[lore] why would USA annex Canada? : Fallout Series Discussion

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:47 am

Timber isn't the only thing in Canada, actually, there is a vast amount of oil and even some uranium. I question how much uranium they used up though, even if it was a huge commodity it still has a long life even huge nuclear power plants don't use that MUCH uranium to my knowledge.

I'm aware of the oil deposits in Alberta and elsewhere, but I think they'd have been gone by 2076/77, given the Fallout setting.

Don't remember exactly, but I think Alaska and the Poseidon Oil Rig were the last two sources of oil in the world.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:04 pm

... Now saying that i don't think Canada could ever win against the US in a war...

1812-1815

» Fri May 27, 2011 3:16 am

1812-1815

"Win", not "stalemate".

'Sides, the US advances just a bit between 1812 and 2077. :nod:

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:55 am

Yea 1812 was a stalemate for sure. But considering Britain was fight two wars things might have been different.

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:27 pm

The answer to this is on

Spoiler

a computer terminal at a newspaper building in downtown DC

. It says pretty much what I always suspected anyway. Its not hard to see how and why this could happen given the scenario.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:31 pm

I dont know if anyones already pointed this out or not but wasnt it all about the alskan oil pipeline?

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:47 am

Because Canada wasn't protecting the pipeline and American couldn't risk the government saying "We've had enough of your Commie/American conflict, get the hell out and take your nukes with you"

And of course, they could just [censored] the land for any resources it had and not care.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:12 am

My feeling was always that Canada simply got tired of the US acting like they had the right to drive the entire US Army through their territory, for years. And at the first sign of them getting "uppity" about it, the US "acted to secure and maintain a vital strategic route" by conquering first the land along the highway and pipeline, then the rest of the country (because once you get started with that sort of thing, the temptation is to just keep going).