Background on Nod Marked of Kane Cyborg Cult

As the First Tiberium War drew to a close, pervasive and disturbing rumors began to emerge from the Tiberium wastelands of Central Asia and the Russian Steppes. Nomadic travelers 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 the corpses of the Brotherhood's fallen - the goal? Nothing less than raising the dead.

Needless to say, Nod has continually denied all knowledge of any such acts, and even those within the Brotherhood believe these Necromantic 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. Ultimately, he formulated a unique hypothesis - the humanity of his soldiers had been their 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 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 such tales.

The path was long and arduous, and outside of a few promising developments - the most notable being the 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...

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Nod凱恩之印賽博格部隊(duì)的背景

隨著第一次泰伯利亞戰(zhàn)爭接近尾聲，在中亞和俄羅斯大草原的泰伯利亞荒地上開始普遍出現(xiàn)令人不安的謠言。流浪旅行者和Nod分離主義聚居區(qū)都流傳著關(guān)于Nod地堡的傳說，這些地堡隱藏在地底深處——在實(shí)驗(yàn)室里，狂熱的科技拜物教者在兄弟會(huì)陣亡的尸體上進(jìn)行可怕的儀式——目的?無非是讓死人復(fù)活。

不用說，Nod一直否認(rèn)對任何此類行為知情，甚至兄弟會(huì)內(nèi)部的人也相信這些死靈傳說只不過是被嚇壞的流浪者的咕噥而已。然而，事實(shí)卻離奇得多。在他第一次敗在GDI手里之后，凱恩花了很長時(shí)間思考Nod是如何被打敗的。最終，他提出了一個(gè)獨(dú)特的假設(shè)——他的士兵的人性是他們失敗的原因。因此，先知總結(jié)說，為了取得勝利，他需要一支沒有自由意志的軍隊(duì)——沒有愛、仇恨、恐懼和悔恨，良心和意識，一個(gè)愿意無條件服從他每一個(gè)命令的軍隊(duì)。

為了那個(gè)目的，凱恩啟動(dòng)了對一支沒有感情，無限可塑性，無條件服從命令的賽博格戰(zhàn)士的研發(fā)。先知知道這樣的研究將在他現(xiàn)有的軍隊(duì)中引起分歧，他把這項(xiàng)工作藏在俄羅斯和中國的內(nèi)陸地區(qū)，在那里很少有人發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)項(xiàng)目，如果他們分享這樣的傳說，就更少人相信了。

這條道路漫長而艱辛，除了一些有希望的發(fā)展——最值得注意的CABAL的半機(jī)械人軍隊(duì)——還遠(yuǎn)未成功。最后，隨著第二次泰伯利亞戰(zhàn)爭接近尾聲，凱恩之印終于接近完成。然而，拯救Nod已經(jīng)太遲了，凱恩之印被留在地下沉睡，等待他們主人的召喚…

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