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Hello, I looked around and haven't found anything on this and I have always wondered this:

After the bombs fell in The Great War, pretty much everyone not in a vault or bunker or something is either dead from the blasts, or died shortly after from massive radiation. Some were turned into ghouls especially in that vault under Necropolis, and animals for some reason were not wiped out but were mutated years later (I guess they hid away and survived somehow).

2077

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.

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.

October 30: A week after the initial blast, a black rain begins to fall. The source of the black rain was the massive amounts of radioactive particle debris (mainly soot) from the nuclear firestorm a week earlier. Plants and animals both go rapidly into extinction.

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.

Maxson and friends left the base and made their way to Lost Hills just days after the bombs dropped, no bombs hit near them so there wasn't much/any radiation around, but by Oct 30th, you'd think they would all have all died (and im pretty sure the rainfall lasted for weeks) but it says they got to the bunker sometime after, which I would assume radiation or the deadly rain would have killed them all. It does say they take many casualties but deadly rain/radiation would affect ALL of them, even those in power armor, would it not? Maybe im just nitpicking.

Another thing: "After burying the scientists, Maxson's soldiers and their families began the Exodus to Lost Hills. Raider attacks took a heavy toll of casualties, including Maxson's wife. His teenage son survived. Maxson and his men later formed the Brotherhood of Steel, and the Lost Hills facility served as their main base. "

Source: http://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Roger_Maxson

How are there raiders already, just abit after the bombs dropped? I doubt there would be already groups of people who survived the bombs, rain, and radiation who have weapons and want to start attacking people for loot, especially armed soldiers. I thought it was supposed to be at least 100 years the radiation was lifted enough for life to come back to the surface, with the exception of ghouls and mutated animals who somehow survived.

Tho, the timeline then says: 2080

-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.

-John Bloch's military group makes a peace-protection pact with local ranchers.

It takes three years for the first radiation-related mutations in life? That's quite a long time for anything to survive shitons of radiation, poison and basically, hell on the surface, there wouldn't really be anything much to mutate I would imagine, and does that mean the animals weren't mutated at all untill now? How did they survive?

The second part doesn't make any sense at all (it's Van Braun tho so that's probably why)

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.

How does this make sense if it is implying humans and animals were still alive on the surface alive on the surface?

TLDR: Raiders and people are on the surface just shortly after the bombs dropped, and andimals all survived as well, only to mutate afterwards, how did they survive un-mutated both humans and animals? Or am I just nit-picking at small details?

Timeline source: http://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline

--well, nitpicking but there is a lot of hyperbole in the statements. Also you have to remember that Fallout's retro-futurism is based on what people THOUGHT the outcome of a atomic war would be in the 50s. Dangerously high levels of radiation...but largely survivable. (back at the end of WW2, scientists were actually shocked at the level of survivabilty after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They thought the ground itself would be uninhabitable after the bombs.) Surface-dwellers faced with their entire world crashing apart would OF COURSE resort to banditry and RAIDING for survival. So probably not wearing leather and sporting mowhawks and spikes yet... but raiders. - Push You Down


Well, your starting with a faulty assumption, that everyone not in a bunker died.

Whilst chances of survival were indeed higher if you were in one, it wasn't the only way to survive. Agent c (talk) 21:27, January 16, 2014 (UTC)

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