» Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:41 pm
I actually like NCR. I remember back when they were first mentioned back in the endings of Fallout1 (I mastered Fallout1, 2, and Tactics awesome styles and got perfect playthroughs and perfect endings on all of them: all good endings, no bad endings) and when they were the biggest faction in Fallout2 back when Tandi was still president. My favorite is still Enclave though. Their goal in Fallout2 was pretty screwed up but in Fallout3 they were technically good guys. Eden was evil because he wanted to use the Modified F.E.V. to kill off all mutations which was the ultimate goal of Richardson and the Enclave in Fallout2 but they planned on using a bomber to release an airborne version. They would've done it too if it wasn't for that meddling Chosen One. In Fallout3 Eden was stupid but Colonel Autumn was actually intelligent and a good guy. He had no plans on using the F.E.V. and he had the shutdown codes to Eden that he was going to use. His plans were good, he wanted to take over Project Purity to unite the wasteland back under the U.S. government (which the Enclave really was). The Brotherhood of Steel is actually the bad guys because they defected from the U.S. military and stole equipment days before the nukes hit. The whole story of the two hour war is that the two hour war was the time of the nukes flying back and forth. There was another war before that. The Chinese invasion of Anchorage, the annex of Canada, the push back of Anchorage (where the U.S. military successfully pushed the Chinese forces out of Alaska), and finally the march into China. America airdropped [censored]-loads of T-51b Power Armored troops into China where they marched through the country leveling it. The American forces were suffering minimal casualties as the Chinese were dropping like flies. When they started marching into China, the Chinese panicked and launched the first nukes. America retaliated with nukes. America was partially destroyed while large portions of the populace successfully made into Vaults, other fallout shelters, and many survived the nukes just by makeshift cover. That's why throughout all of the Fallout games there are literally tons of survivors roaming around. Although when China was hit by the retaliation nukes they were completed decimated and the entire country was reduced to a smoldering crater. You learn all of this throughout Fallout1&2.