Who is Kane?

WHO IS KANE?

Kane is the charismatic leader of the brotherhood of Nod who is seemingly immortal because he reappears in multiple C&C games spanning over a century. Kane first appears in the original C&C, he is believed to be a genius and a tactical mastermind by the GDI. To his followers Kane represents something more complex, he is believed to be of religious importance, some followers of Nod believe him to be a messiah. Kane has an obsession with tiberium that is never explained untill later versions of C&C, but it provides the plot for many Nod mission and  GDI counter missions.

                                                                            KANE

In Command and Conquer "Tiberian Sun" and expansion "Firestorm" Kane begins to create tiberium based weapons, and experiment with advanced electronics and AI systems. This takes Nod units into a completely new direction; from realistic units (tanks, people, planes), to more sci-fi styled units (cyborgs, robots, invisible tanks). In the expansion for Tiberian sun, the cyborg / AI aspect of the game leads to the creation of a super robot / AI program called CABAL (Computer Assisted Biological Advanced Life-form). Kane is sure that Cabal is the next big thing for Nod but it proves to be too powerful. With GDI on their heels Nod was poised to win but Cabal turns on Nod and a costly battle is fought rendering Nod unable to destroy GDI.

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The question of Kane's mortality is brought into question immediately after the first command and conquer series durring a cinimatic video in Command and Conquer Red Alert. Red Alert takes place in the present day if time travel existed (just go play the game or read the next post or two), anyway point is at a meeting of top allied leaders Kane (dressed in an allied uniform) delivers a document to a general and gives a long somewhat surprised but also seemingly threatening glare at you the player. Fans were not sure why Kane was there; did Westwood just hire the same actor? as it turns out they didn't because in command and conquer 3 Kane's Wrath you find that every Kane you ever see is a clone of the original Kane! So every time his body is killed his memories download to a new one and out pops another Kane. Later in command and Conquer 4 you find out that you too are Kane!