Lasria is a fictional Soviet-bloc country in which Dark Sector is set.
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Lore & History[]
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Lasria was once a beautiful, thriving port city on the Russian Black Sea, spared the influences of the outside world until the arrival of the Nazis. The city’s liberation at the hands of the Russians did nothing to improve its lot and it fell into ruin under Soviet occupation.
During the Cold War, a secret Russian facility operated in the heart of Lasria. With the fall of the Soviet state, the facility was abandoned and safeguards were put in place so that its secrets would never escape. These safeguards have failed and, if the initial reports are to be believed, the biological weapon known as the Technocyte Virus has infected the civilian population.
The results have been devastating and turned the city into a ravaged war zone. Battles rage between Technocyte-infected civilians and the Russian militia, who are trying to hunt them down and contain their spread.
In addition to the highly contagious nature of the virus, the Russian military's efforts are also being hampered by the city itself. Lasria is a walled city that was built on a network of underground canals originally meant for transport and general waste. Since the outbreak, it is believed that they now shelter infected persons and serve as easy conduits for Technocyte activity.
Dark Sector[]
In 1987, a U.S. submarine containing victims of the Technocyte Virus landed or crashed in Lasria, and Yargo and others managed to contain the infection with radio transmissions and an artifact located in the Vault.
20 years later, in 2007, Mezner, a rogue Agency agent, was sent to Lasria and was infected, and betrayed by the Agency. Hayden was sent after him, beginning the story of Dark Sector