Politics and structure

## Introduction

This page is dedicated to the RP's current politics (such as relations between factions) and factions' organization (like who's the current leader of faction A).

Relations in the Zone changes from time to time. As such, this should only be taken as a grain of salt. The current politics as of **15/8/2023**, goes as follow:

#### Loners:

* Neutral: Clear Sky, Freedom, Duty, Ecologists, the Military, Mercenaries, UNISG
* Hostile: Bandits, Monolith, Renegades, Sin, **[REDACTED]**

#### Bandits:

* Neutral: Mercenaries (Wild Territory and Jupiter), almost all Renegade groups
* Hostile: Loners, Clear Sky, Duty, Freedom, Mercenaries, Ecologists, the Military, Sin, UNISG, **[REDACTED]**

#### Clear Sky:

* Neutral: Loners, Duty, Freedom, Mercenaries
* Hostile: Bandits, the Military, Monolith, Renegades, Sin, UNISG, **[REDACTED]**
* Friend: Ecologists

#### Freedom:

* Neutral: Loners, Ecologists
* Hostile: Bandits, Mercenaries, Duty, the Military, Monolith, Renegades, Sin, UNISG, **[REDACTED]**

#### Duty:

* Neutral: Loners, Ecologists, Mercenaries, Military Stalkers
* Hostile: Bandits, Freedom, the Military, Monolith, Renegades, Sin, UNISG, **[REDACTED]**

#### The Military - State Security Service of Ukraine:

* Neutral: They are neutral when *they feel like it*
* Hostile: All illegal stalker clans and factions
* Friend: a certain Clear Sky stalker, Ecologists, UN observers

#### Ecologists:

* Neutral: All friendly and neutral stalker clans toward them.
* Hostile: Bandits, Renegades, Monolith, Sin, **[REDACTED]**
* Friend: The Military

#### Mercenaries:

* Neutral: Loners, Bandits (Wild Territory and Jupiter), Clear Sky, Duty, Ecologists
* Hostile: Bandits in general, Freedom, The Military, Renegades, Monolith, Sin, UNISG, **[REDACTED]**

#### Monolith:

* Neutral: Sin
* Hostile: The rest of the Zone

#### Renegades:

* Neutral: Bandits
* Hostile: The rest of the Zone

#### Sin:

* Friend: Monolith
* Hostile: The rest of the Zone

#### UNISG and observers:

* Neutral: Loners, Mercenaries, the Military, Ecologists
* Hostile: Bandits, Duty, Freedom, Renegades, Sin, **[REDACTED]**
* Friend: The Military - applies to the observers only

#### ~~Brigade:~~

* ~~Neutral: Loners, Duty, Freedom, Mercenaries, the Military, Ecologists, some UNISG squads~~
* ~~Hostile: Bandits, Renegades, Sin, UNISG in general, **[REDACTED]**~~

#### ~~Final Day:~~

* ~~Neutral: Loners, Clear Sky, Duty, Freedom, Ecologists, Monolith~~
* ~~Hostile: Bandits, Mercenaries, the Military, Renegades, Sin, UNISG, **[REDACTED]**~~

### Factions

Factions in this RP remains largely the same as they are in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games and GAMMA. However, with the acceptance of the community regarding the issue of creating new factions and subfactions under condition that they remain *relevant to the Zone settings*, *original* and **not** **overpowered**, the diversity in stalker clans of this RP has largely been increased. If you're interested in doing so, ***consult us in the rp-discussion channel.***

#### Canonically exist/existed factions from the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy:

* ~~Final Day = is presumed to be Clear Sky's successor after their demise back in 2011 (see the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky). Supposedly died back in around the interperiod between Clear Sky and Shadow of Chernobyl. However, it seems that things... weren't that simple *at all...*~~
* Loners
* Bandits
* Clear Sky
* Duty
* Freedom
* The Military
* Ecologists
* Mercenaries
* Monolith
* Renegades
* Sin
* UNISG

#### Community-created factions:

* **Ward:** Monolith killers. WIP
* **Chernobyl War and Supply Regiment - CSWR:** A now-defunct mercenary organization controlled by a few unknown powerful figures. Their HQ was based in the Meadows.
* **Lab Raiders:** National Paramilitary, donning Soviet camouflage, with Cold war era Western gear. Originally formed by a man named Relka Kiliov during the first Chechen war (exact date unknown), they have been involved in most major conflicts across the globe since then, picking sides. Contrary to popular belief, they aren't PMCs, and come to these wars at them of volition. Their usual kit consists of a PASGT helmet and body armour, old VDV camouflage, a GP-5 gas-mask (only used in certain situations) and an AK-74N, higher-ups usually with their own kit, though loosely following that gear-list. They don't use vehicles, at the most a van, and a bicycle for most situations (albiet in the zone, they ditch any mode of transport other than walking). In the zone, they first appeared in 2013, with Ply being a 1-year veteran of the zone at the time, he became in charge of what was called the Zone battalion. Since then, they have just been raiding Labs for artefacts, which were sold offshore to people outside the zone, until the 21st of January 2019, 2159 hours, on a still-winter evening. 8 men loaded onto a dock in Pripyat, and seiged a building, killing any Monolith inside, with 1 loss, then raiding a Lab, with another loss. Then they tried to assassinate Inquisitor Vult. In short, everyone on that mission died. Their logo is a red background, a black GP5 in the middle, a fireman's axe on the bottom right, and a globe on the top left. Status: **DESTROYED.**
* **Bratva:** Criminal syndicate from all over Europe, Russian origin. The Bratva is led by a mysterious man named Spider (a.k.a Pauk), it has number around *200 men*, including *auxiliary troops* such as **the Hooliganskaya** and **the Anarchist of Taganskaya station**. They are in possession of the BTR armored transport vehicle series, specifically the BTR-60, 70 and 80. They also have access to a chopper gunner referred to as the **Hellraiser**. Not much is known about the organisation of this mafia group. Only two high ranking members are known, **Spider** and his *right-hand man* named **Khleb**. Their logo is a *purple circle, covered by a black spider net, on which a black spider is posted.* Status: **Retreated from the Zone.**
* **Belaya Zvezda:** Referred to as the BZ, or the White Stars, they are a mafia group similar to the Bratva but at the same time very much different. Following White Russian tradition, the BZ has a strict amd heavily militarized ranking system. The top member in the Zone is the daughter of the Crime Syndicate owner, she is named **Tsarovna**. She has *three top Lieutenants*: **Brunhilda**, **Leto** and **Arbalety**. Each one of the Lieutnants got a *direct subordinate* known as a Capitain, they are *Sergeï*, *Dmitri* and *Kolostov*. The BZ also have, as notable members, the Younglings: **Olk** and **Kesh**. The BZ has access to the BTR-90 - the latest BTR model available in the market. Their logo is *a white star with two* *golden wings behind it.*
* **[REDACTED]:** A outside force operating within the Zone with no pernament presence. Not much is known about them. They are hostile to all unless under special orders as they follow a *"no witnesses" policy*. Due to the high quality of their equipment, they seem to be connected to a certain government, and it's most definitely not the Ukrainian one.
* **CTF = Chernobyl Task Force:** The CTF is a special operations group under the direct control of *the GU - Main Directorate of the General Chief of Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation*. Its' missions are to *conduct reconnaissance in the Zone,* *noting down special areas of possible interest*, and report it to either GU officers through encrypted messages or undercover GU/senior CTF agents within the MVS Ukrayiny such as the now-deceased Colonel Winters. Should the AFRF's commander-in-chief - the President of Russia orders an offensive to be launched in the regions nearby the ChEZ's perimeter, the task force' missions will be extended to ***sabotage of enemy resources and defenses,*** *assassination of confirmed and possible* **HVTs**, extortion for critical information and act as light infantry when the first 2 divisions of the AFRF arrives to the Zone's soil. Status: **DEACTIVATED.**
* **JRG - Joint Research Group:** A highly clandestine scientific group managed by NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Not much information about this group is available, other than the fact that they were the culprit of the NATO Wars back in 2018, leading by the wide nuking of the Zone, to no consequences inflicted towards them for enigmatic reasons. They're currently under reorganization for the next grand operation. Their former leader was Lieutenant Richardson, who was killed assassinated by an unknown force. Status: **DESTROYED.**
* **Brigade** (in polish) *Brygada. (In Ukrainian) Бригада* is a group of Europeans, mainly composed of Polish ex-GROM Lab Escapees. Founded in 2019 by United Nations International Scientific Group headed by "Patient Zero" aka Claymore. Previously, the group was tasked with retrieving a special artifact for the EU. Now, their new goal is to survive in the Zone. The group attempts to develop neutral relations with as many factions as possible.
	1. **[REDACTED INFORMATION]**: Claymore aka Patient Zero is a "Half-Human Anomalous entity". He leads people with similar skills to his. Their power is indescribable, most factions are afraid that they can just wipe out any person they feel like.

#### Sub-factions

* The Monolith Inquisition: A sub-faction of the Monolith, born with the rebirth of **Smog** **the Seer**, Grand Inquisitor with his two top lieutenants: ***Igdim the Cleanser,*** Beacon of the Inquisition and the other being ***Silhouety the Fearless***, Bane of the Heretics (now reborn as **Grus**)
* Valkyries: An elite squad of Duty, led by Lieutenant Colonel **Krivda**.
* Black Knights: An elite group of bandits, formed by a certain bandit and seldomly controlled by Sultan as a replacement for his old private strike force after his former right-hand man, Nikolai "Makarov" Aristov, deserted from the ranks to join the Belaya Zvezda. Their objective is varied from sorting out major turf wars to conducting high-profile assassinations.