Fallout Post-Nuclear Apocalypse Person of the Year(s) Award

Post-Nuclear Apocalypse Person of the Year Award

  • Edward Sallow, Founder and Leader of Caesar's Legion

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Richard Moreau/Grey, The Master of the SuperMutants and Unity

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Marcus, Co-Founder of Broken Hills and Mayor of Jacobstown

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Nicole, Co-Founder and Head of the Followers of the Apocalypse

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Three Dog, "Because one dog ain't enough, and two is too low, it's Three Dog!"

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    10

Husky_Khan

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Time Magazine has been refounded in the wake of the Great War after centuries of being defunct and in their inaugural issue, they decided to take a Nationwide poll in order to discover who should win Person of the Century(ies) since the Great War.

Just bear with me...

Here are the ten candidates they had offered up for voting.

Tandi
- Helped Transform Shady Sands into a Vibrant Community
- Helped her Father Aradesh form the original New California Republic
- Was the Second President of the NCR and served in that capacity for over fifty years as it approached almost a million citizens and a half dozen provinces.

Robert House
- Founder and CEO of RobCo, the biggest company in Pre-War America.
- Put himself in a life capsule and after protecting Vegas from Nukes with LASER CANNONS, used his Securitrons to secure New Vegas.
- Transformed the ruins of Las Vegas and the tribals who inhabited it into a shining city of the Desert and the envy of both the NCR and the Legion.

Roger Maxson
- Helped put an end to the Mariposa FEV Experiments before leading his fractured command and their families to the Lost Hills Bunker.
- Founded the Brotherhood of Steel and served as its First High Elder, a faction which would endure many evolutions over the centuries.
- Dedicated the Brotherhood to the Preservation of Human Knowledge and Technology with the intention of making them the Protectors of Humanity.

Arthur Maxson
- Killed two raiders when he was only 12 years old and his first supermutant at 15.
- At the age of 16 he took over the Eastern Brotherhood after a series of weak Elders and reunified it with the Outcasts.
- Made the Eastern Brotherhood Great (Again?) by taking control of the Capitol Wasteland with a mix of force and diplomacy before projecting that force across the Eastern Seaboard.

Edward Sallow
- Boneyard born Follower of Apocalypse who ended up a captive of a group of Grand Canyon based Tribals whom he taught the Art of War derived from books on Roman military history.
- Followed up the initial success by having his growing legion of tribals battle, conquer or wipe out rival tribes, obliterating their old identities and forming them into Caesars Legion.
- Over the next thirty years his Legion of over 80 tribes conquered the Southwest with the intention of bringing a totalitarian peace or 'Pax Romana' to the Wastelands before waging war against the NCR over Vegas and the Hoover Dam.

Richard Moreau/Grey
- During a doomed expedition to the Mariposa Military Base, he took a dip in a vat of FEV and was mutated into a creature that would become 'The Master.'
- Modifying himself with more FEV injections and granting himself the ability to neural link with computers, his experiments allowed him to create 'Unity' a subversive transhumanist organization that would be led by Supermutants that he created using the FEV virus.
- His ultimate plan would've been a likely successful campaign of conquest across New California leading his armies of Super Mutants to usher in the next inhuman stage of history (or not, depending if those juices can start flowing again after a few centuries).

Marcus
- Supermutant survivor of The Masters Army, he encountered a BoS Paladin named Jacob whom he battled for three days before they decided to stop fighting and journey together. Soonafter they founded a 'safe haven' for all people they named 'Broken Hills.' Marcus became Sheriff of the town.
- After helping the Chosen One defeat the Enclave, Marcus traveled to Black Mountain to found a new safe haven for Super Mutants only to lose custody of that community to crazed Nightkin.
- Soonafter he founded yet another mutant community called Jacobstown which eventually became a true haven where Mutants could live in peace.

Nicole
- Despite her parents being killed by raiders, she became a pacifist and founded the organization known as the Followers of the Apocalypse in the LA Boneyard.
- Her organization offered free education, schooling and helped not just preserve, but proliferate the knowledge of Humanity for the betterment of civilization.
- Her spies infiltrated 'The Masters' Unity organization and helped thwart 'The Masters' plans to conquer and transform New California.

Harold
- Survived the Great War and in its wake became a successful trader amongst The Hub and other survivalist communities before accompanying Richard Grey on an ill fated expedition to Mariposa.
- He later helped the occupants of the Old Town in The Hub prosper and the caravans deal with their Deathclaw problem before moving to Gecko and became a key leader in that Ghoul populated city, helping them run their Nuclear Power Plant and broker a peace with the nearby Vault City.
- He later traveled to the Capital Wasteland and the small sapling 'Bob' that once grew out of his head eventually overtook his body, rooting him to one spot where a vibrant garden of vegetation soon grew and helped involuntarily found the hidden community known as Oasis.

Three Dog
- He's a DJ.
- He's a 'Port in the Storm' according to Sarah Lyons and fifty other BoS members whenever you ask about him.
- He does a great John Henry Eden impression.

So who gets your vote?
 

Battlegrinder

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Roger Maxson
- Helped put an end to the Mariposa FEV Experiments before leading his fractured command and their families to the Lost Hills Bunker.
- Founded the Brotherhood of Steel and served as its First High Elder, a faction which would endure many evolutions over the centuries.
- Dedicated the Brotherhood to the Preservation of Human Knowledge and Technology with the intention of making them the Protectors of Humanity.

My main criteria here would be "without this person, what would the Wasteland look like?" Without Rodgers Maxon, the Wasteland would be unrecognizable, presuming it still exists. No other faction, not even the NCR, can claim that.

The Brotherhood is everywhere, and whatever the chapter and whatever it's precise ideology, has always maintained an ideological line back to him and his ideas. It's saved the world two or three times, and been a shield against lesser dangerous countless other times.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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That's a fair point on Roger Maxson but I'd go with Tandi myself. While one can't deny that Roger Maxson did good works and was instrumental in helping the Vault Dweller defeat 'The Master' and Unity in Fallout 1 and engaged in other shenanigans in Fallout 2, it did seem to drift a lot including playing a big part in that entire NCR-Brotherhood War.

Tandi's fifty years or so presiding over the New California Republic and its environs like the Rangers helped turn those random Fallout 1 communities into a proper nation state and one that actually had some potential in rekindling proper civilization. The New California Republic accomplished so much already and she helped found it with her Father Aradesh but more importantly helped keep it stable as it grew for the several decades of her Presidency and more importantly, while it was far from perfect when she passed from power, it was still sustaining itself with elections and peaceful transitions of power for decades after her passing.

The New California Republic is the hope for the future in the Western Seaboard. The Brotherhood of Steel used to be part of it, but then almost destroyed it. That likely would've gone against Roger Maxson's ideals but, sadly the Brotherhood seemed to drift away from that. The New California Republic looks like they could sustain Tandi's vision however.
 

Battlegrinder

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That's fair enough. Tandi would certainly be in the top 5 for me, maybe even number 2 behind Maxson.

My main issue with putting her at number 1 is twofold. First, limited impact, the NCR's reach is limited to the west coast, the Brotherhood operates nationally. Secondly, I think it's unlikely there would be a BoS without Maxson, I'm not quite as sure there would be no NCR without Tandi, it seems at least possible that a similar successor state would emerge in her absence. The NCR takes after old world US values, that's not exactly something that requires a very specific person and set of influences to create.
 

Argent

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Some of those names are not really that impactful. Three Dog is just a popular D.J. while the Master was destroyed before humanity really started rebuilding.

The three options that have any hope of wining are Tandi, Maxson, Nicole. The had the largest influence with organizations that not only out lived them but carried their ideals out across the Wasteland.

I would nominate Nicole as a strong contender even if she didn't win. The Followers are a large force for good. They have persevered spread knowledge that has allowed the rebuild of the Wasteland. This can not be understated that in Fallout 1 the Followers forming managed to keep a lot of vital knowledge out in the Wasteland instead of crazy Vaults or isolationaled cults. They are forming the bedrock of education and health for a new world and will expand and last though the building of the new world.

While the Brotherhood was a massive power in the second game being an strong ally of the NCR they quickly faded. The strong hold of the isolationistists and tradiditionlists have lead to their downfall. Any reformers are banished to new chapters and left to die on the vine. The Midwest has lost ground and the Northeast is basically a clone of the original. Even in Fallout 3 they basically just sat there till the player kicks them into gear.

So while having a large infulence it is fading and will likely not survive while the NCR is likely not going to stop expanding and growing.

They are the a growing democracy and power in the Wasteland. Unlike the Legion which would have fallen apart after Caesar or the Bortherhood which very ideology dooms it the NCR can change. Yes New Vegas showed that it was a more glided age mixed with Indain War problems then in Fallout 2. But those are things thay change change and even with all its problems I would rather live in the NCR then any under any other power.

So I have to choose Tandi since the NCR is the largest stable power in the game and will generally carry out her vision of building a better world. Yes the Brotherhood has chapters across America but they bearly pay lip service to the Main Chapter and are really separate groups with fading infulence. The NCR may have expanded to fast into Vegas but the heartland is still strong and rebuilding. So small set backs and even House's army of robots are just speed bumps as the NCR continues to expand.
 

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