I honestly think that they were very... stereotypical alien.

Stereotypical aliens come in three flavors:

- We want to kill you.
- We want to study you.
- We want to save you.

The killing ones have no morals or mercy. They kill indiscriminately and try to murder every human or find a way to defeat humans.

The studying ones are purely scientific. They abduct indiscriminately and try to study every human or find a way to alter humans.

The saving ones are purely moral. They don't abduct or kill and they try to get messages out to save us that usually end up scaring us.

I don't think they're option three, and I don't think they're option 1.

I think they're the stereotypical "We want to study you." Aliens. Especially because of Alien Captive Recorded Log 19.


They seem be, at least, very intrigued by children since Sally's been alive for over 200 years and there's no evidence that she's ever been frozen. Maybe they kept her the same age, to study children. Since her sister disappeared, though, it's unlikely that they actually care about harming children.

But all in all, they're the run-of-the-mill "our motives are obscure" aliens. We'll probably never know why they want to make Abominations, why they're abducting so many people, and why a Giddyup Buttercup kills them.

That is a very good theory man, I would like to know what they wanted 100% maybe in the next fallout???

My favorite theory has to be the ironic one where they blew up their world with nukes, remembered that green lush place they visited a few times (Feudal Japan, Colonial North America), get there and realize we're about to blow ourselves up too (Hence why they want the launch codes and stop the missiles).

That theory assumes too much, as it assumes things about their past we don't have indicators for.

My theory is they're involved in starting the war.. well not starting the war but helped to push it along.. behind the scenes for world domination purposes and thus enslaving humanity or what's left of it later on. Merely by sending a few shape-shifting ones down to earth to pose as politicians, influence world leaders by telepathy, maybe hacked our computer systems or something like that.

They wan't nothing, because there are no aliens in Fallout, they where just easter eggs :shakehead:

There's a thread about that. Consult That one instead.

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there are already six threads well detailing every single possible thought and feeling about the relation of MZ. "please don't invite more." It isn't hard to go find the half a dozen threads about MZ already in the FO Universe subforum. LOL

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The aliens just wanted to destroy us but they arrived too late. Their possession of the launch codes wasn't a smoking gun but a souvenir. War never changes, right? Well throughout history civil wars have often been fueled and cheered on by foreign enemies who delight in the self destruction...

I think it's a bit suspecious if it's a science vessel and they're only now completing their abomination project, given that they've had access to human livestock since feudal Japan. You could argument that the japanese man and the cowboy were picked up by scout ships and that it isn't until during the Fallout 3 time that their Motherships arrived on Earth.

Alien in general of any fiction involving abduction is basically experimentation. See how human/cow act, their nerve, their mind, anol probing, and all the other good stuff. That say, its nothing else other than that from what I seen. That is pretty much what it looks like what the Alien did in that joke they call Mothership Zeta DLC.

We also don't know exactly how old the abomination project is, nor do we know its intended goals. For example, the abominations we see could be anything from proof of concepts to the mass production model, and we have no way of being certain. Similarly, the project could be a new line of experimentation, only done recently, or a very old line of experimentation. Since they store subjects in cryostasis, their not working on a time limit.

They came to find their god... or whatever that Pony they are so obsessed with is supposed to be...

Filling DLC and causing plotholes >.>

Giddyup Buttercup?

other than in outside media it is the first mention of a horse in-game that I can think of in the Fallout Universe.

Vanilla F3 has some posters advertising giddy-up buttercup.

Yes well 'vanilla' FO3 also has mention of aliens, alien weapons and alien spaceships. The facts are that there are no Giddyup Buttercups until you get the MZ DLC. And that one doesn't work, even if you find the spare parts for it and have 100% repair you still don't get to ride it.

What's your point? An in-game advertisemant for giddyup buttercup is still a "mention" of horses.

I think one thing everyone forgets is its set in a 1950's era, and it was the time of flying saucer scares, and b grade movies about alien invasions, so it fits the setting perfectly and the reasons for them being there is any of the reasons they thought of in the 1950 why aliens were visiting earth and what they wanted, well mars wants our women, aliens in stiff metal suits want to destroy operation skyhook and invade the earth, others want to capture our parents and put mind control devices in the back of their necks, another with his large robot companion want to warn us about setting off a nuclear war, well to late for that, i could go on, but i think its meant to be open and just be one of the very myriad of reasons that people thought back in the 50's why aliens would come to earth.

I think Mothership Zeta was Ok and having aliens and the space ship was ok and it was just like 50s sci-fi. In New Vegas by the way it was even worst with space because Mr.House promised to take humanity into the space in 20 years.
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Study and create abominations

perhaps they got the nuclear luanch codes and fired them cauing the great war, posibly to remove all life from the planet to colonise a world free of threats, but humans survived so they tried to make them more like them so they would not have to kill them but it went wrong, or to release a horde of them on the planet to kill the survivors to make the planet suitable to live on. they could have launched the nukes as a test to study if the spiecies was worthy of survival, they luanched the USA's nukes but and could have stoped them but then saw other nukes flying so they deemed the human race savage and did not bother disarming the nuke

They want to be cliche villains in a poorly-planned DLC for a popular video game, if their actions are any indication.

THEY CAME FOR OUR WOMEN! What else?

The Aliens were pissed at the people who wanted MZ of course, Which is why they were shooting people.

But honestly, I'm not considering MZ as canon, Just like no one considers BoS, Or tactics canon.

*fixed* Fallout Tactics is canon MWBoS were talked about in FO3. Only the Oil drums in FO Tactics are none Canon. Anyways I agree with everything else :foodndrink:

Wait no, I was mistaken, Only the major plot points were canon, All else were non canon (Seeing that the Canon BoS cannot manufacture Power Armor.)