Celerium (element)

"This single device, has more processing power than your entire military infrastructure"

- Erik Breighner Talking about Celerium

The Celerium is a Rare Earth Element, featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It is seen in several missions, first being the mission Celerium. Celerium means "quicker" in latin, referring to the fact that a device using celerium, had better processing power than the entire network of the US military. There is a worm/bug with the Celerium. This can only be cracked by keeping Karma alive. This will also unlock the Achievement/Trophy Good Karma. Menendez Planned to use the celerium to create a massive cyber attack, this is learned by Erik Breighner, to whom is killed near the end of the level. At the end of the mission the device is handed to Admiral Briggs, who Claims "We finally got one over on this cocksucker". Throughout the campaign, Karma will attempt to crack the celerium worm, if she is captured in Karma and not rescued in Second Chance she will be replaced by the CIA Nerd, who can't process the Celerium.