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What would it be like to see the world collapse around you?
To see your entire civilization, your history, your future, threatened with destruction?
To see tangible evil in the flesh?
As the planet is consumed by a mysterious plague, as the world economy crumbles, as a fanatical army closes its fist around the globe, what would you do?
Would you cower? Would you speak? Would you fight?
To serve as part of the Global Defense Initiative is to have the answers to these questions. Surrounded by the chaos of a changing world, faced with the maniacal evil which is tearing it apart, the soldiers of GDI know that there is only one option: to fight. They will fight to guard the dignity and freedom of every person around the globe. They will fight to stop a madman from naming himself dictator of humankind. They will fight to prevent all of human history from being undone.
Some fight for valor and honor. Some fight for the memories of their forefathers. Most fight for their loved ones. To prevent the tyrannical rule of Nod from overtaking their homes, each and every one of the men and women serving GDI will give their all. They will stand up on the front lines of a war unlike any before in history.
This is not a war between nations. This is a war between ideologies, between civilizations. This is a war for the ages, one which will decide the fate of not just the western world, but the fate of mankind itself. For GDI, it is victory or death, and the soldiers serving under the golden eagle will be damned if they let the latter come to pass.
The Global Defense Initiative is probably the more easy to understand of the two factions in Tiberian Dawn. It’s an organization built on a simple premise: defend the free people of the world from tyranny and safeguard them from terrorism. Their military strategy is purely conventional, following the tactics of modern-day professional armies.
What is perhaps less easy to understand is how GDI would function in the real world. As cast in the original C&C, they were very much “the good guys”—their actions were always wholesome and easily justifiable—as though we were meant to identify with them. In this day and age, however, a world-spanning military-grade police force is something many would find hard to stomach. This is one of the concepts that will be explored in Tiberian Dawn. How does the world truly view GDI? Does it view them as protectors? As invaders?
And what of the people who make up the organization’s ranks? Drawn from all corners of the world, from every nation in the UN, how do they coordinate? How do they communicate? What is their chain of command? Do they quarrel amongst themselves? Do they discriminate? How is it that so many individuals, each from different social classes, speaking different languages, and with their own traditions and beliefs, fight as a unified force?
Perhaps there is something that shatters all of these barriers. Perhaps fighting for something more than oneself inspires a sense of bravery that crosses all boundaries of race and language. It is this feeling of camaraderie that allows the men and women of GDI to don their uniforms and fight together. Despite the bureaucratic nonsense behind their actions, despite the vicious media, despite the world itself crumbling around them, their common valor will keep them standing together.
[Credit and thanks go to the magnificent Godwin for the piece featured in this update. He did not create it specifically for Tiberian Dawn, but he was generous enough to allow us to use it.]
-General Aurum
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