Entry #3
March 9, 2077
Hey everyone, I'm back for another update. So, like last time I'll go over all the questions and points you made before telling you what's happened since the last time I posted.
I know what a nuked city looks like, I've seen some of the pictures from Hiroshima and Nagasaki during some world war 2 documentaries before I got here. I also know that Vegas itself wasn't nuked. What I am saying though is that while the city itself wasn't hit, that doesn't mean it wasn't affected. Fallout and some radiation from other nuclear explosions very likely hit the city sometime after. I know that the residents did survive for a while and ended up rioting, but nuclear fallout likely killed most of them. Besides, some of the nukes did land in the Mojave, just not in Vegas.
The primary reason why I'm hesitant to join up with House is because of his motives. While he has some interesting and promising ideas and a lot of resources, he wants to shape mankind's future in his vision, and I might potentially get in his way. For all I know, once the nukes fall he'll just cast me out into the city. I'm guessing that no RobCo personnel were allowed to remain in the Lucky 38, which only increases my worries. Plus, I want to try to avoid messing with known fallout history as much as possible before the bombs fall. Once they do fall however, it's fair game from there.
That's also why I'm not going to the Sierra Madre either. While preventing the unfortunate events that happen there would be nice, and the technology would be cool, I don't want to get involved with it. I'm also not comfortable with the cloud and the various experiments going on there.
I know that the first atomic bombs had a much smaller yield than present nukes, but these 'modern' nukes are different from the old ones in another way. Most nukes now don't have as much of a thermal payload as previous ones, but instead more fallout. I'm guessing that this was done so more of the population would be killed. This would also explain some of the smaller radioactive craters seen in the game.
I know that staying in Seattle isn't a good idea. It's one of the most major coastal cities closest to China, so of course it's going to get nuked. I also have a relative idea of where I'm going to go. Before the nukes fall, I'm going to head east past the Cascade mountains, which should offer protection from most of the coastal fallout. Besides that, I'm hoping to stay within the state boundaries. At most I'll remain in the Northwest commonwealth or go to British Columbia.
As for the battleship, I'm not too sure that it'll be fried by the EMP blast. When looking at Rivet city for example, a decent amount of the electronics are still working, from lighting to the aircraft elevators. So, if a carrier that was being repaired/refitted and was within the nuclear blast radius survived the nukes relatively intact and with many electronics working, a nearly completed battleship could survive the blast too.
I checked the prices, a plane ticket to Boston costs about $8,000 dollars. So it's going to take a while to even have the chance to go there, not that I even want to, to be honest.
I know that I 'playing nice' isn't how to survive, and doing some crime or shady activities is likely going to happen.
I'm not going to try to take over the world. Being the leader of a settlement or a small nation at most I'll gladly take. But the world? Hell no, I'm not ready for that kind of commitment.
I know that cybernetics would be very helpful, but I'm still not going to willingly put a bunch of contraptions into my body, even if they improve me. That being said, maybe one or two minor ones after the great war and it's EMP effects wouldn't be a bad idea…
The microchip, that's a brilliant idea! From what I've seen, the idea and concept was available here, but it was never truly invented or gained momentum! There are some designs close to it, but from what I've seen they either don't work too well. are more bulky/large, or are different enough to distinct them. If I could get the parts needed, I can make a prototype for it, patent it, and sell it to RobCo for a lot a money, plus maybe a good position. This way, I'll be in a good corporate position while hopefully not having to deal with House! This is perfect! If you could send me the schematics and samples for this model and the later models up to present day, as well as maybe schematics for other objects that could be seen as invented by the same person as the one who made the microchip, then that'll be perfect!
So, not much has exactly changed since the last entry. Until I get some money coming in, I'm staying at the Inn since it's pretty cheap. I've gone to the library a few more times for some more research, as well as a trip into the center of the city to see if I could find anything interesting. While it was mostly fruitless, I did find a few things worth mentioning.
The military presence in the city is very high. I saw at least half a dozen checkpoints, along with convoys and patrols of APCs, armored vehicles, and troops. I also managed to see a few national guard helicopters and army vertibirds patrolling the sky above the city, and I'm pretty sure a few of the faster boats in the harbor belonged to the police or national guard.
Another thing I noticed is the weaponry. Most of the military forces used guns from the later fallout games like the R-91 and infiltrator from fallout 3, the 10mm SMG from Fallout: New Vegas, the combat rifle (apparently called the R-80) from fallout 4, and the laser rifles from all three of them. Even so, some of them, along with the police and national guard, used models from both the older games and my old world, such as the M16A1 and Steyr assault rifles, M4A1 carbine, FN FAL battle rifle, MP5 submachine gun, and the M249 and M2 browning machine guns.
There's also the power armor some of the soldiers are wearing. I noticed that while most of the sets of power armor the T-51, there were a few instances where soldiers were actually wearing T-60 sets, which I guess means that it isn't just limited to the east coast.
So, besides that, all I did was get some food from a super-duper mart. Tomorrow I'm going to patent the microchip and if you don't send me physical versions, then I'll look for the materials needed for them. I'll also go ahead and rent a few books from the library on subjects related to the microchip and general mechanical and computer engineering so I'll hopefully at least look like I know the exact specifics of the microchip. That and the fact that I'm curious about this world's mechanics, which is why I also bought a couple other books involving robotics and machinery.
Well, that's it. I'll post another entry when something happens, which could be up to next week for all I know. I'll see you all then.
Author's note
Thank you for your support of this story so far. Reviews were from 'Aegon Blacksteel', 'Alexeij', and 'ExS-DrIfTeRr'.
Stay determined folks!