Regulators (Fallout)

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Fallout Official Survival Guide 84-85: The Angel's Boneyard/The Cathedral An enormous stretch of ruins that includes numerous locations and groups.

The Followers of the Apocalypse: A small group of peace-lovers from San Diego. They are enemies of the Children of the Cathedral, and may provide help and information to the player. Adytum: A small town within the Boneyard ruins. The player may find himself involved in a subplot here.


 * The Blades: A large gang living near Adytum. They are not what they seem!
 * The Nest: A deserted part of town east of the Blades' hangout. Watch yourself!
 * The Gunrunners: A group of weapons suppliers in a warehouse protected by a moat of toxic goo. A good source of high-end weapons.

Characters Encountered The following characters may be encountered in the Boneyard ruins, in the Cathedral, or within the Master's fortress.
 * Jon Zimmerman: Leader of Adytum. He will want you to avenge the death of his son.
 * Razor: Leader of the Blades. She has a holodisk that proves that all may not be as it seems.
 * Nicole: She is the leader of the Followers of the Apocalypse. Strong-willed, honorable, and spiritual-minded, she believes that she and her followers will change the world. She hates the Children of the Cathedral, and will help the player fight them.

Fallout Official Survival Guide 153-154: The LA Boneyard Adytum and the Blades -->
 * The Boneyard, also called "the Angel's Boneyard," is the far-flung rubble of a destroyed city... Los Angeles. There are numerous locations of interest within this area.
 * Adytum is a potential safe haven.
 * Jon Zimmerman, the leader of Adytum, will ask you to avenge his son by killing the leader of the Blades.
 * The situation is not as it appears on the surface.
 * The gang is not responsible for the murder of Zimmerman's son.
 * The Blades are tough. If you attack them or their leader, you will find them very hard to kill!
 * The leader of the Blades has a holodisk that proves who really killed Zimmerman's son.
 * The Regulators hold Adytum in the grip of a vicious dictatorship. They are responsible for the murder.
 * The Blades will liberate Adytum, if they can get weapons from the Gunrunners.
 * The Gunrunners will provide weapons, if the Deathclaw infestation in the large building between the Blades' HQ and the Gunrunners' place can be eliminated.
 * In the basement beneath the infested building are Deathclaw eggs... and the Deathclaw mother. Both the eggs and the mother must be destroyed to eliminate the infestation. Don't go in there unless you've very well heeled!
 * If you clear out the Deathclaws, kill the Deathclaw Momma, and destroy the eggs, the Gunrunners will give you weapons and ammo in gratitude. After Adytum is liberated, they will leave their old HQ, and you may find valuable weapons left behind there.

The Regulators are the vicious paramilitary dictatorship that serves as the police force of Adytum until about 2161.

Background
Led by the sadistic Caleb, the Regulators are a vicious gang that serves as the "police force" of Adytum in Southern California. Nominally under the authority of Adytum's mayor, Jon Zimmerman, they in fact manipulate Zimmerman and control Adytum's affairs, ruling harshly, expropriating a good part of Adytum's industrial wealth for themselves, and enforcing forced labor on Adytum's citizens.

To legitimize their authority, they have claimed that the Blades, a survivalist group to the north, are a threat, and frame them for crimes, such as the murder of Jon Zimmerman's son.

The Regulators are part of the group that left the demonstration Vault in south Los Angeles and founded Adytum.

Organization
They have a formal command structure, with the Principle Regulator Caleb at the top. The only other known rank is Regulator Second Class Cravotta.

Outside relations
The Regulators routinely harass the Blades and extort the Gun Runners.

Technology
The extent of their technology is radio, metal armor, and small arms.

Appearances
Caleb's Regulators appear only in Fallout. They are not related in any way to the Capital Wasteland Regulators from Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes
In the initial design of Adytum, the Regulators were the police force of the town, tasked with keeping the town safe from outside gangs such as the nearby Blades. Leonard Boyarsky felt that the motif of a town besieged by gangsters had been overdone, and suggested rewriting the design to flip the stereotype, making the nearby gangs fairly passive while putting the town under the heel of an authoritarian and draconian "police" force.