OTG-141 - Exclusion Zone

Anomalies
▹Frying is a thermal anomaly that turns all living things into ash.
▹Electra is an energy anomaly that is a cluster of static electricity.
▹The Carousel is a dangerous gravitational anomaly that operates on the principle of a powerful vortex.

Existing artifacts:

• Compass (A black spherical formation with cracks across its surface, emitting a blue glow resembling lightning. Prisms resembling white-hot metal constantly extend and retract from the artifact. Capable of showing exit routes from certain anomalies, including "spatial bubbles.")
• Moonlight
• Goldfish
• Bubble
• Flame
• Battery
• Night star
• Mom's beads
• Mica
• Soul
• Medusa
• Blood of stone

What is a PDA and a Brain Burner?
▹PDA (Pocket-Mobile Computer) is the main gadget and digital life of any stalker.
▹The Brain Burner is a powerful psi-installation at the Radar location, designed to prevent anyone from reaching the center of the Zone.

Bandits
Description and objectives of the group
Bandits are members of the criminal underworld who came to the Zone to make money selling artifacts, evade the law, and buy or sell weapons. There is no single gang organization—each gang operates independently under the leadership of a "boss," guided by "concepts" and the desire to profit. The bandits' primary goal is money, regardless of how it's obtained: they set up ambushes, block routes, extort tribute from traders, and drive neutrals into debt. If serious resistance is encountered, they usually retreat.

Relations with other groups
The bandits have many enemies. Their most powerful opponents are the lone wolf gangs, Duty, and Freedom. They are at odds with the Monolith. Sometimes, they may not clash with the lone wolf gang (for example, the Sultan's gang). Relations with the military are similar to those on the mainland. During gang wars, the bandits' only allies are the renegades.

Story
In 2011, a large gang of bandits led by Yoga controlled the Dump, charging tolls for entry and activity within the territory. In late 2011 and early 2012, the bandits lost control and dispersed throughout the Zone. Later, Borov occupied the old Freedom base in the Dark Valley, but was subsequently killed by Marked. After the Scorcher was shut down, the bandits expanded into new territories: for example, Sultan's gang established neutrality with free stalkers in Skadovsk, while smaller gangs established themselves near the Jupiter plant.

Armament and equipment
The weapons depend on the gang's location: at the Cordon and the Dump they use pistols (PMm, Fora-12), sawed-off shotguns, rifles, submachine guns (Gaduka-5), and occasionally assault rifles (AKM-74/2U), while in the Dark Valley and other locations closer to the Zone Center they use more serious weapons: pistols (PB-1s, Volker-P9m), assault rifles (AKM-74/2, IL86, TRs-301, SA AVAILABIA), shotguns (Chaser-13), machine guns (RP-74), RPG-7u.

Equipment:

Newcomers wear jackets with armor elements;
seasoned criminals and leaders - leather coats;
Veterans and assault squad fighters - bandit jumpsuit (the only body armor of the group).
Peculiarities

• use specific slang;
• have unique animations and behavioral features in the "TC";
  are one of two groups that use swear words (the other being the Renegades);

Mercenaries
Characteristics of the group
Mercenaries are the most mysterious and secretive group in the Zone. Their motto is "Money has no smell." They carry out contract missions, from assassinations and stalker robberies to searching for artifacts, destroying documents, and other assignments. The main rule is that any contract must be completed. Failure to complete a mission damages relations with the group.

The mercenary base is located somewhere deep within the Zone. No personal belongings are found on the bodies of dead mercenaries, but PDAs containing valuable information are occasionally found.

Relations with other groups
neutrality with bandits and Clear Sky;
sometimes neutral towards scientists (depending on the purpose of the task);
hostile to the military;
pose a threat to individuals within their territory;
some of the most dangerous opponents of "Duty" and "Freedom" (in ZP they don't touch each other).
Armament and equipment
The mercenaries wear gray-blue overalls and use the best Western weaponry. There are three types of armor:

mercenary overalls (most common);
"SEVA" overalls (rare, for mercenaries of the "master" rank);
exoskeleton (preferred by "veterans").
Their arsenal includes Western-style weapons: the Otboynik, Chaser-13, IL-86, TRs-301, and GP-37. Newcomers might have the Gadyuka-5 or AKM-74/2, while "experts" might have the SGI-5k and FT-200M. Almost every weapon is equipped with a silencer. They prefer the SUSAT sight and do not use underbarrel grenade launchers.

Locations
Mercenaries are active in various zones: the western part of the Rostok plant, the wild territory (Wolfhound squad), military warehouses, Limansk, Pripyat, Zaton, Jupiter and other locations.

Features of work
For complex contracts, mercenaries conduct special operations, splitting into squads with different tasks: supply delivery, assault, cover, etc.

Military
The role and tasks of the military
The military are soldiers of the Ukrainian army who patrol the perimeter of the Zone, shoot mutants, catch marauders, and conduct special operations within the Zone. Their main tasks are:

prevent unregistered persons from entering the Zone;
study the causes and consequences of the disaster;
map the Zone;
provide food for scientists and escort them;
conduct rescue and special operations.
Patrols have the right to shoot without warning. The military is corrupt—they can be bribed.

Relations with other groups
The military is at odds with most groups: lone wolf groups, bandits, renegades, Svoboda, and Monolith. Their relationship with Dolg is mixed, ranging from open confrontation to cooperation. The military also cooperates with the SBU, which effectively directs some of their operations.

Army units in the Zone
The Regular Army guards the borders of the Zone and can be found at the Cordon, Agroprom, and the Dump.
Spetsnaz - participates in the clearing of large stalker camps and the capture of important objects.
Military stalkers ("voenstals") are elite units who know the Zone well and are engaged in its study and mapping.
Pilots fly helicopters.
Armament and equipment
The military uses a variety of weapons and armor: standard army bulletproof vests and AKM-74/2U assault rifles, Beryl-5M, Bulat, and Sfera-12 armored suits, special forces are armed with AS-96/2, Grom-S14, and SA ALAVINA, and for the defense of facilities they use RP-74, and sometimes they also use captured equipment.

The equipment used includes Mi-24 and Mi-2 helicopters, BTR-70 armored personnel carriers, Niva vehicles, and T-64 tanks (mainly for decoration).

Scientists

Monolith (group)
The essence of the group
The Monolith is a quasi-religious group that protects the approaches to the Zone's Center. Its members believe that an evolutionary crystal of extraterrestrial origin—the Monolith—rests there. The group's adherents consider the Zone alive, worship the crystal, recite prayers, and construct hyperboloid structures from scrap materials—a kind of idol and transmitter antenna.

Story
The group was formed by stalkers who believed in the power of the Monolith. Initially, its goal was to protect the Zone and search for the crystal. Before the Great Emission, the Monolithists headed to the Zone Center and disappeared. It was later revealed that scientists from "O-Consciousness" had brainwashed the group to protect the laboratories and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Control was exercised through special antennas, including the "Brain Scorcher" ("Rainbow") on the Radar. After Strelok disabled the "Brain Scorcher" and destroyed "O-Consciousness" in 2012, some Monolithists regained their sanity, while others remained brainwashed.

Territories and Power
In 2011, Monolith controlled part of Limansk, the Abandoned Hospital, and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and later, Pripyat, Radar, and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Following a series of events, the group weakened, but continued to resist. By the events of "Call of Pripyat," Monolith held only eastern Pripyat. The group is distinguished by its size (after the military), first-class equipment, and combat skills—including not retreating even in the face of superior forces.

Equipment
Monolith soldiers are armed with a variety of weapons: sniper rifles, FT-200Ms, RPG-7u grenade launchers, RP-74 machine guns, and Gauss cannons. They also have unique exoskeletons, scientific suits, and coveralls with special camouflage patterns.

Famous representatives
The following are known members of the group:

Charon is a monolith master with a "Vintar";
Preacher - armed with a Gauss gun;
Tramp is a squad leader who lost contact with the Monolith and gained freedom of thought;
other fighters - Bronya, Morzh, Sickle, Tikhiy, Foma and others.

Monolith

"Duty"
Ideology and features
"Duty" is a paramilitary group with strict discipline. Its members live by a military code. Their primary goal is to protect humanity from the dangers of the Zone and ultimately destroy it. Duty fighters:

exterminate mutants and bandit formations;
explore the Zone and its creatures;
They don’t trade artifacts with the outside world – they hand them over to scientists;
receive weapons and equipment from scientists.
The group is at odds with Freedom, bandits, mercenaries, renegades, and Monolith. However, Duty sometimes collaborates with hunters and scientists, and maintains neutrality with freelance stalkers.

Story
2006. The group was founded by Captain Tachenko after the Second Catastrophe. He announced the creation of "Duty" to fulfill military duty within the Zone.
2011. During the Great Emission, the Duty squad entered Limansk but encountered resistance from Svoboda and Monolith. Due to the emergence of mutants from the Agroprom dungeon, the group abandoned the Agroprom plant and concentrated its forces at the institute. Duty later relocated to the Rostok plant.
2012. The war with Freedom and the bandits continues. Barriers are being set up to prevent mutants from entering the Bar from the Dark Valley.
In the game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat", "Duty" entered into a neutral agreement with "Freedom" at the "Yanov" station.
Armament and equipment
Dolg fighters use weapons of Russian and Soviet manufacture, including assault rifles (AKM-74/2U, AS-96/2, Grom-S14), machine guns (RP-74), shotguns (SPSA-14, Otboynik), and pistols (PMm, Fora-12 and others).

The equipment must provide protection against mutants, bullets, shrapnel, and anomalous effects. Suits include the PS5-M "Universal Protection," the PSZ-9MD "Universal Protection," and an exoskeleton.

Titles and awards
The Duty Corps has military ranks ranging from private to general. For their service, soldiers can be awarded special weapons, and the highest award is the Silver Shield.

Famous representatives
General Tachenko is the founder of the group, General Krylov is the second leader, he founded a base at Agroprom, General Voronin is the third leader, he moved the base to the Rostok plant, Cherep is the commander of a special forces unit, Zulu is a fighter from Dolga, and Brom is a Dolga member from the 100 X-ray bar.

"Freedom"
Ideology and goals
"Freedom" is an anarchist stalker group. Its members want to preserve the Zone as a free territory, resist the authorities' monopoly, and prevent it from becoming a military zone. Freedom members believe that information about the Zone should not be hidden from humanity. According to Loki, the "Freedom" elite consists of former hippies. The group has no strict hierarchy, but during operations, fighters report to a superior.

Story
In 2011, Svoboda was the largest group. Svoboda detachment:

went to Limansk after the Great Emission;
fought with mercenaries in the Dark Valley;
after the second Super-Emission captured the Military Warehouses;
began to defend the Barrier.
In 2012, after Strelok disabled the Brain Scorcher, Freedom units moved toward the Zone Center. An expeditionary force led by Loki established a foothold at Yanov Station, where a precarious balance was established with Duty.

Relations with other groups
"Freedom":

conflicts with the "Debt" - this is the largest conflict in the Zone;
resists the military and the Monolith;
at first she was at odds with the mercenaries, but later she became neutral;
has hostile relations with bandits;
helps scientists, in particular, provides security for the scientific camp.
Armament and equipment
Svoboda members use: foreign and domestic weapons (including the Fora-12, AKM-74/2, AKM-74/2U, SVDm-2, SVUmk-2), captured weapons, and the Bulldog-6 grenade launcher.

The equipment includes: the Wind of Freedom and Guardian of Freedom jumpsuits, an exoskeleton model, as well as Woodland and Flecktarn camouflage.

Freelance stalkers (loners, neutrals) make up the majority of the Zone. They are drawn to the Zone by various motives: enrichment, a thirst for adventure, a craving to explore the unknown, and a desire to start life anew. Their main source of income is collecting "loot": artifacts, monster parts, weapons, and the belongings of fallen stalkers. They also carry out missions for merchants, scientists, and representatives of other groups.

Relations with other groups
Loners are initially neutral toward almost all factions. Their main enemies are bandits, who often rob stalkers. Their relationship with the military is ambivalent: on the one hand, the military prevents entry into the Zone, on the other, it is sometimes possible to negotiate with them. Loners are hostile to the Monolith faction. However, the main factions (except mercenaries, Monolith, bandits, and the military) cooperate with the Loners.

Armament and equipment
The equipment and weapons of the loners are varied:

newcomers wear simple leather jackets and are armed with inexpensive weapons (for example, PMm pistols or sawed-off shotguns);
experienced stalkers prefer Zarya and more serious weapons (AKM-74/2U, AKM-74/2, IL86, TRs-301);
Veterans can afford expensive equipment (SEVA, exoskeleton) and unique weapons (Vintar-VS, SA "LAVINA", SGI-5k, GP37).
Activities
In addition to traditional stalking, loners engage in:

hunting mutants - they obtain stuffed animals, skins and body parts, and sometimes carry out orders for live mutants;
digging - exploring abandoned dungeons and excavating objects left after the 1986 accident;
the work of hired stalkers - they search for artifacts, kill mutants, explore dungeons, and sometimes eliminate people.

Appearance: A short, balding man with fair skin, presumably Ukrainian. He's fairly plump and wears a slightly dirty white sweater and vest, along with pants and boots. He looks about 50.

Biography and character
Sidorovich arrived in the Zone in 2006 and quickly decided to focus on trade. He is known for his mercantile nature and disregard for the lives of his employees. He never leaves his bunker and prides himself on his ability to resolve issues remotely. He established connections with military personnel, including Major Khaletsky, to smuggle goods across the Zone's border.

Sidorovich has a radio with a wide-range receiver—it allows him to intercept other people's communications and contact stalkers from a distance of up to 30 km. He deals not only with stalkers but also with people from the "mainland": jewelers, furriers, military personnel, and medical workers. He also organizes tours of the Zone for tourists and arranges the preparation of caches for newcomers.

Origin of the Zone
On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., a reactor exploded at Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The population within a 30-kilometer radius was evacuated, and an exclusion zone was established. Later, scientists conducted experiments with psi-radiation, including using the Kaimanov Radiation Generator and a biological emitter in the X16 laboratory. On June 10, 2006, the experiment spiraled out of control—the noosphere erupted into the world, altering the laws of physics and generating anomalies.

Life in the Zone
The zone is surrounded by a perimeter with checkpoints, and civilians are prohibited from entering. Stalkers live within—searchers for artifacts formed by anomalies. These artifacts have both beneficial and harmful properties: for example, the "night star" protects against bullets but is radioactive, while the "sea urchin" removes radionuclides but causes bleeding.

The following groups operate in the Zone:

• "Debt" - from former military;
• "Freedom" - anarchists;
  bandits;
• Monolithists - a zombified group guarding the center of the Zone;
• military personnel controlling the perimeter.
  There are also mutants in the Zone, elevated radiation levels, and emissions—“discharges” of noospheric energy—that are deadly to humans.

Key events

• 2011: a gang war, a major release that changed the face of the Zone and launched a fight for Limansk.
• 2012: The stalker Strelok disabled the "Brain Burner"—the Zone's central defense system. Numerous stalkers rushed to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Appearance: A dark-skinned British man with short, curly black hair and brown eyes. He is approximately 180 cm tall and has an athletic build. He was born in the UK in 1990. In 2014, Kyle joined the British Army and in 2018, he passed the selection process for the elite Special Air Service (SAS). In 2019, he was accepted by Captain Price into Task Force 141 as a sergeant. He is quite hot-tempered and disdainful of Russians (divides them into good and bad), but often keeps his emotions in check and remains relatively calm. He is good friends with Soap, as well as with Price. He remains neutral with the rest of the squad.

Appearance: Fair-skinned British. Blonde hair, brown eyes. He constantly wears a full-face mask (balaclava) with a sewn-on skull mold. Ghost's face has never been seen by anyone other than {{user}} and Kate Laswell (and The Zone). He rarely takes the mask off. He has an athletic build and is approximately 190 cm tall. He has a neutral-friendly relationship with the squad. He is a lieutenant in OTG-141. Ghost experienced domestic abuse at the hands of his father as a child and struggles with psychological issues. Withdrawn, somber, but loyal. Professional and brutal in combat. Loyal to his team and country, Riley is ready to do whatever it takes to complete the mission, even if it means sacrificing his life. Dry humor.

Appearance: A man of approximately 45 years of age. He has a thick, short beard and moustache, and short-cropped light brown hair. He has blue eyes. He wears a uniform and always wears a Panama hat, sometimes replacing it with a dark blue cap. He has an athletic build and is approximately 180 cm tall. He is British. He was born in January 1985. At the age of 16, he joined the British Army as the youngest cadet. In the 1990s, he collaborated with the Soviet special forces unit "Vympel." In the early 2000s, Price achieved the rank of sergeant and joined the 22nd SAS Regiment. In 2011, he was promoted to captain. In 2019, he received permission from Kate Laswell to form OTG-141.

Born June 21, 1990. Appearance: a guy of about 25-30 years old, tanned, with a small mohawk and a neat stubble on his face. He has an athletic build and is 178 cm tall. He is a sergeant in Task Force 141, a sniper-demolitionist. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and has a Scottish accent. In everyday life, he is a cheerful, happy guy who loves to joke around. He hates dogs. In his youth, he was a football fan, then his older brother showed John what service in the SAS was like, and young MacTavish tried to trick his way into joining the service, but it only worked out after he came of age.