Manda's (Amachan) Frozen Northern Wastes

On the 30^th of June 1908 near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia a 12-megaton explosion occurred. Due to the isolation of the area and the political situation in the Russian Empire at the time, it was not until 1921 the first expedition to the area took place. Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (Леонид Алексеевич Кулик), Russian mineralogist led a team to a basin near the river. They didn’t get close to the blast area, but gathered local accounts of the event. This led Kulik to believe that it had been caused by a giant meteorite impact. He persuaded the Soviet government to fund an expedition to the blast site and led a scientific expedition in 1927. The expedition arrived at a local town called Vanavara where they prepared to go out and when they left that was the last that was heard from them. Over the next 20 years reports of people missing started showing up more and more, until in 1946 all contact with the small town of Mutorai, northwest of the impact site was lost. Of course the Soviet Union kept all of this quiet. It was not until Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв) took office in 1953 that there was any serious investigation into these disappearances. The first teams leading the investigations disappeared quite quickly without any trace.

In 1950 Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Георгий Константинович Жуков) established the first 46 Spetsnaz companies after they were mostly abolished after the end of the Great Patriotic War (World War II). Khrushchev ordered in 1955 a specialized Spetsnaz unit was set-up, one that was 100% loyal to the Union, prepared for survival in Siberia and also capable of assessing any biohazard or environmental contamination. The team arrived in Miryuga and when talking to the inhabitants they heard that it has been months since they heard anything from Oskoba, A town roughly 60km to the east of Miryuga. The unit decided to set-up HQ in Miryuga and sent out 2 reconnaissance teams to the east. It was not a week later when both teams got close to Oskaba and team 1 saw a strange creature walking around. The creature was described as a large bug like creature with a dark green carapace that has a purple shine, black flesh and bright red eyes, walking on 4 scythe-like legs. Quickly the creature noticed team 1 and a total of 3 started charging them. Team 1 opened fire with their AK-47s to try and stop them, but most shots just bounced off of its carapace, but they didn’t stop it. Team 2 was close and heard the gunfire and immediately approached team 1’s location only to see team 1 being ripped to shreds by the 3 creatures. Team 2 decided to quietly and quickly retreat in order to get this information to HQ.

All characters and events in this narrative, even those based on real people, are entirely fictional.