October 8-11, 2026 - AIRFIELD MAHLWINKEL

Chernobyl Scientist Operation

Scientists

Scientists don't seek power – they seek answers.

If you join them, you'll delve deep into the secrets of the Zone. Research, analysis, and understanding are paramount for you – but knowledge in the Zone is just as dangerous as any weapon.

Discord

As this faction requires a lot of role-playing, we use the Discord server to connect:

https://discord.gg/ZCnAE28N4Y

Knowledge is Power – The Scientists of the Zone

Scientists are among the few truly neutral factions within the Zone. While others fight for influence, resources, or territory, you pursue a different goal. You want to understand what the Zone is and what potential lies hidden within it.

Your drive is knowledge. You investigate radiation, analyze anomalies, and deal with phenomena that would be considered impossible outside the Zone. Antigravity, profound genetic changes, and previously unknown forms of energy are not speculations for you, but concrete fields of research.

A central part of your work is the analysis of artifacts and mutations. You collect samples, document their properties, and try to gain usable knowledge from the dangerous peculiarities of the Zone. Every find can mean a breakthrough or bring unforeseen risks.

At the same time, you are responsible for medical care within the Zone. The wounded, irradiated, and sick seek help from you. Your knowledge can save lives, but not everyone can be saved, and sometimes you have to decide where your capabilities end.

Your research complex forms the center of your work. Equipped with laboratories, analytical instruments, and medical infrastructure, it offers you the opportunity to evaluate and further develop your findings. At the same time, it represents a valuable target and is protected accordingly. The security service ensures that you can pursue your work, even if the Zone resists.

Because your research does not go unnoticed. Governments, corporations, and other influential actors closely monitor your work. Support in the form of resources and funding is rarely selfless and often comes with conditions.

This means for you that you never work completely independently. Behind every discovery there can be larger interests, and behind every decision there may be more than is initially apparent.

If you choose this path, you must be prepared to take risks. Not only from the dangers of the Zone, but also from knowledge itself.

Because in the Zone,

The more you understand, the more dangerous it becomes

Prologue

"Have you heard about the new scientific expedition to the Zone? Officially, they are researchers, doctors, and security personnel from the Chernobyl Scientific Institute. Neutral, they say. Only committed to progress. But in the Zone, no one believes in pure intentions. Their equipment is too good, their security too professional, and their interest in the Zone's secrets too great. Some say they want to help. Others say they are gathering knowledge that would have been better left buried forever."

Conversation in a Stalker bar

For years, the Chernobyl Scientific Institute has been sending personnel into the Zone to systematically research its phenomena. The focus is on providing medical care to the local population, investigating radiation, anomalies, artifacts, and mutations, and searching for new knowledge that could ensure survival in the Zone. Where other factions see possessions, power, or profit, the scientists primarily recognize data, patterns, and unanswered questions.

The Institute is divided into three main areas. The medical department cares for the injured, investigates diseases, and attempts to control the physical and psychological effects of life in the Zone. Free research is dedicated to artifacts, anomalies, and the unusual natural laws of the Zone, striving for new insights. The security service protects personnel, facilities, and research results from the numerous dangers of the Zone, from mutants to looters to competing interest groups.

Despite its own equipment and military protection, the Institute relies on cooperation with stalkers, mercenaries, and other Zone inhabitants. Artifacts, samples, and valuable information often only reach their hands through those willing to face the risks outside the secured areas. In return, the Institute offers payment, medical care, scientific analysis, and access to resources that are otherwise hard to come by.

Thus, the Chernobyl Scientific Institute, like hardly any other faction, stands between reason and madness, healing and risk, and knowledge and potential catastrophe. In its laboratories and secured areas, not only what the Zone is decided, but perhaps also what it can still become.

Science is led by three leading figures in the Zone:
Prof. Dr. Med. Vet. Yuri Polowski, Head of the Medical Department
Commander Victor Wolkow, Commander of the Security Forces
Dr. Dipl. Ing. Aleksei Mikhailov, Head of the Research Department

It still raises questions why no secretary has been sent from Moscow so far to represent political interests.

Scientists

Dress code

The dress code is science-oriented. As scientists, you are strongly oriented towards the LARP game, so players have many design options. Nevertheless, your clothing should clearly distinguish you from other factions, meaning no uniforms or camouflage colors. Options include:

  • Protective suit and gas masks (for fieldwork)
  • Shirt, sleeveless sweater, turtleneck (for our theoreticians, patterned or colorful)
  • Lab coat or doctor's coat (for researchers or medical personnel)

Scientists' Security Service

Attention: For the security service, a regular scientist ticket is required. To be selected for the security service, prior application and approval by the organization team are necessary. Please contact us via our Discord server before purchasing your ticket: https://discord.gg/ZCnAE28N4Y

The equipment and clothing of the security service are clearly tactically oriented. For reasons of uniformity and to avoid confusion during outdoor operations, only a black color scheme is permitted for the uniform!

  • Cargo pants, functional top, or field shirt
  • Combat boots, hiking boots (keep them as dark as possible)
  • Optionally: beanie, cap, beret, or helmet
  • Optionally: tactical belt, Molle system, or plate carrier
  • Due to the multinational background, all types of airsoft weapons and attachments are permitted for the security service!

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Zone residents / Mutants

Due to the influence of radiation, artifacts, and anomalies, some inhabitants of the Zone have mutated. The causes for this have not yet been conclusively determined.

The portion of mutants who largely retained their consciousness have built a new civilian life within the Zone. Since there have been incidents with mutants in the past, the inhabitants of the Zone have decided that mutants will be allowed a civilian life in the village near the Scientist HQ under the supervision of the scientists.

The "Mutants" faction is aimed at all role-players who wish to experience the event unarmed. Do you have your own ideas and want to open a casino, earn quick money as an information broker, or provide assistance to the inhabitants of the Zone as a priest?

Or do you want to find out more about the history of mutants through your leaders, together with the scientists? Then this is exactly the right place for you!

The premises of the Scientist HQ (known as the Militia Village) offer numerous opportunities for this.

Dress code

Civilian appearance, preferably "tattered", as well as visible mutation. This could be represented by a small growth on the cheek, a hump, or additional limbs. We kindly request an appropriate authenticity, based on the STALKER series.

IMPORTANT!

Before purchasing a mutant ticket, please contact the game management at spielleitung@airsofthelden.de to discuss in advance whether the planned role fits the scenario and to avoid any possible double casting.
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Prof. Dr. Med. Vet. Yuri Polowski

Head of Medical Department

Born in a remote village in Soviet Ukraine, Yuri Polowski began his career as a veterinarian. This foundation still shapes his unconventional view of life and death today. However, it was in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone that he found his true calling: exploring the boundaries between humans, mutation, and reanimation. His rise within the Scientific Institute was as swift as it was consistent. Today, he heads the medical department and is responsible for the care of all employees and Zone inhabitants.
Polowski is considered a brilliant but uncompromising physician. For him, the human body is not an untouchable entity, but a system that can be understood, optimized, and, if necessary, altered. Under his leadership, not only are injuries treated, but the effects of radiation, anomalies, and unknown pathogens are also investigated. In doing so, he often operates at the limits of what seems morally justifiable, always in the name of scientific progress and for the benefit of the Institute.
However, anyone seeking his help should be aware: In his hands, you are either a patient... or a research subject.
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Commander Victor Wolkow

Head of Security Forces

Born in the final years of the Soviet Union in Yekaterinburg, Victor Wolkow grew up in harsh conditions. Violence, poverty, and a broken home environment early on shaped his uncompromising will to survive. Even in his youth, he led criminal gangs before military service removed him from this environment and led him into a strictly structured career.
In the military, Wolkow quickly made a name for himself. Discipline, toughness, and efficiency defined his actions. He rose to the rank of lieutenant and was eventually recruited by the KGB, where he served in special units for anti-terror operations and covert missions. There, his reputation as a relentless strategist who tackled every problem with maximum consequence solidified.
After his active service, he moved into the private security sector and operated with paramilitary units in international conflict zones. His missions brought control and enforcement and were often accompanied by violence. At the scientific institute, he took over the leadership of the security forces as well as control over security-relevant technologies. After a temporary suspension, he remained in KGB service and proved his loyalty as a political officer by uncovering and independently eliminating dissidents.
Wolkow is considered a cold and calculating commander. For him, the big picture takes precedence over the individual. Order is created through control and enforcement. Anyone who resists this is seen as a problem and consistently dealt with.
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Dr. Aleksei Mikhailov

Head of Research Department

Once a promising engineer within Soviet scientific structures, Dr. Aleksei Mikhailov fell out of the system due to unconventional methods, disregard for established processes, and increasing instability. Over two years ago, he was disciplinarily transferred to the Chernobyl Institute, not as a researcher, but as a caretaker.
What was intended as a demotion became a turning point. Through his uncompromising approaches, his deep knowledge of systems, and his radical understanding of progress, Mikhailov once again became indispensable within a year. Just one year later, he was appointed Head of the Department for Free Research.
Mikhailov is considered a brilliant but unpredictable mind. For him, the Zone is not a danger zone, but an experimental field. For him, progress knows no moral boundaries, only what is possible. His past and psychological evaluation cast long shadows. Between phases of extreme clarity and unpredictable leaps of thought, he nevertheless remains one of the Institute's most valuable resources.
Under his leadership, research pushes the boundaries of what is conceivable, and beyond.
Anyone working with Dr. Mikhailov should be aware:
He doesn't seek answers. He creates new questions and forces the Zone to endure them.
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