Chapter 2 The Second Great War
Origins- New California Republic
Before the great war the American government realised that most things on the surface would die or be mutated horrifically. So they invested greatly in the construction of massive underground vaults. They only made less than two hundred, so the government only reserved places for those needed to restore humanity- doctors, senators, military officers and other essential personnel.
However some vaults had a much more sinister motive, the government placed people in them to experiment in post apocalyptic conditions- such as being exposed to radiation or the vault was too crowded. Vault 15 opened and its survivors took technology into the wastes to establish the village of Shady Sands. Under the leadership of A visionary woman called Tandi the village grew into the capital of the New California Republic- a group of five states Shady,Los Angeles, Maxson, Dayglow and Hub. The population of the states totalled seven hundred thousand. The republic is the largest faction in post apocalyptic America.
When the Brotherhood attempted to take technology from the republic the republic mobilized its very large army to fight back.