PaxVenire
Wasteland Peacemaker
Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I've been developing a TTRPG rewrite of Fallout 3 for my friends and I for a long while now. I've talked about it with some of you before, but it's since gone under heavy changes. It's set in 2102 rather than 2277 to justify the post-apocalyptia and non-progression more so than 200 years later. I swapped setting dates with Fallout 76 intentionally. Now what my point is, I'm having a hard time justifying the Enclave. Their reason for being in D.C. rather than Control Station Enclave or Navarro and how to connect these two sects reasonably. Whenever discussion surrounding Fallout 3 comes up, I often see the most disagreement stem from the inclusion of the Enclave. Some say they were only supposed to be on the Oil Rig and Navarro, and once those fell they should've been done for forever. Some say their inclusion makes complete sense as Washington D.C. is the nation's capital and the Enclave having dealings there is just sound logic. And of course even the cancelled Van Buren and released New Vegas shows us the Enclave were more spread out than we thought, having territory all the way in Arizona with the Bloomfield Space Center and even as far as Chicago. I understand that in Fallout 3 the Enclave are all remnants of Navarro, but due to the time setting, I'm making them a separate existing base similar to Appalachia's Enclave as Navarro hasn't even been claimed yet, let alone taken out. I was originally not gonna use the Enclave all together, but my friends really want them in and think America's capital oughta have them. I can see the logic there, it does make sense that Enclave would be close to the nation's capital, but the reason perplexes me.
Aside from the easy answer of "they want to take over", what do you think the Enclave might want in D.C. specifically? Liberty Prime? ATHENA Power Armor? Vertibirds? The Mobile Base Crawler?
Aside from the easy answer of "they want to take over", what do you think the Enclave might want in D.C. specifically? Liberty Prime? ATHENA Power Armor? Vertibirds? The Mobile Base Crawler?
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