2034 it covered much of the planet, transforming and adapting flora and fauna to its alien nature. It also had a deadly effect on the environment and all carbon-based life. The evolved Tiberium Riparius, circa mid-2040s The crystal's growth speed and mineral content depends on variables such as soil conditions, moisture, yearly-average temperature, and local weather.

Harvesters (large, heavily armored vehicles with specialized equipment) collect the crystal by sweeping it up from the ground. As such, it is an amazing opportunity for any economy. Tiberium leeches metals and other heavy minerals out of the soil, concentrating them in crystals which can be easily collected by specialized vehicles ( Harvesters) and processed (in a specially designed Tiberium refinery) into easy to use resources. Molecularly, Tiberium is a noncarbon-based element that appears to have strong ferrous qualities with non-resonating reversible energy, which has a tendency to disrupt carbon-based molecular structures, with inconsequent and unequal positrons orbiting on the first, second and ninth quadrings! (.) The possibilities of Tiberium. If this is so, then it sheds light on the particularly disturbing possibility that the aggressive alien race, in fact, venerates Tiberium with religious overtone, and might believe it to be related to their own 'gods', if those even exist in their culture. Ichor, the Scrin name for Tiberium, is believed to have been garnered from the blood of the gods of ancient Greek mythology. Since then, Tiberium has come to be known universally by all inhabitants of Earth. The ium was added to give a material relevance.

Many have laid claim to naming this clearly extraterrestrial element, including Kane, who claims to have named it after the great Roman emperor, Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius, though it is officially named after the place of its discovery near the Tiber river in Italy. The first Tiberium deposit near the Tiber river in Italy, 1995 And I named it after Tiberius Julius Caesar.

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