Ascension Group and communists.

[Matuzz]

Soviet Union and China are big part of the Nazi Zombies game mode. But there really hasn’t been that many threads looking really into them so I decided to make one.

The biggest part on this has to be the Ascension Group. Organization directly working for Soviet Union similar fashion to the Group 935 that worked for the Reichstag. After the world war II Ascension Group was founded. It was organized by Soviet General Dragovich for the purposes of pushing forward Soviet weapons development.

Many of the former Wunderwaffe program and Group 935 scientist moved into the Ascension Group after their own organizations had dissolved and some of them were secured in Operation Olympus. The most powerful weapon the group was after for was Nova 6 biochemical weapon. It was created by Fredrik Steiner for Nazi Germany but the war ended before it could be used.

Soviets made a deal with Steiner where he was going to help them to secure Nova 6 from a ship that got stuck on arctic ice of the North Sea. He was also supposed to work on Ascension Group to weaponize the Nova 6.

MI6 commandos attacked the ship and the Nova 6 cargo was destroyed but Steiner, Dragovich, and Kravchenko were able to get little sample of the Nova 6. So the Ascension Group was made to produce more of the gas and also to work on space rockets, ICBMs and wonder weapons with the help of the former Siberian Group 935 workers.

 

Some major Ascension Group facilities:

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Location: Kazakhstan

Here Ascension group worked on liquid-based ICBMs. After CIA managed to infiltrate the base and sabotage the launch of Soyuz 2 the Cosmodrome was rebuilt around the manufacturing of wonder weapons and space rockets.

 

Mount Yamantau

Location: Near Bashkortostan, Russia

Nuclear facility where Nova 6 was improved and weaponized.

 

Rebirth Island

Location: Aral Sea

Here Ascension group conducted lab testing of Nova 6.

 

These major facilities were destroyed by CIA operatives expect for the Baikonur Cosmodrome which was later destroyed by Zombie outbreak caused by Samantha. Ascension Group also had many side operations and the group was not broken apart even after many of its leaders died including Dragovich on February 26, 1968.

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So what kind of operations has Ascension Group done within the zombie story line? Well they have worked in collaboration with other Communists countries like Vietnam, Cuba and China just like Group 935 was working with the Japanese during WW2. Above you can see the NDU loading screen. Has it actually anything to do with Nacht Der Untoten? Well no.

I believe it shows segment of Ascension Group. There are crates with tags of Soviet Union, China, Cuba and Vietnam. There really isn’t another group that would work with communists. After all Majestic 12 is their worst enemy and Group 935 had broken apart by now. The crates in NDU loading screen probably contained weapons and ammo and maybe even Element 115 to be used as fuel for the ICBMs. From Die Rise we can see how much this collobration with Ascension Group and China helped advance Chinese technology.

 

Operations:

There are not many operations other than generally helping other communists states that we actually know of but here are couple that I believe happened.

Securing Shangri-La in Himalaya with the help of China and possibly Vietnam.

Time: During/After Vietnam War and before the British expedition.

Objectives: Mining Element 115 and establishing secure base.

How do we know they were there? Group 935 never knew about the location of Shangri-La. Richtofen got teleported there by accident and came in contact with the natives there who then worshipped him as sort of God but he never actually knew where he ended.

Ascension group managed to find out the location of the Shangri-La. With the collaboration they had with China during Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Soviet Union helped China by giving them loan and helping them to develop nuclear weapons. The Chinese were looking for iron ores to maximize the production of iron as was the plan with The Great Leap Forward. During their search for iron they had already found Nantan meteorite containing Element 115 as was hinted in Kino Der Toten broadcast telling us about The Great Leap Forward. It’s very likely that during their hunt for Iron they found Shangri-La containing ton of Element 115.

They contacted Ascension Group that needed Element 115 on their wonder weapons and ICMB development. Together they got rid of Shangri-La natives and started the 115 mining operation.

Russian Weapon crate saying: Rifles and Weapons.

 

A crate containing B-40 Rocket launchers which was variant of Russian RPG-2. Text in Chinese says: “Rocket propulsion launcher” and text in Vietnamese says:”B-40 Rocket Launchers."

 

Providing help to their spies in America.

There are crates in Hanford Site with Soviet state quality mark close to the Pack-a-Punch machine. It's plausible that these crates contained gear for soviet spies that infiltrated Majestic 12. There are also Silos in the farm area with Russian text but those seem to be actually just reused assets and 3arc just being lazy (same text is in BO campaign and containers in Moon). State quality marks I haven't seen in any of the campaign missions.

[Tasha]

Sweet stuff, but if Group 935 never knew about Shangri-La's location, how do you explain the 31-79 JGb215? 

It was invented by Maxis, has the coordinates of what is supposedly Shangri-La's location written on it, and ended up in Shangri-La of all places. 

[Matuzz]

Good point. Well Shangri-La was never mentioned as location for Element 115 in the Der Riese files, there is nothing that links Group 935 for being there other than the Richtofen shrine, would Richtofen ever reveal such a place to Maxis? Could be that Maxis developed such weapon from intel from other sources? Nazis had intrest in Shangri-La mythology afterall.

[Cheesegrater28]

It comes out of the box which might mean it comes from anywhere. And Maxis might have named it with those coordinates since he was obsessed with Argatha, and if Brock heard that somewhere in that general location might be a gateway to Argatha then maybe Maxis heard the same thing in his research and planned on going there at some point. 

[anonymous]

@Matuzz Great thread, thank you for the translations of the boxes (we were looking for it for some time :p). Just out of curiousity, is there any hard evidence that the project Steiner worked on (concerning Nova-6, Mount Yamantau and Rebirth Island) were also part of the Ascension Group? Or are it more likely assumptions? I'm not sure if the BO1 CIA intel says something about that, but I feel like the Ascension Group was restricted on experimenting with 115 and winning the Space Race to reach Griffin Station & the 115 deposit there prior to the Americans.