사용자:Bjh13579/케인 (커맨드 앤 컨커)

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케인(Kane)은 웨스트우드 스튜디오에서 만든 전략 시뮬레이션 게임커맨드 앤 컨커의 세계관에 등장하는 비밀 집단인 노드 형제단의 지도자이다. Little is truly known about the man; many of his followers draw a direct connection between him and the Biblical or Qur'anic figure of Cain, which Kane does not go out of his way to confirm or deny. Considered a charismatic and brilliant sociopath by the outside world, Kane's followers as well as Kane himself instead see him as a holy figure, even going so far as to refer to him as the Messiah.

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There are those among his followers who place him to be thousands of years old, in holding true with the tradition of equating him with the figure of Cain — and as the man does not seem to age even though his known activities in our modern times span almost an entire century, there somehow appears to be a possibility of this being true.

Numerous Biblical and Qur'anic allusions to Kane's nature are known to exist. He uses names like Jacob and Cain as aliases, the Brotherhood of Nod's first stealth tank prototype was called "Ezekiel's Wheel" - presumably after the manner of angels witnessed by Ezekiel - and the name of "Nod" itself appears to allude to Cain's state of banishment after his killing of Abel; allegedly the first incident of murder in Earth's history according to the Abrahamic scriptures. Additionally, in the Soviet outro of Command & Conquer: Red Alert, one of Kane's followers cites the very passage from the Bible which describes how Cain settled in the Land of Nod. Perhaps most importantly, in the original Command & Conquer's Nod campaign, the player's superior initially is a man named Seth, the Biblical and Qur'anic Cain's second brother, who acts as Kane's right-hand man. As the player progresses through the campaign it becomes apparent that Kane begins to favour him over Seth, who subsequently becomes increasingly enraged with the player following each consecutive success. Seth then plots to have both Kane and the player removed by attempting to usurp Kane's position within the Brotherhood, while ordering the player on a suicidal invasion of the United States of America. Before this can occur, however, Kane shoots Seth in the head as he is briefing the player on the planned assault; his body is preserved in the Temple of Nod in Sarajevo as a "trophy" and a constant reminder to any who would plot against Kane. This "trophy" was seen in Command & Conquer: Renegade by a Global Defense Initiative commando who managed to infiltrate the Temple, and who would discover a coffin bearing the name of "Abel" along with the story of Cain and Abel written in Hebrew deep beneath the structure, which according to Kane marked the site of the Brotherhood's original Temple.

"We have waited centuries for this moment. The rivers will flow with the blood of those who oppose us."

This particular quote from Kane refers to a Global Net Interpol file designated #GEN 4:16. The reference appears to be also Biblical however, leading to the early days of the creation of Earth and mankind and more specifically to the 4th chapter and 16th paragraph of Genesis in the Old Testament, which reads:

"Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the Land of Nod, east of Eden."

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Kane's first canonical appearance was as an obscure counselor to Joseph Stalin during the Soviet invasion of Europe in the title of Command & Conquer: Red Alert, a story that is set almost half a century before the events of the original Command & Conquer game[1] which portrays the first war between the Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod. Kane apparently was the concealed and true power behind Joseph Stalin and thus the USSR, and seemed to have instigated the world war between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Allied nations in order to further Nod's mysterious long-term goals. This was done with the aid of a woman known as Nadia -- the head of the NKVD, Stalin's mistress and evidently a member of the Brotherhood herself as early as the 1950s. In Red Alert's alternative ending, the USSR's conquest of Europe was completed, which would swiftly result in Stalin's assassination at the hands of Nadia and her revealing the name of Kane as well as the existence of the Brotherhood of Nod to the player. Nadia then proceeded to reveal that Nod planned to continue to dwell in the shadows for several decades still, to openly emerge sometime "in the early 1990s". Kane however shoots her without provocation or warning upon these revelations, and closes with the foreboding words; "Comrade Chairman, I am the future". Kane apparently then disappears after the canonical ending of Red Alert for several decades.

His reappearance literally marked the beginning of a new age. Under his direction, the Brotherhood of Nod began to research the alien substance of Tiberium almost instantly after its arrival on Earth through a meteorite impact in the year 1995, stating that it had the potential to bring about the next stage in humanity's evolution. This guidance of Kane led Nod to gain a near monopoly on the world's rapidly increasing Tiberium deposits, as the Brotherhood's technologies for harvesting Tiberium were the only viable method of extracting the Tiberium crystals, giving them enormous amounts of capital in a relatively short period of time and causing Nod to pioneer unique Tiberium-based technology in virtually every field. 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 peace and prosperity through the embracement of Tiberium, 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 continue to escalate into one of the most brutal armed 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 complex 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.

Following the first Tiberium War a man known as Jannero Drake released a biased book named "Kane: False Prophet", which was dedicated to closely examining both the background and myth of Kane as well as debunking his claim and image as an immortal prophet. The author was soon silenced by Nod Fate Squad assassins, while the work was confiscated by GDI before its release and classified as eyes only by the organization's InOps division[2], which also proceeded to censor many of the work's excerpts, even for internal use by GDI's lower-ranking intelligence personnel.[2]

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 Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun 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. In the non-canonical ending for the Nod forces in Tiberian Sun however, Kane is seen to glow and disappear after the missile's successful launch, as if ascending in a transfiguration.

During the subsequent events portrayed in Tiberian Sun: Firestorm, an unholy alliance was formed between GDI and the remaining Nod forces to stop the rogue actions of Nod's advanced tactical and logistical AI system known as CABAL. After the final defeat of CABAL and his cyborg forces, the Nod ending shows Kane's dormant body hooked into the CABAL interface within the AI's 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. Suddenly only CABAL's voice can be heard, and the last words spoken by what is presumably the continued union of Kane and the AI are;

"Our directives must be reassessed."

At the advent of the third Tiberium War, seventeen years afterwards, Kane made his second re-appearance to the world, rallying waiting and prepared Nod forces everywhere anew and promptly initiating an overly aggressive attack on GDI by taking out their control center for space defenses and annihilating GDI's orbital command station "Philadelphia" with a nuclear missile. Although the massive surprise assault by the Brotherhood that followed was successful and Nod did at one point nearly achieve a complete victory over the reeling and disorganized Global Defense Initiative, GDI would nonetheless 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 lured and provoked GDI into attacking his main Temple in retaliation to the Brotherhood of Nod's brutal assault on GDI-protected cities across the world. The plot worked, as under the order of GDI 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 cataclysmic explosion across south-eastern Europe, claiming countless lives in the region. Soon after the detonation, the alien Scrin arrived on Earth in order to begin large-scale harvesting of the world's Tiberium deposits, violently assaulting all major cities on Earth to clear the way for these procedures. Kane's apparent purpose in bringing them to Earth was to gain access to their highly advanced technology, as he thought to use the monolithic "Threshold" towers the extraterrestrials constructed to bring him and his followers to "ascension". Nod loyalists would eventually manage to secure one of these gigantic structures under Kane's guidance, placing it under the Brotherhood's control. During the Scrin campaign in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, it is revealed that the alien species quickly became aware their premature awakening was a deliberate act by someone or something on Earth. After intercepting a transmission between Kane and the Nod commander (the player), they immediately focus their attention on Kane as a possible cause of this unprecedented incident, coming to the conclusion that the being of "Kane" somehow already exists in their data matrix, and more disturbingly, that the nature of Kane's genetic material is unrecognizable even to the ancient and vast knowledge of their spacefaring species.

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케인은 다음과 같은 커맨드 앤 컨커 시리즈에 출연했다.:

  • Command & Conquer
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
    • Firestorm (Expansion pack)
  • Command & Conquer: Renegade
  • 커맨드 앤 컨커 3: 타이베리움 워즈
    • Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (Announced expansion pack)
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars (Novel)

케인은 게임 동영상 감독인 조셉 D. 쿠칸이 연기했는데, 그는 커맨드 앤 컨커: 제너럴과 [[커맨드 앤 컨커 3Kane is portrayed by Joseph D. Kucan, who also directed the cutscenes in all C&C games with the exception of Command & Conquer: Generals and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Although he reprised his role as Kane in the latter game[1], the directing of the Tiberium Wars cutscenes was handled by cinematic director Richard Taylor.[3]

[편집] 참고

  1. Westwood Studios (1997-10-24). Westwood Studios Official Command & Conquer: Red Alert FAQ List. Westwood Studios. 2007년 4월 23일에 접속 확인.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kane's Dossier. EA Games, Command and Conquer 3 official website (2006-10-29). 2007년 1월 20일에 접속 확인.
  3. Bringing C&C To Life article, November 24 2006. <http://www.ea.com/commandandconquer/news.jsp?id=12>.

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  • Cain and Abel
  • Land of Nod
  • Brotherhood of Nod
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberian series

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