Gun Powder and Maps - Prologue
Completely decimated by the Great War, America stood in broken buildings and lost hopes. There were the few who believed in the good of man and that their nation would be restored to its former glory, but most did not, fending for themselves, lending to the mass chaos and dismemberment of society.
In the Washington D.C. tri-state area stood one vault, left untouched and unopened; Vault 101. Everyone was born and everyone died in the vault. Or so it seemed.
Out of the vault came a girl, searching for her father in the capital wasteland. And out of her, emerged a hero to humanity. The Lone Wanderer.
Rumors had spread to the east of a dazzling city in the west, untouched by nuclear warheads. And it was so that she traveled there, running on hopes and dreams as she had when she emerged from the underground vault. Her catalyst was a shot to the head.