

A sudden electromagnetic surge makes their helicopter crash. To find out what is going on, they send the Black-Ops-team Spartan-21 to investigate. However, in 2010 an American spy satellite picks up radiation over the island, putting the government at high alert because of the fear of another Chernobyl disaster. The scientists were forced to conduct their research at maximal speed, notwithstanding the possible dangers.Eventually, in 1955 an unknown and inexplicable disaster occurred, apparently killing everyone on the island and forcing the leaders to terminate the project. Stalin immediately realized the scope of this discovery and pumped as many funds as possible into researching its military potential. This something turned out to be E99 - the most powerful energy source known to man. However, instead of uranium, they found something else on a small island off the east coast of Russia, now called Katorga-12. Feeling threatened by the USA and their nuclear bomb, the Russians had to look for uranium themselves after World War II ended.
