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| “ | The Zone poses mortal danger. We are here to protect you from the Zone, not the Zone from you. Do not jeopardize your life. Do not try to penetrate into the secured area. | „ |
| ~ Loudspeaker broadcasts at the Cordon |
The Military (Uk. Військові) or otherwise often referred to as the Army is a major antagonist in the Ukrainian FPS Survival Horror franchise S.T.A.L.K.E.R..
The Military are Ukrainian soldiers that have been sent into the Zone by the Ukrainian government to guard the perimeter and conduct operations within the Zone.
History[]
The were patrolling the Zone from the very begging of its existence. In 2011 controlled almost the entire Cardon but quickly started to gave away positions under the Zone's fauna, anomalies it possesses and corruption within its forces. One of the majors was taken hostage by the Loners due to his connection to the Bandits, an saving operation was unsuccessful. The Military was able to regain control over several points in Zone but eventually were wiped out and taken over. In Limansk the army attempted to stop the Monolith and fractions from entering, but due to the Clear Sky with the help of Shram, they failed
In 2012, the Military were mostly focused on exploring the Zone and the reasons behind its creation. The SSU authorities issued a warrant for the military to take over Agraprom to later explore the underground of the former university. However, the group was destroyed by Mechenyj and the documents they gathered were stolen. The Military sent a group to clean-up the Dark Valley to take impotent documents from X-18, but it's failed too. After the psy-devices in X-16 were turned off they ordered a clean-up of the whole near X-16.
After the Brain Scorcher was turned off, the Military started a large-scaled operation within the Zone, named "Monolith" which ended in catastrophe, resulting in almost all the Military units to be destroyed
In the summer of 2012, three months after the fail of Operation "Monolith" the Military attempted to conduct a second special operation, named "Fairway". Dozens of helicopters directed to the ChNPP but, no vehicles returned. The Military send a SSU agent to discover the reason behind the fail and find out the fate of those who participated: From the whole Stingray squad only 25 soldiers survived. However, the Zone took the souls of 13 of them[1]
Ranks & Structure[]
Unlike other fractions, the Military isn't really a "fraction" due to them simply being Ukrainian soldiers. Moreover, we can divide them into 4 divisions:
- Regular Army: Members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, guard the border of the locked area. Lightly equipped and seen engaging in corruption.
- Spetsnaz/Special Forces: Members of the Ukrainian Special Forces. Participating in clean-ups of huge stalkers activities and in taking over important places.
- Pilots: Members of the Ukrainian Air Forces. Usually non-action soldiers who just drive vehicles, but sometimes their helicopter is equipped with weapons, then they become a problem
- Militarized Stalkers: Elite soldiers that either served in the Zone for a long time or stalkers that made a contract with the Army.
Security Service[]
Security Service Of Ukraine (Uk. Служба Безпеки України) is the internal security agency of Ukraine affiliated with the Ukrainian Army. Their main goal is to gather practical information on the Zone and assist the Military with any Zone-related conduct. The SSU is essentially responsible for all major Military activities in the Zone, such as the operation in the Agroprom Research Institute and the investigation of the failed Operation Fairway.
Membership[]
The list below shows all named soldiers that appeared or were mentioned in the series:
- Major Kuznetsov's Group
- Major Kuznetsov (Leader)
- 5 soldiers[2]
- Squad Search-2
- Captain D. F. Maksimenko (Leader)
- Deserted Soldier (Formerly)
- 63 soldiers
- Soldiers of Operation «Monolith»
- "Quartet"
- Vasil Nevezuchiy
- Hundreds of other soldiers
- Major Khaletskiy
- Pvt. Semyon Ovechka
- Pupin
- Gaikin
- Stingray Crew
- Stingray 1
- Col. Kovalsky (Leader)
- Cpt. Klimenko
- Sgt. Yarmoshuk
- Sgt. Shlyachin
- 3 unnamed members
- Stingray 2
- Cpt. Furtez (Leader)
- Sgt. Gazda
- Sgt. Shveiko
- 7 members
- Stringray 3
- Cpt. Tarasov (Leader of both the crew and his own group)
- Tarasov's Group
- WO Valentyr
- Lt. Podorozhny
- Snr Sgt. Morozov
- Lt. Kirillov
- Tarasov's Group
- Snr. Lt. Smolyak
- Lt. Drapei
- WO Umerov
- Cpt. Tarasov (Leader of both the crew and his own group)
- Stingray 4
- Snr Lt. Sokolov
- 9 members
- Stingray 5
- Major Neborsky (Leader; Mentioned)
- Snr Sgt. Batyai (Mentioned)
- Lt. Rogovets
- Lt. Stetsenko
- Sgt. Merkulov
- Lt. Skelya
- 3 unnamed members
- Stingray 1
- «Boar» Squad
- 19 soldiers
Mentioned[]
- Aleksey
- Sergey
- Vorpal (Most likely)
- Vitka
- Leonid (Formerly)
- R. Y. Didenko
- P. P. Slavin
- K. S. Valov
- R. B. Nazarenko
Powers & Skills[]
- Weaponry: The Army gets it's weapons directly from the government.
- Military Vehicles: They are the only fraction that used any type of vehicles.
- Military Units: The Military has been seen throughout any major event in the Zone, if it's the shoot out between Loners and Bandits on Agraprom or if it the opening to the center.
- Vast Resources: The Army is fund directly from the Ukrainian budget.
Trivia[]
- It is not clear why the emblem of the military is the emblem of the Ministry Of Internal Affairs Of Ukraine (Uk. МВС України), if this service does not belong to the military.
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