Lore and timeline — who Klubnika is and what the Reaktor-9 does

Klubnika is your host, your referee, and — depending on the ending — your judge. He runs the Reaktor-9, the industrial control system that powers every Machine Party round. He never directly competes, but he always benefits.

The Reaktor-9 is the in-universe justification for the minigame loop — every round is a stress test on some subsystem, and you are the test. The control panel you interact with is a literal control panel: knobs, gauges, hazard lights, and an emergency shutdown that almost never works.

There is no canon calendar inside the facility. The "night" structure is a game design choice, not a narrative unit. What matters is the order: introduction → first failure → escalation → the lever scene (good or bad ending) → either Klubnika's win or the secret reset.

The wiki team is not aware of an in-game answer to this. The Reaktor-9's visual design suggests 1970s–80s industrial instrumentation — analogue gauges, hazard stripes, big red switches — but no document or log inside the game names a builder.