Unturned

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Arid
Why is Fort Knell Radioactive and What Happened There?
The fort itself has only been damaged slightly, with minor blast marks and random bullet holes on the main building, the only major damage is an abrams tank which presumably went through the right side of the building and was left in one of the hallways, does this allude to the fact that there was friendly fire? or a sabotage of some sort? since the only place where there's abrams tanks is in the Fort Knell deadzone.

There's also various places where there's broken glass, however there's certain areas where it's all intact, implying that a large bomb of some sort did not shatter all of the glass in one go like a nuke, it could be that there were multiple gunshots/ explosives that went off in the Fort upon it's "fall".

There's a blood mark splattered on the floor specifically the table next to the west stairs and there's one in the A1 sink area, this possibly shows that assassination/s had taken place, the blood splatter in the bathroom could possibly show that someone had started to suffer possible symptoms of a bioweapon attack ( since they may be unaware of it/ mistook it for something else when they bled in the bathroom, then bled in the desk area near the west stairs, ) or two different people have bled in two different areas instead.

Going back to room A1, it's just a room with sinks, there's a door that is unaccesible in A1 probably because if you look outside the room that is unaccesible, it has windows which are barricaded with wooden scrap, It's hollow inside rn ik but lore wise what could be in that room?

There's also an unnamed room blocked off between B3 and B4 with wooden scrap, not only that there's a long pot blocking it too, was that just lazy design by the map creators or could this have a meaning?

There's also some sort of mark either with red paint or blood next to B13 with an unaccesible door that leads to a room with cleaning equipment such as washing machines and other janitor stuff, why is there a mark there?

I looked around the surrounding vehicles and I assume that weirdly enough, besides the tank inside the main building, all the other vehicles seem to be positioned as if they weren't prepared for combat of any sort, which is weird since well.. it's obvious that some sort of attack had taken place in Fort Knell.

In the big meeting room in the main building where there's a blue projector that still works but is corrupted, on the table there's some paper left there, there's 2 that interest me the most, 1 shows a picture of a DNA strand, the other one is a graph of some sort, could this allude to the fact that the meeting that took place had something to do with the zombies? or possibly some other bioweapon.

And finally the elephant the room, the strong informant zombies that spawn often at random places around Fort Knell, they have a good chance of dropping Document Bags which can only be traded with the Informant NPC in the safezone, what is the meaning of the Informants? why are they in Fort Knell specifically? why is the Informant NPC the only one that can be found that isn't infected? does he also come from Fort Knell or is he related to it?

I presume that the informants used to work in the office cubicles in the main building, they possibly get information about the soviet army which are found around the map, probably because of that Fort Knell has been attacked by the soviet army, if they had, has the USSR and USA been in a secret war in unturned? have zombies existed before in the middle east before being released in Washington 2013 to most of the world? ( I guess I should reserve this whole timeline topic in a different forum not this one. )

I made these points because they might show a possible cause of the extreme radiation that spreads pretty far around Fort Knell, more extreme than the one in the nuclear submarine bay.

I put out these points because it might help to realise the source of the extreme radiation, was it a bioweapon set up by the soviets in the barricaded room next to A1? was it a nuke set off in the distance? was it a large scale bioweapon set off in the distance? Personally I think it's there's a bioweapon in the barricaded room, tell me guys what you think.
Last edited by Old Frail Man; 11 Jan, 2022 @ 4:17pm
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Old Frail Man 11 Jan, 2022 @ 4:16pm 
Small note for the Devs of Arid, has anything I've mentioned design-wise ( like blocked off rooms, vehicle placements ect. ) been an intentional addition or is it just stuff you did design-wise, nothing intentional?
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Chainsaw.Aardvark 12 Jan, 2022 @ 11:50am 
In AG-19 just a gas mask is sufficient, in the fort you need an entire protective suit. This leads me to believe we are looking at two different types of contamination. I would hazard a guess that the Sub-pen is a radiological hazard, with alpha/beta particles as the main threat, thus a need to use a mask, but not capable of penetrating the skin. Meanwhile, Knell is possibly a chemical agent that can be absorbed through skin (any number of nerve gases) hence the need for full body covering.

The Soviet invasion was in the 80s, far too early for the types of computers we find in there (and USB sticks) so it would imply that there was a later attempt to reopen the area and set up something new.

While the map is based on Afghanistan, there is a sadly long story of using arid regions like Nevada and Kazakhstan as testing areas for weapons. I would not be surprised if this place seemingly in the middle of nowhere was a testing site for some sort of anti-zombie bioweapon. A base that size would nominally have some sort of road leading to it, unless they were intentionally keeping it off the map.
Old Frail Man 13 Jan, 2022 @ 11:39am 
Originally posted by Chainsaw.Aardvark:
In AG-19 just a gas mask is sufficient, in the fort you need an entire protective suit. This leads me to believe we are looking at two different types of contamination. I would hazard a guess that the Sub-pen is a radiological hazard, with alpha/beta particles as the main threat, thus a need to use a mask, but not capable of penetrating the skin. Meanwhile, Knell is possibly a chemical agent that can be absorbed through skin (any number of nerve gases) hence the need for full body covering.

The Soviet invasion was in the 80s, far too early for the types of computers we find in there (and USB sticks) so it would imply that there was a later attempt to reopen the area and set up something new.

While the map is based on Afghanistan, there is a sadly long story of using arid regions like Nevada and Kazakhstan as testing areas for weapons. I would not be surprised if this place seemingly in the middle of nowhere was a testing site for some sort of anti-zombie bioweapon. A base that size would nominally have some sort of road leading to it, unless they were intentionally keeping it off the map.
I had the idea that a bioweapon was used on Fort Knell, but the whole idea of americans returning in modern times to probably test some sort of chemical agent is very interesting, wouldn't have thought of that one at all.
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