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[[image:Cabal.jpg|right|thumb|200px|CABAL in the Firestorm expansion of Tiberian Sun]]
The '''Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform''' ('''CABAL''') was a sinister and highly advanced [[artificial intelligence]] in the [[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series|Tiberian Series]] of [[Command & Conquer]], which, as its name implies, was augmented by numerous human beings who were kept artificially alive within [[Stasis (fiction)|stasis]] tubes and whose [[Human brain|brains]] had been integrally linked to, and [[synchronized]] with, the AI's system core.  Presumably this was done in order to significantly enhance the device its overall potential and abilities in a vast multitude of ways. CABAL was used by the Brotherhood of Nod as their tactical and logistical console throughout the [[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun|Second Tiberium War]]. Although essentially gender-neutral, as it was primarily an artificial entity, CABAL was always portrayed as male in both virtual appearance and voice.

==Origin==
CABAL's origin is unknown, with some speculation placing it to be based on a combination of [[Scrin#The Scrin|Scrin]] technology and a captured [[GDI]] [[Electronic_Video_Agent|EVA]] unit. It was first acquired by the Brotherhood of Nod near the end of the [[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn|First Tiberium War]]. When [[Global Defense Initiative|GDI]] commandos stormed [[Kane (Command & Conquer)|Kane's]] temple during the [[Sarajevo]] battle(last mission in Renegade), it could be heard malfunctioning from the severe damage the Temple had incurred from the [[Ion Cannon]]. Between the First and [[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun|Second Tiberium War]]s, Nod agents rehoused CABAL's core somewhere in [[Egypt]].  It later assisted Kane's primary loyalists in the overthrowing of the [[Global Defense Initiative]]'s puppet Nod leader [[General Hassan#General Hassan|General Hassan]], an endeavor which would eventually result in the complete reunification of Nod for the first time since the Brotherhood's defeat at the end of the First Tiberium War.

CABAL's earliest known appearance (at the end of the First Tiberium War) was also at about the same time the construction of the large Scrin ship seen in the ''Tiberian Sun'' was completed.  Additionally, in ''[[Command & Conquer: Renegade]]'' a crashed alien saucer is  within walking distance of the Temple housing CABAL, its door logo a triangle composed of three smaller ones.  In ''[[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun#Firestorm|Firestorm]]'', CABAL's core is animated as a similarly-composed [[pyramid]].  Seen from the sides, the resemblance is uncanny.  Additionally,  the earliest reference to CABAL in the ''Command & Conquer'' timeline seems to take place in the final level of ''Renegade''. While infiltrating Kane's temple in Sarajevo, one can hear clips of a male Nod [[Electronic Video Agent#EVA|EVA]] unit malfunctioning.  While most of these are simply the amusing "Intruder Alert.  Alert Cancelled.  Intruder Alert.  Alert Cancelled.  Intruder Alert.  Intruder Cancelled.  All intruders please report to the detention center", and "Attention: There's no business like show business.  Don't throw stones in glass houses without proper protection.  That is all.", one of these clips suddenly clearly states; "(contracted; show full)
==See also==
* [[Electronic Video Agent]]

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