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<text> April 26, 1986 : The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed in a violent thermal explosion. Carried by the wind, the radioactive dust fell on the territory of the USSR, in Europe and even reached the shores of America, leaving behind pockets of radiation. </text>
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<text> Consequences of the accident were so severe, that the government of the Soviet Union was forced to perform an emergency evacuation of nearby settlements. </text>
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<text> Contaminated areas within a radius of thirty kilometres from the station were turned into a strictly protected Zone of Alienation. </text>
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<text> After a reinforced concrete sarcophagus was built over the destroyed Chernobyl reactor, the government resumed operation of the remaining three generators. The availability of a powerful source of energy and complete absence of people allowed them to create a closed complex of secret laboratories. </text>
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<text> June 10, 2006 : The Zone was suddenly lit by an unbearably bright light. For a brief moment, there was complete silence, as the clouds in the sky evaporated. Then came a terrifying roar. The earth trembled. Most of the soldiers guarding the perimeter were killed instantly. </text>
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<text> 2007 : Scientists were still unable to produce a clear explanation of what happened. Expeditions invariably end in tragedies, while the rare survivors tell of animal mutants with amazing abilities. </text>
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<text> 2009 : According to various calculations, there are between one to three hundred people illegally operating in the Zone. They call themselves "stalkers", focusing on the appropriation of so-called artifacts - anomalous formations, worth their weight in gold.</text>
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<text> 2010 : Despite operating only on the edges of the Cordon, stalkers grow in strength, though they remain unable to penetrate deeper into the center of the Zone. Any attempts end in failure.</text>
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<text> 2012 : A stalker nicknamed Strelok solves the riddle of the Brain Scorcher - a powerful transmitter capable of crushing human minds - and disables it. All the stalker factions rush en masse to the center of the Zone, some looking for legendary fields of artifacts, while others aim to locate the mythical Wish Granter.</text>
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<text>In the light of these developments, the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine made a decision to execute special operation "Fairway". Using maps of previously discovered anomalies, dozens of military helicopters loaded with Ukraine soldiers head for Chernobyl. Despite careful preparation, the operation ultimately fails - the machines vanish without a trace.</text>
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<text>To determine the reasons for the failure of the operation, Mayor Degtyarev, a former stalker and an officer of the SBU is chosen.</text>
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<text> With a two-week supply of food, a sub machine gun and a radio to communicate with mission command, he heads deep into the Zone. </text>
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<text> Gathering information, Degtyarev questions all stalkers he meets. All in vain, as they either remain stubbornly silent or really don't know anything. </text>
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<text> The Zone never stops pointing out that she should not be trifled with. Hardly a day goes by without an attack of mutants or, worse, humans. </text>
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<text> Communications with mission command were unclear: they only knew the coordinates of the crash site of five helicopters. But a few kilometres from Chernobyl, the transmitter went silent. </text>
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<text> Degtyarev was alone. </text>
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<text> For his successful completion of the investigation, Degtyarev was promoted directly to the rank of Colonel. However, he declined a desk job at the ministry, expressing his desire to become a permanent observer in the Zone for the Security Bureau of Ukraine. </text>
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<text> Information about psionic laboratories extracted by Major Degtyarev unsettled the Ukrainian government. All materials relating to the "X-labs" were removed from military archives, classified above top secret. The SBU was ordered to prevent the spread of information about the work undertaken in the Zone at any cost. </text>
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<text> Based on documentation for Product No. 62, military industries created several prototypes. After field tests, the idea of mass producing this weapon was abandoned, as each unit was prohibitively expensive. However, circumstances indicate that work continues on improving the Gauss cannon, behind the scenes. </text>
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<text> After his attempts to take "Skadovsk" under control all failed, Sultan and his gang left the ship. With their disappearance a weak stream of stalkers and artifacts turned into a raging current. Business began to thrive for Beard, and "Skadovsk" soon became almost as popular as the "100 Rads" bar. </text>
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<text> When Sultan's law was definitely established on the "Skadovsk", the ship became a bandit haven. Beard, unwilling to pay tribute to the hooligans, took a group of stalkers and headed for unexplored parts of the Zone. Attempts to restore loner control failed: Sultan's show of force was an effective warning.</text>
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<text> "Skadovsk" remains a haven for all who are lucky to reach it. While bandits were persistent in their attempts to establish their control of the ship, stalkers managed to resist each attempt. This fragile peace continues to exist. </text>
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<text> But that state of affairs did not last long. Bloodsuckers that had a nest nearby soon started coming closer to the ship. When they started attacking stalkers in broad daylight, people of the Creek came together and raided their lair. Unfortunately, their raid failed to destroy the bloodsucker threat and soon, a powerful wave of predators flooded the "Skadovsk". </text>
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<text> After the destruction of the creatures' lair, bloodsuckers were no longer able to prevent life from booming at the Creek. After some time, the old ship became a center of relative stability in the ever-changing world of the Zone. </text>
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<text> The Freedom faction was able to earn the trust of stalkers at Yanov station. While Duty attempted to regain lost ground in a last, desperate attack, it failed, as Lt. Col. Shulga perished in the skirmish. Leaderless, the Duty expedition fell apart, ceasing to exist. </text>
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<text> As Duty's strength and popularity among Yanov's stalkers increased, they were able to push Freedom fighters out of the station. After fierce fighting, Loki's Freedom unit was destroyed. </text>
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<text> A precarious balance between Freedom and Duty persisted at Yanov station. Tired of the senseless fighting, members of the warring factions soon began to join the ranks of loners, abandoning their factions. </text>
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<text> Professors Herman and Ozersk succeeded in their scientific expedition: data collected by the scientists helped develop several unique devices and drugs. These developments resulted in increased funding for their study of the Zone. </text>
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<text>Professors Herman and Ozersk failed in their scientific expedition, as the data collected was not sufficient for any new developments. Their mission was discontinued. After returning to the outside world, both scientists turned to pursuits not related to the Zone. </text>
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<text> Garik's stories about the dangers the military faced in Pripyat interested many stalkers and soon, small groups began to study the ghost town. Despite constant attacks from Monolith fanatics, stalkers were able to establish a foothold in the former military safehouse, from which they strike against the crazed stalkers, slowly gaining ground in the city. </text>
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<text> Garik's account of the fate of soldiers stranded in Pripyat scared off stalkers. Few dared to visit the city, and those who did, reported inexplicable, frightening phenomena, which only added to the image of a gloomy, dead city. </text>
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<text> Stories about the Oasis ceased to be legends, instead, stalkers started talking about who could actually find the way to this secret anomaly. The flow of stalkers wishing to discover the Oasis did not stop and continued to be a source of profit for bandits, as many rookies take up their offers of showing the way to the place, only to end up robbed in a spot away from usual stalker routes.</text>
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<text> Teams of foreign mercenaries continue to operate within the Zone. Their interest in the secret laboratories increased markedly, managing to draw SBU's attention. The identity of their client remains unknown to this day.</text>
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<text> The area around Yanov station is becoming increasingly popular among stalkers. Its lack of dangerous mutants and abundance of anomalous formations became synonymous with the term "Klondike artifact" in stalker perception. </text>
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<text> Areas around Yanov station soon earned a reputation as one of the most dangerous places in the Zone. Stalkers often do not return from raids, mutants are killing them practically on the doorstep of the station. Tutsan joined those unfortunate stalkers, perishing during his last hunt for the chimera. </text>
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<text> Zulus returned to Duty's headquarters at the Rostok factory. Nobody knows the subject of his long talk with General Voronin, but after a few days, Zulus was sighted leading a large squad, heading to the center of the Zone. </text>
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<text> Rumours about Zulus' fate eventually reached Duty's commander, General Voronin. To everyone's amazement, Voronin awarded Zulus the highest Duty decoration - the Order of the Silver Shield - posthumously. </text>
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<text> Vano went to the army warehouses, to Freedom, where his easy going character and optimism won him friends quickly. Eventually, he ended up leading a small group of researchers wanting to study anomalies. </text>
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<text> Stalkers at Yanov continue to fondly remember Vano, his cheerful nature and innate stalker skills. All agree that he shouldn't have chosen to seek the road to Pripyat. </text>
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<text> The Zone has a new group of stalkers. They are well prepared, but their goals remain unknown. According to unverified claims, they were all once Monolith warriors. The squad's leader is widely known as Rogue. </text>
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<text> Few noticed Rogue's disappearance, who was the only man who wanted to understand what happened to Monolithans, in order to try and help them. </text>
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<text> Lieutenant Sokolov continued to fly missions over the Zone. Eventually, his helicopter was shot down over Limansk, overrun by mercenaries. After surviving miraculously in the Zone for two weeks, he was picked up in the Cordon by a military patrol. Soon, Sokolov left the ranks of the Air Force and joined civilian aviation. </text>
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<text> One more name was added to the long list of soldiers lost during Operation Fairway: "Lieutenant 1st Class Sokolov, V. I.: Killed in the line of duty </text>
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<text> Owl managed to establish good relationships with customers from outside the Zone. His goods - information. According to rumours, he sells much of his information to the SBU. </text>
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<text> During a particularly violent Blowout, a group of stalkers was forced to seek shelter on Noah's old barge. Soon, the ship was swarmed by Snorks, which made the stalkers realize that the ship was truly a fortress. Then came the special surprise, as a litter of pseudodog puppies helped Noah defend the barge from mutants. </text>
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<text> Cardan, after learning about his friends' fate, decided to abandon his stalker ways. Overcoming his alcoholism, he moved to Yanov, where he established a real repair shop with Nitro. The two are able to repair absolutely everything and spend their free time constructing means of transportation suitable for the extreme conditions of the Zone. </text>
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<text> Overcoming his alcoholism, Cardan left the Skadovsk. Stalkers say that he went off to look for his missing comrades. A few days later, battered and irradiated, he appeared at Yanov station. Soon after recovering, he left the Zone forever. </text>
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<text> Strelok handed all materials he accumulated at the NPP to the authorities. His information prompted the government to establish a permanent research institute for the Chernobyl anomalous Zone. Strelok was nominated as the chief scientific advisor of the new scientific body. </text>
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<text> Strelok's knowledge has perished along with him. His information about Chernobyl could have helped unravel the Zone's mysteries, but his premature death allowed the Zone to retain her secrets. </text>
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<text> Commander of the Stingray group, Colonel Kowalski, reported the reasons for Operation Fairway's failure to his superiors. After a lengthy investigation and several attempts to shift the blame, the Colonel retired with full military honours. </text>
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<text> Commander of the Stingray group, Colonel Kowalski, joined his soldiers on their eternal watch. His body was consumed by the Zone and now everything that remains is a faded photograph on the Ukrainian wall of merit. </text>
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