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MARKED OF KANE
AdvertisementBack Story: Since the First Tiberium War drew to a close, pervasive and disturbing rumours have emerged from the Tiberium wastelands of Central Asia and the Russian Steppes. Nomadic travellers and Nod separatist colonies alike have shared tales of Nod bunkers hidden deep beneath the earth, laboratories where cultish techno-fetishists perform horrific rituals upon on the corpses of the Brotherhood's fallen - the goal, nothing less than raising the dead.
Needless to say, Nod has and continues to deny all knowledge of any such acts, and indeed most within the Brotherhood believe these tales to be little more than the mutterings of frightened outcasts. The truth, however, is far stranger. In the aftermath of his first defeat at the hands of GDI, Kane spent long days pondering how it was that Nod had been defeated. In the end, he reached a unique hypothesis - simply put, the essential humanity of his soldiers had been their very undoing. Thus, the Prophet concluded, to achieve victory he would require an army devoid of free will, of love, hate, fear and regret, of both conscience and consciousness, a legion that would willingly and unquestioningly obey his every command.
To that end, Kane initiated the development of what would come to be known as the Marked of Kane - an army of emotionless, endlessly malleable cybernetic warriors that would do his bidding without question. Knowing that such research would cause dissension within the ranks of his existing army, the Prophet sequestered this work in the hinterlands of Russia and China, where few would stumble across the project and even fewer would be believed if they shared that discovery.
The going was long and arduous, and outside a few promising developments - the most notable being the renegade cyborg armies of CABAL - far from successful. Eventually, as the Second Tiberium War drew to a close, the Marked of Kane finally neared completion. However, it was too late to save Nod and the Marked of Kane were left to slumber deep beneath the Earth, awaiting their master's call...
....a call that may soon be answered.
Combat Style: The Marked of Kane balance finesse with massive, near overwhelming force, eschewing the hit and run tactics common to Nod in favour of substantial raids capable of devastating even the strongest encampment. With a preference for both heavy arms - their most basic infantry are comparable to the elite forces of their enemies - and carefully targeted EMP and Tiberium attacks, these cyborg warriors are as judicious in their tactics as they are terrifying in appearance.
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath is due out for PC and Xbox 360 on 28 March 2008
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