The Courier's Story

by RealSayakaMaizono

An original take on the standard Fallout New Vegas adventure, starting at the beginning. I never finished this story. I haven't touched it in over 2 years, and I've left it that state with only minor editing for upload here. There's probably formatting and grammar issues everywhere. Leave a review if you want, but I won't return to make changes. I know how poor some parts are.

1. Prologue

The Courier's Story

Diary Of The Courier

October 23, 2077... The Day of the Great War. The day the world went to hell.

After the world was busy fighting to control the few resources that remained, after China invaded Anchorage and after gas prices skyrocketed, the world couldn't take it any longer, and the Great War knows who fired first, and those who heard the sirens overhead believed it to be a false alarm, little did they know the planet was about to become a barren wasteland. The Vaults were shut, and in just two hours, the Great War caused indescribable damage to everything in existence. More energy was released in the first moments of the Great War than all of the previoushuman conflicts in the history of the world combined. Entire mountain ranges were created as the ground buckled and moved under the strain of the cataclysmic pressure produced by numerous, concentrated atomic explosions.

Rivers and oceans around the world were contaminated with the resulting radioactive fallout released by the nuclear weapons used by all sides, and the climate changed horrifically. All the regions of the earth suffered from a single, permanent season once the initial dust blasted into the atmosphere by the nuclear explosions had settled - a scorching, radioactive desert summer.

Around a week after the initial nuclear explosions, rain started to fall; however, none of it was drinkable. The rain was black; tainted with soot, ash, radioactive elements produced by the nuclear explosions and various other contaminants produced by nuclear weapons. This rain marked the start of the terrible fallout that marked the true, permanent destruction caused by the Great War. The rain lasted four long days, killing thousands of species that had survived the initial destruction of the bombs, be they animal, plant or micro-organisms. Those few living things, human, animal or plant, that survived after the rain ended were left to live in the now barren wasteland that had spread across the Earth, where nearly all pre-War plant life had died either in the initial explosions or from the intense radiation produced by the fallout.

Thanks to the efforts of Robert House, most of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada and the Hoover Dam remained intact, and many buildings still have electricity as of 2281. In the pre-War era, about 20 years before the Great War, House predicted when the bombs would fall. In the meantime he installed defenses such as laser turrets on the roof of the Lucky 38 Casino, which destroyed most of the incoming Chinese ballistic missiles before they hit Las Vegas. In time, the remains of Las Vegas came to be known as New Vegas.