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The advent of the MCV was a revolution in military thinking, and with it came a revolution in military engineering. A series of new military buildings was designed to take advantage of the Construction Yard’s powerful fabrication abilities. A joint effort between American and Russian engineers, the Rapid Deployment and Logistics project would design most of the structures fielded by GDI during the First Tiberium War.
One of the first structures conceived was the PRDS. An acronym for “Prefabricated Rapid Deployment Shelter,” it was designed to provide easily-assembled, protected living quarters for GDI troops in the field. The engineers adopted the “half-hemisphere” design of earlier American barracks, for its structural integrity and relative simplicity. With walls of hardened steel and Kevlar reinforcement, the PRDS proved highly resistant to small-arms fire. A climate control system ensured protection from nuclear, chemical, and biological attack, as well as comfort in the grueling heat of summer operations.
While some GDI officials were skeptical of the building’s benefits, citing increased costs, the critics were quickly silenced after a surprise attack on a GDI base in May, 1995. Besieged by no less than 20 Nod raiders, the barracks withstood three RPG impacts in the initial attack, and weathered hundreds of individual rounds in the ensuing firefight. Had the troops been sheltered by anything less, they would most likely have been killed in their bunks.
This incident, along with many others like it, helped cement the PRDS as one of GDI’s most important structures, providing the lone place of refuge for soldiers in the field. Despite this fact, the troops never came up with a nickname for the acronym. To them, and even to their officers, their safe, bullet-proof home in the field was known simply as a Barracks.
[The Barracks was modeled by Hendrix and Ric, who also gave it its texture.]
-General Aurum
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