Optic camouflage

Placing emphasis on guerilla combat, tactics and stealth, the Brotherhood developed a technology named the Lazarus shield, which was essentially an adaptive camouflage system, rendering any object/user invisible. The system has been first introduced in the First Tiberium War and has been used by Nod ever since.

The first units to utilize this technology were the Ezekiel's Wheel Stealth Tanks, equipped with rocket launchers. Staying invisible, they could sneak up on unsuspecting GDI forces and cause major damage to unprotected ordnance and facilities without warning. During the course of the war, personal Lazarus shield cloaking systems were developed under the name Ezekiel's Cloak and issued to the elite Black Hand units. Their wearers were rendered nearly completely invisible, and as such used as spies, assassins and saboteurs, all of these roles supported by their standard issue Firefly Laser Rifle. However, in the First Tiberium War, the stealth technology was still being perfected, and all cloaked units could be seen at close range when a distortion effect occured around the cloaked object.

In the Second Tiberium War, the perfected stealth technology allowed for construction of a Stealth Generator, which under sufficient power could cloak entire buildings in a 200m radius. These devices were used to protect critical installations, most notably the prototype factory, where Nod manufactured the first series of Banshee fighters. Personal Lazarus shield systems also found their use, as they were employed by Nod's Chameleon Spies, elite stealth units used to infiltrate and sabotage GDI operations.

Following the Firestorm Crisis, the stealth technology was extensively researched and further upgraded by the Brotherhood of Nod, resulting in the development of Vertigo stealth bombers, highly efficent and inexpensive stealth generator towers, advanced Stealth Tanks, personal cloaking devices (used by the Nod Commando).