Fallout Setting

The Fallout world is not quite our own. Somewhere along the way, it diverged. It's still recognizably our world, but with some changes. The Fallout world is historically divergent from our own and also is fundamentally different in terms of how science works. The base concept for the setting is 1950s World of Tomorrow after the bomb. This means that before the war, the Fallout world was more or less what the people of the 1950s thought things would be like in 2077. (see: Divergence for more details).

The most important event in the Fallout setting was the Great War which happened on October 23, 2077. It lasted a very brief amount of time, but was unbelievably destructive. More energy was released in the early moments of that war than all previous conflicts combined.

Fallout games take place many years after the apocalypse, as humanity struggles to pick up the pieces. Some groups have barely managed to survive above ground, either scavenging the scorched ruins of cities or surviving and adapting through mass mutation. Communities that were sealed in underground Vaults during the war are now emerging to re-populate the blasted landscape. Striving to organize and sustain the human race, these tattered remnants of civilization are threatened by psychotic mutants, rogue machines, raiders, and all manner of hostile creatures.

History
Main article: Timeline

Before the War
Main article: World before the War

Creatures
Main articles: Creatures, Mutations and their causes

Places
Main article: Places