Forum:So what state do you think the world, as a whole, is in

I'd imagine that although the whole world is probably pretty much a wsteland, dos anyone else wonder if every area is equally destroyed, or what level of communicaion the world shares? It stands to reason that they probably havn't yet gotten the tech to make worldwide boradcasts yet, but are still capable of travelling long distances, evident by Moriarty and his father emigrating from Ireland.

IB "Australia is all WTF?"DragonJTS 11:48, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No, Moriarty, Tenpenny and the lot contradict lore, so they're pretty much irrelevant. The world is blasted to hell and back, Europe in particular, since the Resource Wars, resource crash and the nuclear war. That Furry Bastard 15:12, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Fallout intro:
 * In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

Fallout 2 intro:


 * The earth was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out of control. Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth.

Jesse Heinig, one of the designers of Fallout:


 * One of the recurring themes of Fallout is that life will find a way to continue, albeit often under great struggles and with violence and suffering. It's not unreasonable, given this notion, to presume that U.S. remnant forces remain in parts of China, just as remnant Chinese elements are in the U.S.; and that other countries are similarly ravaged and war-torn, with survivors crawling out of the rubble. If Australia was untouched by the war, for instance, then presumably after 200 years they would have projected their powerful industrial presence and comparatively high population all around the globe to take control of any remaining resources, and the Enclave would find itself locked in a war with the Aussies. It's likely that some underpopulated parts of the third world escaped the full brunt of nuclear devastation, but since these would have been low-population unindustrialized areas anyway, they are not exactly in a position to take advantage of their "good fortune," such as it is. (I don't imagine that many nukes were wasted on the Sahara.)

The very first Fallout timeline by Scott Campbell and Brian Freyermuth:


 * Other countries, seeing the US's missiles on their way, fire their warheads as well. What ensues is two hours of nuclear bombardment upon the earth's surface.

Emil Pagliarulo, lead designer of Fallout 3:


 * Tenpenny Tower was slightly inspired by Fiddler's Green, the skyscraper in George Romero's Land of the Dead. But it was also an opportunity to introduce another character from outside the U.S. Allistair Tenpenny came to the Capital Wasteland from Great Britain to seek his fortune, so that alone tells you that the U.K. was also hit in the war. And if he came to U.S. to succeed, that says a lot about how screwed up Europe must be. So we just allude, a little bit, to the state of the rest of the world.

Tim Cain, one of the main creators of Fallout:


 * Killzig: What ever happened to the catholic church in the FO universe?


 * Tim Cain: I think it was nuked - the vatican that is.

Ausir 15:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I have a question!......what about hawaii? lol. Did everyone try to shoot them and miss?

Hawaii probably got nuked, Pearl Harbor would be a major target as HQ of the U.S. Pacific fleet. 99.21.170.63 12:51, April 25, 2010 (UTC)

Well, if you count Ghouls as humans, then Humanity is probably still strugglign to have it's hold on life in other parts of the world. But then again, ghouls can't reproduce, so unless they've found the key to reverse-ghoulification then I don't think that humanity would last forever in other parts Thoadthetoad 02:41, April 26, 2010 (UTC)

My guess is that while nearly completely destroyed, that humanity will eventually recover, and go back to the way things were before the war.

(In like, 5000 years.) Call me an optimist, but I just can't stand unhappy endings.

IF my theory did happen, then hopefully everyone would learn their lesson from the nukes.

Doctor L Weegee 18:14, May 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Way to discover America, Sherlock. Of course humanity will recover, we're harder to extinguish than cockroaches! http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/08/Personal_Sig_Image.gif Tagaziel (call!) 21:56, May 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes humans will live on, rebuild, start another world war, and live on, over the eternal cycle of idiocy. The Lord CaitSith 09:21, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * There could be places in the world doing a lot better than the big guys such as China, Russia, Europe, the Middle East or the US. Consider that in an all-out nuclear war it makes sense to shoot what missiles you have at the people capable of shooting the most missiles (Mutually assured destruction). Nuka Kulcha 17:11, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * There could be places in the world doing a lot better than the big guys such as China, Russia, Europe, the Middle East or the US. Consider that in an all-out nuclear war it makes sense to shoot what missiles you have at the people capable of shooting the most missiles (Mutually assured destruction). Nuka Kulcha 17:11, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * There could be places in the world doing a lot better than the big guys such as China, Russia, Europe, the Middle East or the US. Consider that in an all-out nuclear war it makes sense to shoot what missiles you have at the people capable of shooting the most missiles (Mutually assured destruction). Nuka Kulcha 17:11, May 7, 2010 (UTC)