Timekeepers
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Former Vault Dwellers obsessed with the human concept of time, their impressive technical abilities seem almost secondary to this unique quirk. No outsider has so far been able to discover where this need to keep track of the passing of time comes from, only that it likely originates from their time in the vault and has since persisted. For one reason or another they seem to have missed the growing threat of the Whitelegs
on their border.
- Scenarios country selection screen quote
The Timekeepers are an advanced nation in the West Coast region of Southwest Utah.
Historical background
on their border.- Scenarios country selection screen quote
Based out of Vault 24, having made the Vault into their capital, the Timekeepers organize themselves as the keepers of time.
Starting Position
Timekeepers starts in Southwest Utah, between Eighties to the north, Tar Walkers to the east, and White Legs to the west.
Timekeepers starts with a production of 1 factory producing Infantry Equipment.
Timekeepers starts with these division templates:
- Clockwatchers (4 Militia battalions)
- Timekeepers (7 Infantry battalions)
Timekeepers starts with 5 divisions:
- 5 Timekeepers, fully equipped.
Behind the scenes
- The Timekeepers were created by wtchappell, also known as "the witch", inspired by the The 10,000 Year Clock project.
- The Long Now Foundation, responsible for the 10,000 Year Clock project, inspired the "X" symbol on the Timekeepers insignia, as well as a parody of the Foundation, the Long Now Corporation, being present in future narratives.
- When planned by the Witch, the Timekeepers narrative was intended to explore a clock hidden in Cricket Mountains, created by the Long Now Corporation, and the management of the device.[1] In addition, other technologies hidden in the Mountains will be discovered, although challenging to recover, with Vault 24 being revealed to be a haphazardly-placed structure on top of a labyrinth of mysterious mechanisms and physical impossibilities that the Timekeepers will have to overcome in order to secure the technology inside.[2][3] As of 4.0, the vision of the Timekeepers narrative has been reworked, due to the original vision being a worldbuilding idea as opposed to a functional nation or focus tree.[4]
References
- ↑ the witch: "The Timekeepers will have lore dealing with exploring and managing the Mountain and the Clock housed within it - a relic of a long defunct organization called the Long Now Corporation. It's a rather... unpleasant place. They aren't directly related to the federal government."
- Obtained from Discord, 4/10/2020 - ↑ the witch: "Generally the Timekeepers will be concerned with gaining control of the Mountain, and eventually leveraging the foul machinery within it for their own purposes. Vault-Tec basically just used the already excavated site for a cheap vault installation; most of the Mountain is a labyrinth of time loops, shifting rooms, and strange machines that Vault-Tec never fully understood."
- Obtained from Discord, 4/10/2020 - ↑ the witch: "Vault 24 INTENTIONALLY doesn't have a decision. The Timekeepers are vaulters, but the fact that Vault 24 is a thing is a very small part of their overall lore; they're much, MUCH more concerned with the yawning abyss of Long Now Corporation experiments and machinery filling the decidedly non-Euclidean nightmare that is the Mountain. Vault 24 itself is little more than an oversized dormitory that opens into the Mountain - it's not something that could ever be a burgeoning metropolis. Besides, the Mountain seems particularly interested in the Timekeepers for unknown reasons; I'm not sure it even continues to exist in this timeline if the Timekeepers go down."
- Obtained from Discord, 6/13/2020 - ↑ Zusk: "Mind, this is a somewhat outdated view of the Timekeepers.
Witch doesn't really believe that their original vision for the Timekeepers works in HoI or OWB really.
# Likehey, what if this cool thing existed in the fiction
rather thenhow does this fallout nation do things in its focus tree"
- Obtained from Discord, 7/22/2022