Perhaps he could be given a field of cows (possibly using the RA2 art) to mutate into Tiberian Fiends near the beginning.
Aside from the elegant grotesqueness of it (and the fact that Fiends hardly seem to appear in TI, despite being one of the coolest Tiberium life-forms
This could also be a chilling hint at where all those Tiberium life-forms were coming from in GDI10, assuming they were supposed to be the result of Nod experiments.




