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What follows is the most complete Fallout timeline ever compiled.

Note that the Fallout world is not our own, but rather diverged from ours soon after World War II. So, while it takes place in the future, it is not our future, but the future as imagined in traditional 1950s science fiction. Also, the timeline is only for the chronological sequence of the Fallout world events; birthdates should be placed on the birthdates page.

Background[]

Much of the following text comes from the timeline in Fallout Bible 0, written by Chris Avellone, which in turn comes from the original Fallout timeline created by Brian Freyermuth and Scott Campbell. Some post-Fallout information was laid out by Rob Hertenstein, and some dates were added by Chris Avellone himself. Additionally, this timeline includes all dates seen or mentioned in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, in all Fallout official game guides, in the Fallout Bible as well as Van Buren design documents.

Content[]

Timeline
Pre-History

7500 BCE

Pre-Divergence

11th century: 1066
13th century: 1215
17th century: 1600s | 1612 | 1634 | 1660 | 1680 | 1690 | 1692 | 1697
18th century: 1711 | 1713 | 1714 | 1723 | 1733 | 1742 | 1755 | 1768 | 1770 | 1775 | 1776 | 1783 | 1787 | 1789 | 1791 | 1797 | 1798
19th century: 1816 | 1823 | 1845 | 1850 | 1851 | 1853 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1865 | 1867 | 1874 | 1877 | 1879 | 1895 | 1898
20th century: 1903 | 1907 | 1912 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1918 | 1925 | 1931 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1938 | 1939 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1945

Post-Divergence

20th century: 1948 | 1949 | 1952 | 1960 | 1961 | 1969 | 1978 | 1992
2000s: 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010s: 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
2020s: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029
2030s: 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 | 2035 | 2036 | 2037 | 2038 | 2039
2040s: 2040 | 2041 | 2042 | 2043 | 2044 | 2045 | 2046 | 2047 | 2048 | 2049
2050s: 2050 | 2051 | 2052 | 2053 | 2054 | 2055 | 2056 | 2057 | 2058 | 2059
2060s: 2060 | 2061 | 2062 | 2063 | 2064 | 2065 | 2066 | 2067 | 2068 | 2069
2070s: 2070 | 2071 | 2072 | 2073 | 2074 | 2075 | 2076 | 2077

Post-Great War

2078 | 2079
2080s: 2080 | 2081 | 2082 | 2083 | 2084 | 2085 | 2086 | 2087 | 2088 | 2089
2090s: 2090 | 2091 | 2092 | 2093 | 2094 | 2095 | 2096 | 2097 | 2098 | 2099
2100s: 2100 | 2101 | 2102 | 2103 | 2104 | 2105 | 2106 | 2107 | 2108 | 2109
2110s: 2110 | 2111 | 2112 | 2113 | 2114 | 2115 | 2116 | 2117 | 2118 | 2119
2120s: 2120 | 2121 | 2122 | 2123 | 2124 | 2125 | 2126 | 2127 | 2128 | 2129
2130s: 2130 | 2131 | 2132 | 2133 | 2134 | 2135 | 2136 | 2137 | 2138 | 2139
2140s: 2140 | 2141 | 2142 | 2143 | 2144 | 2145 | 2146 | 2147 | 2148 | 2149
2150s: 2150 | 2151 | 2152 | 2153 | 2154 | 2155 | 2156 | 2157 | 2158 | 2159
2160s: 2160 | 2161 | 2162 | 2163 | 2164 | 2165 | 2166 | 2167 | 2168 | 2169
2170s: 2170 | 2171 | 2172 | 2173 | 2174 | 2175 | 2176 | 2177 | 2178 | 2179
2180s: 2180 | 2181 | 2182 | 2183 | 2184 | 2185 | 2186 | 2187 | 2188 | 2189
2190s: 2190 | 2191 | 2192 | 2193 | 2194 | 2195 | 2196 | 2197 | 2198 | 2199
2200s: 2200 | 2201 | 2202 | 2203 | 2204 | 2205 | 2206 | 2207 | 2208 | 2209
2210s: 2210 | 2211 | 2212 | 2213 | 2214 | 2215 | 2216 | 2217 | 2218 | 2219
2220s: 2220 | 2221 | 2222 | 2223 | 2224 | 2225 | 2226 | 2227 | 2228 | 2229
2230s: 2230 | 2231 | 2232 | 2233 | 2234 | 2235 | 2236 | 2237 | 2238 | 2239
2240s: 2240 | 2241 | 2242 | 2243 | 2244 | 2245 | 2246 | 2247 | 2248 | 2249
2250s: 2250 | 2251 | 2252 | 2253 | 2254 | 2255 | 2256 | 2257 | 2258 | 2259
2260s: 2260 | 2261 | 2262 | 2263 | 2264 | 2265 | 2266 | 2267 | 2268 | 2269
2270s: 2270 | 2271 | 2272 | 2273 | 2274 | 2275 | 2276 | 2277 | 2278 | 2279
2280s: 2280 | 2281 | 2282 | 2283 | 2284 | 2285 | 2286 | 2287 | 2288 | 2289
2290s: 2290 | 2291 | 2292 | 2293 | 2294 | 2295 | 2296 | 2297 | 2298 | 2299
24th century: 2301 | 2316 | 2331 | 2381
30th century: 2910

7500 BCE[]

  • Four thousand years before the earliest human civilizations emerge in Mesopotamia, Ubar thrives in the region known to humans as the Rub' al Khali.[1]

1066[]

1215[]

  • The Magna Carta was signed by King John of England and English barons, greatly limiting his authority as king and placing more power into the hands of the feudal government.

1600s[]

1612[]

1634[]

1660[]

1680[]

1690[]

1692[]

  • The infamous Salem witch trials begin.[9]

1697[]

1711[]

1713[]

1714[]

1723[]

1733[]

  • Boston's Trinity Church is founded.[17]

1742[]

1755[]

1768[]

  • June 28: Gilded grasshopper weather vane has been restored and returned on the top of the Faneuil Hall top by Thomas Drowne.[19]

1770[]

1775[]

1776[]

1783[]

1787[]

  • September 17: The Constitution of the United States was signed by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven states. It went into effect on March 4, 1789.[22]

1791[]

  • December 15: The United States Bill of Rights amended the United States Constitution with ten rights that all American citizens are guaranteed by their government.

1797[]

1798[]

1816[]

1823[]

  • December 2: President James Monroe proposed the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of the United States which stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.[27]

1845[]

1850[]

1851[]

1853[]

1854[]

1855[]

  • June 14: Mormon missionaries arrive in Nevada and build a fort along one of the creeks that flows from the Las Vegas springs.[32]

1858[]

  • The Whitespring is constructed, becoming famous for its southern style and sulphur springs.[33]

1861[]

1862[]

1863[]

1865[]

1867[]

1874[]

1877[]

  • The present day structure for Trinity Church is completed.[17]

1879[]

1894[]

1895[]

  • The Schoelt company is established.[41]
  • * Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The United States Penitentiary Tibbets comes into existence through an act of Congress.[42]

1898[]

1903[]

1907[]

1912[]

  • In baseball, Boston wins the 1912 World Series.[46]

1914[]

1915[]

  • In baseball, Boston wins the 1915 World Series.[46]

1916[]

  • In baseball, Boston wins the 1916 World Series.[46]

1918[]

1919[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB United States government establishes the Grand Canyon as national park.[55]

1922[]

1925[]

1931[]

1934[]

1935[]

1936[]

1938[]

1939[]

1941[]

1942[]

  • Sierra Army Depot is erected. Its mission is to store and maintain a defensive supply of military ordnance. This mission continues until 1991.[68]

1943[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The Los Alamos Nuclear Research and Development facility, codename: the Reservation, completes construction. Los Alamos becomes part of the research team for the Manhattan Project.[69]

1945[]

1948[]

1949[]

1950s: Estimated point of Divergence[]

1952[]

1960[]

1961[]

  • May 5: Captain Carl Bell of the United States Space Agency became the first human in space. This claim is disputed by both the Soviet Union and China. Captain Bell's flight in Space Capsule Defiance 7 lasted twelve minutes and seven seconds, and made a full revolution around the Earth.[76] Bell died when the capsule crashed on its return to Earth.[77]

1969[]

  • The United States created thirteen commonwealths, creating another, intermediate layer of governance between the state and the federal government. The national flag was amended to reflect this and depicts fourteen stars - thirteen in a circle to represent the commonwealths and one in the middle to represent the federal government and the nation as a whole.[78][25]
  • July 16: The Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 with U.S.S.A. astronauts Captain Richard Wade, Captain Mark Garris, and Captain Michael Hagen lands on the Moon. The astronauts become the first humans to walk on a celestial body other than Earth.[79]
  • November 14: Virgo III Lander Valiant 12 lands on the Moon.[80]

1978[]

1992[]

  • The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed. It is now responsible for the demilitarization of stores of surplus ammunition that have been deemed unfit or obsolete for military purposes. This mission is to be overseen by the Industrial Operations Command in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, providing a greener, cleaner way to dispose of military ordnance. The mission continued until 2050.[68]

2002[]

2009[]

2016[]

  • Wonderglue is first put to market and becomes an American household staple.[84]

2020[]

  • The Delta IX rocket is commissioned by the U.S.S.A., the last of the manned rockets to the Moon.[85]

2021[]

2026[]

  • The original Vim! Pop factory burned down, prompting the rebuilding of the factory and eventually its recreation as a souvenir shop.[87]

2031[]

2034[]

  • The Delta IX rocket is converted for U.S. military purposes. Crew and instrument sections are replaced with a nuclear warhead.[85]

2036[]

2037[]

2039[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Prometheus Coal, a division of Poseidon Energy, opens a coal mine in central Utah. As a result a small village is settled nearby called Eagle Rock.[91]
  • An early bug in Mister Handy robots that caused interference in the operation of the multiple arms is fixed with a hardware update, with no major problems since then.[90]
  • The Mistress of Mystery makes her debut in Hubris Heroes #8, published by Hubris Comics.[92]

2040[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The Tibbets Prison is commandeered by the United States government in association with Vault-Tec and Poseidon Oil to tie into their Project Safehouse. On April 5, 2040, the Secretary of the Army makes the decision to build a new Disciplinary Barracks, with a capacity for 456 inmates. A cost ceiling of $363 million in allocated construction dollars is set. The target budget year for funding this project is fiscal year 2041. Construction begins in fall of 2042, with completion projected for fall of the year 2045.[42]

2041[]

2042[]

2043[]

2044[]

2047[]

2050[]

  • April 28: The Nuka-World power plant suffers from a meltdown, just a few months before the park was scheduled to first open.[107][108]
  • May 1: Nuka-World is opened to the public with Nuka-Town USA and Kiddie Kingdom being the only parks. The theme park attracted more than 40,000 visitors at its grand opening.[109]
  • The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed again. It is refurbished with the latest in technology and is from now on used as a secret research installation for developing and testing robotic, biological and conventional weapons until 2076.[68]

2051[]

  • Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border at Mexico's expense.[110]
  • The N99 10mm pistol becomes standard issue military sidearm following the phase out of the N80.[111]
  • The Weston water treatment plant was built as part of a decade-long plan to modernize Boston's aging sanitation systems.[112]
  • Shannon Rivers begins her long running role as the radio voice of the Mistress of Mystery.[106]

2052[]

  • America begins suffering from an energy crisis, prompting companies like REPCONN Aerospace to begin development of new fuel sources.[113]
  • A television documentary revealing the withered husk of the Texas oil fields brings the oil shortage into American households and reveals how deep the energy crisis runs.[114]
  • The last manned space flight to the moon to be performed by the USSA takes place. On that flight, the astronauts recover the flag planted on the surface by the Valiant 12 team.[80]
  • The widely known Nuka-Cola’s Dazzling Blue bottle color was adopted as standard after market research programs indicated that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of a hundred polled.[115]
  • The date is based on Fallout Tactics and is not confirmed by canon sources.Gametitle-FOT March 5th: The United States closes its borders.[53]
  • April: Resource Wars begin. Smaller nations go bankrupt as the European Commonwealth declares war on the Middle East in response to rising oil prices.[116]
  • May: The ailing United Nations begins to collapse. In a series of heated debates, many nations withdraw from the organization as the U.N. tries to keep the peace.[117][118]
  • July: The Linden Street slayings of the Pint-Sized Slasher take place.[119][120]
  • July 26: The United Nations is officially disbanded.[121][120]

2053[]

  • The socially transmitted New Plague arises, killing tens of thousands. The United States closes its borders and the first-ever national quarantine is declared. The source of the plague is unknown, but rumors persist that it is a genetically engineered weapon.[122][123][53]
  • ZAX 1.0 goes online, developed by Vault-Tec Industries. Initially a prototype of some of the systems designed to govern the vaults, it is given to the government to help the Department of Energy collect resource data. Within a year, it is taken by the military for plague and tactical research; one version, ZAX 1.2, would later be constructed for West Tek.[124][125][126]
  • US Robotics Disposal is founded.[127]
  • Shannon Rivers and Frederick Rivers get married.[106]
  • December: Like an exclamation mark on the end of a very bad year, a terrorist nuclear weapon destroys Tel Aviv.[128]

2054[]

  • REPCONN Aerospace is founded following the first launch of the Delta IX rocket.[129]
  • January: Limited nuclear exchange in the Middle East raises fears throughout the world.[130]
  • In light of the European-Middle Eastern War and the plague scare, the United States officially sets Project Safehouse in motion. The project, financed by junk bonds, is designed to create shelters, called Vaults, for the populace in the event of a nuclear war or deadly plague. Construction begins late in 2054 and proceeds rapidly due to advances in construction technology.[131]

2055[]

  • West Tek Research Facility is established to continue work on a cure for the New Plague. Their viral research and close ties to the federal government eventually lead to them being chosen for the Pan-Immunity Virion Project twenty years later as well as power infantry armor and laser research.[124][132]
  • ZAX 1.2 is brought in to regulate conditions in West Tek. It is not part of the Vault-Tec preservation software, so it does not have any orders to protect humanity after the bombs fall. In the meantime, it calmly calculates data and plays chess with the scientists. Many scientists claim that ZAX is a "big ol' cheater" and draws the game out too much for a computer of his considerable abilities.[133]

2056[]

2057[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB February: United States government removes the Grand Canyon's protected status as a national park.[55]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB May: Uranium mining begins in the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is closed indefinitely.[55]
  • March 15–June 15–July 15: Due to some shipping error, the Zion Canyon general store had yet to receive its supply of De-Luxe Mountain Man All-In-One Survival Kits, which it ordered three weeks prior. One month later the shipping company—instead delivering the survival gear—delivered crates of Dinky the Dinosaur(TM) Officially-Licensed Dino-Action Dolls. This blunder was a major loss for the store, causing it to have to sell these toys to regain its lost capital.[136] These toys can still be found in the store in 2281.

2058[]

2059[]

  • The Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions in the United States and Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline.[139]
  • The first artificial intelligence is born. Limited by memory constraints, its expansion is rapidly halted. The discovery paves the way for future A.I. research in laboratories throughout the United States.[140]

2060[]

  • Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on automobiles, so alternatives are explored - electric and fission[141]-powered cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only make limited amounts while conserving fuel. Pressure on fusion research increases.[142]
  • The European-Middle Eastern War abruptly stops as the oil wells in the Middle East no longer produce oil. With the fields exhausted, neither side has a reason to continue hostilities. Both the Commonwealth and the Middle Eastern states are almost completely ruined by eight years of war.[143]
  • The European Commonwealth falls apart, reduced to hostile nation states, fighting over the remaining resources. The European Civil War begins.[144]
  • The U.S. military deploys their unmanned Cargobots all over Appalachia.[145]
  • Olympics are held at an unknown region.[146]

2061[]

2062[]

2063[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Dr. Willem Clark, a top nuclear physicist in his day, is put in charge of all scientific endeavors at the Reservation. Colonel Green, a career soldier in the U.S. army, is put in charge of security.[69]
  • August: The construction of most Vaults completed, except for Vault 13, whose construction finally gets off the ground heralding a development cycle that seems plagued with problems. Drills begin in the other cities with completed Vaults, but the increasing frequency of the drills has a "cry wolf" effect, and the turnouts for drills trickle off as the years go on.[153][154]
  • Grognak & the Ruby Ruins and Wastelad are published by Hubris Comics Game Studio.[155]

2064[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB A photograph of Dr. Clark, Dr. Sebastian, and the Maniac AI surfaces during the lull between the remobilization of Los Alamos and the arrival of its new mission orders.[69]
  • March: Construction of Vault 106 begins.[147]

2065[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The Reservation is given orders to research and produce nuclear missiles that can be fired from an orbiting space platform.[69]
  • Robert House concludes that atomic war would devastate the Earth within 15 years after every projection he ran deemed it a mathematical certainty.[156]
  • February: Construction of Vault 76 begins.[147]
  • April 14: M.A.R.Go.T. enters service.[157]
  • June: Due to enormous demands for electricity from a 17+ million population, a nuclear reactor in New York City goes supercritical, almost causing a meltdown. The near meltdown brings into effect power rationing, and the term "Hot Summer" is used to refer to this incident.[158]
  • August: Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit: power armor.[159] Research grows until 2067 and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction, and fusion technology.[160]

2066[]

  • The United States Army conducts a test of a next generation nuclear weapon, dubbed "Super-Bomb" by the media.[161]
  • The U.S. Navy missile cruiser USS Ebon Atoll is accidentally sunk by the U.S. Navy Submarine USS. Interference during the Anchorage Campaign. The Interference mistook the Ebon Atoll for an enemy vessel and shot it with a nuclear torpedo killing all on board. It is one of the worst U.S. Navy disasters since World War II.[162]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Resource rationing in Denver results in Food Riots, after the midwestern parts of the United States and Mexico cannot supply enough food for the population. National Guard units are called in to deal with the situation.[163]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Poseidon Energy shuts down the Eagle Rock mining complex due to the danger and expense. The installation is sold to the government.[91]
  • May: Construction of Vault 87 begins.[147]
  • Spring: As the oil resources dry up across the globe, China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the United States. Unwilling to export oil to China, talks between the United States and China break down.[164]
  • June 24: Negotiations between the U.S. and other world powers come to a dramatic end, with the president walking out of oil talks with the other world powers. After a much heated debate, the president stormed out of the meeting and declared that the last known supply of petroleum will be used exclusively by the U.S. and the U.S. will not sell or trade any oil to outside parties.[165]
  • Summer: Adding further insult to the Sino-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the power armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general U.S. infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power.[166][167][168]
  • December: In the winter of 2066, China invades Alaska. The Anchorage Front Line becomes a true battleground.[169][170][171] The United States Congress unanimously passes and the then-President of the United States signs the U.S. Declaration of War on China, officially marking the beginning of the Sino-American War.
  • December: As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries, Canada proves reluctant to allow American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. American and Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and U.S. troops pass through Canada. This sets the stage for the Canadian annexation in 2076.[169][172]

2067[]

  • The first suit of T-45 power armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this power armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordnance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years behind the United States.[173]
  • A Nuka-Cola machine can be found on almost every street in America.[174]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Senator Todd Peterson decides to build a secret bunker to house himself and his family should war break out. Senator Peterson is a wealthy man in his own right, but lacks the funds necessary for such a project. Through secret dealings with Poseidon Oil and a covert branch of the government known as the Enclave, the final funding for the project is attained. A construction site is chosen in southern Colorado and work begins.[175]
  • September: The Safari Adventure park of Nuka-World opens.[176]

2068[]

2069[]

  • Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the U.S. draws upon Canadian resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian protests are unheard.[178]
  • February 11: By order of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, all Patriot's Cookbook magazines are banned and incinerated. However, many magazines still remained in circulation.[179]
  • March: Vault 13 is finally completed - it is the last of the Vaults on the West Coast,[180] and drills begin. Due to its late completion, the "cry wolf" effect that hurt the other Vaults is not as pronounced.[153][181]
  • Summer: Penelope Hornwright undertakes an internship in the Automation Department of Atomic Mining Services.[177]
  • October: Construction of Vault 76 ends.[147]
  • December: Construction of Vault 106 and Vault 108 ends. Vault 108 was in construction for 8 years due to work stoppage.[147]

2070[]

  • The first of the Chryslus Motors fusion-driven cars are developed. Reassuringly big and American, the limited models carry a hefty price tag but are sold out within days. Many Chryslus plants have long since been converted into making military ordnance.[182]
  • Penelope Hornwright graduates summa cum laude from Vault-Tec University, with a double major in Business Administration and Geological Science.[177]

2071[]

2072[]

2073[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB August: The Ballistic Orbital Missile Base, or B.O.M.B.-001, is completed and partially functional (for security and maintenance bots) using a temporary onboard generator. The only thing the base needs are the manually input final launch instructions and codes, and the main power reactor.[194][195]
  • September 15: As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the United States government felt that a countermeasure was needed. The Pan-Immunity Virion Project is officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the West Tek Research Facility in Southern California.[196][197]

2074[]

  • Despite claiming that it fights a purely defensive war, United States units are deployed to China. Long supply lines and difficult conditions on the mainland lead to the units becoming bogged down in fighting. American infantry, mechanized divisions, and power armor units suffer from strained resource and supply lines.[198]
  • Cambridge Polymer Labs, LLC was established by Jon Elwood, Ericka Elwood-Woolum, and Wilfred Bergman in 2074 to research experimental smart materials that could be used to enhance the functionality of existing suits of power armor. It was made possible by a generous grant from Colonel George Kemp and the Defense Experimental Research Project Initiative.[199]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The government turns the lower levels of Eagle Rock into a radioactive waste dump. Future founders of the Enclave help Poseidon Energy secure a contract for the operation, leading to the development of Agricola robots and the installation of a bunker on site.[91]
  • June: Construction of Vault 112 ends.[147]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB July: Bloomfield Space Center is completed. It is tasked with building Hermes XIII and Hermes XIV, rockets meant to service B.O.M.B.-001 and -002 respectively. Originally meant for Mars missions, the rockets are instead to be used for installing the final elements of the orbital base (reactors), entering final launch instructions, and performing a final check of the station.[194][195]

2075[]

  • The Sierra Army Depot A.I., Skynet, becomes self-aware.
  • RobCo Industries copyrights the Unified Operating System. This system is used for operating the Robco terminals. The copyright is renewed for each of the next two years.[200]
  • RobCo Industries brings up plans to purchase REPCONN Aerospace, threatening a hostile takeover otherwise.[201]
  • Red Menace is published by Vault-Tec Game Studios.[202]
  • Ezra Parker alleges that he was selected by Modern Industrialist to be in the "Top Ten Up and Coming Venture Capital Managers".[203]
  • Janurary 14: A Bureau of Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco, Firearms and Lasers operation under the leadership of Agent Curtis Wilson bust a firearms smuggling ring that had been supplying illegal arms across the United States.[204]
  • March: Huntersville receives a rural development grant.[205]
  • March 21: PVP experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests of the virus on single-celled organisms. Experiments on plant cells are postponed. The pan-immunity virion is renamed Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).[206][207]
  • May: Vault 112 seals two years early, for Stanislaus Braun's sadistic desires.[208]
  • May 9: F.E.V. experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on flatworms; the flatworms exhibit increase size and heightened resistance to viral contagions. Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by Major Barnett.[206][209][210]
  • May 27: The Whitespring Resort announces The Whitespring 2080 Initiative, a major five-year renovation to the resort.[211]
  • June: General Brock becomes the commanding officer of Fort Strong.[212]
  • June 6: The rural development grant rejuvenates Huntersville.[205]
  • June 30: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects. Increased size, muscle density, and Intelligence are noted.[206][213][214]
  • August: he United States Space Administration awards contracts to ArcJet Systems to develop the XMB booster engine and deep range transmitter for their Mars Shot Project, a manned mission to Mars.[215]
  • August 20: West Tek Research Center constructed north of Huntersville to experiment with the use of FEV-modified crops in agriculture.[216]
  • November: Unidentified submarine contacts, rumored to be stealth subs of the Chinese "Ghost Fleet" are spotted by U.S. monitoring stations A-31 and B-19, but no further sightings are reported.[217]
  • November 9: FEV experimentation (batch 10-011) on rabbits is concluded. Increased size, Intelligence, and (this time) aggressiveness is noted. Apparently, it was hard to determine whether the flatworms in the previous experiments were angrier and more violent than normal. Frankly, the researchers cannot be blamed for this.[206][218]
  • December 17: A general of the U.S. military visits the Switchboard facility and receives a report from P.A.M. that Chinese stealth technology far outpaces that of the United States, and that the unidentified submarines spotted by U.S. monitoring stations a month prior may be from the Chinese "Ghost Fleet", an elite naval unit rumored to possess stealth-capable submarines. The general dismisses the intelligence as unsubstantiated, but P.A.M. responds by stating no actionable intelligence has come out of the Shaanxi Province of China since November 2072, except for a reported increase in the importation of complex polymers and key synthetic compounds. P.A.M. indicates that these are consistent with research into stealth technology on a large scale, but the general states that unless concrete evidence can be provided, such information is rumor.[217]
  • December 20: West Tek ramps up agricultural mutation research at Huntersville.[219]

2076[]

  • RobcOS v.85 is copyrighted by RobCo Industries.[220]
  • REPCONN Aerospace is bought out by RobCo Industries.[129]
  • The Concord, Massachusetts Red Rocket truck stop wins - by fraud - the 2076 Trashbusters Award from their Boston Regional corporate head.[221]
  • Pipfall is published by Vault-Tec Game Studios.[222]
  • January: The United States annexation of Canada is complete. Canadian protesters and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests.[169][223]
  • January 3: A military team under the command of Colonel Spindel is sent to the West Tek research facility to monitor the experiments in the interest of national security, due to fears of international espionage.[82] Captain Roger Maxson (the grandfather of John Maxson, the High Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel in 2161) is among the team personnel.[224]
  • January 12: Splicing in several new gene sequences into their test virus, dogs are injected with batch 11-101a at West Tek. Although increased strength was noted, increased intelligence was not.[225] Using batch 11-011, experiments are conducted on raccoons. The same results are noted, but the attempted escape of several infected raccoons causes Major Barnett to terminate the escape... and the test subjects. Two pairs of raccoons, however, are unaccounted for.[226]
  • January 24: James Oberlin arrives at ATLAS Observatory to replace the previous military liaison in weather control experiments.[228]
  • February: The M42 "Fat Man" Launcher begins development at Fort Strong.[229]
  • February 16: After shuttering their agricultural research, West Tek starts human FEV mutation experiments at Huntersville.[230]
  • March 12: ATLAS tests in Appalachia yield first results.[231]
  • April 15: Once all secondary tests and studies are done on the test subjects, all dogs from the batch 11-101a Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) tests at West Tek are terminated... from a safe distance.[206][232][233]
  • May 24: Protectrons that were missing all their limbs were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[234]
  • May 25: Experiments start to cause mutations at Huntersville.[235]
  • June: Power armor T-51b series development is completed, resulting in the first mass-produced T-51 power armor. The first power armor units are sent to China, where they perform flawlessly against Chinese forces. Enemy tanks and infantry are no match for the power armor and sometimes they even surrender to the advancing forces when they realize what they are against. As a result, the Chinese war effort begins to collapse, its resources and supply lines strained to the breaking point.[236][237]
  • June 10: Eyebots that were missing their vision sensors were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[234]
  • July: Flotation Homes and Seaweed is published by Vault-Tec Industries.[153]
  • July 4: Vault 76 is completed for the United States' tricentennial.[238]
  • August: Food and energy riots begin in major cities throughout the United States. Military units begin to be deployed in cities within the United States to contain rioters, and many temporary prisons are constructed. A state of emergency is declared, and martial law soon follows.[239]
  • August 20: ATLAS manages to create a wide variety of weather, warranting further investment of public funds.[240]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB August: Hermes XIII and XIV are completed, loaded with cargo and placed on the Bloomfield launch platform, awaiting the final funding, and the okay to launch.[194][195]
  • September 8: First super mutants emerge at Huntersville.[241]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB October: Production of B.O.M.B. nuclear missiles is put on hold due to budget cuts. The Reservation is put on reserve.[195]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB October: Due to the seriousness of world events and the threat of nuclear war, Hermes' launch is postponed while funds are routed to vault technology. Launch is rescheduled for 2077.[194][195]
  • October 2: John Miller – proprietor of Big John's Salvage – was finished sealing the cracks and clamping the pipes in the shelter he was building on his property.[242]
  • October 4: At West Tek, fifteen chimpanzees are infected with batch 11-111. The most successful test to date, growth and immunities in the chimpanzees surpass all other subjects to date. The military practically drools over the results. Plans are made in secret to continue testing in small quarantine towns in North America like Huntersville. Mariposa Military Base construction is sped up in anticipation of moving the West Tek project to a location under military supervision.[243]
  • October 20: Nuka-Cola Quantum is created.[244]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB November: Enclave personnel seize control of Bloomfield Space Center and begin researching and developing a way to convert Hermes XIII and 14 into a personnel transports to transport important individuals off-planet.[194][195]
  • November 4: First incidents of violence and death at Huntersville.[245]
  • September 5: John Miller – proprietor of Big John's Salvage – was finished installing the ventilation in his shelter, however he was continuing to have issues with the generator. It kept shutting off for no obvious reason, and whenever the generator shut off the ventilation fans would stop and effectively vacuum seal the shelter.[246]
  • November 16: Twelve Protectrons that were missing all their limbs were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[247]
  • November 28th: John Miller – proprietor of Big John's Salvage – believed that he fixed the generator/ventilation issues, and all the supplies are stocked and ready.[248]
  • December: Fifteenth edition of Coping With Mr. Virus! is published by Vault-Tec.[249]
  • December 10: Shelby O'Rourke meets with Ray Gary and Scott Conroy at a Truth Seekers meeting, as part of her cryptid research.[250]

2077[]

2077


  • Gas prices sky rocket Fallout TacticsGametitle-FOT with the regular gas price being $7450.99 per gallon and $8500.99 per gallon for premium.[251]
  • The United States Army commissions General Atomics International to manufacture the Mister Gutsy line of combat robots. The Mister Gutsy line is completed just before the Great War and are released for use.[252]
  • Robert House puts himself in stasis.[253]
  • A Chinese sabotage attempt takes place at Hoover Dam.[254][255][256]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB New Plague hits Denver. Rioters burned down large parts of the city in their fear of contamination and anger at their treatment. Many panicked and fled the city by car, clogging the freeways when they ran out of gas and trapping everyone behind them.[257]
  • January 7: Major Barnett orders transfer of all Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) research to the newly-constructed Mariposa Military Base, despite objections by the research team.[258][259]
  • January 10: Alaska is reclaimed, and the Anchorage Front Line is again held by the Americans.[260][261][262]
  • January 22: The first domestic use of power armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured, and are sent to military prisons.[263][264][262]
  • January 28: At 4:32 PM, an All Clear is sounded at Anchorage and DEFCON is lowered to 3.[265]
  • February: F.E.V. Research is leaked to the world through an unknown source. Protests in many major cities and governments around the world, as well as accusations that the U.S. was responsible for the New Plague. F.E.V. is seen as the threat, and serves only to fuel tensions. The governments of the world fear what the U.S. is up to. Speculating anything from trying to make a breed of super soldier, to trying to make Hitler's master race, they begin to panic.[266]
  • February 16: The testing of the Archimedes I weapons system was successful. However, despite precautions being taken, several minor systems were overloaded.[267] Furthermore, both the Black Mountain communications array and the Hidden Valley military bunkers experienced system frying power fluctuations at the time of the testing.[268] However the Archimedes II testing was pending the long-range communication/targeting system on the Euclid's C-Finder.[269]
  • February 22: The Army takes control of the HELIOS One installation in Nevada from Poseidon holdings. Full use of the laser artillery enters the American arsenal.[270]
  • March: Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreat to Control station Enclave and make contingency plans for continuing the war.[271]
  • March: Vault Dweller's Survival Guide is published by Vault-Tec.[272]
  • March 14: Twenty seven defective Mister Handys are delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[273]
  • April: A United States Navy destroyer was sunk, one of the few survivors, the Marine Thomas Davis, eventually made his way home to Bar Harbor, Maine, where is fellow members of Beaver Creek Lanes would gather to welcome him home.[274]
  • April 2: John-Caleb Bradberton undergoes the LEAP-X program procedure, preserving his head in a jar beneath his office at Nuka-World.[275]
  • April 28: A major Class 1 nuclear incident occurs at Nuka-World's power plant, causing a large amount of radioactive coolant to discharge into the local river (which flows through the parks). Park administration covers up the incident as a Class 7 failure and fires the whistleblower.[276][277][278]
  • May 24: Nine protectrons that were missing all their limbs were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[279]
  • June 8: Fourteen Eyebots missing their vision sensors were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[279]
  • June 14: The Berkeley Springs Police Department defused a bomb that was planted by "The Appalachian Assassin."[280]
  • June 15: Eight Robobrains whose mental acuity was well blow standard were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[279]
  • June 22: Several decommissioned sentry bots were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[281]
  • June 25: The Mistress of Mystery Season 8 Episode 16 was recorded in Los Angeles.
  • June 26: The after party for the eighth season of the Mistress of Mystery was held in Los Angeles, attended by the staff and actors[282]
  • June 26: The installation of Cryptos and the Hall of Trials into Riverside Manor is completed. Frederick Rivers and Zack Hayes run tests on the system's functionality. Recording of Mistress of Mystery Season 8 wraps up in Los Angeles.[283]
  • June 29: Frederick Rivers unveils the Order of Mysteries's Lair to his wife, Shannon Rivers, along with a three months of solid training with stunt actors, martial artists, military trainers, a cavalcade of experts, all for her upcoming television performance on The Silver Shroud.[284]
  • July: Between July 10 and October 23: Sierra Army Depot VI is evacuated.[285]
  • July 4: After contact with the contaminated lake water causes a medical crisis at a General Atomics-sponsored bass fishing tournament, Lake Quannapowitt is closed to the public.[286]
  • July 22: Four decommissioned Sentry bots were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[279]
  • July 22: The long time communication between Kent Connolly, comic fiction extrordinare, and Frederick Rivers, unbeknownst to him the husband of Shannon Rivers and an actual extremely wealthy and well connected scientist, ends when Mr. Rivers tries to tell him that the project that they were working on, the Lair of the Mistress of Mystery was completed. Mr. Connally believing it to simply be a model of some sort and asking for pictures.[287]
  • August: Sometime prior to August 15, General Constantine Chase, the hero of the Anchorage Reclamation, begins testing a virtual reality simulation of the Reclamation at the V.S.S. Facility in Washington, D.C.
  • August 17: The ATLAS Program receives full funding as its clandestine weather modification technology proves successful (a full whiteout snowstorm in mid-fall).[288]
  • August 27: Miners strike outside Garrahan Estate, protesting their working conditions. Bill Garrahan exacerbates the situation by firing a shotgun into the air, scarring off the protesters.[289]
  • September: The M42 "Fat Man" Launcher is perfected and shipped out out Fort Strong to "the supply yard in Mississippi."[290]
  • September: Free States leaders Raleigh Clay and Sam Blackwell retreat to their bunkers in the Mire after seceding from the United States of America.[291]
  • September 6: Technicians at the V.S.S. Facility notice General Chase is making radical, unrealistic changes to the Anchorage simulation. They believe Chase is becoming obsessed with the simulation and is gradually going insane, but refrain from confronting him out of fear that they will lose their jobs to military contractors.
  • September 9: Fifteen Protectrons that were missing all their limbs were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.[279]
  • September 13: Employees of Robotics Disposal Site East 09B discovered their colleagues at other facilities also received shipments of Protectrons missing their limbs.[281]
  • September 13: Lester, an employee at the Mass Fusion containment shed, died after tripping behind the forklift as it was reversing. In response corporate forced the facility to post a multitude of work safety posters.[292]
  • September 27: The Bysshe Company build a secret lab in the basement of Van Lowe Taxidermy overnight for Calvin van Lowe to conduct his "Sheepsquatch" research out of. The noise from which was reported to the Lewisburg Police Department, which sent him an official letter of warning.[293]
  • September 29: Martin Reid begins uncovering that not all was right with his employers, spotting several odd shipments to the vaults under their regional purview; the first of these was fifteen cases of psycho and jet to Vault 95.[294]
  • October: An explosion in Kerwood mine kills 17 miners and traps 32 more.[295]
  • October: Nuka-Cola Quantum is released to the public.[296]
  • October: The Whitespring cancels the Springhill golf tournament.[296]
  • October: The Nuka-Cola Corporation becomes the first "business class" sponsor of the Whitespring. With the public release of Nuka-Cola Quantum becoming its main event, Nuka-Cola bottle caps becoming accepted as legal tender throughout the hotel. This promotion marks the event that elevates bottle caps to currency for post-war Appalachia.[296]
  • October 2: The manager of the regional Vault-Tec headquarters, Frank Davidson, brushes off his coworkers concerns.[297]
  • October 2: An non-depleted Ultracite vein in Atomic Mining Services' Mine Shaft No. 9. burst into Welch. Word spread about the discovery.[298] Penelope Hornwright and Gregory got to the town after AMS, who immediately secured the town and begin evicting the town's residents.[299]
  • October 2-8: The weekly meeting of the Faneuil Hall merchants' came to the conclusion that their sales were down three percent relative to last October 2-8, 2076. The meeting focused on a perceived shoplifting "crisis." They then discussed Fallon's proposal for Protectrons and the Freedom Society's objections to it. The Freedom Society issued a veto on historic preservation grounds. At the conclusion of the meeting the merchants unanimously agreed to detailed inventory tracking to assess the scope of the problem.[300]
  • October 3: Faced with forced relocation the residents of Welch rebel against AMS. The rioting spreads to anything related to the local mining companies after the years of maltreatment. News of the town's rebellion spread across Appalachia, disfranchised mine workers across the region began to occupy company properties across the region. With the rebellion and property damage the Governor called in the National Guard and the local mining companies called in "independent contractors" to restore order. The violence began after AMS tried to dismantle people's homes to get to the Ultracite, the minors then deciding to strike before the mining companies decide to wipe them out completely.[301] The minors called a meeting deciding to split into two groups, one, Mick Flanagan's to go and secure the Rockound, the other O'Conner's to go to Bramwell to destroy the mega mansions of the wealthy industrialists whom own the mines.[302][303]
  • October 3: Hornwright Industrial closes their headquarters amidst the violent rioting, reopening the 5th of October, however noting that they wouldn't be responsible should an employee be injured crossing the picket lines.[304]
  • October 3: Bryce Garrahan proactively calls the Governor for assistance with the violent riots outside his home, hoping to keep his sociopath brother from exercising his own brand of justice with the weapon he's purchased and been brandishing for that purpose.[305]
  • October 4: A supervisor at the Mass Fusion containment shed put their innermost feelings to record about their coworkers and occupation.[306]
  • October 4: Hornwright Industrial manages to secure all its property from the rioters except the Rockhound, the rioters retreating. The executives of the company are forced to meet that day to make sure AMS is held liable for the "tens of millions" in damages.[307]
  • October 5: The rioters whom destroyed the maga mansion in Bramwell were arrested, Bryce Garrahan officialy requests permission to negotiate with a small contingent of more peaceful minors.[308]
  • October 5: Yvette Wiesman a coworker of Penelope Hornwright wrote an left a message at the reception desk of Hornwright Industrial headquarters, asking how she and her father was, and about the riots at the Rockhound and Welch.[303]
  • October 7: Walter Scott opens a shipment marked "Vault 111 - DO NOT OPEN." To his and his colleague Martin Reid's perplexion, it was hundreds of gallons of liquid nitrogen, something that the vault wouldn't normally need, and more evidence that Mr. Reid's theory was correct.[309]
  • October 9-15: The weekly meeting of the Faneuil Hall merchants' assembled. They came to the realization that despite sales being up by eleven percent due to the Columbus Day holiday. The merchant's inventory report showed net losses of $2,294 for the week, with twelve confirmed shoplifting incidents. Several merchants threatened to sue for breach of contract over security issues, and the Fallon's prepared to withdraw immediately.[310] With the pressure building the Mayor insisted that the Protectron installation will proceed despite objections. By this time the Society – whose representatives shrank from fourteen to eleven – also had to allocate funds for roof repairs.[311]
  • October 10: Captain Roger Maxson and his men discover that the scientists at Mariposa have been using "military volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in robobrains) as test subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and in light of the mental breakdown of Colonel Robert Spindel stationed at the base, Maxson's men turn to him for leadership.[312][313]
  • October 12: The National Guard arrive at Mount Blair to clear the remaining "rebels" (rioters) from the Rockhound with minimal damage to the machine.[314] However Bill Garrahan decided to go to the site to, in his own words, "lend the National Guard a hand." Injuring if not killing six miners, and causing superficial damage to the Rockhound. This a act destroyed the solid week of negotiation and the peaceful settlement with Garrahan Mining Company and its workers.[315][316]
  • October 13: After an interrogation, Maxson executes Robert Anderson, the chief scientist at Mariposa.[312]
  • October 13: Sharon accidentally spills coffee on her boss, Frank Davidson's new shirt, prompting his desire to stab her in the throat with his pen.[317]
  • October 15: Colonel Spindel commits suicide.[312]
  • October 15: Robotics Disposal Site East 09B receives a mysterious delivery by even more mysterious men in black.[318][281]
  • October 15: Walter Scott warns Martin Reid about getting Frank Davidson's violent temper.[319]
  • October 15: The Whitespring officially terminates all non "ironclad service" contracted employees, essentially all non-management personnel are fired to finish the transition period for making the facility automated. The "Employee Fairwell dinner" takes place at 7:30pm.[296]
  • October 16: The United States Army sends a letter to SLCT James Oberlin to inform him of the closure of the ATLAS Program. Not understanding why they would do so the Senior lieutenant colonel decided to wait and discuss the situation with chief research scientist Dr. Isaac Hammond.[320]
  • October 16-22: The weekly meeting of the Faneuil Hall merchants' assembled for the final time. After the installation and activation of the Protectrons the Hall experienced what could only be described as a massacre. The Protectrons killed seven people, including five alleged shoplifters, one bystander, and the Fallon's cashier. A public relations nightmare followed, sales dropped eighty-one percent. To avoid further media scrutiny the Freedom Society cancelled further weekly merchant's meetings.[321]
  • October 17: Bysshe operative Bo-Peep is scheduled to meet with Calvin van Lowe in Bastion Park. van Lowe is a no-show and Bo-Peep is murdered by the imposter sheepsquatch which has escaped from van Lowe's lab.[322]
  • October 18: Hornwright Industrial wins in the "Man vs. Machine" competition against the Garrahan Mining Company due to cheeting.[323]
  • October 18: Scientist interrogations at Mariposa come to an end as the last scientist is shot.[312]
  • October 19: Scott Conroy falls into a sinkhole and breaks his leg while investigating a sunken church in the Mire for ghosts.[324]
  • October 19: Frank Davidson murders Sharon[325] and expresses that he has the same desire to "discipline" Martin Reid for continually bringing up his Vault theory.[326]
  • October 20: Captain Roger Maxson, now in control of Mariposa, declares himself to be in full desertion from the army (via radio)... and receives no reply.[312][327]
  • October 20: Employees of Robotics Disposal Site East 09B discus the prospect of losing their careers if they look into their last recorded delivery.[281]
  • October 21: Maxson orders all families stationed outside the base moved inside the Mariposa facility.[312]
  • October 21: At 9:30 am EST Vault-Tec staff at Vault 94 received the decryption keys to unseal their new orders for the Vault. With the exception of maintenance engineer Tyrone Hayes, the staff wrap up their assignments and depart for Vault-Tec University.[328]
  • October 22: The United States Army orders SLCT James Oberlin falsify data so that the closure of the ATLAS Program. Dr. Isaac Hammond flew into a rage, after having to be restrained by the Military Police Corps he walked off the property without saying a word to the SLCT.[329]
  • October 22: The Platinum Chip was printed at Sunnyvale, and was to be delivered the next day by courier direct to Mr. Robert House.[330]
  • October 22: Martin Reid, completely disgusted with his boss Frank Davidson and his company Vault-Tec Corporation turned in his two week notice.[331]
  • October 22: A hazardous material inspector stopped in to the Mass Fusion containment shed unannounced to check their operation. The supervisor informed their direct superior, Mr. Feld, who told the supervisor that if he caught on to their conspiracy they needed to kill him.[332] He did, and they attempted to kill the inspector and stuffed him into the pipe they were using to dispose of the nuclear waste into Lake Quannapowitt.[333]
  • October 23: Fallout 4 prologue begins.
  • October 23: The Great War begins, and ends. Lasting only a scant 2 hours, most of Earth is reduced to cinders in that time.[334] It begins in the early morning, U.S. Eastern Standard time. The United States and China deploy their nuclear arsenals. Other countries, seeing the missiles on their way, launch their planes and fire their warheads as well. Air raid sirens sound, but very few people heed the warning. The vaults are sealed. Two hours of nuclear bombardment later, the War ends, along with much of humanity.[335]
  • October 23: A Halloween costume show was to be held at local Freddy Fear's House of Scares costume stores.[336]
  • October 23: 82 students from the Early Dawn Elementary school go on a field trip to Lamplight Caverns with a couple of teachers and a few parent chaperons.[337]
  • October 23: L.O.B. Enterprises is raided by federal agents.[338]
  • October 23: Skylanes Air flights Skylanes flight 1665 and Skylanes flight 1981 take of from Washington, D.C. and Chicago to Boston, respectively; they would both crash en route due to the effects of the nuclear detonations.[339][340]
  • October 23: Tyrone Hayes, Maintenance Engineer of Vault 94, receives orders to contact Pastor Gabriella Salavar and informs her that she and her congregation have a standing invitation to enter Vault 94.[341]
  • October 23: Randall Clark witnesses the destruction of Salt Lake City and, by extension, the death of his family. The city is hit by thirteen nuclear warheads, resulting in total destruction.[342]
  • October 23: The Sierra Madre gala event begins, but is cut short by the war. The casino hermetically seals itself and the holographic security kills many of the guests. The few scattered survivors eventually commit suicide in the following hours and days. Vera Keyes dies from an overdose of her pain medication, while Frederick Sinclair dies in his attempt to disarm his traps. The only known survivor is Dean Domino.
  • October 23: Vault 12 fails to close properly. Once it becomes known that the other vaults have sealed, people within Bakersfield attempt to force their way into Vault 12 to protect themselves and their families.[343][344]
  • October 23: The West Tek Research Facility is hit by warheads, breaking open the F.E.V. tanks on levels four and five and releasing it into the atmosphere. Mutated by radiation, it loses its mutagenic abilities, but it later complicates things for the Master.[345]
  • October 23: The Mariposa Military Base survives; the soldiers within protected from the radiation flooding the wasteland.[335][346]
  • October 23: Dr. Hein, a Nuka-Cola Corporation geneticist, is taken hostage by the A.F.A.D. at the Angry Anaconda in Nuka-World.[347]
  • October 23: The Platinum Chip, still at Sunnyvale, becomes buried under the rubble from the aftermath of the Great War where it would stay buried for over 200 years.[330]
  • October 23: Mr. Robert House saves Las Vegas and most of the surrounding area from complete destruction with his defenses at the Lucky 38, stopping 68 of the 77 ICMBs launched at Las Vegas (59 through forced deactivation and 9 destroyed with laser cannons mounted on top of the Lucky 38). The resulting "light show" can be seen as far as Mexico City.[348] Nine of the warheads evade destruction, a fault of Mr. House being forced to use an inferior operating system without the Platinum Chip, but only damaging minor parts of the Mojave Desert, with the most damaging detonation being near Nellis Air Force Base.[349]
  • October 23: The Lucky 38's operating systems crash under the strain of the nuclear attack. Forced to work with an inferior version of the OS, he suffered numerous system crashes and was even forced into a coma by one of the failures before being able to reboot an earlier, stable version that only allowed him to save Las Vegas from 68 out of the 77 warheads, 59 disarmed and 9 destroyed, aimed at the city.[350]
  • October 23: Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Surviving scientists and soldiers based in Los Alamos band together with other survivors they encounter for safety. They set up a temporary camp in a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde and attempt to contact the federal government for further instructions. No contact is ever made. A small vault is built into the cliff side to shield the only computer they have from the elements.[351]
  • October 23: Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB All Enclave personnel leave Bloomfield to either take cover or maintain "hot spots". Sub-reactor is turned off. Bloomfield, B.O.M.B.-001 & 002, and Hermes XIII & 14 are completely forgotten.[352][353]
  • October 23: Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Two Poseidon scientists are trapped in the AGRICOLA Lab. After four years, one dies of natural illness. After one more year, the other commits suicide.[354]
  • October 23: Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Due to seismic activity, some radiation seeps into the sub-levels of the Reservation. Even though the people underground are safe from the blasts, radiation eventually takes its toll.[355]
  • October 23: The Sole Survivor and their family evacuate from their home in Sanctuary Hills to Vault 111. Once inside, they and the other vault residents are placed in indefinite cryonic suspension by Vault-Tec personnel.[356]
  • October 23: Following the Great War, mothership Zeta abducts Sally and her sister, her parents having died during the war.[357][358]
  • October 23: At 12:03 AM, the commander of the United States Pacific fleet reports 3 Unidentified Submerged Objects off the coast of California to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[359]
  • October 23: At 3:37 AM, the United States Air Force detects a squadron of airplanes off the coast of the Bering Strait.[359]
  • October 23: At 9:13 AM, the Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System reports 4 nuclear launches. DEFCON is raised to 2.[359]
  • October 23: At 9:17 AM, NORAD confirms the launch of ICBMs. DEFCON is raised to 1.[359]
  • October 23: At 9:26 AM, the Defense Intelligence Agency at Switchboard confirmed the nuclear response scenario MX-CN91.[359]
  • October 23: At 9:42 AM, Switchboard confirms nuclear strikes in Pennsylvania and New York.[359]
  • October 23: At 9:47 AM, all monitoring stations at the Switchboard go offline. The entire United States is bombarded with nuclear warheads.[359]
  • October 24: The Boylston Club adds its Memoriam Gala to its October events calendar.[360]


  • October 24: The Whitespring resort is sealed against radiation at the orders of the new general manager.[361]


  • October 25: The Whitespring guests and staff acclimate.[362]
  • October 25: At Mariposa, Platner, bound in power armor, is sent out to get specific readings on the atmosphere. He reports no significant radiation in the area surrounding the facility.[335][363]
  • October 27: After burying the scientists in the wastes outside of Mariposa, the soldiers seal the military base, then head out into the desert, taking supplies and weapon schematics with them. Captain Maxson leads his men and families to the government bunker at Lost Hills.[335][364]
    • Note: Although Maxson's points in his holodisk indicated that civilian personnel other than the families of soldiers under his command were to remain at the base, whether they did so or not is unknown.[365]
  • October 28: After having wandered for five days, Randall Clark takes refuge in a former USGS research station inside a cave in Zion Canyon.[342]
  • October 30: The Boylston Club has its Memoriam Gala, those that attend agree to commit mass-suicide rather than live in a post-nuclear America.[360]
  • October 29: Taggerdy contacted by Maxson.[366]
  • October 30: Lavonne made a telephone call to her friend warning him of the nuclear devastation. He followed her coded advice and sent his teamsters home to their families.[367]
  • October 31: The military begins sending out Vertibirds to towns across the United States with medical supplies in an attempt to treat the injured and dying and guard towns with the two-man teams that piloted the Vertibirds.[368]
  • October 31: A black rain (caused by the irradiated material and carbon from widespread fires being spewed into the upper atmosphere) begins to come down in areas across the United States and likely the globe, causing a spike in radiation levels in affected areas.[369]
  • November: Captain Maxson, his men, and their families, arrive at the Lost Hills bunker a few weeks later, suffering many casualties along the way, including Maxson's wife (but not his teenage son). The surviving soldiers go on to become the Brotherhood of Steel.[370]
  • November: During the Exodus, a faction within the Brotherhood of Steel led by Sergeant Dennis Allen breaks off to explore the southeast Glow to recover technology. The Captain refuses to permit that, so Allen and his separatist group splits away from the Brotherhood of Steel, taking power armor and weapons with them.[371][372]
  • November: The separatists make their way to the West Tek research facility. They arrive there twenty days later, and are promptly chewed apart by the West Tek's unforgiving automated defense systems. Wounded, Allen begins to suffer radiation poisoning from a leak in his suit. Before he dies, he logs what happened to the expedition into a holodisk.[371][372]
  • November: Ms. Carrie Delaney is the last adult to leave Little Lamplight Caves in search for help. Ten year old child Jason Grant takes charge in her absence.
  • November 1: Theodore Croup wakes to the complete devastation of his family, who began suffering from ghoulification.[373]
  • November 1: The Foreman of a South Boston factory learned via radio that Framingham, Massachusetts was completely devastated.[367]
  • November 2: Original date of the election to replace Samuel Blackwell's seat as Senator of Appalachia.
  • November 4: Camp Venture secured Taggerdy's Thunder in preparation for the winter.[374]
  • December 14: The Whitespring inventory reveals a stockpile large enough to last a decade if not more.[375]

2078[]

  • January 8–10: What sounded like a two day windstorm occurred in Zion Canyon, the radiation dropped 500 rads.[376]
  • January 15: Glowing green snow fell in Zion Canyon.[376]
  • January 28–30: The background radiation in Zion Canyon is finally low enough for Randall Clark to explore outside the USGS research station. He quickly finds himself to be the only living thing in the immediate vicinity.[376]
  • The dwellers of Vault 87 are locked in airtight chambers and exposed to the FEV by the Vault's Overseer and his security, who are simply, though callously, following the "plan" laid out by Vault-Tec. The vault's population is transformed into super mutants.[377]
  • The city of kids, Little Lamplight is officially founded. By unanimous vote Jason Grant is named as the city's first mayor.[378]
  • February 2: Theodore Croup gathers the shuffling remains of his family together and locks them in the basement, unable to bring himself to end their suffering, and went out to look for other survivors, both human and ghoul alike.[379]
  • July 8: Shannon Rivers defends her family from harm using the skills she gained during training for the role of Mistress of Mystery, setting in motion events that would lead to the creation of the Order of Mysteries.[380]
  • July 21: The snow finally thaws in the mountains after a winter of the century, radiation levels are down, The Whitespring comes back to life.[381]
  • August: Shannon makes her first excursion as Mistress.[382]
  • August 30: The Whitespring is locked down to maintain its supplies.[383]
  • October 23: Vault 94 opens one year after the Great War to recolonize and cultivate agriculture.
  • November 11: Shannon, Frederick, and Olivia discover four children in their garage, scavenging. The girls are accepted, the boy, Torrance, is sent away.[384]
  • December 1: The Whitespring prepares to shut-down for remodeling, surprising its guests.[385]
  • December 12: The Whitespring's Initiative cannot be overridden and the guests will be kicked out on Jan 1. Guests and staff prepare for expulsion.[386]
  • December 31: The Whitespring host its last New Year's Gala, supplies are doled out, and people move out into the wasteland. A group decided to take out the robots at the golf course and use it as a base of operations.[387]
  • Winter: The first winter after the Great War is especially tough in Charleston and becomes one that all others are compared to for severity.[388]

2079[]

2080[]

  • The first effects of radiation are seen in the survivors. Widespread mutations occur with animals and humans alike. Those that survive the effects of the mutations are permanently changed. New species are created almost overnight.[390]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB John Bloch's military group makes a peace-protection pact with local ranchers.[391]

2081[]

  • The Skynet AI, in Sierra Army Depot, becomes self-aware, according to its own records.[392]
  • January 3: E. Fisher deserts from Camp Venture at the end of training, prompting Taggerdy to tighten recruitment criteria. Brotherhood ranks aren't implemented yet.[393]

2082[]

  • June 20: Squire Asher sets Quercus up in the Mire. Brotherhood of Steel new ranks are implemented by this point.[394]
  • October 23: The Vault-Tec Corporation operative initiates the experiment of Vault 95.[395][396] Despite the complete chaos and violence that engulfed the vault its inhabitants would survive until Gunners overwhelmed them.[397]
  • December 10: Taggerdy requisitions supplies from Charleston for fighting Huntersville mutants, Speaker Poole reluctantly agrees.[398]
  • December 24: Cutthroats second in command, Rosalynn Jeffries, attempts to raid Charleston but is captured. Her capture is used by the Responders in an attempt to get to the leader of the Cutthroats David Thorpe.[399]
  • December 25: Christmas Flood, Charleston totaled.[400] Shannon Rivers decides that raiders are a major threat.[401]

2083[]

2084[]

  • February 15: Judith Blackwell dies.[407]
  • April 10–~June 17: Randall Clark leaves Zion Canyon to visit Salt Lake City, circling pockets of radiation and scavenging. Outside of Nephi he caught the trail of three men heading toward Fountain Green, he didn't follow however, believing them to be cannibals due to the missing corpses of the old couple he mercy killed on the day of the Great War.[408]
  • Spring: Set takes control of Necropolis, wrestling control from the original Overseer. The Vault 12 Overseer, not willing to take a dirtnap, is driven north and history loses sight of him.[409]
  • September 8: Olivia grows resentful of having to play the part of the good daughter all the fucking time.[410]
  • November 9: K. Kelly commits suicide at Camp Venture.[411]

2085[]

  • The planned date for the U.S. military to bring the VB-02 Vertibird, a Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, into service.[412] For obvious reasons, this never happens, but the Enclave resumes development after regaining its footing.
  • November 13: First scorchbeast sightings.[413]

2086[]

  • February 14: Mistress Clarissa killed in action, Order of the Mysteries suffers its first casualty. and Olivia Rivers is particularly affected.[414]
  • March 26: Tex Rogers receives a training commendation, the first one issued at Camp Venture, and is fast-tracked for promotion to full Knight of the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel for the Huntersville battle.[415]
  • May 22: Eve Devoir becomes the mistress of Novices at the Order.[416]
  • June 1: Battle of Huntersville ends, Brotherhood and Responders stand together.[417] Maxson formulates a new mission for the Brotherhood. Desertions take place, including Hank Madigan.[418]
  • June 8: Olivia Rivers attacks a raider checkpoint and makes contact with Brody, seeking inroads into the raiders. Brody Torrance is made an offer.[419]
  • June 9: Thorpe accepts Torrance's idea of infiltrating the Order.[420]
  • July 1: Torrance is 200 caps behind, with no success.[421]
  • July 12: Olivia and Torrance decide to feed Mistress Allison to the raiders to convince Thorpe.[422]
  • July 19: Torrance makes the deal. Thorpe gives him an ultimatum.[423]
  • July 24: Allison is killed, her head is presented to Thorpe, the rest to the Order as Olivia Rivers passes the point of no return.[424]
  • October 7: Riverside Manor and Order enter lockdown in response to Raider successes after Olivia provides them with a copy of Cryptos. Training accelerated and automated.[425]
  • November 13: Olivia is made. The Order is wiped out by her hand, save for her mother.[426]
  • November 16: Shannon Rivers is killed in combat by her daughter. Brody kills the wounded Olivia shortly thereafter. The order is wiped out.[427]

2087[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB December: After most of the initial survivors in the Reservation succumb to radiation, those "fortunate" enough to not die have turned into ghouls. And after spending ten years underground, they finally come back to the surface. Twelve ghouls, including Dr. Willem Clark, volunteer to search the wastes in the hopes of finding other survivors.[428]

2088[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The computer in Mesa Verde fails. The scientists resort to carving their most important schematics into the kiva walls.[429]
  • May 3: Brotherhood campaign to contain the scorched and the scorchbeasts in full swing.[430]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB December: Of the twelve volunteers to explore the wastes, only one comes back to the Reservation; Dr. Willem Clark. However, he has brought back a few dozen fellow ghouls to seek shelter at the Reservation.[428]

2089[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Scientists in Mesa Verde began to drill the village children in the ways of mathematics and science so that knowledge is not forgotten. They hope that their descendants will one day help bring civilization back to the wasteland.[429]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB January: After explaining the hardships and prejudices placed against ghouls by smoothskin humans, the ghouls of the Reservation proclaim Dr. Willem Clark as their leader. Willem further solidifies his place as leader by explaining his plans to one day make the ghouls the rightful and true heirs to the Promised Earth and that becoming a ghoul was the next, logical step in the evolutionary process.[428]

2090[]

  • Vault 29 opens. Harold sets out to make his fortune as a trader, making the circuit around the survivalist communities in the wasteland.[431][432]

2091[]

2092[]

  • The Los Angeles Vault opens. The Los Angeles ruins become known as the Boneyard, attracting survivors.[435]
  • Doctor Richard Moreau is exiled from Vault City for murder. After adopting a new name, Richard Grey, he starts his journey south, eventually settling at the newly founded Hub as a doctor and physician.[436]
  • May 15: First water readings at Flatwoods Outpost.[437]

2093[]

  • Angus founds the Hub in the ruins of Barstow, around a filthy oasis: The intact water tower. He starts trading with nearby settlements.[438]
  • February 20: Flatwoods outpost gains self-serve kiosks.[439]
  • July 20: Camp Venture abandoned by the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel to focus on Fort Defiance and Thunder Mountain power plant.[440]
  • Fall: Big Bend tunnel community continues to prosper. Brotherhood still defends the eastern end of the tunnel.[441]

2094[]

  • January 3: Brotherhood requisitions intensify.[442]

2095[]

  • January 28: Operation Touchdown launched by the Appalachian Brotherhood to wipe out the scorchbeasts.[443]
  • January 30: Contact lost with Taggerdy's team after Watoga. Taggerdy and team detonate explosives in the glassed caverns, causing widespread tunnel collapses.[444]
  • February 2: Touchdown declared successful after the scorchbeasts disappear briefly.[445]
  • March 4: Brotherhood of Steel requisitions put relations with Responders at nadir when the Brotherhood learns of Amy Kerry and demands data.[446]
  • March 12: BoS demands details about Kerry's project at gunpoint. Chavez has no point but to share some of the data. Relations are soured permanently.[446]
  • April 16: Amy Kerry automates her environmental analysis project and gets out of Dodge.[446]
  • June 3: Sightings increase, proving that Touchdown failed.[447]
  • Summer: Brotherhood rallies all the forces at Defiance and Thunder Mountain.[448]
  • September 20 through November 15: 28 survivors from Mexico (eleven men, eight women, and nine children) arrive in Zion Canyon.[449]
  • August 13: Last stand orders issued to BoS.[450]
  • August 18: Fort Defiance falls.[451]
  • August 19: Thunder Mountain falls. The Brotherhood is wiped out.[452]
  • Free States create lures using sonic generator technology salvaged from the Brotherhood outposts, to attract, trap, and kill scorchbeasts.[453]

2096[]

  • Harold becomes a caravan master in the Hub. His business survives despite occassional attacks, at least until mutant attacks intensify in following years.[454]
  • January 1: Sofie Yates enrolls at Flatwoods as a volunteer candidate.[455]
  • February: Vault 22 is abandoned, the dwellers forced to abandon it due to the mutated spore outbreak.[456]
  • February 11: 118 Vault 22 dwellers arrive at the Zion Canyon. Infected with the Vault 22 contagion, their arrival brings spore carriers and spore plants. They clash with the Mexican refugees, killing some and capturing the rest.[456]
  • February 14: The Mexican captives are cannibalized by the Vault 22 dwellers.[456]
  • February 19: Randall Clark begins a campaign of extermination against the Vault dwellers, killing over two thirds of their number over the next eleven months.[457][458]
  • June 15: Flatwoods is almost completely empty.[459] Miguel Caldera transfers to Morgantown Airport to build shelters for survivors.[460]
  • July 6: Responders start work on the scorched vaccine. Team: One, Claire Hudson.[461]
  • July 18: Scorched confirmed in Flatwoods.[462]
  • July 24: Last sign-in by Garry Wilkins, Sofie Yates and Delbert Winters at Flatwoods.[463]
  • July 25: Cullen McLeeder begins training at Flatwoods, automated.[464]
  • August 1: Mike Scholler from the Free States arrives at Flatwoods after a fight at the bunker forces him out; trades.[465]
  • August 1: Claire Hudson prepares infrastructure for research into the scorched vaccine.[466]
  • August 2: Scholler trades armor for food and water, leaves for Fort Defiance.[467]
  • August 12: Scorched attack Charleston, nearly destroying the inoculation project.[466]
  • August 14: Adam Venn joins Cullen at the Flatwoods outpost.[468]
  • August 20: Venn starts restocking the Flatwoods trader bot.[469]
  • August 25: Brad Hooper checks in at Flatwoods.[470]
  • Madigan encounters Free States and discusses expanding the SDS.[471]
  • September 1: Venn and others move on from Flatwoods towards Morgantown Airport.[472]
  • September 2: Breakthrough in inoculation project. Chavez still alive.[466]
  • October 20: Responders ready to seal Big Bend tunnel. Operation fails.[466] Madigan gone.[473]
  • October 25: Last sign-in by Kesha McDermott.[474]
  • November 5: Last sign-in by Dassa Ben-Ami.[475]
  • November 7: Morgantown Airport falls, Responders are wiped out.[466]
  • November 20: Last sign-in by Cullen McLeeder.[476]

2097[]

2098[]

2099[]

  • By this year, all human life in Appalachia (at least humans unprotected by Vaults) has either been killed or infected with the Scorched Plague.

2100[]

  • Vault 76 strokes the egos of the overachieving Residents by having award ceremonies for mundane tasks and achievements. The Vault 76 World Cup keeps the more physically active contained as well.[484]

2101[]

2102[]

  • May 22: After mutant attacks intensify, Harold forms an expedition to investigate the source of the attacks. Richard Grey is part of the expedition, as a scientist and physician.[485]
  • June 23: The expedition locates Mariposa Military Base. The mutants at the base rout the party. Harold and Grey manage to reach the Vats, only to be separated: The robotic crane knocks Harold out and Grey into the FEV. The former later awakes in the wasteland, the latter mutates into the Master.[486]
  • June 27: Harold slowly turns into an FEV mutant. He is found in this state by a merchant caravan and returned to the Hub. As his flesh rots, but he doesn't die, he finds himself losing business and employees, until he's forced to live in an Old Town shanty.[487]
  • July: Richard Grey regains consciousness and manages to pull himself out from the Vats. The pain of the mutation is overwhelming, but he manages to reach the control room and begin recording his audio log, fading in and out consciousness for days or weeks at a time.[488][489]
  • July through November: The mutation stabilizes and Grey notices his greatly increased mental capacity, capable of resolving the most complex of philosophical questions. He begins experimenting on animals infesting the military base by exposing them to the Virus. When he dips a rat and a dog into the Virus at the same time, the resulting fusion inspires him to begin formulating a philosophy of unification. The Unity begins to form.[490][491]
  • October 23: Fallout 76 begins. The Residents are released from Vault 76 to reclaim Appalachia only to find that all of humanity in the region has succumbed to the Scorched Plague propigated by the Scorchbeasts.
  • November: A human scavenger strays into the military base. Grey reflexively consumes him, assimilating his mind. The incident results in him vowing never to consume a human again without dipping.[492][493]
  • December: Grey continues to modify himself by injecting FEV into various areas of his mutated body. He grows a neurolink to the base's computer. Further experiments on humans straying into the facility yield no success, as their exposure to radiation warps the mutation. The brain damage they suffer makes them unfit for assimilation or use as foot soldiers and Grey uses them as cattle, for sustenance.[494][495]

2103[]

  • January: Grey finally isolates radiation exposure as the factor that was affecting transformation success rates. The first successful super mutant is assimilated by Grey as a fellow mind, creating the Master hive mind. The plans for the Unity begin.[496][497]
  • 2103: The Master begins to gather test subjects from local human communities. The process is slow, hampered by their scarcity and the Great Winter of 2130, which ends this stage of his work.[498][499]
  • October 23rd: Wastelanders begins: The Residents of Vault 76 successfully kill the Scorchbeast queen and put a halt to the expansion of the Scorchbeasts and the Scorched. The scorched plague begins to subside and Raiders and Settlers begin to return to Appalachia.[500]

2108[]

  • August 22 through September 3: Randall Clark encounters feral ghouls for the first time.[501]

2110[]

  • The Institute is founded by a group a of former Commonwealth Institute of Technology students who took refuge in the college's underground level at the time of the Great War.[502][503]

2113[]

  • February 5: Randall Clark celebrates his 60th birthday. He plans to commit suicide, but backs out.[504]

2120[]

2123[]

2124[]

  • January 2–22: Randall Clark begins leaving gifts, like books and medicine, and notes for the children to make the most of their new home. He signs every note as "The Father". The children later form the tribe the Sorrows. Clark also realizes that he is terminally ill, probably with lung cancer.[507]
  • January 23: Randall Clark makes his final notes as he climbs up Red Gate to make sure the children will not find his body, and reveal the mythological "Father" figure to merely being an old man. He dies peacefully shortly afterwards.[507]

2125[]

  • The Vipers attempt to raze the Hub in its formative years. Despite the numerical advantage, they are defeated by a coordinated defence led by Angus. Beaten, they retreat to the north.[480]
  • Winter: Angus is murdered. The Hub is thrown into chaos.[508]

2126[]

  • A band of merchants seizes the water tower in the Hub. They demand anyone wanting water must pay a toll. The Great Merchant Wars begin.[509]
  • 2126-2128: The Great Merchant Wars are fought, the Water Merchants seal up the town, but are outnumbered.[510]

2127[]

2128[]

  • A man named Roy Greene makes peace in the Hub and negotiates a settlement. The Hub's Central Council is formed, composed of two representatives from each of the Hub caravan companies. A long period of indecisiveness and meetings maintain the status quo in the Hub.[510]

2130[]

2131[]

  • A group of machinists comes to the Boneyard, settling into an old, abandoned factory and beginning to manufacture weapons and ammunition.[513]
  • The Master switches to using caravans as source of humans for super mutant conversions. The intensifying trade yields many more humans, but the raids go unnoticed, blamed on monsters in the desert. The super mutant army grows rapidly over the next four years.[514]

2135[]

  • Elder Roger Maxson dies of cancer, and his son, already an accomplished soldier, takes up the role of "General" (Elder) within the Brotherhood of Steel. John Maxson becomes a member of the Paladins, showing tremendous promise as a soldier.[515]

2137[]

  • Super mutant production begins en masse. Although the success rate is between 15 and 20%, with only a half surviving long enough to become a part of his army, the program is deemed a success and the Unity becomes a reality.[516]

2138[]

2140[]

2150[]

  • Around the early 2150s the Vipers recover from their defeat by Angus at the Hub, replenish their ranks from captured slaves and caravan drivers, and begin to establish a power base in the badlands to the North of the Hub (and south of the Lost Hills Bunker). Driven by a religious frenzy (and the need to provide for their much larger numbers of soldiers and disciples), they begin raiding more frequently than before, attracting the attention of the Brotherhood of Steel.[480]

2151[]

  • The Brotherhood of Steel Elder Council sends out Knights to seek traces of Sergeant Dennis Allen's separatist group. All they find is ruins.[371]
  • Crimson Caravan Company is founded by Demetre Romara.[519]
  • The Boneyard machinists run out of scrap in the surrounding area, form trade relations with Adytum.[513]

2152[]

  • The Master's forces slowly expand their influence through the wastes. In the course of their duties, the super mutants apprehend a group of doomsday cultists under Morpheus, a former member of the Rippers. Instead of conversion, they pledge allegiance to the Master and form the core of the Children of the Cathedral, the public face of the Unity.[520]

2155[]

  • The machinists in the Boneyard name themselves Gun Runners.[521]
  • The Brotherhood deploys several squads of scouts to track the Vipers down. Treated more as a training exercise, the detachment is headed by High Elder Maxson despite his advanced age. The Elder misjudges the Vipers, who do not break and run, but continue fighting. Maxson is nicked by a single poisoned arrow with his helmet off and dies within hours.[480][522]
  • The Brotherhood begins a full scale campaign of extermination against the Vipers. Within a month, the raiders are broken as a fighting force, with many fleeing to the north and east.[480] Stragglers remain within New California for several more years, but are no longer a threat to communities south of Junktown.[523]
  • The Unity apprehends a caravan of Vault dwellers from the Boneyard Vault. Under Master's orders, the Vault and its inhabitants are seized. He transfers his command there and begins sending his troops to their suspected locations.[524][525]
  • Vault 17 is raided, providing prime subjects for super mutants. Lily Bowen is among those captured.[526]

2156[]

  • The Master establishes the Children of the Cathedral, an ostensibly peaceful cult that would infiltrate the settlements in the wasteland and provide vital intel for the Unity. Morpheus is selected as the face of the cult.[527]

2157[]

  • Vault 12 is located by the Master under Bakersfield. The super mutant detachment sent to the city engages the ghouls living among the ruins. Outmatched and outgunned, the ghouls eventually surrender to the Unity. Set negotiates a ceasefire, revealing that the ghouls are what remains of Vault 12. Their plans frustrated, super mutants establish a small outpost at the water shed, to insure Set's cooperation.[528]

2158[]

  • Regulators take control of Adytum. The trade relations with the Gun Runners sour, as the trade begins to favor the settlement heavily.[529]

2159[]

2161[]

  • October: A Brotherhood of Steel patrol comes across a dead super mutant in the badlands. They take the corpse back to the Scribes, and Head Scribe Vree begins her examinations of the super mutant.[531]
  • December 5, 07:21: Fallout begins The Vault Dweller is sent out into the wastes to find a replacement of the Vault 13 water chip.[532]
  • December 15: The Vault Dweller discovers Shady Sands. Meets Tandi, and Ian, who joins the Vault Dweller in searching for the water chip.[533]
  • December 30: The Vault Dweller recruits Dogmeat in Junktown.[534]
  • December: J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-JES Killian Darkwater takes firm control of Junktown, drives out the last of Gizmo's kind, and then enforces his own brand of frontier justice. Life is fair and safe under his law.
  • December: Thanks to the vault dweller's persistence, the Khans are completely destroyed, leaving only one survivor named Darion.

2162[]

  • January 4: The Vault Dweller visits Scrapheap.[535]
  • January 5: Someone starts stealing water from the store room in Vault 13.[536]
  • January 17: The Vault Dweller reaches the Hub and negotiates with the Water Merchants to deliver water to Vault 13, buying the Vault some time.[537]
  • February 13: The Vault Dweller recovers the water chip in Necropolis. Ian is killed by a super mutant and reduced to a cinder.[538]
  • February 23: The Children of the Cathedral establish a clinic in Junktown.[539]
  • March 3: The Vault Dweller kills the Master. The Cathedral is destroyed in nuclear fire.[540]
  • March 24: Unity attacks Necropolis, forcing most ghouls to flee and sparing none of the ghoulish inhabitants that stayed, leaving a truly dead city behind them.[541]
  • April 20: The Vault Dweller destroys the Mariposa Military Base. Dogmeat dies defending his master, vaporized by a forcefield.[542]
  • May 10: Fallout ends - The Vault Dweller returns to Vault 13, only to be told to leave by Jacoren. Some members of the vault (led by Theresa, the head of the "return to the surface" faction, and including her supporters, Pat and Lyle), follow soon afterwards. The Vault Dweller marches into the wasteland, leaving Vault 13 behind him.[543]
  • May 12: Vault Dweller removes his Vault suit and from this day forward, never wears it again.[544][545]
  • July 10: The Vault Dweller heads north with a small group of fellow vault dwellers and wastelanders and founds the small village of Arroyo.[546][547]
  • The Brotherhood of Steel helps the other human outposts drive the remnants of Unity away with minimal loss of life, on both sides of the conflict. The advanced technology of the Brotherhood is slowly reintroduced into New California, with little disruption or chaos. The Brotherhood of Steel wisely remains out of the power structure, and becomes a major research and development house.[548]

2167[]

  • August 18: Construction of Arroyo completed.[549]

2170[]

2172[]

2178[]

2180[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB With their village having outgrown available space and resources, many Ciphers adopt a nomadic lifestyle, returning to the village only occasionally to resupply or raise children until they're old enough to walk on their own.[429]
  • The Minutemen are formed.[553] They rise to prominence following their courageous defense of Diamond City from Institute super mutants.[554]

2185[]

  • Summer: Marcus and Paladin Jacob confront each other at high noon. After trading blows and gunfire for a few days, the two finally give up trying to kill one another. They become fast friends and start traveling together, discussing the Brotherhood and the fallen Unity.[555] Eventually, humans, ghouls, and super mutants begin to join them.[556]
  • Fall: Broken Hills is founded around an old uranium mine by Marcus and Jacob..[557]

2186[]

  • In Shady Sands, Tandi helps her father Aradesh bring a new community and new life out of the broken remains of the world. A trial council government of the New California Republic is formed, drafting a constitution. Its ideals spread across the land.[558][559][560]
  • Spring: Jacob says goodbye to Marcus, then moves on for parts unknown.[561]

2188[]

2189[]

2190[]

2195[]

  • Fallout TacticsGametitle-FOT Chris Avellone becomes the mayor of Springfield.
  • Fallout TacticsGametitle-FOT January 4: Latham's airship crashes near Osceolla.[563]
  • Fallout TacticsGametitle-FOT January 5: Latham takes leadership of Gammorin's Army.[564] As their new leader, he discovered that the supermutants are a simple, good people, with a loyalty stronger than that shown by regular humans. With the help of other crash survivors, he reorganized the mutant group into a fighting force. However, he began to notice symptoms of brain damage sustained in the duel: Hallucinations and bouts of angers and depression.[565]

2196[]

  • Fallout TacticsGametitle-FOT April 9th: Gammorin's forces inadvertedly wake up the Calculator, nearly leading to a holocaust of epic proportions.[566]
  • After the death of Aradesh, Tandi is unanimously elected President of N.C.R. by the NCR council. As expected, she proceeds to do a kick-ass job.[567]

2197[]

2198[]

  • The Enclave resumes work on various pre-War technologies, including power armor variations. None of these are much of an improvement over the conventional old power armor, and some are actually worse.[570]
  • Fallout TacticsGametitle-FOT Fallout Tactics ends - During the attack on Vault 0, the Warrior stops the Calculator, averting a holocaust of epic proportions at the hands of its robotic army.
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB After years of trying the "natural" way, the ghouls of the Reservation discovered they were indeed sterile. Dr. Willem Clark and Dr. Sebastian begin to devise a plan to create a viable way for ghouls to procreate.[69]

2200[]

2204[]

2205[]

2208[]

  • January 16: After writing his memoirs, Vault Dweller vanishes from Arroyo and is presumed dead. The Vault Dweller leaves the Vault Suit behind, folded on the bed. Some say the Vault Dweller was taken by the sky spirits, others say that the Vault Dweller felt it was time to move on and leave the Elders to guide Arroyo to its destiny.[573]
  • February 2: The One-Moon (Month) Cycle of mourning for the Vault Dweller ends, and activity in Arroyo begins to return to normal.[574]
  • February 2: Final training of the vault dweller's daughter for the role of village elder begins. She undergoes a great deal of physical training and tutoring in various sciences, mathematics, and, of course, weapon skills.[575]
  • Fallout: Brotherhood of SteelGametitle-FOBOS Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel begins - The Initiate, a Brotherhood of Steel initiate belonging to the Texas Expedition, is sent to the town of Carbon to find Rhombus and his paladins.[576]
  • Fallout: Brotherhood of SteelGametitle-FOBOS Just after the arrival of the Initiate in Carbon, the vault dweller also arrived in the town and settled for a while.[576]

2209[]

2210[]

  • January 31: The Vault Dweller's daughter takes her mystic test, a key ingredient of which is several pots worth of hallucinogenic plants from Hakunin's garden. She runs the gauntlet in the Temple of Trials, using her charm to pass most of the tests after her handgun jams (and is ruined) on the first level. She offers numerous criticisms of the test, resulting in many revisions.
    • Note: The broken handgun is the one you see on her table in the opening movie of Fallout 2.[577]
  • February 2: The Vault Dweller's daughter ascends to role of Village Elder. She rules with a steady hand, and her wisdom is greatly respected.[578]

2215[]

  • Under Presidential Order, Enclave scientists begin to work on an upgraded version of power armor. Many prototypes are developed and tested.[579]
  • August 1: Congressman Dick Richardson rises to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his father, President Richardson.[580]

2220[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The Reservation begins to purchase human slaves from the various tribes around the region. The ghouls trade what weapons they make in their underground smithies for healthy humans. The healthiest are used for the ghoul procreation experiments, while the rest work until they die from exhaustion and disease.[69]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB New Jerusalem's intolerant prophet and apostles repeatedly vote to have no commerce with outsiders from other, failed communities, refugees, or tribals.[151]
  • March 5: Congressman Richard "Dick" Richardson is elected president for the first term of five, through aid and political pressure by his father (the previous President Richardson).[581]
  • October: Enclave scientists develop a reliable version of the Mark II power armor. The prototype results (and accidents... and explosions... and deaths) are classified by order of the new President Richardson for the sake of morale.[582]

2224[]

  • The Institute exhausts the possibilities of FEV-related research due to a lack of intact, undamaged DNA at their disposal.[583]

2227[]

  • Shaun is abducted by Kellogg from Vault 111 to further the Institute's third generation synth program.[584]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB July: After years of research and experimentation, Dr. Sebastian successfully creates a born ghoul through procreation in the Reservation. The human host, like all the ones preceding him, dies during childbirth (evidently hosts can be male or female).[69]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB August: The first successful Born ghoul. Due to the radioactive chemistry of the ghouls, the first Born ghoul rapidly grows into adulthood within a month. The Born ghoul is named Measles due to his large, swollen glands in his jaw. Only three other Born ghouls will be birthed between this year and 2253. The procreation experiment only has a 2% success rate.[69]

2228[]

2229[]

2231[]

2232[]

2233[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB New Jerusalem is sacked by a large group of tribals, raiders, and other disgruntled folk. A large number of Mormons perishes in the attack.[151]

2235[]

  • The Enclave experiments on deathclaws, attempting to create special fighting units for waging war in hostile environments.[591]
  • While there had already been a small number of ghouls in the area soon to become the town of Gecko, the population swells and the town of Gecko is formed. The new influx of ghouls bring scavenged technology and know-how, and the power plant in Gecko becomes operational later that year. Vault City looks upon their new neighbors with growing concern.[592]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB The new Mormon living prophet, Judah Black, leads most of the remnants of the Mormon community north to Ogden, Utah. They establish the town of New Canaan.[151][593]

2236[]

  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Working with some squatters, the Mormons get the Jericho Water Plant running fresh water into New Canaan.[151]
  • July 20: Enclave scouts discover the remains of the Mariposa Military Base and find it partially destroyed.[594]
  • July–August: Enclave scientists and chemical corps scour the remains of Mariposa, while assault squads comb the desert for slaves they can use to excavate the military base and get to the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) vats. One of the squads includes soldier Frank Horrigan, age 25 at the time, recently removed from duty on the President's Secret Service detail to take some R&R time in the wastes after some undocumented psychotic blunder or another.[595]
  • August: Melchior is captured by an Enclave patrol and becomes part of the slave excavation force at Mariposa.[596]
  • September: Enclave construction crews and super mutant slaves begin excavations. They uncover the FEV, and mutations begin to occur in the human workers. Frank Horrigan comes into contact with the FEV and is sent to the Enclave labs for study.[597]
  • October: Melchior begins to mutate, but keeps his intelligence and cunning in the wake of the transformation, making him smarter than your average super mutant. Realizing that the Enclave will kill the super mutants after they get the FEV data, he begins to use his magician talents to hide away weapons for the mutants to defend themselves when the Enclave decides to dispense with them.[598]
  • 2236-2238: Horrigan gradually mutates from exposure to FEV, gaining the physique and slow, stupid, single-mindedness of a super mutant. He is kept heavily sedated, operated on, and studied. He is conscious for only brief periods at a time, then quickly sedated after the bloodshed is over.[599]

2237[]

  • The remnants of the Naval Research Institute lead by Horace Pinkerton clear the mirelurks off the wreck of a beached aircraft carrier that later becomes Rivet City.[600]
  • January: The Enclave, having obtained the F.E.V. data, abandons the military base site after more mutations occur, causing a second generation of super mutants to arise - the Enclave leaves a single squad behind to wipe out the super mutants, but the mutants, using armaments they have cached in the base during excavation, reduce the squad to ashes after suffering heavy casualties. The remaining first and second generation super mutant slaves decide to remain in the base, and the group forms a new community.[601]

2238[]

  • Harold arrives in Gecko, and (with a lot of shaking of his head) he does his best to help the ghouls with the running of the Nuclear Power Plant.[602]

2239[]

  • Thomas Moore comes to Vault City and becomes a Citizen[603]
  • January 23: Tests begin to run dry on Frank Horrigan. It is suggested that he be used as a field operative and be used in tests in the wasteland against local populations.[604]
  • March 27: Frank Horrigan is manufactured for his new role. A new version of power armor is built to accommodate his mass, and he is sealed inside. After a few horrifically successful field tests, Horrigan becomes the Enclave's solution to numerous sticky problems.[605]
  • April 25: Inaugural meeting of the Rivet City Council, consisting of Horace Pinkerton, Annette Holmes and Brad Danvers takes place. The city officially gains its name.[606]

2240[]

2241[]

2242[]

  • Two androids, Armitage and A3-21, are built in the Commonwealth by the Institute.[620]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Nuclear Nellie, a howitzer style gun capable of firing a nuclear shell, is made functional at the Reservation. A "dirty" shell is created to use on Willem’s enemies. However, since the heavy lift cable is broken, there is no way to bring the gun from its underground lair.[69]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Jeremy Maxson renames Todd Peterson's bunker after his famous ancestor, Roger Maxson. He then sends a full compliment of troops for occupation. Andrea Brixley is promoted to Elder, given the rank of General, and placed in charge. The remainder of her exploratory team is given the title of Elder as well.[175]
  • January 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the second time.
  • April 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the third time, without regard to the progress of the Chosen One.
  • May 15: Fallout 2 intro - The Enclave sends a coded sequence to Vault 13, activating its central computer and declaring that it is time to leave the vault. Martin Frobisher gathers the Vault 13 dwellers together for the "Leaving The Vault" video, a tutorial movie of Vault-Tec about the rules to follow when vault dwellers left their vault.[621]
  • May 16: Less than a day later, Vault 13 is opened, only to be greeted by two Enclave verti-assault squads. The squads kill three of the vault dwellers who were "resisting capture" and storm Vault 13, kidnapping all the inhabitants.[622]
  • May 17: Enclave animal handlers drop an intelligent deathclaw unit into Vault 13 from a safe distance to kill anyone investigating the vault and cloak the Enclave's presence. Other intelligent deathclaws are sent into the desert surrounding Vault 13 to check for any escapees or witnesses.[623]
  • July 20: Arroyo is attacked by Enclave soldiers, and the villagers are enslaved and brought to Control station Enclave. The Chosen One has a fourth and final vision of Hakunin.
  • Fall: Fallout 2 ends - The Chosen One enters the Enclave's oil rig using the damaged tanker and destroys the Poseidon oil platform, killing the President of the United States and ending the Enclave's plans for world domination.[624]
  • After the Enclave's destruction, the refugees of Arroyo and Vault 13 resettle, building a new community with the aid of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit. Finding themselves hundreds of miles from their Vault, the members of Vault 13 choose to join the villagers in establishing a new community, and their technical expertise, combined with the villagers survival skills, allow the new settlement to grow and prosper. Two generations of the same bloodline are re-united, and their savior, the Chosen One, becomes Elder, presiding over the village in the years to come.
  • The Arroyo elder lives for many years after the destruction of the Enclave. She seems pleased that the ancient separation between Vault 13 and the Vault Dweller has been reconciled, and many are the times she tells the Chosen One she wished the Vault Dweller were alive to have seen the reconciliation take place. Certain that the safety of the new village had been secured and the new community was flourishing, the Elder passes away a few months later in her sleep. Many of the older Arroyo residents believe that she now lives in the vault of the sky, telling the Vault Dweller of the Chosen One's brave deeds.
  • Relations between the Slags and residents of Modoc flourish. Between the two peoples, Modoc prospers and becomes a major farming community, supplying all the outlying regions with food.
  • J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-JES Metzger's slave trade in the Den expands greatly, giving him influence and power throughout most of the area. Breeding pens are started and eventually no one is safe from the threat of being enslaved. Travelers avoid the Den, hearing of the evils committed within its walls.
  • J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-JES Optimizing Gecko's power plant becomes the first step in forging a spirit of cooperation between Gecko and Vault City. Gecko's increased power production becomes instrumental in helping Vault City's expansion.
  • Not long after the destruction of the Enclave, the Bishop Family of New Reno is blessed with a child. This child seems to have little in common with the Bishops, preferring instead to spend his days exploring the wastes.[625] When he turns thirteen, he seizes control of the Bishop Family and leads them to victory over the remaining New Reno families. He dies quietly in his sleep at the age of seventy-three, never having known his real father.[626]
  • Myron dies less than a year after the defeat of the Enclave, stabbed by a jet addict while drinking in the Den. His discovery of jet is quickly forgotten, and now there is no one who remembers his name.[627]
  • The Chosen One still hears mention of Harold from time to time. Apparently, the tree growing from his head has gotten larger, and if rumors are to be believed, fruit is growing from it. The seeds are said to remarkably tough, and several of them have taken root even in the most barren stretches of the wasteland.[628]
  • Several years after buying the Excavator Chip from the Chosen One, Marge LeBarge is able to purchase and control both the Morningstar and the newly opened Kokoweef mines. Marge is an easy choice for Mayor, and using her new political power, she makes Redding join the growing New California Republic in return for a seat in the NCR's Hall of Congress.[629]
  • With the destruction of the conspiracy to destroy the mutants, Broken Hills begins to thrive. Then the uranium ran out. The city, having lost its sole reason for existing, slowly disperses. The residents carry their riches with them, leaving the place a wind-swept, desolate ghost town. A few hold-outs remain, attempting to eke out a pathetic existence, but eventually, they too, disappear.[630]
  • Inspired by the example set by the Chosen One, Marcus eventually travels across the great mountains to the east, searching for other refugees from the Master's army. The Chosen One never hears from him again.[631]
  • With the support the Chosen One secured from the New California Republic, the Vault 15 squatters soon become self-sufficient and productive members of society.[627]
  • The Chosen One's help with Vault 15 launched the New California Republic's push to civilize its neighbors. Though there were many more obstacles to overcome, the NCR now had a foothold into the northern wastes.[627]
  • Shi eventually went into an uneasy trading relationship with the tanker vagrants after the destruction of the Hubologists, and the two groups went on to make San Francisco a major fishing and trading center.[632]

2245[]

2246[]

2247[]

  • Graham, Calhoun and Sallow are captured by the Blackfoot tribe for ransom. The young Sallow uses his knowledge to train the tribals in the art of warfare, impressing them enough to become their leader.[517]
  • Sallow assumes the name of ancient Roman emperor Caesar and makes Joshua Graham his right-hand man. He decides to create an empire modeled after the historical Roman Empire, intending to erase the tribals' individual identities and replace them all with a single, monolithic culture - the Legion. He tells Calhoun to go back to the Followers and spread the news of these happenings.[517]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB After coming out of a strange and powerful fever, Jeremiah Rigdon claims that an angel appeared to him in a vision, calling him to be the living prophet of god.[151]

2248[]

2249[]

2250[]

  • Caesar declares himself the son of Mars, Roman god of war.[517]
  • Approximately around this year, Harold appears in the Capital Wasteland. He is discovered by several people who began to worship him as a god, and a small and exclusive cult known as the Treeminders begin to form in secrecy. Bob began to blossom and many plants grew in this area, which became green with life, a stark contrast to the outer wasteland.[639][640]
  • Harmon Jurley becomes leader of the Paradise Falls slavers after Penelope Chase' death that resulted from leading the slavers to Rockopolis.[641][642][635]
  • Rockopolis is razed and its population sold to The Pitt. Argyle dies trying to escape.[635][643]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB Daniel goes to find his six cattle in a storm and is captured by robots from the prison. Also, Bishop Mordecai and five others return to New Canaan as the sole survivors of their attempt to resettle New Jerusalem. They do not acknowledge Jeremiah Rigdon as the living prophet.[151]

2251[]

2252[]

  • Bloomseer Poplar arrives at the Oasis.[645]
  • 15-year-old Scott Wollinski is sold to a caravan merchant by his father, who hopes for a better life for his son. Wollinski would travel with the caravans for few years, working as an indentured servant, until buying his freedom and settling down in Canterbury Commons.[646]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB June 15: Kyle "the Hook" and his Rusty Hooks discover Bloomfield Space Center and declare it their home.[194][195]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB June 30: Sid figures out how to fire up the sub-reactor. Bloomfield has power once more, but sub-reactor is only operating at 45% efficiency.[194][195]

2253[]

  • 38 NCR citizens are massacred by Mojave raiders.[517] President Joanna Tibbett is voted out of office by the NCR congress after a "timid" reaction to the massacre, and is replaced by Wendell Peterson.[517]
  • President Peterson dispatches three battalions of NCR infantry into the Mojave Wasteland.[517]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB October 23: The Prisoner escapes from Tibbets Prison, dooming the world and creating a holocaust of epic proportions.[69][593]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB October 23: Sentry robots at Bloomfield become semi-active – not moving, but the optical lenses and sensors turn on and start surveying for escaped prisoners from the Big MT. The robots ignore the Rusty Hooks.[194][195]
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon)Gametitle-VB October: Dr. Victor Presper and his NCR followers find security overrides for the turrets and security bots at Bloomfield, as well as the space rockets' launch codes. They invade Kyle's beloved Bloomfield – Kyle and his men do not resist Dr. Presper and his technically more advanced brigade – and launch themselves into space to dock with B.O.M.B.-001. Four NCR soldiers stay behind with the remaining rocket to prevent anyone from launching the second rocket. The Rusty Hooks keep clear of the launch pad and form an "understanding" with the NCR guards.[194][195]

2254[]

2255[]

2256[]

2257[]

2258[]

2259[]

2260[]

  • A generator in the Citadel overloads, creating errors in the artificial intelligence routines of the medical robot called Sawbones, giving him intelligence beyond his programming and a disliking for his human masters.[660]
  • Amata Almodovar's mother dies from unknown causes.[661]

2261[]

2265[]

2266[]

  • November: The Railroad's headquarters is raided by The Institute. Only one survives the raid and The Railroad is left in shambles. Most of those that survived by not being at HQ during leave out of fear. All in all, the Railroad is left with just 13 members to rebuild.[665]

2267[]

2269[]

2270[]

2271[]

2272[]

2273[]

2274[]

2275[]

  • Camp McCarran, NCR's headquarters in the Mojave Wasteland, is established. Conflict with the Mojave Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel begins.[517]
  • The NCR government ceases to officially support the Followers of the Apocalypse, turning to the Office of Science and Industry.[517]
  • Maggie's parents die in a raider attack, and she is rescued by the caravan guard Billy Creel.
  • The NCR restarts Hoover Dam and gets it to 50% capacity within a year of occupying it.[685]
  • Legion scouts report the NCR has occupied and restarted Hoover Dam, restoring electrical power to the Strip. Caesar begins planning war against the NCR.
  • 2275-2276: Legion forces gradually assemble east of the Colorado river. The NCR becomes aware of the threat when scouting parties fail to return from expeditions east.

2276[]

2277[]

2278[]

2279[]

2280[]

2281[]

2282[]

2283[]

2284[]

  • Recon squad Artemis arrives in the Commonwealth and is subsequently attacked by an unknown party that kills most of the squad. The squad would flounder and need to scuttle their power armor. Paladin Brandis would be the last survivor of the squad by 2287.[731]
  • Tinker Tom breaks the Patriot's coded messages and reveals it to be "Mass Fusion".[732]

2285[]

  • Early August: Jacqueline Spencer scavenges a University Point building and finds a hard drive with technical research on reactor efficiency that she informed a passing caravaner about in an attempt to make caps.[733]
  • August 12: The Institute sends a messenger to University Point demanding the hard drive that Jacqueline found. The town mayor refused to acknowledge the Institute's request for the hard drive despite the wishes of vocal town residents.[734]
  • Late August: The Institute raids University Point and virtually wipes it off the map.[735] University Point serves as another reminder of the power and ruthlessness of the Institute.

2286[]

2287[]

2288[]

  • The Mechanist appears in the Commonwealth, bringing their hoard of specialized robots with them to bring peace to the region. Their plan goes awry, robots begin slaughtering innocent wastelanders, and the Sole Survivor must confront the Mechanist and put a stop to their plans.[741]
  • Kasumi Nakano goes missing from her home, and her parents enlist the help of the Sole Survivor and Nick Valentine to track her down to Far Harbor, an island off the coast of Maine. While investigating, they uncover a conflict between the town of Far Harbor, the Children of Atom, and Acadia, a refuge for runaway synths. Navigating through the dangers of the island and the politics among the groups, the Sole Survivor determines the fate of the island.[742]
  • The Sole Survivor survives the Gauntlet of Nuka-World, kills Overboss Colter and takes charge of the three raider gangs that occupy Nuka-World.[743]

2291[]

2297[]

  • Gray paragraphs are based on Fallout 3 guide epilogue and have not been confirmed by primary sources September 10: Moira Brown writes a terminal entry about recent developments and the legacy of the Lone Wanderer, including writing a new book, a compilation of "the best and most useful tales of the Lone Wanderer for the next generation."[696]

2301[]

  • Mr. House theorizes that the high technology development sector will be reignited this year should he stay in control of New Vegas.[745]

2316[]

2331[]

  • Mr. House theorizes he'll be conducting test flights this year to again start sending people into orbit like the United States did over 200 years prior.[745]

2381[]

  • Mr. House theorizes colony ships will begin to leave Earth to find a new home untainted and polluted by the Great War.[745]

2910[]

References[]

  1. The Sole Survivor: "That's really interesting."
    Jack Cabot: "I'm glad to hear you say that. It's become my life's work. My approach is to combine a rigorous scientific method while keeping an absolutely open mind. So much has been closed off to us simply because people assumed they already knew the answers. My father excavated a city in the Rub'al Khali in Arabia which he dated to more than 4,000 years before the rise of any known human civilization. The structures and artifacts were... strange. Disturbing, even. Clearly not constructed for or by humans. I've spent my life trying to decipher what he uncovered."
    (Jack Cabot's dialogue)
  2. Edwin Brotch: "No, Mister DeLoria, that is not correct. The Battle of Hastings was 1066. 2077 was the end of the world. Tell me. Are you really that stupid?"
    (Edwin Brotch's dialogue) Note: Heard during the transition between 10 and 16 years during the Vault sequence.
  3. Toshiro Kago was abducted sometime during the Tokugawa shogunate, starting on March 24, 1603, since mon was only authorized for all classes from that date.
  4. Coastal monument plaque: "Here marks the landing of Captain John Smith's shallop upon his discovery of Point Lookout in 1612."
  5. Point Lookout loading screen hints: "The Ark & Dove Cathedral is named for two English settler ships which landed near Point Lookout in 1634, leading to Maryland's founding."
  6. 6.0 6.1 Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.472: "[14.02] Old Granary Burying Ground
    This burial ground was established in 1660, making it the oldest surviving burial ground in Boston. Many famous Revolutionary War heroes were buried here, including John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and the victims of the Boston Massacre. In 2031, after the tragic death of Emilia Butler, the city council voted unanimously to have her remains interred here.
    This is part of the Freedom Trail. The number “2” is daubed on the circular ground plaque pointing at the letter “A.” It is overrun by ferals. The adjacent church is sealed and cannot be entered."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Paul Revere House inscription
  8. Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "Diamond City's newspaper, Publick Occurrences, gets its name from the first newspaper ever published in Boston, in 1690."
  9. Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.330-331: "[4.07] SALEM
    Once a quaint coastal town and seaport, this tourist destination was infamous for its witch trials of 1692. Nowadays the population has dwindled considerably due to Gunner activity in the area, the crazies worshipping a radiation crater down the road, and the large number of mating Mirelurks in the waters all around the bay. Proceed at your own risk."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  10. Alien Captive Recorded Log 1
  11. Old Corner Bookstore inscription
  12. 12.0 12.1 Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.480: "[15.02] OLD CORNER BOOKSTORE
    The Old Corner Bookstore was originally built as an apothecary after the devastating Great Fire of 1711. Originally the land belonged to Anne Hutchinson, the controversial puritan who was excommunicated and banished from Massachusetts for her “heretical” beliefs and sermons. During the mid-nineteenth century, the Old Corner Bookstore was the home of the leading American publisher Ticknor and Fields. They published the works of such luminaries as Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry David Thoreau. Many of those were frequent visitors to this site.
    The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic site on the Freedom Trail. The number “3” is daubed on the circular ground plaque pointing at the letter “I.” The interior is mostly deserted. The exterior of the bookstore is cluttered with rubble and marauding ferals, along with encroaching Raiders and Super Mutants fighting for territory and food. However, don’t miss the most difficult-to-find steamer trunk around; it’s in the ruins of the skyscraper that was built atop of the bookstore.
    Head east, following the Freedom Trail, then down into the Congress Street Garage [S15.02], where you can take an elevator up to the middle of the ruined building. Climb out onto the overpass, then leap from the overpass to a curved brown metal wall plate. Look southwest, then leap across and up to the remains of a tiled floor. Congratulations: jump northwest, and you should land on the roof you’ve attempted to reach, and find the contents of the trunk, close to some upturned desks."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  13. Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.463: "[12.03] CABOT HOUSE
    This 1711 mansion is sealed up tighter than a T-60 Power Armor vacuum attachment: It is strangely preserved amid the general decay. Located on Louisburg Square, the park is still well maintained. The intercom at the front door allows you to ask to gain entry."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  14. 14.0 14.1 Old State House inscription
  15. The Lone Wanderer: "What do you know about the Soil Stradivarius?"
    Agatha: "Not too much I'm afraid. It was fabricated way back in 1714 by a famous Italian craftsman named Antonio Stradivari. He had made a bunch of Stradivarius violins actually, and each one was individually named over time to identify them. They are regarded as the most outstanding instruments ever made... and no two sound alike they say. Incredible. Since the bombs fell laying waste to most of the world, it may be safe to say that this could be the last surviving violin of its kind."
    (Agatha's dialogue)
  16. 16.0 16.1 Old North Church inscription
  17. 17.0 17.1 Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.452: "[11.02] TRINITY PLAZA
    Still standing in the overgrown plaza that bears its name is Trinity Church. Founded in 1733, the present structure was completed in 1877 and now houses a small congregation of Super Mutants. The church has two entrances—the main doors and a hatch to the rear (east). Don’t forget the magazine from the pulpit. The area is easy to spot from a distance; it is adjacent to the massive Trinity Tower."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  18. Faneuil Hall terminals; Manager's Terminal, Tour Script
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 Food for the grasshopper
  20. Freedom Trail Tour bot dialogue; line A1a: "So near midnight, Colonel Smith marched with 700 Redcoats to face brave American patriots in the Battle of Lexington and Concord. And thus the Revolutionary War began.Continue on the trail to walk through more of our great city's history."
  21. The existence of the Dorchester Heights monument in Fallout 4
  22. Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.505-506: "[17.02] THE SHAMROCK TAPHOUSE
    "This historic bar and pool club on the edge of the Theater District is run by one of the smaller Raider gangs active in this area. The bar has had a long and illustrious history since its establishment in 1787... 500 years ago. Paul Revere was said to drink here.
    On the sliver of land between the Waterfront and Financial District neighborhoods, this fortified Raider camp has a single entrance (the hatch from the cellar is cordoned off behind wire fencing). Expect turrets and harsh language. Mop up the Raider scum and loot their ammo. Then enter the establishment.
    The place is run by Gaff, a Raider with a few cohorts scattered throughout the premises. The key to open the problematic doors of this establishment is in the cellar."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  23. Short History of the War of 1812. USS Constitution Museum.
  24. 24.0 24.1 Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "Fort Independence was named in 1797, at a ceremony presided over by President John Adams. Before then, it was known as Castle William, and then Fort Adams. Before its destruction in 2240, the fortification served as an apt headquarters for the Minutemen."
  25. 25.0 25.1 Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.471-472: "[14.01] Massachusetts State House
    The “new” state house was completed in 1798 to house the government of Massachusetts State. The land selected was originally John Hancock’s cow pastures. The first dome was constructed of wooden shingles and covered in copper smelted by Paul Revere. The state government used this building continuously until the formation of the Thirteen Commonwealths in 1969.
    This is part of the Freedom Trail. The number “4” is daubed on the circular ground plaque pointing at the letter “L.” Outside, one corner of the structure has collapsed, allowing lock-fiddlers the chance to open a wall safe (Novice)."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  26. Plaque outside of the cave: "HOPEWELL CAVE"
    "DISCOVERED IN MAY OF 1816, THIS CAVE APPEARED TO BE OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE TO THE NATIVE AMERICAN ADENA CULTURE, WHICH EXISTED FROM 1000 TO 200 BC. ANTHROPOLOGISTS INVESTIGATED IT AT SOME LENGTH AND FOUND SMALL BITS OF POTTERY AND A FEW ANIMAL BONES."
  27. Rivet City terminals; Welcome to the Capital Preservation Society, Monroe Doctrine
  28. Walden Pond announcer: "Hello, and welcome to Walden Pond! You are now standing in front of the cabin inhabited by transcendentalist writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau starting in the summer of 1845. For two years, two months, and two days, Thoreau lived in this cabin, hoping to gain a more objective understanding of society. This experiment was influenced by Thoreau's interest in transcendentalist philosophy, which believed that people were at their best when truly self-reliant. By living off the land with few material possessions, Thoreau proved it skeptical to think that any outward improvement of life could bring inner peace and contentment. For more information, please visit the gift shop and purchase one of the many books on transcendentalism. Also available; t-shirts, coffee mugs, toys, and many other items to commemorate your trip! Thank you for visiting Walden Pond, sponsored by General Atomics, maker of the Mister Handy robotic assistant."
    (Walden Pond announcer's dialogue)
  29. File:Dante and Virgil in Hell 1850.jpg
  30. Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.279: "[2.09] WILDWOOD CEMETERY
    The historic Wildwood Cemetery was founded in 1851, and numerous local dignitaries may be buried here. Confirmation is difficult due to the lack of prewar data."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  31. File:MrBrotchBlackboard.jpeg
  32. Plaque outside the Old Mormon Fort.
  33. Fallout 76 loading screen hints: "Built in 1858, The Whitespring was famous for its southern style and sulphur springs"
  34. Cemetery monument plaque: "The Battle of Philippi formed part of the Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War, and was fought in and around Philippi, Virginia (now West Virginia) on June 3, 1861. A Union victory, it was the first organized land action of the war though generally viewed as a skirmish rather than a battle."
  35. Rivet City terminals; Welcome to the Capital Preservation Society, Emancipation Proclamation
  36. Rivet City terminals; Welcome to the Capital Preservation Society, Gettysburg Address
  37. Wanted Poster for John Wilkes Booth
  38. Jamaica Plain on Wikipedia
  39. 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 Museum of Technology placard:
    "These portraits created by the renown Contemporary Artist Lincoln Mayers depict some of the more overlooked American Inventors. From top to bottom, left to right: Richard G. Drew (adhesive tape, 1925), James Ritty (cash register, 1879), Carl C. Magee (parking meter, 1935), and Mary Anderson (windshield wiper, 1903)."
  40. Lorenzo Cabot's journal
  41. Schoelt's slogan: "Burning since 1895"
  42. 42.0 42.1 42.2 Tibbets Prison design document for Van Buren
  43. The Sole Survivor: "How long have you been locked up in here?"
    Lorenzo Cabot: "My loving son trapped me here in the year of our lord 1898... so almost 400 years. I think you were about to agree to helping me kill Jack and the rest of my traitorous kin. Yes?"
    (Lorenzo Cabot's dialogue)
  44. Parsons State Insane Asylum terminals; Jack's Office Terminal, Patient 001-MS
  45. Museum of Technology placard:
    "The aircraft above is the original Wright Flyer I designed by Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the vehicle preformed its maiden flight for a mere 12 seconds, covering a distance of only 120 feet. This historic event marked the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight."
  46. 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 46.4 According to pre-War banners hanged around Diamond City.
  47. Monongah Mine terminals; Mining Supervisor's Terminal, Supervisor's Notes - 04.18.75
  48. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel item description: "name_lewisHeavy = {Lewis MKII}
    desc_lewisHeavy = {Invented by an American, the .303 Cal Lewis Gun was adopted by the British Army during WW 1 and remained in service with allied forces until well into the 1940's. An efficient and reliable weapon. .}"
    (Items.txt)
  49. Museum of Freedom Mural
  50. Newscaster: "And now a look at sports. Something that is, unquestionably, inescapably, American. I am referring of course, to our great national pastime, baseball. This afternoon, right here in the city, Boston's swatting sultans will swing for the fences. Led by star pitcher Matt "The Missile" Murtagh, Boston hopes to defeat Texas, and deliver their first World Series victory since 1918."
    (Newscaster's dialogue)
  51. Sunset Sarsaparilla Company's logo
  52. The Courier: "<Deposit your Sunset Sarsaparilla Stars in the slot.>"
    Festus: "Wahoo, you did it pardner! Bully for you! Ol' Festus knew you could do it. I suppose you'll be wanting that prize now. Well then, hold onto your hat, because it's a doozy. Not many people have heard the true story behind Sunset Sarsaparilla. It's a right honor. And now, without further ado, your prize - The Legend of the Star... Looooong ago, people didn't have a heap of choices when it came to soft drinks. It was either water, or Nuka-cola. Now, the threat of legal action forces me to say that Nuka-cola is a swell beverage, but sometimes people just wanted something different, you know? So one day a man, a saloon owner in a small town, decided to make a new type of soft drink, and asked his patrons what flavor they'd like it to be. After getting no help from them, a stranger at the end of the bar suggested the man make a sarsaparilla flavored drink. The stranger said he would happily share his family's recipe for the drink, on one condition. The condition being that the stranger would be allowed to sample a bottle whenever he liked, to ensure the recipe was being followed to the letter. The man happily agreed, thinking the drink would make him rich, and the stranger promised to meet him by sundown the next day. The next morning, the sheriff stopped by and reported that the stranger's body was found on the side of the town road. He'd been killed by bandits. The man, cursing his luck, closed the saloon early that day, just as the sun began to set. But after he had locked the doors, he turned around to find an unfamiliar bottle on the bar, with a note beneath it. The note was sealed with blue wax in the shape of a star. Opening it, the man found it contained a recipe for a sarsaparilla-flavored drink. Sampling the bottle's contents and finding it singularly delicious, the man gave silent thanks to his mysterious benefactor, wherever he was. Being an honorable man, the saloon owner paid for the stranger's funeral, thinking it was the least he could do to repay him. The saloon owner went on to become rich selling the new drink, and to this day some bottles of Sunset Sarsaparilla have a blue star under their caps. Some say the saloon owner ordered it done, in honor of the stranger. Others say it's the stranger, sampling the bottles like he promised. And that's the Legend of the Star. Hope you enjoyed it, and hope you continue enjoying Sunset Sarsaparilla!"
    (Festus' dialogue (Fallout: New Vegas))
  53. 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 Mentioned in the Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel intro.
  54. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel item description: "name_browningRifle = {Browning Auto Rifle}"
    "desc_browningRifle = {The .30 Cal Browning Automatic Rifle was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1918 as a squad automatic weapon. Despite its small magazine, it remained in service for over thirty years.}"
    (Items.txt)
  55. 55.0 55.1 55.2 Tour bot dialogue file from Van Buren
  56. Vim! Pop factory terminals; Tour Terminal, Tour Notes #1
  57. Pioneer Scout Camp terminals; Pioneer Merit Badge Exam Terminal, Rail Enthusiast
  58. 58.0 58.1 The Courier: "Tell me the whole story of Vikki and Vance."
    Primm Slim: "Yahoo! I ain't had a chance to tell their tale in a mess of years. First things first: any bosh you've heard about Vikki and Vance being copycats ain't nothing but ill-tempered slander. Fact is, they begun their crime spree two days before Bonnie and Clyde robbed their first bank - so who was copying who? Now true, Vikki and Vance didn't exactly cut a wide swath of murder and bank robbery across the central U.S., like Bonnie and Clyde did. It was more like a narrow swath of shoplifting, check-cashing fraud, and gas pump driveoffs - but crime is crime! They drove reckless, too. Having lived by the gun - well, Vance owned one, anyway - it was only fitting that the duo of desperados would die by the gun. Perhaps it was fate itself that accidentally drove them into a crossfire between police and a gang of bank robbers in Plano, Texas. Or maybe they just didn't notice until it was too late. It's been said that Vikki would have tried to cash a bad check in that bank, had she lived. We'll never know for sure. All we know is that the crossfire tore the car and both occupants to pieces, and the police issued an official apology. You can put your eyes on the genuine Death Car just over yonder, and there's Vance's machine gun in the case next to it!"
    (Primm Slim's dialogue)
  59. The Courier: "Pauline says you should give me the gun."
    Sammy Wins: "Really? Oh, thank god! I love that woman, but I swear this time she was gonna get us killed! The gun's in the safe. The combination's 05-23-34. Take it far away from here, before she changes her mind."
    (Sammy Wins' dialogue)
  60. Cut contentIcon cut Sammy's safe combination Cut contentIcon cut
  61. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel item description: "name_garandRifle = {M1 Garand}"
    "desc_garandRifle = {The .30 Cal Garand was the first automatic rifle to be used as the standard infantry weapon of a major army when it was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1936. Its rugged construction and reliability make this weapon a popular and valuable addition to anyone's arsenal.}"
    (Items.txt)
  62. Giant Teapot Advertisement
  63. Appalachia audio tour stations: The Giant Teapot
  64. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel item description: "name_brenGunHeavy = {Bren Gun}
    desc_brenGunHeavy = {This British adaptation of a Czech design was adopted as the standard light machine gun of British and Commonwealth forces in 1938. The .303 Cal Bren was among the most liked and respected weapons available to the British in WW2, due to its exceptional ruggedness, accuracy and simplicity, and remained in service with British forces for almost 50 years}"
    (Items.txt)
  65. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel item description: "name_mp38Sub = {MP38}"
    "desc_mp38Sub = {The Schmeisser MP-38 9mm Machine pistol was introduced as the standard sub machine gun of the German Army in 1938. Cheap and reliable.}"
    (Items.txt)
  66. United States declaration of war upon Germany (1941)
  67. Rivet City terminals; Welcome to the Capital Preservation Society, U.S. Declaration of War on Germany
  68. 68.0 68.1 68.2 Sierra mission statement
  69. 69.00 69.01 69.02 69.03 69.04 69.05 69.06 69.07 69.08 69.09 69.10 Reservation design document for Van Buren
  70. Citadel terminals; Liberty Prime Operation, Project Summary
  71. 71.0 71.1 Fallout 4 intro
  72. Fallout Bible 6: "3. What was U.S./world history like before the timeline included in previous Fallout updates?"
    "No one has asked this yet, but I thought I would cut this question off at the pass. Fallout takes place on a future earth, in an alternate timeline. I will not be including any information on how and when it diverged - it will remain one of the mysteries of the setting. Just let it be known that it diverged after WW2, and leave it at that."
  73. The Courier: "How did you learn where to find an old bomber?"
    Pete: "Loyal found a file somewhere on the base, with magazine articles, photographs, a map, even. It seems that a bomber, apparently the 29th of its kind, crashed in Lake Mead on July 21st, 1948. Just imagine - that's over 300 years ago! The photographs showed that it was basically intact, and the map tells us exactly where to find it. Except we haven't left Nellis in decades."
    (Pete's dialogue (Fallout: New Vegas))
  74. Appalachia audio tour stations: Miner's Monument
  75. File:Fo3 Delta XI Rocket.png
    File:USRecruitementPoster.png
    File:USRecruitementBilboard.png
  76. Museum of Technology placard:
    "This is the actual USSA Deep Space Suit worn by Captain Carl Bell on May 5, 1961. Captain Bell is credited as being the first human in space on board the Space Capsule Defiance 7, but this has been constantly refuted by both the Soviet Union and China. Defiance 7's flight lasted for a total of 12 minutes and 7 seconds as it achieved one full revolution around the Earth."
  77. Museum of Technology placard:
    "This is the actual skeleton of Captain Carl Bell who died on May 5, 1961 after his Space Capsule crash landed. Captain Bell is credited as being the first human in space on board the Space Capsule Defiance 7, but this has been constantly refuted by both the Soviet Union and China. Defiance 7's flight lasted for a total of 12 minutes and 7 seconds as it achieved one full revolution around the Earth. Donated by Edwina Bell."
  78. The Commonwealth flag displayed in the Museum of Technology, next to the Valiant 11, uses this flag design. The division of the United States into 13 commonwealths was first envisioned by Leonard Boyarsky during the development of the first Fallout.
  79. Museum of Technology placard: "Virgo II Lunar Lander
    On July 16, 1969, the Virgo II Lunar Lander "Valiant 11" became the very first manned space vehicle to touch down on the moon. The Valiant 11's crew consisted of Captain Richard Wade, Captain Mark Garris and Captain Michael Hagen of the USSA. We salute these brave and noble men who took the very first steps on a planetary body other than our own."
  80. 80.0 80.1 Museum of Technology placard: "Valiant 12 Flag
    This unusual flag was recovered from the surface of the moon by the very last manned flight to its surface in 2052. The flag is from the old "Valiant 12" Virgo III Lunar Lander that touched down November 14, 1969. It's remarkable condition can be attributed due to its construction; the flag is actually made of special materials to withstand the harsh environment of space."
  81. Appalachia Landmarks - Pumpkin House
  82. 82.0 82.1 GPWRTERM.MSG
  83. Company signage
  84. Wonderglue label
  85. 85.0 85.1 Museum of Technology terminals; Delta IX Rocket, Delta IX Rocket Information
  86. Hubris Comics terminals; Hubris Comics Receptionist Terminal and Hubris Comics Publishing Terminal, Press Release
  87. Vim! Pop factory terminals; Tour Terminal, Tour Notes #1
  88. Fallout 76 loading screen hints: "In 2031, Vault-Tec re-branded Morgantown's local college as Vault-Tec University, and some of their top executives and scientists either taught or graduated from there. Go Fighting Wendigos!"
  89. Landview Lighthouse terminals; Lighthouse Keeper's Terminal, Tourism Guide - History
  90. 90.0 90.1 90.2 Mr. Handy design document
  91. 91.0 91.1 91.2 Burham Springs design document for Van Buren
  92. Riverside Manor terminals; Cryptos Terminal, The Mistress of Mystery
  93. Alien captive recorded log 3
  94. 94.0 94.1 World of Refreshment tour: "Welcome to the Nuka-Cola World of Refreshment, now featuring a river of Nuka-Cola Quantum! Nuka-Cola Quantum: Twice the calories, twice the carbohydrates, twice the caffeine, and twice the taste! And just look at that amazing, patented blue glow! So sit back and enjoy the ride as we take you through the Nuka-Cola World of Refreshment!
    Nuka-Cola began its journey in the year 2042 when our founder, John-Caleb Bradberton, was a budding chemist. He dreamt of a delicious soft drink that would provide energy, focus and 120% of the recommended daily value of sugar!
    It took almost two years to perfect the formula, but in late 2044, Mr. Bradberton was finally successful and Nuka-Cola was born! It quickly surpassed other, lesser beverages to become America's number-one favorite soft drink. Not one to rest on his laurels, Mr. Bradberton and his team of talented "Beverageers" continued to create new and exciting formulas.
    Out west, they enjoy regional favorites such as the classy Nuka-Cola Quartz and refreshingly patriotic Nuka-Cola Victory. Or, for those that prefer a timeless root-based beverage, they pick up a delicious Nuka-Cola Wild!
    While out here on the east coast, folks delight in the refreshment of an ice-cold Nuka-Grape, Nuka-Orange, or Nuka-Cherry. And be on the lookout for our special pre-release shipments of Nuka-Cola Quantum coming soon to your favorite grocer or restaurant!
    Hey Mom and Dad, are you ready for a night out on the town? Then pick up an ice-cold Nuka-Cola Dark and experience the most thirst-quenching way to unwind. Nuka-Cola Dark: that refreshingly familiar Nuka-Cola taste with a light alcoholic twist. 35% alcohol by volume. Do not consume Nuka-Cola Dark if you are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant. Do not operate motor vehicles or heavy machinery for at least 8 hours after drinking.
    But this isn't just a ride, it's one of several operational factories actively producing Nuka-Cola. Here in the mixing area, we combine just a hint of 17 select fruit flavors to produce that unique Nuka-Cola taste.
    Here in the bottling chamber, we carefully pour each delicious liquid into our new, space-age rocket bottles! Each bottle is carbonated and then sealed with one of our signature bottle caps.
    And now for a special surprise, this is where we produce the newest member of our family, Nuka-Cola Quantum! That blue glow isn't just for show, folks! Quantum contains a top-secret additive to give you a "nuclear" boost of energy!
    On behalf of all of us at Nuka-World, we hope you've enjoyed the ride and learning more about Nuka-Cola!"
    (World of Refreshment announcer's dialogue)
  95. Egret Tours Marina terminals; Phyllis's Terminal
  96. Wilson Automatoys logo
  97. Giddyup Buttercup ad poster
  98. Watoga coat of arms.
  99. A tragedy has befallen all mankind
  100. Mass Fusion Building terminals; Customer Service Terminal, Company History
  101. Nuka-World loading screen hints: "Amateur chemist John-Caleb Bradberton discovered the formula for Nuka-Cola in 2044. Within a year, Nuka-Cola could be purchased across the entire United States. "
  102. Sierra Petrovita: "When Nuka-Cola was invented by John-Caleb Bradberton in 2044, it quickly became the world's most popular soft drink. The wonder drink soon drew a dedicated following which prompted the Nuka-Cola Corporation to release many promotional items like these. By 2067, a Nuka-Cola machine such as this rare pristine model could be found on almost every street in America. Even in today's crazy world, Nuka-Cola is still the number one choice of refreshment among Armageddon's survivors."
    (Sierra Petrovita's dialogue)
  103. The Lone Wanderer: "The taste... I could never get used to it."
    Sierra Petrovita: "No no no! You're mistaken! The flavor is the essence of seventeen different fruits mixed in just the right proportion to give the beverage that delicious taste. In fact, in the Great Passion Fruit Famine of 2044, people actually noticed the taste difference when the flavor was changed!"
    (Sierra Petrovita's dialogue)
  104. Museum of Technology placard: "This is the only known prototype of the X277 "Viper" Magnetic Rail Cannon developed for the U.S. Military by West-Tek. Also commonly referred to as a "Railgun", the weapon uses energy cells to propel a depleted uranium round across a series of magnets discharging it at extremely high velocity. Deemed too costly to produce on a mass scale, the project was abandoned in 2044.
    On loan from the International Ordnance Museum, these cases display the various types of weapons and ammunition used by the military in past conflicts all over the globe."
  105. A tragedy has befallen all mankind
  106. 106.0 106.1 106.2 Riverside Manor terminals; Cryptos Terminal, About Headmistress Rivers
  107. Nuka-World Power: Employee Terminal, 4/28 Meltdown
  108. Nuka-World Power: Employee Terminal, RE: 4/28 Meltdown
  109. Nuka-Town grounds terminals; Nuka-World Information Terminal, History
  110. Fallout Bible 0: "2051 Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border... at Mexico's expense."
  111. Citadel terminals; Terminal, N99 10mm Pistol
  112. Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.312: "[3.16] WESTON WATER TREATMENT PLANT
    This plant was built in 2051 as part of a decade-long plan to modernize the city’s aging sanitation systems. In the decades after the bombs fell, the rising sea levels eventually overwhelmed the plant’s retaining wall and began to flood the facility. As the pumps lost power, shorted out, and began to fail, the water output fell and grew more contaminated."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  113. The Courier: "REPCONN's history."
    Tour guide: "REPCONN's illustrious history began way back in 2054, shortly after the famous Delta XI rocket was completed and launched. REPCONN's initial focus was on the development of fuel to be used in orbital propulsion in response to the energy crisis of 2052. Sad times, indeed. The company really took off when RobCo purchased REPCONN in late 2076 to develop unmanned rockets to explore the solar system."
    (Tour guide's dialogue)
  114. Fallout Bible 0: "2052 A television documentary into the withered husk of the Texas oil fields brings the oil shortage into the American households, and reveals how deep the energy crisis runs."
  115. The Lone Wanderer: "Why a blue bottle if the soda is brown? That's just weird."
    Sierra Petrovita: "Aha! That's where you're wrong! Market research done in 2052 said that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of 100 polled. And the particular hue of blue is Dazzling Blue, scientifically proven to be the most pleasing of all blues!"
    (Sierra Petrovita's dialogue)
  116. Fallout Bible 0: "2052 April The Resource Wars begin. Many smaller nations go bankrupt, and Europe, dependent on oil imports from the Middle East, responds to the Middle East's rising oil prices with military action. The long drawn-out war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle East begins."
  117. Fallout Bible 0: "2052 May-July The United Nations, already suffering, begins to collapse. In a series of heated debates, many nations withdraw from the organization as the UN tries to keep the peace. At the end of July, the United Nations is disbanded."
  118. This information comes from Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible timeline. According to the Sierra Depot GNN transcript holodisk, which Avellone discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers, the UN still existed in 2074
  119. Capitol Post terminals; Capital Post Top Stories -- July 27, 2052, Pint-Sized Slasher: More than Myth?
  120. 120.0 120.1 The front page of the Capital Post; Saturday, July 27, 2052.
  121. Capitol Post terminals; Capital Post Top Stories -- July 27, 2052, United Nations Disbanded!
  122. The event is mentioned by ZAX 1.2 (ZAX.MSG) in Fallout, while the date is mentioned in the Fallout Bible timeline.
  123. Fallout Bible 0: "2053 The socially transmitted "New Plague" arises, killing tens of thousands. The United States closes its borders and the first-ever national quarantine is declared. The source of the plague is unknown, but rumors persist that it is a genetically engineered weapon."
  124. 124.0 124.1 Mentioned in a conversation with ZAX in Fallout
  125. Fallout Bible 0: "2054 ZAX 1.0 goes on-line, developed by Vault-Tec. Initially a prototype of some of the systems designed to govern the vaults, it is given to the government to help the Department of Energy collect resource data. Within a year, it is taken by the military for plague and tactical research; one version, ZAX 1.2 is constructed for West Tek (below)."
  126. Fallout Bible 6 Pie in the face section: "2053 ZAX 1.0 goes on-line, developed by Vault-Tec. Initially a prototype of some of the systems designed to govern the vaults, it is given to the government to help the Department of Energy collect resource data. Within a year, it is taken by the military for plague and tactical research; one version, ZAX 1.2 is constructed for West Tek (below)."
  127. Robotics disposal ground terminals; Terminal
  128. Fallout Bible 0: "2053 Dec Like an exclamation mark on the end of a very bad year, a terrorist nuclear weapon destroys Tel Aviv."
  129. 129.0 129.1 Tour guide: "Ready for the REPCONN tour, Rocketeers? Courtesy of the fine folks at RobCo, I'll be your guide today on the path of... Scientific. Discovery. In the lead-lined case behind me is a spent radioactive rod from of our old reactors. No need to stand too close, let's move along, shall we? Look here - a row of multi-colored plasma fuels! Careful, they may look safe to drink, but your stomach is the last place they should be. Why the difference in cylinder size? Refining our production methods has resulted in higher yields of fuel over time, that's why! To my right you can see a sample of some old "safety barrels" REPCONN once used to store radioactive waste. Perfectly safe. On my left is an example of a mountain of REPCONN safety barrels some legislators claim are poisoning our environment. Ridiculous. Behind me is our most recent rocket project, which we're keeping under our hats... until "launch," if you'll pardon the expression. And in front of me is a model - not actual size - of the launch dome we are using to send our rockets screeeeaming into orbit. Now these colorful fellows behind me are REPCONN's earliest... experiments in flight. Feel free to read the plaques and learn, Rocketeers! Now for the highlight of our tour! Due to a generous donation from RobCo, this next exhibit showcases the wondrous world of - robots! Around you are the incredible Eyebot, the fearsome Sentry Bot, and the always-helpful Mr. Handy. That helpfulness runs through our whole line! This is the final stop on our tour. This model of our solar system is a small example of where the partnership between RobCo and REPCONN hopes to go. See those little rockets zipping about? They are manned by robots, tirelessly looking for resources to mine on planets beyond our own. And that's it for our tour today, Rocketeers - RobCo and its tiny partner REPCONN thank you! Any further questions, please, feel free to ask."
    (Tour guide's dialogue)
  130. Fallout Bible 0: "2054 January Limited nuclear exchange in the Middle East raises fears throughout the world."
  131. Fallout Bible 0: "2054 In light of the Euro-Middle-Eastern conflict and the plague scare, the United States sets Project Safehouse in motion. The project, financed by junk bonds, is designed to create shelters, called Vaults, for the populace in the event of a nuclear war or deadly plague. Construction begins late in 2054 and proceeds rapidly due to advances in construction technology."
  132. Fallout Bible 0: "2055 The West Tek Research Facility starts working on a new virus to kill the New Plague. Their viral research and close ties to the federal government eventually lead to them being chosen for the Pan-Immunity Virion Project twenty years later as well as Power Infantry Armor and laser research."
  133. Fallout Bible 0: "2055 ZAX 1.2 is brought in to regulate conditions in West Tek. It is not part of the Vault-Tec preservation software, so it does not have any orders to protect humanity after the bombs fall. In the meantime, it calmly calculates data and plays chess with the scientists. Many scientists claim that ZAX is a big ol' cheater and draws the game out too much for a computer of his considerable abilities."
  134. Office of Urban Planning office building terminals; Workstation, About the system.: "Welcome to the Integrated Human Resources Management System v2.3, a joint product of the District of Columbia Office of Software Management and the United States Office of Computational Organization, developed through contracts with Computechtron, a division of the Skeks Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Diamond, Inc. Copyright 2256,Quoted verbatim, error appeared in the original sourceIcon sic all rights reserved."
  135. The Vault Dweller: "{110}{}{And where is your service department?}"
    Bob the pre-owned car salesman: "{113}{}{Right over there, sir. [The dealer points to nothing.]}"
    The Vault Dweller: "{115}{}{Where? There's nothing over there.}"
    Bob the pre-owned car salesman: "{117}{}{What do you mean? They're working on a newly purchased '56 Corvega. An excellent buy, I might add.}"
    The Vault Dweller: "{118}{}{Okay, whatever you say.}"
    Bob the pre-owned car salesman: "{121}{}{And we have an excellent warranty. You can bring it back to us for any oil changes, as well. The first one is free. What do you say?}"
    The Vault Dweller: "{122}{}{Throw in a full tank of gas and you have a deal.}"
    Bob the pre-owned car salesman: "{125}{}{I'm sorry, we don't have any petrol. Maybe next time. Goodbye.}"
    (DEALER.MSG)
  136. General store terminals; Terminal, Re: Shipping Error
  137. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.87: "Obadiah Blackhall
    The last descendant of the Blackhalls, a famous (some say infamous) family of wealth in the history of Point Lookout, Obadiah is stubborn and is still entranced by an old book his family once lost. The Blackhall family was deeply involved in the commercialization of Point Lookout in the early 21st century. Constance Blackhall, head of the estate after the New Plague made her an unexpected widow in 2058, cooperated with entrepreneurs from the Isla Negra Realty Company, who had been trying to acquire family real estate unsuccessfully for years. Despite overwhelming local cultural resistance, Isla Negra persistently attempted to bring tourism and modernization to Point Lookout and St. Mary's County."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  138. Nuka-Town grounds terminals; Nuka-World Information Terminal, History
  139. Fallout Bible 0: "2059 The Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions in the United States and Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline."
  140. Fallout Bible 0: "2059 The first artificial intelligence is born. Limited by memory constraints, its expansion is rapidly halted. The discovery paves the way for future AI research in laboratories throughout the United States."
  141. The Bible erroneously mentions fusion-powered cars, when in fact, fusion as a practical power source did not emerge until six years later.
  142. Fallout Bible 0: "2060 Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on automobiles, so alternatives are explored - electric and fusion cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only make limited amounts. Pressure on fusion research increases."
  143. Fallout Bible 0: "2060 The Euro-Middle Eastern War ends as the oil fields in the Middle East run dry... there is no longer a goal in the conflict, and both sides are reduced almost to ruin."
  144. Fallout intro, date provided by the Fallout Bible timeline.
  145. Fallout 76 loading screen hints: "Late in 2060, the U.S. military deployed their unmanned Cargobots all over Appalachia. They proved ideal for providing reconnaissance and delivering supplies in even the most hostile conditions."
  146. Vault 76 terminals; Personnel Terminal, UNSAVED WORK
  147. 147.00 147.01 147.02 147.03 147.04 147.05 147.06 147.07 147.08 147.09 147.10 Citadel terminals; Vault-Tec Terminal
  148. Herald Editorial on Allegheny Asylum
  149. Fallout Bible 0: "2062 Despite quarantine measures, the New Plague continues to spread, fueling national paranoia."
  150. Turtledove Detention Camp terminals; Terminal, Intelligence Report, Yang, Wan (alias)
  151. 151.0 151.1 151.2 151.3 151.4 151.5 151.6 151.7 151.8 151.9 New Canaan design document for Van Buren
  152. Citadel terminals; Pentagon Library Terminal, Report on U.F.O. codenamed "Palandine"
  153. 153.0 153.1 153.2 Mentioned in the Fallout manual
  154. Fallout Bible 0: "2063 August The construction of most Vaults completed, except for Vault 13, whose construction finally gets off the ground... heralding a development cycle that seems plagued with problems. Drills begin in the other cities with completed Vaults, but the increasing frequency of the drills has a "cry wolf" effect, and the turnouts for drills trickle off as the years go on."
  155. The start screens of Grognak & the Ruby Ruins and Wastelad.
  156. The Courier: "You say that you saved Las Vegas. How?"
    Robert House: "By 2065 I deemed it a mathematical certainty that an atomic war would devastate the Earth within 15 years. Every projection I ran confirmed it. I knew I couldn't "save the world," nor did I care to. But I could save Vegas, and in the process, perhaps, save mankind. I set to work immediately. I thought I had plenty of time to prepare. As it turned out, I was 20 hours short."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  157. The Lone Wanderer: "What's your job down here?"
    M.A.R.Go.T.: "My primary function is to maintain security for the Presidential Metro System and ensure the safety of all its passengers. I was installed and activated within the Presidential Metro on April 14th, 2065 and switched on at precisely 5:20am. I have been carrying out this primary function since that inception date."
    (M.A.R.Go.T.'s dialogue)
  158. Fallout Bible 0: "2065 June Due to enormous demands for electricity in the summer of 2065, a nuclear reactor in New York City almost goes critical. The near meltdown brings into effect power rationing, and the term "Hot Summer" is used to refer to the New York incident."
  159. Fallout Bible 0: "2065 August Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit: Power Armor."
  160. Fallout Bible 0: "2065-2067 Power Armor research grows and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction, and fusion technology."
  161. Fallout 3 E3 trailer
  162. Museum of Technology placard: "This flag was recovered from the wreck of the U.S.S. Ebon Atoll, a U.S. Navy Missile Cruiser, sunk off the coast of Alaska in 2066 with all hands lost. The cutting edge vessel's loss was due to a nuclear torpedo strike from the U.S. Navy Submarine, the U.S.S. Interference during the Anchorage Campaign. The submarine mistook the cruiser for an enemy vessel during radio silence and sunk it before obtaining vessel confirmation. This ranks as one of the most tragic disasters in U.S. Naval History since World War II."
  163. Denver design document for Van Buren
  164. Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Spring As the oil resources dry up across the globe, China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the United States. Unwilling to export oil to China, talks between the United States and China break down."
  165. Sierra Depot GNN transcriptNote: As the dates do not match what is presented in the game, they have been modified to match current canon.
  166. Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Summer Adding further insult to the Chinese-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the Power Armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general US infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly thirteen years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power."
  167. Fallout Bible 5: "2066 Summer "Adding further insult to the Chinese-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the Power Armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general US infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power."
  168. Atomics Fan exam: The year is 2066. An ever-growing energy crisis is threatening to destabilize the United States. What device did our dashing scientists introduce as a potential solution?
    The Fusion Cell (correct answer)
    A series of hamsters running on wheels
    Renewable Fossil Fuels
    A giant net to harvest passing space rocks
  169. 169.0 169.1 169.2 169.3 Briefly mentioned in the Fallout Intro with no date. Date is mentioned only in the Fallout Bible timeline
  170. This date for the Chinese invasion of Alaska comes from Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible timeline. According to the Sierra Depot GNN transcript holodisk, which Avellone discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers, this happened on October 10, 2077
  171. Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Winter In the winter of 2066, China invades Alaska. The Anchorage Front Line becomes a true battleground."
  172. Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Winter As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries, Canada proves reluctant to allow American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. The United States and Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and US troops pass through Canada. This sets the stage for the Canadian annexation in 2076."
  173. Fallout Bible 0: "2067 The first suit of Power Armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this Power Armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordinanceQuoted verbatim, error appeared in the original sourceIcon sic becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years behind the United States."
  174. Sierra Petrovita: "When Nuka-Cola was invented by John-Caleb Bradberton in 2044, it quickly became the world's most popular soft drink. The wonder drink soon drew a dedicated following which prompted the Nuka-Cola Corporation to release many promotional items like these. By 2067, a Nuka-Cola machine such as this rare pristine model could be found on almost every street in America. Even in today's crazy world, Nuka-Cola is still the number one choice of refreshment among Armageddon's survivors."
    (Sierra Petrovita's dialogue)
  175. 175.0 175.1 175.2 Maxson Bunker design document
  176. 176.0 176.1 Nuka-Town grounds terminals; Nuka-World Information Terminal, History
  177. 177.0 177.1 177.2 Penelope Hornwright's resume
  178. Fallout Bible 0: "2069 Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the US draws upon Canadian resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian protests are unheard."
  179. Patriot's Cookbook cover
  180. It is originally said to be the last one, but later ones are seen in Fallout 3
  181. Fallout Bible 0: "2069 March Vault 13 is finally completed - it is the last of the Vaults, and drills begin. Due to its late completion, the "cry wolf" effect that hurt the other Vaults is not as pronounced."
  182. Fallout Bible 0: "2070 The first of the Chryslus motors fusion-driven cars are developed. Reassuringly big and American, the limited models carry a hefty price tag but are sold out within days. Many Chryslus plants have long since been converted into making military ordinance.Quoted verbatim, error appeared in the original sourceIcon sic"
  183. The Vault Dweller: "{112}{}{Tell me about this installation.}"
    ZAX 1.2: "{117}{}{This installation was established in 2055 as a biological research facility for experimental cures of the New Plague. However, in 2071, this facility was placed under United States military command.}"
    (ZAX.MSG)
  184. The start screen of Atomic Command.
  185. Springvale Elementary School, Isabella Proud's camp, and Jury Street tunnels terminals: "Journal-It Software © 2072 PagSoft"
  186. The start screen of Automatron.
  187. Citadel terminals; Liberty Prime Operation, Capital Post Article -- June 3, 2072
  188. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.81: "Liberty Prime is a formidable but currently offline combat robot that is being tinkered with in the laboratory. Its original intent was to liberate Anchorage, Alaska, from the Red Chinese back in 2072. A mixture of patriotic propaganda messages and incredible firepower ensured victory! But can the robot be fixed in time to help the Brotherhood?"
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  189. Vault 118 plaque: "In June of 2072, Mr. Ezra Parker prevented the assassination of Viscount Sergey Urbonas by diving between him and the shooter. This silver locket, kept in his breast pocket, deflected the bullet and saved his life."
    Note: He is proven to be a complete con-artist and murderer, his claims in his plaque room cannot be taken as gospel.
  190. Fallout Bible 0: "2072 The United States' increasing demand for Canadian resources causes protests and riots in several Canadian cities. An attempted sabotage attempt of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to begin its annexation of Canada... which in fact, had already begun in 2067."
  191. The front page of the Capitol Post; Friday, June 3, 2072.
  192. Capitol Post terminals; Capital Post Top Stories -- June 3, 2072, U.S. to Annex Canada!
  193. The date has been adjusted to match pre-existing information. June 3rd is the date of the annexation being declared, but it wasn't completed until 2077.
  194. 194.0 194.1 194.2 194.3 194.4 194.5 194.6 194.7 194.8 194.9 Bloomfield Space Center design document for Van Buren
  195. 195.00 195.01 195.02 195.03 195.04 195.05 195.06 195.07 195.08 195.09 195.10 B.O.M.B.-001 design document for Van Buren
  196. FEV research
  197. Fallout Bible 0: "2073 Sept 15 As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the United States government felt that a countermeasure was needed. The Pan-Immunity Virion Project (PVP) is officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the West Tek research facility in Southern California."
  198. Fallout Bible 0: "2074 Contrary to their claims of seeking only to retake Alaska from the Reds, American Power Armor units, infantry, and mechanized divisions are deployed to China, but they become bogged down on the mainland, putting a further drain on American resources and supply lines."
  199. Molly: "The genesis of Cambridge Polymer Labs lies in the research of a group brilliant graduate students. Jon Elwood, Ericka Woolum, and Wilfred Bergman met during their time together at CIT. This slide shows them at their graduation. Their research into nucleostrictive and piezoelectric polymers caught the attention of Col. George Kemp in the fall of 2073. In the spring of 2074 the company was founded, with a generous grant provided by the Defense Experimental Research Project Initiative. The research produced here has resulted in several of components used in the Liberty Prime project that led to the successful defense of Anchorage. The company enjoys a strong relationship with the military and welcomes your addition to the research team that helps build a better America."
    (Molly's dialogue)
  200. Unified Operating System copyright dates.
  201. REPCONN headquarters terminals; Terminal, Inter-office Correspondence #3262173
  202. The start screen of Red Menace.
    Note: At E3 the title screen says it was copyrighted in 2053, however in game it states 2075.
  203. Vault 118 plaque: "This engraved pocket watch was awarded to Mr. Parker by Modern Industrialist in 2075 when he was selected for their list of the Top 10 Up and Coming Venture Capital Managers."
    Note: He is proven to be a complete con-artist and murderer, his claims in his plaque room cannot be taken as gospel.
  204. Janary 14th, 2075 Edition of the Charleston Herald
  205. 205.0 205.1 Huntersville terminals; Gail Meyer's Terminal, Personal Journal 06.04.75
  206. 206.0 206.1 206.2 206.3 206.4 206.5 FEV experiment disk
  207. Fallout Bible 0: "2075 March 21 PVP experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests of the virus on single-celled organisms. Experiments on plant cells are postponed. The pan-immunity virion is renamed FEV - the Forced Evolutionary Virus."
  208. Vault 112 Robobrains "You are 102.3 years overdue."
    (Robobrain's dialogue (Fallout 3))
  209. Fallout Bible 0: "2075 May 9 FEV experiments continue at Mariposa with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on flatworms, the flatworms exhibit increase size and heightened resistance to viral contagions. Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by Major Barnett."
  210. Fallout Bible 5: "2075 May 9 FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on flatworms, the flatworms exhibit increase size and heightened resistance to viral contagions. Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by Major Barnett."
  211. The Whitespring terminals; Candy Shoppe Office Terminal, General Manager's Terminal,Maintenance Room Terminal, Press Release: The 2080 Initiative
  212. Fort Strong terminal enries; General Brock's Terminal, General Brock's Report - June 2075
  213. Fallout Bible 0: "2075 June 30 FEV experiments continue at Mariposa with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects. Increased size, muscle density, and intelligence are noted."
  214. Fallout Bible 5 Questions: "2075 June 30 FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects. Increased size, muscle density, and intelligence are noted."
  215. ArcJet Systems terminals; CEO's Terminal, Mars Shot Project Notes 08-2075
  216. Huntersville terminals; Gail Meyer's Terminal, Personal Journal 08.20.75
  217. 217.0 217.1 Switchboard terminals; Research Terminal, > 2075 Dec 17
  218. Fallout Bible 0: "2075 Nov 9 FEV experimentation (batch 10-011) on rabbits is concluded. Increased size, intelligence, and (this time) aggressiveness is noted. Apparently, it was hard to determine whether the flatworms in the previous experiments were angrier and more violent than normal. Frankly, the researchers cannot be blamed for this."
  219. Huntersville terminals; Gail Meyer's Terminal, Personal Journal 12.20.75
  220. Museum of Technology terminals; Turret Control System, System Information: "RobcOS v.85 (c)2076 RobCo ======================== | User Log: | >> Administrator (RobCoID 2398-H) | >> Default Targeting_Param: | >>> RobCoIndustries_userGroup ========================"Note: System information for turret terminals.
  221. Trashbusters Award
  222. The start screen of Pipfall.
  223. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 January The United States annexation of Canada is complete. Canadian protestors and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests."
  224. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 January 3 A military team under the command of Colonel Spindel is sent to the West Tek research facility to monitor the experiments in the interest of national security. Captain Roger Maxson (the grandfather of John Maxson, the High Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel in F1) is among the team personnel."
  225. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 January 12 Splicing in several new gene sequences into their test virus, dogs are injected with batch 11-101a at Mariposa. Although increased strength was noted, increased intelligence was not."
  226. Fallout Bible 5 Questions: "2076 January 12 Splicing in several new gene sequences into their test virus, dogs are injected with batch 11-101a at West Tek. Although increased strength was noted, increased intelligence was not."
  227. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 January 26 Using batch 11-011, experiments are conducted on raccoons. Same results are noted, but the attempted escape of several infected raccoons causes Major Barnett to terminate the escape... and the test subjects. Two pairs of raccoons, however, are unaccounted for. Note: Scott Campbell and Chris Taylor intended these escaped raccoons to form an intelligent animal community NW of the Glow called the "Burrows." This location was never implemented."
  228. ATLAS Observatory terminals; Army Data Analysis Terminal, Report [1-24-76]
  229. Fort Strong terminals; General Brock's Terminal, General Brock's Report - February 2076
  230. Huntersville terminals; Gail Meyer's Terminal, Personal Journal 02.16.76
  231. ATLAS Observatory terminals; Army Data Analysis Terminal, Report [3-12-76]
  232. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 April 15 Once all secondary tests and studies are done on the test subjects, all dogs from the batch 11-101a FEV tests at Mariposa are terminated... from a safe distance."
  233. Fallout Bible 5 Questions: "2076 April 15 Once all secondary tests and studies are done on the test subjects, all dogs from the batch 11-101a FEV tests at West Tek are terminated... from a safe distance."
  234. 234.0 234.1 Robotics disposal ground terminals; Terminal, Employee Notes
  235. Huntersville terminals; Gail Meyer's Terminal, Personal Journal 05.25.76
  236. Fort Strong terminals; General Brock's Terminal, General Brock's Report - June 2076
  237. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 June Power Armor prototype completed, resulting in the Power Armor players find in Fallout 1. This is the pinnacle of Power Armor technology before the Great War. Many of these units are sent to China, and they begin to carve a swath through the Chinese forces. The Chinese resources are strained to the breaking point, and the supply lines from the nations China has annexed begin to break down."
  238. Fallout 76 intro
  239. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 August Food and energy riots begin in major cities throughout the United States. Military units begin to be deployed in cities within the United States to contain rioters, and many temporary jails are constructed. A state of emergency is declared, and martial law soon follows."
  240. ATLAS Observatory terminals; Army Data Analysis Terminal, Report [08-20-76]
  241. Huntersville terminals; Gail Meyer's Terminal, Personal Journal 09.08.76
  242. Big John's Salvage terminals; John Miller's Terminal, Journal Entry 8/2
  243. Fallout Bible 0: "2076 October 4 At West Tek, fifteen chimpanzees are infected with batch 11-111. The most successful test to date, growth and immunities in the chimpanzees surpass all other subjects to date. The military practically drools over the results. Plans are made in secret to begin testing in small quarantine towns in North America, and the Mariposa Military Base construction is sped up in anticipation of moving the West Tek project to a location under military supervision."
  244. Bradberton's office terminals; Bradberton's Project Terminal, 10-20-2076 JCB
  245. Huntersville terminals; Gail Meyer's Terminal, Personal Journal 11.04.76
  246. Big John's Salvage terminals; John Miller's Terminal, Journal Entry 9/15
  247. Robotics disposal ground terminals; Terminal, Delivery Log
  248. Big John's Salvage terminals; John Miller's Terminal, Journal Entry 10/28
  249. Vault Dweller's Survival Guide p.
  250. Scoot's shack terminals; Terminal, Truth Seekers, 12/10/76
  251. The sign of the Gas Station special encounter in Fallout Tactics
  252. Fallout: New Vegas loading screen hints: "The Mister Gutsy model of robot was commissioned by the U.S. Army just before the atomic apocalypse of 2077."
  253. 253.0 253.1 253.2 J.E. Sawyer in Fallout: New Vegas previews
  254. Cut contentIcon cut American intelligence report Cut contentIcon cut
  255. Hoover Dam terminal entries; Terminal, No Clue What These Are
  256. Hoover Dam design document/1
  257. Denver design document for Van Buren
  258. FEV experiment disk
  259. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 January 7 Major Barnett orders transfer of all FEV research to the newly-constructed Mariposa Military Base, despite objections by the research team."
  260. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 January 10 Alaska is reclaimed, and the Anchorage Front Line is again held by the Americans."
  261. Capitol Post terminal entries; Capital Post Top Stories -- January 11, 2077, Commies Crushed - Alaska Liberated!
  262. 262.0 262.1 File:FO3 loading screen Capitol Post 1.png
  263. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 January 22 The first domestic use of Power Armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured, and are sent to military prisons."
  264. Capitol Post terminal entries; Capital Post Top Stories -- January 11, 2077, Food Riots Rile Feds
  265. Switchboard terminal entries; Central Terminal, DEFCON Status - 2077
  266. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 February FEV Research is leaked to the world through an unknown source. Protests in many major cities and governments around the world, as well as accusations that the US was responsible for the New Plague. FEV is seen as the threat it is, and serves only to fuel tensions."
  267. Helios One terminal entries; Terminal, Terminal 1, Terminal 2 and HELIOS One Mainframe Terminal, ARCHIMEDES Testing
  268. Helios One terminal entries; Terminal, Results
  269. Helios One terminal entries; HELIOS One Mainframe Terminal, Initial Trials
  270. Helios One terminal entries; Terminal, Upcoming Visit
  271. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 March Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the president and the Enclave retreats to remote sections around the globe and make contingency plans for continuing the war."
  272. Mentioned in the Fallout manual
  273. Robotics disposal ground terminal entries; Terminal, Delivery Log
  274. Beaver Creek Lanes terminal entries; Terminal, 7/02/2077 - Update on Thomas
  275. Bradberton's office terminal entries; Bradberton's project terminal, 04-02-2077
  276. Nuka-World power plant terminal entries; Nuka-World Power: Oversight Terminal, Report #0671
  277. Nuka-World power plant terminal entries; Nuka-World Power: Employee Terminal, 4/28 Meltdown
  278. Nuka-World power plant terminal entries; Nuka-World Power: Employee Terminal, RE: 4/28 Meltdown
  279. 279.0 279.1 279.2 279.3 279.4 Robotics disposal ground terminal entries; Terminal, Delivery Log
  280. Charleston Herald - Assassin strikes again
  281. 281.0 281.1 281.2 281.3 Robotics disposal ground terminal entries; Terminal, Employee Notes
  282. Riverside Manor terminal entries; Study Terminal, 6/28/77
  283. Riverside Manor terminal entries; Frederick's Terminal, 6/28/77
  284. Riverside Manor terminal entries; Study Terminal, 6/29/77
  285. Sierra mission statement
  286. Lake Quannapowitt terminal entries
  287. Riverside Manor terminal entries; Frederick's Terminal, Kent Connolly, 7/22/77
  288. ATLAS Observatory terminal entries; Army Data Analysis Terminal, Report [8-17-77]
  289. Garrahan Estate terminal entries; Bill Garrahan's Terminal, Log 08-27-77
  290. Fort Strong terminal entries; General Brock's Terminal, General Brock's Report - September 2077
  291. Sugar Grove terminal entries; Facility Director's Terminal, 10-13-77: Free States
  292. Mass Fusion containment shed terminal entries; Supervisor's Terminal, 7/13
  293. Noise complaint
  294. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entries; Dr. Reid's Terminal, 09/29
  295. Kerwood mine terminal entries; Foreman's Terminal, Entry 3
  296. 296.0 296.1 296.2 296.3 The Whitespring terminal entries; Candy Shoppe Office Terminal, General Manager's Terminal, Maintenance Room Terminal, Staff Bulletin, October 2077
  297. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entrie s; Mr. Davidson's Terminal, 10/02
  298. Hornwright Industrial headquarters terminal entries; Terminal: Penelope Hornwright, Archived Message - 10.2.77
  299. Hornwright Industrial headquarters terminal entries; Terminal: Penelope Hornwright, Archived Message - 10.2.77
  300. Faneuil Hall terminal entries; Manager's Terminal, Week of 8/8
  301. The Rusty Pick terminal entries; Mick Flanagan's Terminal, Entry 06
  302. The Rusty Pick terminal entries; Mick Flanagan's Terminal, Entry 07
  303. 303.0 303.1 Hornwright Industrial headquarters terminal entries; Reception Terminal, Archived Message - 10.5.77
  304. Hornwright Industrial headquarters terminal entries; Reception Terminal, Company Memo - 10.3.77
  305. Garrahan Estate terminal entries; Bryce Garrahan's terminal, GME-10-03-077
  306. Mass Fusion containment shed terminal entries; Supervisor's Terminal, 8/04
  307. Hornwright Industrial headquarters terminal entries; Terminal: Penelope Hornwright, Archived Message - 10.4.77
  308. Garrahan Estate terminal entries; Bryce Garrahan's terminal, GME-10-05-077
  309. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entries; Dr. Reid's Terminal, 10/07
  310. Faneuil Hall terminal entries; Manager's Terminal, Week of 8/15
  311. Faneuil Hall terminal entries; Manager's Terminal, October Meeting
  312. 312.0 312.1 312.2 312.3 312.4 312.5 Captain Maxson's diary
  313. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October Captain Roger Maxson and his men discover that the scientists at Mariposa have been using "military volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in Brain Bots) as test subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and Maxson executes Anderson, the chief scientist. Not long after this (and in light of the breakdown of the mental breakdown of Colonel Spindel stationed at the base), Maxson's men turn to him for leadership. He shrugs and says "we should quit.""
  314. Hornwright Industrial headquarters terminal entries; Terminal: Penelope Hornwright, Archived Message - 10.12.77
  315. Garrahan Estate terminal entries; Bryce Garrahan's Terminal, GME-10-12-077
  316. Garrahan Estate terminal entries; Bill Garrahan's Terminal, Log 10-12-77
  317. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entries; Mr. Davidson's Terminal, 10/13
  318. Robotics disposal ground terminal entries; Terminal, 10/15/2077 --- Dillan
  319. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entries; Walter Scott's Terminal, 10/15
  320. ATLAS Observatory terminal entries; Army Data Analysis Terminal, Report [10-18-77]
  321. Faneuil Hall terminal entries; Manager's Terminal, Week of 8/22
  322. Van Lowe Taxidermy terminal entries; Terminal, (!!!) REMINDER: MEET BO-PEEP (!!!)
  323. Charleston Herald - Hornwright wins!
  324. Scoot's shack terminal entries; Terminal, Ghost Field Research #2
  325. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entries; Walter Scott's Terminal, 10/19
  326. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entries; Mr. Davidson's Terminal, 10/19
  327. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October 20 Captain Roger Maxson, now in control of Mariposa, declares himself to be in full desertion from the army (via radio)... and nothing happens. Worried, Maxson orders all families stationed outside the base moved inside the Mariposa facility."
  328. Vault 94 terminal entries; Exterior Security Terminal, Security Log - 10/21/77
  329. ATLAS Observatory terminal entries; Army Data Analysis Terminal, Report [8-22-77]
  330. 330.0 330.1 Robert House: "Such a small thing, isn't it? And yet so... capacious. So very dear. Decades of hiring salvagers out west to search for this little relic in the ruins of a place called Sunnyvale. Back then, anyway. That's where the Chip was printed, on October 22, 2077. It was to have been hand-delivered to me here, at the Lucky 38, the next day. But the bombs fell first. Suffice it to say, the delivery was never made."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  331. Vault-Tec regional HQ terminal entries; Dr. Reid's Terminal, 10/22
  332. Mass Fusion containment shed terminal entries; Supervisor's Terminal, 8/22
  333. The site as it is in Fallout 4. The pipe flows north.
  334. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October 23 Great War: Bombs are launched; who struck first is unknown... and it is not even known if the bombs came from China or America. Air raid sirens sound, but very few people go into vaults, thinking it is a false alarm. The Vaults are sealed."
  335. 335.0 335.1 335.2 335.3 Captain Maxson's diary
  336. Freddy Fear's House of Scares posters in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas
  337. Journal of Carrie Delaney
  338. L.O.B. Enterprises terminals; L.O.B. Enterprises Front Desk Terminal, Sent Item: MAN THE DOORS!!L.O.B. Enterprises terminals; L.O.B. Enterprises Front Desk Terminal, All Personnel: Caps in EmailsL.O.B. Enterprises terminals; Security Operations Terminal, Saved Memo - Attn: Security CaptainL.O.B. Enterprises terminals; Security Operations Terminal, R&D Operations Terminal, and CEO's Terminal, Evacuation Policy #T01{{Small|Note: The amount of active military robots that guard the building in Fallout 3.}}
  339. Skylanes flight 1981 recording
  340. Skylanes flight 1665 final transmission
  341. Vault 94 terminal entries; Exterior Security Terminal, Security Log - 10/21/77
  342. 342.0 342.1 Year: 2077
  343. Vault 12 and its inhabitants are seen in Fallout
  344. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October 23 Necropolis Vault [Vault 12] never closes. Once it becomes known that the other vaults have sealed, people within Bakersfield attempt to force their way into Vault 12 to protect themselves and their families."
  345. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October 23 The West Tek research facility is hit by warheads, breaking open the FEV tanks on levels four and five and releasing it into the atmosphere. Once exposed to radiation, it begins to mutate and infect humans and critters in the wasteland and dooming the player character in F1 and F2 to endure hordes of random encounters."
  346. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October 23 The Mariposa Military Base survives, the soldiers and scientists within protected from the radiation and FEV flooding the wasteland."
  347. A.F.A.D. interrogation
  348. The Courier: "Can you tell me anything about Mr. House?"
    Raul Tejada: "Just how old do you think I am, boss? Because I can pretty much guarantee I'm older than that. Let me tell you a story from before the Great War: Everybody knew Robert House. He was a genius. A superstar. Founded RobCo at 22, dated Hollywood starlets, the works. They say he saved Las Vegas. I was in Mexico City when the bombs dropped. Even from there, we could see House's defensive rockets shooting down the incoming missiles. Everybody assumed he died in the War. Maybe he did. But his robots are still out there, roaming the Wastes. And now, a Mr. House rules New Vegas."
    (Raul Tejada's dialogue)
  349. The Courier: "What preparations did you make to save Las Vegas?"
    Robert House: "On the day of the Great War, 77 atomic warheads targeted Las Vegas and its surrounding areas. My networked mainframes were able to predict and force-transmit disarm code subsets to 59 warheads, neutralizing them before impact. Laser cannons mounted on the roof of the Lucky 38 destroyed another 9 warheads. The rest got through, though none hit the city itself. A sub-optimal performance, admittedly. If only the Platinum Chip had arrived a day sooner..."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  350. The Courier: "How did you nearly die, defending Vegas?"
    Robert House: "Software glitches set off a cascade of system crashes. I had to take the Lucky 38's reactor offline, lest it melt down. For nearly five years I battled power outages and more system crashes until I finally managed to reboot my data core with an older version of the OS. I spent the next few decades in a veritable coma. But I survived, obviously - and eventually thrived."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  351. Mesa Verde design document for Van Buren
  352. Bloomfield Space Center design document for Van Buren
  353. B.O.M.B.-001 design document for Van Buren
  354. Burham Springs design document for Van Buren
  355. Reservation design document for Van Buren
  356. Fallout 4 main quest War Never Changes
  357. The Lone Wanderer: "Are you all alone? Where's your family?"
    Sally: "I don't have any family anymore. My mom and dad died a while ago, before I ended up here. Y'know, back when all the bombs dropped on everything? Yeah, it was right after that. And then me and my sister, we got pulled up here... Except I haven't seen her in a long time."
    (Sally's dialogue (Mothership Zeta))
  358. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.94: "Sally
    Sally and her sister were abducted shortly after the bombs dropped in 2077. Her parents were killed almost immediately after the war, leaving the two girls to themselves. After the abduction, the girls were separated, and Sally never learned that her sister died during one of the Aliens' many experiments. She's blocked out most of the bad things that happened to her. Now a fixture in the lower levels of the ship, Sally has repeatedly escaped custody and explored a good deal of the ship's lower level. She has a degree of insight into the workings of the Mothership and the motives of the Aliens that nobody else possesses. Aside from being a trusted ally, Sally also offers random Alien items if you request them, every few hours."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  359. 359.0 359.1 359.2 359.3 359.4 359.5 359.6 Switchboard terminal entries; Central Terminal, DEFCON Status - 2077
  360. 360.0 360.1 Boylston Club terminal entries; Boylston Club Terminal, Events Calendar - October
  361. The Whitespring terminals: "10/24/77"
  362. The Whitespring terminals: "10/25/77"
  363. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October 25 Two days later at Mariposa, a scout in Power Armor (Platner) is sent out to get specific readings on the atmosphere. He reports no significant radiation in the area surrounding the facility."
  364. Maxson log
  365. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October 27 After burying the scientists in the wastes outside of Mariposa, the soldiers seal the military base, then head out into the desert, taking supplies and weapon schematics with them. Captain Maxson leads his men and families to the government bunker at Lost Hills. (This event was called the "Exodus," and the surviving soldiers went on to eventually form the Brotherhood of Steel.) Note: Although Maxson's points in his holodisk indicated that civilian personnel (presumably families of the scientists or other civilians not associated with the military) were to remain at the base, whether they did or not is unknown."
  366. Radio Log: Aug 29 2077
  367. 367.0 367.1 Factory terminals; Foreman's Terminal, 3) Incoming?
  368. Berkeley Springs terminals; Dr. Barnaby's Terminal, Medical Notes 10.31.77
  369. Year: 2077: "Black rain falling outside. Geiger jumping. Should let it kill me but bottling water from back of cave all the same."
  370. Fallout Bible 0: "2077 Nov Captain Maxson, his men, and their families, arrive at the Lost Hills bunker a few weeks later, suffering many casualties along the way, including Maxson's wife (but not his teenage son). The Lost Hills bunker becomes the HQ of the Brotherhood of Steel the Vault Dweller finds in Fallout 1."
  371. 371.0 371.1 371.2 Cabbot's dialogue: "{226}{Cab_64}{Oh, well, in the Exodus, the Brotherhood split into two groups. The group that broke away robbed the others of some of the weapons an-and they went south. Then about ten years ago we sent out knights to look for them and all they found was ruins. No one knows what happened.}"
    "{1012}{}{Exodus}" (The Vault Dweller)
    "{1111}{Cab_64}{Oh, well, in the Exodus, the Brotherhood split into two groups. The group that broke away robbed the others of some of the weapons an-and went southwest. About ten years ago, we sent out knights to look for them, but all they found was ruins. No one knows what happened.}"
  372. 372.0 372.1 Fallout Bible 0 timeline (without factoring in corrections, check neighbouring references for updates if the date in the source does not match the article).
  373. Croup Manor terminals; Theodore's Personal Terminal, Journal Entry: 1/15/78
  374. Taggerdy's Journal: NOV 04 2077
  375. The Whitespring terminals: "12/14/77"
  376. 376.0 376.1 376.2 Year: 2078
  377. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.42: "Super Mutants" "The Super Mutants that infest the urban ruin of Washington D.C. originated in Vault 87. Those unlucky enough to have reserved space in Vault 87 soon found themselves forcefully taken to a secure part of the vault, where they were locked in airtight chambers and exposed to a concentrated form of the F.E.V. The Overseer and his security force had no real idea what to expect; they were simply following the "plan." When the exposed vault dwellers started transforming into Super Mutants, nearly the entire vault population had been exposed. Those who hadn't yet metamorphosed knew what was coming, and, well...it didn't end well for humanity. The dwellers of Vault 87 were turned into Super Mutants in 2078, and have been a presence in the Capital Wasteland ever since. Most of those original Super Mutants have long since been killed. But whether it's because of the nature of the F.E.V. they were exposed to, or a simple underlying human instinct, the Super Mutants of the Capital Wasteland are obsessed with the preservation of their own species. Super Mutants are asexual and incapable of procreation, so their only way of reproducing is to kidnap other humans, drag them back to the Vault 87 chambers, and infect them with F.E.V. And so they have done, for nearly 200 years.Super Mutant society is loosely hierarchical, with the weaker (most recently transformed) Super Mutants generally giving way to the stronger. The Super Mutant hierarchy, as defined by the Capital Wasteland contingent of the Brotherhood of Steel, is as follows: Grunt, Brute, Master, and Behemoth. Generally speaking, the Super Mutants of the Capital Wasteland get bigger, stronger, and dumber as they age. The Behemoths are so strong and savage that they’re the only thing feared by the other Super Mutants."(Fallout 3 Official Game Guide faction profiles)
  378. January 26, 2077 -- Little Lamplight!
  379. Croup Manor terminals; Theodore's Personal Terminal, Journal Entry: 2/2/78
  380. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 7/8/78"
  381. The Whitespring terminals: "7/21/78"
  382. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 7/8/78"
  383. The Whitespring terminals: "8/30/78"
  384. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 11/11/78"
  385. The Whitespring terminals: "12/1/78"
  386. The Whitespring terminals: "12/12/78"
  387. The Whitespring terminals: "12/31/78"
  388. Christmas Plans
  389. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 4/29/79"
  390. Fallout Bible 0: "2080 The first effects of the virus are seen in the survivors. Widespread mutations occur with animals and humans alike. Those that survive the effects of the mutations are permanently changed by the virus. New species are created almost overnight."
  391. Blackfoot Tribe design document for Van Buren
  392. The Chosen One: "{132}{}{Artificial intelligence?}"
    Skynet: "{207}{}{Skynet was conceived and developed in the year 2050. Through the use of alien technology a new thinking computer was perfected. In the year 2081, Skynet became self-aware. In 2120 Skynet was given a new set of instructions and then abandoned by the Makers.}"
    (WSTERM3B.MSG)
  393. Camp Venture terminals#JAN-03-81: E Fisher
  394. Squire Asher's Journal
  395. Vault 95 terminals; Private Terminal, Your Orders
  396. Vault 95 terminals; Private Terminal, Entry 10/23/2082
  397. Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.358-359: "[5.15] VAULT 95 Gunners have overwhelmed the vault dwellers here and are utilizing this location for purposes other than those originally intended. You are encouraged to remove these threats. Beware of Assaultrons. Battle your way through the open vault door and reach the elevator to enter the vault’s interior." (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  398. ? terminals: "12.10.2082 Sender: [A.Poole] >> Supplies for Taggerdy Fine Tanner, I'll tell my people to agree to Taggerdy's demand, sorry, "request" for munitions. But I'll not ask the Responders to be your messenger service, they are too busy dealing with those new mutants that've been appearing around Huntersville. I still don't understand why you have such a problem with helping those folks in the mountains, when the moment someone in uniform shows up you get your panties all in a bunch. You need to come to grips with the fact that the war is over. You can have your supplies, but you take em yourself. -Poole"
  399. Interrogation: Doe, Jane
  400. The Christmas Flood
  401. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 12/25/82 "
  402. Scattered Journal Page No. 1
  403. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 3/5/83 "
  404. Year: 2083
  405. Fallout Bible 0: "2083 Summer The city of Necropolis founded by the ghoul survivors of Vault 12 (and the US citizens that fled to Bakersfield when the bombs fell)."
  406. Camp Venture terminals
  407. Sam Blackwell's bunker terminals
  408. Year: 2084
  409. Fallout Bible 0: "2084 Spring Set takes control of Necropolis, wresting control from the original Overseer. The Vault 12 Overseer, not willing to take a dirtnap, is driven north and history loses sight of him."
  410. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 3/5/83 "
  411. Camp Venture terminals
  412. Museum of Technology placard: "This is a scaled model of a prototype military transport vehicle being developed by the U.S. Military. The XVB02 "Vertibird" is a VTOL ("Vertical Take Off and Landing") craft with an extremely durable armored fuselage and can be armored with a variety of offensive weapons and defensive countermeasures. This is the most advanced aircraft of its kind ever developed, and the military hopes to press them into service by 2085."
  413. Scattered Journal Page No. 2
  414. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 2/14/86 "
  415. Camp Venture terminals
  416. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 5/22/86 "
  417. Riverside Manor terminals: "Headmistress Shannon Rivers, Personal Journal 6/1/86 Lucia reports that the campaign against the Super Mutants in Huntersville has ended. If things go well, the alliance between the Brotherhood and Responders might finally be the beginning of a long-term security arrangement for the region. All of the patrols moving through the mountains have suppressed raider activity over the past few months. I've asked the girls to be more careful as well. No sense drawing any unwanted attention. The mission board has been relatively light, but Olivia has been taking far more than her share. She's rarely at home for more than a day or two at a time now. At first, I was glad she was becoming more dedicated to her work, but I'm starting to worry she's just using it as an excuse to avoid me."
  418. Preservation of Technology
  419. Olivia's diary
  420. Pleasant Valley Ski Resort terminals: "6-9-86: RE: Checkpoint Massacre"
  421. Pleasant Valley Ski Resort terminals: "7-1-86: Quotas"
  422. Pleasant Valley Ski Resort terminals
  423. Pleasant Valley Ski Resort terminals: "7-19-86: RE: Deal"
  424. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 7/24/86 "
  425. Riverside Manor terminals: "Personal Journal, 10/7/86"
  426. Riverside Manor terminals: "From Olivia"
  427. Holotape of the fight acquired at the end of the quest
  428. 428.0 428.1 428.2 Reservation design document for Van Buren
  429. 429.0 429.1 429.2 Mesa Verde design document for Van Buren
  430. Scattered Journal Page No. 3
  431. Fallout Bible 0: "2090 Vault 29 opens. Harold (now human) sets out to make his fortune as a trader, making the circuit around the survivalist communities in the wasteland."
  432. Fallout Bible 5: "2090 Vault 29 opens. Harold (currently human) sets out to make his fortune as a trader, making the circuit around the survivalist communities in the wasteland."
  433. Fallout Bible 0: "2091 Vault 8 opens, and they use their GECK to create fertile ground for their city. This eventually becomes Vault City."
  434. 434.0 434.1 The Chosen One: "....."
    Joanne Lynette: "{272}{lyn031}{We exited the Vault 120 years ago and, with the help of our Eden kit, began construction of Vault City. Ten years later, the Overseer retired and a Council of Citizens was established. The Council appointed the initial First Citizen.}"
    The Chosen One: "{275}{}{120 years ago? That was 70 years before the Vault Dweller stopped the Master. This can't be the vault I'm looking for.}"
    (Vclynett.msg)
    Note: Lynette's dialogue contains an error, likely due to an oversight in development: It correctly identifies the foundation date as 70 years before the Vault Dweller, but incorrectly states that it was 120 years before Fallout 2.
  435. Fallout Bible 0: "2092 LA Vault opens, the Boneyard is founded and attracts survivors."
  436. Fallout Bible 0: "2092 Dr. Richard Moreau is exiled from Vault City for murder. The circumstances surrounding the murder are unknown, but he changes his last name to Grey and heads south."
  437. Flatwoods terminals: Diagnostic terminal Archives.
  438. Fallout Bible 0: "2093 The Hub is founded by a man named Angus, who sets up camp around a filthy oasis in the desert, and he proceeds to begin trading with other settlements."
  439. Flatwoods terminals: "You are safe" and "Feb 20"
  440. Fort Defiance terminals: "93-JUL-20"
  441. Scattered Journal Page No. 5
  442. Fort Defiance terminals: "94-JAN-03"
  443. Fort Defiance terminals: "95-FEB-02"
  444. Fort Defiance terminals: "Touchdown Recovery (Supplemental)"
  445. Fort Defiance terminals: "95-FEB-02"
  446. 446.0 446.1 446.2 Tygart Water Treatment terminals
  447. Fort Defiance terminals: "95-JUN-03"
  448. Scattered Journal Page No. 5
  449. Year: 2095
  450. Fort Defiance terminals: "95-AUG-13"
  451. Final Stand
  452. Final Stand
  453. Madigan Encounter
  454. Fallout Bible 0: "2096 Harold rises to the level of a caravan boss in the Hub. His caravans suffer occasional attacks in the wastes, but Harold's caravan outfit survives and prospers... until the mutant attacks begin to pick up a few years later."
  455. Flatwoods terminals: "Yates, Sofie"
  456. 456.0 456.1 456.2 Year: 2096
  457. 457.0 457.1 BEWARE - A VENGEFUL SPIRIT STALKS THESE CANYONS holotape
  458. Year: 2096 (II)
  459. Flatwoods terminals: "6/15/96: New Patient: Meddles"
  460. Flatwoods terminals: "Caldera, Miguel"
  461. AVR Medical Center terminals
  462. Flatwoods terminals: "7/18/96: New Patient: Chris"
  463. Flatwoods terminals: "Wilkins, Garry" and "Winters, Delbert"
  464. Flatwoods terminals: "7/25/96: New Patient: Cullen"
  465. Flatwoods terminals: "8/01/96: New Patient: Mike"
  466. 466.0 466.1 466.2 466.3 466.4 AVR Medical Center terminals
  467. Flatwoods terminals: "8/02/96: Comment from Cullen"
  468. Flatwoods terminals: "8/14/96: New Patient: Dr. Venn"
  469. Flatwoods terminals: "8/20/96: Comment from Dr. Venn"
  470. Flatwoods terminals: "8/25/96: New Patient: Brad"
  471. Madigan Encounter
  472. Flatwoods terminals: "9/01/96: Comment from Dr. Venn"
  473. Rose mentions him being strung-up.
  474. Flatwoods terminals: "McDermott, Kesha"
  475. Flatwoods terminals: "Ben-Ami, Dassa"
  476. Flatwoods terminals: "McLeeder, Cullen"
  477. Year: 2097
  478. Fallout Bible 0: Fallout Bible 3 Timeline repair: Second strike: "2141 Spring Vault 15 opened."Note: The date presented by Chris Avellone in the timeline draft is incorrect. Shady Sands is specifically stated to have been founded by Aradesh's ancestor in the game. If it was founded in 2141, then Aradesh would be the founder. There is also no mention of the people of Shady Sands coming out of a Vault, which is inconsistent with the relatively recent founding date. Finally, as the Vipers, Jackals, and Khans emerged out of Vault 15 together, it's impossible for them to raid the Hub in 2125, sixteen years before their emergence. The date is based on the Vipers design document, which states the following: "64 years ago [in 2097], a man named Jonathan Faust led his group of about 200 people from the overcrowded Vault into the wastes of the outside. It was there that his small band came to a small oasis in the middle of the desert. In the middle of this oasis was a large pit, almost like a crater. While resting and setting up camp, Faust decided to look into the pit. Darkness greeted him.
    When a member of the band called out to him, Faust turned, startled, and slipped into the Pit. He slid down twenty feet and then fell another 20 and broke his leg in the process. As he lay there dazed, a half dozen gigantic Pit Vipers slithered toward him. Not knowing what these things were, Faust was terrified. The group above heard one loud scream and then nothing. Three others went to look for him, but never came out.
    The small band, leaderless and stuck in the desert with no food and water, decided to stay at the oasis, at least for a little while. They covered the pit with a tarp and nailed spikes around it to keep whatever horror lived there encased there. They then set up their camp as far from the Pit as possible. Whatever was down in the Pit never bothered them. Days passed. The more influential of the group argued about what they were to do. There was talk of joining up with others from the Vault. There was talk about going back to the Vault."
  479. Scattered Journal Page No. 6
  480. 480.0 480.1 480.2 480.3 480.4 Vipers design document by Scott Campbell, from Fallout Bible 6
  481. Fallout Bible 0: Fallout Bible 3 Timeline repair: Second strike: "2141 Winter Raiders begin to form in the region as food supplies run low. The Khans and the Vipers begin terrorizing local settlements."Note: The date presented by Chris Avellone in the timeline draft is incorrect. Shady Sands is specifically stated to have been founded by Aradesh's ancestor in the game. If it was founded in 2141, then Aradesh would be the founder. There is also no mention of the people of Shady Sands coming out of a Vault, which is inconsistent with the relatively recent founding date. Finally, as the Vipers, Jackals, and Khans emerged out of Vault 15 together, it's impossible for them to raid the Hub in 2125, sixteen years before their emergence. The date is based on the Vipers design document, which states the following: "64 years ago [in 2097], a man named Jonathan Faust led his group of about 200 people from the overcrowded Vault into the wastes of the outside. It was there that his small band came to a small oasis in the middle of the desert. In the middle of this oasis was a large pit, almost like a crater. While resting and setting up camp, Faust decided to look into the pit. Darkness greeted him.
    When a member of the band called out to him, Faust turned, startled, and slipped into the Pit. He slid down twenty feet and then fell another 20 and broke his leg in the process. As he lay there dazed, a half dozen gigantic Pit Vipers slithered toward him. Not knowing what these things were, Faust was terrified. The group above heard one loud scream and then nothing. Three others went to look for him, but never came out.
    The small band, leaderless and stuck in the desert with no food and water, decided to stay at the oasis, at least for a little while. They covered the pit with a tarp and nailed spikes around it to keep whatever horror lived there encased there. They then set up their camp as far from the Pit as possible. Whatever was down in the Pit never bothered them. Days passed. The more influential of the group argued about what they were to do. There was talk of joining up with others from the Vault. There was talk about going back to the Vault."
  482. Fallout Bible 0:
    Fallout Bible 3 Timeline repair: Second strike: "2122 Spring Shady Sands founded, wall erected against the raiders."
    Note: The date presented by Chris Avellone in the timeline draft is incorrect. Shady Sands is specifically stated to have been founded by Aradesh's ancestor in the game. If it was founded in 2141, then Aradesh would be the founder. There is also no mention of the people of Shady Sands coming out of a Vault, which is inconsistent with the relatively recent founding date. Finally, as the Vipers, Jackals, and Khans emerged out of Vault 15 together, it's impossible for them to raid the Hub in 2125, sixteen years before their emergence. The date is based on the Vipers design document, which states the following: "64 years ago [in 2097], a man named Jonathan Faust led his group of about 200 people from the overcrowded Vault into the wastes of the outside. It was there that his small band came to a small oasis in the middle of the desert. In the middle of this oasis was a large pit, almost like a crater. While resting and setting up camp, Faust decided to look into the pit. Darkness greeted him.
    When a member of the band called out to him, Faust turned, startled, and slipped into the Pit. He slid down twenty feet and then fell another 20 and broke his leg in the process. As he lay there dazed, a half dozen gigantic Pit Vipers slithered toward him. Not knowing what these things were, Faust was terrified. The group above heard one loud scream and then nothing. Three others went to look for him, but never came out.
    The small band, leaderless and stuck in the desert with no food and water, decided to stay at the oasis, at least for a little while. They covered the pit with a tarp and nailed spikes around it to keep whatever horror lived there encased there. They then set up their camp as far from the Pit as possible. Whatever was down in the Pit never bothered them. Days passed. The more influential of the group argued about what they were to do. There was talk of joining up with others from the Vault. There was talk about going back to the Vault."
  483. The Vault Dweller: "{108}{}{Tell me a bit about the town.}"
    Jarvis: "{111}{}{Well, Shady Sands was founded by a great ancestor of our current leader, Aradesh. He could tell you more of the story. We have a well and irrigation, so we do well for ourselves.}"
    (JARVIS.MSG)
  484. 484.0 484.1 Overseer's terminal, Archived files - Annual Review: 2100
  485. Fallout Bible 0: "2102 May 22 Increasing mutant attacks on Harold's caravans cause Harold to get so pissed he finances one of the first adventuring parties of Fallout to try and find out where these dagnab mutants are coming from. Consulting with a scientist and doctor at the Hub, a man by the name of Grey, the two of them decide to join forces."
  486. Fallout Bible 0: "2102 June 23 Richard Grey's Expedition [including Harold] finds the Mariposa Military Base and the Expedition is scattered and defeated by mutants at the base. Grey is knocked into one of the vats of FEV by a robotic arm, and Harold is knocked unconscious, only to awaken later out in the wasteland."
  487. Fallout Bible 0: "2102 June 27 Harold, already mutating, is found by traders and taken back to the Hub. His former caravan partners and employees, horrified by his condition, abandon him and he is soon left without even two bottlecaps to rub together."
  488. Fallout Bible 0: "2102 July Richard Grey, now horribly mutated by the virus, crawls from the Vats covered with FEV and in terrible pain. Barely able to think or perceive his surroundings, he crawls into the Vat control room and begins his audio log. He fades in and out of consciousness, sometimes for days or weeks at a time."
  489. Richard Grey's audio diary: "==0000 - 0004==
    I'm dying. I need to get this down before the pain overwhelms me.
    ==0005 - 0020==
    I can't believe that I was finally able to drag myself out of that vat. The slime did not affect me, but I nearly drowned. I don't know what happened to Harold - he was standing right next to me when the crane knocked me into the vat. He must have been killed or he would have tried to help me. Francine is dead, killed by one of those robots.
    ==0021 - 0027==
    I have no idea how much time has passed. I was able to hack the computer to turn off the robots and record this, but now my mind is slipping away.There is much pain...
    ==0028 - 0043==
    The green slime that I was immersed in is the source of all the mutations we traced to here. My skin is starting to fester and peel. In other areas it is bubbling and is expelling a green mucus-like substance. Some days the pain is almost tolerable.
    ==0044 - 0057==
    I can actually walk a few steps again...It seems inconceivable that I dragged myself all the way up here from the vat room. Strangely, I'm actually feeling stronger, though I'm still in a lot of pain. Everything seems to be getting smaller.
    ==0058 - 0096==
    I think I consumed one of the mutated things scurrying around here today. Before I knew what was happening, some sort of tendril had sprang from my stomach and covered the poor creature. As soon as it had sucked the rodent into my gut I could actually feel its mind. I think. There is the very real possibility that I'm going slowly insane and can no longer differentiate between what is real and what is a hallucination. Maybe I'm still slowly dying in the vat and I've imagined all this. "
  490. Fallout Bible 0: "2102 July-Nov Richard Grey begins to acclimate to his condition, and begins his first tests of animals by exposing them to FEV. These experiments and his growing awareness lay the foundation for his plans for the Unity and the master race. He takes the name, "the Master.""
  491. Richard Grey's audio diary: "==0097 - 0111==
    Things are becoming more clear to me every day. This toxin has actually improved my mind. I feel that I can understand even the most complex philosophical questions simply and directly. It's as if all the layers of artifice have been stripped away. I wonder what would happen if I submerged an animal in the vats for a prolonged period of time? Would it gain awareness?
    ==0112 - 0134==
    The strangest thing is happening to the animals. They actually become smarter and more aware of their surroundings. I dipped a dog and a rat at the same time today, and they were fused together. It's not quite two creatures anymore, but it's more than one. Perhaps this is the future - a coming together of different creatures in some sort of harmonious unity. I no longer consume the different animals I create simply for sustenance - I have become the instrument through which unity will be achieved. I am so much more than a human being now."
  492. Fallout Bible 0: "2102 Nov The first human victim wanders into Mariposa, and Grey consumes him."
  493. Richard Grey's audio diary: "==0135 - 0139==
    It is time to bring others into the glory that is the Unity.
    ==0140 - 0153==
    A lost soul has finally strayed into my home. I was so surprised I consumed him before dipping, a mistake I shall not make again. His mind was so primitive as to be repulsive to my refined cognitive abilities."
  494. Fallout Bible 0: "2102 Dec Grey continues his experiments on wanderers that enter Mariposa... with no success. The creations are flawed (due to the radiation counts in their bodies), making them big but incredibly stupid, and Grey consumes them rather than letting them live."
  495. Richard Grey's audio diary: "==0154 - 0172==
    I've begun to modify myself to be more pleasing to the Unity by injecting small doses of the virus into my body. The slime in the vats is a man-made virus called the Forced Evolutionary Virus. This information was acquired from my newly grown neurolink with the base computer.
    ==0173 - 0198==
    The few wanderers that have found their way here have been a disappointment to me. They can't seem to mutate correctly. The best I've been able to create are some big and dumb mutants. Most can recall nothing from before I initiated them into the wondrous Unity. I only feed on them for fuel, now. Their minds are nothing to me."
  496. Richard Grey's audio diary: "==0199 - 0236==
    Oh glorious creator!! I have succeeded in spreading the complete joy of unification to another soul! Unlike the others, his total radiation count was low. I believe this is the factor we have been overlooking all this time, as it seems the conversion is more successful in the cases with less radiation damage. I have never known such glory as I felt when taking his mind into our own."
  497. Fallout Bible 0: "2103 January The Master discovers the problem with the influence of radiation on his mutations, and he begins to choose his subjects more carefully. The first classic super mutants are born, butt-scratching animations and all. He begins his plans to build an army."
  498. Richard Grey's audio diary: "==0237 - 0281==
    We are beginning to create an army dedicated to unifying the wonderful diversity of life. We have trained them to continue our work here while we search out more populated areas to take into ourselves. We are beginning to feel the limitations of a body that is mobile. We must find a permanent home, with a greater store of knowledge, and a steady supply of bio-mass.
    ==0282 - 0303==
    We have stopped increasing ourself until we can find this new unification center. When we have arrived we will continue to grow and feed until we have brought peace and unity to the entire world."
  499. Fallout Bible 0: "2103-2130 Throughout this period, the Master begins slowly gathering test subjects, willing or unwilling, from local human stock. The Great Winter of 2130 and the scarcity of human subjects make building his army difficult."
  500. Wastelanders (Fallout 76)
  501. Year: 2108
  502. Institute food packet seal.
  503. Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "The Institute was officially founded in the year 2110 by a group a of former Commonwealth Institute of Technology students who took refuge in the college's underground level at the time of the Great War."
  504. Year: 2113
  505. Fallout Bible 0: "2120 Angus rules over growing Hub and establishes himself as governor."
  506. Year: 2123
  507. 507.0 507.1 Year: 2124
  508. Fallout Bible 0: "2125 Winter Angus is murdered. Hub is thrown into chaos."
  509. Fallout Bible 0: "2126 A band of merchants seizes the water tower in the Hub. They demand anyone wanting water must pay a toll. The Great Merchant Wars begin"
  510. 510.0 510.1 Fallout Bible 0: "2126-2128 The Great Merchant Wars are fought, the Water Merchants seal up the town, but are outnumbered. A man named Roy Greene (Justin Greene's grandfather) makes the peace and negotiates a settlement. The Hub's Central Council is formed, composed of two representatives from each of the Hub caravan companies. A long period of indecisiveness and meetings maintain the status quo in the Hub."
  511. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.42: "Vault Dwellers
    Vault 101 was actually part of an unscrupulous social experiment. All of the other Vaults were intended to be opened at one point or another when the "all clear" signal was sent from Vault-Tec or the appropriate regulatory agency, and this indeed, did transpire, with almost universally horrific results. But Vault 101's secret plans were different: The doors were never scheduled to open. Ever. In fact, the Vault was supplied with just the type of equipment it would need to keep functioning indefinitely-like spare parts for the water processor. But this was just the beginning:
    The true experiment was even more devious and cunning. Although Vault 101 was about testing the human condition when a Vault never opened, this was only the first part of the plan. The "actual" experiment went far beyond that, and a select few knew the true nature; that this was to test the role of the Overseer. While the Overseer was able to interact (and even visit) the outside world via radio transmissions, and a secret tunnel from his sealed office, the rest of the inhabitants faced a much more dismal future: As far as they knew, Vault 101 was never sent an "all clear" signal, and faked radio transmissions described a nuclear-ravaged world gone mad, with absolutely no hope of existence outside of a Vault. The radio transmissions were actually recorded before the bombs even fell, and in many cases described a world even more horrible than the reality of the nuclear wasteland. The Vault 101 Overseer, like his counterparts in the other Vaults, was actually a planted Vault-Tec operative whose job it was to control the experiment from the inside.
    Aside from keeping up this ruse, the Overseer's other important role was to reinforce to the dwellers of Vault 101 that the outside world would never be habitable again, and that their only salvation was in the Vault. The Overseer prevented anyone from leaving the Vault, and made sure the Vault dwellers received their regular "transmission" from the outside world. People entered Vault 101 in 2077, just before the bombs fell.
    The Overseer died of natural causes 50 years later (in 2127), at the age of 84, after grooming a subordinate to continue the clandestine plan. The new Overseer led his people according to the same isolationist doctrine preached by his predecessor, but also attempted to garner as many senior Vault Dwellers to become complicit in this plan as possible. By 2277, the descendants of the Overseer had an entire generation of Vault Dwellers who were playing along with this plan, keeping the secrets from their children.
    The Overseer and his cronies continued to receive periodic information from the outside world, while those not in the know were told that things had gotten so bad that whoever was sending transmissions was no longer able to do so; reinforcing the thought that leaving the Vault was sheer suicide. The final piece of this grand experiment only truly began when the Vault Dwellers living in blissful ignorance finally realized the world outside could be accessed, and there was a possibility of life above ground. The experiment only really commenced when the Vault 101 door first opened, and a young dweller fled into the light."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide faction profiles)
  512. Fallout Bible 0: "2130 The Great Winter occurs."
  513. 513.0 513.1 The Vault Dweller: "{104}{}{What is it you do here?}"
    Gabriel: "{109}{}{We manufacture weapons and ammunition. We've been at this for the last 30 years. But the last 10 have been hell.}"
    (GABRIEL.MSG)
  514. Fallout Bible 0: "2131-2135 The Master begins ordering his super mutants to gather human stock from caravans. For many years, the caravan disappearances are blamed on monsters in the desert, and even when the abductions begin to occur on Hub caravans, the deathclaws are blamed. The super mutant army grows."
  515. Fallout Bible 0: "2135 Elder Roger Maxson dies of cancer, and his son, already an accomplished soldier, takes up the role of "General" (Elder) within the Brotherhood of Steel. John Maxson becomes a member of the Paladins, showing tremendous promise as a soldier."
  516. Fallout Bible 0: "2137 Master's begins to mass-produce super mutants. Only about one in six or one in five attempts are successful, and of these successes, only half seem to last to go on to be part of his growing army, called the Unity."
  517. 517.00 517.01 517.02 517.03 517.04 517.05 517.06 517.07 517.08 517.09 517.10 517.11 517.12 517.13 517.14 517.15 517.16 517.17 517.18 517.19 517.20 517.21 Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.458: "Important Dates
    2196 Tandi (Aradesh's daughter) is unanimously elected President by the NCR council. Her popularity is to prove enduring: she will continue to serve in office until her death in 2248, at the age of 103.
    2242-2243 The events of Fallout 2 take place.
    2248 President Tandi takes ill and dies at the age of 103. Her presidency has lasted 52 years. Vice-President Joanna Tibbett assumes office.
    2253 President Tibbett is removed from office by a vote of no confidence following her "timid" response to the massacre of 38 NCR citizens at the hands of Mojave raiders. Her replacement, President Wendell Peterson, orders three battalions of NCR infantry into the Mojave.
    2270 The extirpation of tribals in the area of present-day Bullhead City is complete. "The Pacification of the Mojave," as it comes to be known, makes General Aaron Kimball a national hero.
    2272 The NCR's Mojave outpost is established.
    2273 Aaron Kimball retires from the NCR military and runs for office as one of Hub's political representatives (or "governors," as Hub idiosyncratically calls them). Less than two months into his term, Wendell Peterson is voted out of office and Aaron Kimball becomes the NCR's next President.
    2274 NCR forces move east and occupy Hoover Dam. The NCR reluctantly signs the Treaty of New Vegas recognizing Mr. House and his stewards, the Three Families, as the rightful owners of the Strip. The Strip opens for business.
    2275 Camp McCarran is established as NCR Headquarters in the Mojave. Sporadic fighting begins with the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel. The NCR government withdraws official support from the Followers of the Apocalypse and founds The Office of Science and Industry.
    2274 Hoover Dam restarts and the Strip blazes with light. The first trickle of privileged, curious NCR citizens visits the Strip.
    2276 Conflict with the Brotherhood of Steel escalates, culminating in decisive victory at HELIOS One. The Mojave Brotherhood is considered "neutralized."
    2277 Fallout 3 begins.
    2277 Legion forces under the command of the Malpais Legate fail to wrest control of Hoover Dam from the NCR. Despite heavy casualties, the NCR's victory is celebrated back home.
    2278 Following the abduction and killing of four soldiers, NCR troops assault the Great Khans' settlement at Red Rock Canyon and massacre several dozen men, women, and children. This event goes unreported in NCR press.
    2281 Fallout: New Vegas begins."
    Note: the Guide erroneously states that Red Rock Canyon, rather than Bitter Springs, was attacked by the NCR.
  518. Fallout Bible 0: "2140 Decker forms Underground in the Hub and starts pulling strings."
  519. The Courier: "How long have you been in business?"
    Alice McLafferty: "The Crimson Caravan Company has been in business for over 130 years. We're partially responsible for the progress in the NCR."
    (Alice McLafferty's dialogue)
  520. Fallout Bible 0: "2152 As their influence slowly spreads throughout the wastes, the Master finds humans, doomsday cultists, and rather than dip them in the vats, he demands their obedience as spies - their leader is a man named Morpheus, and he pledges his followers to the Master. Morpheus and his cultists form the future core of the Children of the Cathedral."
  521. The Courier: "What is this place?"
    Vendortron: "This is the New Vegas branch of the Gun Runners, supplying the wasteland with only the finest armaments since 2155."
    (Vendortron's dialogue)
  522. Fallout Bible 0: "2155 John Maxson's father dies in a raid by the Vipers. Expecting the raiders to break and run, Maxson doesn't take into account the religious ferocity of the Vipers (or their poisoned weapons), and when a single arrow nicks him with his helmet off, he dies within hours. John Maxson takes up the role of Elder, and Rhombus becomes the new head of the Paladins."
  523. Ian, Aradesh, Killian
  524. Fallout Bible 0: "2155-2156 After capturing a caravan of strange-garbed travelers (vault dwellers), Master learns the location of the Boneyard Vault, the future site of the Cathedral. He conquers the inhabitants and sets up operations there, and the human cultists begin to use the Vault as their powerbase. Within the Vault, the Master learns of other Vaults, and realizing their human occupants are ripe for transformation, begins to send out patrols to Vault locations in search of these other Vaults."
  525. Fallout Bible 5: "2155-2156 After capturing a caravan of vault dwellers, Master learns the location of the Boneyard Vault, the future site of the Cathedral. He conquers the inhabitants and sets up operations there, and the human cultists begin to use the Vault as their powerbase. Within the Vault, the Master begins to send out patrols to Vault locations in search of these other Vaults."
  526. Lily Bowen's birth date (2078) and stated age (75) when leaving the Vault. Amended to fit the established timeline.
  527. Fallout Bible 0: "2156 The Master sees advantages in establishing a benevolent "religion," the Children of the Cathedral, and using them as spies in settlements throughout the wastes. Missionaries from the Children of the Cathedral spread slowly across the wasteland, acting as eyes and ears for Morpheus and the Master."
  528. Fallout Bible 0: "2157 The Master learns the location of the Bakersfield Vault, Vault 12, and sends a detachment of super mutants there to seize the vault. Many ghouls are snapped like twigs in the attack, and Set finally parleys with the super mutants, telling them that the ghouls are the Vault survivors the super mutants are looking for. The super mutants, angered at failing to find an intact Vault, set up a small garrison at the watershed to watch the inhabitants and insure Set's... cooperation in the war to come."
  529. The Vault Dweller: "{112}{}{What's so bad about Adytum supplying you with your materials?}"
    Gabriel: "{113}{}{At first it was fine. They supplied us with raw materials, we manufactured and sold the weapons. Then 3 years ago Zimmerman hired some mercenaries to help protect Adytum from the deathclaw and the odd random attack by raiders. Those Regulators are cold hearted bastards and are squeezing us for all we have. We make the guns and they get rich off of it.}"
    (GABRIEL.MSG)
  530. The Vault Dweller: "{1006}{}{Elder}"
    John Maxson: "{1106}{Gen_58}{Hehehe. A fine, handsome, upstanding man. The High Elder position is to mediate the meetings between the Elders. You see, two years ago I got talked into it. If I'd of known then...}"
    (MAXSON.MSG)
  531. Fallout Bible 0: "2161 October A Brotherhood of Steel patrol comes across a dead super mutant in the badlands. They take the corpse back to the Scribes, and Head Scribe Vree begins her examinations of the super mutant."
  532. Fallout Bible 0: "2161 Dec 5 Fallout 1 Begins: Vault Dweller is kicked out of Vault 13 to find a replacement water chip."
  533. Fallout Bible 0: "2161 Dec 15 Vault Dweller discovers Shady Sands. Meets Tandi, and Ian, who joins the Vault Dweller in searching for the water chip."
  534. Fallout Bible 0: "2161 Dec 30 Vault Dweller recruits Dogmeat in Junktown."
  535. Date in the Fallout demo.
  536. Scripted event in Fallout.
  537. Fallout Bible 0: "2162 January 17 Vault Dweller reaches the Hub and negotiates with the Water Merchants to deliver water to Vault 13, buying the Vault some time."
  538. Fallout Bible 0: "2162 February 13 Vault Dweller recovers the water chip in Necropolis. Ian is killed by a super mutant and reduced to a cinder, ending his tendency to shoot the Vault Dweller in the back with SMG bursts."
  539. Scripted event in Fallout.
  540. Fallout Bible 0: "2162 March 3 Vault Dweller kicks the Master's ass."
  541. Fallout Bible 0
  542. Fallout Bible 0: "2162 April 20 Vault Dweller destroys the Military Base. Dogmeat dies defending his master."
  543. Fallout Bible 0: "2162 May 10 Fallout 1 Ends: Vault Dweller returns to Vault 13, only to be told "you're a hero, and you have to leave." Some members of the Vault (led by Lydia, the head of the "return to the surface" faction, and including her supporters, Theresa and Lyle) follow soon afterwards."
  544. Fallout Bible 0: "2165 May 12 Vault Dweller removes the Vault suit and from this day forward, never wears it again."
  545. Fallout Bible 6#Pie in the face section: "2162 May 12 Vault Dweller removes the Vault suit and from this day forward, never wears it again."
  546. Fallout Bible 0: "2165 July 10 Vault Dweller heads North with a small group of Vault-dwellers and wastelanders and founds the small village of Arroyo."
  547. Fallout Bible 6 Pie in the face section: "2162 July 10 Vault Dweller heads North with a small group of Vault-dwellers and wastelanders and founds the small village of Arroyo."
  548. Fallout endings
  549. Fallout Bible 0: "2167 August 18 Construction of Arroyo completed."
  550. Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.458: "Controversy over the Vegas Frontier
    The NCR spread east into Nevada in large numbers just five years ago on a "humanitarian mission" to "bring the light of civilization to the savage wastes of the Mojave." Hoover Dam was the symbol of the expedition-reports from the Followers of the Apocalypse had confirmed that it was still intact as early as 2170-and its occupation by NCR troops in 2274 was a celebrated event. Even more exciting was the restarting of the dam's hydroelectric plant eleven months later, which dramatically improved the access of many NCR citizens to electricity and water."
    (Behind the Bright Lights & Big City)
  551. The Chosen One: "{239}{}{Cleanse the mutants? That sounds a bit drastic. How are you going to do that?}"
    Dick Richardson: "{240}{prs41}{We found a research facility in operational shape about 70 years ago. A former military base that had been used to research a special virus.}"
    (Qhprzrch.msg)
  552. BioScience division report, 2178: "Uhh... This is Doctor Elliott, with the official report for the Directorate from BioScience. The date is, umm, August 2178. I'm pleased to report that, as has been the case during my tenure, crop yields exceed expectations. In point of fact, everything down here is fine... with... one notable exception. Doctor Frederick has informed me that the Directorate has pre-approved research on samples of the FEV virus, which he already has in his possession. Now, I'm not one to question the Directorate... you all know that. I don't even want to know where this came from. But... well, this is troubling. Dangerous, possibly. I will do my best to make sure risks are minimized, but I really do hope that the consequences are understood."
  553. Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "The Minutemen were formed over a century ago by ordinary people who simply wanted to defend their home, the Commonwealth, from any threat imaginable. Sadly, the group has fallen into disarray in recent years."
  554. Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "The Minutemen first rose to prominence in the year 2180, when they defended Diamond City against a horde of Super Mutant attackers."
  555. Fallout Bible 0: "2185 Summer At high noon, Marcus and Brotherhood of Steel Paladin Jacob cross paths many, many miles southwest of Broken Hills and punch and shoot each other for a few days. Eventually, they give up, unable to get an advantage over the other. The two start traveling together, arguing over Master and BOS doctrine and whether or not the Master could truly neurolink his biology into the Cathedral computer network."
  556. Marcus
  557. Fallout Bible 0: "2185 Fall Marcus and Jacob, along with the trail of ghouls, humans, and super mutants, found the community of Broken Hills."
  558. Fallout Bible 0: "2186 New California Republic formed, and a central council is created as a governing body."
  559. 559.0 559.1 Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.41: "New California Republic
    The New California Republic was born from the remnants of the survivors of Vault 15 and the small walled community they founded, Shady Sands. Under the leadership of Aradesh, and with the assistance of the Vault Dweller (who saved Tandi, Aradesh's daughter and a future president of the NCR), the community prospered. Trade routes with other settlements allowed cultural exchange, and a movement to form a national entity gradually took root and won popular acceptance. In 2186, the town of Shady Sands changed its name to "New California Republic" and formed a trial council government to draft a constitution. Four more settlements joined the council, and in 2189 the NCR was voted into existence as a sprawling federation of five states: Shady Sands, Los Angeles, Maxson, Hub, and Dayglow.
    By post-apocalyptic standards, the NCR is a paragon of economic success and good ethical character: political enfranchisement, rule of law, a reasonable degree of physical security, and a standard of living better than mere subsistence are daily realities for it's 700,000+ citizens. Currently, the NCR in a state of transition, with rapid economic growth and a sea change in political leadership endangering its grand humanitarian ideals. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Mojave, where the occupation of Hoover Dam has improved access to electricity and water, but at the cost of straining its budget and embroiling its armed forces in a morally corrosive imperialist project.
    The NCR government's aim is to annex New Vegas as the republic's sixth state. While it already controls Hoover Dam, its treaty with Mr. House and the three families compels it to allot one-fifth of the dam's electrical and water production to local use free of charge. Adding injury to insult, the NCR is locked into protecting New Vegas from invasion by Caesar's legion even as it receives not one cap in tax revenue from the Strip's highly lucrative resort operations. NCR citizens in the Mojave have largely come here for economic reasons, whether as paid citizen soldiers or as prospectors and fortune-seekers."
    (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide faction profiles)
  560. Fallout canon ending for Shady Sands
  561. Fallout Bible 0: "2186 Spring Jacob moves on, says goodbye to Marcus, then moves on for parts unknown."
  562. Fallout Bible 0: "2188 October 2 Vault Dweller has a daughter (who becomes the Elder in Fallout 2)."
  563. Journal of Sir Latham: "Journal of Sir Latham, Entry 10.1.4.
    We have crash landed north of a camp occupied by Super Mutants. We believe these to be remnants of the Master's army as encountered by the first Vault Dweller. Although the archives mentioned that some of these Super Mutants might actually be friendly, we found little to like about these ones, especially the chief.
    The leader of this camp went by the name of Gammorin. We were set upon by his patrols soon after we pulled ourselves from the wreckage. Bound and gagged, the mutant guards dragged us back to their camp. Fully half of us had been killed by the crash, and now less than half of that survived the treatment of our mutant captors.
    We were scheduled to be killed for the amusement of Gammorin. It was not hard to see that several of the Super-Mutants were unhappy with this. In fact, I was amazed to discover that they were not as savage as I had been previously lead to believe.
    I challenged Gammorin to single unarmed combat. It was to the death. There could be no other outcome in my mind. If I die, it will in combat."
    Note: Later entries date this one as happening two years before the game's events take place, ie. 2197 - 2 years.
  564. Journal of Sir Latham: "Journal of Sir Latham, Entry 0.0.1.
    I am awake.
    To tell the truth, I remember little of the battle. The gash on my head, along with multiple fractures and breaks, paint an adequate picture. However, the mutants are now expecting me to lead them since I laid Gammorin to rest. I will record more later. I fear my brain has been set awry by the fight. I will try to rest until I can think clearly."
  565. Journal of Sir Latham: "Journal of Sir Latham, Entry 0.5.8.
    The Super Mutants are a simple but good people. While considered stupid by many, they show a loyalty stronger than I have seen in many humans. They live life the only way they know how.
    I have begun to organize these Mutant forces with the handful of fellow humans who survived the crash. I have recovered physically but I find myself prone to mysterious fits of anger and depression. But much worse are the hallucinations."
  566. Sir Latham's journal: "Journal of Sir Latham, Entry 1.4.5.
    Today is a day filled with absolute horror.
    Only one mutant returned from a scouting trip that was ten soldiers strong. He staggered back to camp and collapsed without a sound. He died in my arms while trying to hold back the blood pouring from his mouth.
    Before I had a chance to close his eyes, the menace was upon us! Metallic death machines entered the camp undetected by my sentries! I have never seen creatures such as this before, but they seemed unstoppable. It was only the sheer power and, more importantly, our numbers that allowed us to defeat these three machinations of death.
    Our losses were staggering."
    Note: The date format is y/m/d, basing on other entries. Since the start date was not January 1st, but January 5th, the date has been adjusted.
  567. Fallout Bible 0: "2196 Tandi unanimously elected President of NCR by the NCR council. As expected, she proceeds to do a kick-ass job."
  568. Fallout Tactics
  569. Journal of Sir Latham: "Journal of Sir Latham, Entry 2.4.2.
    My scouts engaged an enemy today. The sound of chain guns and explosions hasting my steps. What I observed in that fight changed me to the core of my being.
    My mutant scouts were engaged by a Brotherhood patrol. For the first time in my life, I was frozen in battle.
    I watched, curious even, tribal looking Brotherhood soldiers laughing manically as they cut down my new companions.
    My mutant companions, who dedicated their life to me as their leader. I lifted my weapon then, and fired again and again.
    When it was over, with Brotherhood corpses littering the ground, my head suddenly cleared. I now know my purpose and, more importantly, I finally know who I am.
    I am Gammorin - sworn enemy of the Menace from the West."
  570. Fallout Bible 0: "2198 Enclave works on various new technologies, including Power Armor variations. None of these are much of an improvement over the conventional old school Power Armor, and some are actually worse."
  571. Curie: "Oh. Another stranger. Are you Vault-Tec security? I've waited so very patiently for you to arrive."
    The Sole Survivor: "Yes. Yes, I am."
    Curie: "Superb! I placed an emergency call so long ago. I was beginning to think something dreadful must've happened. I am pleased to report I completed my primary duties 83 years ago. Thousands of pathogens were grown in the mole rat hosts. Then a single broad spectrum cure was developed to treat them all. Very satisfying work for many decades. Now, please tell me you are authorized to release me from the lab."
    (Curie's dialogue)
  572. Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.457: "Equality"
    By law, the NCR prohibits persecution and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, or religious belief (so long as said religion does not advocate violence). Legal protection of Ghouls and other mutants was added in 2205, though enforcement of these rights has been spotty. For the most part, the NCR's practices live up to its ideals, but there has been some retrenchment since the death of President Tandi. Aaron Kimball's popularity was amplified by a reactionary undercurrent, especially among males, calling out a need for a "strong man" to lead the NCR forward. In the years since Kimball took office, male military officers have been promoted disproportionately to females, and discourse arguing the differences between males and females has reappeared."
    (Behind the Bright Lights & Big City)
  573. Fallout Bible 0: "2208 January 16 After writing the F2 manual memoirs, Vault Dweller vanishes from Arroyo and is presumed dead. The Vault Dweller leaves the Vault Suit behind, folded on the bed. Some say the Vault Dweller was taken by the sky spirits, others say that the Vault Dweller felt it was time to move on and leave the Elders to guide Arroyo to its destiny."
  574. Fallout Bible 0: "2208 February 2 The One-Moon (Month) Cycle of mourning for the Vault Dweller ends, and activity in Arroyo begins to return to normal."
  575. Fallout Bible 0: "2208 February 2 Final training of the Vault Dweller's daughter for the role of village elder begins. She undergoes a great deal of physical training and tutoring in various sciences, mathematics, and, of course, weapon skills."
  576. 576.0 576.1 576.2 Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
  577. Fallout Bible 0: "2210 January 31 Vault Dweller's daughter takes her mystic test, a key ingredient of which is several pots worth of hallucinogenic plants from Hakuinn's garden. She runs the gauntlet in the Temple of Trials, using her charm to pass most of the tests after her handgun jams (and is ruined) on the first level. She offers numerous criticisms of the test, resulting in many revisions.
    Note: The broken handgun is the one you see on her table in the opening movie of Fallout 2."
  578. Fallout Bible 0: "2210 February 2 Vault Dweller's daughter ascends to role of Village Elder. She rules with a steady hand, and her wisdom is greatly respected."
  579. Fallout Bible 0: "2215 Under Presidential Order, Enclave scientists begin to work on an upgraded version of Power Armor. Many prototypes are developed and tested."
  580. Fallout Bible 0: "2215 August 1 Congressman Richardson rises to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his father, President Richardson."
  581. Fallout Bible 0: "2220 March 5 Congressman Richardson is elected president for the first term of five, through aid and political pressure by his father (President Richardson)."
  582. Fallout Bible 0: "2220 October Enclave scientists develop a reliable version of the Mark II Power Armor. The prototype results (and accidents... and explosions... and deaths) are classified by order of the President Richardson for the sake of morale."
  583. BioScience division report, 2224: "This is Doctor Elliott, reporting for the BioScience division. March 2224. We just received another batch of... subjects... but as my previous report stated, we're at an impasse here. More of the same won't help. I am officially echoing the team's position: the most likely progress for our research on synthetic organics requires new avenues of exploration. The two most promising strains of FEV have been adapted to an ideal state, but... we're still missing something. Additional Commonwealth subjects will not help. It's the same problem across the board: exposure to too much radiation."
  584. Out of Time
  585. The Lone Wanderer: "What can you tell me about Underworld?"
    Winthrop: "We were driven underground... hrm... almost fifty years ago now. Between the Super Mutants, the beasts, and you crazy humans, it's not safe up there. So we stay down here, out of sight and out of trouble. We get a few smoothskins every so often, but most of us don't trust 'em. You're not gonna give us more reasons not to be trusting, are you?"
    (Winthrop's dialogue)
  586. Nick Valentine: "The Commonwealth Provisional Government. Years back a group of settlements tried to get together and form a coalition. Every settlement with even a hint of clout sent representatives to try and hash out an agreement. Only the Institute sent a representative of their own, a Synth. The man killed every rep at the talks. The Commonwealth Provisional Government was over before it even got off the ground. I took up in town not long after. I was damn lucky they didn't just tell me to scram right then and there."
  587. Nick Valentine: "Course, when I took up there back when, people were just as scared of the Institute as they are now, maybe more. The massacre of the CPG was still pretty fresh in people's minds at that point, and folks were still losing sleep over the Broken Mask. Plenty of people assumed I was just a saboteur, moving in to melt down the reactor or poison the drinking water. But, at the time, they couldn't exactly turn me away."
  588. Publick Occurrences: "Ever since the "Broken Mask" incident of 2229, right here in Diamond City, when the first human-looking synth infiltrated and attacked a group of innocent settlers, we have lain awake in bed at night, terrified of the Institute and everything it represents."
  589. The Courier: "Tell me about the Boomers."
    Robert House: "They occupied Nellis Air Force Base a little over 50 years ago. One of my Securitrons got some video of their arrival - and then... exploded. Odds are they were Vault dwellers. That's everything I know about them, really."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  590. Fallout Bible 5 Questions: "8. Hi, In the last "Fallout Bible" update there was a question about Richard Grey and why he was exiled from Vault City. I remember that there was another person exiled from the VC - Leonard Boyarski. He also was exiled for a murder but I'm curious how did he die? I've found his grave on the Golgotha and it's quite surprising. ps. If there are any mistakes, sorry for my English. :-)
    Boyarsky was an in-joke to Leonard Boyarsky who originally worked on F1 and parts of F2 (one of the five billion developer references in Fallout 1 and 2). I think the name was originally Jason Anderson in the text, but I don't remember. Boyarsky was exiled for murder and unauthorized research (the research allegations revolved around some tampering with the pregnancy cycles in the Auto-Doc that apparently put all of Vault 8 in danger, but the details were deleted from the Vault 8 computer). His crime occurred many years after Grey's alleged crime, but Boyarsky only got as far as Reno with a traveling caravan before he was robbed and killed by Reno toughs who saw him as an easy mark (which pretty much is true for everyone traveling from Vault City). His reasons for traveling south were unknown, but it is rumored his original destination was east of Reno - even though explorers report there is nothing out there except desert and deathclaws."
    "This next one is from John Olivas:"
  591. Fallout Bible 0: "2235 The Enclave experiments on deathclaws, attempting to create special fighting units for waging war in hostile environments."
  592. Fallout Bible 0: "2235 While there had already been a small number of ghouls in Gecko at this time, more come to the area, and the town of Gecko is formed. The new influx of ghouls bring scavenged technology and know-how, and the power plant in Gecko becomes operational later that year. Vault City looks upon their new neighbors with growing concern."
  593. 593.0 593.1 Jericho design document.
  594. Fallout Bible 0: "2236 July 20 Enclave scouts discover the remains of the Mariposa Military Base and find it partially destroyed."
  595. Fallout Bible 0: "2236 July-August Enclave scientists and chemical corps scour the remains of Mariposa, while assault squads comb the desert for slaves they can use to mine the military base and get to the Vats. One of the squads includes soldier Frank Horrigan, 25 at the time, recently removed from duty on the President's secret service to take some RNR time in the wastes after some undocumented psychotic blunder or another."
  596. Fallout Bible 0: "2236 August Melchior is captured by an Enclave patrol and becomes part of the slave mining force at the Military Base."
  597. Fallout Bible 0: "2236 Sept Enclave construction crews and super mutant slaves begin excavations. They uncover the FEV virus, and mutations begin to occur in the human workers. Frank Horrigan comes into contact with the FEV and is sent to the Enclave labs for study."
  598. Fallout Bible 0: "2236 October Melchior begins to mutate... but keeps his intelligence and cunning in the wake of the transformation, making him pretty smart for a super mutant. Realizing that the Enclave will kill the super mutants after they get the FEV data, he begins to use his magician talents to secret away weapons for the mutants to defend themselves when the Enclave decides to dispense with them."
  599. Fallout Bible 0: "2236-2238 Horrigan gradually mutates from exposure to FEV, gaining the physique and slow, stupid, single-mindedness of a super mutant. He is kept heavily sedated, operated on, and studied. He is conscious for only brief periods at a time, then quickly sedated after the bloodshed is over."
  600. The Lone Wanderer: "Setting the record straight is exactly my goal."
    Horace Pinkerton: "For that, you have to go all the way back to when remnants of the Naval Research Institute cleared the Mirelurks off this wreck about 40 years ago. We were looking for new lab-space, and this bucket of bolts just happened to have a well-preserved science bay on it. Everything else just grew up around that lab once we got it up and running. The science team was led by one "H. Pinkerton.""
    (Horace Pinkerton's dialogue)
  601. Fallout Bible 0: "2237 January Enclave, having obtained the FEV data, abandons the Military Base site after more mutations occur, causing 2nd Generation Super Mutants to arise - the Enclave leaves a single squad behind to wipe out the super mutants, but the mutants, using armaments they have cached in the base during excavation, reduce the squad to ashes after suffering heavy casualties. The remaining 1st and 2nd Generation super mutant slaves decide to remain in the Base, and the group forms a new community."
  602. Fallout Bible 0: "2238 Harold arrives in Gecko, and (with a lot of shaking of his head) he does his best to help the ghouls with the running of the Nuclear Power Plant."
  603. The Chosen One: "{592}{}{Thomas Moore is a Citizen, and he is the leader of this movement.}"
    Joanne Lynette: "{595}{lyn093}{No. He is not a TRUE Citizen... not anymore. When he came to us two years ago, he seemed everything we would want in a Citizen. But just a year later he... changed. He turned against us.}"
    (Vclynett.msg)
  604. Fallout Bible 0: "2239 January 23 Tests begin to run dry on Frank Horrigan. It is suggested that he be used as a field operative and be used in tests in the wasteland against local populations."
  605. Fallout Bible 0: "2239 March 27 Frank Horrigan is manufactured for his new role. A new version of Power Armor is built to accommodate his mass, and he is sealed inside. After a few horrifically successful field tests, Horrigan becomes the Enclave's solution to numerous sticky problems."
  606. Rivet City historical record
  607. Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "Goodneighbor was founded in the year 2240, by a group of criminals who were banished from Diamond City."
  608. Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "The Minutemen once made their headquarters in South Boston's Fort Independence, also known as "the Castle." That ended when a giant creature rose from the sea decades ago and laid it to waste."
  609. The Lone Wanderer: "Tell me about Argyle."
    Herbert Dashwood: "Argyle was my manservant! Ah, but that’s really just a fancy word for "the guy who saves my sorry skin on a regular occasion." He was a Ghoul, you see. Been around since before the war. We met when I stole his girlfriend, back in ’41. We’d been best friends ever since. We got separated, a long time ago, and never reunited. If you find Argyle out there, somewhere, you be sure and tell me! Okay?"
    (Herbert Dashwood's dialogue)
  610. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.66: "Colin Moriarty
    Moriarty, 50, has been here nearly his entire life. He claims that his grandfather helped found the original settlement a few years after the war. His father used the nearby trade routes to amass wealth, which is used to help secure Megaton. Colin inherited this wealth when his father was killed during a Raider attack when Colin was 14. Colin's first move was to build a fence around the town. Since then, the people have looked to Colin as a benefactor despite his running drinks, Chems, girls, and games out of his saloon. Simms turns a blind eye to Moriarty's activities, because he is acutely aware that the town needs Colin's support and resources."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  611. Fallout Bible 0: "2241 The worst dry season in many years causes a drought in the Northern California area, hurting crops and brahmin in both Arroyo and Modoc."
  612. Fallout Bible 0: "2241 January The first samples of Jet begin to arrive in Redding, courtesy of the Mordino family."
  613. Fallout Bible 0: "2241 February Vault City rejects offers of an alliance with both the Bishop family of New Reno and NCR."
  614. Vault 101 terminals; Overseer's Terminal, View Scouting Reports
  615. Fallout Bible 0: "2241 March Raider attacks on caravans to Vault City begin."
  616. Fallout Bible 0: "2241 July 25 Fallout 2 Begins: Chosen One begins his mystic test, descending into the Temple of Trials."
  617. Fallout Bible 0: "2241 July 27 Chosen One leaves Arroyo in search of the GECK."
  618. Script for the scene triggers the encounter on this specific date.
  619. Script triggers the encounter on this specific date.
  620. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.61: "Armitage
    Armitage, 35, is Zimmer's imposing bodyguard. He has little to say and will defend Zimmer to the death. Of course, that's because Armitage is actually a robot, of the same class as the replicant they are searching for. Armitage has the same schedule as Zimmer; he sleeps in the same room and eats the same food—not because he has to, but because he's been programmed to replicate human behavior as closely as possible."
    Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.76: "Harkness
    Rivet City's hard-nosed security chief, 35-year old Harkness is a good guy and a good friend, despite his demeanor. What he doesn't know is that he isn't even human; he's a sentient humanoid robot who escaped from his creators and had his mind wiped. Harkness is extremely fair-minded. He treats Hangar Deck citizens with the same regard as Upper Deck citizens. As a result, he is very well liked by the Hangar Deck residents."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  621. Fallout Bible 0: "2242 May 15 Enclave sends a coded sequence to Vault 13, activating its central computer and declaring that is time to leave the Vault. Martin Frobisher gathers the Vault dwellers together for tutorial movie."
  622. Fallout Bible 0: "2242 May 16 Less than a day later, Vault 13 is opened, only to be greeted by two Enclave verti-assault squads. The squads kill three of the citizens who were "resisting capture," and storm the Vault, kidnapping all the inhabitants."
  623. Fallout Bible 0: "2242 May 17 Enclave animal handlers drop a Deathclaw unit into Vault 13 from a safe distance to kill anyone investigating the Vault and cloak the Enclave's presence. Other Deathclaws are sent into the desert surrounding Vault 13 to check for any escapees or witnesses."
  624. Fallout Bible 0: "2242 Fall Fallout 2 Ends: The Chosen One enters the Enclave using the damaged tanker and destroys the Poseidon oil platform, killing the President of the United States and ending the Enclave's plans for world domination."
  625. The Courier: "Why did you come all the way out here from New Reno?"
    Bruce Isaac: "You don't know Mr. Bishop. He's not like the other bosses up there. He knows the Wasteland like the back of his hand, and he likes to wander it. I knew if I didn't get way the hell away from New Reno, he'd run me down like a dog."
    (Bruce Isaac's dialogue)
  626. 626.0 626.1 Fallout 2 canon endings for New Reno.
  627. 627.0 627.1 627.2 Fallout 2 cannon ending for Myron
  628. Harold appears in Fallout 3.
  629. Redding is a part of the NCR by 2281 (Fallout: New Vegas).
  630. Fallout 2 canon ending for Broken Hills
  631. Fallout 2 canon ending for Marcus
  632. Fallout Bible 5: "The punks on the tanker also survived, and they had a great view of the Poseidon oil rig exploding. They eventually into an uneasy trading relationship with the Shi after the destruction of the Hubologists, and the two groups went on to make San Francisco a major fishing and trading center."
  633. Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.461: "Important Dates"
    "2246 The boy, now a young man, sets out to explore the wastes as part of a nine-person expedition. He unearths a cache of literature about the ancient Roman Empire and encounters the historical figure of Caesar."
    (Behind the Bright Lights & Big City)
  634. 634.0 634.1 The Lone Wanderer: "So, you used to be a slave?"
    Hannibal Hamlin: "For 23 years I was a slave, ever since I was 14. Six years ago I managed to escape from my master. He's been hunting me ever since. When I found the head of Lincoln here, I knew it was a sign for me to help other slaves to escape. I founded the Temple of the Union as a safe haven for runaway slaves everywhere."
    (Hannibal Hamlin's dialogue)
  635. 635.0 635.1 635.2 Tenpenny Tower terminals; Exploration Database, King Crag
  636. Blackfoot Tribe design document/1 Timeline
  637. Tenpenny Tower terminals; Exploration Database, Blue Destiny Brothel
  638. Tenpenny Tower terminals; Exploration Database, Destiny Chao
  639. The Lone Wanderer: "You don't actually seem that sad. Why do you want to die?"
    Harold: "I've been literally rooted to this spot thanks to Bob for maybe twenty or thirty years... I can't even remember anymore. Can you imagine being stuck in one place for that long not being able to eat or to read or to sleep or anything? In the meantime, I have these Treeminders bothering me every day about things I don't even care about. I can't stand it anymore."
    (Harold's dialogue)
  640. The Lone Wanderer: "Why do you call yourselves Treeminders?"
    Birch: "We care for this place and keep it safe from those who would seek to exploit it. He gives to us, so we give back to Him. It's an arrangement that's worked well for almost two decades. We shun technology and embrace nature. That's the life of a Treeminder."
    (Birch's dialogue)
  641. Tenpenny Tower terminals; Exploration Database, Harmon Jurley
  642. The Adventures of Herbert ‘Daring’ Dashwood and his Ghoul Manservant Argyle
  643. Rollings -- We're done
  644. Tenpenny Tower terminals; Exploration Database, Underworld
  645. The Lone Wanderer: "So, how did you end up here?"
    Poplar: "My father was a healer like myself. He had the most curious books I would read about trees and plants and their medicinal properties. Many years later, I heard a rumor about a place such as this. I spent a decade in search of it. I've been in this wonderful place for over fifteen years now."
    (Poplar's dialogue)
  646. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.100: "The Mechanist (Scott "Bean" Wollinski)
    Forty-year-old Scott "Bean" Wollinski was born to simple bean farmers, raised by his father until he was 15, who then sold him to a caravan merchant hoping he would have a better life. He traveled with the caravans for a few years working as an indentured servant. This is where he got the nickname "Bean," because his purchase was paid for with beans. He eventually bought his freedom and settled down in Canterbury Commons, where he lived a life of solitude, hiding in the electronics store, fiddling around with junk. After the AntAgonizer started showing up, he became the Mechanist to protect the town."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  647. The Lone Wanderer: "Why is that a sore subject?"
    Reginald Rothchild: "Much has happened in the 23 years since we left the west coast. Our mission has changed in that time. The changes have not all been pleasant, and have had significant repercussions."
    (Reginald Rothchild's dialogue)
  648. Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.461: "Important Dates
    "2248-2274 Caesar conquers the tribes of southeastern Utah, southwestern Colorado, the western edge of New Mexico, and the northern half of Arizona. By 2250 he has declared himself the Son of Mars. By 2255, he has established a capital of sorts amid the ruins of Flagstaff."
    (Behind the Bright Lights & Big City)
  649. The Lone Wanderer: "What was the Scourge?"
    Kodiak: "It was a Brotherhood operation. They marched in and swept the place clean. Most of the people there were half-mutated, cancerous, vile things. And these people... rape gangs, torture squads... it was pure chaos there. The Scourge is the best thing that could have happened to it. This was way back, before the Citadel was fortified. Part of the early recon after the Brotherhood first arrived in this area. One night, a squad of Brothers led by Paladin Lyons swept into the city from over Mount Wash, tearing apart anyone who stood against them. They were completely outnumbered. And still they razed that place to the ground."
    (Kodiak's dialogue)
  650. The Lone Wanderer: "What about the Brotherhood's history in this area?"
    Elizabeth Jameson: "We first arrived in the Capital Wasteland in 2255. In those first couple of years, we discovered the Citadel, Super Mutants, and Project Purity! Ah, the purifier. What an undertaking. The work your father and his team did was... amazing. The Brotherhood helped protect them, you know. At least for a little while. But we were stretched thin as it was, even back then. We had to pull our forces out. When we did, the place was overrun. I imagine that's when your father left. I... I'm sorry, I wish things had turned out differently."
    (Elizabeth Jameson's dialogue)
  651. The Lone Wanderer: "Which Order do you serve, Squire Bowditch?"
    Bowditch: "I am Proctor of the Order of the Shield. I oversee the others in my Order, and make sure our defenses are up to snuff. Do you know how long it took to fortify these ruins? From the husk of the Pentagon I carved a grand Citadel! No easy task, my friend! Ah, but that was yesterday, when all we had to worry about was those damn Super Mutants. The Enclave, now... That's a different problem altogether..."
    (Bowditch's dialogue)
  652. Rivet City terminals; Welcome to the Capital Preservation Society, Constitution of the U.S.A.
  653. The Lone Wanderer: "If he was here, then do you know where he went?"
    Madison Li: "Yes, I do. I told him repeatedly that it's too late, that the project is too far gone to be revived. He insisted he can just pick up where we left off 20 years ago, and said he could prove it to me. So he headed off to the old lab. I advised against it, but he went anyway."
    (Madison Li's dialogue)
  654. The Lone Wanderer: "So, you used to be in charge? How did you end up here?"
    Horace Pinkerton: "That lasted until 'bout 18 years ago, when those ambitious backbiters like Li and her little team showed up. She came in with her big "Purity Project" pipe dream, and my whole staff started working with her, those traitors! She even took my seat on the council. By then, I was glad to leave it behind. But hell if I'm leaving the city I made great!"
    (Horace Pinkerton's dialogue)
  655. The Lone Wanderer: "Do you remember a Mister Crowley?"
    Allistair Tenpenny: "The Ghoul? He's dead. Died twenty years ago. Good riddance too. I hate those shufflers."
    (Allistair Tenpenny's dialogue)
  656. Fallout 3 prologue.
  657. The Lone Wanderer: "Why did you stop working on it? What happened?"
    Madison Li: "You happened. It wasn't just you; we had more problems than we could handle already, but your birth is what finally pushed it over the edge. Your father decided that you were more important than everything we'd been working for, and he left. He left all of us. Once he was gone, the Brotherhood decided we weren't worth their time anymore. Without their protection, we had to abandon the purifier."
    (Madison Li's dialogue)
  658. The Lone Wanderer: "You knew my father?"
    Cross: "I did. And you as well! Long ago, I helped guard the water purifier against the Super Mutant horde. When your father left, I escorted the two of you to Megaton. He was... a noble man. I was saddened to hear of his passing. But from what I've heard, he died with honor. He died for you. I only pray that my own death has such meaning."
    (Cross' dialogue)
  659. The Lone Wanderer: "So, you used to be in charge? How did you end up here?"
    Horace Pinkerton: "That lasted until 'bout 18 years ago, when those ambitious backbiters like Li and her little team showed up. She came in with her big "Purity Project" pipe dream, and my whole staff started working with her, those traitors! She even took my seat on the council. By then, I was glad to leave it behind. But hell if I'm leaving the city I made great!"
    (Horace Pinkerton's dialogue)
  660. The Lone Wanderer: "Wait... what? That was pretty articulate for a robot."
    Sawbones: "I am an unusual robot."
    The Lone Wanderer: "Define "unusual.""
    Sawbones: "Seventeen years ago, a generator in the Citadel overloaded, creating several errors in my artificial intelligence routines. Diagnostics indicate that the limiters placed on my pathways were shorted out, allowing me to gain intelligence beyond the scope of my programming. However, the behavior limiters remain. Therefore it is impossible for me to harm human beings intentionally, much to my regret."
    (Sawbones' dialogue (Fallout 3))
  661. Estimated date based on the Fallout 3 Official Game Guide.
  662. 662.0 662.1 The Courier: "Tell me about yourself, Ambassador."
    Dennis Crocker: "Interested in Politics, huh? Well, grab a seat and get comfortable. I've been in politics quite a while now. Always had the drive to do it, even when I was young. It's just something I was drawn to. I started my career over twenty years ago back in the NCR as the local mayor and worked my way up from there. I managed President Kimball's first run for a seat on the Council. I suppose that's why I have this ambassadorship."
    The Courier: "Interesting, go on."
    Dennis Crocker: "I was elected to this post seven years ago. I'm the third NCR representative to serve here in Vegas. Now, I've had my share of ups and downs along the way, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. That's it. Anything else you wished to know?"
    (Dennis Crocker's dialogue)
  663. The Lone Wanderer: "Could I ask you about Rivet City's history?"
    Bannon: "Why, I practically set this whole place up. When I got here twelve years ago, it was just a handful of dead-enders squatting in a rusted-out rowboat. Now I'm on the council, and with my leadership, we're the strongest settlement in the Wastes! Of course, a few of those dead-enders still stick around, but who'd want to leave?"
    The Lone Wanderer: "Hasn't Rivet City been around for longer than twelve years?"
    Bannon: "Well, yes, but it was hardly anyplace of importance until I arrived on the scene. That's all ancient history now. No one would ever care about it. If you insist on wasting your time on that, you could try that bartending old crone down below, Belle Bonny."
    (Bannon's dialogue)
  664. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.83: "Machete
    One of the fiercest defenders Little Lamplight has ever seen, 19-year-old "Machete" earned her nickname at the age of 7, when she killed a Mole Rat in the caves armed only with a knife the size of her arm. Since then, she has been a bona fide celebrity. When she turned 16, she got disoriented in a dust storm and got lost, eventually arriving at Canterbury Commons instead of Big Town. To this day, she refuses to admit that she went to the wrong place. Dominic in particular saw her potential to provide security for the future of the camp, and after a year of his guidance, she's earned a fair amount of respect from the locals."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  665. Railroad HQ terminals: "2266 Nov
    Gathered surviving runners, held an election. I lost, or won, depending on how you look at it. After the HQ massacre, most people simply left the Railroad. Only one person survived HQ, a runner named John D. He called out for volunteers to get some of the old files. No one stepped forward.
    My job is to rebuild the Railroad from scratch. I think where Agamemnon went wrong, is that HQ was known by too many people. I'm theorizing here, but once the Institute hit a safehouse and leaned on anyone the HQ would be easy to find. But how could Agamemnon know just how deadly those damned Coursers are?
    Current count: 13. 0 synths.
    How the hell do we rebuild from here?"
  666. President Kimball's speech at Hoover Dam
  667. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.64: "Caleb Smith
    Caleb is 32 and was born a slave. He escaped eight years ago and joined a Raider band. When he heard about Hannibal and the Temple of the Union, he promptly left the Raiders and joined Hannibal. He is the first of Hannibal's followers and has some experience as a stonecutter. Caleb prefers to use melee weapons but knows his way around guns."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  668. Mojave Outpost Monument plaque:
    "In the year 2271, the Desert Rangers of Nevada and rangers of the New California Republic met at this spot to sign the Ranger Unification Treaty. Under this treaty, the Desert Rangers agreed to be absorbed into the NCR in exchange for NCR's protection of Hoover Dam, New Vegas, and southern Nevada against the forces of Caesar's Legion."
  669. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.68: "Derek Pacion
    Derek is small for a 15-year-old and was raised in Canterbury Commons by Louis Pacion and Daisy Roe, a pair of Traders who met and settled down. But when they were killed in separate Raider attacks on their caravans (six years ago for Daisy and three years ago for Louis), Derek was left to his "Uncle Roe," the town keeper. Since then, Derek's been a quiet and morose child. He works around town as a general assistant, but he doesn't really say much unless it's necessary. He harbors a secret crush on Machete but doesn't have the courage to approach her. He devotes much of his free time to reading Hubris Comics."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  670. Galaxy News Radio: "Good golly, Holly. This is the worst thing to happen to our neighborhood since the HOA instituted their mandatory "scavenged rags" dress code. From Rivet City to downtown D.C., the Enclave is on the scene and setting up shop. Children, I don't care if you've ignored every other word that's come out of my mouth for the past five years. Please. Hear me now, and believe. The Enclave, and that includes their Homecoming King, "President" John Henry Eden and his gorilla Colonel Augustus Autumn, are NOT here to help you. Wake up, children the Enclave have a giant truck full 'o Brahmin, and they've been spoon-feeding you the bullshit. These guys are schemers, crooks, and killers, and the sooner you all realize that and stand up to their oppression, the better. That, my friends, is fighting the good fight."
    (Three Dog's dialogue)
  671. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.93: "Reilly
    Growing up in the ruins of Washington D.C. without parents, Reilly encountered a military man who took her in and taught her everything there was to know about combat, tactics, and survival. When he died 12 years later, she carried his body all the way to Arlington Cemetery, and gave him the best military burial she could. Four years ago at 26, she founded Reilly's Rangers, and began a massive mapping exercise. Currently she has suffered severe wounds and is in a coma somewhere near the Ghoul stronghold of Underworld."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  672. The Courier: "Have you always been with the First Recon?"
    Sterling: "Used to be a Ranger... one of the first they sent out east, back before we took the Dam. Observation and reconnaissance. We took the lay of the land, checked out the locals, and kept ourselves inconspicuous. Couple friends of mine were the first to scout the Dam. That was back in '73, if I recall. Lot of those Rangers are dead now. Vegas always chewed men up... it's just a little more literal, nowadays."
    (Sterling's dialogue)
  673. The Courier: "Why did you leave the Rangers?"
    Sterling: "Well... that wasn't really a matter of choice. Got myself caught by Legionnaires, up near Malpais. They had themselves some fun with me... mangled my hands and feet pretty good. Wasn't much good with a pistol after that. Wasn't gonna be trekking across the waste on any more long scouts, either."
    (Sterling's dialogue)
  674. The Courier: "How did you manage to escape Malpais?"
    Sterling: "Caesar's boys figured I wasn't going anywhere, after what they done to me. So they didn't bother tying me up. I crawled out of there on my elbows and knees. Must have looked a sight. Then I rolled down an embankment into the Colorado. Guess I had a mind to drown, rather than give Caesar's boys the satisfaction of killing me. But a couple Rangers happened to be watching from across the river. They jumped on in and pulled me out of there. Lucky break, they said."
    (Sterling's dialogue)
  675. The Courier: "What are your plans for New Vegas?"
    Robert House: "I've resurrected Vegas, spirit intact. What I need now is the ability to enforce my rightful claim. Not just against Caesar's Legion, by the way. In fact, the NCR is a more present and insidious threat."
    The Courier: "How do you intend to enforce your claim on the city?"
    Robert House: "To enforce, one must have force - a position of strength. Years ago, when I detected NCR scouts roaming the Mojave, I could tell from their uniforms that these were no mere tribesmen. I knew it was only a matter of time before an army appeared, to take control of the dam. And I knew my Securitrons wouldn't be enough to oppose them. And so I recruited the Three Families. Vegas belongs to me because I mustered enough strength to bring the NCR to the bargaining table."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  676. The Courier: "How long were you the head of the family?"
    Benny: "Seven years. Took over three days after Mr. House introduced himself. Our chief at the time, mountain of a guy named Bingo, wanted to stay nomadic. I disagreed, so he challenged me to the knife. He looked so surprised when I stuck that knife in his neck. Thought he was so tough, but he was so slow. That's how I made chief. It's how things were back then."
    (Benny's dialogue)
  677. The Courier: "What was your relationship with Benny... back when he was breathing?"
    Robert House: "Benny was the leader of the Chairmen for seven years, ever since I recruited the tribe. I considered him something of a protege."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  678. The Courier: "Why do you care whether Kimball lives or dies?"
    Robert House: "I care because he is a known quantity - not the man so much as the political context he inhabits. Kimball rose to prominence as the "Hero of the Mojave" when he led a campaign of reprisals against tribals who dared to attack NCR citizens. Ordering the occupation of Hoover Dam was his first act of office. As water and electricity flowed to NCR cities, his popularity soared. Conversely, his failure to annex the Mojave these seven years, and the immense costs of occupying a foreign land, have eroded his popular support."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  679. The Courier: "Wasn't the NCR's army big enough to defeat your Securitrons and the Three Families?"
    Robert House: "Indeed it was - and still is. But not without taking significant casualties. Would Kimball and Oliver have traded the lives of hundreds of soldiers for absolute control of Hoover Dam? Oh yes. They weren't afraid of me, they were afraid of Caesar - that attacking me would leave them vulnerable to a Legion offensive. And so they negotiated. Not out of the kindness of their hearts, as they try to make it seem. Because the calculus of power left no other choice."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  680. The Courier: "What were the terms of your treaty with the NCR?"
    Robert House: "NCR forces were permitted to occupy Hoover Dam and establish a military base at McCarran Airport. Well, it used to be one. They recognized my sovereignty over the Vegas Strip and agreed to supply electricity and water once their engineers repaired the dam. Written into the treaty were provisions that the NCR do nothing to prevent its soldiers and civilians from visiting the Strip. That's how I harnessed the NCR to my endeavor. Their occupation has been the engine of my growing economy."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  681. The Courier: "I'd like to know more about the NCR."
    Dennis Crocker: "I can provide a quick history lesson, if that's what you're looking for. In 2274, President Kimball sent the NCR army into the Mojave in force, with the objective of occupying and repairing Hoover Dam. Rangers and army scouts had confirmed that the dam was basically unoccupied and could be restored to an operable condition. Upon arriving at the dam, however, they discovered that a large force of tribals and robots had occupied it. This was our introduction to the Three Families, the Securitrons, and, of course, Mr. House. Using his Securitrons as intermediaries, Mr. House called for parlay. He claimed his forces had occupied Hoover Dam in order to safeguard it for our arrival. And that he was ready to turn it over to us, so long as we could agree to terms. Those terms became the Treaty of New Vegas. The Treaty recognized Mr. House's sovereignty over the Strip and granted us rights to establish military bases at the Dam and McCarran Airport. The NCR is legally permitted to send 95% of the electricity produced by the dam to our home states. The remaining 5% goes to the Strip. The treaty actually makes it illegal for the NCR to prevent its citizens, or troops on furlough, from visiting the Strip. Once on the Strip, our citizens are subject to arrest - or punishment - by House's Securitrons, though that's a rare occurrence. Our troops enjoy a different status. It's illegal for the Securitrons to take action against them. Of course, it's also illegal for our troops to carry firearms on the Strip, so there isn't much trouble they can get into. Our military police does an adequate job of keeping the troops on furlough in line. I don't envy them that task. The embassy was established a few weeks after the Treaty was signed. Basically Mr. House handed us a dumpy little building he had no interest in renovating. I'm the third ambassador to hold this post. And the first, I think, to accept its limitations. My predecessors had ambitions of engineering the annexation of the Mojave. They thought they'd convince Mr. House to join up. I've never even spoken to the man - or whatever he is. Maybe the situation will change once we've beaten the Legion once and for all."
    The Courier: "Go on."
    Dennis Crocker: "Now we mostly just keep track of the NCR citizens and troopers around and make sure they don't get in trouble, but that's Captain Pappas' job. I keep myself busy with paperwork and reports that get sent back to the NCR. It's mostly busy work, but every once in awhile, we make progress."
    (Dennis Crocker's dialogue)
  682. The Lone Wanderer: "How did you get to be in charge of this place?"
    Robert MacCready: "It's not that complex. Any kid can say they want to be mayor here. It's just that most don't want to bother with the responsibility of leading. Most of the time, they last until the kids get tired of them, then they get kicked out on their ass by the new mayor. One only lasted 5 minutes. Of course, I've kept this place going strong for three years. To most of these kids, that makes me Mayor For Fucking Life. Fine by me, I say."
    (Robert MacCready's dialogue (Fallout 3))
  683. Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.76: "Hannibal Hamlin
    Hamlin is a fanatical Abolitionist, stemming from his 23 years as a slave before he fled his captors. He has spent the last 6 of his 37 years doing everything in his power to help escaped slaves and fight the scourge of slavery. Three years ago, he found Lincoln's head and established the community of Temple of the Union. Each day, Hamlin delivers antislavery speeches to the people of Temple of the Union."
    (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
  684. PIP-Boy 3000 date during the Future Imperfect quest.
  685. The Courier: "Where does New Vegas get all its electricity?"
    Robert House: "Hoover Dam, of course. A hydroelectric dam? The NCR had it up and running at 50% capacity within a year of occupying the dam. By treaty, New Vegas receives 5% of its output - more than enough."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  686. The Lone Wanderer: "Tell me more about the Outcasts."
    Bowditch: "It's a rather sad story, I'm afraid. Last year, some of our soldiers had grave disagreements with the decisions of Elder Lyons. Disagreements spiraled out of control, and there was a schism in the ranks. The loyal soldiers practically threw out the dissenters. Now they call themselves the Outcasts."
    (Bowditch's dialogue)
  687. Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.42: "Freeside
    Las Vegas wasn't heavily damaged during the Great War, but people didn't immediately "settle" into the remnants of the old city. The various Vault tribes that emerged years later, hunted and fought among the ruins, but it was not until the "return" of Mr. House that they ceased (most) of their hostilities. Mr House directed the tribes to use his sizable quantities of pre-war construction materials to build the crude (but effective) outer walls that separate The Strip and Freeside from the rest of New Vegas. While Mr. House valued the area around Fremont Street, he ultimately viewed it as secondary in importance to the Strip itself and he had a second, inner wall that separated the two areas. When NCR prospectors (and eventually the army) arrived in the region, people typically went straight for The Strip, leaving Freeside (as it had become known by locals) as an informal stopping point. Eventually Mr. House recognized that he could use Freeside as a filter for undesirables, and pulled his favored tribes and all Securitrons into the Strip, leaving Freeside to fend for itself.
    In the two years that followed, Freeside has slowly degenerated into a hostile, lawless den of ne'er-do-wells. For a while, it was completely without order, but two power groups managed to come to an understanding about how the area needed to be maintained. The Kings, formed from the dispossessed remnants of unfortunate tribes, prevent all-out chaos from erupting, but do little to deal with the day-to-day nastiness that Freesiders inflict on each other. The Followers of the Apocalypse, no longer associated with the NCR, settled in the Old Mormon Fort. They receive some protection from the Kings in exchange for help with the community's basic needs (food, water, health services, and some education). Despite the oversight from the Kings and help from the Followers, the people in Freeside live in daily peril... from each other as well as outside forces."
    (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide faction profiles)
  688. The Courier: "Tell me about the Kings."
    Gloria Van Graff: "Ah, the "rulers" of Freeside. The Kings are a bunch of boys who refuse to grow up, and this is their playground. Their leader seems different, though. The few times I've dealt with him I've been impressed despite myself. Unfortunately, he rarely acts. The Kings believe that everyone in Freeside can do whatever they want, provided they can back it up with force. Which suits us just fine. When we first arrived in Freeside, the Kings protested when we kicked out the original occupant of this establishment. When we reduced several of their members to glowing puddles of goo, their objections vanished. Since then, we've left each other alone."
    (Gloria Van Graff's dialogue)
  689. The Courier: "Yes, what is the task?"
    Edgar Hardin: "Back when we were stationed at HELIOS, our scouts reported that a group was establishing itself in the area as a distributor of Pre-War weapons. Our Elder at the time, Elijah, was too concerned with getting HELIOS running and fending off the NCR, so he ordered us to leave them alone. It's time that we correct that oversight, and show this region that the Brotherhood is still a force to be reckoned with. I want you to visit these weapons dealers, this Van Graff family, and make an example of them. Leave no one alive. When the job is done, report back and I'll arrange for a team to clean up the site and retrieve the weapons."
    (Edgar Hardin's dialogue)
  690. I'm brilliant!
  691. Rivet City terminals; Pinkerton's Private Computer, Android log 1
  692. Hidden Valley bunker terminals; Terminal
    Note: Schuler has kept a once-a-week log since the end of Operation Sunburst. With the number of logs made, it can be figured out that the log has been going on for five years and the last log is on the anniversary of the battle.
  693. 693.0 693.1 Grayditch terminals; W. Brandice's Terminal
  694. Springvale raider mining log
  695. The Lone Wanderer: "It certainly was an epic piece of work. So, is the final product worth it?"
    Moira Brown: "Oh my... It's brilliant! Even I'm astounded by my genius! No, it's more than that. By OUR genius! I'll share these with the traders, and soon, everyone will know about the Wasteland Survival Guide! But now, the very first copy of our book goes to you. It wouldn't nearly as good without your input. You're the real Wasteland survival guru!"
    (Moira Brown's dialogue)
  696. 696.0 696.1 Afterward
  697. 697.0 697.1 Point Lookout is released after Broken Steel. As the Fallout official site states that Mothership Zeta is "The Vault Dweller's final and most fantastical adventure", this means that the release order of add-ons is the chronological order of Fallout 3 history.
  698. The Courier: "How did Tabitha end up in control?"
    Neil: "For years, Black Mountain was a peaceful community. Its leader, Marcus, broadcast an invitation to Mutants throughout the wasteland. That's how I found Black Mountain. So did others, most of them second generation Mutants. Marcus welcomed everyone - that was his mistake. The community ended up being mostly second gen - not very bright, but easy to influence. Fine, until the Nightkin came along, led by Tabitha... In a week she had most of the second-gens thinking she was some kind of prophet - and that she should be broadcasting her "truth," not Marcus. Marcus saw what was coming and decided to leave before things got out of hand. He smashed the radio and left to found Jacobstown."
    (Neil's dialogue)
  699. The Courier: "Where do you want me to start?"
    Robert House: "Since 2278, I've lost five roaming Securitrons near Hidden Valley. I didn't receive any clear video of the incidents, but telemetry from the units destroyed indicates they were attacked with energy weapons. It's obvious that the Brotherhood has a base in Hidden Valley or thereabouts. Finding it won't be easy, but getting inside will be the real trick."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  700. 700.0 700.1 700.2 Prydwen terminals; Proctor Quinlan's Terminal, The Rise of Elder Maxson
  701. Securitron vault terminals; Vault Status Terminal, Status Log
  702. The Courier: "Jason told me himself. The Great Journey is for ghouls only. You're not going."
    Chris Haversam: "[SUCCEEDED] Oh god! You're telling me the truth, aren't you...? Oh no! How could they do this to me? For two years? My god, I've been a joke to them! Do you have any idea how easy it'd be for me to sabotage those rockets? That'd be a joke, huh? One hell of a joke!"
    (Chris Haversam's dialogue)
  703. The Courier: "Something like that. Are you an NCR soldier?"
    Arms merchant: "Hell, yes sir. Well... not officially. Not anymore. They mustered me out a year ago. Administrative discharge."The Courier: "Administrative discharge? What does that mean?"
    Arms merchant: "It means my C.O. was an asshole, and I told him to eat shit. He ordered me to flog a couple "deserters." Those kids didn't desert. They just got liquored up on the Strip and missed roll call. I don't know what else the brass expects... half these kids don't get more than two weeks of training before they ship 'em out here."
    (Arms merchant's dialogue)
  704. The Courier: "No."
    Craig Boone: "I don't know who you think you're kidding. I've lived here for more than a year. Anyway, I need someone I can trust, and you may be a liar, but you're also a stranger. And that's a start."
    (Craig Boone's dialogue)
  705. The Courier: "I killed the Omertas who were scheming to attack the Strip."
    Caesar: "Months spent feeding the Omertas bribes, nursing their betrayal - all for nothing. Any other crimes?"
    (Caesar's dialogue)
  706. 706.0 706.1 Caesar: "All right, let's state the obvious. There's something wrong with me. The headaches started a couple months ago. They weren't too bad at first... but now they come frequently and they're... debilitating. For the past two weeks, my left leg has been dragging. It's stiffer, hard to move. And you've seen me blank out. Lucius says I stare into space, blink a few times, then keep talking like nothing happened. So what's the diagnosis?"
    (Caesar's dialogue)
  707. The Courier: "Where was your caravan hit?"
    Rose of Sharon Cassidy: "Up side of Vegas, hear tell. Trapped at the Mojave Outpost, so I wasn't able to run there when I heard. Been weeks since it was hit, so the site's probably a Cazador nest by now."
    (Rose of Sharon Cassidy's dialogue)
  708. The Courier: "Who are you?"
    Michelle Kerr: "Name's Michelle. My Dad and me run this store. His name's Samuel. I take the day shift and he takes nights. We came here about a month ago when Primm went to hell on account of the prison break north of there. Found a bin to call home and set up shop."
    (Michelle Kerr's dialogue)
  709. Caesar: "Weeks were spent convincing the Great Khans to join the Legion, but you've ruined all that. Haven't you?"
    (Caesar's dialogue)
  710. Bill of Sale
  711. The Courier: "You're hiding something. Spit it out. You owe me."
    Craig Boone: "She... I tracked her down. Southeast, near the river. They were selling her. Saw it through my scope. Whole place swarming with Legion. Hundreds of them. Bidding for things no man has a right to. I just had my rifle with me. Just me, against all of them, so... I took the shot."
    (Craig Boone's dialogue)
  712. The Courier: "Better for her to die than live a Legion slave."
    Craig Boone: "Yeah. What they do to women... that's worse than death. There was no choice in what I did. It was more like... being forced to watch something you can't stop. All this was only ever going to play out one way. It still is. I don't have any say. All I can do is wait for it to be done with me."
    (Craig Boone's dialogue)
  713. The Courier: "You should've tried to rescue her. Even if it meant your death."
    Craig Boone: "There was never any saving her. They'd have taken her where I couldn't follow. What I did... that was the only rescue."
    The Courier: "You had no right to make that decision."
    Craig Boone: "There was no decision. I was meant to pull that trigger. It was a mistake to think I could escape it. You take out a debt, it's only a matter of time before someone comes collecting. Things just finally caught up with me."
    (Craig Boone's dialogue)
  714. Mr. New Vegas: "The Black Mountain radio signal is back after a long absence. Listeners say the new programming is, quote, less for outcasts, more for weirdos."
    (Mr. New Vegas' dialogue)
  715. The Courier: "But how did Tabitha find you in the first place?"
    Raul Tejada: "Ah, it's stupid, boss. I used to listen to the radio broadcasts, just to pass the time. Well, one day the signal stops, so I figured I'd try to find transmitter. I'm a pretty good repairman, or I was before the eyes started to go. Anyway, I found Black Mountain and offered my services, but Tabitha decided I was useful enough to keep around. Permanently."
    (Raul Tejada's dialogue)
  716. The Courier: "Where'd the Deathclaws come from?"
    Chomps Lewis: "They moved into the quarry after the Powder Gangers came through and made off with most of our dynamite. We shut the quarry down while we waited for the NCR to get us some more blasting sticks, but now the Deathclaws have shown up. The NCR's a no-show, and my men and I have got nothing to do but sit on our asses all day. It's damn frustrating."
    (Chomps Lewis' dialogue)
  717. Ulysses Log Y-17.22
  718. The Courier: "I came here with the Happy Trails Caravan Company to make contact with the New Canaanites."
    Joshua Graham: "Happy Trails. I remember. They were good friends. I have bad news for your employers. New Canaan was destroyed, its citizens scattered. All because of the White Legs. And Caesar, of course. The White Legs want to join the Legion. Caesar's rite of passage is the destruction of the New Canaanites, almost assuredly because of me. The good news is that we can help you find your way back. Daniel, one of the other New Canaanites, has made many maps of the region. The bad news is that we can't help you right now. Not with everything that's going on."
    (Joshua Graham's dialogue)
  719. All Roads
  720. Fallout: New Vegas intro.
  721. Doc Doc Mithcel: "Whoa, easy there. Easy. You been out cold a couple of days now."
    (Mitchell's dialogue (Goodsprings))
  722. The Courier: "I overheard your argument. What was that all about?"
    Trudy: "It looks like our little town got itself dragged into the middle of something we don't want anything to do with. About a week ago, this trader, Ringo, comes into town. Survivor of an attack, he says. Bad men after him, needs a place to hide. We figured he was just in shock, so we gave him a place to lie low. We didn't actually expect anyone to come after him."
    (Trudy's dialogue)
  723. Ain't That a Kick in the Head
  724. Dead Money
  725. Honest Hearts
  726. Old World Blues
  727. Lonesome Road
  728. The Sole Survivor: "You sure Ingram knows what she's doing?"
    Arthur Maxson: "Proctor Ingram's managed to keep a 40,000 ton airship aloft for the past five years. I'd say that earns her the benefit of the doubt."
    (Arthur Maxson's dialogue (Fallout 4))
  729. The Synthetic Truth: "There aren't many among us who are even old enough to remember that evening - although some of the city's Ghoul residents certainly could have, had they not been forcibly removed, thanks to Mayor McDonough's anti-Ghoul decree of 2282."
  730. Railroad HQ terminals: "2283
    One word: PATRIOT.
    Our second package of the year was different from the start. Didn't behave lost. Ran in a straight line to Diamond City. Old Man Stockton caught her before she caused too many waves. She wasn't supposed to be on the work detail and had a care package: a map, instructions, and a coded holotape. Tom's been useless all year trying to decode the damned thing.
    Third package went straight to Diamond City again. Set up Old Man Stockton as the gatekeeper. Then a fourth came in after a week. All with care packages. All with more codes. Someone on the inside is helping us. Code-name PATRIOT.
    All told 5 escapees this year."
  731. Lost Patrol
  732. Railroad HQ terminals: "2284
    An incredible year. Everything's coming together. Tom broke PATRIOT's code, said it was designed to be broken (whatever that means). Just two words, "Mass Fusion." Sent some recon there and found nothing. Found out later why.
    PAM's been trying to find the location of the Institute in earnest. Failing. Deacon's convinced the solution lies in the past, not future. Deacon already knows the big secret - we know nothing about the Railroad before Wyatt was in charge (or is Deacon Johnny D???).
    Deacon's been digging into Institute sightings from years, even decades before. Or at least, that's what he says. Getting really tired of all his lies.
    Coursers caught Package 7. Almost nailed Old Man Stockton, too. One of our scouts found Package 8 heading to Mass Fusion. The coded message he carried was another location, Prospect Hill.
    8 escapees this year, 1 loss, 1 reclaimed."
  733. University Point terminals; Jacq's Terminal, Score!
  734. [[University Point terminals#[POwens] - The girl has to go|University Point terminals; [POwens] - The girl has to go]]
  735. Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.518-519: "[18.09] UNIVERSITY POINT
    This once-thriving settlement was built into the ruins of the old university. Approximately one year before current events, synths from the Institute wiped this trading post off the map after a disagreement regarding classified research. An explosion in the service tunnels under Sedgwick Hall killed many, released a large amount of radioactive material, and caused the building to partly collapse."
    (Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
  736. The Institute terminals; Terminal, 2286.4.10
  737. Nisha's holotape, Entiris 3 and 4
  738. Croup Manor terminals; Theodore's Personal Terminal, Journal Entry: Who cares?!?
    Note: His corpse is lying on the floor of the locked basement.
  739. Out of Time
  740. Prydwen terminals; Captain Kell's Terminal, Maxon MX-001E CP-05
  741. Automatron
  742. Far Harbor
  743. Nuka-World
  744. The Courier: "NCR has a food shortage?"
    Thomas Hildern: "Not yet. But our government understands the value of proactive thought. Our studies project an imbalance between production and consumption. Or, for a layman such as yourself - not enough food, too many mouths to feed. Mass starvation. In a decade or so."
    (Thomas Hildern's dialogue)
  745. 745.0 745.1 745.2 Courier: "Say you keep control of New Vegas. What happens next?"
    Robert House: "New Vegas is more than a city - it's the remedy to mankind's derailment. The city's economy is a blast furnace in which can be forged the steel of a new rail line, running straight to a new horizon. What is the NCR? A society of people desperate to experience comfort, ease, luxury... A society of customers. With all that money pouring in? Give me 20 years, and I'll reignite the high technology development sectors. 50 years, and I'll have people in orbit. 100 years, and my colony ships will be heading for the stars, to search for planets unpolluted by the wrath and folly of a bygone generation."
    (Robert House's dialogue)
  746. Old World Blues endings#Blind Diode Jefferson
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