What happened to the Wannamingos?

ElloinmorninJ

ElloinmorninJ

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Okay, so after reading the Fallout Bible, I was curious as to the fate of Wannamingos.

What’s up with the “Genetic Deadman’s Switch” that keeps them from breeding past a certain generation? What did Chris Avellone mean by that?

It seems like the Wannamingos were breeding just fine, so how could a genetic clock be programmed to just...kill them all within 5 years? I don’t think there’s any biological mechanisms to do that (as far as I know) and if the reason why the have this is because they were created by the Pre-War government, why don’t he deathclaws also have a genetic timer to kill them to? And why was their timer set for “166 years after the war”
 
Because just like with the talking deathclaws being canonically killed to the last by Horrigan, it was a way of handwaving a regretful design point from Fallout 2.
 
Atomic Postman said:
Because just like with the talking deathclaws being canonically killed to the last by Horrigan, it was a way of handwaving a regretful design point from Fallout 2.
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What was wrong with the Wannamingos? They seemed to fit. Genetically engineered super beasts
 
ElloinmorninJ said:
I just wanted to know, through what mechanisms did their genetic kill switch work? It seemed like they were pretty numerous in F2
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And I'm pretty sure I killed every last one of those shits with a Flamer and FAL. they are dead and gone and never coming back. but if you want to know. Genetically hard coded that after so many cellular growth cycles a gene buried in their DNA would become active and render them sterile.

you know...because they suck.
 
They were bio-engineered organisms.
Created life.
They didn't evolve to reproduce.
It's like if they created an orb of flesh. It's not meant to reproduce, it's just meant to be an orb of flesh.
Somewhere along the way they fucked up though and a few of them managed to get the right genetic blueprint to be able to lay eggs.
But those were few. I think there's like 2 in the whole game. If they were canonically killed then that's the end of Wannamingo's.

Some things have to actually end. In contrast to super mutants and BOS which we can't seem to shake no matter where we go.
 
Deathclaws were I dunno, spliced or something from already existing animals who did evolve. As far as I know, Wannamingo's were bio-engineered. Deathclaws are basically a fancier way of dipping a lizard in an FEV vat. Wannamingo is building frankenstein out of cells.
 
Mr Fish said:
Deathclaws were I dunno, spliced or something from already existing animals who did evolve. As far as I know, Wannamingo's were bio-engineered. Deathclaws are basically a fancier way of dipping a lizard in an FEV vat. Wannamingo is building frankenstein out of cells.
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D-claws are pre-war US terror units formed out of Jackson's Chameleons; which the USM turned invisible and set them loose on the Chinese (and I guess other targets, domestic or foreign but that's just me musing).

Say hello to your doom:

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A few of them survived the bombs, got out, and as Jackson's Chameleons fuck everything else up but are oddly amicable to each other (as in, Males rarely fight each other physically) they were stable enough to eventually get back together, reproduce, have hives, etc. Along the way they lost their outright invisibility but again I muse that quite a few settlements after the war probably mysteriously fell to a bloody silence.....
 
The easy answer is the first reply, to get rid of what Chris thought was a poor design. But when I look at wanamingos I don't see xenomorphs anymore, I wish a future game could change their fate.
 
Ugly Kid said:
The easy answer is the first reply, to get rid of what Chris thought was a poor design. But when I look at wanamingos I don't see xenomorphs anymore, I wish a future game could change their fate.
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Me too. Even if it's a "legal" issue with the Xenomorphs, like I heard one guy say once, they could just say they're based off Dolichogenidea. That would make sense.
 
I don't need them to be cannonically anihiliated in the bible to not have them in the sequels. A local phenomeon works for me.
 
Poor Avellone. Systematically going through Fallout and exorcising all the stuff that was a little too "out there" only for bethesda to add the kid in the fridge and canon alien cities under the desert.
 
Malpais Dominus said:
Poor Avellone. Systematically going through Fallout and exorcising all the stuff that was a little too "out there" only for bethesda to add the kid in the fridge and canon alien cities under the desert.
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Not sure what you mean. None of that stuff returned in New Vegas? Fallout Bible is a great interlude between 2 and NV
 
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