The Desert

"The Desert" is a mysterious unsurprisingly desert-like location filled with fine blue-green sand.
It is not clear how one arrives at the desert. Bob MacKenzie and Gunther Gehring found themselves in The Desert after being distracted by intelligence-draining lights during their mission onboard Libra, spending an unknown time there before somehow turning up back in Europe. The two seemed unperturbed by the experience and the European Federation did not conduct any investigation into how these two men seemingly teleported 1500000km from space to Earth.
The next year, a much larger number of individuals were drawn to The Desert; European Federal Intelligence agents from Section 534, several troops from the Russian Federation's OMON, and a large number of Russian civilians. A strange creature was encountered there, though both the Intel agents and some of the OMON troops were able to escape in the end.
Although the phenomenon of The Desert was of little interest to the European Federation, this second incident prompted the Russian Federation to investigate the matter thoroughly, motivated in part by the Russian's initial belief that the incident in Kaliningrad had been caused by the deployment of an EuF weapon on the city - a belief strengthened by the absence of investigation from the EuF.
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