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[Red Alert 2] What is actually happening when a Chrono Legionnaire erases an enemy?

I've heard that these guys can erase units from the time stream so they never existed, how is that even possible without causing huge world destroying paradoxes?

For instance if I target a war factory, the tanks that it built persist even though they were built in a factory that never existed. If they can rewrite history and just power through the paradoxes these guys are basically gods, which raises the question of how the Soviets ever stood a chance. 

Or, is that just an oversimplification of how their chrono blaster actually works?
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The Chrono blaster only removes that object/person from this time stream *going forward*. The Chrono Legionnaires say "never existed" but that is indeed an oversimplification. What they're doing when they fire their weapon is creating a dimensional bubble around the targeted object, and then slipping that space into a timestream where it never existed. So in some other dimension, a War Factory randomly pops out of nothingness, and in this timestream, the exact location where that factory stood is replaced by empty space.

This can take a while depending on how large the object is, and if the process is interrupted before the switch happens, then the Legionnaire's attempt to merge the timestream fails and he has to start over. While some say that the Chrono Legionnaires are playing with forces they don't understand, thus far there haven't been any reports of time paradoxes causing lasting problems. And desperate times call for desperate measures. The Chrono tech works, that's all you need to know.