No.8008
As a kid, I used to love the Fallout universe and lore, but I could never reconcile the fact that the world was frozen in time culturally for a good 120 years. I always thought just prolonging World War II and then having the nuclear apocalypse take place in the late 50’s or early 60’s would produce more or less the same result in terms of advanced nuclear fission based technologies and badass power armors, and make a hell of a lot more sense. Imagine if total warfare never truly ended until the nuclear apocalypse, for example, and essentially WW2 was the Great War that’s oft spoken of by the characters. You wouldn’t even have to change a lot of the dates, since it’s perfectly logical for the vaults to open up 200 to 300 years later anyway still. I prefer a tweaked timeline like this so much that I often play with this head canon in my head. Has anyone else ever put any thought into this, or shares my quibbles with the timeline?
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