#Major cities in fallout 3 series

However, the government had a much more insidious agenda at work. They were marketed to the public as sort of an insurance policy against the possibility of nuclear war. These 122 self-sufficient facilities, called vaults, could house up to a thousand people eachВ for hundreds of years if necessary. TheВ United States government, foreseeing what the escalationВ of these warsВ would likely bring about, put a massive fail-safe planВ into motion.В In 2054, they commissioned a company called theВ Vault-Tec Corporation to create a number of underground bunkers that could withstand a nuclear blast. Notable events during this era include the collapse of the United Nations, the US annexing Canada, and a Chinese invasion of Alaska (which we saw a bit of in some Fallout 3 DLC).

#Major cities in fallout 3 series

Europe responded with military action, kicking off a series of conflicts called the Resource Wars, which eventually drew in the major superpowers at the time: theВ United States, Russia, and China. In 2052, the Middle East began to raise its oil prices in response to the shortage, putting a stranglehold on the European Commonwealth, which was nearly entirely dependent on imports from that region. By 2050, fossil fuel supplies around the world were nearly exhausted. The story of Fallout really gets going overВ century later. For whatever reason, while technology continued to advance, thisВ aesthetic reallyВ stuck around, creating a sort of retro-futurism vibe well into the 21st century. Instead, we became infatuated with analog tech, and the sci-fi ideas of the 1940s and 50 (ie the sort of stuff that you would have seen in Walt DisneyвЂ™s original vision of Tomorrowland). In FalloutВ though, computers (and microtechnology in particular)В never really caught on. This eventually led to things like personal computers, the internet, and of course, smart phones. In our world, computer technology became a key area of development following the war,В taking a massive leap forward in the 1970s. The world of FalloutВ is a lot like ours, but with a timeline that diverges following World War II. Why do peopleВ talk like theyвЂ™re in the 50s, when the bombs dropped in 2077? Why are there robots, but no cell phones? Where did all of these vaults come from, and what in the heck is a supermutant? DonвЂ™t worry, weвЂ™ve got you covered. If youвЂ™re not a FalloutВ superfan, a lot about that seriesвЂ™ universe and aesthetics might seem reallyвЂ¦ odd.