Traveler-59 - Command and Conquer - Tiberium Lore

Exploring the Traveler-59 sect of the Scrin in the Command and Conquer Tiberium timeline/universe. The video covers their origins, history, and arsenal utilized in the first Scrin invasion during the Third Tiberium War. Timestamps, corrections and/or clarifications posted below.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:42 Origins and Mission
01:53 Arsenal
09:52 Notable Events
Footage and some images and/or concept art are from Command and Conquer video game series which is the property of Electronic Arts. Other images and art might be used from other sources and all rights to those belong to their respective authors. Video animations, voiced dialogue and editing are made by myself.
Music used:
Radiation Alert (C&C3 TW) - Steve Jablonsky
Tiberian Sun Menu Theme (C&C TS) - Frank Klepacki and Jarrid Mendelson
GDI Map Theme (C&C TD) - Frank Klepacki
Research Initiative (C&C3 TW) - Steve Jablonsky
What Lurks (C&C TS) - Frank Klepacki and Jarrid Mendelson
Gathering Intel (C&C3 TW) - Steve Jablonsky
Rebel Forces (C&C3 TW) - Steve Jablonsky
#commandandconquer #scrin

[@3arooshy465]

I’m actually happy that I’m finally understanding the scrin... also I’m more happy that the game is still alive

[@totallynotai7131]

unfortunately command and conquer 3 was the last command and conquer game (not including remasters)

[@0XShadowdragonX0]

@@totallynotai7131 Me: The last? What about Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, that was a last C&C game... (a man in black suit appears with a strange device that hits me with a blinding flash) Me: Ugh... Im sorry, what was i talking about? I cant remember.

[@GenericHandle23]

@@totallynotai7131 the last good one ill tell you that

[@totallynotai7131]

@@GenericHandle23 It is the last one

[@TekkaSage]

It's sad the game is often broken depending on which faction you use such as harvester errors or auto winning with certain units in the risk style game.

[@lamehick7511]

[...] instead, they found a Planet armed to the teeth, with decades long expirience in Tiberium Warfare.[...]

[@Rat_Fบcker]

GDI : you picked the wrong house fools

[@shaftoe195]

@@Rat_Fบcker ...and knocked on the wrong door.

[@user-ro9zf9kz1h]

@@shaftoe195 time for exterminatus, inquisitor. let just launch a few vortex warhead trough the portal, sit back, and watch the firework.

[@keisufederationmapping2748]

“The earth would be their proving ground” Man, I would NOT want to be the traveler-59 leader after losing the war

[@xChimkin]

all thanks to kane. earth would've been doomed without him

[@samiamrg7]

You know, I just had a thought. The goals of the Reaper and Traveler cults seem like they are often opposed. In a human society this would lead to conflict between cults, but I wonder if the Traveler cult’s emphasis on subterfuge means that they manipulate other Scrin cults to avoid conflict among their own kind.

[@Amadeus8484]

Its weird how the Traveler-59 Sect is more ground oriented when they are have the best air units.

[@RC-qv9in]

Good point.

[@blackharpy7468]

I would say, it is speed-oriented.

[@Pochi361]

Weird, considering that they have the same aircraft as normal scrins. The only differnce is that the normal scrin got the shield Upgrade will traveler got a speed Upgrade.

[@MrMarinus18]

It's also weird that the Hexapod is associated with Travel-59 when for them it's a strong unit but kind of cumbersome to go with their mobility focused playstyle. Reaper-17 by contrast relies heavily on it as they are build for outgrinding their enemy and their shard launchers are the perfect escort. They also lack the devastator warships which means they rely on the Hexapod for artillery support. The main units of Reaper-17 like the Devourer tank and reaper tripod are also fairly slow so for them the low speed of the Hexapod is not a problem.

[@Amadeus8484]

@@MrMarinus18 I mean to be fair, the Hexapod is built on the battlefield rather than brought but if you must rationalize it, they want to have an anvil for their hammer :)

[@NAGATO2044]

Traverler-59 is yuri army in C&C3 , wit the mind-control units , or compare Scrin wit Xen Alien Controller of half life , the Cultist look like Headcrabs of half life .

[@Jethild]

Yeah the art team probably took inspiration from Half Life for the Cultists. The spawns are actually just the Prodigy unit connected upside down on the humans.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

There is a theory out there that Yuri himself was a Nod experiment on Psychic weaponry repurposed from the Travellers.

[@mirjana72mb]

@@Jethild I do think the archive do says that the spawns are prodigy younglings

[@mctwinklenuts1451]

This guy is so under rated

[@RC-qv9in]

I agree.

[@lcoop9351]

Ditto

[@user-le1zr2dp1k]

I think the second Scrin invasion of Earth can go in many ways. If Nod and/or GDI found a way to destroy the threshold tower, this will prevent the invasion from ever happening all together. But if they weren't able to destroy the threshold tower then the invasion will happen, so: If before the time of the invasion, GDI succeeded in defeating Nod and using their sonic weapons to purify Earth of Tiberium, then the Scrin invaders will have to deal with a unified Earth devoid of Tiberium which they may just leave and never decide to invade in the first place. If Nod won before the Scrin invasion and succeeded in 'embracing' Tiberium, then the Scrin will have to deal with a unified Earth that has full control of its massive Tiberium supply and Tiberium-based arsenal and is ready to use it. But if the Tiberium wars just kept going and nor Nod or GDI were able to decisively win, then the Scrin will have to deal with both Nod and GDI which probably will unite temporarily against them (from past experience). But if they didn't, the Scrin will have a much easier time taking over with their full might that didn't exist in the first invasion.

[@bigriverraiders9243]

Well the first invasion was by a mining group not a proper army. I suspect if series continued I'd be a twist Kane was some type of alien and went to get some reinforcements at the end

[@codyarcher3263]

Wouldn't be much of a twist. Maybe the final mission would be to deploy an unconventional tiberium weapon on the tower to cut off their invasion. They did specify it was immune to conventional weaponry.

[@yagdtigercommander]

@@codyarcher3263 The other issue is that Kane is interested in the Scrin. The Scrin were also interested in Kane because he saw Tiberium as the future for humanity which meant he was willing to aid the Scrin Indirectly in tera forming Earth. He also used the threshold tower with some his followers to take the Tiberium off world to presumably to Scrin territory. This might also prevent a second invasion of earth as Kane return all the Tiberium to the Scrin basically and hypothetically could meet with the Scrin Overlord and Learn from each other and possibilities they could use for Tiberium. But this could also forge an alliance that would end in both factions getting even at GDI with a new invasion force and with kanes experience he could give the scrin a road map on to effectively conquer humanity and turn earth in tiberium rich wasteland again. Or Kane along with scrin ended up being some strange test to see humanities resolve and that humanity is needed help to against so other unknown threat that even the Scrin need help with. And that Kane if some how was an other worldly being. Making his Terrorist Organization a sorta psuedo threat test how resilient humanity is and that he wanted the scrin to come to earth with its mining force as a final test for humanity. Once Humanity succeeded he would later than use the tower to remove the infestation of tiberium back to scrin occupied space. But this was all done with out the Scrin or GDI knowing. The First theory and second theory seems more plausible. But it just seems weird that Kane was fanatical about Tiberium as humanities future. But then decides eventually to take all the Tiberium off earth via a portal and allow Earth to revive itself and return to its formal and natural carbon based state. Seems odd to me lol.

[@justjoking5841]

[[[***NON CANON***]]] This is just a game theory but with Nod and Kane in control of Threshold 19, doesn't that mean they have access to a massive teleportation network? The Scrin Threshold towers are designed for harvesting vast quantities of Tiberium (ichor) from a planet and act as interstellar gateways. With Nod in control of the last tower on Earth they have an enormous edge over GDI. Technically speaking they could already be attempting to infiltrate through the portals. Maybe Nod tried but reached an impassable obstacle. They needed the Tacitus in order to successfully operate the portal network, and understand the Scrin as a whole. In 2052 they attacked the Cheyenne Mountain Tacitus Facility and reacquired the Tacitus Data Matrix. In 2052 Kane is able to achieve ascension. The problem now is ''How does Nod get past the Scrin?''. They could probably be attempting to invade through the Threshold 19 portal network with the Marked of Kane. Through that, The Brotherhood Of Nod are probably becoming an interstellar society, whilst GDI is stuck trying to clean up Earth and prepare for a massive Scrin Invasion. We only have cancelled games to go by but in the Tiberium FPS; the Scrin invade in 2058. The war was apparently going to be on a galactic scale. Westwoods Tiberium Incursion allegedly has Nod as a background faction where GDI, Mutants, and Scrin are the main factions with CABAL returning in an Expansion Pack. Also at the time of Tiberium Incursion, the world is mostly cleaned up of Tiberium. If CNC3 is anything to go by then EALA's storyline and setting is not too disimilar from what Westwood originally had in mind... But take into consideration: EALA's lack of creativity and love for CNC... The Tacitus apparently enables one to control Tiberium itself. What if Nod or GDI create their own mock up of the Tiberium concept, therein no longer having to rely on the substance as a resource?

[@cursedhawkins1305]

I'd wager that the Scrin would just bring their full forces to bare first, the first invasion failed because they tried starting out small and trying to weaken their enemies from the inside of their own bases, since that didn't work their likely going to play it a bit safer and blast the major bases around the world from orbit then swoop in to mop up any survivors followed up by setting up their own base of operations.

[@Amadeus8484]

I think most humans don't even WANT Tiberium, so the Scrin should have just you know, ASKED?

[@RC-qv9in]

Please sir, I’d like some more Tiberium.

[@GloomGaiGar]

It has clearly turned into a source of income and energy.

[@domi6369]

Who knows, maybe they would've if Lando didn't immediately try to kill them

[@keisufederationmapping2748]

“Hey, when you aren’t playing traveler-59 who do you play” “Traveler -59”

[@thatguynamedgabestyfy8348]

This is so dangerously close to traveler 69

[@waltermarine3248]

ohhh no

[@kirbyis4ever]

@@waltermarine3248 Not into biomechanical alien copulation?

[@weregarurumon3202]

Someone Make this into a mod

[@lelouche25]

When your figure out the scrin you fight were only a harvesting unit. That's fucking terrifying. We weren't fighting their military but their workforce. Yet they still almost had us on our knees.

[@patrik9328]

That is scary

[@cheez3184]

They were actually getting clapped as soon as GDI and NOD were back on their feet after the initial invasion. After fighting them for some time, the learned how to combat them

[@brentlticman2607]

When I played C & C Kane's Wrath for the first time and saw the Prodigy my first thought was: "That's one big ass tick." and it almost function as the same as ticks. Latches on to things(mind control), has offsprings who also latches on to things(Cultist bugs), and the ticks nature of randomly appearing out of nowhere(blink).

[@MICROKNIGHT3000]

Well sht, better be nice to ticks now or they'll evolve

[@SchazmenRassir]

Traveler is such an interesting faction. I'm honestly disappointed that I'm so bad at playing it. And happy I haven't faced an expert.

[@keisufederationmapping2748]

When I first got the game, I usually just played solo skirmish games and immediately fell in love with traveler-59. I only play them They’re the faction I’m best at Too bad I still suck at playing multiplayer lmao

[@SchazmenRassir]

@@keisufederationmapping2748 And I tend to focus more on the campaigns, even with mods.

[@starcat1234]

​@@keisufederationmapping2748 LMAO

[@Rat_Fบcker]

Traveler 59 aka masterleaf on every tournament

[@thunderelemental70]

What you said at 3:24 is not true; the only land units immune to cultist mind control are epic units, commandoes, and other cultists.

[@dataexpunged3914]

So they can even control a marv?

[@TheCaptainCrack]

@@dataexpunged3914 I think that would be considered an epic unit

[@dataexpunged3914]

@@TheCaptainCrack what I though it that this refers to the last rank of the leveling system for units, the one where shots turn red

[@thunderelemental70]

@@dataexpunged3914 no, what you are talking about is the heroic rank (veterancy ranks are veteran, elite and heroic), unit rank doesn't make a difference for the cultists. Epic units are the MARV, Redeemer and Hexapod.

[@dataexpunged3914]

@@thunderelemental70 oh ok

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

Other people who use traveler: mind control Me: S P E E D

[@chrisdufresne9359]

Swarms of Alien fighter craft going at Mach Jesus

[@nix207]

Honestly sad that i only discovered your channel so recently. Ra2 was my first computer game, so i always had some shallow interest in the main command & conquer games. However, i could not get into them. Your presentation really makes the videos for me. I might try playing cnc3 again.

[@nix207]

@Aiman Maraidi i only got to finish Red Alert 2 but not Yuri’s Revenge. Haven’t liked RA3 enough to commit to finishing it. Generals is great though, so I understand lol. Too bad I lost my copy before finishing Zero Hour

[@nix207]

@Aiman Maraidi good for you; hope you keep enjoying the games when you get to play :)

[@quadrille4959]

@@nix207 if you want, you can buy Generals on origin or whole c&c Its just like 10-30$

[@nix207]

@@quadrille4959 i do have a copy of the first decade that I was able to make work a few weeks after my last comment. So I will be able to play.

[@quadrille4959]

@@nix207 glad to hear that, enjoy the game (again)

[@andrew49913]

Thank for the video Am learning a lot more about one of my favourite RTS titles

[@RC-qv9in]

👍🏻

[@lcoop9351]

👍🏻

[@TheCaptainCrack]

The things ive done with a teleporting Hexapod supported by those little puking insects that would restore its health in seconds cant be put into words...

[@dionesvaldez088]

Traveler 59 "Cult Of Traveler" The Scrin "The Fifty-Ninth Sect" Specialty: Covert Operations, Subterfuge, Infiltration, Destabilization And Enslavement Operations

[@AreUmygrandson]

I rebought all the c&c games a few months back. Scrin are the funnest to play

[@claytonkickflip7595]

Great video keep up the good work man

[@RC-qv9in]

👍🏻

[@lcoop9351]

👍🏻

[@mrnigl1]

I hope EA has seen that there is still a lot of interest in CnC and does something new with the license.

[@lcoop9351]

That’d be good.

[@DaWhim2380]

The scrin invasion and realizing that the humans are murderous fucks is a good example of "call an ambulance, but not for me"

[@chrisestabrooks8197]

I feel like the Imperium of Man from 40k defending from Scrin like humanity united fuck aliens

[@vaqmnrg1688]

you know it was supposed to be Traveller 69. You just know it.

[@tacotony3274]

Heh... Breeder 69

[@taylorh.3484]

The tentacles… soooo many tentacles!!! Japan would like to know your location…

[@chrisestabrooks8197]

@@tacotony3274 sounds like a mod idea

[@weregarurumon3202]

What units and abilities would they have?

[@Temmoie]

In short, this alien is outdated and foolish enough to invade earth, thinking that beings on earth won't adapt to new harsh environment.

[@tacotony3274]

They probably havent encountered any other advanced race, and when the liquid tib bomb blew up they thought that earth was 100% tiberium and that only a small percentage remained

[@keisufederationmapping2748]

They might never have encountered an alien race capable of adapting like we do, maybe they evolved on a planet filled with Tiberium and thus are barely able to adapt to other environments like how we can Oh also they probably didn’t expevt us to have a massive array of ion cannons

[@encinoman903]

I really like Traveler-59. I'm a big fan of wormholes and teleporting my hexapod with a prodigy.

[@MisterHavoc]

Steel Talon Harvesters make the juiciest targets for Cultists. Mind control the Harvester, then garrison the Cultists IN the Harvester, ship is home and use it for yourself lol Also, why bother worrying about singular units with a Hexapod? Just stomp on them. You can even smash the mighty Mammoth beneath it's feet.

[@MrVlad12340]

If only they sent the Traveler - 69 the only message humanity of Earth would have sent to the stars would be "Nice.".

[@ItsRawdraft2]

You know you're fucked when Nod and GDI call a truce to focus on you lmao

[@HeyGuy4321]

I want advanced articulators

[@losio6879]

I think there should be Traveler 59 Weaponary, rather than Nod Weaponary.

[@wolfieinu]

Why are the captions for weapons "Nod Weaponry?" Was it intended to be "Scrin Weaponry?"

[@Jethild]

It says "Nod Weaponry" because that's the category that it falls under in the in-game database of Kane's Wrath. Which is what I'm quoting from for those parts of the video.

[@wolfieinu]

@@Jethild Ah, fair enough.

[@DreadMaestro]

3:05 looool you see them walking on their head?

[@slyllamademon2652]

I wonder what would happen if the scrin met the imperium of man. Would they get their ass kicked by guardsmen? Or would they draw the attention of the adeptus astartes, and later the inquisition? That would be a pretty cool thing to see.

[@latinpassion]

Would be nice to know the true power of the scrin, right now even the astra militarum will defeat them with ease

[@andreykuzmin4355]

Imperium fought and won against Rangandans and Yu'vat, who were like traveller sect on steroids. Imperium would have won through war of attrition alone.

[@saywhatnow2173]

We'll just wait for their true military forces.

[@thenetor471]

so... Traveler-59 would be the kind of Scrin cult to be more about to spare the natives if they (the natives) were willing to serve them (Traveler-59) ? because from what i've listened, they didn't seemed to be bloodthirsty or destructive unlike their brethen from Reaper-17, so could Traveler-59 been the dominant cult if they gained members from both the GDI and the NOD?

[@adamofblastworks1517]

They want to enslave the natives, but as far as I know it's not specified how, beyond "subterfuge and infiltration." Plus, their technology is still so vastly superior to all of humanity's that I doubt having "members" from GDI and/or NOD would give them any significant advantage over any other sects or cults. Maybe if they managed to enslave all of the Earth, and then kick reaper-17 out with sonic weaponry, they could become the strongest Scrin cult on Earth. Probably not in the grand scheme of things though.

[@clarkisaac6372]

The Scrin's elite infantry faction, traveler 59

[@sacharissahimawari7917]

You think the developer was thinking 69 but then they change the number a bit to avoid confusion? 😊

[@LiquidBlackWolf]

The fact that they have kane on arcive before the invasion . Is concerning

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Mastermind can teleport!!!!!!

[@sorcererberoll4641]

How are you able to get the giant hexopod unit I’ve played the scrin a lot on Xbox but I can’t find where it is

[@willpierce5333]

Should be like other mega units. MArV and such. Just build all tech units and then the production facility for it

[@RC-qv9in]

👍🏻

[@Monarch_Crown_Security]

It’s in Kane’s wrath not the base c&c3

[@mikytheitalianfruit8168]

OH YES

[@catachandevilfang]

The only good thing about C&C 4 is that Kane actually ascends. The rest of might as well be forgotten.

[@akrammoro4371]

To where

[@Dogmelter42]

@@akrammoro4371 Detroit.

[@chaoslacky1585]

Well the Forgotten only had a very small role in the game despite showing up alot.

[@adamofblastworks1517]

The main menu music is really good too, even if not as "C&C music."

[@mahaphoublue7644]

When they come again they know they will face with Japan whose have giant robot.

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Traveler 59 reaper 17!!!!!

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Gla quad cannon scud launcher marauder tank!!!!

[@jacobweatherford4696]

What is that intro song called because i love it

[@jk844100]

It’s called “Radiation Alert” from the C&C3 ost

[@Ratich]

Great videos but slight correction the third Tiberium War was already over, it ended with the destruction of temple prime and the Liquid Tiberium blast.

[@stylesrj]

The war ain't over until it's over and Nod and GDI were still fighting each other during the Scrin invasion. The destruction of Temple Prime was more of a cease-fire and very temporary considering how it was part of Kane's plan...

[@masonhill5157]

The war did not end with temple prime being destroyed. Kane wanted the blast to happen to get the scrins attention.

[@marcwilliamsvaldez9328]

Bring back the nod secretary charecter!!! I dont want objective lore info i want you to tell me how much nod is better :((

[@NanashiCAST]

So basically Traveler-69

[@jadenmcdaniel3908]

What if the cult of traveler met traveler from desteny

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Scrin control the red zones nod controls the yellow zones gdi controls the blue zones!!!

[@debbiebost5139]

Hey jethild do you use the command and conquer wiki for some of the source material

[@Jethild]

For earlier videos like this one I relied on it. However, ever since my Stealth Technology video, I try not to use the C&C wiki at all since it's a secondary source and not a primary source. There are also some things on the wiki that are questionable in terms of the lore. So I mainly use primary/first party sources for my videos which includes information in the games themselves, the manuals, and whatever the original developers of the games have said.

[@debbiebost5139]

Ah yes accurate lore is always acquired from main sources right

[@jcbryceivanivan8303]

5:08 I never seen this big alien In Tiberium war. My version is 1.00

[@Jethild]

It's in the Kane's Wrath expansion to Tiberium Wars.

[@jcbryceivanivan8303]

Thx

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Nod controls the yellow zones gdi controls the blue zones and scrin controls the red zones!!!!

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Scrin controls the red zones nod controls the yellow zones and gdi controls the blue zones!!!!!

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Scrin controls the red zones nod controls the yellow zones and gdi controls the blue zones!!!!!!!

[@Karstodes]

Scrin=Tyranids Traveler 59=Gene stealer cult

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Scrin controls the red zones nod controls the yellow zones and gdi controls the blue zones!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@XX-sp3tt]

How does the name cultist even make sense?

[@wolfieinu]

It might be the closest human equivalent to a Scrin concept which we can't understand.

[@keisufederationmapping2748]

Considering these scrin are miners, I guess the cultist should be named “minimum wage employee”

[@thebandofbastards4934]

Because they are brainwashed into worshipping the Scrin.

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Mastermind can teleport units!!!!!!!!!! And mind control!!!!!!

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Scrin controls the red zones nod controls the yellow zones and gdi controls the blue zones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Christian’s are about redemption Jews are about banking and politics and Muslims are about trade!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rikkiwatson3927]

Unfortunate that there hasn't been a decent cnc since KW (or at all since that crappy mobile game)

[@mohokhachai]

Halaloya

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Seize the illegal contraband anything containing the contraband and arrest you!!!!!!!!

[@PsychoIncarnate666]

I didn't like the traveler sub faction. Reaper was much funner

[@steamroller9945]

Traveler is more of a guirilla by the use of fast capital aircraft and mind control unliked faction Reaper which the tactic brute force by using tiberium which is also why Reaper is much fun to play with

[@cellarorcs4190]

sir, please... fix your video title. traveler is horribly misspelled.

[@Jethild]

Thanks for the heads up! Should be fixed now. Can't believe I let that go unnoticed for so long.

[@cellarorcs4190]

@@Jethild its ok man haha i love these videos i havent played kanes wrath in over a decade and im obsessed over it to the point where im making my own niche strategy videos under the name steeltalonsrule

[@Treffaut]

Really? Is it 50% of the NERMAL rate?

[@jadom111]

If i made the game it would be traveler 69

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Translator or musician !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@HeyGuy4321]

wish it was traveler 69 . sounds like a porn0

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Gla China and the USA!!!!!!!