Gideon Raveshaw

Appearing in Renegade, Gideon Raveshaw is the spiritus movens of much of the game's plot. A short man with a stunning charisma, Raveshaw was the founder and first leader of the Black Hand, which was created with Kane's blessing to enforce the ideals of Nod and silence all that oppose them.

General Raveshaw's qualities (such as nearly unmatched intelligence, cunning and cold calculation) were appreciated by Kane, and so he was made responsible for protecting and overseeing "Project ReGenesis", a privilege he held dear, as he dreamed of being the high form of mutant, the ultimate assassin. To this end he has overseen the capture of top three GDI scientists to aid in ReGenesis research and kept shuttling them between research bases, to avoid having to endure a GDI rescue operation.

Eventually, under the persuasion of Dr Elena Petrova, was transformed into a cybernetic Tiberium mutant, one of the earliest and most powerful Project ReGenesis successes. Unfortunately, the process destroyed his charisma and intelligence, leaving only an obedient supersoldier behind.

He serves as a boss in the Egypt chapter of the game, and a rather tough one at that. Apart from great strength, he is fast, can withstand a lot of punishment and can grab HAvoc by the throat (!) and chuck him across the room like a rag doll.

Multiplayer
Raveshaw is a selectable character in multiplayer. He comes equipped with a railgun and is available in two flavours: regular short and mutated large.

Development
Originally, Raveshaw was supposed to have a much more intimidating model, a scarred, battle-weary Nod general. However, somehow, the design was scrapped and his model was given to Mendoza.

The very first Raveshaw model was recycled and used as a prop - it's Seth's corpse in the Temple of Nod in the final Renegade mission. The head texture was changed to that of Seth, however, a slight texturing error resulted in Seth's bullet wound being on the wrong side of his head.

Trivia
The name Gideon is of Hebrew origin, meaning "mighty warrior".