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Season 25: Appalachia Under Siege dropps June 2, 2026!
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.
· ... Dealing with Contreras is one of the only quests in Fallout: New Vegas that has a level requirement? It will not be offered unless the player is at or above level 12.[5]
-Sergeant Benjamin Montgomery[6]
Ring a Ding Ding! | Date | Event |
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| May | The issue of Backwoodsman titled Home in the Hills is released. |
| 1861 May | Colonel Kelley receives a promotion to lead the 1st West Virginia. |
| 2061 May | Construction of Vault 92 begins. |
| 2066 May | Construction of Vault 87 begins. |
| 2229 May | The Broken Mask Incident occurs in Diamond City. |
| 2050 May 1 | The Nuka-World amusement park opens, featuring its first two attractions, Nuka-Town U.S.A. and Kiddie Kingdom. |
| 2077 May 2 | Quinton Geesey publishes an opinion editorial praising the full automation of Grafton Dam and urges Grafton citizens to cease protesting the widespread automation of their jobs. |
| 2062 May 3 | A U.F.O. codenamed "Paladine" crashes just north of Hagerstown, Maryland, but could not be recovered. |
| 2088 May 3 | The Brotherhood of Steel establishes a camp at Big Bend Tunnel East. |
| 1961 May 5 | Captain Carl Bell becomes the first human in space aboard Defiance 7. |
| 1908 May 10 | Mother's Day is first celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia. |
| 1950 May 15 | The West Virginian Liberty Bell is taken on the United States Savings Bonds Independence Drive tour. |
| 1697 May 17 | Andrew Endicott is abducted by aliens from his home in Salem. |
| 2077 May 23 | A week after an assassination attempt, mob boss Louie Trevisani starts planning to put in secret passages throughout his home, Shroud Manor. |
| 2075 May 27 | The Whitespring publishes a press release announcing the Whitespring 2080 Initiative, a major five-year renovation project. |
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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!"
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- ↑ Sergeant Benjamin Montgomery/Dialogue#26
- ↑ 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)