In hidden laboratories throughout the Zone, The Group would conduct research into psychic weaponry and the Noosphere in secret with nobody besides a select few knowing their true objective. games take place in the Zone of Alienation, a supernatural area surrounding the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant just outside the city of Pripyat, Ukraine.Īfter the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, a mysterious organization known only as “The Group” delved into research of mind control and the Noosphere, an invisible sphere connecting the psychic energies of all humans on Earth. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl Recap.C-Consciousness (A.K.A the Common Consciousness) and The Group.Major Alexander Alexandrovitch Degtyarev.