• Forester@yiffit.net
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    6 months ago

    Unless I misunderstood the show, it was very directly stated that the overseer had nuked shady sands as an act of fuck you to his ex-wife.

    Basically, how dare you find a functional community outside of my control. I will reduce it to ashes that way I am the only option.

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      6 months ago

      My understanding was that but it wasn’t because of his ex more so that any successful civ would undermine the concept of his vault recolonizing the world.

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        6 months ago

        I agree with your sentiment, but I think it’s about 50% of each. Though honestly, it’s really bothered me this entire time that shady sands is literally a vault community. It’s vault. 13. Literally vault wellers having a reclamation day and rebuilding the surface.

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          yeah but the ncr includes regular surface dwellers too. probably the idea is more like that of the enclave in fallout 3; wipe out all the “mutants” and repopulate from there

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        Yeah some justification that he needed to do it so eventually him and the rest of the ceos from the vault could take over and half that he was vindictive prick and wanted his wife ( the ghoul Lucy mercy kills that’s chained to the table at the end) to have nothing and to be without any respite now that she had forsaken his control and the vault