History WMG / STALKER

* Except Nitro is seen smiling. [[PerpetualFrowner Putin? Not so much.]]

*** Not to mention Degtyarev. And all of Duty. And Freedom [[spoiler:actually in SoC there is a massive increase in the amount of Monolith soldiers so...]] And [[AndZoidberg the Bandits.]]

*** Not to mention Degtyarev. And all of Duty. And Freedom. And [[AndZoidberg the Bandits.]]

[[WMG: Nitro from Call of Pripyat actually is VladimirPutin.]]

** [[HalfLife The Combine]].

[[WMG: The game takes place in the HalfLife universe]]

* [[TooGoodToLast Jossed.]]

*** Not to mention Degtayrev. And all of Duty. And Freedom. And [[AndZoidberg the Bandits.]]

*** Not to mention Degtayrev.

STALKER takes place in an alternate timeline from our own, we already know. Nitro doesn't merely look like Putin, he actually is him due to [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman different life choices he'd made in that universe.]] The PointOfDivergence between the STALKER universe and ours seems to be sometime after the 1986 disaster, when [[spoiler:a group of scientists moved into the Zone in order to undertake dangerous experiments in psychic powers in secret]]. In our reality, Putin left the KGB to enter politics in 1991, plenty of time for his mind to be changed. In the game, Nitro is one of the few technicians who knows how to open the blackbox of a UAV, possibly hinting at a background in military intelligence. And frankly, they're visually identical to one another.

They spend most of ''Call of Pripyat'' watching the scientists or preparing for their expedition into the center of the Zone, and when they ''do'' mount the expedition, they really go all-out - without player intervention they'll even outnumber the surviving Monolith forces by the end of the game, and the mercs will effectively take over the city for themselves. Although there's a significant number of anomalies there, and the lack of looters means that there's still some useful stuff to be scavenged from the buildings, neither one of those things is really a good reason to mount a full-scale invasion. The [[spoiler:data]], on the other hand, might be just what their mysterious benefactor is looking for.

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With Strelok now having left the Zone his story has been pretty much wrapped up, but the ending monolgue for COP implies that Strider and his fellow Ex monolith fighters still have a mission of their own, the next game will have you playing as Strider, exploring more of the ruined city to reveal Montliths real purpose.

Ok so the end of Shadow of Chernobyl tells us that C-Consiousness were the ones responsible for the anomalys and the 2nd incident, and that the alien interference is just a cover for this. But in Call of Pripyat there are a few hints that C-Consiousness may not have been in total control as was previously thought, for example:
* The Zone is still active despite the fact that Strelok kills them all, if fact, it seems to become more unstable afterwards.
* Monolith seem to be getting orders from somebody through they're recivers, but they're original masters are all dead. More intrigueing is the fact that they manage to give the millitary a run for its money, organising the inital ambush at the hospital and later during the evacuation, whoevers giving them orders seems well versed in milliarty stratagy, or can see more than others.

* The rumours of the UFO over Yanov, this gets mentioned a few times and may have been the UAV but it's never really resoved.

** There are [=WMGs=] in some russian forums claiming that UAV is NATO-made or Russia-made. So imagine an open war inside the Zone.

** There are WMGs in some russian forums claiming that UAV is NATO-made or Russia-made. So imagine an open war inside the Zone.

[[WMG: The guy who rescues Marked One at the start of SoC will appear in Stalker 2.]]

The SEVA Suit shares a voice with the HEV suit and "Gordon Freeman" appears. This Gordon appears to be older, and the Half Life PC should be in stasis in 2012, so I conclude that this "Gordon Freeman" is in-fact Gordon Freeman Senior. The Combine invasion will happen latter.

Seriously, there has to be an explanation for why the ones there are noticeably stupider than every other NPC in the game.

** The game takes inspiration from the books but is not based on them. It is found out in the game that The Zone is man made.

* Read the books to find out.

**** Not necessarily. I mean, we've got [[OneManArmy Strelok]], and the rest of the [[BadassNormal veterans]].