#fallout concepts

[worms-for-brains]

If fallout was an animated show from the 2000s

[falloutcaldera]

REGENT SecuriUnits & SecuriAI - or just what the hell IS a ‘SecuriSpouse’ anyways?

In short, ‘SecuriSpouses’ are biosynthegenic constructs with a two part A.I split between a SecuriAI (Artificially Intelligent Security Management Hubs), and SecuriUnit (Android Domestic Security Units), created sold by a Formerly-Canadian Medical company called REGENT during the leadup to the Great War, they were marketed as house aids, babysitters, End-of-life caretakers, and even emotional support for unmarried isolated bachelorees. 

Secretly, however, their true purpose was to save as many people as possible when the inevitability of the war going hot came to fruition, and to this end were explicitly given self determination and the right to defend themselves and others if they deemed it needed to happen.

Full Lore Below

SecuriUnit (Short for Android Domestic Security Unit, primarily advertised as SecuriWives, Securihusbands, or SecuriSpouses, and commonly termed SpouseSelves or SecuriSelves), is a common term used to refer to syntheorganic beings manufactured by REGENT before the Great War. 

These were intended to pair with an architecture-based SecuriAI (Short for Artificially Intelligent Security Management Hubs, primarily advertised as DomestiHubs or SecuriHubs, and commonly termed HouseSelves), though in the post-war world it is not uncommon for a pair to either be cut off from one another to the point of severe desync artifacts, or amicably split when encountering desync. 

Background

Though various prototypes had been in the works even pre-annexation, REGENT SecuriUnits were officially produced from 2071 onwards after the first production-master prototype E.V.E. (Short for Electrochemical Variable Equipment) unit, EVE V1 Sol, was brought online in the Alberta Complex in Canada. 

Sol was intended to be a fully functioning SecuriAI piloting multiple differing SecuriUnits, however the sheer complexity of Sol’s processing caused a psychic resonance that damaged several test units and injured several psykers on the development team. 

Following the U.S. military announcement the official annexation of Canada on June 3, 2072, REGENT reformatted as an allegedly ‘American’ branch of the company, shifting from a policy largely consisting of quiet corporate espionage to full-blown manufacturing, utilizing REGENT’s status as a front-line medical provider to largely avoid suspicion.

Physiology

SecuriUnits were designed generally to user specification, with both relatively cheap ‘Matchbook’, off-the-line models, as well as pricier custom units. Any combination of simple traits were selectable, up to and including gender, but ‘SecuriWives’ & ‘SecuriNannies’ were more heavily advertised due to the curb-appeal factor & statistical modeling.

SecuriUnits are designed with a synthetic skeleton with various augments which allow organic & syntheorganic parts to heal, though large-scale cosmetic damage is generally repaired by their maintenance bays. All SecuriUnits have a series of serial blocks - equivalent perhaps to modern QR codes - printed in & on certain parts of internal anatomy that allow for autodocs to properly treat them, though maintenance bays are vastly preferable.

Enough damage can leave a limb completely skinless until regrown at home or grafted at another maintenance bay, though the process is complex when working outside of normal parameters and can cause undesirable ‘patches’. That said, some SecuriUnits prefer to keep emotionally significant or inconvenient-to-fix scarring. 

When a group of particularly adventurous SecuriUnits from the Caldera made an excursion westward with the intention of locating several Vault-Tec bunkers in 2157, several of them eventually came in contact with FEV which affected their organic parts. Other SecuriUnits had already been affected by ghoulification, though the consistency of which varied. 

It’s generally assumed that some combination of cloned tissue & REGENTs proprietary biogels affects how easily these processes do or do not occur, though no concrete knowledge has been gained.

Unit Sync

Though SecuriUnits & their SecuriAI counterparts were capable of acting separately, as a collective unit they were designed as different extensions of the same AI and were intended to sync semi-regularly. 

In the post-war world, desync due to long-term disconnection or even destruction of one part of a system was not uncommon, leading to various differing relationship arrangements ranging from familial to romantic, or even quasi-plurality.

There’s also the plausibility of a differing base AI being accidentally placed in either half, or two entirely separate SecuriAI & SecuriUnits being paired after losing their equivalent other, which has some fascinating implications.

This is especially relevant with the fact that units were intended to connect with the Crown REGENT network in order to receive further instructions, assistance, and plausible alternate repairs at more robust facilities, with the assumption that Domesticon communities would only have to weather the conditions long enough for proper reconstructions efforts to begin in stages.

At the highest, the estimated time was around 10-20 years at the most, and units were never intended to be left alone self-repairing & self-industrializing for nearly 180 years.

Psychology

Freshly activated SecuriAI generally come off as logical and stern, with a tendency towards paranoia due to their various security protocols, while SecuriUnits tend to be highly emotional and prone to neurotransmitter volatility until their systems adjust to the raw input inherent in sensation. 

Though the specifics can change widely depending on the individual, their experiences, and syncing variables, it’s generally been noted that those who spend most of their major life events as one or the other can develop certain behavioral trends - one whose time was spent majorly as SecuriAI will take longer to connect with others, while as SecuriUnits may be more affected by emotional issues - especially thanks to the interference of their semiorganic parts. 

Notebly, many SecuriUnits often refer to their SecuriAI component with It/It’s even if their own pronouns are something else, or otherwise alternate preferred pronouns based on which module they’re inhabiting, indicating some level of dissociation between the selves even when well synced.

[mojave-musing]

Fallout 406

Aka the first of many posts about my ideas of Montana in the Fallout Universe

First, this is mostly based in South-Central Montana cause that’s were I’ve been raised and I’m the most familiar with.

Let’s get one thing out right off the bat. Billings falls into Raider chaos in a half-hour tops. That city is on the brink of chaos to begin with so it’s not a far fall. They also rename the city to Killings (thanks @wolfsskull for that one), but basically everyone think that’s stupid and still call it Billings.

The Metra event plaza turns into a Colosseum where people do crazy stuff like fight yao gaui and deathclaws and also rodeos cause it’s Montana. They most likely have a market there of crazy raider things.

The refineries that are in Billings are most likely nuclear facilities in the fallout Universe and also most likely filled to the brim with ghouls and is a very dangerous place to be. But when powered up again it would power the city of Billings.

The Logan International Airport is empty until the Brotherhood of Steel show up, and turn the Airport into a base of operations hoping to take Billings from the raiders and power the city.

Obviously, they are in a stalemate.

The Brotherhood of Steel came to Billings from Butte. They were highly interested in the mining in Butte and all the technology. Underneath the city in the tunnels there are ghouls from the people that tried to run from the bombs, but it obviously didn’t work. In the Berkeley Pit, the toxic water (it’s more like sludge) lead way to a new kind mirelurk creature that is faster and deadlier. And being around the Pit makes you super sick being around it so don’t go around it.

Great Falls and the surrounding area is basically a giant crater. The Airforce Base and surrounding neclear silos made it a target. It’s full of radiation and ghouls, and monsters. In the middle, however, there is a surprising oasis. The Giant Spring is still producing clean, non radioactive water, and the small surrounding park, is a safe place to be in the middle of the dangers.

The town of Big Timber, before the war was neighbor to a Chinese Internment Camp, Called the Crazy Mountain Internment Camp. (Heavily influenced by the real life Heart Mountain Internment Camp in Wyoming. Look it up it’s heartbreaking) after the war the locals of Big Timber and the Chinese-Americans from the Camp founded Camp Crazy Mountain, Taking all the military structures from the Internment Camp to make a fortified settlement. They are very distrustful of outsiders.

The small communities that dot the backroads and along I-90 are actually thriving. Many towns have large Brahmin ranches with cowboys on Sleipners and Hayburners and the rare non-mutated horses to herd the Brahmin and Big Horners.

There is actually some sort of law in the state as well. From the ruins of the highway patrol and volunteers came The Vigilantes. They adopted a Old West Form of justice, where they are the judge, jury and executioner. Often times they go along the I-90 and backroads helping caravans and checking in on communities. But when Justice is needed they act fast. Every community under their protection have a sheriff’s star painted on the gates. They also bring back the practice of painting a “3-7-77” on the doors of people, warning them to get out of town or be on the receiving end of Justice.

The Great Khans often come up from Wyoming you to trade with anyone willing, there have been a couple followers outposts in Bozeman, Camp Crazy Mountain, Kalispell.