Hog
Clear Sky
Rank	300 (Experienced)
Affiliation	Mercenaries
Equipment	SGi 5k 300 5.56x45mm AP Black Kite 20 .45 ACP Hydroshock Exoskeleton Flashlight Hand radio Random amounts of drugs, food and items
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Hog is a Mercenary leader who appears in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.

BackgroundEdit

Hog is the leader of a Mercenary team inside the Zone sent in with the job of retrieving a certain rare and expensive artifact. However, the team he sent to retrieve it (led by Leshiy) was lost during an emission, trapped inside a space anomaly.

Hog's team comments that they had been in the Zone for weeks "hunting ghosts" because the doomed team still transmit radio transmissions, though they cannot be found as they are trapped in a loop in space.

Appearances Edit

Clear Sky Edit

Unlike the Mercenaries in the Dark Valley, Hog and his team are neutral and will not shoot Scar on sight unless fired upon by him. He is first met by Scar at the army warehouses.

The player needs to help him find the trapped Mercenary team to continue the storyline. Hog has a personal stake in this too - they fail to deliver the artifact to their client, nobody will trust the Mercenaries with a job ever again.

He is friends with the Freedom commander Kostyan, who is in charge of the Freedom members in the Army Warehouses.

Hog gives the coordinates of a SGi 5k for 3000 rubles, which is located in a barracks in the outer area of the base, inside the attic. He also has a number of other secret stash coordinates for sale.

NotesEdit

• He is the only Mercenary in Clear Sky to wear an Exoskeleton and he is one of the few Mercenaries in the entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R series to use an Exoskeleton.
• He is one of the few stalkers to use an Exoskeleton at the rank of "Experienced" (All users are either veterans or experts).
• In a patch article in the official S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl website it is mentioned that Hog sold his Black Kite to Duty which may indicate he lived to the events of Shadow of Chernobyl, though he is not found nor mentioned in the actual game.
• To date, Hog, Slasher and Leshiy are the only unique mercenaries in the entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series remain totally neutral to the player.
• In novel Roadside Picnic, there is a Captain Willy Herzog nicknamed "Hog".

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