[IDEA] Muties in DC a result of BC weapons

[Tagaziel]

I was thinking about making the Supermutants fit in more...

If the timeline was shifted back to 2107, I was playing around with the idea of them being results of Red Chinese NBC weapons deployed against Washington DC, mutating a large part of the survivours into hideous, red-skinned communist devils.

This'd explain their total retardation, would make the tendency to eat people fit with the aesthetic (Cold War paranoia, baby-eating communists etc). Vault 87 would have to be redone.

I've already played around with textures, but I'm curious as to what my beloved NMA thinks.

 

[generalissimofurioso]

Makes more sense than the Vault experiment.

But there'd have to be some sort of way for them to propagate further beyond the initial infection/exposure.

 

[Tagaziel]

I'd consider the Chinese Remnant as candidates for "Keeps contaminating the American devils!"

 

[DustyTraveller]

I like the idea of Paranoia-Virus gone bad creating homicidal super mutants. ("Oops, slight mishap here. Nothing to worry about. The next version will fix that." )

About Vault 87; (I haven't been there myself yet so this might not apply but) What if the DC super mutants came about due to bad side-effects of an American virus-response to a Chinese commie-virus? Ie:

• - Chinese deploys unknown NBC weapons against DC.
  - Communist-making virus (turns right-thinking individuals into treacherous communist mind-slaves) detected or feared.
  - Anti-communist virus developed and deployed with only minor quality control/testing.
  - After a time one or both viruses mutate due to radiation causing people to grow into baby-eating super mutants... but at least they're not communist mind slaves .

 

[Ravager69]

This kinda reminds me of the first Resident Evil movie, where the Umbrella corp. made weapon that'd turn enemy civillians into mindless zombies, sowing chaos behind enemy lines.

So, if you'd want to do it this way, you could assume that the ghouls are people that responded properly to the virus (though some remained their sanity somehow), while Super Mutants are folks that are affected by a later, mutated strain of the virus, giving other effects than intended. Also, this would mean it's contagious, though it'd be difficult to transfer it from one person to another (would most likely require long-term exposure in a remote place, like Vault 87 filled with sick people).

Anyhow, I like the idea.

 

[MrElusive]

actually i kinda like the original plot better. master's army was destroyed and his minions ran away all over america (some down to DC) and some formed due to experiments in vault number 87.

 

[Danilh]

actually i kinda like the original plot better. master's army was destroyed and his minions ran away all over america (some down to DC) and some formed due to experiments in vault number 87.

that "forming" would be what? Vault-tec scientists were experimenting shit and , suddenly , experiment out of control, everybody dies/turns(cliche-meter bleeping). And then they , even being retarded, manage to get out of the vault(ohh, butunz!), without passing through brat city and learn how to shoot all by themselves,without being coached by anyone. Yeah right.