First Tiberium War

The First Tiberium War occurred in the 1990s and ended in a GDI victory.

Origins
The advent of two things, Tiberium, and the Brotherhood of Nod, caused the First Tiberium War to occur. Tiberium granted two relatively new organizations, GDI and Nod, to acquire a huge amount of wealth quickly, allowing their rise to power and prominance. And the Brotherhood of Nod gave GDI an opponent. For more information please see the respective links.

During the First Tiberium War, Kane's goal was to conquer the world and reshape it, as well as the complete destruction of GDI. Kane attempted to accomplish this goal by using Netwarriors to hack into the GDI networks, and then use the Ion Cannon to destroy a major monument, thus bringing GDI's mandate into question, and leaving the world free for Nod's continued rise to power

GDI wished to protect innocent life, both from the ravages of Tiberium and from the Brotherhood of Nod. They therefore began a campaign to eliminate Nod from the World.

Opening Moves
Nod quickly made a move to seize most of the world's Tiberium assets. At its peak, Nod held close to 49 percent of the world's Tiberium assets. With this much Tiberium at his disposal, Kane, the leader of the Brotherhood, made a crucial decision. He would no longer fight from the shadows, engaging GDI with terrorism tactics. Although he had been extremely successful in utilizing terrorist tactics, he decided the time was right to construct fixed bases and engage the GDI in open combat. The First Tiberium War was the result.

The War Begins
A man named Nikoomba stood in Nod's way in Africa, having vocally protested Nod's policies. Seth, a Commander in the Brotherhood, acting on the orders of Kane, ordered him assassinated. A young commander was sent in to do the deed, and despite a GDI escort, Nod forces, including Nod Buggies and Minigunners mowed Nikoomba down without mercy.

Meanwhile, in Europe, GDI began an Amphibious Assault against Nod positions in Estonia. Through the use of the MCV, GDI managed to deploy enough infantry to secure the beachhead. Gunboats contributed by neutralizing some of the Nod shore defenses, such as the turrets.

Although Nod counterattacked, GDI was able to press the assault and conquer the small Nod base, despite the presence in the enemy base of a refinery, whose appearance in the area had gone unnoticed.

Meanwhile, Nod forces had targeted and attacked a GDI base in Africa, razing it to the ground and throwing some of the GDI] forces into turmoil. Nod, always on the offensive, then began a major campaign against most GDI forces and loyal civilians in the area. Among their other exploits in the area are the conquering of a number of nations loyal to [[GDI, the destruction of enemy bases despite the presence of enemy airstrikes, the destruction of a civilian city that was resisting, the conquering of Egypt, which had to be done twice, and the general destruction of GDI forces in the region.  Nod then began to systematically move towards GDI's bastion in the region: South Africa.

During this time period, Seth was found murdered, a victim of a brutal political system that encouraged murdering one's political opponents. Seth's plan of invading the United States and attacking the Pentagon was cancelled at that time.

In Europe, GDI was doing much the same thing, managing through superior tactics to sieze a number of GDI bases. However, things took a turn for the worse, as Nod propoganda spread by reporter Greg Burdette, managed to get GDI's funding cut. However, despite their funding cuts, GDI still mangaged to rescue a small outpost and use it to destroy a Nod base.

Later on, with funding restored, GDI began a full campaign to wipe out the Brotherhood in Europe, deploying forces to eliminate Nod bases. Eventually, however, they had to rescue Dr. Mobius, the world's greatest scientist with respect to Tiberium, from Nod clutches. After conducting a second Amphibious assault and contacting their agent Delphi who was stationed in Greece, they believed they had found out the whereabouts of Kane himself.

Phase Two: Deciding Moves
In Africa, Kane built up his forces. Immediately prior to his attack on GDI's fortress of South Africa, he attempted to take control of the ion cannon by capturing one of GDI's Advanced Communications Center. However, he found out that GDI simply switched their codes to the ion cannon satelite, and he was unable to take it. However, he still managed to destroy all GDI forces from the region.

He then turned his attention - and the vast resources of Nod, towards eliminating GDI's bastion of strength in South Africa. Nod's forces washed into the area and, backed by the power of the Temple of Nod and its Nuclear Weaponry, destroyed all GDI forces in that area, despite GDI's use of airstrikes and their three bases.

With the temple complete, Kane used its computer facilities to launch a network attack against GDI's EVA network. Although two of his Netwarriors failed, and died in the attempt, one gained access to GDI's Ion Cannon offensive weaponry. Kane then ordered a famous monument to be destroyed by the ion cannon. In the aftermath, an emergency meeting of the UN was called, but GDI diplomats managed to delay, while their programmers frantically tried to restore control of the ion cannon to GDI's loyal commanders. Kane, meanwhile, traveled to Europe to inspect some Tiberium research that was being performed there.

However, he ran afoul of GDI's brilliant commander there, who, with the power of the restored Ion Cannon, destroyed the Tiberium research facility. Kane however, had traveled to his European temple, and contemplated GDI's growing power in Europe. He also procured a number of nuclear weapons for use at that temple. Although he had only had one nuclear weapon in Africa, now he was prepared with a nuclear arsenal.

While Kane was preparing for this final battle, GDI forces destroyed an important supply convey that was heading for Nod's main base, and in the aftermath, tracked down Nod's last base and Kane's location. Although evenly matched, GDI used superior tactics to strip away the defenses from around Nod's last bastion, eventually leveling the Temple itself.

In the light of such stunning success, the UN quickly reversed its tune, and applauded the brave GDI. Nod, meanwhile, was thrown into chaos as some of the surviving commanders, true to the way that Nod was formed, began a power grab. GDI was able to therefore able to sweep through the disorganized forces in Africa following that pivotal battle. Eventually, Nod broke down into different splinter groups.

Effect
The First Tiberium War had the effect of catapulting Nod and GDI to the world stage. It also united the free world, and also the third world under GDI and Nod's banners, respectively. However, its most lasting consequence was to establish the importance of Tiberium, as previously mentioned, none of the spectacular successes gained by either Nod or GDI would have been possible without this important element. A large portion of Africa and Europe were deavastated by the war, and there were massive casualties among both sides. Furthermore, Nod's operations in Africa caused numerous civilian casualties as well.