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Or is it? Comments 29 Comments for this article are now closed. Thanks for taking part! Hide low-scoring comments Yes No. Kane himself is believed to have invented these technologies, which are frequently referred to by his many followers worldwide as "The Technology of Peace".
The period in which these events transpired, which would increasingly come to be known as the First Tiberium War , was marked by the Brotherhood of Nod openly starting to preach to many of the third world nations to throw off their "shackles of slavery" under the industrialized countries , while at the same time preaching an ideology of a Tiberium revolution to the entire world.
Many would begin to sign up for Nod's utopian vision of global prosperity and peace for the human race by embracing Tiberium and the unifying ways of the Brotherhood, rendered blind to the implications of Nod's mantra "Peace through Power".
For all these actions, Kane quickly rose to the top of the most wanted list of the United Nations ' newly instituted Global Defense Initiative task force , as the war between the GDI and the Brotherhood would eventually escalate into one of the most brutal conflicts in human history.
The end of this war saw a GDI strike force laying siege to Kane's Temple and main base of operations in Sarajevo , which would lead to the Brotherhood of Nod's first apparent downfall. Reports of Kane's demise were inconsistent however; some say he was buried underneath rubble when the Temple started to fall apart, but other sources stated that the Global Defense Initiative's ion cannon firing upon the main Temple structure had killed Kane -- indeed, a security video eventually substantiated this story.
In it, Kane is seen embracing the light of the ion beam seconds before the Temple exploded under its force. Despite the Brotherhood's defeat at the end of the First Tiberium War, Kane's followers never wavered and always believed that he lived in death, and were vindicated when he rose again in "" almost thirty years later to once again lead waiting Nod forces worldwide and begin a new open war with the GDI.
Although he appeared to his followers during a ceremony with a flawless face, looking virtually the same as during the events shown in "Red Alert" and the First Tiberium War, his real appearance was less aesthetically pleasing -- almost a half of his head was covered by a metal plate, obscuring the massive burns presumably inflicted by the GDI ion cannon strike thirty years ago. He focused Nod's efforts on Tiberium weapons research anew, resulting in the development of a world-altering missile.
The missile's launch was foiled by a daring GDI assault under the command of Michael McNeil, who ignored his superior's orders to refrain from the attack in order to allow GDI more time to plan and prepare for the deciding conflict. Kane was confronted by McNeil within his pyramid near Cairo and was impaled by him on a piece of metallic debris, which would result in the Brotherhood of Nod's second defeat.
After the final defeat of CABAL and his cyborg forces, the Nod ending shows Kane's dormant body hooked into the CABAL system core and being kept alive in a cryonic capsule, apparently recovering from his grave injury sustained at the end of the second conflict at the hands of Michael McNeil.
The screen of the AI's system core is shown to be continually splicing between the CABAL entity and Kane, as a single individual, with both of them referring to Kane's "vision" with disjointed voices, yet with Kane referring to it in the first person using the word "my" whereas CABAL refers to it with the word "your" in an almost respectful manner. Although the worldwide assault on GDI's installations which followed suit was successful and Nod did at one point very nearly achieve a complete military victory over the disorganized and reeling Global Defense Initiative, GDI would manage to turn the tide on them after weeks of fierce urban warfare, a turn of events Kane apparently had anticipated.
Kane had knowledge that a liquid Tiberium explosion of tremendous magnitude would attract the attention of an alien species known as the Scrin. Through the war he had initiated, Kane successfully provoked and lured GDI into attacking his main Temple complex in retaliation to the Brotherhood of Nod's brutal assault on GDI-protected blue zones across the world.
The plot worked, as under the order of Acting Director Redmond Boyle the ion cannon was fired directly upon "Temple Prime" in Sarajevo in an eerie repetition of historical events, which detonated a liquid Tiberium deposit hidden purposefully underneath the Temple and causing a cataclysm ic explosion across south-eastern Europe. Soon after the detonation, the alien Scrin arrived on Earth in order to begin large-scale harvesting of the world's Tiberium deposits.
In fact, Kane - completely intact and without a single scar following his regeneration - appeared in front of millions of television viewers when he interrupted a W3N news broadcast on the Philadelphia's destruction. Under Kane's leadership, the Brotherhood rapidly emerged as a global power once again. Nod's most brilliant commander managed to defend Temple Prime to the last, even when traitorous Nod forces attempted to abort his mission - forces presumed to be led by Nod general Kilian Qatar , but in reality, controlled by LEGION on orders from Abbess Alexa Kovacs.
Kane, whose last known whereabouts was inside the Temple, was once more presumed dead by all - even his own commanders. When Kane once again resurfaced he ordered his most loyal commander to destroy Qatar's forces, and shortly thereafter he ordered her execution for treason.
Finally, the same commander successfully defended an alien tower from GDI attack, making it invulnerable to human assault. Kane in , holding up the Tacitus in the hour of his triumph. Kane discovered that Abbess Alexa Kovacs , a devotee entrusted with overseeing the developmental progress of LEGION , Kane's greatest creation, in fact plotted to destroy the artificial lifeform out of fear it would repeat the actions of CABAL —whom had murdered her parents during its notorious uprising.
Moreover, Kovacs also confessed to being responsible for framing Kilian Qatar shortly before committing suicide right in front of her prophet. Convinced at this point that the majority of humans are unworthy of the " Ascension " Kane had prophesized to bring to Nod 's followers, he turned to the Marked of Kane as the ultimate and " redeemed " soldiers of the Brotherhood.
The raid of the Marked on the heavily fortified location was successful, and with the priceless artifact finally in his hands, Kane was able to have his "child" achieve its true purpose: LEGION merged with the Tacitus and then activated " Kane's Tower ", bringing Nod's ancient prophecy of "Ascension" to its fulfillment. In , the global spread of Tiberium was on the verge of making the planet uninhabitable to humans.
In light of this crisis, Kane decided to approach GDI. To further convince them, he presented the Tacitus to the Council.
Kane's alliance with GDI caused much strife within the Brotherhood. Gideon , an outspoken, fanatical Nod preacher decried the Prophet as a traitor to the cause of the Brotherhood and broke off, forming his own movement , much to the dismay of Kane [59] though it is debatable whether Gideon was Kane's opponent from the beginning. In order to hold all the assets, Kane needed information. As such, he devised a plan to create a GDI soldier that'd get him what he needed, without knowing that.
For this, he chose Christian Pierce , an unlucky Kentucky farmer from Red Zone , to do his bidding. His plan worked perfectly - after Pierce was manipulated into becoming Evelyn Rios ' most trusted aide, Kane had Gideon attempt to destroy Chicago by crashing a GST into it.
To do so, he had to fight his way past "GDI" soldiers. Pierce discovered the information was hundreds of years old and didn't appear to be of GDI origin. He smashed it. Kane stopped Pierce there. Even the GDI soldiers sent to stop him were actually disguised Nod troops. An irate Pierce attacked Kane, hitting him once, but Kane defeated and killed him.
As the Incursion War went on, Nod's arsenal continued to grow and improve in light of the Separatists' modifications to their weaponry. Kane had personally overseen the development of a new stealth tank and was the mastermind behind a Nod raid to capture a functional Obelisk of Darkness held in a GDI lab to develop an Obelisk of Light that was capable of destroying aircraft.
However his best commander Alphus turned out to be Gideon's sleeper agent and hijacked the prototype Crawler, giving the Separatists a level playing field. In , the storm of world war has come again. Tensions between GDI and Nod mounted, as resentment on both sides, hidden for the past fifteen years, began to surface, and Ascension became a reality with the activation of the TCN. The Ascension Conflict erupted when Kane initiated the final phase of his plan. His actions drew the attention of Nod Separatists and rogue GDI units under the command of Colonel Louise James , resulting in a brief, but an extremely bloody conflict that lasted ten days, but consumed countless lives.
The only remaining implant was Commander Parker , so in order to protect him, Kane ordered Gideon to be brought to heel. His will was done, and Gideon was brought to justice for the followers of Nod at a stage near Threshold When the Commander did not answer her how to shut it down, the rogue GDI leader shot him point-blank, only to have Kane arrive and strangle James at the very end.
The activation of Threshold 19, and the bullet Parker took from James, began to take its toll on his vital status. Kane said that the commander is too fragile to live, and thus steps through the Scrin Portal, ascending in the process, leaving him and Lilly behind, the latter mourning Parker's slow and silent passing, his implant's shutdown sequence coming to a full circle. As Parker arrives at the tower, he finds Kane, who reveals that it was not Kane who killed Lilly after all.
James ordered an Orca Bomber strike to destroy the bunker Lilly was hiding in to get the Commander to despise Kane. Kane continues by explaining that Parker's optical implant is the key to activating the TCN, the Threshold's portal, and his Ascension.
Failing that, he then warns that not doing so will doom Earth to Tiberium and never-ending war. Shortly afterward, James arrives and commands Parker to stand down. After shooting Kane, Parker begins to walk towards the portal.
James understands that he finally realized the truth and shoots him. But before she can put a bullet in his head, Kane pulls her gun away and tell the commander to activate the portal. Parker manages to turn on the portal, before losing consciousness again. Regaining consciousness one last time, Kane stands by the activated portal, tilts his head skeptically, and says, "Thank you," to the commander, before stepping through and leaving him to his fate. After the tower sends out visible beams to space, the W3N news reports that after the surge of the Scrin tower, the last piece of the Tiberium Control Network has been completed.
The Tiberium near Threshold 19 was also reported to be dissipating. Next, General Secretary Evelyn Rios claimed that to be a "historical moment" and that humanity has persevered. Another news report mentioned that thousands of Kane's followers simply vanished after entering the portal, and the tower is now dormant again. With GDI marking this as a success, its possible GDI might gather Tiberium near the tower to dissipate all of it, it's also possible that all the Tiberium on earth is starting to dissipate independently due to the tower's activity.
A random middle-aged man played by Daniel Kucan was street interviewed, and merely said "Kane's gone? Yeah, right. The GDI campaign shows two possible endings to the final mission, depending on whether the ion cannon is used on the Temple.
If the ion cannon is used Kane ascends from the Temple's subterranean command center to the heavily damaged hall on the surface where he is engulfed by an ion cannon strike. Kane is portrayed and voiced by Joseph David Kucan , who also served as Full Motion Video director and dramatic director for games produced by Westwood Studios from to He has access to the Obelisk of Light.
Kucan frequently joked about his role and how he got it in the first place. In an interview , he said that Kane would, in fact, be a woman and that Tiberian Twilight was a musical.
The only instance where he stated the true version was at CommandCom in Cologne. Since Westwood Studios did not have a large budget at the time, they employed the game developers as actors in full motion videos. When making a placeholder video to test the compression methods, Westwood assigned Kucan to say a line in which he would imitate a villain character.
That test video actually gave him the role of the charismatic leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, Kane. Command and Conquer Wiki Explore. Collection Theater of War Worldwide Warfare.
Sorted by game Sorted by faction Sorted by company. Weapons Equipment Vehicles Books Science and technology. Cool stuff. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk Kane in Liability Elimination briefing. Kane in Investigate Elba island briefing. Kane with the Tacitus at the end of Second Tiberium War. Kane and Inner Circle advisor. Kane welcomes the Nod Commander to the Inner Circle.
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Accessed Episode Three - The War Messiah. Cinematic: temple is ion cannoned , gdifinb. Cinematic: missiles shoot temple , gdifina. EA YouTube channel. June 9, Universal Conquest Wiki. Rule of thumb, Hassan. You can't kill the Messiah. No, I'm not God. But I am a close second. He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!
The Prophecy has come to pass! I have spent Comrade Chairman, I am the future. It is, as I foresaw it. GDI and the Brotherhood view the benefits and threat of Tiberium differently. They see a scientific anomaly—a curiosity. I see the future. In their stubborn ignorance they continue to work to forestall this future.
Your actions have led us here, my faithul friend. The Temple is complete, and we are about to embark a path of our greatest exploit.
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