» Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:17 am This intro contains spoilers to the first two games. If you wish to avoid these please skip down to the three yellow asterisks (this symbol *) to avoid spoilage
SPOILER WARNING
The Wastes
It has been more than 200 years since man nearly brought about his own extinction due to greed and pride. In the time since then mankind emerged from its Vaults and created a new society. It should come as no surprise that man learned nothing from the mistakes of its past. The reconstruction of society has been a long difficult task for even as one group set about rebuilding their society from the ashes so another set out to conquer them to increase their own wealth. Luckily for the inhabitants of the remains of what was once known as California several heroes made considerable impact on this burgeoning new world.
In the year 2161 a man walks out of Vault 13, within 3 years he discovers and destroys a massive threat to man. The Master is defeated and his army of Super Mutants is, at least temporarily, stopped. The young hero returns home only to be rejected. The Overseer afraid that the man's experiences in the wastes would taint his people.
This young man would go on to become a neigh mythical figure throughout the lands, referred to reverently as The Vault Dweller. Eschewing the technology that had kept his Vault alive for so long this Vault Dweller would set up a tribal group from which would spring another mythological hero of the wastes. This man, known as The Chosen One would emerge from this tribal village in the year 2241, and set off once more into the wastes that had been so altered by his ancestor.
In time he would come across Tandi, a young woman whose life was saved by The Vault Dweller, and play his role in the establishment of the New California Republic. This young tribal would increasingly become exposed to the technology his ancestors has abandoned and would use it to make his own mark on the world. Indeed, he would encounter a weakened Brotherhood of Steel and with their help confront and ultimately destroy the last vestiges of the Pre-War American Government, known as The Enclave.
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It was into this world that I was born.
The Vault has a long history. Its number lost to the ages few know of its existence and even fewer know of its location. It was opened once many years ago and its population left happily to reclaim the Earth that was their birth rite. Doubtless they all died rather quickly. Repopulated some years later its new inhabitants would come to isolate themselves from the outside world. They have chosen to separate themselves from the Wasteland until such a time as the mutants that wander the wastes have fallen to whatever ill fate must await them. Under strict monarchical rule they have survived beneath the Earth.
Despite their long isolation, or perhaps because of it, it has become their tradition that every generation one citizen, a young man or woman just entering into their physical prime, will be set out into the world to explore and hopefully bring back whatever technology might profit The Vault most.
In the year 2255 a 20 year old man follows in the traditions of his people and steps out into the wasteland.
OOC: I'd love some feedback.
