» Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:06 am
Florida, a Client State of the Empire [a possible Louisiana or maybe even Puerto Rico base military state engaged in a long and losing war with the Enclave] where you play a member of the new Ambassador's/Governor's staff who arrives in the peninsular just in time for a bloody rebellion, an enclave F.E.V. bombing campaign and as the central plot, the discovery of a Super-Weapon in Space that can be controlled if only a rocket with the right activation equipment can be launched into space. And so the race begins to complete repairs on the Cape Canaveral launch site which was badly damaged by the war and subsequent abandonment to use one of the three rockets that are still in a fixable state to set the signal satellite into the sky and blow the enclave and/or empire from the face of the earth with an experimental giant space laser.
Maybe in the middle on the great plains, struggling settlements surrounded by the horse and occasional truck nomads of the empty land with the Traveller [player] the deciding factor in what type of society will the the future of the plains.
Victoria in B.C., maybe the whole of Vancouver Island could be the map with brief crossings to the irradiated ruins of Vancouver city [during the day with the boat leaving before night fall as with darkness the city is overrun with Ghouls and other monsters]. As the new Kingdom of B.C. struggles to maintain itself following the disputed election of its second Governor-General following the suspicious death of the nations founder, rumours of monsters and unimaginable beasts have started to spread from the north of the island and the a swarm of mysterious monsters beneath the water have effectively cut the island off from all mainland trade and assistance, sinking and devouring all ships they come across, a stranger washes up on the beach and shows the sort of spirit that can make a man a hero or a king who is drawn into the chaos of the new states first civil war and its surprising invasion of mutated monsters and their mad scientist emperor who would rule the world.
An undisclosed location along the Mississippi river which is as deadly and poisoned as a river could be seen to be as in 'the Pitt', where a number of different new cities in the loose trading confederation, the Alliance of Free Cities, with two great cities, one ruled by a scientific elite who though controlled marriages and fertility techniques have built a caste society with a mutated stream of humans who claim their lineage from a post-war hero at the top all the way down to mutated people at the bottom in a slave caste.
Who are locked in a cold war with a City of Ghouls on the edge of the river with criss-crossed trenches in-between them and tensions rising towards war or even, Nuclear War as things are being escalated in secret by Enclave agents who are trying to get these two city-states into not just blowing up each up [which they will do anyway] but blowing up all the other cities as well as the Enclave attempts to destroy and discredit the new civilisations that are developing in America so that they can claim the restoration of society and civilisation once they get around to it.
[this would also be a plot theme in the first idea, and maybe the ones in the middle too as its sort of a series plot more than a single game one]
And with the game ending as the two cities blow each other to smithereens.
A Vault on a grand scale built to house an entire city load of people but the damage of the War to the land above cut off all routes to the surface trapping them beneath the earth forever! Eventually tunnelling into vast underground caverns while building extensions in the lower levels, they use the G.E.C.K.s to create a new world under the earth and thinking themselves the last humans alive in the world set about the creation of a new world. Eventually splintering into different factions and as they titter on the edge of their first war, a Stranger from the world above falls from above into the Great Waterway and changes their society forever!