Montauk

The Montauk was the Nod Equivalent of the GDI Kodiak

Motivation
Nod, as a stealth organization, faced a unique command and control problem: The commanders of a particular battle needed to be reasonably close to the battle's actual location. While GDI's advanced communications setup could easily handle the troubles of communicating across thousands of miles, not worrying about whatever relays Nod could detect (a number of them were in orbit and reasonably unassailable), Nod could not risk transmissions through large numbers of relays, particularly before the war began in earnest. (see Second Tiberium War. Therefore, they came up with an ingenious solution. While GDI could take advantage of a flying command center, Nod would have a mobile subterranean one. Unfortunately, this necessitated a network of tunnels, which at great cost were eventually constructed. The end product, the tunnel-riding, command center, was the Montauk.

Description
The Montauk also featured a limited ability to burrow, but given its larger size and especially, larger frontal surface area, it was most likely significantly slower than the Subterranean AP at burrowing. Based on limited internal views recovered from Nod recordings, it is believed that the internal and external dimensions of the Montauk are significantly smaller than those of the Kodiak; recordings show that the only room of significance is the main command center - in which three or four people can fit at a time. It is likely that the interior space is packed with all sorts of sophisticated communications equipment, especially high power transmitters for talking through rock. Furthermore, the Montauk featured an uplink directly to Cabal, as well as a direct uplink to Kane.

The Montauk, as far as is known, is completely unarmed, and its armor status is unknown.

History
The Montauk performed with distinction until its capture by GDI forces during an Ambush, a raid which also captured Slavik and Oxanna, although Slavik and Oxanna were recovered, the Montauk itself was not, so another Montauk vehicle was used by Slavik from then on. The Montauk was used to rescue a few Nod soldiers from Cabal's clutches during the Firestorm Crisis, although judging from its size, it could not carry the vehicles away.

Usage
Slavik used the Montauk to direct a battle, to contact Kane, to request battlefield assistance from Kane, and generally to maintain C^3I. He also used the Montauk's formidable stealth characteristics and the tunnel network to evade detection, until he fell into Michael McNeil's trap for him.

Counters
The Montauk has not been directly observed in combat.