it broke my brain so hard my head canon just says there was a total icehouse nuclear winter that encased the whole world in ice for 200 years
but everyone has no idea and ghouls were idk unconscious and it’s just a blank spot. so the ice melts and you get a nuclear summer, toxic goo released like in Children of Time, and
radionucleotides become active again and react everywhere because the ice moderator is gone. oh and also every bomb was salted with Americium-241 and other crazy long lasting isotopes
holy shit why the hell did i think so hard about this
I get the sense 200 years is how long it took to recover to a point where nation-states are viable again. Based on in-universe text, the majority of the population died in the opening days of the nuclear exchange and much of the continent was left uninhabitable or ravaged by freak mutant animals that survivors or their aimless descendants couldn’t deal with. Not to mention the generational ennui of being the descendants of a civilization that would never be equalled in their lifetimes no matter how hard they tried.
There’s thriving settlements again by the time of FO1 which means at least a feudal stage, and the NCR reportedly has industrial manufacturing in some capacity by NV. The Legion only exists because Eddy Sallow rediscovered Rome and implemented a version of it himself.
yeah everything sitting around mostly intact (at least in the east coast) requires a sort of mass sterilization (so little organic decay) and obviously everyone mostly hiding in vaults or shelters. i know in game lore counters that but I just ignore it. or like you say, most locations were so depopulated it makes sense why there is still food sitting out because these were no-go zones until recently (like in FO4 or DC wasteland).
it broke my brain so hard my head canon just says there was a total icehouse nuclear winter that encased the whole world in ice for 200 years
but everyone has no idea and ghouls were idk unconscious and it’s just a blank spot. so the ice melts and you get a nuclear summer, toxic goo released like in Children of Time, and
radionucleotides become active again and react everywhere because the ice moderator is gone. oh and also every bomb was salted with Americium-241 and other crazy long lasting isotopes
holy shit why the hell did i think so hard about this
I get the sense 200 years is how long it took to recover to a point where nation-states are viable again. Based on in-universe text, the majority of the population died in the opening days of the nuclear exchange and much of the continent was left uninhabitable or ravaged by freak mutant animals that survivors or their aimless descendants couldn’t deal with. Not to mention the generational ennui of being the descendants of a civilization that would never be equalled in their lifetimes no matter how hard they tried.
There’s thriving settlements again by the time of FO1 which means at least a feudal stage, and the NCR reportedly has industrial manufacturing in some capacity by NV. The Legion only exists because Eddy Sallow rediscovered Rome and implemented a version of it himself.
yeah everything sitting around mostly intact (at least in the east coast) requires a sort of mass sterilization (so little organic decay) and obviously everyone mostly hiding in vaults or shelters. i know in game lore counters that but I just ignore it. or like you say, most locations were so depopulated it makes sense why there is still food sitting out because these were no-go zones until recently (like in FO4 or DC wasteland).
Because the Fallout setting is cool and the human mind wants things to make a certain degree of sense?