#👓trilogy-lore-and-story

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cyan river
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Who's this Strelok guy and where can I find him?

pulsar drift
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You might get more info at Rostok, the bar

cyan river
pulsar drift
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That will be 5 billion roubles

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👀👀👀

south sparrow
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And right before going to pripyat, travel all the way back to cordon to meet up with a dude name "guide"

harsh token
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What's stopping the Monolith from just turning the brain scorcher back on once marked one disabled it?

iron grail
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Nothing in theory, which is why it was immediately targeted by the military. By the time of S2 some of the antennas had been destroyed though

untold delta
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I've always found it a bit odd that the Monolith use so many NATO-caliber weapons.

hollow pecanBOT
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greatswordenergy has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

lofty light
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I’m such a massive fan of the Stalker games—the gameplay loop, the factions, and the overall atmosphere are just peak slav jank gaming for me. But does anyone else feel like the lore behind the Zone's origin is a bit of a letdown? The whole C-Consciousness and noosphere thing feels like such a weird pseudoscientific reach that doesn't really fit the gritty, grounded vibe of the series.

I really wish GSC had stuck closer to the Roadside Picnic roots. It would’ve been so much cooler if the Zone was just this massive, incomprehensible alien mystery—like we’re just ants messing with a discarded lighter, having no clue what we’re actually dealing with. I don't know if they were worried about copyright or if it was just the sci-fi trend back then to over-explain everything with science, but the mystery in the book felt way more immersive than the scientists in vats plotline.

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I already have my own headcannon for this

desert briar
# lofty light I’m such a massive fan of the Stalker games—the gameplay loop, the factions, and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
if you think that the Noosphere concept is a reach, thats bc youre right

Noosphere

The noosphere (alternate spelling noösphere) is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky and philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Vernadsky defined the noosphere as the new state of the biosphere, and described it as the planetary "sphere of reason". The noosphere represents ...

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