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Hello Stalkers!
In the next episode of the series, where we present the profiles of our companions, we will look at what is probably the weirdest and most mysterious character in our merry bunch - Tarakan. It is not hard to get the impression that he’s some kind of local weirdo who is missing the fifth stave and who lives by conspiracy theories. In a way, this is true. However, when you look at him closely, you may discover that there’s more to Tarakan than meets the eye.
Originally, Tarakan was meant to be only a tool used to accomplish something that has been on our minds for a long time - blowing up the Duga radar. Aside from doing something spectacular, it was also an opportunity to put the player to the first morality test - giving them a choice between what was reasonably useful (PDA upgrade) and what was simply cool and pleasing to the eye (blowing up the radar). To achieve this, a mysterious, secretive gentleman with strange, ulterior motives was needed. Moscow Eye has always been the subject of many conspiracy theories, and this gave impulse to the creation of an ederly “tinfoil hat” individual who, quite surprisingly, was right about some things.
The concept of Tarakan's character has evolved over time. At first, he was supposed to be one of the many stalkers, almost indistinguishable from the rest. But we decided that someone as distinctive as Tarakan deserves an equally distinctive outfit. The tinfoil cap was out of the question at all. After all, we were creating a serious video game. The style had to fit in with someone who is, on the one hand, completely insane (with all his theories about conspiracies and the great forces behind them), and on the other hand, brilliant and resourceful. And so from the combination of a forest shaman based on Ukrainian fairy tales combined with the technomancer skills of an ex-electro worker and a former KGB agent, a technoshaman - Tarakan was created.
Exactly! We would almost forget to answer the question that pops up here and there in our community from time to time: why does Tarakan have such above-average knowledge of computers? Well, you could say that this is an extension of the concept of an easter egg and one of the craziest theories about Duga. We assumed that the colorful theory suggesting that the radar, contrary to its original purpose, was used to control people's minds had some truth to it, and so Tarakan would be one of the few people involved in this project on behalf of the KGB. We haven't over-developed this storyline in the game, but despite numerous changes, Duga is still able to map enemy brainwave locations, and Tarakan still has a relationship with it, just like with all related technologies. Oh, the whole secret of his knowledge. But how deep it goes - we leave it for you to discover.
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