The subject of Aliens

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First time out of the vault
* Wannamingos are listed as "Aliens" when you look at them, and also in the Kills tab. They don't have the chaotic appearance of creatures we know to e products of FEV, so this seems plausible.

* The Shi had a some sort of "Xeno research" which was discontinued when their "Specimen" has disappeared, according to the Emperor's database. I found no further leads connecting to this info.

* Haven't found it myself, but many people mention a random encounter in which you get a sun-charged weapon defined as an "alien blaster".

* Skynet's database mentions the incorporation of "alien technology" into some projects before the War, as historical facts.

* I faintly remember, the first time i played Fo2, a random encounter with a crashed spaceship and two or three wannamingos wondering around it. I may be mistaken, as that was a long time ago, and now that i'm replaying - i have not encountered that yet.

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This is the fallout ufology thread. I want to see any info you found in the games regarding the subject, anything you found in interviews, fob editions or whatever, any easter eggs and other seldom-noticed tidbits, as well as your speculations. So put your aluminum foil hat on, turn on the lava lamp and post in hushed tones!

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Oh, and the first one to say Quetzel gets sacrificed to Xenu.
 
For more info about Wanamingos, read this:
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Wanamingos are strange mutant animals. They are not aliens, but word is they were designed as FEV-tailored weapons for waging war on other countries... and they got loose. They do live a long time, but they were dying out at the time of Fallout 2. They are also often called aliens, due to their similarity to the xenomorph from the Alien movies. They hatch from eggs laid by the queen, which is larger than the other wanamingos and grey in color. 

The only known queen lived in the Wanamingo Mine in Redding, owned by Ascorti. All aliens living in that mine were killed by the Chosen One in 2242. Some other wanamingos could be found in the desert, and in the San Francisco tanker.
But it's obviously an epic lie. They were here since the Roswell incident. :rofl:
 
Where did that lie even come form? The wikia cites no sources for that article. Roswell sounds much more likely to me as well. They just don't look like the result of FEV. Besides - WHAT would you have to start with, in order to get a wannamingo?

I'm especially curious about the Shi xeno specimen, though. Could it be one of them? And do Skynet's "alien technology" and the sun-blaster come from them too? Hmm...
 
IIRC, Chris Avellone said they're not actual aliens in the Fallout Bible.

. They are not aliens, but word is they were designed as FEV-tailored weapons for waging war on other countries... and they got loose. They do live a long time, but they were dying out at the time of Fallout 2. They have only been sighted in the F2 area and nowhere else in the wastelands.
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Sorry to spoil your fun :)
It's not a sun-blaster, but a solar scorcher and an alien blaster. Two different random encounters,.
According to the Restoration Project, the missing Xeno specimen is a human body.
The crashed spaceship is a Star Trek reference, but there are no Wanamingos there.
 
There were some referances in Fallout 1, but no wannamingos

In fallout one The random encounter that produced the alien blaster involved a crashed flying saucer with 2 classic big headed alien bodies. If examined the saucer stated that it was protperty of area 51, please return if found.

Beyond that refrerance there is not a lot of specific text suggesting that anything else got lose from area 51.

In fallout 2 the sci fi easter eggs were hot and heavy, and so the wannamingos were a homage to the movie Aliens but were meant to be another FEV generated mutant.
 
It would't surprise me if we really had aliens running somewhere around the Fallout Universe. It's the Fallout universe after all, the governament was controlled by a shadow governament, the USA governament created a plague to rid itself of population grow as show Van Buren, where it is revealled that New Plague (or Limit 115) is actually a population control virus that was acidentaly released to the world by a chinese stealth atack gone HORRIBLY WRONG, fusion energy and laser weaponry are used (who garantees that the USA didn't scavenge the tech from crashed alien ships? Huh?) and don't forget that vaults are social experiments! Fallout world is full of goddamn conspiracy theories! I could totally imagine some aliens trying to pull a "invade earth" thing, thinking that there was no resistance left due to the fall of governaments, only to be killed by gangs of Los Angeles welding energy weapons they brought off from the gun runners, hehehehehehe.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
I have a better question; do we need aliens in the Fallout universe?

NO!
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Seriously? Even with the whole 50's era Roswell UFO craze thing? It actually seems pretty appropriate to me that they exist as a limited special encounter type thing.
 
Ausir said:
Special encounters are not canon.
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The distinction is highly academic. Though I think aliens would have a place in the canon as well, as they fit into the overall theme of the game, the special encounters seems like the most appropriate way to include them in the actual game.
 
If they wanted to get crazy, some retro-ish "Mars Attacks" style aliens might work, but not those black tentacled things.

But all things considered, I don't see why they are needed at all.
 
Herr Mike said:
If they wanted to get crazy, some retro-ish "Mars Attacks" style aliens might work, but not those black tentacled things.

But all things considered, I don't see why they are needed at all.
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I think retro-aliens would be appropriate for Fallout. There is a incredible lot of inspiration in fifties material. Getting aliens that work in the world of Fallout would be easy for the guys of good ol' Black Isle. I would't trust Bethesda with the idea of aliens, though.

You gotta consider that there's Area 51 and Roswell. Who knows what happened there before the war... and after the war as well?

Don't forget that we don't even need aliens that are alive or even appear at all. Dead aliens experimented by the Enclave or manipulative aliens which manipulate many things though the shadows could be used as well. Or the simple hint that aliens were here once. Or not. Or maybe they were not aliens at all.

Fallout does not need aliens, but... who knows what is out there.
 
Lord Elden said:
I recall there were a large skulled skeleton in the Sierra Army Depot as well... Perhaps a "Grey" one?
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There was a holodisk explaining that one.
 
Giant monsters were common in 50's fiction also, we don't really need those in Fallout.

I think it's important to note that the world of Fallout is not 50's sci-fi, it's the real world, but it's as if 50's pop culture continued.

So instead of being in a 50's-style comic book, you might find a 50's-style comic book.
 
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