
These people are called Stalkers, and they report back to the authorities with their findings.

Curiosity also gets the better of some people, so they sneak into the 30-kilometer area to do some good old-fashioned investigating. After a while, though, most of them are returned to earlier posts.

National Guard, and they begin to hear weird screams and rumblings coming from within. The authorities surround the area with the Russian equivalent of the U.S.

Whatever their motivation, over time these individuals - Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers - have become known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s. To sell them on the black market or trying to find the 'truth' behind the Zone.

Mercenaries, bounty hunters and explorers ventured further and further into the heart of the Zone driven by reports of strange 'artifacts' imbued with anomalous energy. The Zone is still a dangerous place and a threat to all mankind. The Zone was cordoned off by the military, who would shoot on sight anyone foolish enough to get inside. Soviet authorities established an 'Exclusion Zone' around, but a second explosion hit the reactor in 2006, creating The Zone as we know it – dangerous place, filled with mutated creatures, deadly radiation, and a strange, anomalous energy. In 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
