I?ve got a question about fallout 3?s timeline, I wonder if any of you ever thought of this:

... how come the story takes place 200 years after the nuclear war if the main character?s father and dr Li once knew the world outside (and they are still alive)?

-I state this cause at some point of the story dr li tells you that she and my father were working on this project ?purity? until mom dies and main character is born , that?s the reason father gives up on project purity or whatever and enters the vault with main character)


Plus theres a reference in which Li says that ?my father? has gone to the old laboratory ( making logical to me that they worked on that laboratory before the nuclear conflict)

SO... how come it?s been 200 years inside the vault ... are the main characters father and Li like 250 years old? (hes always referred as someone in his mid 50?s tho lol .)

Plus. whats up with the 50s theme , dont get me wrong I LOVE it , but if the bombs exploded in 2077 what happend from 1950 til 2077? :/

Here's a spoiler for you. Select the text and read the spoiler if you don't bother hearing a spoiler regarding your question:



Listening to holotapes, and closely listening to people's speech will uncover the story, too.
The fact is revealed, in fact, in your 10th birthday, by Ol' Lady Palmer.

so he was born in the wasteland like after the nuclear conflict and then he entered the vault ? thanks so much i hadnt thought about that :goodjob:

He is like any other ~35 year old man. Nobody knows where he was born, likely in Rivet City, or even Commonwealth or EVEN midwest, but holotapes found during Trouble on Homefront quest reveals him being allowed to enter Vault 101 by Almodovar.

I don't think he was born in Rivet City, Li and the others talk about when they founded the city right? With James most likely. So none of them came from Rivet City, but they must of come from 'somewhere' important because they're all very intelligent and that hints to either Vault education (I doubt they were from a Vault) or a very good start in life somewhere safe (no-where in DC I guess). So maybe the commonwealth is a good assumption

As for the original posters question about 1950's. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Divergence. You can call it Retro-Futurism though

Also, http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline.

Ye, I myself, too, doubt Rivet City but "Commonwealth" is unknown for many players.
I think Commo is the best choise, since Zimmer, obviously from there too possesses such technology and education..
I wonder why the Enclave isn't ripping their ass to get control of the Commonwealth. Or do they already? Well, thats another thread.

Because they're mutants who need to be dealt with, just like those Vault City and NCR freaks. They're UNAMERICAN!

Well, they could walk thru the wastes, design a new armor model, conquer and rebuild a base, manufacture 100+ Vertibirds and breed thousands of people in 30 years, so I guess they could spare some resources.

I'm just curious as to the extent of the commonwealth. Bethesda have made a clear enough nod at their presence, it wouldn't surprise me if they were included more substantially in a future sequel/update.

I'm confused about this 'Commonwealth'. In the alternate history thingie, there were 13 "Commonwealths" instead of 50 states; the Commonwealth mentioned in FO3 being the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Is that right?

Who said they built them? Could have been in secured storage, and I see nothing to suggest they had "Hundreds". a few dozen perhaps.

Right.



Fallout is set in an alternate timeline that diverged from ours in the 1950s. In the 21st century, it looked like the future as imagined in the 1950s pulp science fiction. E.g. instead of transistors you have huge vacuum tube-based computers with artificial intelligence and monochromatic terminals, robotic servants, a pseudo-utopian society based on 1950s values, black and white TV, music from the 1950s considered all-time classics, and most modern musical genres never appearing, etc,. Weapon development was also different from ours and thus plasma and laser weaponry was introduced, 10mm became the most common ammo type, etc. The modern high-tech weapons were never created - instead, weapons based on how people in the 1950s thought 21st century weaponry would look like are used.

For more information, see:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_world
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Divergence
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline