Tech Lab
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Structure
Affiliation	Nod
Role	Research and Development
Production
Cost	$4000
Build time	0:40
Requires	Operations Center
Function
Upgrades	EMP Coils Laser Capacitors Dozer Blades Signature Generators
Power	-15

The Tech Lab is a Nod tech structure appearing in Tiberium Wars. It's primary role is to unlock the highest tier of units and structures in order to provide bases with more technologically-advanced weaponry.

Units and Structures Edit

The Tech Lab is required to produce high-tech units such as Stealth Tanks, the Specter Artillery, Avatar Warmechs, Vertigo Bombers, and Beam Cannons (though this was later transferred down to the Operation Centers in Kane's Wrath).

It also allows the building of the advanced structures such as the Obelisk of Light, Tiberium chemical plants, and the Temple of Nod with its nuclear weaponry guidance systems.

Building the Tech Lab in conjunction with the secret shrine unlocks the Commando from the Hand of Nod.

Although the Black Hand subfaction does not use Vertigo Bombers or Stealth Tanks, construction of the Tech Lab gives them access to Purifiers.

Upgrades Edit

The Tech Lab provides advancements to more "low tech" units: EMP coils, Spitfire laser capacitors, and Tiberium core missiles.

The Black Hand subfaction substitute Laser Capacitors with charged particle beams, while the Marked of Kane with supercharged particle beams.

Dozer Blades were formerly available only from the Tech Lab but have since been moved down to the Operation Centers to make it earlier available to commanders (Kane's Wrath).

Support Powers Edit

General Nod forces can use it to arrange the Redemption support power, where groups of militants and/or rocket militants within a designated area would be converted into The Awakened if killed. Neither the Black Hand, who refused to use "soulless machines", nor Marked of Kane, who already had Awakened cyborgs in abundance, employed this.

The Black Hand also use Tech Labs to project Decoy Temple of Nods, which appear to be real Temples of Nod to enemies.

NotesEdit

• It is interesting to see that the Nod Tech Lab is suspiciously similar in design to its Scrin equivalent, the Technology Assembler.

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Units Infantry Militants (Nod) • Confessor Cabal (BH) • Awakened (MoK) • Militant rocket squad • Fanatics • Enlightened (MoK) • Shadow Team (Nod/MoK) • Saboteur • Tiberium trooper (MoK) • Black Hand trooper (BH/Nod) • Commando Vehicles Attack bike • Raider buggy • Reckoner • Scorpion tank • MCV • Emissary • Harvester • Flame tank (Nod/BH) • Specter artillery • Beam cannon • Stealth tank (Nod/MoK) • Mantis (BH) • Purifier Warmech (BH) • Avatar Warmech (Nod/MoK) • Redeemer Aircraft* Venom patrol craft • Vertigo bomber • Carryall • Armageddon Bomber Vessels Battleship • Hovercraft   Structures Buildings Construction yard • Power plant • Tiberium refinery • Hand of Nod • War factory • Operations center • Air tower (Nod/MoK) • Secret Shrine • Tech lab • Tiberium chemical plant • Crane • Redeemer engineering facility Support structures Tiberium silo • Shredder turret • Laser turret • SAM turret • Obelisk of Light • Disruption tower • Temple of Nod •Voice of Kane • Air support tower   Support Powers & Upgrades Support Powers Radar jamming missile • Decoy army • Cloaking field (Nod/MoK) • Shadow strike team (Nod/MoK) • Mine drop (Nod) • Tiberium vapor bomb • Seed Tiberium • Catalyst missile • Master computer countermeasures • Nuclear missile strike • Laser fencing • Redemption (Nod) • Tiberium vein detonation • Power signature scan (BH) • Decoy Temple of Nod (BH) • Magnetic mine drop (MoK) Upgrades Tiberium infusion (Nod/MoK) • Confessor upgrade (Nod) • EMP coils • Dozer blades • Laser capacitors (Nod) • Signature generators (Nod/MoK) • Liquid Tiberium core • Quad turrets • Disruption pods (Nod/MoK) • Tiberium core missiles • Black Disciple (BH) • Purifying flame (BH) • Charged particle beams (BH) • Cybernetic legs (MoK) • Supercharged particle beams (MoK) Items marked in italics are exclusive to Kane's Wrath *The Black Hand does not use aircraft. The listed entries are exclusive to Nod and the Marked of Kane.