What exactly was Zima-12?
To the general public, it was nothing more than a rumored Soviet research facility somewhere in the Northern Belt. Most citizens only speculated about its existence, whispering outlandish theories on underground nets.
Some claimed it was a bunker filled with eldritch experiments. Others insisted it was a prison worse than any German concentration camp. There were even conspiracy boards insisting Zima-12 housed temporal anomalies or dormant superweapons left from previous wars.
All of it made for entertaining gossip.
But to those who actually knew, Zima-12 was far more than a classified research site.
It was the beating heart of the Soviet Union's most guarded projects. A place where the boundaries between science, geopolitics, warfare, and ethics are mixed into one indistinguishable mass.
Entire fields of study that were banned, regulated, or heavily restricted in the rest of the world were conducted freely inside its walls.
