Tiberium as a form of money?, Can you satisfy my curiosity? Options

[KajiTetsushi]

I thought of it this way: Tiberium, as we all know it, is a form of fund-raising object in C&C. But how does it work? Sure, we all do the same thing:
Collect Tiberium with our teeny-weeny resourcers, "refine" it, turn it into cold-hard cash, build a massive army and dominate the world. (Oops!)

But what does Tiberium have to do with all that? How can Tiberium help the world's economy? I can understand how Nod uses it for Tiberium-based weapons or that GDI uses some Tiberium as materials for a cure-giving experiment and get paid by the United Nations for any major achievement, but that's not the point here. Nod doesn't always use Tiberium to make weapons. And noting the huge amounts of Tiberium GDI already gathers per day, it'd be downright unusual to store all that for research!

If Tiberium were to be converted to shiny emeralds, sapphires or rubies (Implemented by mods using red Tiberium) and then sold in public, basically, everyone would already have some of them by now (Look at me - all wrapped up in shiny jewels - made from that same malignant growth that killed my folks! ).

So... can anyone speculate how poisonous crystals turn to useful cash? (Just curious - I'm not trying to defile the story of C&C.)

P.S.: This topic can fit anywhere within the C&C game series, so it'd be unfair if I placed them in one of the three and therefore, I placed it here in General Discussion. If this topic is in the wrong place, feel free to relocate it.

This post has been edited by ChrisIchikawa: Feb 15 2007, 06:41 AM

[Creagor]

Louis Castle simply gives the explanation of it:

'Tiberium is a substance, a gift if you will from outerspace, sent by an intelligent race... It leaches valuble minerals such as: Gold, platinum, Nickel and Iron from the ground, but alough it allows you to make some quick resources, it also turns out to be quite Toxic, which can give anything organic some nasty rusults.'

What the hell? Gold platinum nickel and Iron? The only one on that list which is on the "official" (as in, from the manual) list of tiberium chemical compounds is Iron...

Tiberium composition

* Phosphorus: 42.5%
* Iron: 32.5%
* Calcium: 15.25%
* Copper: 5.75%
* Silica: 2.5%
* Unknown: 1.5%

Tiberium gas composition

* Methane: 22%
* Sulphur: 19%
* Naphthalene: 12%
* Argon: 10%
* Isobutane: 6%
* Xylene: 2%
* Unknown: 29%

I never liked the idea of Tiberium to be honest.
I always thought it'd of just been simpler if it was all Ore and Gems.

Did you guys know RA1 was originaly an expansion pack to TD?

That is what really confuses me, if thats the case, why is there no Tiberium in RA1?
Tiberium being very valuble, but also being highly poisonous... I mean really, what the hell?

That would mean if you wore a platinum and gold chain you would get poisoned... right?

Dont like the idea of tiberium!

As said, RA1 comes before TD, so tiberium had not come to earth at that time, hence no tiberium. Tiberium is poisonous in its raw form - once the minerals, lets say Iron,have been removed, they do not pose a threat - it'd just be like holding a lump of Iron - much safer than holding a lump of tiberium.

I'm not sure about the way Tiberium is poisonous, the way Tiberium 'mines' minerals from the ground could make the elements in the minerals isotopes

So, GDI and Nod mine the minerals/elements from the Tiberium and give it the correct amount of neutrons then it wouldn't be radioactive/poisonous anymore (so you could wear your gold necklace )

I'm not sure, I bet Bittah Commander would know though

Its the "unknown" (presumably alien) compounds in tiberium that makes it poisonous. It doesent have to be radioactive, just some form of extremley potent mutagen.

GDI and Nod do nothing like what you say,they simply remove the useful stuff from the tiberium, and dispose of the rest (I presume its burnt or somthing, hance the flames coming out of the refinery)

[Corsair]

GDI and Nod do nothing like what you say,they simply remove the useful stuff from the tiberium, and dispose of the rest (I presume its burnt or somthing, hance the flames coming out of the refinery)

I was just guessing, I never read how Tiberium was refined in CnC (I lost my little booklet )