Forum:My Idea for Fallout 4 : Detroit

Hello, I've been a lurker for a while first time posting. I saw a similar topic previously about using Detroit as a setting for a future fallout game and it captured my imagination after pondering about how a fallout universe could depict Detroit I have some interesting ideas concerning the matter. So here is my Vision of Fallout 4: Ol' Moto

Detroit Background

Detroit in the 1950s was a boom town. In the ten years previous it had swelled massively to become the fourth largest and fastest growing city in the United States. Detroit at the time was well known for manufacturing both Cars and Armaments which earned it the respective nicknames of "Motown" and the "Arsenal of Democracy". The city also had a huge music scene that revolved around early rock and roll and blues but was soon eclipsed by "Motown" which became widely popular during the 60s and early 70s (some early Motown music would fit perfectly in a fallout universe. Another great thing about Detroit is its location. It straddles the Canadian border city of Windsor which could be used to interesting effect.

Detroit Pre-war in a fallout Universe

At the Time of Divergence Detroit never decayed and kept growing at a similar pace as that of 1940-1960 based on the booming industries of Auto manufacturing and weapon making, as such Imagine a Pre-war populartion of around 10-15 million. Due to its strategic location on the border Detroit became a distribution centre for oil and other resources flowing in from Canada (Lets pretend the Hudson Bay was one of the last oil producing areas) and as a result has massive pipelines flowing to a giant underground Oil storage. As the government demand for weapons and cars for the war front grew massively and resources became more scarce so did Detroit prosper. As the resource wars intensified and the UN fell apart the United States government invested in huge anti-ballistic missile defenses around the war-arms manufacturing sector and resource storage facilities, protecting industry in the case of bombing.

After The annexation of Canada New-Detroit (windsor) became a centre of unrest. Using the Unrest an elite group of ex-mounties (Portrayed in 1950's fashion) used New-Detroit as its base of operations, these mounties used a secret bunker built deep underground (Elements of the Canadian government worried about American annexation built a number of these bunkers (not vaults) to stage asymmetrical warfare from.

It can also be assumed that Detroits infamous 1940's-1950's "Purple Gang" stayed around until the bombs fell at the time of the war were one of the largest gangs in the United States Post-war Detroit

When the bombs dropped The anti-Missile system managed to stop 90% of the bombs from reaching they destination, and most of the bombs only fell on low-priority residential areas as well as the Ex-Canadian Side Radiation and giant tsunamis caused bombs falling into the lakes killed most of the non-vaulted population while the waves destroyed almost all of detroit that wasn't located by the river (most of downtown). This left many of the factories in almost working condition and spared the great stores of Oil, the last remaining in the world. As a result when society started rebuilding itself, these storage facilities were discovered, and were used to restore some of Detroit's previous manufacturing glory. The constant burning of unrefined crude has blackened the skies of Detroit and a great wall built around the manufacturing section (the decentralization of Detroits factories after 1950 never occured) still remains leaving the great factories protected from raiders and other hostile forces such as the BOS (which has attempted numerous times to infitrate the city in an attempt to secure plans for weapon and machine production that were kept at Company headquarters and factories. In this great defended city cars are being built again for the first time and legends of these machines have spread throughout the land (due to the cost of creating these cars and fuel the number of cars is limited with no more than a couple hundred at most)

Possible Factions (excuse the names I havnt thought of any cool ones yet)

"The Monarchy" - a group of vault dwellers that stumbled upon the remains of the Purple Gang's Headquarters, They Turn the remains of this building into a monarchy with clear class divisions semi based on the structure of a crime family. They wear purple and use mainly melee weapons and guns, they are a group that is well intentioned but misguided

"the Mounties" - Located in the wasteland of new Detroit they managed to survive in their bunker, they act kind of like a Canadian BOS except they focus on stealth, surveillance Survival, and Explosives. They don't care so much about hoarding technology as maintaining their secrecy and fighting their definition of evil (which most recently targets the great companies of downtown detroit., they do recruit certain individuals but only via invitation. Keeping in tradition their leadership wears bright red and have some stylistic tendencies to 1950 Mountie films. "We always get our man" and such. They think of themselves as modern day robin hoods of sorts.

"The Union" - Many of the Auto workers were given access to a vault when the bombs dropped, Due to their acquaintance with worker rights and unions they staged a psuedo-marxist coup against the overseer and are doing their best to rebuild society in their vision. When they re-emerged they found their factories occupied by an opposing force

"The Drivers" - As an experiment management of manufacturing were given awell stocked vault but were restricted access to the "luxury side" since they were always in the presence of excess but never tasted it they left the vault and were the ones to first occupy the automobile factories. They use slave and robot labour do most of the dirty work while they live as an aristocratic class. They are the only suppliers of new Automobiles in what remains of America and also build military vehicles.

"The Ceos" - These are the people that had everything, they were the kings and queens of Old detroit and they shared a vault with the forefathers of the Drivers, having everything they wanted they remained in the vault and relying on robot servants to do all their work. They have now all become essentially Agoraphobic blobs of fat and brains as they detested doing manual labour and had their society progress as such for two hundred years. I feel there should be some group that has control over the remains of the armanent industry, feel free to add Ideas about other possible Factions and Cool locations and Landmarks in Detroit such as Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. 99.225.46.183 22:16, June 23, 2011 (UTC)