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凯恩之印赛博格部队的背景

随着第一次泰伯利亚战争接近尾声，在中亚和俄罗斯大草原的泰伯利亚荒地上开始普遍出现令人不安的谣言。流浪旅行者和Nod分离主义聚居区都流传着关于Nod地堡的传说，这些地堡隐藏在地底深处——在实验室里，狂热的科技拜物教者在兄弟会阵亡的尸体上进行可怕的仪式——目的?无非是让死人复活。

不用说，Nod一直否认对任何此类行为知情，甚至兄弟会内部的人也相信这些死灵传说只不过是被吓坏的流浪者的咕哝而已。然而，事实却离奇得多。在他第一次败在GDI手里之后，凯恩花了很长时间思考Nod是如何被打败的。最终，他提出了一个独特的假设——他的士兵的人性是他们失败的原因。因此，先知总结说，为了取得胜利，他需要一支没有自由意志的军队——没有爱、仇恨、恐惧和悔恨，良心和意识，一个愿意无条件服从他每一个命令的军队。

为了那个目的，凯恩启动了对一支没有感情，无限可塑性，无条件服从命令的赛博格战士的研发。先知知道这样的研究将在他现有的军队中引起分歧，他把这项工作藏在俄罗斯和中国的内陆地区，在那里很少有人发现这个项目，如果他们分享这样的传说，就更少人相信了。

这条道路漫长而艰辛，除了一些有希望的发展——最值得注意的CABAL的半机械人军队——还远未成功。最后，随着第二次泰伯利亚战争接近尾声，凯恩之印终于接近完成。然而，拯救Nod已经太迟了，凯恩之印被留在地下沉睡，等待他们主人的召唤…

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