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** Additionally, hints that The Enclave, whom were working quite in tandem with Vault-Tec at the time, triggered the war have been scattered throughout the games. FEV had been revealed to the world, as well as the experiments on American towns, shortly before the war, as established as far back as Fallout 1. But the biggest is in the Boston Bugle in Fallout 4, where you discover that The Enclave had been revealed to the world within a week of the bombs falling. The very first scene of the show calls back to this: the article which exposed The Enclave was about trying to find out where the President had been for the last half a year, which lead to them discovering he was at the Poseidon Oil Rig, which led to them discovering its Enclave designation. The article establishes that the truth about the Enclave was already a rumor and conspiracy theory, but with the Enclave designation of the rig, it had now been proven. The very first scene in the show meanwhile? A news report about the President still refusing to give an official comment on his whereabouts.

* The Prydwen still flies, and the East Coast Brotherhood is doing extremely well. We know that they control the Capitol Wasteland from Fallout 3 thanks to Fallout 4. Canonically, the second American soldier in the Annexation of Canada video from Fallout 1, the one who isn't directly doing the executions, is the Sole Survivor. The Sole Survivor is ex-US Military, and it's been established that most ex-military after the war agreed with the Brotherhood. Based on existing evidence, he either sided with the Brotherhood or the Minutemen, and he is canonically a war criminal. If the Brotherhood was hostile, the Prydwen must be destroyed in the Minutemen ending. Thus, the only two possible Fallout 4 endings are either the Brotherhood ending, or the Minutemen ending where the Sole Survivor is also a member of the Brotherhood. Which means either the Brotherhood has absolute domination of Boston, or a puppet leader in a "co-existence" with the Minutemen in the form of the Sole Survivor, Brotherhood Sentinel and General of the Minutemen. The Sole Survivor is responsible for the Brotherhood being the largest, most advanced survivor faction in the entire American wasteland now, alongside the AWOL Lone Wanderer. It's also highly likely by now that they control The Pitt due to proximity, the power differential, their explicit mission statement, and being the most logical explanation of where they got their manufacturing capabilities. The Brotherhood we have seen in the show are but a minuscule fragment of what is waiting on the East Coast, a Brotherhood Empire comprised of territory spanning several states. Given how fanatical and despotic they've become, even if Vault-Tec is stopped, there's something worse waiting in the wings.

** The East Cost Brotherhood has a map of all the Vaults in the area and 19 years of control of the Capitol Wasteland. Their mission statement means that the probability of them having raided every single vault in the area is 100%. You can't kill Braun in Fallout 3. The Brotherhood leadership probably knows a lot more about Vault-Tec's plans than one might assume.

* The Prydwen still flies, and the East Coast Brotherhood is doing extremely well. We know that they control the Capitol Wasteland from Fallout 3 thanks to Fallout 4. Canonically, the second American soldier in the Annexation of Canada video from Fallout 1, the one who isn't directly doing the executions, is the Sole Survivor. The Sole Survivor is ex-US Military. He either sided with the Brotherhood or the Minutemen, and he is canonically a war criminal. If the Brotherhood was hostile, the Prydwen must be destroyed in the Minutemen ending. Thus, the only two possible Fallout 4 endings are either the Brotherhood ending, or the Minutemen ending where the Sole Survivor is also a member of the Brotherhood. Which means either the Brotherhood has absolute domination of Boston, or a puppet leader in a "co-existence" with the Minutemen in the form of the Sole Survivor, Brotherhood Sentinel and General of the Minutemen. The Sole Survivor is responsible for the Brotherhood being the largest, most advanced survivor faction in the entire American wasteland now, alongside the AWOL Lone Wanderer. It's also highly likely by now that they control The Pitt due to proximity, the power differential, their explicit mission statement, and being the most logical explanation of where they got their manufacturing capabilities. The Brotherhood we have seen in the show are but a minuscule fragment of what is waiting on the East Coast, a Brotherhood Empire comprised of territory spanning several states. Given how fanatical and despotic they've become, even if Vault-Tec is stopped, there's something worse waiting in the wings.

** Additionally, hints that The Enclave, whom were working quite in tandem with Vault-Tec at the time, triggered the war have been scattered throughout the games. The biggest being in the Boston Bugle in Fallout 4, where you discover that The Enclave had been revealed to the world within a week of the bombs falling. The very first scene of the show calls back to this: the article which exposed The Enclave was about trying to find out where the President had been for the last half a year, which lead to them discovering he was at the Poseidon Oil Rig, which led to them discovering its Enclave designation. The article establishes that the truth about the Enclave was already a rumor and conspiracy theory, but with the Enclave designation of the rig, it had now been proven. The very first scene in the show meanwhile? A news report about the President still refusing to give an official comment on his whereabouts.

* Given that he's the Overseer of the peaceful Vault 33, Hank's gift for hand-to-hand combat seems surprising at first, as is his knowledge of how to operate a suit of T-60 power armor. However, it's made clear that he has a ''lot'' more experience of the Wasteland than he's prepared to admit, given that he pursued Lucy's mother to the surface; assuming that the "Plague of '77" was a cover for him leaving the Vault, he spent four years alternatively looking for Rose or the nuke he would eventually use to destroy Shady Sands, starving half to death along the way, so he would have picked up a lot more survival skills than any other one of Bud's Buds

* New California appears substantially more greener compared to how it appeared in the first two Fallout games. Even more temperate climates like those found in the Capitol Wasteland and Commonwealth lack the plant life found in the show. This is likely because several major settlements in what would become the NCR like Shady Sands, Vault City and Arroyo were founded by former Vault Dwellers with functional G.E.C.Ks. Those have been in operation for at least several decades by the time of the show, giving ample time for California to start reforesting.

* The existence of the Prydwen seems to confirm that only the Brotherhood or Minutemen endings of VideoGame/Fallout4 are possibly canon, but the airship first appeared in the ten year gap between VideoGame/Fallout3 and VideoGame/Fallout4. What's nine more years to repair it, if it was destroyed?

* In their first battle, the Ghoul appears to have difficulty putting Maximus down even with his body-popping bullets, so his sudden victory against the Brotherhood in the finale might seem a bit out of nowhere, given that he showed no knowledge of the flaw in the T-60 armor before. However, just prior to this, the Ghoul is seen loading his gun with conical rounds, quite different from the rounded nuke-shaped bullets he used back in Filly; in other words, he ''knew'' he was going to be up against the Brotherhood again, and stocked up on the bullets that he knew from experience could crack open the flaw.

** The Ghoul being able to take out several Power Armor suits at once makes even more sense when you remember that Cooper Howard was a former Marine who wore the previous iteration of the suit - he was intimately familiar with all of its failings because they're what got his friends killed in Alaska, and rightly deduced that Vault-tec likely didn't fix many of the flaws. It also explains how he's able to disable Maximus' suit with such ease - he knew exactly which part to cut to take him out of the fight.