People who believe that they, by some unseen right, are granted power over others, and would push others down so they might climb, are the greatest threat to mankind's existence. For from the beginning - when man's struggle was with nature, not knowing where he might sleep, how he would eat, or whether he would survive to see the light of dawn - there have always been those who would lord over others. Because Nod controls a large portion of the world's supply and they are at the forefront of Tiberium research, they possess incredible leverage in financial operations such as on the London Gold Exchange.Īs long as man has had breath the Brotherhood has existed.
At the time of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, Nod controlled almost half the world's Tiberium supply at 49% compared with the lackluster 27% controlled by the G8 nations (sponsors of GDI), and the remaining 24% in the hands of unaffiliated nations.īefore Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn is played out, it is believed that Nod's fiscal assets were in the range of 255.2 billion US dollars based on audits of seized financial records. The Brotherhood, being anti-Western, tapped into these suddenly rich nations for substantial control of the Tiberium market. Many of the poorer countries straddling the equatorial regions were hit hardest by the rapidly spreading substance. Tiberium spreads quickly and thrives in temperate to warm conditions. Kane, the self-appointed leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, claims that it was the Brotherhood who first discovered the organism and that he named it after Tiberius Caesar Augustus. Due partially to chance, the alien organism arrived via meteor impact near the Tiber river in Italy and thus the genesis of the name Tiberium. Nod's chief asset is its near monopoly on the Tiberium harvesting industry.
Additionally, they are affiliated with the Irish Republican Party, Islamic Jihad, Tamil Tigers and Al-Queda. Nod is also believed to back a number of officially recognized political parties: the Fist of Allah party in Jordan, the United We Stand America party in the United States, and the Albion First! party in the United Kingdom, among others. Before the Sarajevo central headquarters was identified, Nod was believed to have no central command base, instead operating from multiple individual locations, with posts previously identified in Kuantan, Malaysia the Ar-Rub' al-Khali desert, Saudi Arabia Tokyo, Japan and Caen, France. Nod forces are composed of guerrillas from other allied organizations, mercenaries and conscripts from the territories Nod controls, as well as Nod-indoctrinated religious fanatics. Nod is headed by Kane, known as Jacob Caine by Interpol in the Western world, and as Amir al-Quayym by MI6 in the Middle East. However, when a scandal broke out involving major American defense contractors, it was discovered that Nod had substantial military air, sea, and land power. The GDI was created by the G8 nations to counter Kane's plans for a new world order.īefore the outbreak of the First Tiberium War, the most accepted idea was that the Brotherhood was simply another minor terrorist faction. Nod has done heavy research into pioneering Tiberium-based technologies and its self-proclaimed messianic leader, a man known only as Kane, appears to have designs to convert the entire world to a Tiberium-based ecosystem. While the United Nations GDI focuses on research on attempting to mitigate the damage the Tiberium crystals increasingly begin to cause to the Earth's peoples and ecosystems, Nod's position is to embrace Tiberium as a gift from God and the herald of a new age for humanity. The conflict between the industrialized world's leading countries and the rapidly spreading Nod society is centered around control of the fictional resource of Tiberium an exotic and extraterrestrial substance which extracts all nutrients from the land it sits upon and deposits them into toxic, above-ground crystals that can be processed into potent materials: The opening sequence shows animation of the bombing of the fictional Grand Trade Center in Vienna, with the act being blamed on Brotherhood of Nod terrorists and their mysterious leader. The original Command and Conquer game was produced by Westwood Studios, and distributed internationally by Virgin Interactive in 1995. He who commands the future, conquers the past. He who controls the past commands the future. Based upon the Command & Conquer computer game. This scenario installs into the map folder.
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