Strelok

"I don't know whether I was right or wrong, I guess I'll never know... But I made it. And I guess I should be thankful for that."

- Strelok Strelok (Russian for "shooter"), also temporarily known as Marked One, is a prominent character featured in the series of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. first-person shooter games by GSC Game World. The games take place in an alternate history where a second Chernobyl disaster occurred, causing many otherworldly occurrences in and around the power plant, which became known as the Zone of Alienation. Many, known as stalkers, began to enter the Zone seeking to profit off of the sale of anomalous artifacts.

Strelok was one of the first stalkers to enter the Zone. He formed a group with two other stalkers, and began to search for a way to reach the center of the Zone, where they believed a large trove of artifacts were. They managed to breach the Sarcophagus surrounded the plant, but were forced to retreat after being stopped by a code-locked door.

It wasn't long before Strelok would try again. Heading towards the center alone, he encountered both the Monolith (the brainwashed defenders of the center) and Clear Sky (a faction that believed stalkers trying to enter the center was the cause of deadly emissions). A Clear Sky mercenary incapacitated Strelok, and an emission followed shortly afterwards. The emission either killed or mind-wiped everyone in the vicinity, with Strelok being in the latter group.

Strelok was taken with the other amnesiac victims on a truck by a Monolith member, with the aim of converting them to Monolith. The truck was struck by lightning, and a fellow stalker rescued Strelok. In the following days, Strelok would regain his memory, succeed his goal of reaching the center of the Zone, and destroy the C-Consciousness, the malevolent hive-mind entity that was behind Monolith.

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