Stalker

&nbsp The Stalkers; the Zone's collectors and monster killers, vs The Raiders; the despicable killers of the Wastland. WHO........IS......DEADLIEST?!?!?!

History
The first time the government were aware of the presence of stalkers after the second incident was in August 17,2010[2], where a stalker camp was found by government explorers.

The so-called "stalker phenomenon" started around 2011 after news that survival in the zone was possible. People were now entering the zone of alienation illegally in droves, originally they were mostly ignored by the government, but as time passed, they were now aware that items like artifacts are being smuggled from the zone and were prompted to take action. Even with the military blockades: the population of stalkers continued to rise until today, mostly due to the fact that the soldiers in the blockades themselves were corrupt and took bribes to allow people to "safely" cross into the zone.

(Info from The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Wiki)

Description
In the zone's culture, being a stalker is more of a career than a title as traders like Sidorovich and are not considered as stalkers by other stalkers, even though they are illegally residing inside the zone, or how bandits are not called "stalkers" by other stalkers either, despite trespassing in the zone and being combatants. The stalker's act of "stalking", as the military characterizes it, is the act of illegally obtaining radioactive and anomalous objects within the zone for profit or personal uses[1] and stalkers seem to have adopted this concept, since exploiting and robbing others do not fall on their usual agendas.

Officially, Stalkers are trespassing in a restricted ecological disaster zone and will be shot on sight by the Military due to armed encounters in the past. Unofficially, they are the most reliable workhorses for any individual who wants something retrieved in the Zone as they are the most experienced people who can be enlisted. Indeed, without Stalkers, curiosities like Artifacts would be a rarity outside the Zone and the experiments of the Ecologists would be stalled for a considerable amount of time as the military is hardly able to assist them, due to their slipping control and lack of sufficient manpower.

Stalkers come to the zone for a number of reasons: some go for profit, some for adventure, some to get away from the world, some to escape the law and some for personal purposes.

While the term "Stalker" is a general term for any illegally-residing human in the Zone, most people appear to use the word to refer to Loners foremost.

Curiously, all stalkers speak only in Russian despite the fact that they're located in Ukraine, where the official language is Ukrainian. Although this isn't completely out of place since Russian is still a popular language used in Ukraine.

Stalkers are commonly heard speak in Russian with other Stalkers while: in battle when cursing their enemies, shouting battle cries, getting hit, crying for help, or when conversing with the player on some issues, although in the English version of all games they speak English when talking about important things, such as orders or objectives.

An interesting fact about language in the games is that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. acronym is in English, not in Russian. In Russian, the letters S, L, and R are meaningless. The Russian word for Stalker is Сталкер, and the corresponding words:

Scavengers - Выносители

Trespassers - Люди которые поручают противоправный вход

Adventurers - Авантюристы

Loners - Одиночки

Killers - Убийцы

Explorers - Исследователи

Robbers - Разбойники

don't match the Russian acronym. Why the developers of the Ukrainian software company GSC would use an English acronym made from English words for the plot of one of their games is unknown, especially since it was released there first.

(Again, from The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Wiki)

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