Nova 6 also appears in Call of Duty Online as a form of currency. In the final ambiguous mission of the campaign ' Life', it also appears to be the cause of death of Rachel Kane after being tricked by Corvus. Due to an incident in a laboratory deep beneath the earth, possibly from the birth of the AI virus Corvus, trace amounts were accidentally released into urban Singapore, enough to rapidly cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and creating a permanent quarantine zone in what would become the worst unexplained industrial disaster in history. Preventing its release is one of the primary aims of Alex Mason and the CIA in the 1960s.īefore the events of Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Nova 6 was being secretly manufactured by Coalescence Corporation, on behalf of the CIA Black Project named SP/CORVUS. It was later seized, refined, and used by the Soviets, as a component of a grand Soviet sleeper-cell plan by Dragovich.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops, Nova 6 was originally developed by Nazi Germany during the course of World War II by Friedrich Steiner and intended for use in V-2 rockets targeted at major capital cities, such as Washington, D.C. Nova 6 is a biochemical weapon developed by Nazi, Soviet, and Coalescence scientists in Call of Duty: Black Ops continuity. ' Ever heard of Nova 6? It's a chemical agent that came dangerously close to being used in World War II. For the multiplayer tactical grenade, see Nova Gas.