Lore of Monolith explained

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STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl is set deep in the “Alienation Zone” that surrounds the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This zone is full of life-threatening, supernatural anomalies, vicious bloodthirsty monsters and an army of mutant animals. And like any proper post-apocalypse, STALKER 2The Zone's home to a number of warring factions, all of whom want something different from the Zone and its people.




The STALKER the series deals with many serious philosophical themes, many of which revolve around concepts of humanity and what people are willing to sacrifice to make their desires come true. There are very few objectively “good” factions STALKER universe, and even then the Monolith is widely considered to be the worst of them all.

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“The Group” and its experiments with the noosphere

Around the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, a group of scientists from the Soviet Union known simply as “The Group” set up shop in the plant's containment zone. The isolated nature of the zone provided these scientists with the perfect cover for a series of risky experiments, many of which revolved around the noosphere, an invisible field of energy that supposedly surrounds the Earth and interferes with human thoughts and emotions.


Merger of common consciousness

Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Group continued its experiments on the noosphere inside the zone. Some breakthroughs led to a small selection of seven scientists agreeing to create a hive mind. These scientists were placed in stasis pods and their minds merged into one Collective Consciousness, an incorporeal manifestation that was able to traverse and blend into the Noosphere.

The collective consciousness attempted to manipulate the noosphere in 2006, leading to the second Chernobyl disaster. This fateful accident caused a rift in the noosphere to appear in the zone, resulting in physics-disrupting anomalies. After the disaster, the Collective Consciousness attempted to control the power of the rift, but the hordes of Stalkers who now traveled the Zone in search of valuable artifacts often interrupted his attempts.


The emergence of a monolith

To defend itself and the rift, the Collective Consciousness set out to create an army of loyal protectors. The collective consciousness was fed by a vulnerable group of fanatics known as the Monolith. These quasi-religious fanatics believed that the “Wish Granter” Monolith stood at the heart of the zone and that it was their job to protect it at all costs.

The collective consciousness seized the opportunity to mind-control this group of ex-Stalkers. C-Consciousness and his followers then created a device that became widely known throughout the Zone as the “Brain Scorcher”, a powerful radio antenna that could be used to attract and brainwash any Stalkers who dared to come too close to the heart of the Zone . These brainwashed stalkers became loyal, violent soldiers for the Monolith's ever-growing army.

The Death of C-Consciousness and the Fall of the Monolith

But even the power of the Monolith could not last forever in the inhospitable zone. At the end STALKER: Shadow of Chernobylthe player character Strelok enters the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Strelok refuses the C-consciousness' offer to join them and destroys the stasis pods containing the seven scientists, presumably killing the C-consciousness and causing the fall of the Monolith, at least as fans knew it.


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