Mormon (Van Buren)

Mormons are members of their namesake Mormon Church, inhabiting New Canaan.

Background
In 2062, many Mormon congregations came together to purchase spots in Vault 70, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. As part of the vault experiment, Vault 70 was assigned a clandestine social experiment―specifically, for the jumpsuit extruders to fail within six months of the vault's sealing. The eventual total lack of clothing combined with Mormon religious sensibilities resulted in the single largest block of social data collected during the vault program.

In 2190, 113 years after the Great War, Vault 70 opened and its residents used the three G.E.C.K.'s within to finally realize Joseph Smith's dream of a New Jerusalem, atop the ruins of Salt Lake City. Between 2220 and 2233, New Jerusalem's prophet and apostles repeatedly voted to have no commerce with outsiders from other, failed communities, refugees, or tribals. Finally, in 2233, many disgruntled and desperate refugees stormed New Jerusalem's gates and overwhelmed the militia, certain the Mormons were hoarding food and water while everyone outside the city walls suffered and died. Most of the Mormons were slaughtered and those that survived scattered into the desert.

Two years after the fall of New Jerusalem, the new living prophet, Judah Black, led most of the survivors of the Mormon community north to Ogden. There, they established the town of New Canaan. A year later, they and a group of squatters fixed the Jericho water plant to run fresh water into the city. Judah Black died of old age in 2245, and within two years, Jeremiah Rigdon emerged from a strange and powerful fever, claiming that an angel appeared to him in a vision, calling him to be the living prophet of God.

The Mormons of New Canaan are a mixed bunch, allying themselves either with Jeremiah or Bishop Mordecai. Their demographics are varied.

Daily schedule
Mormons are generally found around New Canaan town or in their homes. In the evenings Jeremiah and several brave Mormons journey out to have supper with the refugees on the exterior, and on Sundays Jeremiah holds a service at the church that most of the Mormons attend.

Effects of the player's actions

 * Three men and five women inhabit the Mormon camp to the southeast of Jericho. They're very meek and will ask the Prisoner to leave them alone, but they'll turn violent if he tries to gain access to the elevator which leads to the shelter where Jeremiah is hiding unless he is persuasive. Before Jeremiah and the Hands of God arrive, the Mormons will run away and hide in the fallout shelter if the Prisoner approaches the camp. They'll also futz the elevator controls so the Prisoner can't get down to them. When Jeremiah and the Hands of God do appear, the Mormons appear outside in the camp along with Jeremiah and crew, feeling safe and happy again now that the Mormon protectors have returned.
 * Removing Jeremiah from power means that the Mormons' morals and ethics quickly get whittled down to the equivalent of all other wasteland cultures, but they become more successful and profitable.
 * All of the Mormons have problems with faith and doubt. If the Prisoner succeeds in diagnosing Revelation John, it instills even more doubt in the Mormons about the legitimacy of Jeremiah.
 * If the Prisoner lays waste to the Mormons of New Canaan, killing all named figures and 75% of the other Mormon residents, he will earn the epithet of "Scourge of God."

Inventory

 * Only the Mormons at the Jericho camp are armed, this is because of New Canaan's weapons policies.

Appearances
Mormons were to appear in Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios.