Fallout Yurop - Berlin
Years ago, around the time just before Van Buren was made public an East European team was working on a very near Fallout 2 Total Conversion called Fallout Yurop.
Next to Fallout 3/Van Buren itself this seemed one of the most exciting projects around at the time and I like many others was really looking forwards to it.
Unfortunate there must have been some problems with the project as things were delayed, the forum was hacked and eventually the project died down.
I have been keeping in contact with the head developer of the project, Jiří 'Shigor Birdman' Matyskiewicz, in the hope to learn some more about the project and what his team's intentions would have been.
From what I understand Shigor might still bring the game out one day but as a stand alone project called Fallen Yurop, which has no connect to the Fallout universe.
I can understand his reasoning, especially now that Bethesda owns the franchise and that he wants to develop the ideas into its own freeware or commercial products but I still would have found it awesome if it had been a Fallout project in Europe as we know so little about how the world is like there.
Some of the ideas I have used in this idea are what I know from Fallout Yurop and it is not my intention to steal them or claim them to be my own whatsoever, I just do not want to let these ideas die as I think they are really good.
“Black Fist” is sort of a filler name for that organization as it sounds way to much like 'Black Hand' from Fallout Between Good and Evil, and like with Shigor I do not mean to steal these fine folks good idea, I just needed a name for the moment.
I haven't thought of names yet for other groups, factions or organizations or very detailed ones, but not that that is so important, this is just to give an impression what my take on this idea would have been like, and no so much the details and backgrounds.
It would be extremely cool if this could ever been made for real but I hugely doubt that.
This concept takes place in the Fallout universe but in what once was the European Commonwealth, there are some major differences regarding technology, creatures and lore between Europe and the United States, with some thing being absent and replaced with other ideas instead.
-There is no FEV in Europe, so no Super Mutants and FEV created mutants. However the former members of the European Commonwealth were working on their own bioweapons before the War and a lot managed to escape, finding a niche in the world in which they could thrive and multiply.
-There are radiation based mutants, based on science! such as Ghouls, giant insects and arachnids such as Giant Spiders.
Some mammals have also undergone strange changes because of the radiation and the toxins.
-There is no or barely any Power Armor, its not known of the EC had its own Power Armor project but as they were already at war long before the Great War amongst themselves probably not much came of it.
Perhaps some suits were purchased or sent to American bases in Europe but the idea is that its perhaps completely absent, being replaced in game with the unique NBC 'Environment Armor' and implants.
-There are no Vaults. Perhaps some government bunkers, shelters built by companies for themselves and private made shelters but no Vaults.
Also, no Vault experiments took place in Europe.
Rather than having this in mind as a full classic Fallout 1/2 campaign, I would consider my idea more of a spin off similar to FNV, dealing with one large settlement and surrounding settlements rather than the entire former country or state.
As the name implies, Fallout Yurop - Berlin takes place in the ruins of Berlin, and in the region around it which can include settlements and other places of interest.
Timeline
1940 - 1950
The Second World War is won by the Allies; UK, France, Australia, Canada, United States, and the CCCP. (and probably others I forgot to mention)
Europe is divided in two sides and two ideologies; most of Eastern Europe come under control of communist regimes supported by the CCCP, Germany is divided amongst the Allies with Eastern Germany including Eastern part of Berlin under CCCP/DDR rule.
A Cold War starts between East and West.
Heckler and Koch is established in an old Mauser factory, at first only producing machine parts for house hold machines and bicycles but eventually manufactures weapons for the Bundeswehr.
The foundations of what one day will be the European Commonwealth start to take shape.
NATO is established by the Western allies as a united block against the CCCP and her allies.
1950 - 1960
Eastern communist countries and the CCCP form the Warschau pact as a counterpart to NATO
The Glock company is founded by Gaston Glock, originally only manufacturing curtain railing until they expanded into the weapons industry and started manufacturing weapons for the Austrian army.
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The European Commonwealth is formed between most countries of West Europe in order to promote political cooperation and free trade amongst its members.
Some countries like the UK, France and Germany start to work together on military projects.
1980 - 1990
Due to decades of large expenditure on the arms race and other military and political oriented expenditures the CCCP is nearly driven bankrupt.
It can no longer support its communist allies or maintain full control of its own territory, the government is so much in debt that government workers and military personnel go unpaid.
Without support of the CCCP and its own economy in ruins the DDR opens its borders and eventually dissolves.
The CCCP can do nothing but watch from the sideline.
1990 - 2000
The economic collapse of the CCCP continues and the communist regimes in countries like Poland collapse, more democratic governments take their place and they start making approaches to the West.
Despite an attempt by left wing supporters to replace the government the communists prevail and remain in control.
However in order to stay in control they are forced to reduce their costs in order to save what is left of their economy, severally reducing departments such as the military.
The citizens of countries that were once CCCP allies sense their chance and start to demonstrate and revolt.
Even parts of Russia itself demand the right to secede and administrate themselves.
The Kremlin makes it clear that such actions will lead to war, a threat they can not fully back up.
With the CCCP’s military potential in decline the United States starts to withdraw stationed troops and dismantle its missile bases in West Germany.
Duties are turned over to German armed forces.
(remaining nuclear weapons that ‘officially’ were removed during the 60’s and 70’s are also transferred to American territory)
The European Commonwealth expands with new members and most of its citizens enjoy a high standard of living, consuming resources in large quantities.
University scientists start warning for the eventual depletion of natural resources such as petroleum and that there should be more research into alternatives or new sources in the solar system.
As Chinese communists loosen their grip on the economic sector somewhat its economy starts to bloom as foreign investors start to invest in manufacturing and assembly factories, hiring low wage Chinese workers
2000 - 2010
By now the Warschau pact has completely crumbled and several countries and even parts of the CCCP have gone on their own, several of them have even opened diplomatic contact with the West, much to the anger of Moscow.
The army is deployed, but with so many fronts the CCCP is unable to retake even parts of former territory, a period of tensions and brush wars follow.
Scientists in France and Japan start working together on developing practical fusion power.
Unknown to them agents from the US have infiltrated the research group and relay any discoveries and findings back to corporations like Poseidon Energy.
The economy in China continues to improve and the Chinese government uses the extra money to invest into regions around the world in which they have interests.
Technology they are not able to acquire through legal means are gained through use of undercover agents and the international black market.
The European and United States space agencies put a space station in orbit.
China puts its first astronaut in orbit.
2010 - 2020
China replaces the CCCP as the most powerful communist state in the world.
With their campaigns to retake lost territory a failure and their economy in shambles the Soviet Communists can not do more than threaten those provinces that wish to leave.
Unable to exploit their own resources any more the CCCP is forced to increase its negotiations and contracts with foreign investors and corporations for such basic necessities such as food and electrical production.
2020 - 2030
Heckler and Koch starts research into energy weapons after United States weapon engineers produce the first fully usable laser weapons.
One of the results is the Gatling laser.
Glock starts development of the Gauss rifle and Gauss gun, seeking to overtake their competitors; Heckler and Koch's weapon designs, they later reveal the Glock plasma gun and the rare Gatling Gauss.
These weapons are used by armies within the Commonwealth and a large number of them are also exported to other countries such as the United States.
The European Commonwealth becomes increasingly dependent on petroleum from the Middle East, consuming thousands of barrels a day for production and fuel.
As the oil wells start running out the prices increase, with the result that necessities like food become more expensive for the regular people.
Robot drones from the US, European Commonwealth and China are sent to the moon and other rocky planetary bodies in the solar system to look for new resources.
European astronauts set foot on the moon.
The first modules for a colony are placed, starting a dispute with the US who claims prior ownership of the region.
2030 - 2040
The CCCP accuses the European Commonwealth of selling weapons and munition to renegade states provinces in return of access to their natural resources such as gas and petroleum.
The Commonwealth denies these accusations, trying to hide the truth from the general public.
With its increasing populations the Commonwealth is becoming more and more dependent on resources from other countries and seeks alternatives to the emirates of the Middle East that are draining the EC members economically dry.
The discussion starts again to remove the preservation status of the Arctic and the Antarctic so that the resources under them can be exploited.
A Chinese astronaut sets foot on the moon, creating a new ‘red scare’ for the communist conquest of space, both the US and European Commonwealth assure their citizens that they will have control of the moon and the rest of the solar system before China does.
Funding of the USSA, the American space agency is increased and work is started on the first manned mission to Mars.
2040 - 2050
China needs more resources for its growing industry and population and takes control of Eastern parts of the CCCP which has become increasingly dependent on them, an ironic twist on the dependence of China on the CCCP back in the 20th century.
European universities start working together to work on Artificial Intelligence in order to compete with their US counterparts and corporations.
After a journey of six months American astronauts set foot on Mars, the United States promptly claims ownership of the Red Planet, replacing the short public excitement and relief with tension with Europe and the People’s Republic of China who respond that the planets of the solar system belong to everyone.
2050 - 2060
After oil prices have reached an all time high and European economy and society starts to suffer from the shortage the European Commonwealth takes armed action against the Middle East, sending in armed forces to take control of the oil fields.
During this conflict both sides starts using biological and chemical weapons, despite their claim of only targeting military installations and fortifications many civilians are killed or affected by the weapons.
The European Commonwealth’s armed forces are in need of a new type of combat uniform that can protect soldiers and officers against the use of NBC weapons and allows them to remain effective in the field.
European scientists and engineers create the ‘environment armor’, an armor that provides the requested protection and improves the wearer’s effectiveness with various built-in features.
The suit is designed to look intimidating for the purpose of psychological warfare.
While the concept of Power Armor is known to European engineers, they have not been able to manufacture a practical suit, instead scientists seek to develop implants that can boost a person’s capabilities
2054 - A limited nuclear exchange takes place in the Middle East, increasing the fear of a worldwide nuclear war.
After the nuclear attack Environment Armor wearing soldiers quickly move in to secure sites.
Some members of the Commonwealth start investigating the state of their Cold War nuclear shelters or build complete new ones.
Large civilian shelters are established under large cities such as Berlin by digging large underground chambers or reinforcing the metro network (make no mistake, these shelters are not Vaults, or as effective).
Some of the more rich countries like the UK and Germany establish bunker complexes for their governments and other personnel considered important or necessary.
Production puts a heavy strain on the economy and a lot of these projects are simply not finished.
Heckler and Koch and their investors invest into the construction of a private bunker complex for themselves and their families, unknown to most the heads of the company plan to fill up the complex with the necessities to restart the company after a nuclear war, dedicating only a small portion to habitation, mainly themselves.
2057 - In the United Kingdom several cases of the New Plague of 'Blue Flu' break out in Essex and Kent.
The citizens of Greater London fear its only a matter of days until the New Plague reaches the region, city dwellers try to flee into the countryside, blocking up the roads and highways.
Only the petroleum companies profit of the situation due to the high cost of gasoline.
Quarantine barriers and stations are set up to contain the spread of the virus but appears to be already to late as several days later there are also reports of New Plague cases in France, suspected caused by British refugees who used the Channel Tunnel to reach the European mainland.
The Channel Tunnel is locked down to due quarantine reasons, and ship and plane travel between the UK and the European mainland is strictly monitored.
Unknown to the general public the release of the New Plague is the result of a botched transfer operation between the United States and United Kingdom government agencies.
ATLANTIS, the result of almost a decade of computer and artificial intelligence research, is created.
It is first used for primarily scientific and educative purposes, its memory banks expanded with large quantities of information on pretty much every subject, but is soon bought by NATO to be used for military campaign planning and the coordination of communication between bases.
The European Commonwealth cancels its space program, only a handful of corporations and private investors continue.
Space now belongs to the United States and China.
A group of scientists and private investors set up a company and foundation named Copernicus, after the Polish mathematician, physician, juror, lawyer, and astronomer (filler name) specialized in space travel, the company's goal is to design and construct an interstellar capable spacecraft.
The foundation buys up used space craft, space stations and other technology as well as rockets and other material that was never used for some reason and recycles these into components for something new.
The foundation buys rights to launch rockets are the Centre Spatial Guyanais (Guiana Space Center) in French Guiana but also opens a facility in Peenemünde, a German town also known as 'Rocket Town' due to its proximity to the military research center where the V1 and V2 rockets were developed during World War 2.
This is allowed by the German government in return for creating jobs in the region.
The opening of a launch facility in Peenemünde proves to be a brilliant foresight as access to
the Centre Spatial Guyanais becomes impossible during the European War.
2060 - 2077
The Euro-Middle Eastern War ends as the oil fields in the Middle East run dry... there is no longer a goal in the conflict, and both sides are reduced almost to ruin.
The European Commonwealth dissolves into quarreling nation states, fighting over the remaining resources.
Germany takes control of all former NATO and Commonwealth bases in the country, including the bunker in which ATLANTIS is installed.
Those nations that are still capable engage in the development of new weapons including bioweapons.
No longer protected by the nuclear arsenals of the United Kingdom and France the German country fears that its country is vulnerable to Western nations with superior conventional forces or the CCCP who might see this as an opportunity to reclaim territory lost during the last century.
Construction of additional defensive missile bases is started throughout Germany, one base is located close to Berlin with the task of defending the capitol from enemy airforces, conventional missile attacks and eventually being able to shoot down enemy ICBMs.
Rumors soon start that Germany has started a crash nuclear weapons program despite the old post WW2 treaties forbidding them to do so, or is buying nuclear weapons from the United States when its uncovered that the German Department of Defense is in talks with its American counterpart.
There are even claims that Germany is developing new kinds of superweapons instead to counter other European countries nuclear arsenals, claims strengthed when employees of West Tek and Poseidon Energy are sent to Germany.
The British Government orders the destruction of the entrance to their side of the Channel Tunnel while the French Government orders the same to their side.
Neither government wants the other side to make use of the tunnel to transport troops and material and attack each other.
The destruction of the entrances make the Channel Tunnel structural weak and the remainder of the tunnel collapses after only a few years.
After being connected to the European mainland for a few decades, the British Isles are separate once again.
The British Royal Family considers fleeing to Australia as their safety can no longer be fully assured in the United Kingdom and the United States unwilling to intervene in what they consider to be an 'European internal matter'.
French Guiana declares its independence from France but allows a number of French and other European refugees who seek to escape the European War to settle in the country.
The research and development team of Copernicus make an incredible technological development for the work on their starship.
The German government is interested and buys the patent to this technology.
The American government also learns of this technological development, they invite the scientists to come to America to continue their work but the team refuses to hand over their hard earned work.
The US government starts seeking alternatives to get their hands on this technological marvel Copernicus possesses.
For nearly a decade Copernicus has been working on a spacecraft made from recycled rockets and stations and components and technology developed by themselves.
The ship is to be powered by an ion drive, with a plasma drive supplying the initial speed boost during start up.
Called the Columbus the starship will bring the scientists, their families and a number of other selected and recruited skilled people and ship crew to the Alpha Centauri system.
Most of the world ridicules for the scientists' day dreaming and claim that even if the crew don’t die during the journey that they will eventually be back when they discover no habitable planet or useful resources at Alpha Centauri.
Exception to this ridicule is the United States based Enclave organization who sees the scientists and the Columbus as a threat to their own starship program and colonization of space.
Its not known if the Enclave ever follow up on a plan to sabotage or hijack the Columbus when the ship leaves Earth orbit in 207X. (Fallout Yurop)
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2077 - 23 October
The nuclear War between the United States and the People's Republic of China finally happens.
No one knows who started the War first but after two hours no one cares anymore.
When the warnings came in that a nuclear war between China and the United States could break out within several days, what was left of the German government and had not fled to neutral countries went underground in the bunkers they had prepared decades ago for themselves.
Politicians, scientists and military personnel enjoy better and luxurious protection than those who took shelter in the public fallout shelters that were constructed under some of the major cities.
The German government plans to emerge once the radiation levels have lowered to human tolerable levels again and re unite the country under their rule, thinking that they will be greeted as the saviors of the survivors.
The heat released by the warheads sets the Grunewald on fire, the forests burn uncontrolled for months until the fires start to set down.
Nearby survivors start to call the former forest lands the Ashlands.
ATLANTIS goes into shutdown in order to protect itself from the electronics disrupting effects of the nuclear war.
2077 - 2080
Overcrowded by more people than it originally could handle, the public fallout shelter under Berlin finally fails when food and medicine run out, what follows is anarchy as the strongest individuals and groups compete with each other for what is left.
Groups start to leave for the surface, taking what supplies and personal possessions they have with them.
Amongst them is a group led by Ernest Schneider who seeks to lead his group to safety at the former ######.
In what was once Poland, a predominantly Christian religious country, various often self proclaimed religious leaders starts to spread a message of religious unity and and a stance of anti technology amongst the various survivors.
The desperate, hopeless and divided Polish survivors seek any kind of solace and leadership to hold on to and eagerly embrace the idea that it was technology and science and the abandonment of God that has led the world to destruction.
A small Luddite cult starts to form that travel from settlement to settlement to bring their message, their members and those willing to listen to them are sometimes severally violent against surviving scientists and people with technical skills who are demonized by the new faith.
Starving and desperate British survivors besiege the government bunker where the Royal family has taken shelter during the world wide nuclear shelter.
When the survivors refuse to back off when soldiers order them to do so, they open fire on the crowds
But for every survivor is gunned down three take their place and the soldiers are unable to defend the bunker.
The survivors force their way into the bunker and kill and tear apart anyone who stands in their way as they look for food, water, and medicine.
Eventually the survivors find the British Royal Family that is hiding on one of the lower levels of the bunker.
Despite an attempt by the Prince of Wales to make the hungry and sick survivors listen to reason they attack the Royal Family in frenzy and the House of Windsor comes to a bloody end.
Roy Hanglan manages to cross the English channel with a boat he managed to fix up, wanting to escape the anarchy that holds the remnants of the British Isles in its grasp.
2080 - 2090
ATLANTIS ‘awakens’ from its protective shutdown and start to survey its surroundings and the state the world is now in.
Several of the robot drones it was tied into before the War have survived the passage of time and the scavengers that have been looting the ruins of pre settlements and bases.
After clearing out the direct area of rubble and hostile wildlife ATLANTIS sets up a defensive perimeter through the facility in which it is installed but it does not expand outwards as it does not want to deter human wanderers who might come across the bunker.
Monitor drones are sent out and relay much information back to ATLANTIS including any discovered human populations such as settlements and wandering groups.
ATLANTIS concludes that humanity is rapidly loosing its Pre War knowledge and barely knows how to survive at all in this new environment, living of what left overs of the old world it can find.
The Artificial Intelligence starts to run simulations on what the likely chances are of humanity's survival and its own on the long term.
Even with all its robots ATLANTIS would be unable to take on the significant human numbers, furthermore it does not want to eliminate the survivors as its simulations show that working together with humans would increase the survival and possibility of progress chance percentage significantly.
What the remnants of humanity needs is a strong and brilliant leader who is not limited by human weaknesses and nature and capable of leading them back to the path of scientific accomplishment and progress which allow them to both survive and one day rebuild the world.
Hundreds of records written on how to survive such as cleaning water and food such or how to proper use medical method are still stored within ATLANTIS' memory banks and this would be a powerful bargaining chip with the survivors.
Remote drones are instructed to make contact with groups of wandering survivors.
Most people fear the drones, fleeing from them or attacking them when both encounter each other, but other groups and individuals start to listen to what ATLANTIS has to tell, often people who came from an educated background.
Over the months ATLANTIS teaches them how to clean water, what food is still edible and which plants are, basic agriculture, how to diagnose diseases, sterilize wounds, set bones, create medicine from available material or properly used scavenged medicine.
People start to see ATLANTIS as a guide, a teacher or an oracle and grow more dependent on its advice, in time the computer becomes their leader and it guides those it calculates to be the most trustworthy back to its home base.
When ATLANTIS reveals itself to them and its true nature some are disturbed by this but others who have perhaps become tired of the follies and weaknesses of human leaders or simply want a way out of this chaos accept the fact and embrace the fact that ATLANTIS is now their leader and that its vision is theirs.
Using surviving VR chambers ATLANTIS starts to teach these people the basics about engineering, electronics, machine maintenance and repair, and other subjects, forming the basis of its followers.
When fully trained the first followers divide in two groups, one remains in the bunker and helps clean up the facility and repair the equipment including additional VR chambers for future students, while others go out and seek new people to join the followers, using the skills and knowledge they have been taught on how to survive to bargain with as well as small supplies of medicines or tools.
As the number of followers increase so does the specialization of the various individuals, having a number of technicians, engineers and doctors ATLANTIS starts to educate members to become scholars and scientists to assist it with its research and to send out on field assignments to Pre war educational, industrial, government and military sites to look for more things ATLANTIS and the followers can use.
But ATLANTIS knows the risks it followers will be taking outside and it does not have enough robots to protect both its base and holding and those it sends out, even with the robots the followers salvage and repair.
As its NATO duties also includes the task of training military personnel, troopers, officers and so on, ATLANTIS selects the most physical and mental suitable and able and starts to teach them the basics and essentials of being a soldier.
It teaches them how to operate in the field, working together, small and large scale tactics, the concept of stealth and camouflage, how to optimally use the environment, unarmed combat, melee combat, and the use of all kinds of weapons, from pistols and grenades, to heavy and energy weapons.
Once trained ATLANTIS opens the storage rooms containing a large supply of Environment Armor suits and its medical specialists start to fit the new troopers with the suit interface implants.
Equipped with state of the art weapons and equipment, and dressed in environment armor not seen since the War the first of ATLANTIS' elite forces appear in the wasteland, searching the remnants for anything that can promote the Followers' goal.
2090 - 2100
After a decade of severe overuse systems in the main government bunker starts to fail and some systems shut down permanently.
In parts where the communication system no longer works children born in the bunker are put to work as couriers.
Sheltered scientists and technical personnel warn their leaders that its only a matter of time until the bunker becomes unlivable and that they are better off taking their chances outside with what they still have.
The politicians refuse, having become to accustomed to the luxuries they still enjoy and the control they have over the population, fearing that going to the surface would take that away from them.
Some of the more outspoken troublemakers are exiled to the surface when they refuse to stay silent, soon after other bunker inhabitants to who the increasing oppressive leadership has become to much also leave.
Eventually a group of raiders starts taking notice of the people leaving the bunker and trace their path back to the source.
Believing the bunker to be full of weapons and supplies, the raiders contact several rivaling gangs and manage to form a temporary alliance with some to invade the bunker together.
Using explosives and slave labor the raiders manage to gain entrance, soldiers inside try to hold the raiders off but in response the raiders send in the surviving slaves to serve as cannon fodder.
When the soldiers run out of ammunition and need to reload the raiders finally enter themselves and slaughter any armed opponent they run into.
The remaining population is killed or enslaved, with the women forced into servitude (and the occasional man or so) to satisfy the whims of the raiders.
The bunker is cleaned out for all it contains and is abandoned.
In the years after the bunker becomes home to wildlife and the occasional group of refugees who know nothing of the previous inhabitants and their plans.
The first expeditions of the Followers of the ATLANTIS reach Berlin, they search the city for technology and resources but show little interest in setting up a camp or outpost in the city for the time being.
2100 - 2110
The Angels of the Apocalypse 'officially' form from various small anti technology Christian cults.
A pope is elected by Angel bishops who proclaims that the Angels will rebuild the original Papal States and expand upon them to include the entirety of Europe.
They start a brutal campaign of conflict, conquest and conversion in order to reclaim the ruins of Kraków, those outsiders who manage to survive are absorbed into the Angels, often by force.
ATLANTIS starts to send out scouting expeditions into the various wind directions of Germany and neighboring states to look for useful resources, technology and new recruits.
2110 - 2120
The residents of the Heckler and Koch bunker open the doors to the outside.
The inhabitants consist of a few members of the old generation that took shelter in the bunker and their children.
In the Ashlands the Wild Army forms from the descendants of survivors that fled there to take shelter when the War took place.
2120 - 2130
2130 - 2140
2140 - 2150
The Followers of the ATLANTIS and Angels of the Apocalypse forces clash at Warsaw.
The Angels outnumber the Followers but the Followers have brought restored artillery along with their expedition.
The following battles consist of fire fights in the streets and buildings of Warsaw between both groups, and the shelling of Warsaw by the Followers in order to drive the Angels out.
In the end neither side is victorious and the Followers and Angels are forced to retreat, leaving an already divided Warsaw in greater ruins behind than before their arrival.
Warsaw is one of the few places where both the Angels and the Followers are hated.
2150 – 2160
2165 – ATLANTIS orders its Followers to retreat West wards after several engagements against the Angels of the Apocalypse in Poland are lost.
The Followers are forced to give up several camps and claimed locations of interest to the Angels who are determined to pursue them and find their headquarters and ATLANTIS so that they can destroy it.
The Followers dig in at/near Berlin, setting up fortifications, barricades and minefields and bring in pieces of artillery.
They also start a more thorough search of Berlin in search of technology they can use for their goals and against the Angels.
2166 – Follower representatives and representatives of Heckler and Koch meet and a trading agreement is set up between the two organizations.
The Followers provide technological expertise in return for weapons and munition.
The Signal Listeners improve their laser perimeter barriers and place laser cannons on their headquarters' walls to keep enemies like the Angels of the Apocalypse at bay.
2167 - Fallout Yurop Berlin starts.
The Followers of the Atlantis
An organization founded and led by the supercomputer ATLANTIS.
Before the War ATLANTIS was developed as Europe's answer to ZAX, while originally used for scientific and educative purposes ATLANTIS was later purchased by NATO to be used for military operations, system administration and to oversee communications between bases.
After the War ATLANTIS was forgotten but it was not destroyed, through robots and cameras it monitored the ruins and wastes of Europe and the various survivors who had managed to survive the European War and the nuclear War between the United States and China.
ATLANTIS started to run simulations on the situation of the continent and the Dark Age in which mankind found itself, and determined that mankind might possibly never recover from it on its own, eventually loosing all remnants of its scientific and technological progress.
ATLANTIS decided to take an active role in rebuilding civilization, it would unite and educate under its leadership, gather the resources and means to shorten the current Dark Age and lead its followers into a new golden age in which they could develop and use technology without superstition and fear from outsiders.
At first ATLANTIS started simple, making contact with isolated groups of outsiders and teaching them how to clean water, what food was edible and how to prepare it, and proper use of medicine and medical method.
When it had gathered enough followers it started to teach them more complex subjects, using the VR chambers that were hooked to it and information from its vast archives, making them into scholars, technicians and eventually soldiers.
ATLANTIS knew that it would face enemies to its goals, those who simply targeted it for their own needs and ideological opponents such as the Angels of the Apocalypse who seek to cleanse the land of all advanced technology.
Its followers and robots are send out to gather important resources or information or to secure sites that ATLANTIS considers to be of great importance while at the same time fighting those who would seek to take it away from them or destroy it.
The Followers use a lot of the more advanced remnants in the wasteland, high powered assault rifles, energy weapons, various types of grenades, modern medical technology, and whatever military hardware they can find and repair.
Unique to the Followers is their Environment Armor.
After the limited nuclear war with the Middle East and the use of biological and chemical weapons, the European powers had a great need for combat armor that would protect its wearer from NBC weapons while allowing them to function in the field.
The result is the unique Environment Armor, a high tech isolation suit that is equipped with life support, alternate vision modes, and a full computer and communications suite that monitors the wearer's and outside conditions and maintain contact with fellow soldiers.
The suit also provides physical, kinetic and energy weapon protection.
In order to interface with the suit well the wearer must have an implant surgically placed in the back of their head where the suit interface goes, without it the suit is impossible to wear.
Unlike Power Armor it does not provide increased strength as Europe did not have that technology at the time.
Instead European scientists developed a lot of implant technology that could improve the subject's strength, vision and so on, and the Followers have recovered this technology.
With an Environment Suit and implants a Follower is reasonably on par with a Brotherhood Paladin.
Over time the armors have been customized by technology found by the Followers and individual taste.
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