Fallout The Eagle And The Bear [Fallout AU]

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Navarro said:
Yes, it felt implausible to keep him around so along.

Also planned was a short story that dealt with the Richardson-types' last attempt to regain a measure of relevancy and their concomitant downfall, but it never materialised as New America was simply wearing on me too much. Maybe I should still write it.
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I wouldn't mind seeing you write that in the future .
 
Navarro said:
But he knew that part could never have what it desired.

So here it was. The supreme irony – the self-proclaimed “Architect of Destiny” was helpless, caught up in larger events. He raged against it, but he could not escape that reality, just as he would never leave his life-support chamber. For all his calculations, events were moving beyond his ability to control, just like in the pre-War era. At least for now ...
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Your vision of House lines up with mine pretty superbly, I do hope he learns of synth technology just for the chaos his next 'Platinum Chip' would cause. :sneaky:
 
Welp just managed to catch that lovely chapter.
Navarro said:
No!” Nate blurted out, shocked by his own emotion. Images flashed through his mind of the mushroom cloud rising over Boston so many years ago, before he calmed himself.
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So considering he actually watched the nukes vaporize the nation he sacrificed so much for and take his family, Nate probably has the most severe nuclear PTSD on the planet. Probably makes him also the last person who wants to push the big red button.
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“I know,” Martha Fairchild, the CIA Director, said. She was an uncannily tall and slender woman at five feet ten, a product of a childhood spent on the Lunar base ELECT.
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Well I'm glad you included the moonbase. It also raises the possibilities of future expansion into the solar system if we ever have a story looking into the future.
Navarro said:
“80,000 against ten times that number,” McCain said. “Not good odds.”
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Hope the National Guard has plenty of artillery.
 
SuperHeavy said:
Welp just managed to catch that lovely chapter.
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Yeah. To those who think E-USA won't have a major moment of onscreen dickery ... it's coming very soon. As for the possibility of ceasefire negotiations between E-USA and NCR, they may well happen.


So considering he actually watched the nukes vaporize the nation he sacrificed so much for and take his family, Nate probably has the most severe nuclear PTSD on the planet. Probably makes him also the last person who wants to push the big red button.
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Indeed.

Well I'm glad you included the moonbase. It also raises the possibilities of future expansion into the solar system if we ever have a story looking into the future.
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A story set in the future will probably be set centuries ahead and be a cross with another sci-fi franchise.
 
Navarro said:
Yeah. To those who think E-USA won't have a major moment of onscreen dickery ... it's coming very soon. As for the possibility of ceasefire negotiations between E-USA and NCR, they may well happen.




Indeed.



A story set in the future will probably be set centuries ahead and be a cross with another sci-fi franchise.
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Mass effect?
 
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Leonardo Alvarez looked at Leopold Richardson – the American was immaculately groomed as ever. Even here, with his wife waiting on the two politicians, he maintained a show of dominance. His suit was immaculately tailored, and the fingers of his right-hand were constantly running to and fro over the glossy, polished screen of his pip-boy personal computer. It was perhaps a snub that he had been unable to contact the American President directly, but he most likely knew anyway of their meeting and what was being discussed. Or would know soon, at any rate.

“You promised to help us with California,” Alvarez said plainly. “In September.”

“And it is not California that is the source of your … current problem.” Richardson began in a circumlocutory style, better suited to polite society. “At any rate, we are suffering … difficulties in the mid-west. The situation has changed in the past three months.”

“My people will be made serfs of the hidalgos in Veracruz and Mexico City if you let the Iturbide dynasty add Rio to their holdings. They’ve been trying to do it for decades, and with each defeat their hatred for and desire to humiliate us has only grown stronger. Our economy, our government, our culture … all of it will be obliterated. Replaced with a feudalism straight out of the 14th century.”

“Should we succeed in our objectives, we will have much of our own territory to rebuild after the war. Being frank here, there’s pretty much no public support for a campaign against the Iturbides, especially if it draws us into a lengthy effort to rebuild foreign territory for no immediate gain. Look, I’ll never be as plain with you as I am now. There is only one thing you could agree to that would have us drive out your enemies from the Rio Grande.”

Alvarez almost didn’t dare to ask the question of what it was.
 
Feudalism straight out of the 14th Century? I'm guessing these Iturbides are a combination of Cartel & sort of like the Spanish of old who did things like in the Philippines which involved a few years of forced labor for every citizen

I'm guessing he's not exaggerating on the serfdom
 
Well that may seem harsh but much like the NCR they are playing the old game of geopolitics, which can be described as many things but nice is not one of them. I doubt the future planning of the US was anything but establishing total control of the North American continent and from there at least global hegemony. Sort of like the US after WWII but on steroids, probably enforced with some wacky moon based superlaser.
 
Navarro said:
Sneak peek:


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Leonardo Alvarez looked at Leopold Richardson – the American was immaculately groomed as ever. Even here, with his wife waiting on the two politicians, he maintained a show of dominance. His suit was immaculately tailored, and the fingers of his right-hand were constantly running to and fro over the glossy, polished screen of his pip-boy personal computer. It was perhaps a snub that he had been unable to contact the American President directly, but he most likely knew anyway of their meeting and what was being discussed. Or would know soon, at any rate.

“You promised to help us with California,” Alvarez said plainly. “In September.”

“And it is not California that is the source of your … current problem.” Richardson began in a circumlocutory style, better suited to polite society. “At any rate, we are suffering … difficulties in the mid-west. The situation has changed in the past three months.”

“My people will be made serfs of the hidalgos in Veracruz and Mexico City if you let the Iturbide dynasty add Rio to their holdings. They’ve been trying to do it for decades, and with each defeat their hatred for and desire to humiliate us has only grown stronger. Our economy, our government, our culture … all of it will be obliterated. Replaced with a feudalism straight out of the 14th century.”

“Should we succeed in our objectives, we will have much of our own territory to rebuild after the war. Being frank here, there’s pretty much no public support for a campaign against the Iturbides, especially if it draws us into a lengthy effort to rebuild foreign territory for no immediate gain. Look, I’ll never be as plain with you as I am now. There is only one thing you could agree to that would have us drive out your enemies from the Rio Grande.”

Alvarez almost didn’t dare to ask the question of what it was.
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Time to make destiny manifest.
 
Okay, this helps with the imagery of the E-USA being more morally grey as they are now being shown to be at least somewhat opportunistic as well as being astute in realpolitik as well, as it seems they are suggesting that the Rio Grande apply for statehood in the Union (presumably they would join the Texan Commonwealth since it was mentioned that a noticeable amount of the Texan and Rio Grande populations had relatives in each other's nations).

So this is providing a more sneaky way to gain more territory for the US that from a knowledgeable outside point-of-view looking in, makes them look like they are asking for protection money against a gang, then asking for more when another gang they made no promises against showed up to make trouble.
 
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    • Personally i like that the enclave aren't dicks. It "subverts" the modern expectation that the US are evil deuchbags. Which is nice as there is far to much "America bad" in popular culture.
     
    In my opinion the ideal ending is American dominated North America. Then unification of Earth and utter conquest of the Zetans. I'm a harcore nationalist though so my opinion is pretty biased.
     
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