Monolith(Compiled)

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Monolith

Some even believed them, despite lack of any live witnesses. Of course, there were plenty of windbags claiming to have personally seen the Monolith. Of course, who is going to believe Sanya the Red or Talker, who have not even made it to the Agroprom on their own?

And now the Monolith members have totally lost it. They have even stopped talking to anyone at all. They simply start shooting at anyone they see. One word ? fanatics.

This group is most like a religious sect. Its members believe in existence of an evolutionary alien crystal, the Monolith, in the Zone's centre.

Most S.T.A.L.K.E.Rs treat Monolith adepts with contempt, and consider them lunatics. From its inception the group has attempted to block progress towards the Zone's centre, fearing that S.T.A.L.K.E.Rs have ill intentions regarding the Monolith.

Rumours say that the group has a large base near the centre of the Zone, but its exact location is known only to its members.


Background information:

Monolith is a religious cult that is enemies to all factions, the Monolithians believe in the power of the wish granter, rumored to be an alien artifact hidden in the center of the zone. The monolith devote their lives in protecting the secret of the great crystal, making sure that none ever reach the center of the zone.

By the time Shadow of Chernobyl occurs, the Monolith faction is considered the most powerful faction in the Zone by far, easily as numerous as Duty and Freedom, with advanced technology that not even the Military has their hands on. They regularly launch raids from the center of the Zone, attacking the Freedom Barrier with forces consisting of occasionally 20 men, a relatively expensive strategy in the less populated Zone. Their grip has extended from beyond the NPP, and they have established a headquarters in Pripyat, led by a figurehead known as Charon.

Initially thought to be a simple cult or a group of insane lunatics, it is later revealed through Shadow of Chernobyl's backstory that Monolith's members are in fact the S.T.A.L.K.E.Rs who attempted to penetrate the Zone's center, or even made it as far as the wish granter, brainwashed by a vaguely sinister C-Consciousness. In all likelihood, the vast majority of the Monolith faction's men are in fact former Clear Sky members, as well as Duty, Freedom, Military, and Loners who supposedly lost their lives in the Second and Third emissions.

Equipment

Monolith makes extensive use of the best equipment available in the Zone, developed by C-Consciousness or acquired from the obliterated Clear Sky faction. Thus, most of their weaponry is unique and not available to S.T.A.L.K.E.Rs unless they actually take it from them

 Rifles

* Vintar BC
* FN-2000
* Gauss Rifle
* Groza OC-14
* Obokan

 Sniper Rifles

* Vintorez
* SVD

Special Weapons

* Gauss Rifle
* RPG
* Bulldog 6

 Armor

* Monolith Suit - A modified Sunshine Suit with gasmask. Noticeably higher bulletproof protection then standard.
* Monolith Exoskeleton - A Exoskeleton painted white with grey and green.

Credit to Who Dares and Streex for the origonal threads.

Faction Reputations.

We have no Relations. End of.