And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.Ī few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults.
In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Meaningful to the people involved, but like everything else, it'll dissolve into corruption and then nothingness.ĭon't mean to be depressing here I was just curious about what everyone else had to think about this. I think it'll play into Fallout 4 because the story will be another struggle. "War does not determine who is right, only who is left." It was a joke made by Wadsworth in Fallout 3, but I don't think any phrase has rung truer regarding the Fallout universe than that one. That struggle will then be succeeded by another struggle, and that by another, and so on, with all of them going on in a background of meaninglessness. What "war, war never changes" means to me is that there will always be some sort of struggle, and that struggle will always have a conclusion. Caesar's Legion would probably collapse without Caesar there to lead it. A great example is the degradation of the NCR into the same state of corruption as the U.S. No matter what great things "chosen ones" do, they end up becoming corrupted/perverted by human nature and ultimately undermine themselves. Some form of contextualized morality seems to exist, but other than that, the world itself seems utterly devoid of meaning. To me, Fallout seems to be borderline nihilistic in the sense that history-and, indeed, life in general-has no purposeful progression or meaning.
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