Project ReGenesis

Origins
Kane recognized that Tiberium was the way of the future; Whomever controls Tiberium controls the future. One of his Generals, General Gideon Raveshaw, agreed. Somehow, he must have contacted Dr Petrova, a leading Tiberium researcher. She discovered a way to create the Tiberium-enhanced creatures. Thus was born Project Regenesis. Someone among Nod's high command decided that she needed help, and so the two Dr. Mobeius' were kidnapped and coerced into working on the project as well.

Products of the Project
There were several products of the project.

Initiate, Acolyte, and Templar
The Initiate, Acolyte, and Templar were iterations of the same basic idea: Subject a large amount of Tiberium (Some of these were kept in glass holding tubes filled with Tiberium), and were equipped with Tiberium Auto Rifles. There was mixed success. Although these units were quite resiliant, healed when they were exposed to Tiberium, and were generally very powerful, there was great difficulty controlling them. If a base suffered severe damage (as it did several times when Nod attacked), the Tiberium enhanced tended to indescriminately attack - including Nod forces. They therefore had a reputation as being somewhat mindless. This theory is supported by the fact that Nod sometimes locked Tiberium creatures in prison cells.

Raveshaw (as product of Re-Genesis)
General Raveshaw, once he had undergone 'Divination,' was greatly changed. He roughly doubled in height, and gained extreme strength, but there were drawbacks. He appeared to be incapable of speech, and only nodded when given an order. However, as far as can be determined, he was perfectly loyal to Dr. Petrova

Dr Petrova (as product of Re-Genesis
She was, it is known, the ultimate success of the project. Not only was her strength and resiliance increased, but her mind power was not decreased, as it was in previous iterations of the project. She was still able to continue her Tiberium research while in the "Divine" form. In fact, if transmissions recovered by the project are to be believed, her mental stamina was increased - now she felt as if there was truly one vision, one purpose, one brotherhood.

Destruction of the Project
Sources within GDI reveal that Havoc was nearly single handedly (his left hand, of course) responsible for destroying the re-genesis project. Equipped with advanced GDI armor, ultra-modern GDI and Nod weapons, and even a portable EVA unit, he was assigned, at first, to the rescue of a GDI patrol and the destruction of a Nod Base. Unfortunately, the base in question was heavily defended, so once Havoc had destroyed some of the defenses, High Command called in an Ion Cannon strike. Nothing remained of the once pristine Nod base.

After that, Havoc's main directive was to rescue three people: Dr Petrova, Dr Ignatio Mobeius, and his daughter, Sydney Mobeius. Doing this was not an easy task, as the had been taken into custody by Gideon Raveshaw, leader of the Black Hand of Nod. At this time, the Black Hand was near the Zenith of its power, possessing a number of bases, including research facilities and stealth soldiers. They had also developed a number of new weapons; After the destruction of the main base of the Black Hand and its main temple, these weapons, such as the Laser Rifle, Laser Chaingun and Volt Auto-rifle, fell into disuse, and the secrets of their construction were lost.

Havoc first attempted to rescue them from a Nod prison complex that included a hydroelectric power station, but Nod spirited them away on board a plane before Havoc could reach them. He briefly fought Mendoza, a thug, hired by Raveshaw.

Next, Havoc tried to find out information about the scientists by infiltrating a Nod communications center. Although he succeeded in recovering the data, he was accosted by Sakura, a mercenary hired by Nod forces. When he destroyed the helicopter, he inadvertantly triggered a dormant volcano that destroyed both the Nod facility and the island - Havoc escaped on board of a Nod submarine.

Through superior combat ability and skill, he then managed not only to rescue some GDI prisoners that had been transported to a Nod cargo vessel by the submarine, but also to steal the submarine and destroy the ship. But he still needed to know the whereabouts of the three distraught scientists.

Information revealed by the communications center revealed that they might be being held near a Nod-controlled castle. But first, Havoc needed to save a town from Nod control and reunite 5 members of the Dead-6, Sakura assumed to be... dead. This accomplished, Havoc managed to infiltrate the Chateau, and rescue Sydney Mobeius, although he was unable to rescue Petrova or Dr. Mobeius.

But then, things took a turn for the worse. Sydney and he attempted to infiltrate yet another Black Hand facility, but they were both captured. Fortunately, Sakura had managed to escape Death, and released Havoc from his cell. She also provided him with an automatic pistol. Soon afterwards, Havoc had released some of the other GDI prisoners, and armed them with gattling guns. Slightly after that, the Nod prison facility was leveled.

The Nod response was extreme, and they called in dozens of helicopters and scores of infantry, including vast numbers of Black Hand commandos. Still, Havoc managed to get away from them, and eventually reached the main lab of the base.

There, it was revealed that Dr. Petrova was not simply a prisoner of Nod, and had actually defected to Nod. She used her knowledge of Tiberium to create the Re-Genesis project. Her first --- prototypes were the initiates and templars, freaks armed with powerful Tiberium Autorifles, and immune to Tiberium-based weaponry themselves. But then, Havoc met up with her 'success,' the General Raveshaw. He had been turned into a giant Tiberium enhanced monster, and although he wielded no weapon and had no armor, he was extremely resiliant, to the point of withstanding numerous direct hits with a rocket, and was more than capable of tossing a normal human being, or even Havoc, a large distance. Havoc eventually did him in, however, and continued exploring. He found Mobeius, but they both found out that the containment facilities had been breached - and the other 'successes' were rampaging around the compound. Fortunately, Mobeius had his Prototype Assualt Suit, and a laser gun, both of which were instrumental in getting out of there, despite the presence of numerous products of project Re-Genesis, as well as a number of Nod forces, again including commandos.

Havoc figured that they must have been taken to Kane's Temple, fortunate since general Locke was planning an assault. Havoc was instrumental in the success of that mission, destroying nearly all of the Nod structures, including the Construction Yard, and also taking care of the Obelisk of Light, the primary defensive structure. He then planted a Ion Cannon Strike beacon at the Temple, and gained access, but not before poking around a UFO. Unfortunately, little information about the origin of the UFO was gained.

He then received word from Secura that Sydney was indeed in the structure, with Dr. Petrova. Havoc then entered the structure through a several story deep hole that the Obelisk had gouged in the structure.

The black hand sent everything they had against Havoc, including a huge number of Black Hand commandos, some armed with the Volt Auto Rifle. Havoc made his way deeper and deeper into the base, fighting his way past even more Tiberium Mutants, reaching even the power core of the structure, and continuing further.

Near the bottom of the structure, he discovered Dr. Petrova, herself a Tiberium Enhanced creature. However, he defeated her and rescued Sydney. Nod, on its last legs, then prepared to fire a nuclear missile at GDI forces in the region, but Sydney sabatoged it before it could fire. As Sydney and Mobeius escaped, the temple exploded behind them, likely as a result of the detonation of the missile's conventional explosives (out of phase).

Legacy
With the destruction of the Temple, and the possession of all known Black Hand sites during the war, Project Re-Genesis was essentially halted, and much of the Black Hand's weaponry, such as the Stealth Suit, was destroyed, and its secrets lost for all time. But the failure of the re-genesis project was not the end of Nod's ambitions to create Tiberium-Enhanced super soldiers. Their continued research would later produce the Cyborg and the Cyborg Commando. Furthermore, at least some of the technology, or at least terminology seems to have been passed on. According to transmissions received by Havoc, Kane referred to Dr Petrova as "Divine" after she had undergone the Tiberium mutations. Nod propogandists during the Second Tiberium War have gone on record as saying: "Where there is suffering, Nod is there. Not with empty promises and propoganda, but with divination." Apparently, they are using divination not in its traditional meaning, trying to determine the future, but in actually making a person God-Like. This may have additional meaning when compared with Kane's famous statement: "No I'm not God ... but I'm a close second." GDI analysts are currently unsure of Nod's exact stance concerning Divination.

As for the supplementary technology developed during the war, of the Laser Rifle, Volt Auto Rifle, Laser Chain Gun, and Personal Ion Cannon, some technology was lost, others were incorporated into other projects, such as Nod's laser of the Second Tiberium War. The Prototype Assault Suit Technology was incorperated into the standard GDI and Nod suit of the time, and by the time of the Second Tiberium War, offered profoundly increased resistance against bullet fire and most other weapons as well.