5 Misconceptions About Fallout's Great War

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"Vault tec didn't start the great war" Amazon: let me get my beer

Raul mentions the hell of surviving right after the bombs dropped. There was definitely still a lot of people alive after the strikes.

Based on terminal entries in vault 19 that vault was occupied pre-war as a psychiatric hospital. One terminal entry talks about an individual arriving in police custody.

I like to imagine that Nukes in Fallout aren’t normal Nukes because if they were then we would see more nature in Fallout games

One thing I liked about F4 was it showed the downfall wasn't like flicking a light switch, one second pre-war civilization and the second Fallout/Mad Max. Society and government actually survived for a good long while before succumbing to multiple crises. Kind of like Rome. People think 476, but for the people living then life pretty much continued as normal for a while, hell even the Senate continued to exist and meet. It was a very gradual process that occurred over generations.

One thing I've never thought about regarding the war, is the American forces overseas fighting. U.S. probably had soldiers near China when the bombs fell. Makes me wonder, what happened to them? Fallout 2 had the "Shi", Chinese submariners that integrated into San Francisco. Think there's a faction over there with U.S. troops integrating into post-war China?

In Fallout lore the US annexed Canada and Mexico during the resource wars, so neither country really existed at the time the nukes fell.

#5) This actually explains to me why Vault Tech had so many twisted experiments and more importantly, HOW they expected to learn the results. It really never made sense to me that Vault Tech set all this up ahead of the war to then be unable to make use of the data.

Not just that, but why would Vault-Tech start the Great War before all of their vaults are finished? Vault 114 and 88 was still under construction, so even if they wanted war, they would wait until everything was completely ready.

I like to think that dogmeat lauched the nuke, but he set it on a TIMER. And he had time to hide while it was on the timer. That's how he survived. Idk how he traveled that far tho.

PAM starting the war makes most sense to me. It's the closest to reality (in 1983, the US and USSR almost went to war when a Soviet computer misidentified a 'threat' from the US, and went into retaliatory mode, but was overruled by a lieutenant colonel, Stanislav Petrov, who predicted it was a false alarm; he was later proved right as the computer had misidentified thick, reflective clouds as nuclear weapons, his quick thinking and empathy saved up to half the population in both countries). I think PAM is a reference to this computer, but she had no one to overrule her.

Regarding #4, I've always felt that the real answer to whether the USA, China, corporate interests or another nation started the war is "they all did". Sure, some individual had to have launched the very first bomb on 23/10/77. But decades (if not centuries) of competition over control of resources, mutual escalation, and insatiable desire for more power and more growth by those already powerful and wealthy were the real causes of the war. Someone pushing a button was simply the moment all of that led up to. To give a firm answer on whether that finger belonged to an American general, a Chinese general or a Vault-Tec executive is to miss the point of the game that it could just as easily have been any of them.

Y'know I used to think that, within the context of fallout universe, that becoming a feral ghoul would be the absolute worst fate one could face, but no Mr bradburtons Fate put that to shame. I guess I never thought about it until I heard you actually speak aloud about him being stuck, alone, in his cold dark office for TWO CENTURIES. I mean just imagine being in that situation, even just for the first few days, knowing how very very unlikely it is that anyone will find you, and that you're likely to just languish there... Forever. Then imagine once you've done the first 100 years, all that endless time to think and nothing but more time ahead. And you're only an immortal head, so you don't even have the capacity to unalive yourself, if you so chose. Purely miserable, my god.

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About china launching frist, there is a terminal entry in fallout new Vegas at black mountain that says the facility picked up Chinese launches, "china was lighting up" "they really did it" are the only two lines I remember from the entry. Also the shi emperor recorded that launch orders were given by Beijing. Granted it's unclear if those orders were given in response to a nuclear attack from the US. But the captain of the Chinese sub said something along the lines of the leadership having gone mad.

On the fifth idea, it would not be hard for Vault Tech to get people to volunteer to go into the vault without fallout. The fear that people must have head of the pending war would have had several people willing to go into the vault early just for that peace of mind.

#4 Honestly, the first theory makes the most sense out of all of them. The US had started invading the Chinese mainland. Launching nukes would be equivalent to flipping a table because they were in check in a high stakes chess match. Dramatic, but potentially reasonable on some crazy level.

I think the only issue i have with the last one is that Vault Tec has deep connections with The Enclave. And, The Enclave has clear ideological reasons for the things they do, not to make money.

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