TomJ
Still Mildly Glowing
I started mulling this idea over after thinking about elements of Fallout Tactics and which parts of it will someday become canon.The parts of Tactics that I'm assuming are true with this story is that there was a Vault 0 with the Calculator in it and the BoS destroyed it after the conflict was over and didn't get access to any large stockpiles of technology. Another part is that there was some sort of wider reconstruction plan thought up before the war. Vault 0 was at the center of it. Part of my story suggestion was that there were some secret Vaults built before the Great War, ones that would function to Vault Tec specifications and open up to help in the Calculators rebuilding plan, but this didn't happen because of the corruption of the Calculator and the Midwestern BoS. Anyways the story is centered around one of the secret Vaults, specifically one west of Portland, Oregon. The Plan B, so to speak was to wait 200 years then unseal and start exploring the world and begin rebuilding. The story would go on to deal with the world that lay outside of the Vault. You start out as someone that was born in the Vault in 2252. You are part of a team that has been trained to explore the outside world, or at least what Vault Tec thought the world would be like. It is your job to explore the wasteland and determine the course of action the Vault should take. I'm assuming that these secret Vaults were larger than the standard ones and some of the team is injured early on except for like one person. The others, I don't want to put a number, return to the Vault. You and the other person go out into the wasteland.
Factions:
Republic of Washington: This group was founded by Army personnel that survived the Great War in a bunker near Fort Lewis in Washington. After the radiation went down to a safe level, they started to defend the surrounding settlements in exchange for resources and started to rebuild. (Fort Lewis is in between Tacoma and Olympia, WA for those not familiar with the area). The Republic of Washington is recovering from a civil war fought from 2251 to 2258. The rich business class attempted to use a mercenary army to overturn the Republic. This has damaged the Republic of Washington's economic power, mostly by ruining most of their factories. The military is celebrated and they've expanded into Vancouver, WA looking for resources. Vancouver is across the river from Portland. The Republic brings some physical stability but poor management and corruption in the hinter lands.
Cascade Proletarian Republic: This is a group founded by descendants of communist sympathizers and socialists that were interned at a prison camp near Richland, WA. The camp was mostly self sufficient at the time bombs fell and Richland's isolated location it wasn't a target. Eventually the descendants formed a small city based on socialist principles and is a quasi Social Democracy. They used these principles to educate the wastlanders and unite them under their banner. Think of the Followers with guns and a more expansive agenda. They lack a large industrial capacity due to being founded around a small city. They expanded southwest towards Portland for this reason. The Proletarians bring relative stability, but there isn't much potential for growth in the long due to lack of an industrial capacity and they're backwards technologically to some degree.
Oregonian Nation: This is the most controversial of the groups, they are founded by Enclave personnel that survived the destruction of the oil rig and fled north. They aren't for genocide, except for Ghouls and Super Mutants. They also don't see the wastelanders as equals to them. They settled in the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. They expanded by paying of powerful locals. They give the locals technology to increase their productivity, but then work them hard, almost as bad as pre Civil War slavery. This is billed as being the only way America can rebuild. They are going for the Vault and are the only one of the factions that know of its existence.
The story would revolve around the protagonist exploring Portland and eventually encountering the factions and settling their problems. This could end in either an Independent Portland led by the Vault, one of the main factions dominating the region or getting the Republic and the Proletarians to unite and beat back the Enclave. (Also banking on the Vault dwellers know about the Enclave's genocide plan and don't like it).
Factions:
Republic of Washington: This group was founded by Army personnel that survived the Great War in a bunker near Fort Lewis in Washington. After the radiation went down to a safe level, they started to defend the surrounding settlements in exchange for resources and started to rebuild. (Fort Lewis is in between Tacoma and Olympia, WA for those not familiar with the area). The Republic of Washington is recovering from a civil war fought from 2251 to 2258. The rich business class attempted to use a mercenary army to overturn the Republic. This has damaged the Republic of Washington's economic power, mostly by ruining most of their factories. The military is celebrated and they've expanded into Vancouver, WA looking for resources. Vancouver is across the river from Portland. The Republic brings some physical stability but poor management and corruption in the hinter lands.
Cascade Proletarian Republic: This is a group founded by descendants of communist sympathizers and socialists that were interned at a prison camp near Richland, WA. The camp was mostly self sufficient at the time bombs fell and Richland's isolated location it wasn't a target. Eventually the descendants formed a small city based on socialist principles and is a quasi Social Democracy. They used these principles to educate the wastlanders and unite them under their banner. Think of the Followers with guns and a more expansive agenda. They lack a large industrial capacity due to being founded around a small city. They expanded southwest towards Portland for this reason. The Proletarians bring relative stability, but there isn't much potential for growth in the long due to lack of an industrial capacity and they're backwards technologically to some degree.
Oregonian Nation: This is the most controversial of the groups, they are founded by Enclave personnel that survived the destruction of the oil rig and fled north. They aren't for genocide, except for Ghouls and Super Mutants. They also don't see the wastelanders as equals to them. They settled in the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. They expanded by paying of powerful locals. They give the locals technology to increase their productivity, but then work them hard, almost as bad as pre Civil War slavery. This is billed as being the only way America can rebuild. They are going for the Vault and are the only one of the factions that know of its existence.
The story would revolve around the protagonist exploring Portland and eventually encountering the factions and settling their problems. This could end in either an Independent Portland led by the Vault, one of the main factions dominating the region or getting the Republic and the Proletarians to unite and beat back the Enclave. (Also banking on the Vault dwellers know about the Enclave's genocide plan and don't like it).
