With Nod severely weakened by GDI incursions throughout the Balkans and a small civil war orchestrated by Alexa Kovacs and LEGION, Initiative command believes the time has come to strike against the Temple itself. Unware that an experimental liquid Tiberium bomb is in Kane's possession, GDI leaders found out that their Ion cannon somehow is become innefective to the base after an informant told them about Kane's insurance. GDI decided to do the old fasion job of direct assault after all reinforcements were cut off.