S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Discordant Emissions

S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Discordant Emissions

The Equestrian Nuclear Fusion Power Plant was an incredible idea, the increase in need for energy due to the development of more advanced technologies was leading to a greater increase in energy production, but it wasn’t beneficial to the land for the main form of energy production was coal burning as the usual solar power that had supplied the land with energy for millenniums wasn’t enough. Celestia knew that there had to be an alternative, so she decided to use her magic to make a miniature sun that could self propagate a nuclear fusion reaction, a feat she could easily achieve, but she knew that she would have to stay close to it to keep it under control. Celestia moved to a remote area near the edge of the Everfree forest that was currently unused by her subjects, the ponies of the land of Equestria.

She requested that it be unknown to the ponies that she wasn’t in Canterlot, the capital of the land, as ponies would move to the area which would be dangerous, only allowing for the workers she would need to control the other areas of the plant to live close to the plant. A few years after the plant had started energy production, there was an unknown incident in the central reactor, the reaction was growing and becoming unstable, Celestia ordered an evacuation of the area staying to hold the ball of fusion as stable as possible until nopony remained in the 30 kilometre exclusion zone she had outlined in the case of an emergency. An hour after the incident occurred and the evacuation order had been given, the reactor exploded in a mix of nuclear and magical energy, irradiating the exclusion zone, a few ponies had been inside the 30 Km radius, but appeared to be unhurt from the emission of energy.

On the same day, unknown sources told the newspapers of Canterlot that the sisters that ruled the land had disappeared and were in the centre of the explosion, leading to a new political party lead by the head advisors of the monarchy to take control of the political rulings of the land. It is rumoured that the sisters are still alive as the sun and moon still follow their normal cycles, but they have not been seen since the explosion. The radiation in the exclusion zone lead to The Royal Guard creating a new unit within their ranks called The Perimeter Guard, these new guards were ordered to create a perimeter to keep ponies outside of the exclusion zone as the radiation was dangerous, and unbeknown to the citizens of Equestria, to investigate the original site of the power plant to see if the royal sisters were there, or if there was any signs of where they were.

The first such foray into the zone never returned, the second, equipped with long range radios cameras mounted to their gas masks, made it half of the way to the power plant before radio reports came back to the perimeter of finding scraps of armour which belonged to the first squad, as was shown through some of the pieces of armour having the new coat of arms created for The Perimeter Guard. It was at this point where the first anomaly was observed as the point for the squad stepped into a whirligig, the squad turned to the screams of the pony to see him being thrown around above the squad, and as the whirligig detonated, dismembered him, spraying the squad with his blood, distributing his body parts over the area. The squad was shocked, as were the viewers of the screens displaying the stream from the squad’s cameras. The squad moved forward slowly, prodding ahead of their path with a stick that was being held by a unicorn’s magic, the squad was then attacked by what the viewers of the stream could only describe as a nightmare, reviewing of the tapes showed that they were attacked by what is now known as a Chimera, the remaining members of the squad were decimated by the Chimera who attacked with high speed strikes and movements, as well as incredible pounces, after this squad, none more were sent in to investigate the power plant.

After a particularly brave and reckless pony had entered the zone when The Perimeter Guard wasn’t watching a particular stretch of fence and had brought back a stone that reduced the weight of objects near it, the phenomenon known as stalkers began to appear within the zone, stalker is an abbreviation of Scavenger, Trespasser, Adventurer, Loner, Killer, Explorer, Robber, they are ponies looking to find these objects that had been given the name ‘artefacts’ and sell them for ridiculous amounts of bits, this lead to the creation of the area now known as The Zone.

The Zone itself is the 30 Kilometre exclusion zone which has been riddled with magical and nuclear radiation after the explosion within the ENFPP, the amount of radiation decreases the further out from the centre of The Zone, this has created different environments within The Zone, as you approached the centre of The Zone the likelihood of finding the rarer artefacts that only exist in the bigger anomalies increases, but this also leads to a higher chance of coming face to face with stronger mutants. It was usually within these inner areas of The Zone where you find most of the best stalkers in the world, those who thought they were good enough to walk into the inner areas but weren't were usually all dead to either the mutants, the anomalies, or the other stalkers or bandits within The Zone. Unknown as to how all the weapons in The Zone had found their way there, with rumours between stalkers being that The Perimeter Guard often resupplied The Zone with guns to benefit from the study of the artefacts brought back from The Zone in working out the nature of it, the ringed nature of the zone usually also found the more powerful guns to be closer to the centre, while the guns that could barely scratch mutants such as chimeras ended up being more common around the perimeter.

Author’s notes: In terms of the crossover with the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series it isn’t based directly off a particular game in the series, mentioning places in each game, the main thing that I draw of a particular game in is the effects of the artefacts, in which I use Call of Pripyat artefacts. I also know realise that I had unintentionally used a similar idea of the Shadow of Chernobyl plot of finding someone, I request you don’t point this out to me as like I said, it was unintentional and I didn’t notice until I thought about this note here and which of the games I was drawing everything from. For the readers who haven’t played the games don’t be afraid to ask questions, I will be checking for comments and questions anyone may have also others who have played the games might answer them before I can. Also you can use the stalker wikia to help with understanding anything you think might be from the games, searching for what you want to know about should get you a page about it, or at least something related to it, but I promise to try explain anything from the stalker universe as best as I can so that you don’t need any prior information. I’d also like to add that because I’m Australian, I’ll be using metric measurements rather than imperial, also I will be using UK spelling (eg. color is US, colour is UK), for an idea of what certain things what I use measurements to describe I’ll list some comparisons here starting with distance and weight for now, might add a couple others if they turn up in the fic.

Metric to imperial rough conversions:

1 meter ~3.33 feet, 1.1 yards

1.6 Km ~ 1 mile

1 Kg ~ 2.2 lb