Tunguska Event



The Tunguska event occured on June 30, 1908. It was this event that brought the Chimera back to Earth, having left over 60 million years ago. Estimates of the blast power are anywhere from 5 to 30 megatons, or roughly 1000 times as powerful as the real-life Little Boy nuclear bomb. In game, 20 years after this event many of the local Russian tribes developed legends of warfare on an epic scale, with entire villages and herds of animals wiped out, leaving only diesease and death. One such legend even told of a local shamen suddenly transforming into a six-eyed 8 foot tall monster, impervious to bullets and knives.

While investigating the site in 1921, famed explorer Leonid Kulik and his men went missing. His latest journal entry, found by a search party, told of how the tribesmen believed that a god had entered the atmosphere during the event. The entry goes: "The local population here, the Evenki people, has perpetuated a legend that their god, Agdy, came down from the heavens in a flourish of anger, causing the phenomena that was observable for hundreds of miles around. I fear that they were more accurate than I had initially believed.  There was a vengeful entity that forced its way into our atmosphere all those years ago, but God has nothing to do with it.  We will embark on our return  trip to St. Petersburg at the first sign of sunlight tomorrow morning."