Stalburg Nuclear Weapons

SNW

General
Company	SNW
Status	Active
Industry	Defense
Key People	Sven Olsson Board member Jeff Walter (deceased) Funder Xeander Berg (deceased) Science Team Leader Richard Scientist
Locations	SNW Bunker Erzfell Base

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Stalburg Nuclear Weapons or S.N.W. (S.N.W in logo) is a secret military organization that was founded after WW2. The goal of the organization was to build nuclear weapons in order to defend their country (TSL) and Stalburg in the event of another war. The organization was highly secretive and it was unknown to the general public of Stalburg until Mark found enough corruption evidence to reveal the S.N.W. conspiracy.

Story

Some years after WW2 some unknown military representative contacted Jeff Walter and multiple high ranking officials to start a new organization with a goal to research and develop nuclear weapons to help defend the country of TSL and Stalburg in the event of another war. This organization became known as the S.N.W.

The S.N.W. used Walter's funding to build an top secret bunker under the Walter Tower and a secret reactor control room in the Stalburg Nuclear Power Plant reactors, that were used to filch Uranium and smuggle it to The Bunker.

Of course, a project of this scale needed plenty of scientists, so S.N.W. operatives practically forced a bunch of scientists including Xeander Berg to work on the project. The scientists were held captive in an accommodation wing next to the laboratory. The scientists were not allowed to contact anyone outside of the project.

During the construction of the bunker they encountered some green mushrooms and set up a small team to investigate them. The team discovered that the mushrooms can cause a disease that eventually leads to a slow death. This disease became known as the S.M.V or Stalburg Mushroom Virus.

During the S.N.W. project the corrupt S.N.W. leaders began to take advantage of Walter's funding to build biochemical weapons (presumably using the S.M.V virus) and sell them to highest bidder. They also used Walter to get rid of three major companies in Stalburg:

• Hammer Valley Hydro
  • Reason 1: The S.N.W. thought that Hammer Valley Hydro has too many connections to the Bergman group.
  • Reason 2: The S.N.W. wanted to use the Hammer Valley dam as a secondary powersource for The Bunker.
• Bergmann Group
  • Reason: Bergmann Group built the majority of Stalburg's underground infrastructure, including several areas around The Bunker. S.N.W. wanted to use the underground tunnels to smuggle Uranium from the SNPP to The Bunker.
• Stalburg Steel
  • Reason 1: The S.N.W. thought that Stalburg Steel offices contained some sensitive information, which they didn't want to fall into wrong hands.
  • Reason 2: Union of Metal Workers was a major civilian legislative body. Getting rid of Stalburg Steel and UMW would grant the military extended mandate over civilian legislative bodies.

Metro Accident

On August 8th 1986 a metro train full of passengers took a wrong turn and ended up on in an old unused tunnel that collapsed and lead to the train crashing into the bunker. The S.N.W. leaders did not want to risk the public knowing about the S.N.W. Project so they executed all the passengers that survived the crash. This resulted in the guards making a stand against the S.N.W. leaders.

Shortly after the accident Xeander Berg and another unknown scientist managed to escape The Bunker and S.N.W. started to search for them with the help from the Stalburg police. A day after the escape of Xeander Berg the S.N.W. Operatives evacuated the bunker because of an S.M.V leak was detected. Shortly after the Evacuation the S.N.W. project was shut down and all the S.N.W. personnel were given new tasks.

INFRA

During the events of INFRA Mark makes his way into the bunker through the Walter Tower. To proceed, he must shut down a fan by placing SMV infected items in front of the sensors in the ventilation shaft. Although this is all that is required to get through the level, Mark can still find a way to the accommodation wing where he finds the demon core experiment, the metro crash site and even the place where all the deceased passangers were placed. All of these places have camera targets of which many count as corruption evidence.

Images

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  A picture of the crashed metro in the bunker

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  A map of the tunnels S.N.W. used to smuggle Uranium from the SNPP

Trivia

• In the S.N.W. Bunker you can find a Demon core sitting in the Lab table, which is a reference to an real life experiment of the same name.
• In the accommodation wing of the bunker the room of Richard which has murals of Mörkö painted all over the walls and ceiling and has a hole in the side that leads to a secret computer terminal can be accessed. The cause Richard's insanity is largely unknown, but it may have something to do with SMV or long periods of isolation. He is mentioned in a note of one of his colleagues who criticizes him for supporting the Demon Core over it's reflector with a screwdriver.