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- In November 1984, Maxis secretly contacts the Requiem strike team during their mission, requesting them to meet with Ravenov. At a missile silo in the "Ruka" region, Ravenov reveals that Peck has been using Aetherium crystals to supercharge nuclear warheads, which would allow Omega Group to create new outbreak zones wherever they choose. Not wishing to let either side possess the warheads, Maxis instructs Ravenov and the strike team to direct the warheads toward the Pacific Ocean, where they can be safely dumped. After clearing out a massive zombie horde guarding the silo, the strike team succeeds in deploying the warheads and is exfiltrated from the area by Raptor One. (en)
- In February 1985, an outbreak occurs in East Berlin, where Valentina was last sighted. Having learned of her true allegiance, Kravchenko deploys Requiem's strike team at the Berlin site to stop her, while overseeing their mission, using Raptor One as leverage. Kravchenko and the strike team learn that Valentina has been mutated with Dark Aether energy by "the Forsaken", the entity mentioned by Zykov, who was also masquerading as Vogel to trick Valentina into doing his bidding. With Omega Group's instructions and the assistance of "Klaus", a combat robot customized with an artificial intelligence module created by the Director of Requiem, the strike team constructs a miniature Aetherium warhead using components left onsite by the CIA at an abandoned safe house. Valentina tries to stop them, but is ultimately defeated, and her energy is used to refine the Aetherium for the warhead. As the Forsaken taunts Requiem of his imminent arrival, Klaus carries the warhead through the portal. Kravchenko attempts to betray the strike team at the last minute, but Maxis uses her Dark Aether powers to open a portal, allowing the team to escape. Meanwhile, the Director monitors Maxis and sends a group memo to an unknown recipient, noting her growing power as a concern towards "Project Janus". (en)
- In an effort to catch up to Omega Group's progress, Requiem launches "Operation Threshold", a large-scale mission across the Ural Mountains, where the largest outbreak zones have been identified. Over the next several months, Requiem's strike team is deployed in multiple Ural regions in order to eliminate undead targets, capture specimen and commence further research on the mysterious "Aetherium" element. Meanwhile, Maxis is quarantined under isolation due to her time spent inside the Dark Aether. Amidst the operations at the Ural Mountains, both Requiem and Omega come into contact with Kazimir Zykov, a Soviet engineer who helped the Red Army shut down the Endstation facility in 1945, but has been trapped inside the Dark Aether since then. Zykov, who wishes to escape the dimension, has attempted to reach out to the real world, giving both Requiem and Omega warnings of a mysterious entity commanding the undead forces from within. (en)
- In November 1983, acting on intelligence obtained from rogue BND agent Samantha Maxis, the CIA task force "Requiem" deploys a four-person strike team to a World War II-era Nazi nuclear research facility, known as "Projekt Endstation", in Morasko, Poland, to investigate recent activity there by the Soviet-led "Omega Group". Working closely with Requiem's senior staff—Special Officer Grigori Weaver, Doctors Elizabeth Grey and Oskar Strauss, Major Mackenzie Carver, and Captain Stoney "Raptor One" Maddox—the strike team encounters waves of zombies and the facility's malfunctioning particle accelerator, which has opened several global gateways to the "Dark Aether" dimension. Upon further investigation, the strike team uncovers a device in the facility called "Der Wechsler", which can restore a zombie's brain functionality, and uses it on one of the roaming zombies in the facility, who was a former Omega Group member named Orlov; in turn, he agrees to help the team close the dimensional rift. Orlov successfully seals the rift, destroying the Endstation facility and sacrificing himself in the process, while allowing the strike team to escape. (en)
- The following month, Ravenov contacts Weaver via Maxis' secret radio channel, and requests Requiem's help in extracting several Omega scientists who wish to defect from the group; though angry at Ravenov and Maxis' secrecy, Weaver agrees to help him. Shortly afterwards, the strike team receives intel from Ravenov that he has lost contact with the scientists. The team is sent to the State Sanatorium U-23 to investigate a crash site and help extract the scientists; however, they were all murdered by Dr. Hugo Jager, an Omega scientist who was secretly a mole planted by Kravchenko to root out the defectors. The strike team attempts to exfil, but is captured by Kravchenko and Omega forces. Meanwhile, Valentina continues to further her own agenda: to open a gateway to the Dark Aether in hopes of freeing her father, who seemingly has been communicating with her from the other side since her childhood. Omega Group eventually deduces Valentina's real identity as Angelika Vogel, the daughter of Ulrich Vogel, the head of Projekt Endstation. (en)
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