(Before 2280) The state of Texas has been inhabited by regular wastelanders, two most important offshoots of the Masters surviving army lead by Attis, and brotherhood members that split from the main Brotherhood now called The Texas Brotherhood of Steel.
Texas brotherhood, with fear and wanting to prevent Attis army from making more Mutants to continue the Masters plan, engaged in Battles with Attis's army and managed to win making their army not much of a threat. Unfortunately the Brotherhood is also not much of a threat as well due to losses in the battle. The Texas wastlanders don't really care about both parties and we're mostly uninvolved in the conflict.
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(During 2280)
The Brotherhood presence is limited and mostly keep to themselves over in a town they 'stole' called Alamo, San Antonio. The town itself is most untouched by the bombs aside from the Northside which was blasted into a crater. Despite that the town was then split into North, South, East, and West. The North has been converted into a place to toss waste, the Brotherhood has been given the East side, South is for residents to live, and the West is for trading. The brotherhood over there keep the city under control and are still trying to recruit and build up, they have yet to gain many members though.
Attis's army has dwindled into almost nothing, many members dead by the battle or time. They mostly reside in a town called Austin and work as the city's guard under a Super Mutant named Keat. With how close they are to Alamo it is a bit of a suprise that the Brotherhood haven't tried to murder them, but then again the city has a mutant plant problem and lacks electricity, they are currently trying to get the Texas Rangers to come help.
A place called Fort Worth was once the largest Brotherhood of Steel outpost in Texas but it was wiped out by The Jackals who would have tooken the fort had their leader not died. As such the place was then taken over by the Texas Rangers main leaders. The fort is now used to train members and they have refused to give it back to the Texas Brotherhood who doesn't have the fire power to even attempt to get it back anyways.
The Graveyard is a rather large town that was once a Airplane graveyard, the residents there have used the planes as shelter and have been in constant contact with Lone star who provides them food and protection despite the distance between the two.
Lone star is a large town that acts as Texas's Trading center, it was once called Abilene pre-war but has mostly lost that name. The town remains quite civil but doesn't mind dirty work thus making it a hotspot for anything. The town is broken up into two main sides, The Right side is for purchasing and selling usual goods like armour and weaponry as well as housing, while the Left is for unusual trading such as selling or purchasing animals, people, drugs, etc. This difference between sides is not exactly clear but it is mostly used to stop violence.
Vault 39 is located near Lone star and houses many plants mutated and not. It has been mostly under control and is used to provide the majority of the food for the town.
The town of Carbon is a small community of farmers that also provide food and are usually the ones to help deal with containing Vault 39.
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Factions-
Texas Rangers- They are the main group in Texas. They occupy Fort Worth, and Lone star primarily. They have been giving solders/Rangers over to the NCR due to the NCR stretching themselves very thin. They mostly keep their troops however due to the NCR not listening to Texas Rangers advice.
-Enemies?
* They are technically enemies with Caesar's legion but have yet to encounter them at all despite how close Caesar's legion is to Texas. Though there is no saying that Scouts haven't been sent over.
* They also don't really care for the Texas Brotherhood who tried to place themselves as a super power.
* They are technically enemies to any 'outlaws' due to their goals.
-Texas Brotherhood of Steel- They are a minor faction in 2280 and don't focus on taking technology and instead are trying to rebuild. They mostly keep to themselves and don't interact with anyone really outside of Alamo.
Attis's army- The army has technically disbanded and remnants remain in Austin where they live and help protect the city while trying to deal with the infestation of mutated plants.
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Main characters here-
Bunny- A 2 year old Texas Heeler stray that Joan found in a town called the Graveyard. Bunny was given her name by Joan and has been Joan's companion since.
Bunny is a very excited and happy pup, she is loyal to a fault and very cautious of those she doesn't know, and so long as they show here kindness she will be kind to them.
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Marcus Connelly- A 39 year old man who grew up in a city called the Lone star. Having lived there he eventually took up a job of a Texas Ranger. A job title that had a few courses, 1. Protect the town, 2. Protect caravans, 3. Hunt outlaws, and 4. Recruit members.
He chose hunting down outlaws. During his time with the Rangers he eventually meets Joan who recently joined up with the Rangers. Meeting at Forth Worth for extra training, he observes their pre-inspection training (to see their combat ability and overall stats if you will), which they absolutely destroy, catching his attention. He then pulls some strings (he literally begs over and over again until the 'overseers' of the squads give in) to get partnered up with them and becomes the Companion of Joan for basically the rest of time due to Joan needing things to always be the same.
He has many personalty characteristics of a Rough collie, he is very affectionate to those he cares about, loyal, quite intelligent despite a lack of proper education, and he is quick to learn and adapt. He can however be very loud, clumsy, stubborn, swears like a sailor, and doesn't like to do things slow and careful he prefers to just get things done.
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Joan- They have a very odd and sad backstory. Born in 2045 they lived in the Pre-war world which was falling apart. In 2063 at the age of 18 they were forced into joining the military to help themselves and their familie due to the slight perks members of the military get for their family.
In an unknown time they are then chosen for a secret part of the army that was trying to create 'super soldiers'. They are then called, Star Bird 07 (the 07 coming from the day of their birth), and thus lose their name and humanity.
This loss of humanity is soon removed when the Pre-war world as they knew it ceases to exist and they are introduced to the post-war, leaving their pod, grabbing their gear, leaving the bunker that weirdly lacked scientists, and escaping to the absolute freedom that Fallout can be. They then head back to Texas where they onced lived looking for familiarity that they so desperately needed.
Joan has many characteristics of a Black cat, they are highly intelligent, agile, graceful, loyal, prefers to do things carefully and slow, and are very adaptable. But they have been treated without humanity for so long that they don't get how to act properly, they get anxious often, are very violent at times, overly cautious, get attached to things easily, needs things to stay the same, and is hard to get to know due to some trust issues they have.
(They are 235 in 2280 the date they were set to be released).
Lore for Star Birds-
Star birds were essentially the prototype of Coursers. And Star birds were/are basically Pre-war super soldiers, and for all their suffering they were only used once in the Battle of Anchorage to test them out in a real battle, worst thing too is that they were barely used as well in that battle.
So all in all these soldiers were essentially experiments to see how far you could modify the human body while keeping them 'human'.
Their bones were reinforced with metal (the majority of them not all), eyesight enhanced, hearing enhanced, pain removed by adding an 'organ' to produce Med-X, Healing that is and can be extremely detrimental caused by another 'organ' that creates its own stimpak's, sense of scent enhanced, wires (from the Chinese stealth suit) implanted into their body to make them have the ability to become invisible, teeth enhanced to have a sharper and stronger bite, etc.
Then no matter if they are female or male they were sterilized, women getting a short end of the stick by having their entire uterus removed and having to have a supplement of estrogen placed into their body that has to be replaced every five years, while the guys only get a vasectomy.
Though despite how many enhancements were put into them they still could die, mutate, lose their minds making them feral, have organ failures, get infections etc. (The institute with their Coursers tried to remove those failures while using the Star birds as reference.)
There is also a bit of a class difference between the soldiers as well. The stars on their armour giving their rank.
- 1 ⭐, Star birds. They are the most perfect ones, being, easily manipulated to do what is asked of them, best results of the modifications, and have little to no 'defects'.
-2 ⭐⭐, Star birds. They are almost perfect, they are usually just missing that moldability that 1 ⭐ Star birds have or they have that and a 'defect' like hearing being broken, or eyesight being low. They often are left as 2 ⭐⭐s or fixed with harsher molding or fixing of the 'defects'.
-3 ⭐⭐⭐, Star birds. They are adequate but need more training and the enhancements didn't go too well. So they get fixed and have further molding (not all end up even moving up a rank).
Then there are the Decommissioned Star birds. They are the ones who died (from execution, or from 'natural' deaths), or those who are too far gone (mutations, mentality unstable, unruly, etc). They get branded with a 🚫⭐ on a very visible part of them and depending on of they are alive or not are used for more extreme experiments, or their body parts are used to enhance other Star Birds.
Then after they are tested in operation Anchorage and enhanced with the wires from the stealth suits they are then sent to a location in the Capitol a month before the bombs drop. During this month they are used to help build up the bunker they will be staying at for a long time.
When the bombs did drop however, a handful of the Star birds were outside the bunker and witnessed the end before having to go inside. They are then put into pods similar to Cyro pods (except that there is a wierd aloe vera like gel that surrounds them) and a timer is set that keep them locked until it runs out scientist being given the chore of watching over them to ensure no failures occur. The time is however set very far and not all/most of the Star birds have the same time of release.
So I may have started playing Fallout 76 with my boyfriend, and I have to say, it’s fun. Like, really fun. I definitely want to share more screenshots here along with a little more about my character.
Finally got around to playing Fallout 4 with mods on the Xbox One (soooo many more than on the PS4!) and here’s Evelyn B, or Evie Blue as I like to call her.
