One of the things I love most about Fallout is seeing how different societies can develop unqiue little quirks and ideas based on their time in the Wasteland, to respond to the stresses they live under - and how you can have all these different communities.
I mean, we have tribes with all kinds of strange customs, the Children of Atom, the people of Diamond City who seem to worship their wall like a god, there's Goodneighbor, there's Tenpenny Tower and Rivet City, Little Lamplight, Vault City, the various communities that arose in the Boneyard, etc. There's the Brotherhood ofTechnological Magpies Steel.
In the context of the Fallout Universe, what are some of the societies you think might arise or would be fun to see?
I've always thought it odd we don't have any societies (beyond that one fringe sect of the Children of Atom) that regard Ghouls as some higher stage of life - I mean, sure they're ugly, but they're immortal and immune to the terrifying scourge that is radiation (sorta). It would be fascinating to see a society that was actually ruled by Ghouls, and how favored humans might occasionally be offered the chance to prove their worth (read: expose themselves to rads until they die/become ghouls) and join the elite class. And how people might actually be raised under the system and thus think it fine and dandy.
Or maybe a community that treats books the way the Brotherhood treats tech - with an almost religious Zeal. They hoard books and sent out collection librarians (well armed) to find and recover and return lost or rare tomes. Or, perhaps they are in the true spirit of the Libraries of old, and while they don't like check books out or something maybe they let people come and read the ones they've collected or offer to make and sell copies of specific books on demand.
Another thing I'd love to see is a society where, perhaps some experiment went awry (ala Vault 22) and the whole ruined city is covered in overgrowth, and so it's a literal urban jungle they live in now - people often complain the wasteland (not the Mojave, but other parts) not being as green as it logically would be 200 years later*, so it would be fun to see a segment of the post-war world that was the exact opposite, way too much green - on a larger scale than Vault 22.
*of course, if one wants to bitch about the unrealistic lack of greenery, one can also say that most of the underlying 'science' of the Fallout verse doesn't work like actual science, so...
I mean, we have tribes with all kinds of strange customs, the Children of Atom, the people of Diamond City who seem to worship their wall like a god, there's Goodneighbor, there's Tenpenny Tower and Rivet City, Little Lamplight, Vault City, the various communities that arose in the Boneyard, etc. There's the Brotherhood of
In the context of the Fallout Universe, what are some of the societies you think might arise or would be fun to see?
I've always thought it odd we don't have any societies (beyond that one fringe sect of the Children of Atom) that regard Ghouls as some higher stage of life - I mean, sure they're ugly, but they're immortal and immune to the terrifying scourge that is radiation (sorta). It would be fascinating to see a society that was actually ruled by Ghouls, and how favored humans might occasionally be offered the chance to prove their worth (read: expose themselves to rads until they die/become ghouls) and join the elite class. And how people might actually be raised under the system and thus think it fine and dandy.
Or maybe a community that treats books the way the Brotherhood treats tech - with an almost religious Zeal. They hoard books and sent out collection librarians (well armed) to find and recover and return lost or rare tomes. Or, perhaps they are in the true spirit of the Libraries of old, and while they don't like check books out or something maybe they let people come and read the ones they've collected or offer to make and sell copies of specific books on demand.
Another thing I'd love to see is a society where, perhaps some experiment went awry (ala Vault 22) and the whole ruined city is covered in overgrowth, and so it's a literal urban jungle they live in now - people often complain the wasteland (not the Mojave, but other parts) not being as green as it logically would be 200 years later*, so it would be fun to see a segment of the post-war world that was the exact opposite, way too much green - on a larger scale than Vault 22.
*of course, if one wants to bitch about the unrealistic lack of greenery, one can also say that most of the underlying 'science' of the Fallout verse doesn't work like actual science, so...