Īfter Marcion and the Black Hand rejoined Nod, LEGION faced the Steel Talons once again when he was ordered to destroy GDI's top secret Institute for Liquid Tiberium. During the Persuasion of Marcion, the Steel Talons, alerted to the presence of LEGION's strike team by the Pulse scanners, interfered in the battle between Marcion's and LEGION's forces, but were quickly defeated. The Steel Talons also maintains several Pulse scanners near Black Hand leader Marcion's base in Australia, whose forces have found a way of circumventing them. However, LEGION's forces managed to defend the lab until the upload completes, and quickly retreated before Steel Talons reinforcements could arrive in time. The Steel Talons attempted to repel the Nod invaders, and as a last resort, even attempted to destroy the research facility to prevent Nod from recovering the data. In 2034, a GDI research facility in Australia storing captured Nod stealth technology, under the protection of Steel Talons, was attacked by a Nod strike team led by the AI LEGION. In the skirmishes in the interbellum of the Firestorm Crisis and the Third Tiberium War, the unit would rise to prominence. Following their formation, the Steel Talons gained a reputation for its secrecy, aggressiveness, and effectiveness. Perhaps to symbolize their aspiration to continue the TWII-era GDI's innovative efforts, their insignia looks like a mirror image of the GDI insignia during the Second Tiberium War. While the trend of moving towards reliable, cheaper technology meant the Steel Talons were not equipped with harmonic resonance weaponry, the Division sought to combine the latest mass-production armaments with cutting-edge weapon platforms (such as mechanized walkers) and tactics. Mitchell's arguments finally convinced GDI (after a reportedly "volatile" meeting) to provide funding towards an elite experimental combat division. Several officers objected to this trend, the most vocal being General Joshua Mitchell. As a result, the military's focus on technological innovations (which began since the First Tiberium War) had ended. Many resources were refocused towards Tiberium abatement, as was most of the research and development funding. With the damage done to the environment, the GDI switched its strategy to fighting Tiberium instead. With Nod's defeat and splintering, GDI believed that the organization was no longer a major concern. Because of their unique purpose, the Steel Talons battalion was somewhat autonomous from the rest of GDI, being a self-contained major military unit capable of independent action. Rather, the name was coined and popularized by Mitchell's admirers, particularly the famed war hero Nick "Havoc" Parker.
Steel Talons was not this unit's official designation.
III tank divisions as well as its Zone Trooper infantry, and well after the Second Tiberium War the group still fielded the most advanced iterations of the Titan and Wolverine walkers GDI ever manufactured. Notably, the Steel Talons pioneered the miniaturized railgun technology deployed by GDI's MBT-6 Predator and Mammoth Mk. The battalion grew into a test bed for state-of-the-art military applications, many of which were officially adopted by GDI standard forces by the Third Tiberium War. Mitchell's belief that GDI should have a significantly more advanced arsenal than any Brotherhood of Nod opposition shaped the Talons' doctrine. The unit was formed by General Joshua Mitchell after the resolution of the Firestorm Crisis.
The Steel Talons was an experimental combat division of the Global Defense Initiative specialized in deploying untested next-generation technologies to the front lines. The Steel Talons may now be lost to history, but in their prime, they were but steps away from condemning the Brotherhood to that same dusty fate.
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