When armed with white-hot particle beams, Enlightened have an even easier time slicing through enemy armour (Ctrl+S). They were subsequently used to help reclaim the Tacitus from a heavily fortified GDI base in the Rocky Mountains. Additional bipedal servomotors can be added to the cyborg, increasing its speed enough to chase down tanks.įirst reports of the Enlightened in action were when they razed a GDI base in Russia, having been activated by LEGION along with the Awakened. When upgraded to supercharged particle beams, the weapon fires a double-charged ionic Tiberium beam that can deal more damage. Several upgrades can further enhance the Enlightened. As such, the Enlightened cannot be crushed by vehicles. Also, their armour is extremely resilient, more so than the one the Awakened are clad in. They're better at destroying vehicles with the help of their EMP cannon than their Awakened cyborg brethren, as particle beams do a lot more damage to armour than the machine guns wielded by the Awakened. These units can use their EMPs to disrupt enemy vehicles or structures for a short time. In order to develop them, they use the technology contained in the Secret Shrine.Įach Enlightened is armed with a particle beam cannon mounted on their left arms, with an EMP cannon supplementing their primary weapon. After LEGION rescued the lab and activated them, the Marked of Kane used them as their heavy infantry.
The first Enlightened were developed under the ground of the Siberian steppes, in a secret Nod lab, where Kane's wish for a cyborg army was developed. Although their "ancestors", the Cyborgs, and their "brothers", the Awakened still possessed a considerable sign of their human past, the Enlightened's only human characteristic were the bone exoskeleton and the bones kept beneath it.