What follows is a complete Fallout timeline of all events from every game.
Note that the
Fallout world is not our own, but rather one that has
diverged from ours soon after World War II. So, while it takes place in the future, it is not our future, but a future as imagined in traditional 1950s style science fiction. Note that the timeline is only for the chronological sequence of the Fallout world events, birthdates are not allowed here and must be put in the
birthdates page.
Sierra Army Depot is built. Its mission is to store and maintain a defensive supply of military ordnance. This mission continues until 1991.[4]
1943
The Los Alamos Nuclear Research and Development facility, codename: the
Reservation, completes construction. Los Alamos becomes part of the research team for the
Manhattan Project.[5]
1945
May 2: Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers, and World War II ends in
Europe.
August 6: The Little Boy nuclear bomb is deployed by the United States onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
August 9: The Fat Man nuclear bomb is deployed by the United States onto the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
September 2: Japan officially surrenders to the Allied Powers, and
World War II completely comes to an end. Sometime between now and 1961,
divergence occurs.
May 5: Captain
Carl Bell of the
United States Space Agency became the first human in space. This claim is disputed by both the
Soviet Union and
China. Captain Bell's flight in Space Capsule Defiance 7 lasted twelve minutes and seven seconds, and made a full revolution around the Earth. Bell died when the capsule crashed on its return to Earth.[6]
1969
By this year, the United States is divided into
thirteen commonwealths; each of which encompasses several states. The national flag is changed to reflect this and depicts fourteen stars - thirteen in a circle to represent the commonwealths and one in the middle to represent the federal government and the nation as a whole.[7]
July 16: The
Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 with U.S.S.A. astronauts Captain
Richard Wade, Captain
Mark Garris, and Captain
Michael Hagen lands on the Moon. The astronauts become the first humans to walk on a celestial body other than Earth.[6]
The mission of
Sierra Army Depot is changed. It is now responsible for the demilitarization of stores of surplus ammunition that have been deemed unfit or obsolete for military purposes. This mission is to be overseen by the Industrial Operations Command in cooperation with the
Environmental Protection Agency, providing a greener, cleaner way to dispose of military ordnance. The mission continued until 2050.[4]
An early bug in Mister Handy robots that caused interference in the operation of the multiple arms is fixed with a hardware update, with no major problems since then.[12]
2040
The
Tibbets Prison is commandeered by the
United States government in association with
Vault-Tec and
Poseidon Oil to tie into their
Project Safehouse. On April 5, 2040, the Secretary of the Army makes the decision to build a new Disciplinary Barracks, with a capacity for 456 inmates. A cost ceiling of $363 million in allocated construction dollars is set. The target budget year for funding this project is fiscal year
2041. Construction begins in fall of
2042, with completion projected for fall of the year
2045.[14]
The mission of
Sierra Army Depot is changed again. It is refurbished with the latest in technology and is from now on used as a secret research installation for developing and testing robotic, biological and conventional weapons until
2076.[4]
2051
Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on
Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military
enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border at Mexico's expense.[17]
The
N99 10mm pistol becomes standard issue military sidearm following the phase out of the
N80.[18]
2052
A television documentary revealing the withered husk of the
Texas oil fields brings the oil shortage into American households and reveals how deep the energy crisis runs.[17]
The widely known
Nuka-Cola’s Dazzling Blue bottle color was adopted as standard after market research programs indicated that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of a hundred polled.[16]
March 5: The socially transmitted "
New Plague" arises, killing tens of thousands. The United States closes its borders and the first-ever national quarantine is declared. The source of the plague is unknown, but rumors persist that it is a genetically engineered weapon.[19]
April: The
Resource Wars begin. Many smaller nations go bankrupt, and
Europe, dependent on oil imports from the
Middle East, responds to the Middle East's rising oil prices with military action. The long drawn-out war between the
European Commonwealth and the Middle East begins.[17]
May - July: The
United Nations, already suffering, begins to collapse. In a series of heated debates, many nations withdraw from the organization as the U.N. tries to keep the peace.[20]
July 26: The United Nations is officially disbanded.[21]
2053
ZAX 1.0 goes online, developed by
Vault-Tec. Initially a prototype of some of the systems designed to govern the vaults, it is given to the government to help the Department of Energy collect resource data. Within a year, it is taken by the military for plague and tactical research; one version,
ZAX 1.2, would later be constructed for
West Tek.[22]
January: Limited nuclear exchange in the
Middle East raises fears throughout the world.[17]
In light of the European-Middle Eastern War and the plague scare, the United States officially sets
Project Safehouse in motion. The project, financed by junk bonds, is designed to create shelters, called
Vaults, for the populace in the event of a nuclear war or deadly plague. Construction begins late in 2054 and proceeds rapidly due to advances in construction technology.[17]
ZAX 1.2 is brought in to regulate conditions in West Tek. It is not part of the Vault-Tec preservation software, so it does not have any orders to protect humanity after the bombs fall. In the meantime, it calmly calculates data and plays chess with the scientists. Many scientists claim that ZAX is a "big ol' cheater" and draws the game out too much for a computer of his considerable abilities.[17]
2057
February: United States government removes the
Grand Canyon's protected status as a national park.[24]
May: Uranium mining begins in the Grand Canyon.The Grand Canyon is closed indefinitely.[24]
The
Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in
Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions between the United States and
Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline.[17]
The first
artificial intelligence is born. Limited by memory constraints, its expansion is rapidly halted. The discovery paves the way for future A.I. research in laboratories throughout the United States.[17]
2060
Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on
automobiles, so alternatives are explored - electric and fusion cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only make limited amounts while conserving fuel. The U.S. economy teeters on bankruptcy. Pressure on fusion research increases.[17]
The European-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.[17]
The European Commonwealth dissolves into quarreling nation states, fighting over the remaining resources.[26]
Dr.
Willem Clark, a top nuclear physicist in his day, is put in charge of all scientific endeavors at the
Reservation.
Colonel Green, a career soldier in the U.S. army, is put in charge of security.[5]
August: The construction of most Vaults completed, except for
Vault 13, whose construction finally gets off the ground heralding a development cycle that seems plagued with problems. Drills begin in the other cities with completed Vaults, but the increasing frequency of the drills has a "cry wolf" effect, and the turnouts for drills trickle off as the years go on.[29]
June: Due to enormous demands for electricity from a 17+ million population, a nuclear reactor in
New York City goes supercritical, almost causing a meltdown. The near meltdown brings into effect power rationing, and the term "Hot Summer" is used to refer to this incident.[17]
August: Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit:
power armor. Research grows until 2067 and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction, and fusion technology.[17]
2066
The U.S. Navy missile cruiser
USS Ebon Atoll is accidentally sunk by the U.S. Navy Submarine
USS. Interference during the
Anchorage Campaign. The Interference mistook the Ebon Atoll for an enemy vessel and shot it with a nuclear torpedo killing all on board. It is one of the worst U.S. Navy disasters since World War II.[6]
Resource rationing in
Denver causes riots. Midwest U.S.A. and
Mexico start having food shortages and can't supply Denver with the food it needs. Food riots occur. National Guard called in.[32]
With more important things to spend their money on,
Poseidon Energy closes the inefficient and dangerous
Eagle Rock mine complex and sells it to the U.S. government.[13]
Spring: As the oil resources dry up across the globe,
China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the United States. The United States' unwillingness to export oil to China leads to a breakdown in talks between the two countries.[17]
Summer: Adding further insult to the Sino-American relations, the first crude
fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the power armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general U.S. infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power.[17]
Winter: As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries,
Canada proves reluctant to allow American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. American and Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and U.S. troops pass through Canada. This sets the stage for the
Canadian annexation in
2076.[33]
2067
The first suit of
T-45d power armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this power armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordnance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years behind the United States.[17]
By this year, a
Nuka-Cola machine can be found on almost every street in America.[16]
Senator
Todd Peterson decides to build a secret bunker to house himself and his family should war break out. Senator Peterson is a wealthy man in his own right, but lacks the funds necessary for such a project. Through secret dealings with
Poseidon Oil and a covert branch of the government known as the
Enclave, the final funding for the project is attained. A construction site is chosen in southern Colorado and work begins.
Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the U.S. draws upon Canadian resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian protests are unheard.[17]
February 11: By order of the U.S. government, all Patriot's Cookbook magazines are banned and incinerated. However, many magazines still remained in circulation.
March:
Vault 13 is finally completed - it is the last of the Vaults on the West Coast,[35] and drills begin. Due to its late completion, the "cry wolf" effect that hurt the other Vaults is not as pronounced.[29]
December: Construction of
Vault 106 and
Vault 108 ends. Vault 108 was in construction for 8 years due to work stoppage.[27]
2070
The first of the
Chryslus Motors fusion-driven cars are developed. Reassuringly big and American, the limited models carry a hefty price tag but are sold out within days. Many Chryslus plants have long since been converted into making military ordnance.[17]
The United States' increasing demand for Canadian resources causes protests and riots in several Canadian cities. An attempted sabotage of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to finalize its annexation of Canada, which had already begun in
2067.[33]
Completed
B.O.M.B. missiles are sent to different space centers around the U.S. so they can be carried into space and installed into the B.O.M.B. satellites. The process is slow, but it is being carried out fairly regularly.[5]
June 3:
Canada begins to be fully annexed by U.S.A. [36] It is fully integrated by January of 2076. [37]
2073
August: The Ballistic Orbital Missile Base, or
B.O.M.B.-001, is completed and partially functional (for security and maintenance bots) using a temporary onboard generator. The only things the base needs are the manually input final launch instructions and codes and the main power reactor.[38][39]
September 15: As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the United States government felt that a countermeasure was needed. The
Pan-Immunity Virion Project is officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the
West Tek Research Facility in Southern California.[40]
2074
Contrary to their claims of seeking only to retake Alaska from the Reds, American power armor units, infantry, and mechanized divisions are deployed to China, but they become bogged down on the mainland, putting a further drain on American resources and supply lines.
Government decision makers order the dumping of radioactive waste into
Eagle Rock's lower mines.
Enclave politics help secure a contract for
Poseidon Energy to develop and use their
Agricola mining robots in the operation of the dumping ground. Not surprisingly, the
Agricola lab turns out to be a pretty good bunker as well.[13]
June 24: Negotiations between the U.S. and other world powers come to a dramatic end, with the president walking out of oil talks with the other world powers. After a much heated debate, the president stormed out of the meeting and declared that the last known supply of petroleum will be used exclusively by the U.S. and the U.S. will not sell or trade any oil to outside parties.[17]
July: The new
Bloomfield Space Center completes construction. The facility's first task is to complete the space rockets
Hermes XIII and
Hermes XIV to fly to B.O.M.B.-001 and
-002 – respectively - (originally slated for a Mars mission before new orders arrived). The mission: have the crew deliver and install the bases' main power reactors, manually enter final launch instructions, manual check for safety nets and protocols, and do a manual inspection of the station.[38][39]
RobCo brings up plans to purchase
REPCONN Aerospace, threatening a hostile takeover otherwise.
March 21: PVP experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests of the virus on single-celled organisms. Experiments on plant cells are postponed. The pan-immunity virion is renamed
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).[42]
May 9: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on flatworms; the flatworms exhibit increase size and heightened resistance to viral contagions. Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by
Major Barnett.[42]
June 30: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects. Increased size, muscle density, and Intelligence are noted.[42]
November 9: FEV experimentation (batch 10-011) on rabbits is concluded. Increased size, Intelligence, and (this time) aggressiveness is noted. Apparently, it was hard to determine whether the flatworms in the previous experiments were angrier and more violent than normal. Frankly, the researchers cannot be blamed for this.[42]
January 3: A military team under the command of
Colonel Spindel is sent to the West Tek research facility to monitor the experiments in the interest of national security, due to fears of international espionage.[8] Captain
Roger Maxson (the grandfather of
John Maxson, the
High Elder of the
Brotherhood of Steel in
2161) is among the team personnel.[17]
January 12: Splicing in several new gene sequences into their test virus, dogs are injected with batch 11-101a at West Tek. Although increased strength was noted, increased intelligence was not. Using batch 11-011, experiments are conducted on raccoons. The same results are noted, but the attempted escape of several infected raccoons causes
Major Barnett to terminate the experiment... and the test subjects. Two pairs of raccoons, however, are unaccounted for.[42]
Note:
Scott Campbell and
Brian Freyermuth intended these escaped raccoons to form an intelligent animal community northwest of the
Glow called the "
Burrows". This location was never implemented.
January: The United States annexation of
Canada is complete. Canadian protesters and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests.[33]
April 15: Once all secondary tests and studies are done on the test subjects, all dogs from the batch 11-101a
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) tests at West Tek are terminated... from a safe distance.[42]
June:
Power armor prototype completed, resulting in the
T-51b power armor. This is the pinnacle of power armor technology before the
Great War. Many of these units are sent to
China, and they begin to carve a swath through the Chinese forces. The Chinese resources are strained to the breaking point, and the supply lines from the nations China has annexed begin to break down.[17]
August: Food and energy riots begin in major cities throughout the United States. Military units begin to be deployed in cities within the United States to contain rioters, and many temporary prisons are constructed. A state of emergency is declared, and martial law soon follows.[17]
August:
Hermes XIII and
XIV are completed, loaded with cargo and placed on the Bloomfield launch platform, awaiting the final funding, and the okay to launch.[38][39]
October: Production of B.O.M.B. nuclear missiles is put on hold due to budget cuts. The
Reservation is put on reserve.
October: Due to the seriousness of world events and the threat of nuclear war, Hermes' launch is postponed while funds are routed to
vault technology. Launch is rescheduled for 2077.[38][39]
October 4: At West Tek, fifteen chimpanzees are infected with batch 11-111. The most successful test to date, growth and immunities in the chimpanzees surpass all other subjects to date. The military practically drools over the results. Plans are made in secret to begin testing in small quarantine towns in North America, and the Mariposa Military Base construction is sped up in anticipation of moving the West Tek project to a location under military supervision.
November:
Enclave personnel seize control of Bloomfield Space Center and begin researching and developing a way to convert Hermes XIII and XIV into a personnel transports to transport important individuals off-planet.[38][39]
A Chinese sabotage attempt takes place at
Hoover Dam.[46]
New Plague hits
Denver. Rioters burn down large parts of the city in their fear of contamination and anger at their treatment. Many panic and flee the city by car, clogging the freeways when they run out of gas and trapping everyone behind them.[32]
January 7: Major Barnett orders transfer of all
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) research to the newly constructed Mariposa Military Base, despite objections by the research team.[42]
January 22: The first domestic use of power armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured and sent to military prisons.[17]
February: FEV Research is leaked to the world through an unknown source. Protests arise in many major cities and governments around the world, as well as accusations that the U.S. was responsible for the
New Plague. F.E.V. is seen as the threat, and serves only to fuel tensions. The governments of the world fear what the U.S. is up to. Speculating anything from trying to make a breed of super soldier, to trying to make Hitler's master race, they begin to panic.[17]
March: Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreat to the
Poseidon oil rig and make contingency plans for continuing the war.[17]
September 6: Technicians at the VSS Facility notice General Chase is making radical, unrealistic changes to the Anchorage simulation. They believe Chase is becoming obsessed with the simulation and is gradually going insane, but refrain from confronting him out of fear that they will lose their jobs to military contractors.
October 10: Captain
Roger Maxson and his men discover that the scientists at
Mariposa have been using "military volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in
brain bots) as test subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and in light of the mental breakdown of Colonel
Robert Spindel stationed at the base, Maxson's men turn to him for leadership.[47]
October 15: Colonel Spindel commits suicide. All scientists are executed.[47]
October 20: Captain Roger Maxson, now in control of Mariposa, declares himself to be in full desertion from the army (via radio)... and receives no reply.[47]
October 21: Maxson orders all families stationed outside the base moved inside the Mariposa facility.[47]
October 22: The
platinum chip is processed. It is due to be delivered via courier to
Mr. House the next day.
October 23: A pre-Halloween costume show was going to be on later that day, called Freddy Fear's House of Scares. The preparations were made that morning.
October 23:
L.O.B Enterprises is subjected to a raid by the federal agents in the early hours before the Great War.
October 23: The
Great War: bombs are launched; who struck first is unknown. Other countries, seeing the missiles on their way, launch their planes and fire their warheads as well. Air raid sirens sound, but very few people heed the warning, thinking it is a false alarm. The vaults are sealed. Two hours of nuclear bombardment ensues upon the earth's surface. The effects are far worse than most imagined. The earth's faults shift violently, thrusting mountain ranges through the soil. Whole lands are submerged under floods of water.[47]
October 23: In the confusion of the Great War,
Sally and her family are abducted by
mothership Zeta.
October 23: The
Sierra Madre gala event begins, but is cut short by the war. The casino hermetically seals itself, and the holographic security murders all of the guests except
Dean Domino.
October 23: Robert House becomes unconscious after suffering numerous system crashes due to the absence of the platinum chip which left him using obsolete operating systems for his defenses against the Great War
October 23:
Vault 12 fails to close properly. Once it becomes known that the other vaults have sealed, people within
Bakersfield attempt to force their way into Vault 12 to protect themselves and their families.[49]
October 23: The
West Tek research facility is hit by warheads, breaking open the FEV tanks on levels four and five and releasing it into the atmosphere. Mutated by radiation, it loses its mutagenic abilities, but it later complicates things for the
Master.[50]
October 23: The Mariposa Military Base survives, the soldiers within protected from the radiation and FEV flooding the wasteland.[47]
October 23: Surviving scientists and soldiers based in Los Alamos band together with other survivors they encounter for safety. They set up a temporary camp in a cliff dwelling at
Mesa Verde and attempt to contact the federal government for further instructions. No contact is ever made. A small vault is built into the cliff side to shield the only computer they have from the elements.[51]
October 23:
Salt Lake City is hit with 13 nuclear warheads and is mostly destroyed.
October 23: Two
Poseidon scientists are still trapped in the
Agricola lab. After four years, one dies of natural illness. After one more year, the other commits suicide.[13]
October 23: Due to the seismic activity, some radiation seeps into the sub-levels of the
Reservation. Even though the people underground are safe from the blasts, radiation eventually takes its toll.[5]
October 25: At Mariposa,
Platner, bound in power armor, is sent out to get specific readings on the atmosphere. He reports no significant radiation in the area surrounding the facility.[47]
October 27: After burying the scientists in the wastes outside of Mariposa, the soldiers seal the military base, then head out into the desert, taking supplies and weapon schematics with them. Captain Maxson leads his men and families to the government bunker at
Lost Hills.[47][52]
Note: Although Maxson's points in his holodisk indicated that civilian personnel (presumably families of the scientists or other civilians not associated with the military) were to remain at the base, whether they did or not is unknown.
October 30: A week after the initial blast, a black rain begins to fall, caused by the massive amounts of radioactive particle debris (mainly soot) from the nuclear firestorm a week earlier. Plants and animals both go rapidly into extinction.[17]
November: Captain Maxson, his men, and their families, arrive at the Lost Hills bunker a few weeks later, suffering many casualties along the way, including Maxson's wife (but not his teenage son). The surviving soldiers go on to become the
Brotherhood of Steel.
November: Ms.
Carrie Delaney is the last adult to leave Little Lamplight Caves in search for help. Ten year old child
Jason Grant takes charge in her absence.
November 2: Psychoactive drugs are released throughout
Vault 106.
2078
The dwellers of
Vault 87 are locked in airtight chambers and exposed to the
FEV by the Vault's
Overseer and his security, who are simply, though callously, following the "plan" laid out by
Vault-Tec. The vault's population is transformed into hideous
super mutants and centaurs.[25]
The city of kids,
Little Lamplight is officially founded. By unanimous vote Jason Grant is named as the city's first mayor.
The first effects of radiation are seen in the survivors. Widespread mutations occur with animals and humans alike. Those that survive the effects of the mutations are permanently changed. New species are created almost overnight.[17]
John Bloch's military group makes a peace-protection pact with local ranchers.[53]
2081
The
Skynet AI, in Sierra Army Depot, becomes self-aware, according to its own records.
2082
Five years after the
Great War, some aspects of the world begin to calm down. Radiation and poison levels are still too high for a normal human to survive.[54]
Spring:
Set takes control of Necropolis, wresting control from the original Overseer. The Vault 12 Overseer, not willing to take a dirt nap, is driven north and history loses sight of him.[17]
2085
The planned date for the U.S. military to bring the
VB-02 Vertibird, a Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, into service.[6] For obvious reasons, this never happens, but the
Enclave resumes development after regaining its footing.
2087
December: After most of the initial survivors in the
Reservation succumb to radiation, those "fortunate" enough to not die have turned into ghouls. And after spending ten years underground, they finally come back to the surface. Twelve ghouls, including Dr.
Willem Clark, volunteer to search the wastes in the hopes of finding other survivors.[5]
2088
The computer in
Mesa Verde fails. The scientists resort to carving their most important schematics into the kiva walls.[51]
December: Of the twelve volunteers to explore the wastes, only one comes back to the Reservation; Dr. Willem Clark. However, he has brought back a few dozen fellow ghouls to seek shelter at the Reservation.[5]
2089
Scientists in Mesa Verde began to drill the village children in the ways of mathematics and science so that knowledge is not forgotten. They hope that their descendants will one day help bring civilization back to the wasteland.[51]
January: After explaining the hardships and prejudices placed against ghouls by smoothskin
humans, the ghouls of the Reservation proclaim Dr. Willem Clark as their leader. Willem further solidifies his place as leader by explaining his plans to one day make the ghouls the rightful and true heirs to the Promised Earth and that becoming a ghoul was the next, logical step in the evolutionary process.[5]
2090
Vault 29 opens.
Harold sets out to make his fortune as a trader, making the circuit around the survivalist communities in the wasteland.[17]
2091
Vault 8 opens, and they use their
G.E.C.K. to create fertile ground for their city. This eventually becomes
Vault City.[17]
Note: While
Lynette says that the city was founded 120 years ago, which would place the event around 2120, the
Chosen One later says that it's 70 years before the
Vault Dweller left
Vault 13. This probably means that Fallout 2 was initially meant to take place earlier, and the dialogue file was not corrected.
Dr. Richard Moreau is exiled from Vault City for murder. The circumstances surrounding the murder are unknown, but he changes his last name to Grey and heads south.[17]
2093
The Hub is founded by a man named
Angus, who sets up camp around a filthy oasis in the desert, and he proceeds to begin trading with other settlements.[17]
2095
September 20 - November 15: 28 Mexican survivors, 11 male, 8 female and 9 children, arrive in Zion canyon and settle down.
2096
Harold rises to the level of a caravan boss in the Hub. His caravans suffer occasional attacks in the wastes, but Harold's caravan outfit survives and prospers... until the mutant attacks begin to pick up a few years later.[17]
February: The inhabitants of
Vault 22 leave their vault due to an outbreak of mutated spores infecting most of the dwellers and overrunning the Vault.
February 11: About 118 survivors of Vault 22 move out of the
Mojave Wasteland and travel to
Zion Canyon. Most are infected with the spores and bring
spore carriers and
spore plants to the Zion Valley and attack/kill most of the Mexican survivors already in Zion.
February 14: According to Randall Clark, the Vault 22 survivors eat the Mexican survivors they took captive.
February 19 - January 13, 2097:
Randall Clark begins to ambush the
Vault 22 survivors and continues to until the remaining 34 survivors leave Zion.[55][56]
2097
January:
J. Hendricks becomes overseer of the remaining Vault 22 survivors, and as his first order as overseer orders everyone to leave Zion canyon.
January 13: The thirty-four Vault 22 survivors leave Zion Canyon after 10 months of ambushes from Randall Clark.
A man named
Jonathan Faust leads his group of about 200 people from the overcrowded
Vault 15 into the wastes of the outside. Eventually they become a raider band known as the
Vipers.[57]
May 22: Increasing mutant attacks on Harold's caravans frustrate him to the point of financing and leading an expedition to find out where the mutants are coming from. Consulting with a scientist and doctor at
the Hub, a man by the name of
Grey, the two of them decide to join forces.[17]
June 23: Richard Grey's expedition (including Harold) finds the
Mariposa Military Base and is summarily scattered and defeated by the mutant inhabitants. Grey is knocked into one of the vats of
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) by a robotic arm, and Harold is knocked unconscious, only to awaken later out in the wasteland.[17]
June 27: Harold, already mutating, is found by traders and taken back to the Hub. His former caravan partners and employees, horrified by his condition, abandon him.[17]
July:
Richard Grey, now horribly mutated by the virus, crawls from the vat, covered with FEV and in terrible pain. Barely able to think or perceive his surroundings, he crawls into the vat control room and begins his audio log. He fades in and out of consciousness, sometimes for days or weeks at a time.[17]
July–November: Richard Grey begins to acclimate to his condition, and begins his first tests of animals by exposing them to FEV. These experiments and his growing awareness lay the foundation for his plans for the
Unity and the master race. He takes the name "
the Master".[17]
November: The first human victim wanders into Mariposa, and Grey consumes him.[17]
December: Grey continues his experiments on wanderers that enter Mariposa with no success. The creations are flawed (due to the radiation counts in their bodies), making them big but incredibly stupid, and Grey consumes them rather than letting them live.[17]
2103
January: The Master discovers the problem with the influence of radiation on his mutations, and he begins to choose his subjects more carefully. The first classic
super mutants are born. He begins his plans to build an army.[17]
2103-2130: Throughout this period, the Master begins slowly gathering test subjects, willing or unwilling, from local human stock. The
Great Winter of 2130 and the scarcity of human subjects make building his army difficult.[17]
2120
Angus rules over growing Hub and establishes himself as governor.[17]
Skynet is given final orders by
its masters, then left to rot in Sierra Army Depot.
2123
April 25: 24 children, half boys, half girls, arrive in
Zion Canyon from an unknown place.
2124
January 2–23:
Randall Clark begins leaving gifts, like books and medicine, and notes for the children to make the most of their new home. He signs every note as "The Father". The children later form the tribe the
Sorrows.
January: Randall Clark dies peacefully on top of
Red Gate.
2125
Winter: Angus is murdered. The Hub is thrown into chaos.[17]
2126
A band of merchants seizes the water tower in the Hub. They demand anyone wanting water must pay a toll. The
Great Merchant Wars begin.[17]
2126-2128: The Great Merchant Wars are fought, the Water Merchants seal up the town, but are outnumbered.[17]
A man named
Roy Greene makes peace in the Hub and negotiates a settlement. The
Hub's central council is formed, composed of two representatives from each of the Hub caravan companies. A long period of indecisiveness and meetings maintain the status quo in the Hub.[17]
2131-2135: The Master begins ordering his super mutants to gather human stock from caravans. For many years, the caravan disappearances are blamed on monsters in the desert, and even when the abductions begin to occur on Hub caravans, the
deathclaws are blamed. The super mutant army grows.[17]
2134
A faction within the
Brotherhood of Steel led by Sergeant
Dennis Allen gains strength, and they urge the Elders to let them explore the southeast
Glow for artifacts. The Elders refuse, so Allen and his separatist group splits away from the Brotherhood of Steel, taking some technology and weapons with them.[17]
Led by Sergeant Dennis Allen, a small group of Brotherhood of Steel separatists make their way to the West Tek research facility in search of technological artifacts. They arrive there twenty days later, and are promptly chewed apart by the West Tek's unforgiving automated defense systems. Wounded, Allen begins to suffer radiation poisoning from a leak in his suit. Before he dies, he logs what happened to the expedition into a holodisk.[17]
2135
Elder
Roger Maxson dies of cancer, and his son, already an accomplished soldier, takes up the role of "General" (Elder) within the Brotherhood of Steel.
John Maxson becomes a member of the Paladins, showing tremendous promise as a soldier.[17]
2137
The Master begins to mass-produce super mutants. Only about one in six or one in five attempts are successful, and of these successes, only half seem to last to go on to be part of his growing army, called the
Unity.[17]
2138
The cryogenically frozen
Robert House regains consciousness.[59]
Around the early 2150s the
Vipers recover from their defeat by
Angus at the Hub, replenish their ranks from captured slaves and caravan drivers, and begin to establish a power base in the badlands to the North of the Hub (and south of the
Lost Hills Bunker). Driven by a religious frenzy (and the need to provide for their much larger numbers of soldiers and disciples), they begin raiding more frequently than before, attracting the attention of the
Brotherhood of Steel.[57]
2152
As their influence slowly spreads throughout the wastes, the Master finds humans, doomsday cultists, and rather than dip them in the vats, he demands their obedience as spies - their leader is a man named
Morpheus, an ex-member of the gang called the
Rippers, and he pledges his followers to the Master. Morpheus and his cultists form the future core of the
Children of the Cathedral.[17]
2154
Vault 17 was raided and its inhabitants taken prisoner by the
Master's Army. They were subsequently turned into super mutants, among them
Lily Bowen.
2155
The
Gun Runners begin their career as successful weapon manufacturers and merchants.[60]
The Brotherhood sends out a few squads of scouts to track the
Vipers down - it is more of a training exercise conducted by John Maxson's father, as the Brotherhood is convinced that small detachment of troops in power armor would be sufficient to deal with a group of raiders, no matter how large. One Brotherhood squad, lead by Maxson, finds the Vipers. Expecting the raiders to break and run, Maxson doesn't take into account the religious ferocity of the Vipers (or their poisoned weapons), and when a single arrow nicks him with his helmet off, he dies within hours.
John Maxson takes up the role of Elder, and
Rhombus becomes the new head of the Paladins.[57]
The Paladins, now led by Rhombus, begin a full scale campaign against the Vipers, tracking them down and wiping out almost all of their members within the span of a month. Some of the Vipers are able to flee north and east into the mountain range.[57]
Note:According to Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible #6, the Vipers were never heard from again. It was added there possibly because they don't appear in the final game, but it is inconsistent with Fallout, where the Vipers are mentioned by several characters (
Ian,
Aradesh,
Killian) as still being around. The surviving Vipers must have therefore been still active in California until at least
2161. Furthermore, small groups of Vipers can be found in the
Mojave Wasteland in
2281.
After capturing a caravan of vault dwellers, the Master learns the location of the
Boneyard Vault, the future site of
the Cathedral. He conquers the inhabitants and sets up operations there, and the human cultists begin to use the Vault as their powerbase. Within the Vault, the Master begins to send out patrols to Vault locations in search of these other Vaults. This move is finalized in the subsequent year, 2156.[17]
2156
The Master sees advantages in establishing a benevolent "religion" (the Children of the Cathedral), and using them as spies in settlements throughout the wastes. Missionaries from the Children of the Cathedral spread slowly across the wasteland, acting as eyes and ears for Morpheus and the Master.[17]
2157
The Master learns the location of the Bakersfield Vault,
Vault 12, and sends a detachment of super mutants there to seize the vault. Many
ghouls are snapped like twigs in the attack, and
Set finally parleys with the super mutants, telling them that the ghouls are the Vault survivors the super mutants are looking for. The super mutants, angered at failing to find an intact Vault, set up a small garrison at the watershed to watch the inhabitants and ensure Set's...cooperation in the war to come.[17]
2159
Jon Zimmerman hires a band of mercenaries known as the
Regulators to help protect
Adytum from the deathclaw and the odd random attack by raiders.[61]
October: A Brotherhood of Steel patrol comes across a dead super mutant in the badlands. They take the corpse back to the Scribes, and Head Scribe
Vree begins her examinations of the super mutant.[17]
December: Killian Darkwater takes firm control of Junktown, drives out the last of
Gizmo's kind, and then enforces his own brand of frontier justice. Life is fair and safe under his law.
December: Thanks to the Vault Dweller's persistence, the
Khans are completely destroyed, leaving only one survivor named
Darion.
January 5: Someone starts stealing water from the magazine in
Vault 13.
January 17: The Vault Dweller reaches
the Hub and negotiates with the
Water Merchants to deliver water to Vault 13, buying the Vault some time.[17]
January: With the Vault Dweller's assistance,
Harold brings the new recent ghoul population of the Hub into equality with the humans. The two sides work together, and the Hub prospers.
February 13: The Vault Dweller recovers the water chip in
Necropolis.
Ian is killed by a
super mutant and reduced to a cinder.[17]
March 24: The
Master's Army attack
Necropolis, killing all of the ghoulish inhabitants except
Lenny,
Cain and another ghoul hiding behind a library, leaving a truly dead city behind them.
April 20: The Vault Dweller destroys the
Mariposa Military Base. Dogmeat, being colorblind, doesn't recognize a forcefield and charges into it, dying defending his master.[17]
May 10: Fallout ends - The Vault Dweller returns to Vault 13, only to be told to leave by
Jacoren. Some members of the vault (led by
Theresa, the head of the "return to the surface" faction, and including her supporters,
Pat and
Lyle), follow soon afterwards. The Vault Dweller marches into the wasteland, leaving Vault 13 behind him.[17]
May 23: {{cut}} The Master's Army would invade the
Lost Hills bunker.
The
Brotherhood of Steel helps the other human outposts drive the
Master's Army away with minimal loss of life, on both sides of the conflict. The advanced technology of the Brotherhood is slowly reintroduced into
New California, with little disruption or chaos. The Brotherhood of Steel wisely remains out of the power structure, and becomes a major research and development house.
July 2: {{cut}} The Master's Army would invade
Junktown.
July 22: The Master's Army would invade
Shady Sands.
2163
April 19: The Master's Army invade Vault 13, ultimately ending the game. (Original unpatched game)
2165
May 12: Vault Dweller removes his
Vault suit and from this day forward, never wears it again.[17]
July 10: The Vault Dweller heads north with a small group of fellow vault dwellers and wastelanders and founds the small village of
Arroyo.[17]
With their village having outgrown available space and resources, many
Ciphers adopt a nomadic lifestyle, returning to the village only occasionally to resupply or raise children until they're old enough to walk on their own.[51]
2185
Summer: At high noon, super mutant
Marcus and Brotherhood of Steel Paladin
Jacob cross paths many, many miles southwest of Broken Hills and punch and shoot each other for a few days. Eventually, they give up, laughing, unable to get an advantage over the other. The two start traveling together, arguing over
Unity and Brotherhood of Steel doctrine and whether or not the
Master could truly neurolink his biology into
the Cathedral computer network.[17]
Fall: Marcus and Jacob, along with a collection of ghouls, humans, and super mutant followers, found the community of
Broken Hills.[17]
2186
In
Shady Sands,
Tandi helps her father
Aradesh bring a new community and new life out of the broken remains of the world. They are responsible for the
New California Republic, whose ideals spread across the land.[17]
Spring: Jacob says goodbye to Marcus, then moves on for parts unknown.[17]
The New California Republic is voted into existence as a sprawling federation of five states: Shady Sands,
Los Angeles,
Maxson,
the Hub and
Dayglow.
The
Followers of the Apocalypse rise to become a major influence in New California. Thanks to the Vault Dweller's help, they gain control of the LA
Boneyard.
The
Enclave resumes work on various pre-War technologies, including
power armor variations. None of these are much of an improvement over the conventional old power armor, and some are actually worse.[17]
After years of trying the "natural" way, the
ghouls of the
Reservation discovered they were indeed sterile. Dr.
Willem Clark and
Dr. Sebastian begin to devise a plan to create a viable way for ghouls to procreate.[5]
January 16: After writing
his memoirs, Vault Dweller vanishes from
Arroyo and is presumed dead. The Vault Dweller leaves the
Vault Suit behind, folded on the bed. Some say the Vault Dweller was taken by the sky spirits, others say that the Vault Dweller felt it was time to move on and leave the Elders to guide Arroyo to its destiny.[17]
February 2: The One-Moon (Month) Cycle of mourning for the Vault Dweller ends, and activity in Arroyo begins to return to normal.[17]
February 2: Final training of the vault dweller's daughter for the role of
Village Elder begins. She undergoes a great deal of physical training and tutoring in various sciences, mathematics, and, of course, weapon skills.[17]
Just after the arrival of the
Initiate in Carbon, the vault dweller also arrived in the town and settled for a while.[63]
2209
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel ends - With the indications of the Vault Dweller, the
Initiate found the city of
Los, destroyed the
Church of the Lost and come into the
Secret Vault. They activate the self-destruct system inside and took the escape
monorail leading to an exit in the mountains, causing the destruction of the
Attis Army, Los and the Secret Vault, and ending the
Texas Expedition of the
Brotherhood of Steel.[63]
2210
January 31: The Vault Dweller's daughter takes her mystic test, a key ingredient of which is several pots worth of hallucinogenic plants from
Hakunin's garden. She runs the gauntlet in the
Temple of Trials, using her charm to pass most of the tests after her handgun jams (and is ruined) on the first level. She offers numerous criticisms of the test, resulting in many revisions.[17]
Note: The broken handgun is the one you see on her table in the opening movie of Fallout 2.
February 2: The Vault Dweller's daughter ascends to role of Village Elder. She rules with a steady hand, and her wisdom is greatly respected.
2215
Under Presidential Order, Enclave scientists begin to work on an upgraded version of power armor. Many prototypes are developed and tested.[17]
August 1: Congressman
Dick Richardson rises to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his father, President Richardson.[17]
2220
The
Reservation begins to purchase human
slaves from the various tribes around the region. The ghouls trade what weapons they make in their underground smithies for healthy humans. The healthiest are used for the ghoul procreation experiments, while the rest work until they die from exhaustion and disease.[5]
New Jerusalem's intolerant prophet and apostles repeatedly vote to have no commerce with outsiders from other, failed communities, refugees, or
tribals.[28]
March 5: Congressman
Richard "Dick" Richardson is elected president for the first term of five, through aid and political pressure by his father (the previous President Richardson).[17]
October: Enclave scientists develop a reliable version of the Mark II power armor. The prototype results (and accidents... and explosions... and deaths) are classified by order of the new President Richardson for the sake of morale.[17]
2227
July: After years of research and experimentation,
Dr. Sebastian successfully creates a
born ghoul through procreation in the
Reservation. The human host, like all the ones preceding him, dies during childbirth (evidently hosts can be male or female).[5]
August: The first successful Born ghoul. Due to the radioactive chemistry of the ghouls, the first Born ghoul rapidly grows into adulthood within a month. The Born ghoul is named
Measles due to his large, swollen glands in his jaw. Only three other Born ghouls will be birthed between this year and 2253. The procreation experiment only has a 2% success rate.[5]
The
Boomers, wandering in the Mojave Wasteland seeking a new refuge, come across the
Nellis Air Force Base and settle in what will become their new refuge.[65]
Jeremy Maxson, the Brotherhood of Steel High Elder, decides that it was time to expand BOS operations into the east. He sends an expeditionary force composed of five paladins to confirm the location of
Peterson's bunker. The expedition leader,
Andrea Brixley, discovers the bunker, disables its security, and opens it for habitation. For over a decade she and her fellow paladins explore the east and forge relationships with many of the tribes that inhabit the area.
A number of angry
tribals, raiders, and disassociated attackers gang up on
New Jerusalem and sack it, killing most of the
Mormons in the process.[28]
2235
The Enclave experiments on
deathclaws, attempting to create special fighting units for waging war in hostile environments.[17]
While there had already been a small number of ghouls in the area soon to become the town of
Gecko, the population swells and the town of Gecko is formed. The new influx of ghouls bring scavenged technology and know-how, and the power plant in Gecko becomes operational later that year. Vault City looks upon their new neighbors with growing concern.[17]
The new Mormon living prophet,
Judah Black, leads most of the remnants of the Mormon community north to
Ogden, Utah. They establish the town of
New Canaan.[28][66]
2236
Working with some squatters, the Mormons get the
Jericho Water Plant running fresh water into New Canaan.[28]
July–August: Enclave scientists and chemical corps scour the remains of Mariposa, while assault squads comb the desert for slaves they can use to excavate the military base and get to the
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) vats. One of the squads includes soldier
Frank Horrigan, age 25 at the time, recently removed from duty on the President's Secret Service detail to take some R&R time in the wastes after some undocumented psychotic blunder or another.[17]
August:
Melchior is captured by an Enclave patrol and becomes part of the slave excavation force at Mariposa.[17]
September: Enclave construction crews and super mutant slaves begin excavations. They uncover the FEV, and mutations begin to occur in the human workers. Frank Horrigan comes into contact with the FEV and is sent to the Enclave labs for study.[17]
October: Melchior begins to mutate, but keeps his intelligence and cunning in the wake of the transformation, making him smarter than your average super mutant. Realizing that the Enclave will kill the super mutants after they get the FEV data, he begins to use his magician talents to hide away weapons for the mutants to defend themselves when the Enclave decides to dispense with them.[17]
2236-2238: Horrigan gradually mutates from exposure to FEV, gaining the physique and slow, stupid, single-mindedness of a super mutant. He is kept heavily sedated, operated on, and studied. He is conscious for only brief periods at a time, then quickly sedated after the bloodshed is over.[17]
January: The Enclave, having obtained the FEV data, abandons the military base site after more mutations occur, causing a second generation of
super mutants to arise - the Enclave leaves a single squad behind to wipe out the super mutants, but the mutants, using armaments they have cached in the base during excavation, reduce the squad to ashes after suffering heavy casualties. The remaining first and second generation super mutant slaves decide to remain in the base, and the group forms a new community.[17]
2238
Harold arrives in
Gecko, and (with a lot of shaking of his head) he does his best to help the ghouls with the running of the Nuclear Power Plant.[17]
NCR explorers discover
Eagle Rock and quickly realize that it is a source of energy and some water—albeit a dangerous source. Within the year, NCR miners are there, and more come shortly thereafter. Many of them are dregs/outcasts from other communities. The town of
Burham Springs is established by
Trent Burham, a wealthy NCR mine merchant.[13]
2239
January 23: Tests begin to run dry on
Frank Horrigan. It is suggested that he be used as a field operative and be used in tests in the wasteland against local populations.[17]
March 27: Frank Horrigan is manufactured for his new role. A new version of power armor is built to accommodate his mass, and he is sealed inside. After a few horrifically successful field tests, Horrigan becomes the Enclave's solution to numerous sticky problems.[17]
March: Raider attacks on caravans to Vault City begin.[17]
May 15: Fallout 2 intro - The
Enclave sends a coded sequence to
Vault 13, activating its central computer and declaring that it is time to leave the vault.
Martin Frobisher gathers the Vault 13 dwellers together for the "Leaving The Vault" video, a tutorial movie of Vault-Tec about the rules to follow when vault dwellers left their vault.
May 16: Less than a day later, Vault 13 is opened, only to be greeted by two Enclave verti-assault squads. The squads kill three of the vault dwellers who were "resisting capture" and storm Vault 13, kidnapping all the inhabitants.
May 17: Enclave animal handlers drop an intelligent deathclaw unit into Vault 13 from a safe distance to kill anyone investigating the vault and cloak the Enclave's presence. Other intelligent deathclaws are sent into the desert surrounding Vault 13 to check for any escapees or witnesses.
July 25, 08:24: Fallout 2 begins - The
Chosen One begins his mystic test, descending into the
Temple of Trials like his mother before him.
Nuclear Nellie, a howitzer style gun capable of firing a nuclear shell, is made functional at the
Reservation. A "dirty" shell is created to use on Willem’s enemies. However, since the heavy lift cable is broken, there is no way to bring the gun from its underground lair.[5]
Jeremy Maxson renames
Todd Peterson's bunker after his famous ancestor,
Roger Maxson. He then sends a full compliment of troops for occupation.
Andrea Brixley is promoted to Elder, given the rank of General, and placed in charge. The remainder of her exploratory team is given the title of Elder as well.
January 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the second time.
April 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the third time, without regard to the progress of the Chosen One.
July 20:
Arroyo is attacked by Enclave soldiers, and the villagers are enslaved and brought to the
Oil Rig. The Chosen One has a fourth and final
vision of Hakunin.
Fall: Fallout 2 ends - The Chosen One enters the Enclave's oil rig using the damaged tanker and destroys the Poseidon oil platform, killing the President of the United States and ending the Enclave's plans for world domination.[17]
After the Enclave's destruction, the refugees of Arroyo and Vault 13 resettle, building a new community with the aid of the
Garden of Eden Creation Kit. Finding themselves hundreds of miles from their Vault, the members of Vault 13 choose to join the villagers in establishing a new community, and their technical expertise, combined with the villagers survival skills, allow the new settlement to grow and prosper. Two generations of the same bloodline are re-united, and their savior, the Chosen One, becomes Elder, presiding over the village in the years to come.
The
Arroyo elder lives for many years after the destruction of the Enclave. She seems pleased that the ancient separation between
Vault 13 and the
Vault Dweller has been reconciled, and many are the times she tells the
Chosen One she wished the Vault Dweller were alive to have seen the reconciliation take place. Certain that the safety of the new village had been secured and the new community was flourishing, the Elder passes away a few months later in her sleep. Many of the older Arroyo residents believe that she now lives in the vault of the sky, telling the Vault Dweller of the Chosen One's brave deeds.
Relations between the
Slags and residents of
Modoc flourish. Between the two peoples, Modoc prospers and becomes a major farming community, supplying all the outlying regions with food. [citation needed]
Metzger's slave trade in
the Den expands greatly, giving him influence and power throughout most of the area. Breeding pens are started and eventually no one is safe from the threat of being enslaved. Travelers avoid the Den, hearing of the evils committed within its walls.
Optimizing
Gecko's power plant becomes the first step in forging a spirit of cooperation between Gecko and
Vault City. Gecko's increased power production becomes instrumental in helping Vault City's expansion.
In the years following the destruction of the Enclave, Vault City continues to stagnate, choking on its own isolationism. Its
Vault 8 generator, which was never intended to support such a large population, prevents Vault City's necessary expansion. Eventually, the city is absorbed by
NCR, which has spread steadily northwards since its founding. [citation needed]
Not long after the destruction of the Enclave, the
Bishop family of
New Reno is blessed with a
child. This child seems to have little in common with the Bishops, preferring instead to spend his days exploring the wastes. When he turns thirteen, he seizes control of the Bishop family and leads them to victory over the remaining New Reno families. He dies quietly in his sleep at the age of seventy-three, never having known his real father.
Though the
Wright family never completely recovers from
Richard's death, the knowledge that the killer had been brought to justice eases their troubled sleep.
Myron dies less than a year after the defeat of the Enclave, stabbed by a
jet addict while drinking in
the Den. His discovery of jet is quickly forgotten, and now there is no one who remembers his name.
The Chosen One still hears mention of
Harold from time to time. Apparently, the tree growing from his head has gotten larger, and if rumors are to be believed, fruit is growing from it. The seeds are said to remarkably tough, and several of them have taken root even in the most barren stretches of the wasteland.
Several years after buying the
Excavator Chip from the Chosen One,
Marge LeBarge is able to purchase and control both the
Morningstar and the newly opened
Kokoweef mines. Marge is an easy choice for Mayor, and using her new political power, she makes
Redding join the growing New California Republic in return for a seat in the NCR's
Hall of Congress. [citation needed]
With the destruction of the conspiracy to destroy the mutants,
Broken Hills begins to thrive. Then the uranium ran out. The city, having lost its sole reason for existing, slowly disperses. The residents carry their riches with them, leaving the place a wind-swept, desolate ghost town. A few hold-outs remain, attempting to eke out a pathetic existence, but eventually, they too, disappear.
Inspired by the example set by the Chosen One,
Marcus eventually travels across the great mountains to the east, searching for other refugees from the
Master's army. The Chosen One never hears from him again.
With the support the Chosen One secured from the New California Republic, the Vault 15 squatters soon become self-sufficient and productive members of society. [citation needed]
The Chosen One's help with
Vault 15 launched the New California Republic's push to civilize its neighbors. Though there were many more obstacles to overcome, the NCR now had a foothold into the northern wastes.
By eliminating the
deathclaws of Vault 13, the Chosen One banishes yet another species to the realms of extinction, proving, once again, that genocide is a viable solution to any problem...
The
Shi flourish, creating a botanical scourge on the radiation surrounding their beloved town. Though this vine cannot grow in other soils, the Shi take care to nourish it in their lands. They continue to grow in strength and prominence, forming the basis of a new empire.
The destruction of the Enclave erases all trace of
President Richardson from history. Now the title of "President" is used simply as a boogieman used to frighten children.
As for the
Tanker vagrants... well, as vagrants do, they drift on.
2244
Refugees begin arriving in
New Canaan in large numbers, telling stories about a war in the west.[66]
During the expedition, Sallow discovers a cache of historical books, some of them regarding ancient Rome, including Commentarii by Julius Caesar himself, which fascinates the young man.[59]
Graham, Calhoun and Sallow are captured by the
Blackfoot tribe for ransom. The young Sallow uses his knowledge to train the tribals in the art of warfare, impressing them enough to become their leader.[59]
Sallow assumes the name of ancient Roman emperor
Caesar and makes Joshua Graham his right-hand man. He decides to create an empire modeled after the historical Roman Empire, intending to erase the tribals' individual identities and replace them all with a single, monolithic culture - the Legion.[59]
After coming out of a strange and powerful fever,
Jeremiah Rigdon claims that an angel appeared to him in a vision, calling him to be the living prophet of god.[28]
2248
President
Tandi becomes ill and dies at the age of 103. Her vice-president
Joanna Tibbett is sworn in as new President of the NCR.[59]
Back in the West, "the 370 Raid" occurs.
Porter's group try to rob the
NCR Storehouse and Bank to seize the payroll to pay his men. They were caught by NCR and ended up "blowing" the vault and totally ruining the future ability to settle the payment problems in the area (exact circumstances are unknown, Porter's group didn't actually steal the money, but it's gone nonetheless). Captured, sold out by Spineless Stan Lowery (a man in the 370 team who didn't participate in the raid because he was afraid they'd be killed trying). Porter still feels guilty about his role in the collapse of the eastern part of NCR, since his actions blew any chance of the economy stabilizing. Porter and his gang are arrested and imprisoned in Black Canyon.[32]
Members from Porter's team escape many times, though there's nowhere to run and they are caught or surrender. At least one escape was planned by NCR Lt. Gov Dodge (Dodge hoped that Porter will loop back to pick up the money from the blown vault, but the escape he arranged only resulted in the 308th getting free, not the 370th, and since Porter didn't steal the vault money anyway he wouldn't know where to find it).[32]
A lucrative slave trade is established with Caesar’s Legions and the Blackfoot tribe.
Caesar declares himself the son of Mars, Roman god of war.[59]
Porter's gang (the 370th) and the 308th put on work-release to
Denver. The work-release also made more room in the prison for some more dangerous prisoners, as the place was getting overcrowded. The prisoners travel with hobos, dodge tribals, lose about half their numbers (from clashes with slavers, tribals, radscorpions, and other monsters).[32]
Daniel goes to find his six cattle in a storm and is captured by robots from the prison. Also, Bishop Mordecai and five others return to New Canaan as the sole survivors of their attempt to resettle
New Jerusalem. They do not acknowledge Jeremiah Rigdon as the living prophet.[28]
Herbert Dashwood is voted "honorary ghoul" at
Underworld.[73]
Porter's gang reaches Denver. Goals: Once there, they were to see about scavenging as many building supplies as possible, establishing a track outpost, and pave the way for NCR occupation. They make camp.[32]
May 10:
Jillian McKinley is apprehended by
ULYSSES' robots. The
Rusty Hooks lose their best and only mechanic/weapons smith.
Sid is "volunteered" to take her place.[38]
15-year-old
Scott Wollinski is sold to a caravan merchant by his father, who hopes for a better life for his son. Wollinski would travel with the caravans for few years, working as an indentured servant, until buying his freedom and settling down in
Canterbury Commons.[25]
June 30: Sid figures out how to fire up the sub-reactor. Bloomfield has power once more, but sub-reactor is only operating at 45% efficiency.[38][39]
2253
38 NCR citizens are massacred by
Mojave raiders.[59] President
Joanna Tibbett is voted out of office by the NCR congress after a "timid" reaction to the massacre, and is replaced by
Wendell Peterson.[59]
President Peterson dispatches three battalions of NCR infantry into the
Mojave Wasteland.[59]
October 23: The
Prisoner escapes from
Tibbets Prison, dooming the world and creating a holocaust of epic proportions.[5][66]
October 23:
Sentry robots at Bloomfield become semi-active – not moving, but the optical lenses and sensors turn on and start surveying for escaped prisoners from the
Big MT. The robots ignore the Rusty Hooks.[38][39]
October:
Dr. Presper and his
NCR followers find security overrides for the turrets and security bots at Bloomfield, as well as the space rockets' launch codes. They invade Kyle's beloved Bloomfield – Kyle and his men do not resist Dr. Presper and his technically more advanced brigade – and launch themselves into space to dock with
B.O.M.B.-001. Four NCR soldiers stay behind with the remaining rocket to prevent anyone from launching the second rocket. The Rusty Hooks keep clear of the launch pad and form an "understanding" with the NCR guards.[38][39]
2254
Fallout 2 is programmed to ultimately end 13 game years after gameplay starts, so hurry up with that
G.E.C.K.!
A
Brotherhood of Steel squad led by
Owyn Lyons is sent to
Washington, D.C. on the
East Coast to search for technology, investigate reports of
super mutant activity and re-establish connection that was sent there before (Not knowing the ship carrying the Brotherhood squad crashed near Chicago during a storm).[75]
On the way to the
Capital Wasteland, the Brotherhood expeditionary force attacks the raider town called "The
Pitt" and razes it to the ground. These events are later known as
the Scourge.[76]
Madison Li arrives at
Rivet City and takes over as head of the city's science lab from
Pinkerton. Pinkerton's whole staff starts working with her instead.[67] Incensed by this, Pinkerton moves to
Rivet City's
broken bow and becomes a recluse, continuing his experiments alone.
The
Lone Wanderer's first birthday is celebrated in Vault 101.
2260
A generator in the
Citadel overloads, creating errors in the artificial intelligence routines of the medical
robot called
Sawbones, giving him intelligence beyond his programming and a disliking for his human masters.[79]
Aaron Kimball retires from the military and runs for the office of one of
the Hub's governors.[59]
Wendell Peterson is voted out of office and Kimball is sworn in as the new NCR president, just two months after starting his political career.[59]
2274
NCR scouts reach
Hoover Dam, causing
Mr. House to recruit three tribes and recondition them into the
Three Families. By the time the NCR reaches the ruins of Las Vegas, they are able to return home with tales of a city of lights in the middle of the desert. Not long after, tourist money starts rolling into the newly christened
New Vegas.[59]
The NCR reluctantly sign the
New Vegas treaty. NCR are allowed to control the Hoover Dam and to set up headquarters at
Camp McCarran, while recognizing Mr. House and the three families as the rightful owners of the Strip. 5% of the energy from the dam is transferred to the Strip while the rest goes back to California.
Hoover Dam restarts and the Strip blazes with light. The first trickle of privileged, curious NCR citizens visits the Strip. The strip opens for business.[59]
MacCready becomes the mayor of Little Lamplight.[85]
Benny kills
Bingo and takes over the
Chairmen. The Chairmen then start renovating The Tops.
Maggie's parents die in a raider attack, and she is rescued by the caravan guard
Billy Creel.
Legion scouts report the NCR has occupied and restarted Hoover Dam, restoring electrical power to the Strip. Caesar begins planning war against the NCR.
2275-2276: Legion forces gradually assemble east of the
Colorado River. The NCR becomes aware of the threat when scouting parties fail to return from expeditions east.
{{cut}}Intended year for
Vault 13 to open once again, according to the
experiment in Fallout 2.
Harold appears in the
Capital Wasteland. He was discovered by several people who began to worship him as a god, and a small and exclusive cult known as the
Treeminders began to form in secrecy.
Bob began to blossom and many plants grew in this area, which became green with life, a stark contrast to the outer wasteland.
The
First Battle of Hoover Dam takes place.
Caesar's Legion forces under the command of
Joshua Graham attempt to take the
Hoover Dam from the
NCR. Although initially successful, the NCR lures the Legion into a trap and sends them reeling. Most of
Boulder City is reduced to rubble in the battle. Legate Graham, deemed responsible for the defeat by
Caesar, is coated in pitch, lit on fire, and tossed into the
Grand Canyon to set an example for others.
A band of raiders attempt an assault on
Megaton but fail when their leader
Boppo is shot and killed by the town sheriff,
Lucas Simms.
August 17, 09:04: Fallout 3 prologue ends and Fallout 3 begins -
James disappears from
Vault 101 and his son/daughter, the
Lone Wanderer (aged 19), heads to the surface to search for him.
A slave by the name of
Wernher travels to the
Capital Wasteland from
The Pitt by way of a rusty handcart, seeking the help of someone to free his people from their slaver oppressors and on a later unknown day, encounters the
Lone Wanderer, who decides the fate of the slaves and changes the destiny of The Pitt forever.
James, the Lone Wanderer's father, sacrifices himself at Project Purity to thwart Colonel Autumn's attempt to commandeer the facility. Several other people at the project survive.
The Earth is saved by the
Lone Wanderer from an
alien threat when they are captured in the northern
Capital Wasteland by an alien
mothership named Zeta, taking the control of the ship with an atypical group of survivors from Earth's past, and destroying another
alien mothership which was near Zeta. [90]
Following the abduction and killing of four soldiers, NCR troops assault the
Great Khans' settlement at
Red Rock Canyon and massacre several dozen men, women, and children. This event goes unreported in NCR press.[59]
2279
November 14: The
Securitron vault suffers a radiation leak at 3:47. A maintenance bot is dispatched a minute later. At 3:50, a power surge occurs. The bot becomes non-responsive, and the vault goes on Security Alert Level 1.
2281
New Canaan is destroyed by the
White Legs in an attempt to gain enough favor with
Caesar's Legion to be assimilated. The surviving residents of New Canaan are scattered across Utah.
October 11: Fallout: New Vegas intro - The Courier is ambushed and shot in the head by
Benny, left for dead in a shallow, unmarked grave in
Goodsprings Cemetery.
Victor finds the body and retrieves it, and the Courier makes a miraculous recovery in the care of
Doc Mitchell.[45]
October 19, 08:00: Fallout: New Vegas begins - The Courier regains consciousness and leaves
Mitchell's house in
Goodsprings for search of revenge against
Benny.
The Courier follows an old radio message broadcasting about the gala in the
Sierra Madre, leading them to an
abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker. Here, they are captured by
Dog and taken to the Sierra Madre. In the Sierra Madre, they have to obey
Elijah with a group of survivors, but the Courier takes over from Elijah and manages to escape from the Sierra Madre to return into the Mojave Wasteland.
An expedition of the
Happy Trails Caravan Company lead by
Jed Masterson for
New Canaan by passing into
Zion Canyon is about to start and the Courier takes part. In Zion Canyon, all members of the expedition except the Courier are killed. The Courier walks out of the history of the tribes of Zion and shifting the fragile balance of power.
A strange satellite crashes in the
Mojave Drive-in. The Courier arrives and inspects the satellite during the night, which triggers the unique teleporter on board the satellite and transports them to
Big MT. In Big MT, the Courier becomes a cyborg after a science experiment went awry; their brain, heart and spine have been replaced with advanced technologies. The Courier encounters the
Think Tank, some of former Big MT executives, asking for the Courier's aid to save them from
Mobius. The Courier and Mobius confront and the Courier gets at least their heart and spine back in their body.
Ulysses meets the Courier in
the Divide and a battle takes place. The two couriers fight beneath an ancient flag at the edge of the world, each carrying a message for the other.
September 10th: Moira Brown begins work on a biography of the Lone Wanderer.
2316
The
Bishop child, leader of the
Bishop family of
New Reno and the son of the
Chosen One, dies quietly in his sleep, having never known his real father.
^Toshiro Kago was abducted sometime during the Tokugawa shogunate, starting on March 24, 1603, since mon was only authorized for all classes from that date.
^The Valiant 12 flag displayed in the
Museum of Technology uses this flag design. The division of the United States into 13 commonwealths was first envisioned by
Leonard Boyarsky during the development of the first Fallout.
^This information comes from Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible timeline. According to the
Sierra Depot GNN transcript holodisk, which Avellone discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers, the UN still existed in
2074
^Robert House's
dialogue - By 2065 I deemed it a mathematical certainty that an atomic war would devastate the Earth within 15 years. Every projection I ran confirmed it.
^
abcdBriefly mentioned in the Fallout Intro with no date. Date is mentioned only in the Fallout Bible timeline
^This date for the Chinese invasion of Alaska comes from Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible timeline. According to the
Sierra Depot GNN transcriptholodisk, which Avellone discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers, this happened on
October 10, 2077
^It is originally said to be the last one, but later ones are seen in Fallout 3
^Point Lookout is released after Broken Steel, and the Fallout official site confirmed that Mothership Zeta was the final adventure of the Lone Wanderer, and so that the order of add-on released is the chronological order of Fallout 3 history.
^Fallout official site: "The Vault Dweller's final and most fantastical adventure".
What follows is a complete Fallout timeline of all events from every game.
Note that the
Fallout world is not our own, but rather one that has
diverged from ours soon after World War II. So, while it takes place in the future, it is not our future, but a future as imagined in traditional 1950s style science fiction. Note that the timeline is only for the chronological sequence of the Fallout world events, birthdates are not allowed here and must be put in the
birthdates page.
Sierra Army Depot is built. Its mission is to store and maintain a defensive supply of military ordnance. This mission continues until 1991.[4]
1943
The Los Alamos Nuclear Research and Development facility, codename: the
Reservation, completes construction. Los Alamos becomes part of the research team for the
Manhattan Project.[5]
1945
May 2: Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers, and World War II ends in
Europe.
August 6: The Little Boy nuclear bomb is deployed by the United States onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
August 9: The Fat Man nuclear bomb is deployed by the United States onto the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
September 2: Japan officially surrenders to the Allied Powers, and
World War II completely comes to an end. Sometime between now and 1961,
divergence occurs.
May 5: Captain
Carl Bell of the
United States Space Agency became the first human in space. This claim is disputed by both the
Soviet Union and
China. Captain Bell's flight in Space Capsule Defiance 7 lasted twelve minutes and seven seconds, and made a full revolution around the Earth. Bell died when the capsule crashed on its return to Earth.[6]
1969
By this year, the United States is divided into
thirteen commonwealths; each of which encompasses several states. The national flag is changed to reflect this and depicts fourteen stars - thirteen in a circle to represent the commonwealths and one in the middle to represent the federal government and the nation as a whole.[7]
July 16: The
Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 with U.S.S.A. astronauts Captain
Richard Wade, Captain
Mark Garris, and Captain
Michael Hagen lands on the Moon. The astronauts become the first humans to walk on a celestial body other than Earth.[6]
The mission of
Sierra Army Depot is changed. It is now responsible for the demilitarization of stores of surplus ammunition that have been deemed unfit or obsolete for military purposes. This mission is to be overseen by the Industrial Operations Command in cooperation with the
Environmental Protection Agency, providing a greener, cleaner way to dispose of military ordnance. The mission continued until 2050.[4]
An early bug in Mister Handy robots that caused interference in the operation of the multiple arms is fixed with a hardware update, with no major problems since then.[12]
2040
The
Tibbets Prison is commandeered by the
United States government in association with
Vault-Tec and
Poseidon Oil to tie into their
Project Safehouse. On April 5, 2040, the Secretary of the Army makes the decision to build a new Disciplinary Barracks, with a capacity for 456 inmates. A cost ceiling of $363 million in allocated construction dollars is set. The target budget year for funding this project is fiscal year
2041. Construction begins in fall of
2042, with completion projected for fall of the year
2045.[14]
The mission of
Sierra Army Depot is changed again. It is refurbished with the latest in technology and is from now on used as a secret research installation for developing and testing robotic, biological and conventional weapons until
2076.[4]
2051
Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on
Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military
enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border at Mexico's expense.[17]
The
N99 10mm pistol becomes standard issue military sidearm following the phase out of the
N80.[18]
2052
A television documentary revealing the withered husk of the
Texas oil fields brings the oil shortage into American households and reveals how deep the energy crisis runs.[17]
The widely known
Nuka-Cola’s Dazzling Blue bottle color was adopted as standard after market research programs indicated that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of a hundred polled.[16]
March 5: The socially transmitted "
New Plague" arises, killing tens of thousands. The United States closes its borders and the first-ever national quarantine is declared. The source of the plague is unknown, but rumors persist that it is a genetically engineered weapon.[19]
April: The
Resource Wars begin. Many smaller nations go bankrupt, and
Europe, dependent on oil imports from the
Middle East, responds to the Middle East's rising oil prices with military action. The long drawn-out war between the
European Commonwealth and the Middle East begins.[17]
May - July: The
United Nations, already suffering, begins to collapse. In a series of heated debates, many nations withdraw from the organization as the U.N. tries to keep the peace.[20]
July 26: The United Nations is officially disbanded.[21]
2053
ZAX 1.0 goes online, developed by
Vault-Tec. Initially a prototype of some of the systems designed to govern the vaults, it is given to the government to help the Department of Energy collect resource data. Within a year, it is taken by the military for plague and tactical research; one version,
ZAX 1.2, would later be constructed for
West Tek.[22]
January: Limited nuclear exchange in the
Middle East raises fears throughout the world.[17]
In light of the European-Middle Eastern War and the plague scare, the United States officially sets
Project Safehouse in motion. The project, financed by junk bonds, is designed to create shelters, called
Vaults, for the populace in the event of a nuclear war or deadly plague. Construction begins late in 2054 and proceeds rapidly due to advances in construction technology.[17]
ZAX 1.2 is brought in to regulate conditions in West Tek. It is not part of the Vault-Tec preservation software, so it does not have any orders to protect humanity after the bombs fall. In the meantime, it calmly calculates data and plays chess with the scientists. Many scientists claim that ZAX is a "big ol' cheater" and draws the game out too much for a computer of his considerable abilities.[17]
2057
February: United States government removes the
Grand Canyon's protected status as a national park.[24]
May: Uranium mining begins in the Grand Canyon.The Grand Canyon is closed indefinitely.[24]
The
Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in
Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions between the United States and
Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline.[17]
The first
artificial intelligence is born. Limited by memory constraints, its expansion is rapidly halted. The discovery paves the way for future A.I. research in laboratories throughout the United States.[17]
2060
Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on
automobiles, so alternatives are explored - electric and fusion cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only make limited amounts while conserving fuel. The U.S. economy teeters on bankruptcy. Pressure on fusion research increases.[17]
The European-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.[17]
The European Commonwealth dissolves into quarreling nation states, fighting over the remaining resources.[26]
Dr.
Willem Clark, a top nuclear physicist in his day, is put in charge of all scientific endeavors at the
Reservation.
Colonel Green, a career soldier in the U.S. army, is put in charge of security.[5]
August: The construction of most Vaults completed, except for
Vault 13, whose construction finally gets off the ground heralding a development cycle that seems plagued with problems. Drills begin in the other cities with completed Vaults, but the increasing frequency of the drills has a "cry wolf" effect, and the turnouts for drills trickle off as the years go on.[29]
June: Due to enormous demands for electricity from a 17+ million population, a nuclear reactor in
New York City goes supercritical, almost causing a meltdown. The near meltdown brings into effect power rationing, and the term "Hot Summer" is used to refer to this incident.[17]
August: Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit:
power armor. Research grows until 2067 and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction, and fusion technology.[17]
2066
The U.S. Navy missile cruiser
USS Ebon Atoll is accidentally sunk by the U.S. Navy Submarine
USS. Interference during the
Anchorage Campaign. The Interference mistook the Ebon Atoll for an enemy vessel and shot it with a nuclear torpedo killing all on board. It is one of the worst U.S. Navy disasters since World War II.[6]
Resource rationing in
Denver causes riots. Midwest U.S.A. and
Mexico start having food shortages and can't supply Denver with the food it needs. Food riots occur. National Guard called in.[32]
With more important things to spend their money on,
Poseidon Energy closes the inefficient and dangerous
Eagle Rock mine complex and sells it to the U.S. government.[13]
Spring: As the oil resources dry up across the globe,
China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the United States. The United States' unwillingness to export oil to China leads to a breakdown in talks between the two countries.[17]
Summer: Adding further insult to the Sino-American relations, the first crude
fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the power armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general U.S. infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power.[17]
Winter: As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries,
Canada proves reluctant to allow American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. American and Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and U.S. troops pass through Canada. This sets the stage for the
Canadian annexation in
2076.[33]
2067
The first suit of
T-45d power armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this power armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordnance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years behind the United States.[17]
By this year, a
Nuka-Cola machine can be found on almost every street in America.[16]
Senator
Todd Peterson decides to build a secret bunker to house himself and his family should war break out. Senator Peterson is a wealthy man in his own right, but lacks the funds necessary for such a project. Through secret dealings with
Poseidon Oil and a covert branch of the government known as the
Enclave, the final funding for the project is attained. A construction site is chosen in southern Colorado and work begins.
Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the U.S. draws upon Canadian resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian protests are unheard.[17]
February 11: By order of the U.S. government, all Patriot's Cookbook magazines are banned and incinerated. However, many magazines still remained in circulation.
March:
Vault 13 is finally completed - it is the last of the Vaults on the West Coast,[35] and drills begin. Due to its late completion, the "cry wolf" effect that hurt the other Vaults is not as pronounced.[29]
December: Construction of
Vault 106 and
Vault 108 ends. Vault 108 was in construction for 8 years due to work stoppage.[27]
2070
The first of the
Chryslus Motors fusion-driven cars are developed. Reassuringly big and American, the limited models carry a hefty price tag but are sold out within days. Many Chryslus plants have long since been converted into making military ordnance.[17]
The United States' increasing demand for Canadian resources causes protests and riots in several Canadian cities. An attempted sabotage of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to finalize its annexation of Canada, which had already begun in
2067.[33]
Completed
B.O.M.B. missiles are sent to different space centers around the U.S. so they can be carried into space and installed into the B.O.M.B. satellites. The process is slow, but it is being carried out fairly regularly.[5]
June 3:
Canada begins to be fully annexed by U.S.A. [36] It is fully integrated by January of 2076. [37]
2073
August: The Ballistic Orbital Missile Base, or
B.O.M.B.-001, is completed and partially functional (for security and maintenance bots) using a temporary onboard generator. The only things the base needs are the manually input final launch instructions and codes and the main power reactor.[38][39]
September 15: As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the United States government felt that a countermeasure was needed. The
Pan-Immunity Virion Project is officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the
West Tek Research Facility in Southern California.[40]
2074
Contrary to their claims of seeking only to retake Alaska from the Reds, American power armor units, infantry, and mechanized divisions are deployed to China, but they become bogged down on the mainland, putting a further drain on American resources and supply lines.
Government decision makers order the dumping of radioactive waste into
Eagle Rock's lower mines.
Enclave politics help secure a contract for
Poseidon Energy to develop and use their
Agricola mining robots in the operation of the dumping ground. Not surprisingly, the
Agricola lab turns out to be a pretty good bunker as well.[13]
June 24: Negotiations between the U.S. and other world powers come to a dramatic end, with the president walking out of oil talks with the other world powers. After a much heated debate, the president stormed out of the meeting and declared that the last known supply of petroleum will be used exclusively by the U.S. and the U.S. will not sell or trade any oil to outside parties.[17]
July: The new
Bloomfield Space Center completes construction. The facility's first task is to complete the space rockets
Hermes XIII and
Hermes XIV to fly to B.O.M.B.-001 and
-002 – respectively - (originally slated for a Mars mission before new orders arrived). The mission: have the crew deliver and install the bases' main power reactors, manually enter final launch instructions, manual check for safety nets and protocols, and do a manual inspection of the station.[38][39]
RobCo brings up plans to purchase
REPCONN Aerospace, threatening a hostile takeover otherwise.
March 21: PVP experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests of the virus on single-celled organisms. Experiments on plant cells are postponed. The pan-immunity virion is renamed
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).[42]
May 9: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on flatworms; the flatworms exhibit increase size and heightened resistance to viral contagions. Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by
Major Barnett.[42]
June 30: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects. Increased size, muscle density, and Intelligence are noted.[42]
November 9: FEV experimentation (batch 10-011) on rabbits is concluded. Increased size, Intelligence, and (this time) aggressiveness is noted. Apparently, it was hard to determine whether the flatworms in the previous experiments were angrier and more violent than normal. Frankly, the researchers cannot be blamed for this.[42]
January 3: A military team under the command of
Colonel Spindel is sent to the West Tek research facility to monitor the experiments in the interest of national security, due to fears of international espionage.[8] Captain
Roger Maxson (the grandfather of
John Maxson, the
High Elder of the
Brotherhood of Steel in
2161) is among the team personnel.[17]
January 12: Splicing in several new gene sequences into their test virus, dogs are injected with batch 11-101a at West Tek. Although increased strength was noted, increased intelligence was not. Using batch 11-011, experiments are conducted on raccoons. The same results are noted, but the attempted escape of several infected raccoons causes
Major Barnett to terminate the experiment... and the test subjects. Two pairs of raccoons, however, are unaccounted for.[42]
Note:
Scott Campbell and
Brian Freyermuth intended these escaped raccoons to form an intelligent animal community northwest of the
Glow called the "
Burrows". This location was never implemented.
January: The United States annexation of
Canada is complete. Canadian protesters and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests.[33]
April 15: Once all secondary tests and studies are done on the test subjects, all dogs from the batch 11-101a
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) tests at West Tek are terminated... from a safe distance.[42]
June:
Power armor prototype completed, resulting in the
T-51b power armor. This is the pinnacle of power armor technology before the
Great War. Many of these units are sent to
China, and they begin to carve a swath through the Chinese forces. The Chinese resources are strained to the breaking point, and the supply lines from the nations China has annexed begin to break down.[17]
August: Food and energy riots begin in major cities throughout the United States. Military units begin to be deployed in cities within the United States to contain rioters, and many temporary prisons are constructed. A state of emergency is declared, and martial law soon follows.[17]
August:
Hermes XIII and
XIV are completed, loaded with cargo and placed on the Bloomfield launch platform, awaiting the final funding, and the okay to launch.[38][39]
October: Production of B.O.M.B. nuclear missiles is put on hold due to budget cuts. The
Reservation is put on reserve.
October: Due to the seriousness of world events and the threat of nuclear war, Hermes' launch is postponed while funds are routed to
vault technology. Launch is rescheduled for 2077.[38][39]
October 4: At West Tek, fifteen chimpanzees are infected with batch 11-111. The most successful test to date, growth and immunities in the chimpanzees surpass all other subjects to date. The military practically drools over the results. Plans are made in secret to begin testing in small quarantine towns in North America, and the Mariposa Military Base construction is sped up in anticipation of moving the West Tek project to a location under military supervision.
November:
Enclave personnel seize control of Bloomfield Space Center and begin researching and developing a way to convert Hermes XIII and XIV into a personnel transports to transport important individuals off-planet.[38][39]
A Chinese sabotage attempt takes place at
Hoover Dam.[46]
New Plague hits
Denver. Rioters burn down large parts of the city in their fear of contamination and anger at their treatment. Many panic and flee the city by car, clogging the freeways when they run out of gas and trapping everyone behind them.[32]
January 7: Major Barnett orders transfer of all
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) research to the newly constructed Mariposa Military Base, despite objections by the research team.[42]
January 22: The first domestic use of power armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured and sent to military prisons.[17]
February: FEV Research is leaked to the world through an unknown source. Protests arise in many major cities and governments around the world, as well as accusations that the U.S. was responsible for the
New Plague. F.E.V. is seen as the threat, and serves only to fuel tensions. The governments of the world fear what the U.S. is up to. Speculating anything from trying to make a breed of super soldier, to trying to make Hitler's master race, they begin to panic.[17]
March: Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreat to the
Poseidon oil rig and make contingency plans for continuing the war.[17]
September 6: Technicians at the VSS Facility notice General Chase is making radical, unrealistic changes to the Anchorage simulation. They believe Chase is becoming obsessed with the simulation and is gradually going insane, but refrain from confronting him out of fear that they will lose their jobs to military contractors.
October 10: Captain
Roger Maxson and his men discover that the scientists at
Mariposa have been using "military volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in
brain bots) as test subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and in light of the mental breakdown of Colonel
Robert Spindel stationed at the base, Maxson's men turn to him for leadership.[47]
October 15: Colonel Spindel commits suicide. All scientists are executed.[47]
October 20: Captain Roger Maxson, now in control of Mariposa, declares himself to be in full desertion from the army (via radio)... and receives no reply.[47]
October 21: Maxson orders all families stationed outside the base moved inside the Mariposa facility.[47]
October 22: The
platinum chip is processed. It is due to be delivered via courier to
Mr. House the next day.
October 23: A pre-Halloween costume show was going to be on later that day, called Freddy Fear's House of Scares. The preparations were made that morning.
October 23:
L.O.B Enterprises is subjected to a raid by the federal agents in the early hours before the Great War.
October 23: The
Great War: bombs are launched; who struck first is unknown. Other countries, seeing the missiles on their way, launch their planes and fire their warheads as well. Air raid sirens sound, but very few people heed the warning, thinking it is a false alarm. The vaults are sealed. Two hours of nuclear bombardment ensues upon the earth's surface. The effects are far worse than most imagined. The earth's faults shift violently, thrusting mountain ranges through the soil. Whole lands are submerged under floods of water.[47]
October 23: In the confusion of the Great War,
Sally and her family are abducted by
mothership Zeta.
October 23: The
Sierra Madre gala event begins, but is cut short by the war. The casino hermetically seals itself, and the holographic security murders all of the guests except
Dean Domino.
October 23: Robert House becomes unconscious after suffering numerous system crashes due to the absence of the platinum chip which left him using obsolete operating systems for his defenses against the Great War
October 23:
Vault 12 fails to close properly. Once it becomes known that the other vaults have sealed, people within
Bakersfield attempt to force their way into Vault 12 to protect themselves and their families.[49]
October 23: The
West Tek research facility is hit by warheads, breaking open the FEV tanks on levels four and five and releasing it into the atmosphere. Mutated by radiation, it loses its mutagenic abilities, but it later complicates things for the
Master.[50]
October 23: The Mariposa Military Base survives, the soldiers within protected from the radiation and FEV flooding the wasteland.[47]
October 23: Surviving scientists and soldiers based in Los Alamos band together with other survivors they encounter for safety. They set up a temporary camp in a cliff dwelling at
Mesa Verde and attempt to contact the federal government for further instructions. No contact is ever made. A small vault is built into the cliff side to shield the only computer they have from the elements.[51]
October 23:
Salt Lake City is hit with 13 nuclear warheads and is mostly destroyed.
October 23: Two
Poseidon scientists are still trapped in the
Agricola lab. After four years, one dies of natural illness. After one more year, the other commits suicide.[13]
October 23: Due to the seismic activity, some radiation seeps into the sub-levels of the
Reservation. Even though the people underground are safe from the blasts, radiation eventually takes its toll.[5]
October 25: At Mariposa,
Platner, bound in power armor, is sent out to get specific readings on the atmosphere. He reports no significant radiation in the area surrounding the facility.[47]
October 27: After burying the scientists in the wastes outside of Mariposa, the soldiers seal the military base, then head out into the desert, taking supplies and weapon schematics with them. Captain Maxson leads his men and families to the government bunker at
Lost Hills.[47][52]
Note: Although Maxson's points in his holodisk indicated that civilian personnel (presumably families of the scientists or other civilians not associated with the military) were to remain at the base, whether they did or not is unknown.
October 30: A week after the initial blast, a black rain begins to fall, caused by the massive amounts of radioactive particle debris (mainly soot) from the nuclear firestorm a week earlier. Plants and animals both go rapidly into extinction.[17]
November: Captain Maxson, his men, and their families, arrive at the Lost Hills bunker a few weeks later, suffering many casualties along the way, including Maxson's wife (but not his teenage son). The surviving soldiers go on to become the
Brotherhood of Steel.
November: Ms.
Carrie Delaney is the last adult to leave Little Lamplight Caves in search for help. Ten year old child
Jason Grant takes charge in her absence.
November 2: Psychoactive drugs are released throughout
Vault 106.
2078
The dwellers of
Vault 87 are locked in airtight chambers and exposed to the
FEV by the Vault's
Overseer and his security, who are simply, though callously, following the "plan" laid out by
Vault-Tec. The vault's population is transformed into hideous
super mutants and centaurs.[25]
The city of kids,
Little Lamplight is officially founded. By unanimous vote Jason Grant is named as the city's first mayor.
The first effects of radiation are seen in the survivors. Widespread mutations occur with animals and humans alike. Those that survive the effects of the mutations are permanently changed. New species are created almost overnight.[17]
John Bloch's military group makes a peace-protection pact with local ranchers.[53]
2081
The
Skynet AI, in Sierra Army Depot, becomes self-aware, according to its own records.
2082
Five years after the
Great War, some aspects of the world begin to calm down. Radiation and poison levels are still too high for a normal human to survive.[54]
Spring:
Set takes control of Necropolis, wresting control from the original Overseer. The Vault 12 Overseer, not willing to take a dirt nap, is driven north and history loses sight of him.[17]
2085
The planned date for the U.S. military to bring the
VB-02 Vertibird, a Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, into service.[6] For obvious reasons, this never happens, but the
Enclave resumes development after regaining its footing.
2087
December: After most of the initial survivors in the
Reservation succumb to radiation, those "fortunate" enough to not die have turned into ghouls. And after spending ten years underground, they finally come back to the surface. Twelve ghouls, including Dr.
Willem Clark, volunteer to search the wastes in the hopes of finding other survivors.[5]
2088
The computer in
Mesa Verde fails. The scientists resort to carving their most important schematics into the kiva walls.[51]
December: Of the twelve volunteers to explore the wastes, only one comes back to the Reservation; Dr. Willem Clark. However, he has brought back a few dozen fellow ghouls to seek shelter at the Reservation.[5]
2089
Scientists in Mesa Verde began to drill the village children in the ways of mathematics and science so that knowledge is not forgotten. They hope that their descendants will one day help bring civilization back to the wasteland.[51]
January: After explaining the hardships and prejudices placed against ghouls by smoothskin
humans, the ghouls of the Reservation proclaim Dr. Willem Clark as their leader. Willem further solidifies his place as leader by explaining his plans to one day make the ghouls the rightful and true heirs to the Promised Earth and that becoming a ghoul was the next, logical step in the evolutionary process.[5]
2090
Vault 29 opens.
Harold sets out to make his fortune as a trader, making the circuit around the survivalist communities in the wasteland.[17]
2091
Vault 8 opens, and they use their
G.E.C.K. to create fertile ground for their city. This eventually becomes
Vault City.[17]
Note: While
Lynette says that the city was founded 120 years ago, which would place the event around 2120, the
Chosen One later says that it's 70 years before the
Vault Dweller left
Vault 13. This probably means that Fallout 2 was initially meant to take place earlier, and the dialogue file was not corrected.
Dr. Richard Moreau is exiled from Vault City for murder. The circumstances surrounding the murder are unknown, but he changes his last name to Grey and heads south.[17]
2093
The Hub is founded by a man named
Angus, who sets up camp around a filthy oasis in the desert, and he proceeds to begin trading with other settlements.[17]
2095
September 20 - November 15: 28 Mexican survivors, 11 male, 8 female and 9 children, arrive in Zion canyon and settle down.
2096
Harold rises to the level of a caravan boss in the Hub. His caravans suffer occasional attacks in the wastes, but Harold's caravan outfit survives and prospers... until the mutant attacks begin to pick up a few years later.[17]
February: The inhabitants of
Vault 22 leave their vault due to an outbreak of mutated spores infecting most of the dwellers and overrunning the Vault.
February 11: About 118 survivors of Vault 22 move out of the
Mojave Wasteland and travel to
Zion Canyon. Most are infected with the spores and bring
spore carriers and
spore plants to the Zion Valley and attack/kill most of the Mexican survivors already in Zion.
February 14: According to Randall Clark, the Vault 22 survivors eat the Mexican survivors they took captive.
February 19 - January 13, 2097:
Randall Clark begins to ambush the
Vault 22 survivors and continues to until the remaining 34 survivors leave Zion.[55][56]
2097
January:
J. Hendricks becomes overseer of the remaining Vault 22 survivors, and as his first order as overseer orders everyone to leave Zion canyon.
January 13: The thirty-four Vault 22 survivors leave Zion Canyon after 10 months of ambushes from Randall Clark.
A man named
Jonathan Faust leads his group of about 200 people from the overcrowded
Vault 15 into the wastes of the outside. Eventually they become a raider band known as the
Vipers.[57]
May 22: Increasing mutant attacks on Harold's caravans frustrate him to the point of financing and leading an expedition to find out where the mutants are coming from. Consulting with a scientist and doctor at
the Hub, a man by the name of
Grey, the two of them decide to join forces.[17]
June 23: Richard Grey's expedition (including Harold) finds the
Mariposa Military Base and is summarily scattered and defeated by the mutant inhabitants. Grey is knocked into one of the vats of
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) by a robotic arm, and Harold is knocked unconscious, only to awaken later out in the wasteland.[17]
June 27: Harold, already mutating, is found by traders and taken back to the Hub. His former caravan partners and employees, horrified by his condition, abandon him.[17]
July:
Richard Grey, now horribly mutated by the virus, crawls from the vat, covered with FEV and in terrible pain. Barely able to think or perceive his surroundings, he crawls into the vat control room and begins his audio log. He fades in and out of consciousness, sometimes for days or weeks at a time.[17]
July–November: Richard Grey begins to acclimate to his condition, and begins his first tests of animals by exposing them to FEV. These experiments and his growing awareness lay the foundation for his plans for the
Unity and the master race. He takes the name "
the Master".[17]
November: The first human victim wanders into Mariposa, and Grey consumes him.[17]
December: Grey continues his experiments on wanderers that enter Mariposa with no success. The creations are flawed (due to the radiation counts in their bodies), making them big but incredibly stupid, and Grey consumes them rather than letting them live.[17]
2103
January: The Master discovers the problem with the influence of radiation on his mutations, and he begins to choose his subjects more carefully. The first classic
super mutants are born. He begins his plans to build an army.[17]
2103-2130: Throughout this period, the Master begins slowly gathering test subjects, willing or unwilling, from local human stock. The
Great Winter of 2130 and the scarcity of human subjects make building his army difficult.[17]
2120
Angus rules over growing Hub and establishes himself as governor.[17]
Skynet is given final orders by
its masters, then left to rot in Sierra Army Depot.
2123
April 25: 24 children, half boys, half girls, arrive in
Zion Canyon from an unknown place.
2124
January 2–23:
Randall Clark begins leaving gifts, like books and medicine, and notes for the children to make the most of their new home. He signs every note as "The Father". The children later form the tribe the
Sorrows.
January: Randall Clark dies peacefully on top of
Red Gate.
2125
Winter: Angus is murdered. The Hub is thrown into chaos.[17]
2126
A band of merchants seizes the water tower in the Hub. They demand anyone wanting water must pay a toll. The
Great Merchant Wars begin.[17]
2126-2128: The Great Merchant Wars are fought, the Water Merchants seal up the town, but are outnumbered.[17]
A man named
Roy Greene makes peace in the Hub and negotiates a settlement. The
Hub's central council is formed, composed of two representatives from each of the Hub caravan companies. A long period of indecisiveness and meetings maintain the status quo in the Hub.[17]
2131-2135: The Master begins ordering his super mutants to gather human stock from caravans. For many years, the caravan disappearances are blamed on monsters in the desert, and even when the abductions begin to occur on Hub caravans, the
deathclaws are blamed. The super mutant army grows.[17]
2134
A faction within the
Brotherhood of Steel led by Sergeant
Dennis Allen gains strength, and they urge the Elders to let them explore the southeast
Glow for artifacts. The Elders refuse, so Allen and his separatist group splits away from the Brotherhood of Steel, taking some technology and weapons with them.[17]
Led by Sergeant Dennis Allen, a small group of Brotherhood of Steel separatists make their way to the West Tek research facility in search of technological artifacts. They arrive there twenty days later, and are promptly chewed apart by the West Tek's unforgiving automated defense systems. Wounded, Allen begins to suffer radiation poisoning from a leak in his suit. Before he dies, he logs what happened to the expedition into a holodisk.[17]
2135
Elder
Roger Maxson dies of cancer, and his son, already an accomplished soldier, takes up the role of "General" (Elder) within the Brotherhood of Steel.
John Maxson becomes a member of the Paladins, showing tremendous promise as a soldier.[17]
2137
The Master begins to mass-produce super mutants. Only about one in six or one in five attempts are successful, and of these successes, only half seem to last to go on to be part of his growing army, called the
Unity.[17]
2138
The cryogenically frozen
Robert House regains consciousness.[59]
Around the early 2150s the
Vipers recover from their defeat by
Angus at the Hub, replenish their ranks from captured slaves and caravan drivers, and begin to establish a power base in the badlands to the North of the Hub (and south of the
Lost Hills Bunker). Driven by a religious frenzy (and the need to provide for their much larger numbers of soldiers and disciples), they begin raiding more frequently than before, attracting the attention of the
Brotherhood of Steel.[57]
2152
As their influence slowly spreads throughout the wastes, the Master finds humans, doomsday cultists, and rather than dip them in the vats, he demands their obedience as spies - their leader is a man named
Morpheus, an ex-member of the gang called the
Rippers, and he pledges his followers to the Master. Morpheus and his cultists form the future core of the
Children of the Cathedral.[17]
2154
Vault 17 was raided and its inhabitants taken prisoner by the
Master's Army. They were subsequently turned into super mutants, among them
Lily Bowen.
2155
The
Gun Runners begin their career as successful weapon manufacturers and merchants.[60]
The Brotherhood sends out a few squads of scouts to track the
Vipers down - it is more of a training exercise conducted by John Maxson's father, as the Brotherhood is convinced that small detachment of troops in power armor would be sufficient to deal with a group of raiders, no matter how large. One Brotherhood squad, lead by Maxson, finds the Vipers. Expecting the raiders to break and run, Maxson doesn't take into account the religious ferocity of the Vipers (or their poisoned weapons), and when a single arrow nicks him with his helmet off, he dies within hours.
John Maxson takes up the role of Elder, and
Rhombus becomes the new head of the Paladins.[57]
The Paladins, now led by Rhombus, begin a full scale campaign against the Vipers, tracking them down and wiping out almost all of their members within the span of a month. Some of the Vipers are able to flee north and east into the mountain range.[57]
Note:According to Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible #6, the Vipers were never heard from again. It was added there possibly because they don't appear in the final game, but it is inconsistent with Fallout, where the Vipers are mentioned by several characters (
Ian,
Aradesh,
Killian) as still being around. The surviving Vipers must have therefore been still active in California until at least
2161. Furthermore, small groups of Vipers can be found in the
Mojave Wasteland in
2281.
After capturing a caravan of vault dwellers, the Master learns the location of the
Boneyard Vault, the future site of
the Cathedral. He conquers the inhabitants and sets up operations there, and the human cultists begin to use the Vault as their powerbase. Within the Vault, the Master begins to send out patrols to Vault locations in search of these other Vaults. This move is finalized in the subsequent year, 2156.[17]
2156
The Master sees advantages in establishing a benevolent "religion" (the Children of the Cathedral), and using them as spies in settlements throughout the wastes. Missionaries from the Children of the Cathedral spread slowly across the wasteland, acting as eyes and ears for Morpheus and the Master.[17]
2157
The Master learns the location of the Bakersfield Vault,
Vault 12, and sends a detachment of super mutants there to seize the vault. Many
ghouls are snapped like twigs in the attack, and
Set finally parleys with the super mutants, telling them that the ghouls are the Vault survivors the super mutants are looking for. The super mutants, angered at failing to find an intact Vault, set up a small garrison at the watershed to watch the inhabitants and ensure Set's...cooperation in the war to come.[17]
2159
Jon Zimmerman hires a band of mercenaries known as the
Regulators to help protect
Adytum from the deathclaw and the odd random attack by raiders.[61]
October: A Brotherhood of Steel patrol comes across a dead super mutant in the badlands. They take the corpse back to the Scribes, and Head Scribe
Vree begins her examinations of the super mutant.[17]
December: Killian Darkwater takes firm control of Junktown, drives out the last of
Gizmo's kind, and then enforces his own brand of frontier justice. Life is fair and safe under his law.
December: Thanks to the Vault Dweller's persistence, the
Khans are completely destroyed, leaving only one survivor named
Darion.
January 5: Someone starts stealing water from the magazine in
Vault 13.
January 17: The Vault Dweller reaches
the Hub and negotiates with the
Water Merchants to deliver water to Vault 13, buying the Vault some time.[17]
January: With the Vault Dweller's assistance,
Harold brings the new recent ghoul population of the Hub into equality with the humans. The two sides work together, and the Hub prospers.
February 13: The Vault Dweller recovers the water chip in
Necropolis.
Ian is killed by a
super mutant and reduced to a cinder.[17]
March 24: The
Master's Army attack
Necropolis, killing all of the ghoulish inhabitants except
Lenny,
Cain and another ghoul hiding behind a library, leaving a truly dead city behind them.
April 20: The Vault Dweller destroys the
Mariposa Military Base. Dogmeat, being colorblind, doesn't recognize a forcefield and charges into it, dying defending his master.[17]
May 10: Fallout ends - The Vault Dweller returns to Vault 13, only to be told to leave by
Jacoren. Some members of the vault (led by
Theresa, the head of the "return to the surface" faction, and including her supporters,
Pat and
Lyle), follow soon afterwards. The Vault Dweller marches into the wasteland, leaving Vault 13 behind him.[17]
May 23: {{cut}} The Master's Army would invade the
Lost Hills bunker.
The
Brotherhood of Steel helps the other human outposts drive the
Master's Army away with minimal loss of life, on both sides of the conflict. The advanced technology of the Brotherhood is slowly reintroduced into
New California, with little disruption or chaos. The Brotherhood of Steel wisely remains out of the power structure, and becomes a major research and development house.
July 2: {{cut}} The Master's Army would invade
Junktown.
July 22: The Master's Army would invade
Shady Sands.
2163
April 19: The Master's Army invade Vault 13, ultimately ending the game. (Original unpatched game)
2165
May 12: Vault Dweller removes his
Vault suit and from this day forward, never wears it again.[17]
July 10: The Vault Dweller heads north with a small group of fellow vault dwellers and wastelanders and founds the small village of
Arroyo.[17]
With their village having outgrown available space and resources, many
Ciphers adopt a nomadic lifestyle, returning to the village only occasionally to resupply or raise children until they're old enough to walk on their own.[51]
2185
Summer: At high noon, super mutant
Marcus and Brotherhood of Steel Paladin
Jacob cross paths many, many miles southwest of Broken Hills and punch and shoot each other for a few days. Eventually, they give up, laughing, unable to get an advantage over the other. The two start traveling together, arguing over
Unity and Brotherhood of Steel doctrine and whether or not the
Master could truly neurolink his biology into
the Cathedral computer network.[17]
Fall: Marcus and Jacob, along with a collection of ghouls, humans, and super mutant followers, found the community of
Broken Hills.[17]
2186
In
Shady Sands,
Tandi helps her father
Aradesh bring a new community and new life out of the broken remains of the world. They are responsible for the
New California Republic, whose ideals spread across the land.[17]
Spring: Jacob says goodbye to Marcus, then moves on for parts unknown.[17]
The New California Republic is voted into existence as a sprawling federation of five states: Shady Sands,
Los Angeles,
Maxson,
the Hub and
Dayglow.
The
Followers of the Apocalypse rise to become a major influence in New California. Thanks to the Vault Dweller's help, they gain control of the LA
Boneyard.
The
Enclave resumes work on various pre-War technologies, including
power armor variations. None of these are much of an improvement over the conventional old power armor, and some are actually worse.[17]
After years of trying the "natural" way, the
ghouls of the
Reservation discovered they were indeed sterile. Dr.
Willem Clark and
Dr. Sebastian begin to devise a plan to create a viable way for ghouls to procreate.[5]
January 16: After writing
his memoirs, Vault Dweller vanishes from
Arroyo and is presumed dead. The Vault Dweller leaves the
Vault Suit behind, folded on the bed. Some say the Vault Dweller was taken by the sky spirits, others say that the Vault Dweller felt it was time to move on and leave the Elders to guide Arroyo to its destiny.[17]
February 2: The One-Moon (Month) Cycle of mourning for the Vault Dweller ends, and activity in Arroyo begins to return to normal.[17]
February 2: Final training of the vault dweller's daughter for the role of
Village Elder begins. She undergoes a great deal of physical training and tutoring in various sciences, mathematics, and, of course, weapon skills.[17]
Just after the arrival of the
Initiate in Carbon, the vault dweller also arrived in the town and settled for a while.[63]
2209
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel ends - With the indications of the Vault Dweller, the
Initiate found the city of
Los, destroyed the
Church of the Lost and come into the
Secret Vault. They activate the self-destruct system inside and took the escape
monorail leading to an exit in the mountains, causing the destruction of the
Attis Army, Los and the Secret Vault, and ending the
Texas Expedition of the
Brotherhood of Steel.[63]
2210
January 31: The Vault Dweller's daughter takes her mystic test, a key ingredient of which is several pots worth of hallucinogenic plants from
Hakunin's garden. She runs the gauntlet in the
Temple of Trials, using her charm to pass most of the tests after her handgun jams (and is ruined) on the first level. She offers numerous criticisms of the test, resulting in many revisions.[17]
Note: The broken handgun is the one you see on her table in the opening movie of Fallout 2.
February 2: The Vault Dweller's daughter ascends to role of Village Elder. She rules with a steady hand, and her wisdom is greatly respected.
2215
Under Presidential Order, Enclave scientists begin to work on an upgraded version of power armor. Many prototypes are developed and tested.[17]
August 1: Congressman
Dick Richardson rises to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his father, President Richardson.[17]
2220
The
Reservation begins to purchase human
slaves from the various tribes around the region. The ghouls trade what weapons they make in their underground smithies for healthy humans. The healthiest are used for the ghoul procreation experiments, while the rest work until they die from exhaustion and disease.[5]
New Jerusalem's intolerant prophet and apostles repeatedly vote to have no commerce with outsiders from other, failed communities, refugees, or
tribals.[28]
March 5: Congressman
Richard "Dick" Richardson is elected president for the first term of five, through aid and political pressure by his father (the previous President Richardson).[17]
October: Enclave scientists develop a reliable version of the Mark II power armor. The prototype results (and accidents... and explosions... and deaths) are classified by order of the new President Richardson for the sake of morale.[17]
2227
July: After years of research and experimentation,
Dr. Sebastian successfully creates a
born ghoul through procreation in the
Reservation. The human host, like all the ones preceding him, dies during childbirth (evidently hosts can be male or female).[5]
August: The first successful Born ghoul. Due to the radioactive chemistry of the ghouls, the first Born ghoul rapidly grows into adulthood within a month. The Born ghoul is named
Measles due to his large, swollen glands in his jaw. Only three other Born ghouls will be birthed between this year and 2253. The procreation experiment only has a 2% success rate.[5]
The
Boomers, wandering in the Mojave Wasteland seeking a new refuge, come across the
Nellis Air Force Base and settle in what will become their new refuge.[65]
Jeremy Maxson, the Brotherhood of Steel High Elder, decides that it was time to expand BOS operations into the east. He sends an expeditionary force composed of five paladins to confirm the location of
Peterson's bunker. The expedition leader,
Andrea Brixley, discovers the bunker, disables its security, and opens it for habitation. For over a decade she and her fellow paladins explore the east and forge relationships with many of the tribes that inhabit the area.
A number of angry
tribals, raiders, and disassociated attackers gang up on
New Jerusalem and sack it, killing most of the
Mormons in the process.[28]
2235
The Enclave experiments on
deathclaws, attempting to create special fighting units for waging war in hostile environments.[17]
While there had already been a small number of ghouls in the area soon to become the town of
Gecko, the population swells and the town of Gecko is formed. The new influx of ghouls bring scavenged technology and know-how, and the power plant in Gecko becomes operational later that year. Vault City looks upon their new neighbors with growing concern.[17]
The new Mormon living prophet,
Judah Black, leads most of the remnants of the Mormon community north to
Ogden, Utah. They establish the town of
New Canaan.[28][66]
2236
Working with some squatters, the Mormons get the
Jericho Water Plant running fresh water into New Canaan.[28]
July–August: Enclave scientists and chemical corps scour the remains of Mariposa, while assault squads comb the desert for slaves they can use to excavate the military base and get to the
Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) vats. One of the squads includes soldier
Frank Horrigan, age 25 at the time, recently removed from duty on the President's Secret Service detail to take some R&R time in the wastes after some undocumented psychotic blunder or another.[17]
August:
Melchior is captured by an Enclave patrol and becomes part of the slave excavation force at Mariposa.[17]
September: Enclave construction crews and super mutant slaves begin excavations. They uncover the FEV, and mutations begin to occur in the human workers. Frank Horrigan comes into contact with the FEV and is sent to the Enclave labs for study.[17]
October: Melchior begins to mutate, but keeps his intelligence and cunning in the wake of the transformation, making him smarter than your average super mutant. Realizing that the Enclave will kill the super mutants after they get the FEV data, he begins to use his magician talents to hide away weapons for the mutants to defend themselves when the Enclave decides to dispense with them.[17]
2236-2238: Horrigan gradually mutates from exposure to FEV, gaining the physique and slow, stupid, single-mindedness of a super mutant. He is kept heavily sedated, operated on, and studied. He is conscious for only brief periods at a time, then quickly sedated after the bloodshed is over.[17]
January: The Enclave, having obtained the FEV data, abandons the military base site after more mutations occur, causing a second generation of
super mutants to arise - the Enclave leaves a single squad behind to wipe out the super mutants, but the mutants, using armaments they have cached in the base during excavation, reduce the squad to ashes after suffering heavy casualties. The remaining first and second generation super mutant slaves decide to remain in the base, and the group forms a new community.[17]
2238
Harold arrives in
Gecko, and (with a lot of shaking of his head) he does his best to help the ghouls with the running of the Nuclear Power Plant.[17]
NCR explorers discover
Eagle Rock and quickly realize that it is a source of energy and some water—albeit a dangerous source. Within the year, NCR miners are there, and more come shortly thereafter. Many of them are dregs/outcasts from other communities. The town of
Burham Springs is established by
Trent Burham, a wealthy NCR mine merchant.[13]
2239
January 23: Tests begin to run dry on
Frank Horrigan. It is suggested that he be used as a field operative and be used in tests in the wasteland against local populations.[17]
March 27: Frank Horrigan is manufactured for his new role. A new version of power armor is built to accommodate his mass, and he is sealed inside. After a few horrifically successful field tests, Horrigan becomes the Enclave's solution to numerous sticky problems.[17]
March: Raider attacks on caravans to Vault City begin.[17]
May 15: Fallout 2 intro - The
Enclave sends a coded sequence to
Vault 13, activating its central computer and declaring that it is time to leave the vault.
Martin Frobisher gathers the Vault 13 dwellers together for the "Leaving The Vault" video, a tutorial movie of Vault-Tec about the rules to follow when vault dwellers left their vault.
May 16: Less than a day later, Vault 13 is opened, only to be greeted by two Enclave verti-assault squads. The squads kill three of the vault dwellers who were "resisting capture" and storm Vault 13, kidnapping all the inhabitants.
May 17: Enclave animal handlers drop an intelligent deathclaw unit into Vault 13 from a safe distance to kill anyone investigating the vault and cloak the Enclave's presence. Other intelligent deathclaws are sent into the desert surrounding Vault 13 to check for any escapees or witnesses.
July 25, 08:24: Fallout 2 begins - The
Chosen One begins his mystic test, descending into the
Temple of Trials like his mother before him.
Nuclear Nellie, a howitzer style gun capable of firing a nuclear shell, is made functional at the
Reservation. A "dirty" shell is created to use on Willem’s enemies. However, since the heavy lift cable is broken, there is no way to bring the gun from its underground lair.[5]
Jeremy Maxson renames
Todd Peterson's bunker after his famous ancestor,
Roger Maxson. He then sends a full compliment of troops for occupation.
Andrea Brixley is promoted to Elder, given the rank of General, and placed in charge. The remainder of her exploratory team is given the title of Elder as well.
January 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the second time.
April 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the third time, without regard to the progress of the Chosen One.
July 20:
Arroyo is attacked by Enclave soldiers, and the villagers are enslaved and brought to the
Oil Rig. The Chosen One has a fourth and final
vision of Hakunin.
Fall: Fallout 2 ends - The Chosen One enters the Enclave's oil rig using the damaged tanker and destroys the Poseidon oil platform, killing the President of the United States and ending the Enclave's plans for world domination.[17]
After the Enclave's destruction, the refugees of Arroyo and Vault 13 resettle, building a new community with the aid of the
Garden of Eden Creation Kit. Finding themselves hundreds of miles from their Vault, the members of Vault 13 choose to join the villagers in establishing a new community, and their technical expertise, combined with the villagers survival skills, allow the new settlement to grow and prosper. Two generations of the same bloodline are re-united, and their savior, the Chosen One, becomes Elder, presiding over the village in the years to come.
The
Arroyo elder lives for many years after the destruction of the Enclave. She seems pleased that the ancient separation between
Vault 13 and the
Vault Dweller has been reconciled, and many are the times she tells the
Chosen One she wished the Vault Dweller were alive to have seen the reconciliation take place. Certain that the safety of the new village had been secured and the new community was flourishing, the Elder passes away a few months later in her sleep. Many of the older Arroyo residents believe that she now lives in the vault of the sky, telling the Vault Dweller of the Chosen One's brave deeds.
Relations between the
Slags and residents of
Modoc flourish. Between the two peoples, Modoc prospers and becomes a major farming community, supplying all the outlying regions with food. [citation needed]
Metzger's slave trade in
the Den expands greatly, giving him influence and power throughout most of the area. Breeding pens are started and eventually no one is safe from the threat of being enslaved. Travelers avoid the Den, hearing of the evils committed within its walls.
Optimizing
Gecko's power plant becomes the first step in forging a spirit of cooperation between Gecko and
Vault City. Gecko's increased power production becomes instrumental in helping Vault City's expansion.
In the years following the destruction of the Enclave, Vault City continues to stagnate, choking on its own isolationism. Its
Vault 8 generator, which was never intended to support such a large population, prevents Vault City's necessary expansion. Eventually, the city is absorbed by
NCR, which has spread steadily northwards since its founding. [citation needed]
Not long after the destruction of the Enclave, the
Bishop family of
New Reno is blessed with a
child. This child seems to have little in common with the Bishops, preferring instead to spend his days exploring the wastes. When he turns thirteen, he seizes control of the Bishop family and leads them to victory over the remaining New Reno families. He dies quietly in his sleep at the age of seventy-three, never having known his real father.
Though the
Wright family never completely recovers from
Richard's death, the knowledge that the killer had been brought to justice eases their troubled sleep.
Myron dies less than a year after the defeat of the Enclave, stabbed by a
jet addict while drinking in
the Den. His discovery of jet is quickly forgotten, and now there is no one who remembers his name.
The Chosen One still hears mention of
Harold from time to time. Apparently, the tree growing from his head has gotten larger, and if rumors are to be believed, fruit is growing from it. The seeds are said to remarkably tough, and several of them have taken root even in the most barren stretches of the wasteland.
Several years after buying the
Excavator Chip from the Chosen One,
Marge LeBarge is able to purchase and control both the
Morningstar and the newly opened
Kokoweef mines. Marge is an easy choice for Mayor, and using her new political power, she makes
Redding join the growing New California Republic in return for a seat in the NCR's
Hall of Congress. [citation needed]
With the destruction of the conspiracy to destroy the mutants,
Broken Hills begins to thrive. Then the uranium ran out. The city, having lost its sole reason for existing, slowly disperses. The residents carry their riches with them, leaving the place a wind-swept, desolate ghost town. A few hold-outs remain, attempting to eke out a pathetic existence, but eventually, they too, disappear.
Inspired by the example set by the Chosen One,
Marcus eventually travels across the great mountains to the east, searching for other refugees from the
Master's army. The Chosen One never hears from him again.
With the support the Chosen One secured from the New California Republic, the Vault 15 squatters soon become self-sufficient and productive members of society. [citation needed]
The Chosen One's help with
Vault 15 launched the New California Republic's push to civilize its neighbors. Though there were many more obstacles to overcome, the NCR now had a foothold into the northern wastes.
By eliminating the
deathclaws of Vault 13, the Chosen One banishes yet another species to the realms of extinction, proving, once again, that genocide is a viable solution to any problem...
The
Shi flourish, creating a botanical scourge on the radiation surrounding their beloved town. Though this vine cannot grow in other soils, the Shi take care to nourish it in their lands. They continue to grow in strength and prominence, forming the basis of a new empire.
The destruction of the Enclave erases all trace of
President Richardson from history. Now the title of "President" is used simply as a boogieman used to frighten children.
As for the
Tanker vagrants... well, as vagrants do, they drift on.
2244
Refugees begin arriving in
New Canaan in large numbers, telling stories about a war in the west.[66]
During the expedition, Sallow discovers a cache of historical books, some of them regarding ancient Rome, including Commentarii by Julius Caesar himself, which fascinates the young man.[59]
Graham, Calhoun and Sallow are captured by the
Blackfoot tribe for ransom. The young Sallow uses his knowledge to train the tribals in the art of warfare, impressing them enough to become their leader.[59]
Sallow assumes the name of ancient Roman emperor
Caesar and makes Joshua Graham his right-hand man. He decides to create an empire modeled after the historical Roman Empire, intending to erase the tribals' individual identities and replace them all with a single, monolithic culture - the Legion.[59]
After coming out of a strange and powerful fever,
Jeremiah Rigdon claims that an angel appeared to him in a vision, calling him to be the living prophet of god.[28]
2248
President
Tandi becomes ill and dies at the age of 103. Her vice-president
Joanna Tibbett is sworn in as new President of the NCR.[59]
Back in the West, "the 370 Raid" occurs.
Porter's group try to rob the
NCR Storehouse and Bank to seize the payroll to pay his men. They were caught by NCR and ended up "blowing" the vault and totally ruining the future ability to settle the payment problems in the area (exact circumstances are unknown, Porter's group didn't actually steal the money, but it's gone nonetheless). Captured, sold out by Spineless Stan Lowery (a man in the 370 team who didn't participate in the raid because he was afraid they'd be killed trying). Porter still feels guilty about his role in the collapse of the eastern part of NCR, since his actions blew any chance of the economy stabilizing. Porter and his gang are arrested and imprisoned in Black Canyon.[32]
Members from Porter's team escape many times, though there's nowhere to run and they are caught or surrender. At least one escape was planned by NCR Lt. Gov Dodge (Dodge hoped that Porter will loop back to pick up the money from the blown vault, but the escape he arranged only resulted in the 308th getting free, not the 370th, and since Porter didn't steal the vault money anyway he wouldn't know where to find it).[32]
A lucrative slave trade is established with Caesar’s Legions and the Blackfoot tribe.
Caesar declares himself the son of Mars, Roman god of war.[59]
Porter's gang (the 370th) and the 308th put on work-release to
Denver. The work-release also made more room in the prison for some more dangerous prisoners, as the place was getting overcrowded. The prisoners travel with hobos, dodge tribals, lose about half their numbers (from clashes with slavers, tribals, radscorpions, and other monsters).[32]
Daniel goes to find his six cattle in a storm and is captured by robots from the prison. Also, Bishop Mordecai and five others return to New Canaan as the sole survivors of their attempt to resettle
New Jerusalem. They do not acknowledge Jeremiah Rigdon as the living prophet.[28]
Herbert Dashwood is voted "honorary ghoul" at
Underworld.[73]
Porter's gang reaches Denver. Goals: Once there, they were to see about scavenging as many building supplies as possible, establishing a track outpost, and pave the way for NCR occupation. They make camp.[32]
May 10:
Jillian McKinley is apprehended by
ULYSSES' robots. The
Rusty Hooks lose their best and only mechanic/weapons smith.
Sid is "volunteered" to take her place.[38]
15-year-old
Scott Wollinski is sold to a caravan merchant by his father, who hopes for a better life for his son. Wollinski would travel with the caravans for few years, working as an indentured servant, until buying his freedom and settling down in
Canterbury Commons.[25]
June 30: Sid figures out how to fire up the sub-reactor. Bloomfield has power once more, but sub-reactor is only operating at 45% efficiency.[38][39]
2253
38 NCR citizens are massacred by
Mojave raiders.[59] President
Joanna Tibbett is voted out of office by the NCR congress after a "timid" reaction to the massacre, and is replaced by
Wendell Peterson.[59]
President Peterson dispatches three battalions of NCR infantry into the
Mojave Wasteland.[59]
October 23: The
Prisoner escapes from
Tibbets Prison, dooming the world and creating a holocaust of epic proportions.[5][66]
October 23:
Sentry robots at Bloomfield become semi-active – not moving, but the optical lenses and sensors turn on and start surveying for escaped prisoners from the
Big MT. The robots ignore the Rusty Hooks.[38][39]
October:
Dr. Presper and his
NCR followers find security overrides for the turrets and security bots at Bloomfield, as well as the space rockets' launch codes. They invade Kyle's beloved Bloomfield – Kyle and his men do not resist Dr. Presper and his technically more advanced brigade – and launch themselves into space to dock with
B.O.M.B.-001. Four NCR soldiers stay behind with the remaining rocket to prevent anyone from launching the second rocket. The Rusty Hooks keep clear of the launch pad and form an "understanding" with the NCR guards.[38][39]
2254
Fallout 2 is programmed to ultimately end 13 game years after gameplay starts, so hurry up with that
G.E.C.K.!
A
Brotherhood of Steel squad led by
Owyn Lyons is sent to
Washington, D.C. on the
East Coast to search for technology, investigate reports of
super mutant activity and re-establish connection that was sent there before (Not knowing the ship carrying the Brotherhood squad crashed near Chicago during a storm).[75]
On the way to the
Capital Wasteland, the Brotherhood expeditionary force attacks the raider town called "The
Pitt" and razes it to the ground. These events are later known as
the Scourge.[76]
Madison Li arrives at
Rivet City and takes over as head of the city's science lab from
Pinkerton. Pinkerton's whole staff starts working with her instead.[67] Incensed by this, Pinkerton moves to
Rivet City's
broken bow and becomes a recluse, continuing his experiments alone.
The
Lone Wanderer's first birthday is celebrated in Vault 101.
2260
A generator in the
Citadel overloads, creating errors in the artificial intelligence routines of the medical
robot called
Sawbones, giving him intelligence beyond his programming and a disliking for his human masters.[79]
Aaron Kimball retires from the military and runs for the office of one of
the Hub's governors.[59]
Wendell Peterson is voted out of office and Kimball is sworn in as the new NCR president, just two months after starting his political career.[59]
2274
NCR scouts reach
Hoover Dam, causing
Mr. House to recruit three tribes and recondition them into the
Three Families. By the time the NCR reaches the ruins of Las Vegas, they are able to return home with tales of a city of lights in the middle of the desert. Not long after, tourist money starts rolling into the newly christened
New Vegas.[59]
The NCR reluctantly sign the
New Vegas treaty. NCR are allowed to control the Hoover Dam and to set up headquarters at
Camp McCarran, while recognizing Mr. House and the three families as the rightful owners of the Strip. 5% of the energy from the dam is transferred to the Strip while the rest goes back to California.
Hoover Dam restarts and the Strip blazes with light. The first trickle of privileged, curious NCR citizens visits the Strip. The strip opens for business.[59]
MacCready becomes the mayor of Little Lamplight.[85]
Benny kills
Bingo and takes over the
Chairmen. The Chairmen then start renovating The Tops.
Maggie's parents die in a raider attack, and she is rescued by the caravan guard
Billy Creel.
Legion scouts report the NCR has occupied and restarted Hoover Dam, restoring electrical power to the Strip. Caesar begins planning war against the NCR.
2275-2276: Legion forces gradually assemble east of the
Colorado River. The NCR becomes aware of the threat when scouting parties fail to return from expeditions east.
{{cut}}Intended year for
Vault 13 to open once again, according to the
experiment in Fallout 2.
Harold appears in the
Capital Wasteland. He was discovered by several people who began to worship him as a god, and a small and exclusive cult known as the
Treeminders began to form in secrecy.
Bob began to blossom and many plants grew in this area, which became green with life, a stark contrast to the outer wasteland.
The
First Battle of Hoover Dam takes place.
Caesar's Legion forces under the command of
Joshua Graham attempt to take the
Hoover Dam from the
NCR. Although initially successful, the NCR lures the Legion into a trap and sends them reeling. Most of
Boulder City is reduced to rubble in the battle. Legate Graham, deemed responsible for the defeat by
Caesar, is coated in pitch, lit on fire, and tossed into the
Grand Canyon to set an example for others.
A band of raiders attempt an assault on
Megaton but fail when their leader
Boppo is shot and killed by the town sheriff,
Lucas Simms.
August 17, 09:04: Fallout 3 prologue ends and Fallout 3 begins -
James disappears from
Vault 101 and his son/daughter, the
Lone Wanderer (aged 19), heads to the surface to search for him.
A slave by the name of
Wernher travels to the
Capital Wasteland from
The Pitt by way of a rusty handcart, seeking the help of someone to free his people from their slaver oppressors and on a later unknown day, encounters the
Lone Wanderer, who decides the fate of the slaves and changes the destiny of The Pitt forever.
James, the Lone Wanderer's father, sacrifices himself at Project Purity to thwart Colonel Autumn's attempt to commandeer the facility. Several other people at the project survive.
The Earth is saved by the
Lone Wanderer from an
alien threat when they are captured in the northern
Capital Wasteland by an alien
mothership named Zeta, taking the control of the ship with an atypical group of survivors from Earth's past, and destroying another
alien mothership which was near Zeta. [90]
Following the abduction and killing of four soldiers, NCR troops assault the
Great Khans' settlement at
Red Rock Canyon and massacre several dozen men, women, and children. This event goes unreported in NCR press.[59]
2279
November 14: The
Securitron vault suffers a radiation leak at 3:47. A maintenance bot is dispatched a minute later. At 3:50, a power surge occurs. The bot becomes non-responsive, and the vault goes on Security Alert Level 1.
2281
New Canaan is destroyed by the
White Legs in an attempt to gain enough favor with
Caesar's Legion to be assimilated. The surviving residents of New Canaan are scattered across Utah.
October 11: Fallout: New Vegas intro - The Courier is ambushed and shot in the head by
Benny, left for dead in a shallow, unmarked grave in
Goodsprings Cemetery.
Victor finds the body and retrieves it, and the Courier makes a miraculous recovery in the care of
Doc Mitchell.[45]
October 19, 08:00: Fallout: New Vegas begins - The Courier regains consciousness and leaves
Mitchell's house in
Goodsprings for search of revenge against
Benny.
The Courier follows an old radio message broadcasting about the gala in the
Sierra Madre, leading them to an
abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker. Here, they are captured by
Dog and taken to the Sierra Madre. In the Sierra Madre, they have to obey
Elijah with a group of survivors, but the Courier takes over from Elijah and manages to escape from the Sierra Madre to return into the Mojave Wasteland.
An expedition of the
Happy Trails Caravan Company lead by
Jed Masterson for
New Canaan by passing into
Zion Canyon is about to start and the Courier takes part. In Zion Canyon, all members of the expedition except the Courier are killed. The Courier walks out of the history of the tribes of Zion and shifting the fragile balance of power.
A strange satellite crashes in the
Mojave Drive-in. The Courier arrives and inspects the satellite during the night, which triggers the unique teleporter on board the satellite and transports them to
Big MT. In Big MT, the Courier becomes a cyborg after a science experiment went awry; their brain, heart and spine have been replaced with advanced technologies. The Courier encounters the
Think Tank, some of former Big MT executives, asking for the Courier's aid to save them from
Mobius. The Courier and Mobius confront and the Courier gets at least their heart and spine back in their body.
Ulysses meets the Courier in
the Divide and a battle takes place. The two couriers fight beneath an ancient flag at the edge of the world, each carrying a message for the other.
September 10th: Moira Brown begins work on a biography of the Lone Wanderer.
2316
The
Bishop child, leader of the
Bishop family of
New Reno and the son of the
Chosen One, dies quietly in his sleep, having never known his real father.
^Toshiro Kago was abducted sometime during the Tokugawa shogunate, starting on March 24, 1603, since mon was only authorized for all classes from that date.
^The Valiant 12 flag displayed in the
Museum of Technology uses this flag design. The division of the United States into 13 commonwealths was first envisioned by
Leonard Boyarsky during the development of the first Fallout.
^This information comes from Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible timeline. According to the
Sierra Depot GNN transcript holodisk, which Avellone discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers, the UN still existed in
2074
^Robert House's
dialogue - By 2065 I deemed it a mathematical certainty that an atomic war would devastate the Earth within 15 years. Every projection I ran confirmed it.
^
abcdBriefly mentioned in the Fallout Intro with no date. Date is mentioned only in the Fallout Bible timeline
^This date for the Chinese invasion of Alaska comes from Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible timeline. According to the
Sierra Depot GNN transcriptholodisk, which Avellone discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers, this happened on
October 10, 2077
^It is originally said to be the last one, but later ones are seen in Fallout 3
^Point Lookout is released after Broken Steel, and the Fallout official site confirmed that Mothership Zeta was the final adventure of the Lone Wanderer, and so that the order of add-on released is the chronological order of Fallout 3 history.
^Fallout official site: "The Vault Dweller's final and most fantastical adventure".