelerated shell designed for piercing armour and making an impressive impact. Its explosive spread is minimal as it is designed for precise internal damage to systems as opposed to damaging a unit from the outside. An improvement in this technology is having a bearing projectile, in which it explodes before impact releasing high energy ball-bearings. These are able to pierce light armour and have a large spread. Component Tower Upgrade - SAM Missile Rack Price: 300 Superweapon: 2x SAM Missile Armour: - Power: -15 Description: The SAM upgrade for the component tower remains mostly unchanged from previous deployment in the Second Tiberium War. Later improvements include range and firing multiple missiles in a barrage. Its targetting system is deployed against aircraft only. Replaced by Seeker EMP Missile Rack. Component Tower Upgrade - EMP Seeker Missile Rack Price: 450 Superweapon: EMP Seeker Missiles Armour: - Power: -25 Description: Replacement for the SAM Rack, there are multiple advantages over this system. Firstly, a secondary targetting system has been setup, allowing the missile rack to target both ground and air units. The range for ground targets is very good, however it is not able to targets within a certain range to the tower. Secondly, the missiles contain an EMP warhead, this disables ground units for a short time, while disables the systems of aircraft, causing it to crash.

Pavement Price: 75 Weapon: - Armour: - Power: 0 Description: Pavement is used to prevent subterrenean units from surfacing in certain positions, as well as preventing terrain from deforming due to heavy artillery fire. Pavement also allows a speed boost for ground vehicles.

Wall Price: 300 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 300 Power: 0 Description: Concrete wall is used to help protect bases from attacks, or at least to hold back attacks long enough for defenses to be mobilized. GDI walls are bigger and steel-reinforced concrete allowing for a more durable construction. They are as a result, more expensive.

Gate Price: 300 Weapon: - Armour: Concrete, 450 Power: -5 (but not powered) Description: Gates are used to allow a passage way within a line of wall for friendly units to pass, while able to hold back enemy units. Although power draining, they are not dependant on power due to back-up generators built in.