Officer's Notes

Yuriy Ivantsiv

OFFICER'S NOTES

Written, cover and illustrations by Yuriy Ivantsiv

Copyright 2020 Yuriy Ivantsiv. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Note One. Introductory

Note Two. Toys for real men. And there is no limit to joy...

Note Three. Acquaintance with the Zone. First lessons

Note Four. Who did not hide, it's not my fault... Orders are different.

Note Five. Both for themselves and others. The medal has two sides...

Note Six. Our whole life is a game!. Provocations...

Note Seven. Conspiracy. Night conversations...

Note Eight. Escort. Not all the gold that shines...

Note Nine. The right is not the one who shoots first... but the one who has the shot more accurately.

Note Ten. Results. Who and what is worth...

Note Eleventh. Cleaning. Silent witness

Note Twelfth. Cleaning. Minutes of self-analysis

Note Thirteenth. Return. Through the thorns to the stars

Note Fourteenth. Liquidation. Orders are not discussed...

Note Fifteenth. Introduction. My own among strangers.

Note Sixteenth. Arrows. Wars change...

Note Seventeenth. Reflection. No way back...

Note Eighteenth. Final. You never know where you will find, where you will lose...

Epilogue

Foreword.

Zone - part of the Chernobyl zone of alienation with increased abnormal activity, its properties reminiscent of a living organism. It is located on the territory of Ukraine and is surrounded by a guarded perimeter, on a few roads there are army checkpoints. Admission of civilians is categorically forbidden, those who violate the ban are detained, and when armed resistance is provided, they are destroyed. This did not prevent profit-seekers and daredevils - the Stalkers - from settling in and mastering the Zone within a few years. Many experienced Stalkers see the Zone as a deity. Examples: The Zone has been awarded, The Zone is saving, etc.

1986-2006

On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., as a result of violations of scheduled works, reactor explosion occurred at Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Its capacity was so large that the unit building was destroyed and a large amount of radioactive materials was released into the atmosphere. Large areas of the Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated. Within a radius of 30 kilometers from the plant, a total evacuation of the population was carried out and an exclusion zone was created, separated from the rest of the world by a guarded perimeter.

However, the remaining units of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant continued to operate, which was one of the reasons why a complex of secret laboratories with an index X was created. A group of scientists studied the hypothesis about the noosphere, the Earth's information envelope. They created the Caymanov Radiation Generator, a source of psi radiation. With its help, an experiment to influence an object located in another hemisphere of the Earth was carried out. The signal was received with distortion, as if someone had corrected it. After that, the theory of noosphere reasonableness was taken seriously.

A side result of the study was the discovery of the ability of living beings to generate directed psi radiation. A biological radiator (giant brain) was created in laboratory X16. The biological samples were irradiated with information fields of different intensity (the identity of the psy- and information fields is not specified) with subsequent mutations. Development of new weapons, in particular, Product No. 62, better known as Gauss Cannon, was carried out in test shops. After the experiments, the main purpose of the work was to establish control over the noosphere. The O-Consciousness project appeared, its participants united in a common network, creating a collective mind. Generators were erected near the Chernobyl NPP - special facilities for trying to control the noosphere.

June 10, 2006

At 14:33 the experiment got out of control - there was a breakthrough of Noosphere into our world. The zone of alienation was illuminated by unbearably bright light, silence was established for a few moments, and it was visible how clouds evaporated in the sky. Then, a terrible rumble came, the earth trembled. The energy of the noosphere poured almost freely on the Earth, changing the physical laws. Within a day, Ukrainian government troops completely cordoned off the Zone along the perimeter, but there were still many people inside. Rescue operations were not possible because of the high anomalous activity. After a short time, the zone grew by several kilometers, absorbing military units. Later, such phenomena will be called Emissions. Noosphere energy will spill over and over again on the ground changing the location of anomalies and creating fresh artifacts - anomalies with certain properties, which later received a high price.

2007-2008 years

Zone continues to grow. The cause of the catastrophe has never been determined. There are more and more dead and missing people. Rare scientific expeditions end in failure, few survivors tell of fantastic anomalies and mutated species of living creatures with amazing abilities.

2009

According to various estimates, there are between one and three hundred unrecorded individuals in the Zone who call themselves stalkers. They search for so-called artifacts - anomalous formations with certain properties that have a high price. Many stalkers start to form groups, creating the basis for large Stalker clans.

2010

Following single stalkers, scientists are taken for the Zone research. Expeditions are organized and mobile laboratories appear inside the Perimeter. In spite of military control, stalkers take on an increasing scale. A number of stalkers are joined by people who evade the law, fans of easy money, representatives of the criminal world, as well as former military. The center of the Zone is still an unattainable target, the path is closed by the Brainburner, an unknown phenomenon that spreads mostly to the forest north of the Army warehouses. Once under its influence, a person either dies or goes crazy turning into a zombie. Later it turns out that the Burner is actually an experimental Caymanov's emitter, which the members of the O-Consciousness have converted into the most powerful source of the psi-field, thus creating a system of protection against penetration into the center of the Zone. The famous way there is guarded by the Monolith group, holding back waves of mutants. This last frontier was called the Barrier. However, every stalker dreams of walking behind it without hindrance, rumors of untouched territories - the Klondike of artifacts, and legends about the Wish Executor - a crystal of extraterrestrial origin, located inside the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and allegedly causing the formation of the Zone.

2011

The available part of the Zone has been researched almost completely. Stalking has reached its peak, Stalker groups have been formed. The largest of them - Duty , consisting of former military and volunteers, and Liberty , consisting of Stalker anarchists - are beginning a struggle for influence in the Zone. The military, who guard the perimeter, the bandits who make money robbing the stalkers, as well as foreign countries represented by mercenaries, also show their interests. In the Dumpster, in piles of radioactive waste, stalkers began to find a lot of useful equipment, and groups of diggers were formed. Through local dealers, artifacts are sold and weapons are delivered. As a result, tensions arise that threaten to spill over into large-scale combat operations.

The war between the groups

At the end of August, a group of stalkers penetrates the Chernobyl nuclear power plant units, resulting in the Super Emission, which served as a trigger for the war of the groups. It changed the appearance of the Zone: extensive anomalous fields blocked access to some areas, locking up the people there, while others, previously unknown, opened up. One such place was the city of Limansk, for which Duty and Liberty immediately began to fight. Around the same time, bandits seize the bridge leading to Limansk, blocking the only way. The city becomes unavailable for a while. The Duty group at its base in Research Institute Agroprom was attacked by mutants from dungeons and stopped paying attention to strengthening the bandits. In Dark Valley, Liberty also became a target of attacks, with mercenaries hunting its members.

2012

The zone came to relative calm, the gang war ended, and many stalkers died after another cataclysm. The Debt group left its positions at the Research Institute Agroprom and returned to the Rostok plant. The Svoboda group was forced to leave its base in the Dark Valley and move to the Army warehouses. Under the new leader, the bandits managed to seize power and settle at the former Svoboda base in the Dark Valley. Cordon became a gathering place for newcomers, the stalkers' base at the pig farm was empty, and the military strengthened its control and seized the Research Institute.

Shutdown of the Burner

In the same year, a stalker nicknamed Shooter solved the mystery of the Brain Burner, a powerful transmitter capable of destroying human intelligence, and turned it off. After that, the stalkers rushed massively to the center of the Zone: some were looking for the legendary Klondike artifacts, others - no less legendary Executor of Desires.

Breakthrough to the center

Many stalkers headed for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: Duty and Liberty started a new confrontation for new territories. However, as they moved forward, they all had to overcome the resistance of the Monolith group. Soon the fanatics were pushed back to Pripyat. The military began storming the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and began Operation Monolith, and during the decisive stage of the operation, the operation began to fail. At the same time, the Shooter, managed to penetrate under the sarcophagus of the station, where there was an illusory Wish Executor. The Stalker causes a failure of the installation, which attracts the attention of the O-Consciousness. One of its leaders, an unknown professor, talks to the Shooter in the form of a hologram, tells about the causes of the Zone and suggests joining them. The shooter, having refused, continues the fight and destroys the O-Consciousness project.

Contrary to his expectations, the Zone has not disappeared. The energy of the noosphere was still coming to Earth, albeit with less destructive effects. After the shutdown of large psi units, the forces of