Divination

[Meyerm]

I know Nod's Divination research was meant to create the perfect tiberium mutated human, and evolve humanity into a perfect tiberium-based race. But besides the WAM Kane tried to launch, what were actual products of Divination research? The earlier Project Regenesis resulted in three types of mutants as well as two specific cases, but did Divination yield similar results. I think Nod's mutant hijacker may be a result of the Divination project, but since I only remember seeing it in multiplayer and skirmish as a Nod unit and it appearing as a unique Forgotten unit in campaign, I'm unsure if the NOD mutant hijacker is even canaon. Also, what did Kane do/try to do to Umagon when he captured her?

[Plasticz]

I too fail to understand why one minute Kane is encouraging Tiberium Growth and the next minute he's trying to stop it.

An arguement could be that he was trying to get it to a very serious situation so he could step in and become the "saviour" of humanity, but that doesn't explain why he embraced Tiberium like he did...

[Meyerm]

That didn't really answer my question at all. You only said something about Tiberian Twilight's storyline which I have no wish to get into here.

[Plasticz]

I was agreeing with you, I don't know the answer to your question.

[Cypher[CS]]

Divination and Project Regenesis are two parts of the same goal.

Project Regensis began the aggressive testing in mutations, while Divination is just a myth spread by Nod so that people accept the mutations as something good, instead of evil.

Kane's goal, obviously, was to create a strain of humans that could withstand the Tiberium world - and for that, he needed humanity to embrace the inevitable.

[Meyerm]

So there were no actual in-game porducts of the Divination project? As in no Nod infantry that became advanced artificially created mutants.

[underlu]

Divination is more like a propaganda term than a project name. Ghost Stalker and Mutant Hijacker are supposedly 2 certain heroes from the Forgotten faction, but somehow they split to join the two sides, in campaign they are always friends, I think it's of skirmish concern so each side has 2 super units.

In CCR Kane asked the mutated Patrova "How does it feel, to be divine?", this may have implied Divination and the effects of Project Regenesis are pretty much the same thing.

Kane injected Umagon some catalyst to accelerate her mutation, that could be inferred from the line "while you still have human eyes", and later in the FS opening her status lost control.

Besides, I think later a new word "Ascension" was introduced to keep the people fooled, they shared something similar, though this time it's more meant for the normal people instead of the mutated, it kidda changed the whole purpose and ideology of Kane and the Brotherhood, especially when at the end of TT it revealed to be mere an escape plan... However the Tiberium Infusion upgrade for foot soldiers could be see as one of the fruits from previous researches.

[Meyerm]

So if Divination is just propaganda to make people think Tiberium mutation is mankind's destiny, why was Nod seemingly anti-forgotten in the TS Nod campaign? Oxanna (or however it's spelled) said "mutants" in a very resentful way, and Cabal even called Umagon "the abomination."

[underlu]

That's the essence of propaganda lol, to tell what you want people to believe, not what you really believe. You can see the difference when Oxanna in on TV to persuade mutants to take on GDI.

After all, mutant are kinda the failed product of Nod's human bio experiments.

[Meyerm]

But they did seem to truely believe Tiberium was the answer, and not just trying to screw everyone with a tiberium-related death. Most Forgotten mutants seem to have been accidentallly mutated through surviving tiberium exposure. Maybe these "natural" mutations aren't as pure as the carefully controlled mutations Nod performs?