1. #1Global Defence Initiative (GDI)

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   General information about GDI:

   Origin: Very little is known about GDI's history prior to the First Tiberium War, other than that its predecessor, known as "Special Operations Group Echo, Black Ops 9", was active prior to 1990. GDI itself was officially formed on October 12, 1995, in order to enforce the United Nations Global Defense Act and uphold the ideals of the UN Charter.

   The Global Defense Initiative (GDI) was a global peacekeeping force. It was founded in accordance with the United Nations Global Defense Act (UNGDA), on October 12, 1995. The GDI's initial goal was to preserve world order by combating global terrorism, epitomized by the Brotherhood of Nod.

   During the First Tiberium War, a global conflict between GDI and Nod over the alien substance Tiberium, GDI discovered that Tiberium was highly toxic to terrestrial life, but not before it had spread to the entire world due to its economic benefits. GDI eventually defeated Nod, destroying its headquarters in Sarajevo and apparently killing its leader, Kane. (This happened during the events of the Third Tiberium War, and triggered Scrin invasion) It then began the long process of evacuating civilians from the growing Tiberium contamination.

   In the decades that followed, GDI played a key role in combatting Nod, containing Tiberium, and evacuating civilians from Tiberium-contaminated areas. Over time, member nations gradually ceded power and sovereignty to GDI. By 2047, GDI had become a de facto political and military superstate.

2. #2First Tiberium War (GDI)

   Keys: First Tiberium War, tiberium war, GDI

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   During the First Tiberium War, GDI fought Nod forces on a multitude of fronts, led by American brigadier general Mark Jamison Sheppard. Eventually, Nod propaganda efforts painted GDI as being responsible for atrocities such as the slaughter of the entire population of Białystok, through a series of false news broadcasts recorded by Greg Burdette, which forced GDI to pull back from many territories which were then quickly taken over by Nod supporters. This culminated in the UN becoming forced to discontinue its public funding of GDI due to the fear of public backlash. Nod began assaulting GDI strongholds everywhere, believing that the organization had been severely weakened by these manipulative efforts.

   As it turned out, the UN had faked their financial withdrawal in an attempt to outwit Nod's leader Kane, a brilliant and charismatic man. The plan was successful, and Nod forces were greatly surprised to find the bases they were attacking were heavily fortified. Most attacks were complete victories for GDI. Fighting continued, however, until GDI operatives finally located Nod's main global headquarters, the so-called "Temple of Nod", just outside of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Temple was destroyed after the Nod compound was besieged, Kane was pronounced dead, and Nod was crippled, effectively ending the First Tiberium War.

   During this time, GDI protected leading Tiberium researchers like Dr. Ignatio Mobius and his daughter Dr. Sydney Mobius, whose efforts have proven invaluable in GDI's and the public's understanding of Tiberium, its capabilities, and hazards.

3. #3Second Tiberium War (GDI)

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   With the destruction of the Brotherhood's Sarajevo Temple, a period of relative peace dawned, allowing GDI to focus on researching Tiberium. However, GDI forces never recovered Kane's body, which incited tabloid headlines and rumors of the continued underground existence of the Brotherhood. Secretly, GDI had a mole within the Brotherhood - general Hassan. Despite this, on 2 September 2030, GDI bases around the world found themselves under heavy fire from Nod units. Aboard the GDSS Philadelphia, GDI's space station that was used as a global command center, GDI's top brass was surprised by the attacks. Shortly after their internal systems noted hotspots in numerous locations around the world, their communication equipment was hacked by Nod in order for Kane to reveal himself to be alive, thereby declaring his return to the global political and military scene. General James Solomon assigned field commander Michael McNeil the task of leading the efforts of retaliation and later counter-attacking Nod, thus initiating the Second Tiberium War.

   GDI then first made use of new technologies such as mechanized walkers like Wolverines and Titans, drop pods, and sonic weaponry implemented in disruptors. While locations like Phoenix Base were targets of minor attacks, the compound in Hammerfest was entirely captured by Nod, but was quickly retaken.

   During the course of the war, GDI became affiliated with the society of Tiberium-mutated humans known as the Forgotten by making contact with their elite soldier Umagon on a faked Scrin ship. GDI took out Nod's Divination project facility as they rescued the Forgotten leader Tratos and, with their help, destroyed Nod's chemical missile plant and Banshee prototype facility.

   In the final battle in Cairo, having defeated the Nod defenses around the Nod pyramid, McNeil personally entered the pyramid itself and faced off with Kane, impaling him with a steel beam, and rescuing Umagon who was a hostage there. GDI subsequently secured the mysterious Tacitus device, which held information on Tiberium that they had lacked, among else.

4. #4Firestorm Conflict (GDI)

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   Shortly after Kane's second "death", it was revealed that the vaccine which Tratos had developed and had administered to his kin Umagon proved to be ineffective in curing or even halting Tiberium mutations within a human being. Meanwhile, Tiberium infestation increasingly continued to threaten the future and the very survival of humanity on Earth. GDI thus began to focus the majority of its resources and efforts into unlocking the secrets of the Tacitus while defending themselves against the remainder of Nod forces. Tratos, however, was assassinated by the Brotherhood.

   A massive ion storm crashed the GDI command ship, the Kodiak, while it was transporting the Tacitus, and cut off their link with the GDSS Philadelphia, so ground control of reachable GDI forces was assumed by the Southern Cross base led by general Paul Cortez.

   This left GDI with no alternative other than to attempt to capture the Brotherhood's artificial intelligence unit named CABAL, which was rumored to be able to decode all the information contained within the Tacitus device by means similar to those of Tratos. Anton Slavik, who led what was left of the Brotherhood's armed forces after the conclusion of the Second Tiberium War, was also working on reactivating CABAL in order to regain their logistical and tactical advantages, and more importantly to prevent the Brotherhood of Nod from fracturing into splinter groups again as it had done so after the conclusion of the First Tiberium War. GDI was able to capture and reactivate CABAL, forcing Nod to steal and reprogram an existing GDI EVA unit.

   When GDI recovered the final piece of the Tacitus, however, CABAL suddenly turned on both GDI and Nod in a move that would reveal itself to be part of an independent and premeditated plan of the AI itself. CABAL's increasing threat eventually led to an uneasy alliance between GDI and Nod, with both armies destroying two fronts of CABAL's cyborg production and resource gathering facilities. Their missions were a success, with GDI and Nod mounting a final assault on the renegade artificial intelligence's system core.

   With all pieces of the Tacitus recovered, its segments merged together, and GDI managed to recover a large amount of data from the alien device.[6] Despite Dr. Gabriella Boudreau's breakthrough in the early 2030s, however, GDI's progress in interfacing with the Tacitus continued to be slow.

5. #5Interbellum period (GDI)

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   After the Firestorm Conflict, with the Brotherhood apparently defeated and splintered once again, GDI's priority shifted from war to Tiberium containment, ecological recovery, space research, and economic prosperity. This new focus resulted in a decline in GDI's military capabilities, leading to worldwide closure of GDI bases. It also led to the retirement of several military technologies, including walkers, HoverTech, and drones, due to cost and reliability concerns.

   Several military officials were unsatisfied with how the majority of GDI's R&D budget was shifted toward Tiberium control, most notably General Joshua Mitchell, a decorated veteran of Second Tiberium War, who campaigned for increased research spending for new combat technology. Mitchell argued that while Nod may have been defeated, it would be foolish to assume that no successor would take its place. After a lengthy, volatile hearing, GDI agreed to fund a new experimental combat technology division under Mitchell. Dubbed the 'Steel Talons' by Mitchell's admirers, this elite, unconventional combat battalion quickly rose to prominence in the splinter faction skirmishes that followed Nod's implosion, becoming known both for their ruthless efficiency on the battlefield and for the shroud of secrecy they maintained at all other times.

   The focus on Tiberium abatement yielded new ways to combat the alien substance. GDI engineers discovered the resonant frequency of Tiberium, and developed Sonic Resonators capable of breaking down Tiberium crystals. In order to assist in Tiberium abatement operations, GDI created a new branch of the military, Zone Operations Command, dedicated solely to operating within areas of high Tiberium infestation. These efforts allowed GDI to turn back the tide of Tiberium growth, one notable example of GDI's victory in the war against Tiberium is New Eden, the first Blue Zone to be reclaimed from a Yellow Zone.

   Before the onset of the Third Tiberium War, the pristine and uncontaminated Blue Zones, which consisted of 20% of the Earth's surface, were under the protection and direct control of the GDI. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood operated unchallenged within the Yellow Zones, which consisted of 50% of the world's surface and contained the majority of the world's population. These regions were devastated by Tiberium contamination, as well as decades of war and civil unrest. Red Zones, which consisted of 30% of the planet, suffered the worst contamination, and could not support human life.

   Over time, power and sovereignty have been gradually ceded to GDI and the national identities of the participating countries have faded. This process has reached its final stages by 2047: while there are still technically individual member nations, the reality is that GDI has become a unified political and military super-state.

6. #6Third Tiberium War (GDI)

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   However, this period of peace was short lived, as Nod's breakup was a mere illusion. The Brotherhood of Nod struck quickly, infiltrating the Goddard Space Center and disabling GDI's A-SAT (Anti-Satellite) defense systems, responsible for defending GDI's space operations from hostile attacks. Nod then launched a nuclear missile at the Philadelphia while GDI's leaders were in council aboard the space station, critically damaging GDI's command structure and causing widespread chaos. Meanwhile Nod forces launched a coordinated strike against GDI-controlled blue zones worldwide. GDI repelled Nod from the blue zones after several days of intense fighting, and launched a counter-attack upon what was thought to be a Nod chemical weapons facility in Egypt. It was quickly revealed that this facility was researching and developing a liquid Tiberium bomb. GDI crippled Nod's nuclear capabilities in Cairo before proceeding to Sarajevo and using an ion cannon on the Brotherhood's Temple Prime in Sarajevo by order of acting GDI director Redmond Boyle, against the warnings of General Jack Granger.

   The ion cannon hit a liquid Tiberium deposit beneath Temple Prime, vaporizing it and causing a large chain reaction that wiped out what remained of Sarajevo and the surrounding regions, while at the same time spreading deadly Tiberium fallout all over the yellow zones of Eastern Europe. The resulting death toll was catastrophic.

   Just as GDI thought it had won the war, alien invaders known as the Scrin, apparently attracted by the liquid Tiberium explosion, arrived and wrought havoc upon GDI and Nod alike. GDI deep space scans picked the Scrin up even before they arrived, and in a state of panic Redmond Boyle rashly ordered the entire southern hemisphere's network of Ion Cannons to be activated and unleashed on the aliens. This only served to send 39 drone ships crashing throughout the world.

   Upon landing, the aliens quickly began striking at blue zones all over the globe with deadly precision. GDI forces scrambled to put up an effective resistance, but after their battles with Nod were spread very thin. After repelling the invaders from several of their blue zones, GDI discovered the invaders' seemingly random attacks were just a distraction from the massive, monolithic towers that were being constructed for an unknown purpose and systematically destroyed them. Unbeknownst to GDI, Kane resurfaced once more to end an inner power struggle with Kilian Qatar and sought to control one of the threshold towers in an effort to learn more about Tiberium and the alien's technology. As the war ended, only one tower, Threshold 19, survived the conflict, having been protected from attack until it was completed and became invulnerable to GDI attacks.

   GDI stopped the invasion and planned to keep the remaining tower, which ended under Nod control, supposedly inactive and harmless. A number of Scrin invaders were forced to flee for the time being. It is unknown whether or not the first Scrin incursion was a full invasion or something else.

7. #7Tiberium (Post-TW3)

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   While Tiberium as an entity has a long history of its presence on Earth, in current timeline (post-TW3, after defeating Scrin invaders) only crystal form of Tiberium matters.

   Relevant information about Tiberium's current form: The most recent form of Tiberium is a dense "dynamic proton lattice" held together by exotic heavy particles. When Tiberium comes into contact with other matter, the heavy particles randomly collide with the nuclei of the target matter, smashing it to pieces (in the case of smaller nuclei) or incrementally knocking off protons or neutrons (in the case of heavier nuclei). Tiberium captures a fraction of the protons that are ejected during this collision process and incorporates them into its own structure, thus transmuting matter into more Tiberium. Whenever one of the heavy particles - a muon or tauon - collides with an atomic nucleus, fission occurs, which results in the production of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation as well as other forms of electromagnetic radiation (like infra-red). During the transmutation process, nuclei that Tiberium has come into contact with may be changed into nuclei with different (usually fewer) numbers of protons or neutrons.

   Tiberium is used as a resource, energy source and weapon by major factions, due to its characteristics: it absorbs materials from the ground, it emits powerful radiation that can be (utilizing technologies of the game universe) harvested for energy and its weaponization is highly effective due to Tiberium's destructive nature.

   Environmental impact of Tiberium: The rapidity at which Tiberium spreads, coupled with its devastating effects on Earth's ecosystem, made it the deadliest environmental hazard humanity has ever encountered.

   Tiberium converts any matter it comes in contact with into more Tiberium, while giving off poweful radiation. Prolonged exposure to the crystal is fatal to any living being, except mutants that were created by said exposure. While unable to convert atmosphere awhole, Tiberium does convert air and water in said air into Tiberium, and thus creates a cloud of "crystal steam" full of its crystals around itself given enough time - meaning that close proximity to Tiberium fields is just as dangerous as direct contact with crystal veins.

   Tiberium types

   Riparius: baseline crystal, green, glowing, basic level of collected minerals and elements. Stable.

   Vinifera: advanced form of crystal, rare, neon-blue, glowing, massively greater level of collected minerals and elements than Riparius. Unstable and highly reactive, adequate levels of agitation (damage) can detonate the crystal and create a chain reaction. Extremely dangerous when handling and processing.

   Cruentus: extremely advanced (exotic, nearly impossible to find) unstable form of crystal, extremely rare, red, glowing, greater level of minerals and elements than Vinifera. Impossible to handle and process without advanced alien (Scrinn) technologies. Much more dangerous when detonated than Vinifera.

8. #8Tiberium Exposure

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   What happens if you're exposed to Tiberium? Nothing good. If you come into direct contact with Tiberium, the green matter will start to fuse with your skin within about 20 seconds. You'll feel an intense burning sensation, similar to touching a hot pan or spilling acid on your skin. A full blown infection will manifest if you aren't treated immediately. Your flesh will begin to take on a glassy-greenish appearance as it begins to crystallize; eventually your internal organs will shut down as Tiberium extends rigid crystalline runners throughout your body. If you breathe in the crystal, then it will become embedded in your lungs. You'll lose the ability to process oxygen as your lung tissue crystallizes. Eventually you'll start coughing up blood and will hemorrhage to death.

   In some cases - and for unknown reasons - Tiberium infection will trigger cellular mutation. It's not cancer in that the mutations seem strangely directed; they don't kill you, but your body will begin to transform. The mechanism for this situation is not well understood.

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