#aradesh

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My piece for my war never changes: fallout fundraiser fanzine ♥ Thank you to everyone who supported, I hope to have digital copies for sale very soon

[hrrria]

I lost the pen for my drawing tablet UGHHHHHHH

[vagiz-ahm]

[calder]

aradesh illustration

wow

.....potentially ahistoric to have him hangin out with a Ranger while founding the ncr

maybe shes doin a quest

[emptybowl45601]

putting Fallout dates into perspective: pt. 2, NCR history version

Tandi was born in 2145 and came to power in 2196, which if we set the time of Fallout: New Vegas (2281) as our standard for the present (2026), it means Tandi was born in 1890 and came to power in 1941, and died in 1993.

1993 is the year George H. W. Bush's presidency ended, for context. 1941 is, well, self-explanatory, but Pearl Harbor happened in '41.

anyway so she was already 51 when she became president, which isn't *old* for a leader but it isn't young either. it's hard to imagine her as 51. what did she do between those years? Aradesh must've been in charge the whole time. did she have... like, a job? surely she must've had one, she's energetic and clearly ambitious.

for context Ho Chi Minh, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Agatha Christie were all born in 1890. Ho Chi Minha and Eisenhower both died in 1969. De Gaulle died in 1970 and Agatha Christie outlasted all of them in 1976. but apparently Tandi died in 1993 with her mind more-or-less intact, so that is pretty crazy.

Aradesh himself served from 2189 to 2196. seven years, really a drop in the bucket compared to Tandi's 52. amazing how the length of her life when she was president and time when she wasn't is almost equal in length. regardless, 2189 compared to 2281 what 1934 is to 2026. to the Courier, the NCR is as old as any nation born in 1934. so basically, older than basically every post-colonial republic.

so 1934-1941 Aradesh. 1941-1993 Tandi. then you get Joanna Tibbett for five years, 1993 to 1998. basically what if Bill Clinton was a one-term president. then it's Wendell Peterson for twenty years, so 1998 to 2018. which is fucking insane by the way. there are actual dictators out there who never made it to 20.

then Aaron Kimball mysteriously kicks him out in two months. Peterson must've pissed someone off big time for that to happen, considering how entrenched he must've been to NCR politics by that point.

but anyway so Kimball's been serving for the past 8 years, basically. also he's 48 by the time of the game, so he was 40?? when he first served? damn. the man's young, that's crazy. JFK was 43 when he became president and everyone called him a child. Emmanuel Macron was 39 and he came to power in 2017, so it actually kind of fits up. Macron-Kimball parallel when.

anyway yeah FO1 happened 120 years before F:NV, so by our standards it happened in 1906. puts some things into perspective, that one. yeah and the nuclear holocaust was 2077, so 1822 for us. Congress of Vienna was in 1815 for context. so that's fucked up lol.

[saintbears]

younger papa aradesh and baby tandi

[angeladeths]

“It has to be considered then, the futileness of living without a purpose. Holy purpose that guided men to build homes, and gave them something to believe in, something that was larger than themselves. Living just to live, a man will eventually ask himself what the point of all it is, the point of suffering and struggle. And there is no point, no revelation in suffering, but rather it is a tool that man uses to better himself and the World for his family, so they will not suffer the same…  Dharma was a great, religious man. He set an example for us all, and because of this I have sought it my duty to put down his word to paper, so that this wise man may be remembered…”

-Excerpt from Aradesh’s On Dharma and Life

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