Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth." Also on this day, Nuka-Cola Quantum is released to the public. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out of control. As Ron Perlman puts it in the intro to Fallout 2, "The earth was nearly wiped clean of life. On July 4, Vault 76 is opened to celebrate the US tricentennial. The US completes its annexing of Canada, and deploys T-51b power armor (made possible by nuclear fusion cells) in China. The President walks out of trade negotiations, declaring that US oil won't be for sale or trade. In 308 years time, the Valiant 11's dish will be repurposed to increase the distance over which Three Dog can play 'Butcher Pete' at people. The Valiant 11 lunar lander touches down and Captains Richard Wade, Mark Garris, and Michael Hagen of the USSA become the first astronauts to walk on the surface of the moon. The USA is divided into the Thirteen Commonwealths, each comprising several of the existing states, and changes its flag. According to the Museum of Technology in Fallout 3, "this has been constantly refuted by both the Soviet Union and China." 1969 1961Ĭaptain Carl Bell of the United States Space Administration, piloting the Defiance 7, becomes the first human in space. It's only after 1947, when transistors were popularized in our world but not that of Fallout, that divergence begins, and only in the 1960s that those differences becomes significant. The Pitt - Problems in The Mill - posted in Fallout 3 Technical Support: I'm experiencing two problems with The Pitt DLC, both on the Mill map:the ambient noise is missing, especially that of the forge presses, andthe 'Ammo Production' option disappears from the terminal immediately after I'm granted access to the ammo press.Does anyone have a clue what the problem is or, better yet, how to. While there have been references to events going back as far as the 17th century in the games (like the alien abductions in Fallout 3's Mothership Zeta expansion), the broad sweep of history in the Fallout universe resembles ours right up to the end of World War 2.
Below is a timeline of the major events in Fallout's alternate history as it exists right now.