The Pitt (Fallout 3)

The Pitt is an industrial raider town located in the remains of Pittsburgh, about 500 kilometers to the northwest of Capital Wasteland. It is a place where three irradiated rivers come together and many of the towns inhabitants are mutated.

History
The Pitt was originally a place of pure chaos, full of rape gangs and torture squads. As part of the early recon when the Brotherhood of Steel first arrived in the East Coast area, Owyn Lyons led his paladins in an attack against the Pitt from over Mount Wash, later called "The Scourge". Even though they were completely outnumbered, they still razed the place to the ground.

As they swept through the Pitt the Brotherhood policed up every non-mutated child they could find, of which there were around twenty. Lyons brought the children back to the Citadel, which was still under construction, and enlisted them into the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel. One of these children grew up to be Paladin Kodiak.

While not as much of a threat as before the Scourge, the Pitt is still a center of raider and slaver activity.

Appearances
The Pitt was only mentioned in Fallout 3 and will appear in the Fallout 3 downloadable content pack also titled The Pitt. A holotape found in Rockopolis reveals that slavers have taken the entire population of Rockopolis to the Pitt to be sold as slaves.

Triva

 * The Pitt oddly resembles in much detail to the 1987 Marvel comic The Pitt
 * The latest screenshot reveals a "Pittsburgh Welcomes You" sign. In the actual city of Pittsburgh, there are no signs of this type on any of the bridges or entrances to the city, and all of the areas outside of the downtown area are still part of the Pittsburgh area to have these signs. These types of signs are actually found the the Pennsylvania and Ohio border, which is a three hour ride from Pittsburgh and no where near it.
 * In the Welcome to the Pitt screenshot, the bridge pictured in the screenshot is known as the Roberto Clemente Bridge and is actually colored a bright yellow unlike the screenshot shows it being a ocean green color.
 * The design of the bridge in the screenshot is also different from the actual thing. In real life, there is graffiti painted on the very top of the bridge, which may have encouraged the designers of the Fallout 3 Pitt to hang bodies off of the bridge.
 * Several buildings in the background including the Mellon Bank building and USX Tower are real buildings in down town Pittsburgh.
 * In the 1930's, the city of Pittsburgh was cloudy with smoke and buildings, homes, and even cars would cover in thick, dark dust from the steel industry days. The steel refinery's were most shut down in the 1970's. It can be said in the Fallout 3 universe, the steel mills never shut down due to the war (the steel mills in real life were popular for creating parts for aircrafts and military vehicles in WWII, thus in the game world, the great war started shortly after) resulting in a change in the color of the sky over the area to a dark orange featured in the screenshots.