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The Sealing We are the descendants of a militia group that was at odds with the American government before the bombs fell. Luckily a senator that was friendly to our cause informed us of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation, allowing us to build shelters in time. We closed the doors behind us and waited in darkness to emerge again.
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Ghosts and a Wanderer icon
Ghosts and a Wanderer Our population grew beyond what we could support underground. We built a farm above ground and scared away whoever came too close by disguising our protectors as 'ghosts' and scattering some props around the area that looked more gruesome than they were. A fearless wanderer was not deterred though and him braving the ghosts helped us find a path to the future. |
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As Above, So Below icon
As Above, So Below Thanks to the wanderer we entered a long and fruitful partnership with the town of Modoc, with us supplying their farms with water and their people with technical know-how and them giving us food, medicine and equipment in fair trade.
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The Below icon
The Below While we technically could wander freely on the surface, most of our people are still terrified of it, not to mention physically hurt by sunlight. But our ailing machines need some parts that Modoc most likely can't supply and our stockpiles are dreadfully low.
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Expand the Tunnel Network With moving the majority of our people above ground not being a feasible option, the alternative is expanding our living space down below. It is also way less dangerous than the topside. We do encounter the occasional molerat while digging our tunnels, but we have learned to deal with those over the years.
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Acquire Mining Equipment We have been getting very good at digging tunnels, but our original machines have broken down long ago, so we had to do most things manually for a while now. It's time to get automated again, either through trade or by scavenging. |
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Mining Equipment icon Mining Equipment
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Tunnel Communications icon
Tunnel Communications Over the decades underground our tunnel network has become rather far reaching. One thing we figured out was that certain sounds and noises carried really well through the tunnels. So we devised a system to communicate through those noises. And while those same sounds won't carry as far above ground nobody else but us will understand the message. Which could prove useful in certain situations.
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Tunnel Communication icon Tunnel Communication
Tunnel Communication icon Tunnel Communication
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Adequate Living Quarters icon
Adequate Living Quarters Our tunnel system might be sprawling but actual usable living space is still in short supply. We are also lacking basic amenities, like proper beds. With enough power and new goods coming in we can change that.
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Adequate Living Quarters icon Adequate Living Quarters
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Better Living Standards It is surprising how much a few fresh fruit can do for your mental health. Even if those fruits look nothing like the ones we have seen in the records of our ancestors. What is a mutfruit supposed to be anyway? But those and other luxury items coming in have done wonders for our morale and productivity. |
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Actual Production Lines Now that our people are content and well-rested, they are way more eager to get to work. There are tools to builds, weapons to craft and wars to win.
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Reorganizing the Stockpiles Resources and equipment are spread thin in the tunnels. We need to check everything we have stored away. There are probably things that got lost decades ago in some dusty storage rooms that people forgot even exist.
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Making Our Own Equipment icon
Making Our Own Equipment While scrounging up existing equipment was useful, it was only a stop-gap measure. We can't rely on Modoc to supply everything we need. We need to start producing our own things to be able to sustain our livelihood.
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More than Just Guns While guns are well and good and give us a chance in a fight, they won't keep us alive outside of one. For that we need a multitude of small things. Canteens, sturdy clothing, first aid kits, utility tools, camping gear... the list goes on. So far we have scavenged most of those. But to be sustainable we need to figure out how to make most of them ourself.
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A Good Defense icon
A Good Defense We are few in number. We can't afford to lose too many people. Something that can stop a bullet, spear or a bite from some unnecessary large lizard will lower our losses significantly.
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Weapons of Light Considering how much normal light hurts us, these weapons are deeply unpleasant to use for our troops. On the other hand what better way to make other people experience what we do under direct sunlight. At least for a very short time before they turn into a small pile of ash.
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Repair the Generator Our generator has been limping on it's last legs for years now. It is time to use some of the supplies we got as replacement parts and try to render it fully functional.
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Vault-Tec Fusion Generator Our new allies have come through and send us a fancy Vault-Tec branded fusion generator that they surprisingly just had lying around and were not using themselves. Time to replace our own home-brew one.
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New Water Filters Our water supply is based on a water filtering system that actually stopped working properly a few decades ago. The majority is good enough for watering crops and in a pinch is better than dying of thirst, but good safe drinkable water is rare. With some spare parts we could refurbish it to turn that around.
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Subterranean Farms icon
Subterranean Farms You'd be surprised how long pre-war packaged food lasts. I only recently had a Yum Yum Deviled Egg that (probably) tasted as good as it did 200 years ago. But our stored food can't last forever. And while we did shore up our stockpiles with the occasional molerat and various edible underground plants and mushrooms, large scale planting was just not possible until now. More mushrooms it is.
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Subterranean Farms icon Subterranean Farms
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The Other Kind of Mushroom Given our success with the underground farms we wondered if we could grow other mushrooms on a larger scale. We long have been aware that some of them have certain properties that are rather close to some pre-war chems we still have stashed. If we could produce those ourselves, we could either trade them away or use them...recreationally.
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Access the Terminals Now that our immediate situation has improved, we can access some of our computer terminals that have lain dormant for decades. The knowledge stored in them, as well as the utility they provide will help us progress faster. Also, it seems that our ancestors packed the terminals full of pre-war information for all eventualities. We should probably study these as soon as we can.
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Dean's Electronics: RobCo Terminal Edition icon
Dean's Electronics: RobCo Terminal Edition A digital study book on the field of electronics. An introductory note on the disk says that it is for the "budding young electrician in everyone!" Who would have known that electronics are that easy to understand. People really should read more.
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Repaired Terminal System icon Repaired Terminal System
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Chryslus Motors Yearly Reviews 2065-75 icon
Chryslus Motors Yearly Reviews 2065-75 We did not expect to get much useful information out of these entries in the terminal and while it is mostly sales statistics and promotional materials for new car models, there are a couple of articles that might improve how we run our production facilities.
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Pre-War Factory Organisation icon Pre-War Factory Organisation
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Guns and Bullets: Collected Back Issues icon
Guns and Bullets: Collected Back Issues While the issues we found in the terminals didn't offer anything new or ground breaking, they did show us how we can produce the weapons we have easier and with higher quality.
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Efficient Weapon Designs icon Efficient Weapon Designs
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Special Ops Training Manual icon
Special Ops Training Manual The first entry is made up of some strange characters none of us could comprehend fully. The rest is in normal, if somewhat broken English. This raises some questions about who our ancestors dealt with. But disregarding that, while some of it is a bit hard to understand due to the poor English, it still contains a lot of good information regarding military tactics and operations. |
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Knowledge Databanks icon
Knowledge Databanks There is a lot of information, way more than the tidbits we have focused on so far. If we organize this all of this will be an invaluable resource for us and our future generations.
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Knowledge Databanks icon Knowledge Databanks
Research Speed: +2.00%: Factory Output: +5.00% Special Forces Technology Research Speed: +5% |
The Old Symbols icon
The Old Symbols The star in chains, but the chains are broken. We have used that symbol for as long as we can remember. It was on clothing and tools from before the Sealing. It was on boxes and documents. And recently we have used it as a flag to show where we come from, when venturing above. But what does it mean?
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Questioning Our Past icon
Questioning Our Past We found records that said we belonged to a group called the "Free States". Our ancestors were hunted by the American government. We were called dissidents, traitors. But are we still the same people? The government does not exist anymore and neither does the reason for the Free States existing. Or does it? |
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Traitors or Revolutionaries? icon Traitors or Revolutionaries?
The government called us traitors. Some called us revolutionaries. Does it matter to us?
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A Look Back and a Step Forward While the institutions that sparked this conflict are long gone, the ideals of the Free State are something to be valued. A place for the people, free from oppression. That is something worth striving for.
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A Free State icon A Free State
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Gone With the Blast Wave icon
Gone With the Blast Wave The past is long gone, the old symbols don't matter anymore. We came this far without adhering to pre-war ideologies. We may still wear the star and broken chains, but it has become our symbol, not something someone else far away made.
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A Path Lasting 200 Years icon A Path Lasting 200 Years
Whatever lies in our past, whatever lies in our future, we are the Slags today and we will remain so.
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