Kamal Re'x the Abductor

Kamal Re'x the Abductor

Affiliation:	The Hierarchy
Title:	The Abductor, Underseer Kamal Re'x
Type:	Hero, Organic
Health:	1000
Armor:	Alien Hero
Movement Type:	Infantry
Speed:	1.6
Sight Range:	260
Cost:	1600RM
Time:	0:55
Popcap:	8
Produced From:	Hierarchy Arrival Site (requires Quantum 2 researched)
Special Ability:	Force Wall, Abduct
Weapon:	Psychic Blast, Psyconic Flying Knockback
Damage:	Psychic Blast: 40 (20 splash), Psyconic Flying Knockback: 20
Upgrades:	N/A

"I deemed the chance to destroy Novus once and for all, a chance worth taking!".

"Or was it a chance to impress the Overseers? How many must die for you ambition Kamal?".

-Kamal Re'x and Orlok.

Kamal Re'x is the underseer of earth mining operation and the main antagonist of the game.

General

"This Kamal Re'x wasn't kidding, they're throwing everything they have at us!" -Mirabel

Kamal is extremely ambitious being and desires great power, ether political or physical. Kamal is ruthless when concerned with increasing his rank within the Hierarchy, earning his unusual title from his habit of making political enemies "disappear". He apparently used this "talent" many times against those who have stood in his way during his rise in the ranks of the Hierarchy.

Unlike Commander Orlok, Kamal views his troops as existing only for the expansion of the Hierarchy and therefore deems them fully expendable. The alien has an even lower view races crushed by the Hierarchy, stating that if they couldn't prevent their own extinction they didn't deserve to exist in the first place.

At the time of the earth invasion, Kamal Re'x was long past his normal lifespan, thanks to long periods in suspended animation, but thanks to his age he had advanced his mind to the point of clairvoyance and he possessed the ability to wield various psychic attacks and speak via telepathy.

Campaign

"Novus has been stranded in this graveyard by their own single-mindedness! They will soon perish in the purification."

"But what have we gained from this graveyard?"
-Kamal and Orlok

During the invasion of earth, Kamal took a bold risk to attempt to destroy Novus by delaying standard mining procedure and not deploying the Purifier as he was ordered, much to the irriation of Orlok.

Kamal first appeared on a communication terminal during a Mirabel's infiltration of a Hierarchy command ship, gloating that she was looking at the agent of Novus's destruction. He then appeared along with Orlok and Nufai, scouring the remains of Novus's Middle Eastern base. It is here that he chides Orlok for his clinical view on the Hierarchy's wiping out of races before ordering the commander to assemble his forces to prepare for the Purification.

Kamal then provides the commander with a full compliment of infantry for an attack on Egypt, but denies the commander a much needed Habitat Walker until presented with the prospect of having less troops to deal with Novus in the future. During the battle, Orlok's troops tripped a strange signal in one of the pyramids and where forced to withdraw, much to the aggravation of the alien underseer.

While heatedly arguing with Orlok over his "flagrant insubordination", Kamal's command ship was hit by a missile. Though he first assumes it to have been a Novus attack, his communication officer informs him that it came from the primitives. After Orlok destroyed the last of the weapons and began his return, the long lost Masari emerged from the oceans, much to Kamal's bewilderment.

After bombarding the Atlantia until all orbital weaponry was depleted, Kamal sent Orlok into the ship to disable the Masari's jamming signal to allow the ships destruction via the Purifier. While Orlok and his men fought though heavy Masari resistance to escape, Kamal ordered them to remain behind and continue to kill Masari, claiming that each Masari head was a prize. Orlok rhetorically asked for who's mantel where these prizes for and refused to risk his soldiers over Kamal's ambitious schemes, thus he retreated. This was the last straw for Kamal, who exasperatedly claimed he had ordered Orlok's execution within the hour. However, Orlok played on Kamal's dreams of grandeur and suggested that there would be no greater prize to be given to the Overseers than a live Masari specimen.

Before the idea could be carried out, Novus attacked the Purifier's hiding place. Kamal again sent Orlok to "redeem himself" and protect the doomsday machine. After returning, Kamal begrudgingly praised Orlok and explained how he had formed a plan to both wipe out the Masari and present a great prize to the Overseers: Capture the Masari Queen. Kamal's com officer than pointed out a large number of Masari ships had been detected flying as escorts for an unidentified leader, prompting the underseer to send a duo of Defilers to "soften things up".

Rather than kill the Masari leader (who turned out to be Prince Zessus rather than the queen), Orlok proposed a truce and assembled an army with the intent of overthrowing Kamal. The two heros met in battle and, after taunting one another fought, for the fate of the earth.

Kamal easily dispatched Zessus before being grabbed by Orlok with the likely intention of crushing him. Kamal used his psychic abilities to shatter a large portion of Orlok's armor and revealed that Orlok's supposed accomplice, Nufai, had been working for him the entire time. Gloating as the troops fired on their fallen commander, Kamal turned to Zessus and captured him.

Kamal then proceeded to torture the young prince, demanding that he show him how to manipulate matter and life, how to be a "god" like the Masari. The Prince retorted that Kamal's mind was too filled with shadow to ever be like the Masari and that he would never show him what he wanted. Kamal, infuriated, ordered Nufai to activate the Purifier and begin "another glorious apocalypse".

At the final battle for earth, Kamal personally battled Masari and Novus troops, but during the fight his hovering suit was damaged and he fell to the ground, weakened. Kamal, even in defeat, gloated that the Hierarchy could not be defeated by one minor battle and he would never surrender. The alien taunted that his captures should "Unleash [their] weapons" and that his "name would give rise to legend, the legend would become myth" and that his name would be enshrined forever. While General Moore was more than happy to oblige, Queen Altea said that killing Kamal was not the solution to earth's problems. Rather, she said that Kamal deserved their generousity, claiming she could give Kamal the very thing he wanted most: power. However, this proved to be a cleaver ruse, and Kamal found himself trapped in his own mind for eternity, believing he had acquired all the powers of a "god" and had destroyed all his enemies.

Tactical Application

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Kamal Re'x serves as the Support hero of the Hierarchy and is unlocked by the Quantum Branch. Against ground targets, Kamal unleashes blasts of psychic energy which push enemies back before exploding, particularly effective against infantry. When faced with air targets, Kamal uses his abilities to shove aircraft back while slightly damaging them.

Kamal's main value, however, is his abilities. Firstly, he can set up a wall of psychic energy to block enemy attacks while allowing Hierarchy units and projectiles to pass though. His second ability, Abduct sends all non-hero land units (friend or foe) in the target area up in orbit and into the waiting Hierarchy processing ships. This ability not only instantly destroys anything in the target, it also provides a small amount of resources.

Special Abilities

Abduct

Effect: Throws targeted units into orbit where they are converted into resources. Note that it takes a few seconds before Abduction to commence, allowing faster units to escape.
Cooldown: 1:00 (from abduction)
Note: Aircraft, Heros, Science, Assembly, and Habitat Walkers cannot be abducted.

Forcefield

Effect: Creates a wall of energy for about 20 seconds in the target area through which enemies may not fire or move through. However, allies can fire and move through the wall unhindered.
Cooldown: 0:28 (from wall creation)

Triva

Kamal is never used in the Hierarchy campaign, though he appears in most of its cutscenes.
Kamal is the final boss for both the Hierarchy and Masari campaigns.
Kamal seems to possess a large number of psychic abilities in cutscenes that he does not have in his unit self. For example, during his torture of Zessus he uses a psychic shove to knock the prince head-over-heels.
It is implied, though not outright stated, that Kamal believes the Hierarchy's mass murdering of civilian populations is actually good for the Universe. Clues that indicate this include his mentioning that "The Universe does not abide weakness, and we [The Hierarchy] are its ambassadors", "Enemies do not deserve our admiration, they deserve the mercy of our slaughter for being weak!", and "I only thinned the herd, and eliminated the weak.".

Unit Quotes

Some quotes may not be used ingame.

I am destined for greatness.
Bow down.
I am the Abductor.
Avert your eyes from your lord.
You live because I allow it.
They will bow to me.
Their world will fall.
I will leave no survivors.
Their suffering will be legendary.
Respect my power.
Welcome! !
That one will bow to my will.
Death to the disobedient.
Insignificant pest!
I have such sights to show you . . .
Witness my power.
I will seek them out.
No more games.
They cannot hide from me.
There is no place to hide.
Where I go, my enemies fall.
My presence is required.
They live only for now.
Pray I don't change my mind.
I agree to this, for now.
Amusing at best.
To the processors with you!
This is a one-way trip!
There is no coming back.
Enjoy the ride!
Here's something to shoot at.
Recognize your futility.
I am unstoppable!
Nothing will stand in my way.
One order, one master empire. Succumb to me!
There is no escape from the Abductor.
The difference between insanity and genius is success.
I want you to suffer to your last.
Fool! You are no longer my equal.
What is life compared to the glory of my reign?
Your strategy is amusing at best.
My genius would cause your mind to implode.
I consume entire worlds. You are no different.
Die! Muhahahahaha!
This battle is causing me damage!
This plan must change before I suffer further!
The situation grows intolerable!
These attacks are taking their too damage!!
The end of my reign is at hand.
I am dying! This cannot be!
This can´t....be!
My demise approaches. Do something!
That was my question for you, Commander Orlok. These noble intentions of ending bloodshed [...] all very ambitious of you. And if we were a race of FLOWERS it would be rewarded! (used in the ending cutscene of the Hierarchy Campaign)