To understand what happened, you need to go back to before. Before the war. About two hundred years ago, two different groups scorched humanity off of the world in a nuclear fire, a fire whose impact still resonates to this day.
Cities were demolished. Communities were annihilated. Billions of people lost their lives.
But they were the lucky ones. The ones that survived got to live through the end of life as we all know it.
Except for a limited few.
Some people volunteered for a government experiment before the war, to inhabit underground, bomb-proof vaults that could sustain life for hundreds of years. Which brings us to Vault 101 in Washington D.C., an average Vault with average people inhabiting it.
They were led by a psychopathic control freak who happened to be father to a beautiful daughter named Amata. He led with an iron fist of dictatorship, but he only had one major rule; "No one goes in the Vault, No one goes out."
But one subject gave him one hell of a rude awakening; Dave Logan.
With his beliefs of anarchy before him, his dad left the Vault.
Amata shook Dave awake and Dave got ready to leave and never come back.
Amata was amazed by what she saw Dave do; with almost no real gun training, Dave gunned down six of the Vault security guards with a 10mm pistol she provided.
Dave escaped the Vault and showed everyone in the Vault that fighting back was possible.
Amata only saw Dave one last time.
He had helped the rebellion flourish and Amata became the unofficial leader. But she felt that Dave was too dangerous and that he would endanger everyone. He had already beaten a Vault guard so badly he needed stitches. This guard's horrible crime: he threatened Amata.
Dave left the Vault cursing like crazy, but after a brief kiss from Amata, he left in peace.
After five months, the rebellion was uprooted by loyalists in the Vault, people like Amata and a few of her followers were exiled.
And two weeks later, she was captured by a gang of raiders.
Which brings us to the present day.
