Why did SEELE order the attack on NERV in the movie Rebirth?
Because NERV had outlived it’s usefulness. SEELE had only set up NERV to combat the Angels and keep them away from Adam (to keep them from initiating the “destructive” Third Impact) and to insure Lilith’s safety. After Tabris was destroyed, Keel was free to initiate his own vision of the Third Impact (the “constructive” Third Impact) and continue mankind’s evolution. But, the only way that he could do this was to capture NERV HQ and its most precious possessions (and especially EVA-01). First SEELE tried to in a peaceful manner (by using the other Magi Supercomputers of the world to hack into the Three Magi in Tokyo-3), but when it realized that an attempt on the Magi was futile, it had the JSSDF attack and subdue my GeoFront in a hostile and violent manner by claiming that we were going to start the Third Impact on our own (which I was, but that is what SEELE wanted too – Lorenz just wanted full control of it with either Rei’s help, or the EVA-01[which showed that it could call the Sp
