The Silver Sun

by Nightstalker117313

This story explores what the world is like 350 years after Fallout 4. For "historical" information, I will be using the Canon endings of FO1, 2, 3, NV, and Tactics. The "ending" of FO4 used in this story is the SS siding with the MM and destroying the Institute, and leaving the BoS alive. Chapter 1 is actually the preface that will provide information and a bit of backstory.

1. Preface

Date System

The Commonwealth still uses the 12 month calendar system that was used Pre-War, but the years started over since then. When the Sole Survivor destroyed the Institute and a New Provision Government (NPG) was established, they decided that the year after that was classified DI 1. DI was used for the Destruction of the Institute. They also ruled before that was BI, or Before the destruction of the Institute. That covered the approximately 210 years after the Great War, with the year after the War being BI 1. Before that, they did not modify the calendars.

Brief history of the "Steel Minute" War

In DI 140 during a Council meeting The Brotherhood of Steel and the Minutemen got into a dispute over control of Fort Strong. For the previous 140 years, Ft. Strong was controlled by the BoS after they had cleared the Super Mutants out of it and moved a garrison in. The Minutemen thought that the BoS was gaining too much strength and demanded that the release control of the fort and give it to the Minutemen, as they have come to see all Pre-War military installations in the Commonwealth as theirs. The BoS refused. A few months after this dispute started, the Minutemen took over Fort Strong by force. This did not sit well with the BoS, whom promptly sent a strike force to take back Fort Strong and another to take over the Castle. They were successful in doing so. This forced the Minutemen to gather the remainder of their strength in Sanctuary. For the next 2 years, the minutemen and BoS waged war against each other, neither gaining any ground.

In March of DI142, the NPG demand for a cease fire was agreed to and an emergency Council meeting was called. Both sides agreed and they met in Starlight City to agree to the terms of the cease fire. The BoS was willing to let the Minutemen have the Castle back under the condition that they allow a BoS field office to be established there and Fort Strong remains under BoS control. The Minutemen said that they would let the BoS keep Fort Strong, but would not allow a field office in the Castle. Negotiations went on for several days. On the 9th day of negotiations, someone attempted to assassinate the Star Paladin that was representing the BoS. The Star Paladin blamed the attempted assassination on the Minute men, called off the cease fire. This led to the BoS sending Liberty Prime to Sanctuary with a flight of Vertibirds and a Battalion of BoS troops. While the Vertibirds and ground troops kept the Minutemen's artillery occupied, Liberty Prime decimated the Minutemen army and completely leveled Sanctuary. Since that day the Minutemen were officially gone, and the BoS would imprison or execute any surviving Minutemen troops that they found. They also declared the area that Sanctuary and Concord in as uninhabitable due to Liberty Prime's Assault.

Over the next two hundred years the people of the Commonwealth forgot the location of Sanctuary and it became a legendary city that was thought to not truly exist anymore. Those brave enough to sneak past the BoS blockade in The North Glow, as the area came to be called, could see the ruins of a city, not knowing what is was before the BoS captured them. To this day there are still treasure hunters looking for the remains of Sanctuary.