Boneyard

The Boneyard, or Angel's Boneyard, is what remains of Los Angeles, named so both for its decimated skyscrapers, reduced to their metal "skeleton", and for skeletons of the dead that littered the city after the Great War.

History
Most people in L.A. died after the bombs dropped, due to radiation poisoning, disease, famine, and each other. The city itself was ravaged by fires and nuclear bombs themselves - in fact, one of the warheads effectively turned Orange County on the outskirts into a crater. Some inhabitants took shelter in the demonstration Vault, and eventually most of them emerged in 2092, founding the Boneyard. Many of them were the founders of Adytum, a fenced town in the suburbs of the old Los Angeles. Some, however, founded gangs, like the Blades and the Rippers.

In 2155, the Master learned the location of the L.A. Vault, conquered the inhabitants and set up operations there, and the human cultists began to use the Vault as their powerbase. Eventually, a monumental building known as the Cathedral was constructed above the Vault. The Cultists thus became known as the Children of the Cathedral. Of those that remained in the Vault, most became the Master's servants and members of the Children of the Cathedral. Those that left could be part of almost any organization in L.A.

In the 2150s, a pack of deathclaws appeared in the Boneyard, taking over the base of the Rippers. In 2159 Jon Zimmerman, the town's mayor, hired a band of mercenaries known as the Regulators to help protect Adytum from the deathclaw and the odd random attack by raiders, who by 2161 were in control of Adytum.

The Cathedral was destroyed in 2162 either by the Vault Dweller or by the Master himself, when he learned that his super mutants were sterile.

By 2241, Los Angeles became one of the states of the New California Republic and Adytum became known as New Adytum. As one of the largest cities on NCR territories, it was a natural choice for many organizations to place their headquarters. Thus, by 2281, the Angel's Boneyard is host to the Republic's Reserve and the Follower's Angel's Boneyard Medical University among many.

Layout
Notable locations of the Angel's Boneyard are spread out across the entire Los Angeles County and to reach them one has to often traverse the entire city. On the north-west outskirts of the city, near where the Whittier town stood, lies the Gun Runner factory, where they first settled as small-time weapons manufacturers around 2161.

Between Downey and Norwalk lies a destroyed warehouse, that was once home to the Rippers, before deathclaws wiped them out and occupied the building as their lair, becoming a scourge on the area by 2161.

The former Los Angeles Public Library lies in Culver City, on the opposite end, home to the Followers of the Apocalypse, a peaceful community that migrated into the city sometime before 2161 and settled in the library, dedicating themselves to spreading enlightenment and preventing war. By 2281, they estabilished a Medical University within city limits and are single-mindedly dedicated to spreading knowledge across the wastes.

Compton is home to a nightclub, which was used in 2161 as a living space by the Blades and their friends. Directly to the southeast, in what was once called Lakewood, lies Adytum, one of the most important settlements in the Boneyard. Lakewood used to be in-land before the war, but the nuclear devastation wrought upon the city caused flooding and destruction of the coastline. The result? Adytum is a coastal settlement.

To the south-west, amid ruins of pre-War Torrance, the Children of the Cathedral headquarters were located in 2161. After the Vault Dweller killed the Master, only a horribly irradiated crater remains where the mighty building once stood.

Appearances in games
Los Angeles appears in the first Fallout and is mentioned in Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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