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[edit] 1 April
Fallout is a possible movie based on the Fallout series of computer games. There has been at least one canceled attempt at making a Fallout movie in the past.
While no Fallout movie project has officially been announced after the acquisition of the franchise by Bethesda Softworks, IMDb Pro lists a movie titled Fallout as being in production. According to IMDb Pro, the producers are Dan Clarke and Sriram Das, and the writers are Guinevere Turner and Andre Fonseca. The plot summary is "In a post-apocalyptic world, three friends struggle to survive." It is not known whether the movie is officially based on the Fallout series, or just uses the same title with no other relation.
[edit] 2 April
Ishmael Ashur is the leader of The Pitt, a raider and slaver town. He is said to have found a cure for mutations. He is first formally introduced during the quest Unsafe Working Conditions, right before the Lone Wanderer goes to fight in The Hole. Ashur can later be met in person after the Lone Wanderer has fought his/her way through The Hole. The meeting is organized by Werhner and Midea to get the Lone Wanderer closer to the cure.
Ashur was a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, and participated in their assault on the Pitt twenty years ago, known as the Scourge. During the fight, Ashur was caught in an explosion and was presumed dead, so the Brotherhood left him within the mill. After being pulled out of the rubble by scavengers trying to steal his armor, Ashur impresses them, some even considering him a god (Some Pitt raiders call him "Lord Ashur" and Midea sarcastically calls him the "God-King"). He then brought together the scavengers in the area, starting the city.
[edit] 3 April
Clarence J. Brown III (Clancy) (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor and voice actor. He voice acted the role of Rhombus in Fallout.
His well-known roles include Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Viking Lofgren in the 1983 hit drama movie Bad Boys, Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984), a cameo in the 1995 movie Dead Man Walking, Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers, (a role he would reprise in the animated television series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), Captain William Hadley in The Guardian, and The Kurgan in the first Highlander.
[edit] 4 April
The Vault Dweller's Memoirs is the introduction of the Fallout 2 manual. Written by the Vault Dweller himself, its an account of his history ever since he left Vault 13, up until he founded Arroyo. As it stands, it is the only information about the canonical outcome of Fallout outside a few references in the sequel itself.
[edit] 5 April
Action Boy or Action Girl (depending on the character's gender) is a Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout Tactics perk.
In all games it increases the number of available Action Points (AP), with the exact implementation depending on the respective game's combat mechanics. In the turn-based games the player receives additional AP every combat turn to spend on any task whereas in Fallout 3 you gain an additional 25 Action Points to use in V.A.T.S..
[edit] 6 April
The Railway Rifle is a custom-built weapon in Fallout 3, made from a crutch that comprises the stock and grip part of the gun, a Pressure Cooker that acts as a firing chamber, a Fission Battery that acts as the firing pin and a Steam Gauge Assembly that comprises the grip, ammo storage and barrel of the gun.
The gun fires Railway Spikes. Though only moderately damaging, it is very effective at dealing limb damage (due to a 3x limb damage multiplier), able to cripple limbs often with just one shot. On the killing shot, a spike may tear off the struck body part, and possibly pin it to a wall if there are any close enough.
[edit] 7 April
Rad Away is a chemical solution that bonds with radiation particles and passes them through your system. Takes time to work. It is also a potent diuretic. While Rad Away removes the negative effects of radiation, it does not prevent you from becoming irradiated, unlike Rad-X.
In Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics, Rad Away can be addictive. In Fallout 3, it is no longer addictive.
[edit] 8 April
Oversized and undersized items are items (usually junk) which are scaled larger or smaller than normal.
They can be used as unique decorations for your house! When you get any resized item, you should take it to your house in Megaton (or your suite in Tenpenny Tower). Items of unusual size act the same as they did in Oblivion - pick them up from where you found them and you can drop them ONCE. If you pick said item up and drop it again, it will lose its size and become a normal object.
You can keep resized items in your inventory or in storage indefinitely and they will still be marked with their unusual size. You won't be able to tell them apart from a regular item of the same type in your inventory though, so you'll just have to rely on your memory.
[edit] 9 April
The West Tek Research Facility was founded in 2002 as a private contractor of the United States government. Initially divided into two divisions, Advanced Weapons and Biomedical Sciences Research, by 2069 it was the single biggest private contractor of the US government, its biggest contract was the T-51b Power Armor for use by infantry soldiers on the frontlines.
Its second-largest contract was the Pan-Immunity Virion Project, later known as the FEV. In 2076, its primary complex in California was secured by a military contingent for fear of international espionage; shortly, the PVP research was moved to the Mariposa Military Base where experimentation on human subjects would continue.
[edit] 10 April
The New Reno Temperance Union is a group dedicated to the eschewing and abolition of intoxicating beverages in Fallout 2. They justify their arguments by stating that alcoholism or even the occasional partaking of alcohol leads to moral failure and wickedness. However, as alcohol in its various merry aspects forms one of the pillars of New Reno vice - and therefore profit - the Union has not achieved a great deal of success.
According to Ethyl Wright, the Union was co-founded by herself and the local priest, Father Tully. Ethyl then convinced her husband, Orville Wright, New Reno's primary supplier of liquor, to cease production of alcohol and dismantle the stills. Orville complied with his wife's wishes - to an extent.
[edit] 11 April
Vault 87 is one of the Vault-Tec Vaults, located at the western edge of the Capital Wasteland. As part of the Vault Experiment, experimentation on a Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) strain different from the one in Mariposa was conducted on its inhabitants. The vault is full of super mutants and centaurs. By reading information on the computers, it becomes clear that eventually some mutants escaped and killed their creators. Various rooms have been sealed from the inside using tables as barricades.
[edit] 12 April
Vic the Trader is the character the Chosen One is originally dispatched to find in Fallout 2. Vic sold the tribals of Arroyo a number of Vault 13 water flasks as holy relics. He originally purchased them from a trader in Vault City. He resides in Klamath, but naturally things aren't going to be easy if you want to talk to him. You catch up with him later on down the line in The Den, when it turns out that Metzger, the Slaver leader, has taken Vic prisoner and is holding him in their compound.
[edit] 13 April
The 41-90MPW Ranger Battle Armor, worn by Reilly's Rangers, is the best non-Power Armor in Fallout 3.
It is one of two possible rewards given by Reilly after successfully completing the Reilly's Rangers quest. The Lone Wanderer can choose the Ranger Battle Armor or Eugene, Brick's unique minigun. It is possible to acquire multiple sets of Ranger Battle Armor, and/or two copies of Eugene, depending on which or how many Rangers survive the journey from the rooftop of the Statesman Hotel to the Ranger Compound and which reward is chosen.
[edit] 14 April
Stanislaus Braun was a brilliant Vault-Tec scientist before the Great War and the creator of the G.E.C.K.. He is alive 200 years after the war by living in a stasis chamber of his own design. The chamber houses a virtual reality simulation dubbed Tranquility Lane. He is the Overseer of Vault 112. Though early correspondence showed him taking a larger role in activation and assignment of the Vaults, much of his responsibility has lapsed as he has become more immersed in, and obsessed with, the sole administration of Vault 112's Virtual Reality experiment.
[edit] 15 April
The Children of the Cathedral (commonly abbreviated CoC) were a widespread religious cult that the Master established as a cover for his activities and to spread his philosophy. Publicly, the Children were a post-doomsday cult that preached peace and unity. They worshiped the Holy Flame that destroyed all the world's evil (the nuclear fire that destroyed civilization in the Great War) and talked of their Master who would lead them to a better existence.
But they were more than a creepy but altruistic cult. The entire religion was elaborated by the Master to cultivate a pool of normal human operatives in the wastes and to prepare the world for his coming. Every person the CoC converted to their faith was one more person who could willingly be dipped in FEV. All Children eagerly awaited their chance to be baptized in the great baptismal font to the north - the vats of FEV in the Military Base.
[edit] 16 April
The Lieutenant or Lou, also lovingly dubbed Lou Tenant, is the Master's right hand and the overseer of all work inside the Military Base. Lou is a good example of how the Master would want his mutants to turn out, more intelligent, stronger and generally better than normal humans.
The Lou's authority apparently stretches so far that Harry goes through the trouble of dragging you on a long journey through the Wasteland just to show you to the Lou and report you're not a ghoul.
[edit] 17 April
The Hubologists are a religious cult founded before the Great War by a man known as Dick Hubbell (or "The Hub" by Hubologists). They are headquartered in the former city of San Francisco.
Hubology, as a religion, promotes the idea that humans are plagued by the spirits, or neurodynes, of the dead. Through a cleansing process offered at Hubology centers called alignment, members can remove these negative influences and gain greater powers. The degree to which a member has devoted his or her time and efforts to Hubology accords him or her a numerical rank; the Hubologist leader, AHS-9, holds the highest rank of any living Hubologist.
[edit] 18 April
Rockopolis was once a hidden underground settlement which was abandoned after all of its citizens were enslaved and transported to The Pitt.
According to files on Herbert Dashwood's computer and the accounts of The Adventures of Herbert "Daring" Dashwood on Galaxy News Radio, the inhabitants would only allow outsiders in if they presented a secret knock. Herbert accidentally led Penelope Chase, a slaver leader, to Rockopolis which caused the town's demise. To this day Dashwood claims this incident to be an "honest mistake".
[edit] 19 April
The New Plague or Limit 115 is a socially transmitted plague which arose in 2053, killing approximately twenty thousand human beings in the United States. The United States closed its borders and the first-ever national quarantine was declared. The source of the plague is unknown, but rumors persisted that it was a genetically engineered weapon.
The West Tek viral research and close ties to the federal government eventually lead to them being chosen for the Pan-Immunity Virion Project in 2073, a project later known as Forced Evolutionary Virus.
[edit] 20 April
Vault Boy is an advertising character for the Vault-Tec corporation within the Fallout universe, appearing in their manuals and training films. In the Fallout games, Vault Boy is used to provide an iconic representation of the perks and stats available to the player character. In appearance, he is a young male cartoon character with wavy hair (brown in earlier appearances, blond by the time of Fallout 3) wearing a Vault Jumpsuit. His design pays homage to 1950's style mascots.
[edit] 21 April
Enclave Radio is a radio station run by the Enclave and broadcast from the Raven Rock mountain complex. It is hosted by President John Henry Eden and airs patriotic music, as well as President Eden's "frank discussions". The Enclave has dispatched a number of Eyebots to ensure that citizens without a radio can hear the broadcasts.
At the beginning of the game, this is the only station the player can receive; while Galaxy News Radio's broadcast range begins just a small walk to the south of the Vault 101 entrance, the signal is too weak to be more than static, and Agatha's Station is off-line.
[edit] 22 April
Freeport, a town in the state of Illinois, was largely destroyed during the Great War. In 2197, raiders from a medium-sized encampment on the outskirts of Freeport kidnapped Charon, the Elder of the tribal village of Brahmin Wood which recently allied with the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel. Cypher, a raider who was in fact the Brotherhood's informant, revealed where Charon was kept. A squad of Brotherhood initiates who have previously freed Brahmin Wood of raiders managed to rescue Charon, killing many unsuspecting raiders (including the camp leader, O'Reilly) in the process.
[edit] 23 April
Victor Presper was born and raised in the area formerly known as Shady Sands, now known as NCR. He spent many of his years as a scientific adviser to President Tandi before his disillusionment settled in – a disillusionment fueled by the Caravan houses that ate away at NCR. He and the others effectively grew frustrated with Tandi, the BoS, the caravans, and everyone else.
When his breaking point finally came, Presper became determined to find a way to rid the world of chaos and human impurities, and discovered his savior in the Limit 115 virus.
[edit] 24 April
With the Vindicator Minigun the German Rheinmetall AG company created the ultimate minigun. The Vindicator throws over 90,000 caseless shells per minute down its six carbon-polymer barrels. As the pinnacle of Teutonic engineering skill, it is the ultimate hand-held weapon.
Along with the Bozar, many consider the Vindicator to be the ultimate big gun. Even enemies clad in Power Armor can be brought down in a single burst. The only down side of the weapon is the scarceness of the ammunition it uses.
[edit] 25 April
A robot is a machine capable of autonomously completing tasks. Depending upon the robot, these tasks may be simple or complex, and may require little human intervention or complete oversight.
In the Fallout universe, robots had been constructed for many purposes, and many examples survived long enough to be a factor in the worlds of Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and their spin-offs.
Robots had been constructed by pre-War society to fill all niches and occupations. From general-purpose utility droids to full-fledged military battle machines, robots could be found in almost any environment and function.
[edit] 26 April
Agatha's Station is a radio station in Fallout 3 which transmits classical violin music played and recorded by Agatha. It is activated after completing the side-quest Agatha's Song.
Agatha tells the player that the radio station is her way of paying back the traders who come to visit her. The station can be heard anywhere in the Capital Wasteland. Between pieces of music, Agatha sends messages to her listeners, telling them to stay safe and to "...most importantly, stay happy!"
[edit] 27 April
Garl Death-Hand was the leader of the Khans around 2161. He held Tandi hostage and the Vault Dweller was asked by her father, Aradesh (the leader of Shady Sands), to save her. Garl was eventually killed by the Vault Dweller, along with all other Khans save one, called Darion.
He leads the Khans. He is one of the most dangerous men that has ever set eyes on Shady Sands. He leads the raider clans with a heavy fist. - Razlo about Garl
[edit] 28 April
Captain Roger Maxson was originally the second in command of the security team stationed in the West Tek research facility since January 3, 2076.
The team and research personal were later (January 7, 2077) relocated to the Mariposa Military Base where further FEV research was conducted. When on October 10 Maxson and his men learned about the human experiments going on in the base, the base morale suffered a hefty blow. The original leader of the security team, Colonel Robert Spindel, suffered a nervous breakdown and was replaced in command by Maxson.
[edit] 29 April
New Reno is a large city in Fallout 2 known for its casinos such as the Shark Club and the Desperado. It is home to, among many other things, the Golden Globes studio, the Jungle Gym, prizefighter ring, and the Cat's Paw brothel. The town is currently run by four different families, the Mordinos, the Bishops, the Wrights, and the Salvatores, all of which are willing to make The Chosen One a Made Man in exchange for a little help. The Las Vegas of the wastes, if you will.
[edit] 30 April
The RobCo PIPBoy 2000 is one of the models of the Pip-Boy electronic device manufactured by RobCo Industries.
The Pip-Boy 2000 is a very special piece of pre-war equipment that was used primarily by travelers. Holding a surprisingly large amount of information, it can transfer data to and from holodisks and from data tubes. It displays information in bright green on its black 5" x 3" screen and can record sound as well as video footage for later playback.
