E1M1: Kosmonautu Station

The world has gone to hell and the homeland is a mess. Strange invaders are lurking everywhere, and it is high time that the Player did something about it. Zizka whispers in your ear, and so it begins...

## Walkthrough

A Player in the ČSSR emerges into a utility tunnel beneath Kosmonautů Station, facing a ventilation fan. Proceed around the corner to a ladder, next to which is a sign that reads: **The Ultimate Duty and Honor of Every Player is to Defend the Homeland and its Socialist Establishment!** (**Vrcholnou povinností a věcí cti každého občana je obrana vlasti a jejího socialistického zřizení!**).

Quest received, the Player climbs the ladder and passes through an opening to a smoky room with large ceiling pipes, a valve on the wall to your left, and a door to your right that is shut. Turn the valve to open the door and go through it to enter a dark corridor. If the Player has not turned on the flashlight yet, the message **Press F for Flashlight** will display.

At the end of the corridor is the first enemy of the game, a Smaskou. This Smaskou will pause to vomit due to Acute Radiation Syndrome before continuing down the hall to come to kill you.

Kill the Smaskou and continue to the next room which has two large ventilation fans and the first new weapon, the Soviet Shotgun.

After you pick up the shotgun, the message **Shoot the electric panel** will display. More importantly, however, the wall panels on either side of the room will open and reveal two Smaskous to ambush you.

The first new opening has a sign that says **Observation Tower** (**Pozorovatelna**) and a ladder that leads to the grated window that the Player can look out from onto the street outside the station. The second opening has an Exploding Barrel, as well as some shotgun ammo. A cracked wall inside this room hides the first secret.

    Return to the previous room and shoot the electric panel to open the locked door. Enter the corridor to the next room where there are three rats scurrying about.

    This room has three doorways, one to the left, one to the right, and one straight ahead at the top of a stack of boxes.

The room to the left has a sign that says **Mortuary** (**Márnice**). Inside it you will a Land Mine and the skeleton of someone who has had better days.

The room to the right is marked **Contaminated Clothing Storage** (**Uložení zamořených oděvů**) and is filled with boxes. Inside is a Smaskou and a Grenade, as well a Matryoshka Doll standing on one of the boxes, nearby the location of the second secret.

Returning to the previous room, jump up the boxes to get to the third door. On the way, you can jump over to the other stack of boxes that has some Tasty Canned Poultry on top of it.

Next up are some stairs that lead you to a military barracks. There is a Smaskou right at the top of the stairs, next to a shower room with pistol ammo and an interactive shower. Another two Smaskous await down the hall and around the corner.

Enter the room ahead marked with a sign that says **Inhabitants Quarters** (**Úsek pro ukrývané**), and kill the three Smaskous inside. There is a book on the floor titled **Lenin** which will open to a page to display a picture of Lenin and a page which reads: **Lenin, Comrade Lenin, eternal Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin is to live forever** (**Lenin, soudruh Lenin, věčný Lenin žil, žije a bude žít**).

Upon absorbing this wisdom, proceed around the corner to the barracks locker room, where you will find a set of lockers, a radio, a Rusted Key, and an S.U.P. that is anxiously waiting to bite your leg. Take the key and be sure to loot the lockers for a bag of Semi-Skimmed Milk and one Koruna.

Exit the barracks and proceed down the hall to the door with the Rusted Key lock and a sign that says **Staff**. Inside are two Smaskous, a valve, and several interactive items.

There is a picture on the wall of **Gustáv Husák**, the last communist president of the Czechoslovakia, which if you interact with it will display the message **Kiss** with an exaggerated kissing sound. Clicking the siphon will spray water, and clicking the rotary dial telephone will make the phone ring. Interacting the map will display the message **Map of Water Sources and Water Lines** (**Mapa vodních zdrojů a vodovodních řadů**).

Turn the valve to open the door to the elevator and exit the staff room. Proceed down the hall to the open elevator where the first Kejdovec is waiting for you, a tanky enemy that will shoot grenades at you and hit you with his baton if you get too close.

Press the elevator button, and proceed down the hall to Kosmonautů Station, pausing briefly to pick up some shotgun ammo along the way. Stride onto the central platform and into the first arena fight. There are two tracks; the one on the right has a single car that is not moving, and active trains moving on the left track. There is also a central ticket booth, a container of Soup, Main Course, Cake, a door to a utility room at left as you enter, and the game's third secret.

This is where you also discover the double-edged sword of interacting with electrical devices. If you go on the tracks, the message **Don't walk on the track*s*** will display and you will receive an electric shock that will rapidly decrease your health the longer you stand on it. However, you will also gain electric ammo which can be used later when you get the Lightning Gun.

On this same side of the platform, follow the ledge down the tunnel from where the trains emerge to find one Koruna, then enter the utility room to find your fifth weapon, the Hussite Hand Cannon.

Proceed up the platform steps, where you will be confronted with another S.U.P., several Smaskous, and some Kejdovecs. Note that there is a door with an Aluminum Key lock to your left at the top.

Through the two squared entryways to the right there will be another set of stairs to the right, and the entryway to the station at the right with a Common Key lock, blocked by two bollards. Proceed up the stairs to the restrooms, and enter ladies'dies restroom.

Here there will be a ventilation fan and a cracked wall pointing the way to the fourth secret. Shoot the ventilation fan and jump into the duct. At the end will be the Aluminum Key. A sliding panel will opereturningeturn the Player to the top of the platform stairs with the Aluminum Key door at right.

This door is the entry to the station's mechanical room. There will be two Smaskous on the catwalk when you enter, and when you descend the ladder to the room below, there will be an additional two Smaskous and Kejdovecs roaming the halls, along with a bag of Semi-Skimmed Milk and the Common Key.

Take the Common Key, and a sliding wall will open to reveal another Smaskou and Kejdovec, along with some Tasty Canned Poultry. Depending on your amount of health, you can also pause for a moment to pick up some electric ammo by opening the Electric Cabinet.

Exit the mechanical room to return to the top of the platform stairs, and proceed across through the right entryway to reach the Common Key door lock. Open it and climb the stairs to the street.

At the top of the stairs t,here are shells, a Medkit, and a Smaskou coming to ask if you would like to eat some fresh bullets. There is also an information kiosk covered with ads and the Statue of Cosmonauts.

Proceed down the street to a playground, where you will find a Smaskou, Kejdovec, and an S.U.P. hanging around to frighten the children away. Beyond them is a **Pub** (**Pivnice**) with another Kejdovec standing watch. There is an alcove with shells, along with some Tasty Canned Poultry near the entrance to the fifth secret. You may want to take a moment to enjoy a ride on the playground spinner before proceeding inside.

Sadly the **Pub** displays a sign that says **Out of Beer** (**Pivo není**) which is bound to put people in a bad mood. Happily, past the pool table, there are two Smaskous who are eager to discuss their frustrations with you.

This room also contains the path to the exit. Break the ventilation duct and crawl into it to reach the final room of the game. You will pass the entrance to the sixth secret before reaching the final room, which opens a door to the final Kejdovec and the AZ-5 button that exists theat level.

**Previous:** Kiss Me Gustav

**Next:** E1M2: Luna

# Secrets

Kosmonautů Station has six secrets that represent the typical ways secrets are hidden in the game: cracked walls, interactable walls, and electric panels.

### Secret 1

In the third room with the Soviet Shotgun, take the shotgun to open passages in two blank walls. The one to the Player's right will have an exploding barrel, which can be pushed down the corridor to a cracked wall. Detonate the barrel, then climb the ladder behind the walls. Dispatch two Sewer Rats that come down the passage to be rewarded with a fourth weapon, the Submachine Gun.

### Secret 2

In the room with the Babushka Doll, one of the boxes at left when you enter the room has an interactive panel. Use it, and be rewarded with a Wifebeater, a glorious undershirt that adds 62 points to your armor.

### Secret 3

On the Kosmonautů Station platform, in the track where the train is running is decorative wall ornamentation that looks like double-ended arrows. Jump across the track to the middle of the decoration and interact with the wall to open a hidden room containing one Koruna. When you jump across, you will not fall to the track if you land in the right spot. Take care that when you return to the platform that you are not jumping into an oncoming train.

### Secret 4

Just like JC Denton, the Player cannot resist an incursion to the ladies restroom at Kosmonautů Station, where there is a cracked wall behind the toilet. Use your newly acquired Hussite Hand Cannon to blast it open to snag 15 shells.

### Secret 5

Towards the end of the map, near the brasserie, find the hidden electric panel and shoot it open to reveal a motherlode of treasure. Of course, you will need to fight off two Smaskous and another S.U.P., but once accomplished you will gain access to a Medkit, and clips for the Submachine Gun.

### Secret 6

The last secret of Kosmonautů Station is not as rich as the last but does contain a can of Tasty Canned Tuna and a Grenade. Once in the final ventilation duct, interact with the panel to the right just before the exit, to reveal your prizes.

# Speedrunning

Main article: Speedrunning
* When doing a speedrun of the full game, it can be useful to collect the Wifebeater in Secret 2 for health management.
* In the ventilation duct leading from the men's restroom, there will be enemies waiting for you at the other end of the vent after you collect the Aluminium Key. Throw a Grenade as soon as the vent exit opens to kill them.

# Lore

* Kosmonautů Station is a real metro station in Prague, Czech Republic, meaning Station of the Cosmonauts. It was opened in 1980. The name was changed in 1990, and it is now called Háje after the name of the quarter where the station is located. The layout of the metro station depicts the layout and architecture of this real-world location.

* The text in the book **Lenin**, found in the barracks, comes from the epic poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, **Vladimir Ilyich Lenin** (**Владимир Ильич Ленин**), a four poem cycle written in 1923–1924. **Lenin, Comrade Lenin, eternal Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin is to live forever** was an omnipresent refrain in this work.

* The radio in the barracks locker room can be tuned to two stations. The first is being the famous Soviet / Russian military channel marker station UVB-76 which is broadcasted at the 4625 kHz shortwave band and is also known as "The Buzzer", and the second is a Czech numbers station with a woman repeating **One, Two, Three** (**Jedna, Dva, Tři**). This latter station was a fan suggestion that the developer released in version 0.3.4.

* Gustáv Husák was the last Communist president of Czechoslovakia. He is remembered as the face of normalization, which was the time period following the Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Considered old and dull, he had quite a colorful life. During World War II he was periodically jailed by the Jozef Tiso's Nazi-allied Slovak government for illegal Communist activities, and he was one of the leaders of the 1944 Slovak National Uprising against the Nazi Germany and Tiso. After the war, he began a career as a Communist party official in the government, but fell victim to a Stalinist purge of the party leadership in 1950. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, spending the years from 1954 to 1960 in the Leopoldov Prison. As part of the De-Stalinization period in Czechoslovakia, Husák's conviction was overturned and his party membership was restored in 1963.

* The **Statue of Cosmonauts** that is visible on the plaza leading to Kosmonautů Station is a real work of art, lovingly recreated based on the bronze statue by Jan Bartoš. The statue represents two cosmonauts Aleksei Gubarev and Vladimír Remek on a pedestal saluting the people. Today, it stands near the entrance to the Háje metro station. In this picture it has clearly been marred by anti-party elements.

* The projections found on some of the buildings in the game are modeled on actual steam ventilators found on buildings in Prague.

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* The AZ-5 button that appears at the end of each episode to conclude the level is a reference to the Chernobyl Disaster that occurred on 26 April 1986. This button was pressed to initiate an emergency shutdown of the reactor. This inserted all the control rods, causing some of them to fracture, starting the chain of events that resulted in the worst nuclear accident in history. Although Chernobyl was located in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, most of the radioactive dust and debris was carried by wind to neighboring countries. The Czechoslovak population received low doses of ionizing radiation which increased the instances of thyroid cancer in the years that followed.

# Gallery

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