Avellone and co. have confirmed in the past that the Courier does NOT have amnesia.



The Courier could very well be Enclave in the sense that he was born into it and he's pure strain, but perhaps something happened when he was very young that seperated him from them. Thus, he doesn't know where he's from.

My personal theory was that it was some kind of device an Enclave high command had during their time in Navarro and survived it's fall. I always thought the said high up had the device to one day make a final 'screw you' to NCR, and didnt know of the Divide, and simply remembered it is as 'the derilect Hopeville Army Base' or something.

Kind of disappointed that there's a given story about who sent it and why, I kind of liked the mystique it invoked.

Maybe it's the "Football", the case that holds the POTUS's nuclear launch codes. If not patched into a satellite network it only works when close to a functioning transmitter/receiver from a silo. As paranoid as the US Gov't was in the Fallout universe I could see them building one that let the POTUS launch automatically rather than relay launch orders through Site R like IRL. The POTUS in 2077 was in the Enclave, he would have taken it with him when he left Washington. After the Great War it was considered of no use and ended up in Navarro where it was captured by NCR.

I cannot describe how horrifically beautiful this reply was to read, kinda like the Enclave's first "kill em' all" plot.

As for the silo thing: Most IRL nuclear missiles need to be subjected to certain amounts of G-forces before they even CAN detonate, so if they were launched with the Silo doors closed....well, the missiles would make wrecks of their own silos, but they wouldn't perform a thermonuclear detonation. Furthermore, nuclear warheads(with the exception of nuclear torpedoes and apparently the Fat Man) are not usually contact detonation affairs. Instead, nuclear missiles are designed to detonate at altitude, to level relatively unprotected cities. The only time nuclear missiles detonate at ground level is to destroy silos.

If you look at the pattern of destruction in FO, FO2, and FO3, it seems to support most missiles and bombs detonating at altitude instead of on contact.

Therefore, the device either had the silos modify the missiles to be contact-detonating, always-armed, and then started firing them off....or it armed the missiles and just detonated them.

-Nukeknockout

Just what I expected from NCR.

Possible glimpse into the future.....if the NCR were to control the area. :spotted owl:

Ulysses mostly talks about how you're travels sort forged the way for people to settle.
A lot of your involvement is implied to be as part of your courier job.

It does leave some room for RP interpretation, though the lack of acknowledging having traveled this route comes across as amnesic or apathetic.