Last week, another bombshell was dropped with the arrival of Amazon's Fallout TV series. That's the possible truth behind a mystery in a video game that hasn't been answered for over 25 years. Before reading further, please keep the following in mind: Spoilers for the Season 1 finale of the Fallout TV show are below!
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Since the release of the first Fallout in 1997, who's responsible for turning North America (and the rest of the world) into a dusty, radioactive wasteland inhabited by super mutants, rusty robots, and giant cockroaches? It was never clear what was going on. Developers and fans of the series can't completely agree, with Fallout's original developer Tim Kaine stating that China was the first to launch a nuclear weapon, while others have argued that the game was the first time the United States had developed a nuclear weapon. The finger on the button trigger was interpreted as suggesting that it did.
Some of the conflicting lore comes from the evolution of the series itself over the years, and since Kane himself hasn't been involved since Fallout 3, there's some wiggle room when applying that theory to more recent first-person works. there is.
But now it seems like a definitive answer may be at hand. The insanely awesome Fallout TV series is officially considered canon in video game continuity by Bethesda – yes, even New Vegas, despite what you've heard – when the bombshell was dropped first. It's been over 200 years since then, and it happened just a short time ago. It takes place 10 years after Fallout 4, albeit in a different part of America.
As such, the Fallout TV adaptation removes a pretty significant piece of the series' overall lore in its final episode during a flashback to a pre-Wasteland era (thank you, Eurogamer). Cooper Howard, who has not yet been turned into a ghoul, is listening in on a meeting between Barb, the wife of a Vault-Tec executive, and the upper echelons of the ubiquitous company, and discovers that Barb is “dropping bombs on their own.” I hear him suggesting that Vault is the ideal way to guarantee revenue for his business. .
“A nuclear accident is a tragedy, but it's also an opportunity,” Barb explains in her delightfully wicked way. “This is probably the greatest chance in history, because if we're the only ones left, there's no one left to fight. It's a real monopoly.” (Although he dropped the line, this may have had a deeper impact on the series as a whole.)
So it turns out Vault-Tec is at least getting closer to the answer to “Who dropped the bomb?” And given the strong implications and dramatic composition of this scene, they might have decided to speed towards the end of the world to increase stock prices (or at least get into the fray once the missiles fall). may have decided to join).
It looks like Fallout's second season is already in production (if not official) and will be cramming in even more elements from the game, so perhaps we'll get a more definitive answer and we'll see Vault-Tec in the near future. plans will be considered. In hindsight, it definitely seems like Vault-Tec itself is responsible for setting the stage for radiation throughout the Fallout series.