: To navigate the gas-filled tunnels, he assembles a team of survivors, including the debt-ridden Vano and the former Monolith fighter Strider .
The path to Pripyat is sealed, but Degtyarev discovers documents in the Jupiter plant detailing an underground transportation tunnel, . stalker-call-of-pripyat
In S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat , the story centers on , an undercover agent for the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and a former experienced stalker. He is dispatched to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone following the failure of Operation Fairway , a massive military campaign intended to seize the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant from the Monolith cult. : To navigate the gas-filled tunnels, he assembles
Degtyarev enters the Zone posing as a common stalker, arriving first in the swampy marshlands of . Here, he establishes himself at the Skadovsk , a decommissioned freighter serving as a neutral hub for stalkers and bandits. He is dispatched to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
: His search leads him south to the Jupiter industrial area. He uncovers evidence that the military didn't just fall to mutants or Monolith fire—they were systematically destroyed by the Zone itself. Reaching the Ghost City
: He locates several downed "Stingray" helicopters. One was incinerated from the inside, another fell victim to an unseen electrical surge, and a third crashed at a high-altitude plateau reachable only by following the instructions of Noah , a local "crazy" stalker who lives on an old barge.