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Following on from the Confidential Top Secret Tiberian Sun Dossier we posted near the end of April. We have some more recovered materiel. Watch the video above from the

, Where Kane says "Discovered by the Brotherhood, and I named it after Tiberius Drusus Caesar", have you ever wondered what Kane really meant? The answer has been found in the form of these recovered parchments.

 

:cnc: Kane's Tiberium Parchment | Part One

:cnc: Kane's Tiberium Parchment | Part Two

 

Once again, where these documents come from is not important right now. Read it, share it and give us your feedback about it.

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I doubt the source is official, but if it's an introduction to a mod, my attention is caught ^_^

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At first it looked like its a map to the secrets of Monkey Island...

 

I kinda wonder how much people in the future are goint to write on paper, much less parchment. Aside from that its a nice read :)

 

But its kinda weird if Tratos came up with the name Tacitus - didnt Nod have it long before the events of TS?

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Stygs, some of us like to write on paper even with word processors and even voice typing software. Penmanship is an art.

I got this cool parchment like notebook (The Order: 1886 Press Kit Edition) with an ink pen, and it's really fun to slowly write things in it.

To each his own, and all that.

 

What do you mean by "But its kinda weird if Tratos came up with the name Tacitus - didnt Nod have it long before the events of TS?"?

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AFAIK, Nod created the Scrin ship in TS using data from the Tacitus.

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I read "Tiberium pavement" and immediately assumed that this was about some sort of special Tiberium-based version of the Tiberian Sun concrete developed by Kane. :D

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AFAIK, Nod created the Scrin ship in TS using data from the Tacitus.

Indeed. Before the Sarajevo mission, Kanes mentions that General Vega is supporting you from north and that there is something hidden beneath the temple that GDI should not find.

After you secure the ruins of the temple, the Montauk moves to an underground hangar and Kanes mentions that the ship there was build during the first war (and shows a short video of vehicles driving around the ship in its hangar).

But once the Montauk enters the hangar its empty and the ship is gone. After that you spend the next mission finding Vega and the ship (and the Tacitus which is on the ship).

 

The only explanation seems to be that the ship was build by Nod and hidden beneath Sarajevo when Nod lost the war.

And since Kane said that the Tacitus told him about "invulnerable flying ships" and the Scrin ship surived its crash without a scratch, its imho pretty clear referenz to this ship.

 

Which in turn means that Nod had the Tacitus during TD, so I would assume it would have a name by then.

 

 

@ Cypher

True, but I cant imagine Kane writing his secrets on a piece of parchement just for the pure joy of it.

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We also don't know what Tratos's backstory is. He seems to be at least 50 or older, so for all that we know, he could have known of the Tacitus during C&C1.

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We also don't know what Tratos's backstory is. He seems to be at least 50 or older, so for all that we know, he could have known of the Tacitus during C&C1.

I like to believe that Tratos is infact a tiberium mutated Dr.Mobious. Remember that Mobious held great knowledge about tiberium. In any case it was Tratos who helped Kane translate the Tacitus and if that ship was built during the first tiberium war then Tratos would have been around by then.

 

Also, isn't Dr.Mobious kidnapped by Nod in Renegade? Maybe he helped translate the Tacitus during his kidnapping and then sometime after the war he was in an accident and got mutated. In any case Mobious helped Nod scientists with their tiberium experiments during his kidnapping.

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I like to believe that Tratos is infact a tiberium mutated Dr.Mobious. Remember that Mobious held great knowledge about tiberium. In any case it was Tratos who helped Kane translate the Tacitus and if that ship was built during the first tiberium war then Tratos would have been around by then.

That idea is pretty rad.

 

Also, isn't Dr.Mobious kidnapped by Nod in Renegade? Maybe he helped translate the Tacitus during his kidnapping and then sometime after the war he was in an accident and got mutated. In any case Mobious helped Nod scientists with their tiberium experiments during his kidnapping.

He was indeed. Also, when I played that mission, he ate a whole bunch of Tiberium ammo clips, so I wouldn't be surprised of he became a mutant later.

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Tratos is not Mobius.

 

And I still don't see the problem.

 

Yes, Tratos was with Kane during WWI. He helped translate the Tacitus. And, according to this thing, also name it. So, why not? Where's the conflict?

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There isnt a major conflict here - I just allways assumed that Nod (or rather Kane) had the Tacitus long before the events of TD and thats why Kane knew so much about Tiberium. But that would imply he could at least read some parts and then he had probably made up his own name for the device.

 

But that whole discussion raised a couple other questions:

If Nod burried the ship and the Tacitus, how did Tratos manage to survive TD and the next 30 years? Kane seems the kind of guy that would rather kill all his scientist then risking GDI finding the Tacitus.

And why did Tratos keep this to himself instead of tellig GDI about it? His distrust makes sense during TS as there is a lot of tention between GDI & Mutants, but if he knew the secrets of the Tacitus/Tiberium, he could have saved the world if he told GDI in the TD aftermatch. Kinda makes him look an douche.

Also: Isnt it weird that the scrin ship is never mentioned again during TS? The cinematics depict it as invulnerable, so it might stil be around during TW, hidden is some secret GDI base.

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Well, first of all, don't forget the UFO from Renegade. That might just be what brought the Tacitus to Earth in the first place, and part of the design specs for Kane's Scrin ship.

 

Kane wouldn't necessarily kill off all his scientists. Also, he's not infallible.

 

There's a difference between helping to translate the thing and knowing all it's secrets.

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Kane wouldn't necessarily kill off all his scientists. Also, he's not infallible.

In C&C1 and TS, Kane definitely wasn't infallible. In C&C1, GDI ultimately managed to beat him at his own game, manipulating the media

 

In C&C3, he very much became a Mary Sue character. Whatever everybody else did, it was either part of Kane's plan all along or he wasn't bothered by it because he had a contingency plan.

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I daresay that the description of Tratos from this document makes a fair bit of sense. A lot of what is in this document didn't make it into the final game, but it is a great read for hardcore TS fans. :)

 

The gist is that Tratos used to be an archaeologist in Nod's employ who refused Kane's plans after he found out the truth behind Tiberium Divination. Between leaving Nod and the start of Tiberian Sun, he underwent Tiberium-based mutations that turned him into the wise leader of the Forgotten.

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Well, not sure the Tiberium mutations made him wise, but yeah :D

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I daresay that the description of Tratos from this document makes a fair bit of sense. A lot of what is in this document didn't make it into the final game, but it is a great read for hardcore TS fans. :)

 

The gist is that Tratos used to be an archaeologist in Nod's employ who refused Kane's plans after he found out the truth behind Tiberium Divination. Between leaving Nod and the start of Tiberian Sun, he underwent Tiberium-based mutations that turned him into the wise leader of the Forgotten.

Oh! Wasn't aware of that document. Is it an offical document from Westwood?

 

e: but it's completly unreadable. Anyone have a readable version?

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Oh! Wasn't aware of that document. Is it an offical document from Westwood?

Yes. Made in 1998, which makes it mostly non-canon, as much of the information was changed in TS itself.

e: but it's completly unreadable. Anyone have a readable version?

It was alright recently, but I see no changes in the file history since the original upload.

 

I've reuploaded it from my own copy, should be fixed now.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/cnc/images/3/3e/CNCTS_STORYBIBLEDOC.pdf/revision/latest?cb=20160512163713

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Yeah, that's not really anything official, the bible.
It's an iteration of something written internally at Westwood, but never reviewed and canonized.

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It's an official file, since it originated from Westwood. Lack of canonicity doesn't make it any less official in that respect.

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Well, no, not exactly.

Cause it was never released nor, actually used. Call it an official draft.

Definitely an interesting read. However, it's part of a larger Bible that was written at Westwood at the time, which contained more information, including even some RA bits.

Mostly based on what I wrote for the PCNC Canon. But, according to a few Westwood guys, there were some creative conflicts on that matter.

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Yeah, that's not really anything official, the bible.

It's an iteration of something written internally at Westwood, but never reviewed and canonized.

 

Still, it's more developed story than shown in the game.

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