Mod:DUST Survival Simulator/Zion National Park

"'[...] This is it. I can feel it. Safety. [...]' -- Journal"

Zion Canyon, better known by its former name of Zion National Park, promises safety from the desolate, hostile wastes.

Background
Having been spared from the immense destruction and subsequent collapse of civilization the Great War brought upon the wastes, Zion Canyon remained an unspoiled wilderness.

A soldier named Randall Clark, after having to helplessly witness the death of his beloved ones in the nuclear fire, and feeling guilty about leaving them in the first place in favor of a survival experience in Zion National Park, returns to Zion Canyon, seeking shelter from the massive fallout following.

Mainly surviving on stocked provisions, Randall waits out for the radiation levels to decrease, and once leaving his shelter, observes groups of former Vault inhabitants, finally settling in on supporting some of them without revealing himself.

Randall, affectionately being named "The Father" by some of the former Vault inhabitants, dies a lone and remorseful, but natural death, shaping what later inhabitants will assume to be their origins.

Overview
While the Northern Passage tunnel is still open, entering Zion Canyon is not only hampered by resistance of current access tunnel residents Butch Deloria and Jess, but also by the unconditional requirement of being in posession of the actual key for opening the gate into Zion, which is found in a grave to be opened using a shovel next to the Northern Passage.

Beggining
By 2282, Zion wildlife was decimated by weather conditions and Spore Carriers, possibly because of NCR exploitation of Vault 22, reintroducing B. mordicana spores in Zion's atmosphere and infecting Zion's occupants.

The Tribes of Zion
Sometime before The Fall, Joshua Graham had brainwashed the Dead Horses and Sorrows, turning them as violent as White Legs and even raiding like them. He had the Sorrows throw Daniel out of Zion for fear of him turning the Sorrows peaceful again.

Sometime afterwards, Daniel was caught by a Sorrows hunting party, and taken to Graham. According to Daniel's notes, Joshua was downright ready to kill him until he learned Daniel had come to warn him of Dead Horse Point being destroyed by those wanting revenge against the now violent Dead Horses. Here it was discovered that Graham had planned to take the tribe out of Zion and effectively abandon the Sorrows. Graham began asking Daniel of what was going on in the Mojave, while Daniel learned of what had been responsible for Zion's devastation.

The Fall of Graham
By 2284, Joshua was slowly dying to the spore infection. Graham arranged for Follows-Chalk to take his place as leader of Dead Horses and Sorrows, presumably to spite Daniel with the latter. In December, Joshua died and his body was buried in The Aerie.

After Graham's Death
Around 5 months after Joshua died, Tribal scouts reported sightings of a deformed and large Spore Carrier, which they referred to as "Wendigo". It was around this time the SM-5 experimental cloud was introduced into Zion, causing weather conditions in the form of a carcinogenic fog that carried the Spore Carrier virus. Helpless against Spore Carriers, lack of food, weather and Wendigo, the remaining tribals fled into the Long Dark through the Pine Creek Tunnel.

Daniel locked the Pine Creek tunnel, preventing the tribals from returning under any circumstances, accidentally condemning them to die at the hands of the Divide tribals. Daniel pursued the Wendigo through Zion valley but was eventually slaughtered by the near-immortal creature.

NCR Expedition's arrival
Sometime after, NCR from the California branch arrived on Zion to attempt to remove The Cloud from there, they were unsucessful after discovering the threat of Spore Carriers and Wendigo. They occupied The Narrows and started to work on a plan to escape Zion. On an excavation, The NCR found a key to the Pine Creek Tunnel but they didnt attempt to go there, with fear of losing their men due to threat of Spore Carriers. The NCR still remains there.