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Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games created by Interplay Entertainment, currently owned by Bethesda Softworks. The franchise's timeline stretches from pre-War years, to the "future of the fifties," to the decades following the destruction of the earth by nuclear war.[Dev 1] With the goal of exploring ideas revolving around a futuristic, post-nuclear world, the game setting exists on an alternate timeline.[Dev 2] This timeline was home to a world where technology progressed quickly while maintaining the cultural norms of the mid-century.[1][Pub 1][Pub 2][Pub 3]
A worldwide shortage of resources[2] such as petroleum and uranium[3] led to a series of conflicts between the United States, Canada, China, and European powers that were known as the Resource Wars. These conflicts culminated in the breakdown of the United Nations[4] and deployment of nuclear missiles at and by the United States, a global nuclear event known as the Great War.
-Rip Daring[6]
Ring a Ding Ding! | Date | Event |
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| July | The issue of Backwoodsman titled Art of the Tomahawk is released. |
| 1776 July 4 | The Declaration of Independence is issued, splitting the newly formed United States from King George III and Great Britain. |
| 2076 July 4 | Vault 76 is completed for the United States Tricentennial. |
| 2077 July 4 | Lake Quannapowitt contaminated lake water causes a medical crisis at a fishing tournament and is closed to the public. |
| 2096 July 6 | Dr. Claire Hudson arrives at AVR Medical Center, and begins work on a vaccine for the Scorched Plague. |
| 1769 July 8 | Thomas Webb dies and is buried in the Old Granary Burying Ground. |
| 1890 July 14 | The Legal Tender Act is passed. |
| 2072 July 14 | Five Army deserters from Vault 79 are executed by authorities at the Ultra-Luxe Casino in Las Vegas. |
| 1969 July 16 | The Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 becomes the first manned space vehicle to touch down on the Moon. |
| 2093 July 20 | Camp Venture is abandoned by the Brotherhood of Steel to focus on Fort Defiance and the Thunder Mountain Power Plant. |
| 1948 July 21 | A B-29 airplane crashes into Lake Mead. |
| 2052 July 26 | The United Nations disbands after failing to broker a cease-fire between European and Middle Eastern forces. |
| 2291 July 26 | Wendy Y. Clark celebrates her wedding in Vault 33. |
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- ↑ "The World awaited Armageddon; instead, something miraculous happened. We began to use atomic energy not as a weapon, but as a nearly limitless source of power.
People enjoyed luxuries once thought the realm of science fiction. Domestic robots, fusion-powered cars, portable computers."
(Fallout 4 Intro) - ↑ "But then, in the 21st century, people awoke from the American dream.
Years of consumption lead to shortages of every major resource. The entire world unraveled. Peace became a distant memory. "
(Fallout 4 Intro) - ↑
"In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium."
(Fallout Intro) - ↑ Capitol Post Terminal Entries, "United Nations Disbanded!"
- ↑ Citadel Terminal Entries; Vault 112
- ↑ Rip Daring and the Cryptid Hunt (radio play)
- ↑ Fallout 3 manual p. 2: "Fallout 3 presents a much grimmer reality. Imagine if, after World War II, the timeline had split. Our world forked into one branch, the Fallout universe the other. In that other branch, technology progressed at a much more impressive rate, while American society remained locked in the cultural norms of the 1950's. It was an idyllic “"world of tomorrow," filled with servant robots, beehive hairdos, and fusion-powered cars. And then in the year 2077, at the climax of a long-running war with China, it all went to hell in a globe-shattering nuclear war."
- ↑ Fallout 3 manual p. 2: "Nuclear war. The very words conjure images of mushroom clouds, gas masks, and bewildered children ducking and covering under their school desks. But it's the aftermath of such a conflict that truly captures our imaginations, in large part because there’s no real-world equivalent we can relate to. Mankind may have witnessed the horror of the atomic bomb, but thankfully we’ve somehow succeeded in not blowing up the entire planet. At least, not yet."
- ↑ Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Manual p. 2: "In a future not far removed from our own, a world filled with marvel and wonder is shaken to its very foundations by the greed and destruction of mankind."
- ↑ Leonard Boyarsky: "As Art Director, I was responsible for the look and mood of the game (as far as visuals were concerned). I came up with the idea of the “future of the fifties” setting, and had to convince everyone that that was the way to go. I also came up with the idea/design for the “Vault Boy” and the “cards” (as I called them) showing him doing all the different things in humorous ways. By the way, he’s not the Pip Boy, the Pip Boy is the little guy on your Pip Boy interface. The Vault Boy was supposed to evoke the feel of Monopoly cards, and the Pip Boy was based on the Bob’s Big Boy mascot."
(Leonard Boyarsky; Fallout Developers Profile) - ↑ Tim Cain: "My idea is to explore more of the world and more of the ethics of a post-nuclear world, not to make a better plasma gun."
(Chat with Tim Cain; March 9th, 2002)
