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The geopolitical situation that led to the outbreak of the long-feared global nuclear war was prompted primarily by the onset of a worldwide energy crisis when the supplies of fossil fuels finally began to run out by the year 2050. This energy crisis was in part the result of the ever-increasing amounts of fossil-fuel required to power the Fallout world’s larger and less energy-efficient technologies when compared with those of our own world, due to their failure to develop miniaturized electronics and more advanced manufacturing materials. The result of this energy crisis was an increasing scramble by all of the advanced, industrialized nations to secure the few remaining supplies of untapped petroleum around the world. Ultimately, a series of military conflicts driven by this hunger for natural resources consumed the planet. The Kerilo Accords had reacted to the rapid raising of oil prices to unacceptably high levels by the Qumar’s oil-rich state in 2052 by unleashing military action in that region of the world. This intervention ultimately resulted in the destruction of Elizabeth, capitol of South Hills in December 2053 by a terrorist nuclear device and a limited nuclear exchange between the conflict’s participants in 2054, the world’s first since the end of TEP World War I.
As Council of Nations tried with little success to keep the peace, many of that organization’s member-states pulled out, and within two months of the outbreak of what was soon called the Resource Wars in 2052, the Council of Nations was disbanded. Next, following the breakdown of trade talks and the unilateral South Hills and Vekaiyuan exploitation of the world’s last newly discovered reserves of crude oil, the Pax invaded in 2066 in pursuit of the state’s remaining oil reserves. South Hills federal government acted aggressively against its own citizens to contain wartime rioting, anti-war civil disobedience and military desertion. Vekaiyu and the Republic of Grand Pasifika retaliated against the Pax by launching its own costly invasion of the Pax in 2074 to reduce Pax pressure on the Western front. Despite initial costly setbacks, this strategy proved successful and allied forces liberated the South Hills city of Usport and forced the Pax Army to retreat entirely from South Hills soil in January 2077. This victory was largely won due to the more advanced military tactics and size developed during the conflict, especially the deployment of Powered Infantry Armor. Many smaller nations went bankrupt in the ensuing conflict as their economies collapsed due to the increasing shortage of fossil-fuels. The Resource Wars ended with the Great War in 2077.
It is not known who launched the first nuclear weapon that started the conflict. The nuclear exchange that characterized the Great War lasted for only a brief two hours, but was unbelievably destructive and reshaped the climate of the world even as it caused the fall of most of human civilization everywhere across the globe. More energy was released in the first moments of the Great War than all of the previous human conflicts in the history of the world combined. Entire mountain ranges were created as the ground buckled and moved under the strain of the cataclysmic pressure produced by numerous, concentrated atomic explosions. Rivers and oceans around the world were contaminated with the resulting radioactive fallout released by the relatively low-yield nuclear weapons used by all sides, and the climate changed horrifically. All the regions of Urth suffered from a single, permanent season once the initial dust blasted into the atmosphere by the nuclear explosions had settled - a scorching, radioactive desert summer.
The year is now 2270, and set inside the former capitol of South Hills, Elisabeth. Remnants of the South Hills government split into two factions, the Enclave and the Union of Steel.
The Enclave is a secretive political, scientific, and militaristic organization that is descended directly from members of the pre-War South Hills government, and claims to be the legally-sanctioned continuation of the government, while also styling themselves and their overall demeanor as such.
The Enclave is comprised of (mostly) descendants of top-tier officials of the government final president of South Hills before the Great War. Elite members of various branches of South Hills’ military, as well as a few others such as those whom had considerable ties and/or sway with powerful corporations that retreated to Ellis Islands. They still have influence on the mainland of South Hills and the surrounding regions.
The Union of Steel is a quasi-religious technological organization operating across the ruins of post-war South Hills, with its roots stemming from the military and the government-sponsored scientific community from before the Great War. The Union is currently Headquarterd in Usport.
To the East of South Hills are the Pax Borgs. A faction of assimilated beings connected to a hive mind. Since the bombs dropped, the Pax mind has fractured into warring tribal factions. They are connected via nodes, some tribes have one node, and others have a few. The intelligence of the Borgs have reduced from sentience down to lobotomized beings. They mainly concern themselves with assimilating non-Borgs, often with fatal results. On the frontiers stories of people being kidnapped for assimilation are constant, but witnesses are rare.
In the regions near the former nation of Qumar, An empire that is led by a Shah by the name of the Qumari Empire and is reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire or Caesars Legion. Not much is really known other than the fact that they enslave people not of the Empire and have expanded rapidly.
Val Saar’bac, a Fedilea, stood before the former capitol building of South Hills in Elizabeth. He wore a leather duster and underneath it, jeans, combat boots, and a long sleeve cotton button up shirt. On his head sat a red beret, with a patch saying “Rhodesian Marine Force Recon.” On his back slung was a M1 Garand. On his hip in a drop leg holster was a 1911 chambered in 38 Super. He stood in his position looking at the building for several minutes before finally going inside.
‘Spending the whole 4 years traveling halfway across the world just to see a fucking ruined building and find something that isn’t suppose to exist. Why did I sign up for this job’ he thought to himself as he went up the front steps.
He remembered what happened to his homeland. It wasn’t untouched by the great war, it was a ruin and people were fighting amongst each other. It was a perpetual civil war there and the government needed what was rumored to be deep inside the halls of the capitol building. [edit_reason]Edited for a map of the region…[/edit_reason]