Having lost contact with Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle rushes into the Crystal Mirror - only to find herself in post-nuclear Canterlot Wastelands... [Fallout/Equestria Girls fusion crossover]
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What does tribal mean?
Please let it be the Enclave, please let it be the Enclave, please let it be the Enclave
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Your brain is very..... Demanding.
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Hey! It's you guys that I gave the note off too! So how was the story so far?
EDIT: Whoopsies! I accidently mistook you two as one of those people I suggested this story too my bad!
Ya know, the Brotherhood's hatred of all tribals on principal makes even less sense here than in Fallout. Since most adults will have finished, or were at least a decent way along in their education before the bombs fell.
Here's hoping they can find an equivalent to Elder Lyons.
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In Fallout universe, tribal is exactly what it means - a member of a tribe, which formed due to technological and social regress after the apocalypse.
Here, the word "tribal" is used by arrogant characters when addressing those whom they consider lower than themselves, socially regressed and/or uncivilized. The old world is gone, but elitism hasn't gone anywhere.
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Hmm, we'll see.
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Yeah, he works in strangest ways. (I call my brain a "he".)
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Point taken, but you seem to presume that most of the adults who got decent education actually survived the apocalypse.
They didn't. The majority of UFE's think tank perished during the Day of Burning, and only a handful of scientists survived, their whereabouts unknown. Many decently educated people also did not survive, unless they were (un)lucky to be in one of the Vaults or somehow survived outside the cities (keep in mind that even if they survived the bombing, the radioactive fallout was no less fatal).
Plus, many people who survived have little to no understanding of the inner workings of advanced pre-apocalypse technology; for instance, even the most well-educated Appletown inhabitant doesn't truly know how their agricultural class water purification system works. They have a manual, but they don't understand the science behind the machine, which makes them look like tribals.
In my headcanon, Brotherhood of Steel is comprised mostly of Mechanized Infantry soldiers and some elite troops, plus some members of military R&D division (not very high-ranked, though). Those branches of UFE military did not accept just anyone into their ranks; they required higher intelligence than a normal soldier would have and at least some basic understanding of the inner workings of their technology (they were expected to be able to make field repairs, if necessary). Thus, even before the apocalypse, they had some feeling of elitism, and once they encountered raider gangs, bandits, mercs and everyone else - well, arrogance was bound to instill in their heads, especially since even well-mannered Wasteland inhabitants did not really have great understanding of advanced technology.
Not everyone in Brotherhood is an arrogant git (Ion Titanium isn't, for one), so that's not outside the realm of possibility.
I... Don't think that's what a cavity search is....
Also, Big Breasts of BOOM seems more appropriate.
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I did not put it "on screen", but the soldiers did look into the girls' nostrils and ear holes.
Changed "cavity search" to "frisking" so as not to confuse anyone, though.
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Ah, okay then. Frisking seems more appropriate since I'd say most would think of a cavity search being more... "invasive".
you have me intrigued. I look foreword to reading this. Just promise me you'll finish it.
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Thank you I have no plans of abandoning the story, but update speed may vary.
Small correction: "forward" instead of "foreword", since "foreword" is roughly the same as "intro".
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Thanks for commenting
And of course there are going to be Vault experiments. It would be heretical not to include them.
I do wonder what the heck happened in Vault 111...
When my friends and I play Cards against Humanity, that card is a automatic win
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Damn, I so want this game, but apparently they don't ship it to Russia.
*claps slowly*
Finally, a voice of reason among the general opposition.
Seven years also isn't enough time for technology to become 'lost' since there are still sodding scientists who worked on the crap alive and active. The Brotherhood of Steel makes even less sense in this setting than actual Fallout. What's more, one backup of something like Wikipedia in a faraday-caged computer will survive an EMP just fine.
Fun fact, that. A Faraday cage is easy to construct and even in today's day and age are standard for sensitive servers and computers, especially military ones. They also work just fine to counteract EMPs. So the BoS - especially their attitudes of elitism - are particularly hamfistedly shoehorned in here.
Also:
Not quite. An oxymoron is a pairing of words whose definitions are mutually exclusive in at least one possible meaning. For example: Jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly, open secret, found missing, or Microsoft Works.
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Most scientists were working in cities which were destroyed by nuclear bombs. Those that survived usually had... less than stellar survival skills, or were plain unlucky in some cases. The actual number of scientists that the government considered vital is not that big, and they are hidden. Also, scientists tend to have... more conscience than politicians. Bad quality to have when the country is at war and spymania has overrun everything.
And "retirements" also happened. Bottom line, the scientific cadre suffered greatly.
Plus, even if the scientists survive, what about industrial capacity required to produce technology and people with skills needed to assemble it (I don't think everything would be done by robots in that world)? Some scientists might figure something out, but an artist needs colours and canvas and brushes to paint, so to speak. And what happens when existing technology inevitably breaks down and cannot be recreated again?
Another thing regarding some of advanced technology in this world, particularly the kind that has military application: the exact inner workings of technology are not known to the majority of users and even engineers that assemble it, because the government, overrun by paranoia, classified the documents describing those inner workings to hell and back. They know how to make something work, but not why it works. Brotherhood of Steel are not scientists, they are merely people who have a somewhat better understanding of science than a common citizen and are now attempting to fill the hole left by dead scientists in hopes that they will understand something and then reintroduce it.
I concede though that the number of samples of working technology is still big enough not to worry about their shortage in short-term at least.
Maybe I should not have done that, but I have not opened the whole origins of this version of Brotherhood of Steel.
Be it admitted that I am no military/scientific expert and trying to write about something you have little to no intricate knowledge of is a bomb waiting to happen. But AFAIK, Faraday cage is not panacea, and might be overwhelmed.
Plus, high altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse is a lot more devastating than the usual one, TODC would definitely use that. And aren't there developments of EMP-generating weapons? I think it is possible to create a bomb specifically designed to create as big of a pulse as possible.
Maybe. But I speak from my own experience that when you display an above average level of intelligence in a certain circle, this may breed arrogance, and if this repeats more than once, even a feeling elitism. BoS suffers from the same thing.
I'll recheck that in dictionaries, thanks for bringing that to my attention.
True and true
I very much hope to see Ion Titanium become more prominent.
6567212 I imagine it's a slur for anyone not a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
Perhaps you meant something else like harness or power armour frame, or just frame.
A carcass is the dead body of an animal.
i like how our tech we use right now is almost gone, but i like to add to this but smartphones themselves are emp proof you just have to turn it off and on again.
also if computers are back to tube age tech you can put transistor still just make them bigger like this dude did
So...is anyone else having a massive problem with the lore presented in this chapter. Cause I can go on an entire rant about how wrong many things are in this chapter alone. Up to now things have been pretty good. Asshole Enclave, Fallout 76 supports. Vaults, check. Survivors, eh. Sure. Raiders and bandits, yeah, practically correct. Mobs, Not much I can say here. Speaks for itself.
As for bad things.
Power Armor, fallout 4 came out around this time! Brotherhood of steel. They were literally were former army soldiers!
So... The attitude of the BoS kind of bewilders me here. It's only been, what, seven years since the bombs fell? Yet some of these guys are acting like everyone outside of their little club are drooling cavemen with spears. The tech that they're hoarding was developed and used within living memory. Not even a single generation has past.