Scar lore and the Clear Sky faction explained

Before STALKER 2: The Heart of ChernobylTHE STALKER series lasted only three years, from 2007 to 2009. But in those three years, three STALKER the entries have been released. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl it was the first revolutionary incursion into the Zone, STALKER: Clear skies it was a prequel and STALKER: Pripyat's call it was a sequel set a few weeks after the first game.

Along with a sprawling main narrative, each STALKER The entrance was filled with intricate curiosities that helped enrich the history of the Area and its inhabitants. Even though it is set a long time later, STALKER 2: The Heart of Chernobyl carries on much of the same lore and even brings back a handful of old protagonists and antagonists. And before players get too deep STALKER 2of the main story, they should know something about who Scar is and what Clear Sky's faction was.

STALKER's Scar and Clear Sky faction lore explained

The formation of clear skies

Shortly after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, a group of scientists from the Soviet Union set up a series of hidden laboratories throughout the exclusion zone surrounding the destroyed nuclear power plant. These scientists spent the next two decades experimenting with the Noosphere, an imperceptible energy field that supposedly surrounds the Earth and influences humanity's logic and emotional state.

In 2006, these Noosphere experiments caused a second Chernobyl disaster, causing a rift between the Noosphere and the Biosphere. This rift has caused physics-defying anomalies to appear throughout the Zone. The group of scientists responsible for creating this rift were divided on how to handle the situation. While one group wanted to study the rift and harness its power, the other wanted to try to contain or close it permanently.

The latter group left the Chernobyl test site and ventured into the Great Swamps of the Area. Here, this ragtag group formed the Clear Sky faction, which sought to study the Zone's anomalies and find a way to stop the deadly emissions that would emanate from the rift.

Clear Sky's recruitment of the mercenary Scar

Some time later, a mercenary named Scar was hired to escort a group of ecologists through the Great Marshes. Along the way, a massive blast passes through the Zone, killing the ecologists and knocking Scar out. Scar is saved by a Clear Sky soldier named Nimble, who takes him back to Clear Sky's base. Here, Scar meets Clear Sky's leader, Lebedev.

Lebedev informs Scar that his body had an intriguing reaction to the Emission. Although it strengthened him temporarily, another Emission would likely cause instant death. Lebedev then hires Scar to clear the Great Marshes of the Forsworn who have begun invading it since the Emission.

Scar's hunt for Strelok

After clearing the Great Forsaken Swamps for Clear Sky, Scar is told that the Emissions are believed to have been caused by a group of Stalkers who somehow found a way to the center of the Zone. Scar is tasked with hunting down this group of Stalkers, who he soon discovers are led by a man named Strelok.

Strelok is the playable protagonist of the first
STALKER
game.
STALKER: Clear skies
The ending leads directly to
The shadow of Chernobyl
.

Scar hunts Strelok across the Zone, eventually encountering him in the Red Forest. Strelok, however, manages to escape and Scar continues to hunt him until the center of the Zone. After capturing Limansk with the rest of Clear Sky, Scar gains access to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where he finally manages to confront and incapacitate Strelok.

But as Scar hovers above his target, another emission emanates from the power plant. While Strelok is captured by the Monolith faction, Scar is presumably killed by the explosion, and virtually the entirety of Clear Sky's ranks are either wiped out or brainwashed into joining Monolith.