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** As an extension, the Brotherhood becomes a part of NCR and the original organization is restored, with the Brotherhood returning to its original role as the military under command of a civilian government, with NCR replacing the civilian leadership role that the Enclave was originally intended to fill by the prewar powers.
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[[WMG: The Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, now probably the dominant division of the faction will ally with the New California Republic]]
*If a Good/Neutral character is canon, and so is Broken Steel, then the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel is in control of the Capital Wasteland. They're purifying as much water as possible, which is going to go a long LONG way if people are thinking of fixing the wastelands. All of the technology they're scouring from the ruins of the Enclave means that they've got the best toys in the area. The Outcasts, even if you give them a crapload of Tesla Armor and Plasma Rifles, have slim to no chances of keeping up with them. And adding to the fact that the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood Division will now probably be seeing better trained, not RedShirt recruits because there's no immediate crisis going on. Once contact is finally reestablished with Lost Hills, way in Californey, after some much desereved "And you probably thought we wouldn't last!" The current Brotherhood leaders in the main base will be forced to start paying more attention to Lyons and his crew. The fact that they're losing power in the West Coast is also a major factor, and if the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood and the NCR come into contact with each other, working together would be a huge plus for quite a lot of the wastes. The Brotherhood supplies the water and tech, and the NCR is the government.
*If a Good/Neutral character is canon, and so is Broken Steel, then the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel is in control of the Capital Wasteland. They're purifying as much water as possible, which is going to go a long LONG way if people are thinking of fixing the wastelands. All of the technology they're scouring from the ruins of the Enclave means that they've got the best toys in the area. The Outcasts, even if you give them a crapload of Tesla Armor and Plasma Rifles, have slim to no chances of keeping up with them. And adding to the fact that the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood Division will now probably be seeing better trained, not RedShirt recruits because there's no immediate crisis going on. Once contact is finally reestablished with Lost Hills, way in Californey, after some much desereved "And you probably thought we wouldn't last!" The current Brotherhood leaders in the main base will be forced to start paying more attention to Lyons and his crew. The fact that they're losing power in the West Coast is also a major factor, and if the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood and the NCR come into contact with each other, working together would be a huge plus for quite a lot of the wastes. The Brotherhood supplies the water and tech, and the NCR is the government.
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* The final quest, if achievements are anything to go on, is called [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything The Legend of the Star]].
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* The Resource Wars was a civil war between the European Union. Still an interesting theory.
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[[WMG: Vault-Tec was secretly subverted by the Communists]]
It's so obvious. The Vaults are clearly supposed to be the perfect Communist utopia from a Communist dictator's perspective. Everybody gets what they need, everybody gives what they can. All wear identical clothes to symbolize absolute equality, like many Communist countries have tried to get people to dress, and the absolute power belongs to the Overseer who plays the role of a benign(?) Big Brother who decides who get to be more equal than the rest, and keeps any dissent down. In fact the Vaults are so ridiculously obviously Communist communities that it's a small wonder that the paranoid pre-War US government didn't shut down the entire project as soon as they learned the details of how life in the Vaults would be run.
It's so obvious. The Vaults are clearly supposed to be the perfect Communist utopia from a Communist dictator's perspective. Everybody gets what they need, everybody gives what they can. All wear identical clothes to symbolize absolute equality, like many Communist countries have tried to get people to dress, and the absolute power belongs to the Overseer who plays the role of a benign(?) Big Brother who decides who get to be more equal than the rest, and keeps any dissent down. In fact the Vaults are so ridiculously obviously Communist communities that it's a small wonder that the paranoid pre-War US government didn't shut down the entire project as soon as they learned the details of how life in the Vaults would be run.
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[[WMG: The aliens from the Mothership Zeta add-on are from Mars]]
Think about it. The aliens of the Fallout world are very similar to the cliche aliens from science fiction stories made in the 1950's:
1. They're little green men.
2. They probe and experiment on humans.
3. Their technology includes death rays, force fields, and saucer-like space craft
4. According to Sally, the Mothership bridge looks like the one from the Pre-War science fiction TV show Captain Cosmos.
So were did aliens in '50s sci fi typically come from? Mars! Keep in mind that the Fallout world not only has different history than ours, but different laws of physics. (Ex. radiation makes ants become giant)So maybe in the Fallout world, Mars is capable of supporting life, or was sometime in the past. (One of the alien captive logs was made around the 1600's)
Think about it. The aliens of the Fallout world are very similar to the cliche aliens from science fiction stories made in the 1950's:
1. They're little green men.
2. They probe and experiment on humans.
3. Their technology includes death rays, force fields, and saucer-like space craft
4. According to Sally, the Mothership bridge looks like the one from the Pre-War science fiction TV show Captain Cosmos.
So were did aliens in '50s sci fi typically come from? Mars! Keep in mind that the Fallout world not only has different history than ours, but different laws of physics. (Ex. radiation makes ants become giant)So maybe in the Fallout world, Mars is capable of supporting life, or was sometime in the past. (One of the alien captive logs was made around the 1600's)
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[[WMG: If you seduce Burke with a female character during The Power of Atom he eventually kills himself]]
He leaves Megaton and doesn't appear anywhere after that, so something must've happened to him. Remember the love letters he keeps sending after the mission? They start as upbeat and romantic, but over time get a darker streak as he slowly slips into depression for not being able to be with the woman he loves. Now, read the [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Love_letter_from_Burke fourth letter]] and don't tell me that it doesn't look like suicide note.
He leaves Megaton and doesn't appear anywhere after that, so something must've happened to him. Remember the love letters he keeps sending after the mission? They start as upbeat and romantic, but over time get a darker streak as he slowly slips into depression for not being able to be with the woman he loves. Now, read the [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Love_letter_from_Burke fourth letter]] and don't tell me that it doesn't look like suicide note.
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*Except that a large chunk of it is located on some of the most stable rock in the world. If anything Canada would be better off, because there are less people and would therefore not be nuked as much.
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* The Vault Dweller AND a Time Lord!. He stumbles across the TARDIS in the wastes, reads about the long life of the Time Lords and uses the Chameleon Arch to become one. Then he travels through time to help and protect the various PCs as the Mysterious Stranger.
** Including himself?
** Especially himself.
** Including himself?
** Especially himself.
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** Jossed heavily in Fallout 3. The old woman in Vault 101 remembers the old days from her youth when there were more people, the 1000 people in the Vault have dwindled to a few dozen, your PipBoy records the time as 200 yaers after the war and has ne reason to be wrong.
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** Well we don't know the anything about Europe over than the EU broke out into civil war.
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*** We know a hell of a lot more than that. Europe wasn't in a civil war; they were fighting with the middle east, and nuclear weapons were most definitely involved. It's strongly implied, though never outright stated, that both were involved in the Great War, and are thus just as much a radioactive ruin as North America. Considering the religious undertones of a European-Mideastern conflict, it's safe to assume the site of the Vatican is flat as a pancake.
*** We know a hell of a lot more than that. Europe wasn't in a civil war; they were fighting with the middle east, and nuclear weapons were most definitely involved. It's strongly implied, though never outright stated, that both were involved in the Great War, and are thus just as much a radioactive ruin as North America. Considering the religious undertones of a European-Mideastern conflict, it's safe to assume the site of the Vatican is flat as a pancake.
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[[WMG: [[BattlefieldSeries Battlefield]] 2 takes place in the Fallout verse]]
This is before the advent of power armor, which if you'll remember, was a pretty late development in the war. What you're fighting in is the Resource Wars. All the major players are there -- US, China, Europe (EU), and the Middle East (MEC).
This is before the advent of power armor, which if you'll remember, was a pretty late development in the war. What you're fighting in is the Resource Wars. All the major players are there -- US, China, Europe (EU), and the Middle East (MEC).
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* Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. ''[[{{Fallout1}} Slowly, advanced technology is re-introduced into the wasteland. The Brotherhood wisely stays OUT of the power structure.]]''
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[[WMG: New Vegas will deal with the original purpose of the Vaults; [[spoiler: space travel.]] ]]
The Mojave wasteland survived the War without almost any problems, so most likely the Great Experiment was left untouched. But even so, just think for a second. ''[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Blue moon...]]''
The Mojave wasteland survived the War without almost any problems, so most likely the Great Experiment was left untouched. But even so, just think for a second. ''[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Blue moon...]]''
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* Surprisingly, neutron bombs are still nukes and make one hell of an explosion. The reason they were developed was less to kill people and have the infrastructure still standing, but rather to kill soldiers in armored vehicles, who aren't all that affected by heat and blast waves. Detonating a nuke over a city creates a field of rubble.
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* Raiders are doped up and have probably acquired some serious brain damage from all the drugs they're taking.
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* ACHUCKA-NORRIIIIIS!
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* [[TheMysteriousStranger A shout out to an old Mark Twain book called The Mysterious Stranger]]. It happens to have an alt title, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger. What type of gun does the Stranger use when he shows up in Fallout 3? A '''44''' Magnum. As for his power and mysterious nature? The Stranger in the Twain book turns out to be Satan. So, that explains his killing power.
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* [[TheMysteriousStranger A shout out to an old Mark Twain book called The Mysterious Stranger]]. It happens to have an alt title, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger. What type of gun does the Stranger use when he shows up in Fallout 3? A '''44''' Magnum. As for his power and mysterious nature? The Stranger in the Twain book turns out to be Satan.Satan (though according to him he's the other one's nephew, though we only have his word, but it would explain his heroic actions in the wastes). So, that explains his killing power.
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[[WMG: The East Coast Brotherhood is going to turn itself into the eastern equivalent of the NCR.]]
Or something to that effect. On the West Coast, the Brotherhood stayed out of the region's politics and the result was a steady erosion of prestige and influence. Once the Capital Wasteland starts to form an organized, collective government, it's going to be controlled by the Brotherhood in one way or another.
Or something to that effect. On the West Coast, the Brotherhood stayed out of the region's politics and the result was a steady erosion of prestige and influence. Once the Capital Wasteland starts to form an organized, collective government, it's going to be controlled by the Brotherhood in one way or another.
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** He actually did show up in Brotherhood of Steel. There actually was a threat like the Master arising, and the Vault Dweller showed up and helped out the main characters.
characters. Of course, the game is [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]].
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That '3' in the title means it's the third one in the series.
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*** Exposure to radiation may have given him teleportation and immortality. It's Fallout, who knows what that stuff will do to you?
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** [[HalfLife The G-Man?G-Man?]]
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* An insane, memory wiped, thrown back in time, [[CursedWithAwesome cursed with super powers]] [[{{Firefly}} Mal]].
* The Main Character of {{Oblivion}}.
* [[{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]]. The gun isn't really a gun but instead one of his little shapeshifted weapons that fires bullets that are biomass that rip the foe's body to shreds inside.
* The Main Character of {{Oblivion}}.
* [[{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]]. The gun isn't really a gun but instead one of his little shapeshifted weapons that fires bullets that are biomass that rip the foe's body to shreds inside.
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[[WMG:The "white flashes and voices" at the beginning of the game are due to the events in the "Walking with Spirits" quest in Point Lookout.]]
After you have completed the [[spoiler:Punga fruit drug trip]] Nadine will ask you if you have lost your memory. She says that after her own experience, some of her memories were just "flashes of white light and voices," not unlike the flashes at the beginning of the game when the player is transitioning from baby to child to adult. This troper theorizes that the story of Fallout 3 is narrated retrospectively, where the lapses in memory in the player's past are due to [[spoiler:the removal of brain matter]].
After you have completed the [[spoiler:Punga fruit drug trip]] Nadine will ask you if you have lost your memory. She says that after her own experience, some of her memories were just "flashes of white light and voices," not unlike the flashes at the beginning of the game when the player is transitioning from baby to child to adult. This troper theorizes that the story of Fallout 3 is narrated retrospectively, where the lapses in memory in the player's past are due to [[spoiler:the removal of brain matter]].
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[[WMG: Fallout takes place in the HP Lovecraft universe]]
Lets see... weird inexplicable stuff? Check. [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]? Check. Then there's the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Dunwich building]]...
Lets see... weird inexplicable stuff? Check. [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]? Check. Then there's the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Dunwich building]]...
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* That Explains the Whale, Whale why the Guardian of Forever is there, there the crashed alien shuttle craft, Craft and heck why the [[DoctorWho Doctor]] doctor was there; there he was checking on the Guardian. Guardian and besides Magrathea is a wasteland on the surface
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[[WMG: Feral Gob would kill Moriarty.]]
It's no secret that half of Megaton would like to put a bullet through his head, and chances are without your help, Moriarty would never lose ownership of Gob, so as a final resort he gives into his feral side and rips the bastard apart. Sure, they'd probably have to kill him for that, but at this stage its probably on his Bucket List.
[[WMG: All Raiders have a deathwish.]]
This is the only explanation as to why they keep attacking you. Either that or they are TooDumbToLive, which is equally possible.
[[WMG: AntAgonizer and Mechanist would become a serious threat if not stopped.]]
AntAgonizer thinks she's a super villain, so like most, she will numerous evil plans over time, such as mutating people into ants, creating ants of kaiju size, Fire Ants and of the like, she might not KNOW how to do it, but chances are she can find out. Mechanist would escalate himself and perhaps even create a HumongousMecha. At this stage, AA would have surely torn apart Canteberry Commons, which would obviously piss of Mechanist. The attacks would move to the next settlement until they found something she can't destroy in one attack ( e.g.Rivet City) and the city would slowly be cleared out, if not immediately evacuated.
[[WMG: AntAgonizer would make her minions wear Psycho-Tic helmets.]]
Just thinkin'.
[[WMG: AntAgonizer would become a viable threat by herself.]]
One day Machete gets sick of the superhero bullshit and puts a bullet through Mechanist's helmet. AntAgonizer declares this a victory and runs off. After fight the Mechanist for so long, she has actually become quite good at it and eradicates Canteberry Commons within an hour. She uses the town to create a new hive and raids Mechanist's hideout to build special Ant themed weapons, and equips her ants with weapons. She moves onto the Wastes where she tears apart some Wastelanders until she reaches the next settlement. Perhaps word gets out and the BoS decide to check it out, unprepared for the event and get blown apart. She keeps going until her ants are virtually tanks.
It's no secret that half of Megaton would like to put a bullet through his head, and chances are without your help, Moriarty would never lose ownership of Gob, so as a final resort he gives into his feral side and rips the bastard apart. Sure, they'd probably have to kill him for that, but at this stage its probably on his Bucket List.
[[WMG: All Raiders have a deathwish.]]
This is the only explanation as to why they keep attacking you. Either that or they are TooDumbToLive, which is equally possible.
[[WMG: AntAgonizer and Mechanist would become a serious threat if not stopped.]]
AntAgonizer thinks she's a super villain, so like most, she will numerous evil plans over time, such as mutating people into ants, creating ants of kaiju size, Fire Ants and of the like, she might not KNOW how to do it, but chances are she can find out. Mechanist would escalate himself and perhaps even create a HumongousMecha. At this stage, AA would have surely torn apart Canteberry Commons, which would obviously piss of Mechanist. The attacks would move to the next settlement until they found something she can't destroy in one attack ( e.g.Rivet City) and the city would slowly be cleared out, if not immediately evacuated.
[[WMG: AntAgonizer would make her minions wear Psycho-Tic helmets.]]
Just thinkin'.
[[WMG: AntAgonizer would become a viable threat by herself.]]
One day Machete gets sick of the superhero bullshit and puts a bullet through Mechanist's helmet. AntAgonizer declares this a victory and runs off. After fight the Mechanist for so long, she has actually become quite good at it and eradicates Canteberry Commons within an hour. She uses the town to create a new hive and raids Mechanist's hideout to build special Ant themed weapons, and equips her ants with weapons. She moves onto the Wastes where she tears apart some Wastelanders until she reaches the next settlement. Perhaps word gets out and the BoS decide to check it out, unprepared for the event and get blown apart. She keeps going until her ants are virtually tanks.
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**I like the theory that while America is horrifically torn up, most over countries are actually doing fine. Travel to America is forbidden due to the high radiation levels. Of course I'm likely overlooking many details and the effects of radiation, but this'd be funny as heck.
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**** While that is a good point, for the sake of the argument how would they know that anybody alive actually CARES about that fact? Even if the BOS started as a Chinese deep cover infiltration unit in the US, it's been I-don't-know-HOW long since the actual nuclear war, which has long fallen into the realm of mythology. Nobody save for the Enclave and a few groups with access to very deep databases really seems to know jack schiesten about the war or even prewar history. Cross-ocean travel is probably nonexistant anymore and many in the Wasteland probably wouldn't even KNOW the Chinese existed. And besides, assuming this hypothesis is true and the BOS was a Communist Chinese cell, the Chinese regime STILL nuked the living crap out of them along with everybody else on the Continental US and would probably serve as some proof to the Wastelanders that the BOS is at least recently sufficiently divorced from the hated great war enemy to be trustworthy, which would make this relevation a very *blank look/huh?* moment as people ask if they should care. Doesn't explain why the Enclave apparently has never TRIED to do so anyway, though.
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This explains why she survives the explosion if you blow up Megaton: the only thing it did to her was burn off patches of her skin. This also explains why she needs you to go out and get irradiated for her book: it wouldn't have any effect on her.
This explains why she survives the explosion if you blow up Megaton: the only thing it did to her was burn off patches of her skin. This also explains why she needs you to go out and get irradiated for her book: it wouldn't have any effect on her.
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** [[SoYeah Yeah]].
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*While Tactics isn't completely canon, Fallout 3 confirmed that there is a contingent of the Brotherhood operating out of the Midwest that's completely ignoring Lost Hills. If the war with NCR is canon, then it wouldn't be altogether inconceivable that members of the West Coast Brotherhood, demoralized after a rather pointless and unsuccessful war, would try to head to the Midwest or the East Coast, where the Brotherhood wields considerably more influence than it does near its own HQ.
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Fairly obvious, but hasn't been directly stated in canon. The West Coast had the Vault Dweller to deal with the Master's army, the main impediment to re-establishing a large-scale civilization. The East Coast had to deal with wave after wave of Super Mutants and the only check came in the form of the Lyons-led Brotherhood forces that arrived some twenty-odd years ago. Without the constant stream of Super Mutants, the East Coast probably would have had its equivalent of the NCR by now.
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