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노드 형제단(The Brotherhood of Nod)는 종종 노드(Nod)나, 형제단으로 불려지며, 전략 시뮬레이션 게임인 타이베리안 시리즈에 3번째 축으로 자리잡고 있다. 노드는 자신들의 역사가 문명의 역사가 시작된 이래로 가장 오래된 비밀 집단이라 주장하고 있다. 노드는 신비스러우면서, 카리스마적인 자질이 있는 케인이라는 남자가 움직이고 있다. 노드의 상징은 모서리가 깎인 삼각형 내에 전갈 꼬리가 웅크리고 있는 것으로, 검은색과 붉은색이 주가 된다.

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[편집] Historical overview

[편집] Founding

Exact date unknown. The Command & Conquer game manual mentions "exaggerated" reports that place the Brotherhood's founding before 1800 BC. Throughout the series however are snippets of evidence that seem to suggest the given date to be accurate, among them:

  • The ending credits to the first game show an ancient red and black artifact, depicting the first Biblical and Qur'anic murder, being excavated from a former Nod site.
  • In Command & Conquer: Renegade, the Temple of Nod in Sarajevo, of which Kane states is built on holy ground, is shown to house what is apparently the Tomb of Abel.

If the ancient founding claim is assumed to be genuine, the Brotherhood of Nod would be at least 3800 years old, as of the events in the first game.

[편집] Background

Before the outbreak of the First Tiberium War, the most accepted idea was that it was just simply another minor terrorist faction. When a scandal broke involving major American defence contractors however, it was discovered that Nod had substantial military air, sea and land power. 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.

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. 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.

Also during Tiberian Dawn, Nod is believed to back a number of officially-recognized political parties. Among the ones mentioned are 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. Additionally, they are also affiliated with the following: Irish Republican Party, Islamic Jihad, Khmer Rouge and others.

Nod's chief asset is its near monopoly on the Tiberium harvesting industry. 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. 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. Tiberium spreads quickly and thrives in temperate to warm conditions. Many of the poorer countries straddling the equatorial regions were hit hardest by the rapidly-spreading substance. The Brotherhood, being anti-Western, tapped into these suddenly-rich nations for substantial control of the Tiberium market. At the time of Tiberian Dawn, Nod controlled almost half the world's Tiberium supply at 49%. Compare with the lacklustre 27% controlled by the G8 nations (sponsors of GDI), and the remaining 24% in the hands of unaffiliated nations.

Nod looks at Tiberium very differently than its main enemy, GDI. Whereas GDI treats Tiberium as a dangerous but economically valuable product as well as a scientific anomaly, the Brotherhood sees it as the dawn of a new age entirely. As such, they are much more willing to directly use Tiberium in potentially unsafe ways, such as use in weaponry.

[편집] First Tiberium War (Command and Conquer)

Before 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.[1] 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.

According to the canonical storyline, Nod is defeated by the Global Defense Initiative. GDI exploited the weak points of Nod's strategy. Kane devised a plan to blame GDI for the slaughtering of Białystok. Afterwards, Nod broadcasted a fake news report claiming GDI razed the whole town on suspicions of Tiberium smuggling.

The broadcast created a scandal that forced the Security Council to cut GDI funding pending an investigation, causing GDI to virtually shut down. Whenever it left an area, Nod quickly arrived to take over. Kane was however unaware that this 'scandal' had been planned by GDI and the UN, so when Nod forces arrived they encountered heavy resistance from "abandoned" bases. Since the incursions into GDI territory caused Nod forces to be spread very thin, GDI not only repelled the attacks, but took large areas of Nod territory.

Kane himself was believed to have been killed at the final stand of the Brotherhood near Sarajevo. With GDI forces swarming in, Kane calmly attempted to escape his 'Temple of Nod'. At the exit, however, the entire Temple was bathed in a bright light—the light of GDI's Ion Cannon. Kane was seemingly vaporised by the light, holding his arms out wide. Some claim that Kane was unaware that it was an Ion Cannon, only that he thought it was God's light.

If the GDI player destroys Kane's Temple without using the Ion Cannon, Kane is buried under large piles of rubble as he attempts to escape. Contrary to most expectations, it is the 'Ion Cannon Ending' that is considered to have occurred - indeed, the sight, shown in a security video, haunts the GDI leader, James Solomon, throughout Nod's 'interregnum'.

[편집] Second Tiberium War (Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun)

Following the First Tiberium War, the death of Kane caused the Brotherhood to factionalize into small armies, ruled by random generals. For quite a long time, they fought more against themselves than against GDI. When Kane resurfaced 30 years later they reunited and once again faced off against GDI forces.

According to the official C&C storyline, Nod is again defeated by the Global Defense Initiative. It is discovered that Kane did not survive unharmed. Large portions of his face were hidden under metal, covering what appear to be massive burns. This was particularly surprising, as all transmissions from Kane to both Nod and GDI showed a flawless face; a possible explanation is that the images were digitally-altered, which is partially confirmed by a GDI technician. In Firestorm, it is revealed in the end of the Nod campaign shows that here is a hidden lab with stasis tubes; one of them had Kane inside. By Command & Conquer 3, Kane once again appears unscarred, but not without occasional chest pains from being stabbed by McNeil [2].

[편집] Firestorm Crisis (Firestorm)

The Firestorm Crisis starts with Slavik arguing with the inner circle of the Brotherhood over leadership issues now that Kane has disappeared. Slavik orders his men to recapture CABAL, a move which he believes will help reunite Nod while at the same time allowing Nod to compete with GDI. Slavik's men recover the device, but after CABAL's reactivation the computer seizes control of all Nod cyborg units, and assassinates the inner circle members. Slavik, who alone managed to escape the death that claimed the other generals, orders all Nod forces to evacuate from CABAL's cyborgs. Slavik assists in this evacuation by maneuvering the Montauk to a Nod installation and recovering the survivors. Slavik then orders a surgical strike against a massive GDI air force base to recover an EVA unit, which is reprogrammed to assist Nod forces.

Unable to beat CABAL on his own, Slavik approaches GDI general Cortez with a cease-fire offer so that they can work together against CABAL. GDI agrees, and both sides begin attacking CABALs auxiliary bases, in Nod's case a Tiberium harvesting facility and civilian settlement. With CABALs auxiliary bases down Nod forces deploy members of the elite cadre to clear out a patrolling CABAL cyborg team before establishing a base and launching an offensive against CABAL. Ultimately, Nod forces were able to destroy the CABAL Core, thus eliminating CABAL as a credible threat to the Brotherhood.

This, however, was not the end, as CABAL's face was once again displayed on a screen within a room, overseeing several human bodies hooked up to life support systems and in cryogenic sleep, with Kane being one of the bodies.

[편집] Third Tiberium War (Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars)

The Third Tiberium War begins with the Brotherhood of Nod again emerging from the shadows to battle GDI. In the very early stages of the Third Tiberium War, Nod launches a successful attack on GDI's Goddard Space Center, rendering all of GDI's anti-missile capabilities useless. GDI is caught off guard, with its senior commanders and acting director up in the Philadelphia for the annual energy summit. Due to the loss of its anti-missile defences, the Philadelphia becomes vulnerable to attack and is quickly destroyed by a Nod missile. Nod uses the confusion to attack all major GDI installations and were almost successful in taking the "North Eastern Blue Zone" (North American Eastern Seaboard). However, GDI rallied its forces and drove Nod out of the regions they had captured.

It quickly became apparent that Kane and his leading scientists were working on a liquid tiberium bomb which would be strong enough to wipe GDI from the face of the planet. While GDI was in Africa, destroying what it believed to be Nod's chemical weapons factories, Nod was transporting its new weapon from the real chemical factories in South America to their reconstructed temple in Sarajevo in eastern Europe. After GDI finished their campaign in Africa, they turned their attention to Nod's stronghold. What GDI did not know, however, was that they had been lured into a trap.

GDI flocked to Sarajevo in hopes that this would be the final encounter with the Brotherhood of Nod. They established strong footholds deep in Nod territory and used them as leverage to launch a devastating attack on Nod's Temple Prime. During the attacks, Kane stealthily slipped away, knowing that his work there was complete. When GDI was successful in neutralizing Nod's ion disruption towers, they fired upon the temple with their ion cannon. When the ion cannon was fired, the temple was destroyed instantly. The ion particles broke through the layers of the temple until it reached the lowest lying part, wherein the liquid tiberium bomb lay. Upon contact with the ion particles, it detonated, sending shockwaves across the planet. Millions of people in Eastern Europe were feared dead, but to Director Redmond Boyle - it was a price worth paying for the death of Kane and Nod.

Nod followers were understandably shocked. Their temple was destroyed and their great leader was dead. Kane's second in command, General Killian Qatar, took over control of the Brotherhood and called all forces to her Australian base so that they may be able to regroup. Unbeknownst to them, the liquid tiberium blast had other consequences. An alien species known as the Scrin had been waiting on the edge of our solar system for millennia for a signal to invade Earth: a liquid tiberium explosion. The Scrin landed in Red Zones and began deploying infantry, spacecraft and vehicles against any resistance they encountered. In Australia, Killian Qatar made a desperate alliance with GDI to fight off the new threat. During a major battle in Australia, Kane resurfaced, and was furious at Killian for allying herself with GDI and ordered her death. Killian was killed and Kane revealed his masterful plan.

The tacitus from the Second Tiberium War had contained information on a future alien invasion, and that the invasion would begin when a liquid tiberium explosion occurred. Kane saw this as an opportunity to invite a superior race to Earth - one with vast knowledge of tiberium. However, Kane and his scientists could not find a strong enough detonator to get the desired results. As a result, Kane started a war with GDI, knowing that they would retaliate with their ion cannon on his temple - the only force strong enough to detonate the bomb to gain the necessary explosion.

When the Scrin arrived on Earth they began to construct giant towers. When each of these towers was constructed, they would become an interstellar gateway to other galaxies and worlds. Also, on completion, they would become invulnerable to any attack. The towers housed vast information on tiberium.

After GDI fought off the initial Scrin attack, it noticed the towers for the first time. Knowing that whatever the towers do could not possibly be good, they launched co-ordinated attacks on every tower across the globe. Kane realised that at least one tower must live for this campaign to be successful and orders Nod's energy to be focused on defending one particular tower in southern Italy, near where tiberium first came to earth in the form of a meteorite. GDI assaults the tower with tremendous force but is held back by Nod and is eventually pushed from the area. All other towers across the globe were destroyed and the tower in southern Italy was the last one standing. Kane's plan, as a result, was a success.


[편집] Details of Nod philosophy

During the First Tiberium War the Brotherhood of Nod was widely regarded by its detractors and opponents to be a quasi-state, quasi-terrorist organization seeking to unite the third-world nations under a pseudo-religious political platform with imperialist tendencies. According to the group's own claim they were a religious Brotherhood of ancient origin which strived for a world of 'peace', 'unity' and 'eternal brotherhood' in which all the peoples of the world could 'face the struggles of life as one', and that human society's full embracement of the alien substance of Tiberium was the key to this revolution. In official statements, Nod specifically stated that it wished to unify the developing countries of the world that have been ignored, abused and neglected by the industrialized nations. Nod's modi operandi during the First Tiberium War however revealed it to be a highly-aggressive and popular neo-fascist, scientific eugenic, anti-west movement vying for total domination of the world's peoples and resources. In subsequent games, its nature evolved to ultimately become a radical techno-religious military order leading a crusade against GDI.

During the Second Tiberium War, Nod's religious viewpoints began to place a much larger emphasis on the concept of 'Divination', a process through which all followers of Kane were promised the means to embrace the 'Tiberian future of Humanity' and subsequently flourish in every imaginable aspect. At the end of the Second Tiberium War the true nature of the Brotherhood of Nod's 'Great Plan' would eventually reveal itself as the complete transformation of all carbon-based life on Earth to Tiberium-based life, through the launch and detonation of a world-altering Tiberium warhead within the planet's upper atmosphere.

[편집] Nod military doctrine

It is more important for us to employ intelligent combined-arms tactics than it is for GDI because it is the Pen that is mightier than the Sword. And we are both the Pen and the Sword when skilled modern armies are commanded by intelligent strategies brought upon by a true military strategist...

— Nod Commander Anton Slavik

The Brotherhood's military is centered around the concepts of stealth and speed, preferring outmaneuvering their enemies, maneuver warfare, guerrilla tactics and subterfuge.

The armory of the Brotherhood consists of fast light-armour units with average firepower that can outmaneuver any opponent, in addition to long-range weapons such as SSM launchers or large-caliber artillery, designed to rain immense punishment on targets from a safe distance.

However, the Brotherhood tends to avoid direct engagements, as their main battle units are significantly less powerful than their counterparts (their M2 Bradleys can only challenge GDI's M1 Abrams with the support of four or five of these units, for instance), preferring fast surprise attacks on vulnerable enemy infrastructure with recon bikes or stealth tanks, or long range bombardment with artillery and ballistic missiles.

Control the media, control the mind.

— CABAL

Another way in which Nod engages the enemy are media, for example when the Brotherhood managed to cripple GDI operations after triggering a massive scandal concerning the massacre of civilians in Białystok, Poland, supposedly committed by GDI soldiers. This scandal resulted in UN cutting off funding for the GDI. Another example of information warfare is when Nod operatives attacked the central base of the Forgotten posing as GDI forces, rallying mutants to Nod's cause by manipulating media reports.

[편집] Hierarchy and known branches

The highest religious and military leader of the Brotherhood has always been Kane himself, with directly beneath him his Chosen who form the Inner Circle of Nod.

An elite branch within the Brotherhood is a shadowy group known only as the "Black Hand", who constitute Nod loyalist specialists tasked with accomplishing the Brotherhood's most important objectives both in and out of war time. A direct connection between real-life historical events and the Black Hand exists as well -- on June 28, 1914, at Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a Serb nationalist belonging to a group called the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, an event often attributed with having triggered World War I. Coincidentally, the temple of the Brotherhood of Nod is found to reside in Sarajevo throughout all games in the Tiberian series, and, additionally, the leader of the Black Hand throughout the Second Tiberium War is a former freedom fighter of Serbian origin named Anton Slavik.

[편집] Technological level

Main article: Technology of the Brotherhood of Nod

In certain fields, the Brotherhood of Nod was portrayed as being technologically superior to the UNGDI, an organization backed by and effectively operated on behalf of the United Nations, and, more specifically, the G8 economically and technologically developed nations. It is not fully revealed how Nod achieved such a state of unique technological superiority, though it is implied to be in part because of their access to and study of Scrin technology, and their monopoly and monopsony on Tiberium, which provided them with vast amounts of wealth, both financially and scientifically. During the course of the series, the Brotherhood is revealed to have constructed, to own, and to operate many state-of-the-art research institutes, and to hire out research teams globally. Oftentimes, these institutes and related facilities are kept highly secret, and are hidden from academia and especially from national and international bioethics committees. It is revealed that routinely speculative and occasionally unsafe human experimentation, generally performed upon Nod volunteers, prisoners of war, and occupied civilian populations, is commonplace at Nod research facilities. Some technologies Nod has devoted particular attention to include: weaponisation of LASERs, directed energy weaponry, bioweapons, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, various theoretical possibilities for antigravity, stealth technologies such as light-bending electromagnetic fields, advanced and sustainable power generation, reprogenetics, cybernetics and its offshoot, brain-machine interfaces. Research into the last two has heavily stagnated however, given its bad experiences with CABAL in Tiberian Sun: Firestorm.

This is in addition to a great deal of research into Tiberium and alleged extraterrestrial technology, which was often though not necessarily crossed-over with the aforementioned fields for various purposes.

[편집] Biblical and Qur'anic references

Throughout the Command & Conquer series, Brotherhood of Nod loyalists of different generations alike have made allusions to Kane being none other than the Biblical or Qur'anic figure of Cain -- the first person in Earth's history to have committed murder according to the three Abrahamic scriptures. Cain and Abel were the two sons of Adam and Eve, born after the Fall of Man when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Abel worked as a shepherd, whereas Cain was a farmer.

One day, both brothers made offerings of their produce to God. Cain offered fruit and grain while Abel offered fat, fatlings or milk. For unspecified reasons, God favoured Abel's offering and rejects that of Cain. Blinded by his anger, Cain kills his brother. When God comes looking for Abel, he realizes that something is wrong. He seeks out Cain to ask him where his brother may be, to which Cain replied: "I know not; Am I my brother's keeper?" After God discovers what has happened, he curses Cain to wander the Earth forever, unable to die of old age. In his fear, Cain pleaded with God, who then placed a mark upon him. Because of this mark, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be upon them sevenfold. Cain then departs to wander the land. Early translations of the Hebrew text described these events, stating that Cain "departed to the land of Nod". Later on, Cain is mentioned as a father, naming the city of Enoch after his son.

While the Bible and the Qur'an both state that Cain killed Abel, another book named the Midrash told the story of a fight between them. Cain was the first to attack, however he was quickly overpowered by his stronger brother. Abel spared his brother's life and turned to leave, but Cain subsequently surprised his brother and murdered him in cold blood.

The mark of Cain is considered to be powerful in Christian and Islamic literature. God agreed that Cain could not be killed until he had seven generations of children. However, a Jewish Biblical commentator wrote that after seven generations Cain was killed by one of his own descendants, a man named Lamech. Whether this is true or not is unknown.

On a final note and in a rather direct correlation, the original manual for the first Command & Conquer game lists a quote by Kane, with the source cited as a file named "#GEN4:16". This is a reference to Genesis 4:16, which states "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden".

[편집] See also

  • Kane (Command & Conquer)
  • Cain and Abel
  • Land of Nod
  • Tiberium
  • Characters of the Brotherhood of Nod
  • Technology of the Brotherhood of Nod

[편집] External links

[편집] References

  1. Known Facts About the Brotherhood of Nod, PlanetCNC Encyclopedia
  2. 틀:Cite bookSuddenly, Kane bent over, pain slicing through his chest. Unsurprisingly, Brother Eamon was at his side in an instant. Turning around, he screamed at one of the other acolytes: "Summon a doctor immediately!" "No!" Kane said in a ragged voice, even as his hand clutched his chest tightly. "I am fine. it is the usual pain." Not for the first time, Kane cursed Michael McNeil and his persistence. Kane had his escape route well planned from the Cairo stronghold, but the thrice-damned soldier had found and impaled him. It had taken him years to recover from the wound.


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