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While Shale and the Ironmongers threaten the good people of Texas, Keats has a dream of peace. One cannot, after all, hug one's children with nuclear arms. Let the super-mutants spread a message of love to the weak, puny humans; let them understand that mutants see humans as friends, not food; and let them go forward together. Keats will work with the rest of the Texas to build a better world where all men are created equal. Even if some of the men are created using FEV.
- Scenarios country selection screen quote
The Unity of Austin is a Super Mutant commune in the Texan region.
Historical background
- Scenarios country selection screen quote
The city of Austin, Texas, were formerly bombed-out ruins, were rebuilt by Keats, the elected super mutant Mayor of Austin, into one of the greatest and most profitable cities in Texas, with an overall goal of joining the Texan Economic Union, comprised of the Texan Brotherhood and Lone Star in 2275.[1] An ally of the Texan Brotherhood, the Unity of Austin, led by Mayor Keats, seeks to create a nation of cooperation, love, and friendship.[2]
Events
Main article: Unity of Austin events
Politics
National Spirits
The Unity of Austin starts with three national spirits:
Attis Army Remnants
- Recruitable Population: 2.50%
- Outpost construction speed: +5.00%
The Attis Army was a super mutant army that was one of the largest offshoots of the Master's Army. Led by a former general of the Master Attis was a extremely intelligent and cunning super mutant who nearly was able to bring all of Texas under his control - however, a contingent of the Brotherhood was able to put a stop to his plans and the army was shattered into smaller groups of warbands, all fighting for control amongst each other.
Election Troubles
- Weekly Stability: -1.00%
- Daily Ruler Support: +0.01
The last election didn't go as swimmingly as we had thought. A "Lieutenant Crusher" tried running on a alternative platform, one promoting integration with Shale's Army to the west. While he only was able to get a minority vote his voters are still feverishly loyal to him. Could this put our campaign at risk?
Texan Economic Union
- Political Power Gain: +2%
- Production Efficiency Retention: +2.00%
- Construction Speed: +2.00%
The Election Troubles spirit is removed upon the 28th of August, 2275.
Gameplay
Military
The Unity of Austin begins with 6 divisions, 5 being Attis Army Remnants and 1 Nightkins.
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Behind the scenes
- Zusk worked on the Unity of Austin in the 3.0 update.[3] The focus of the Unity of Austin, from a narrative perspective, was to explore elements seen in the cancelled game, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, although less reliant on Reese, a character from the game who was to play into the group in-game.[4]
- As the Unity of Austin, Ironmongers, and Shale's Army are all splinter factions of the Master's former Unity, they have flags reflecting their heritage, based off the flag of the Unity's public face: The Children of the Cathedral.[5]
References
- ↑ Development Diary #24 (Developer Diary 24: Attis's Legacy!): "The first person we will be talking about is the elected Mayor of Austin himself, Keats! Keats has embraced the foundations of democracy, “humanoid” rights, private ownership and capital enterprise. By embracing this more libertarian view on the Master’s Unity, Keats has made great strides in evolving the city of Austin from a series of blasted ruins into one of the greatest and most profitable cities in Texas, all to achieve his goal of joining the Texan Economic Union alongside the Brotherhood of Steel and the city state of Lonestar.
Keats hopes for a beneficial relationship between Super Mutants and Man, embracing a form of voluntary FEV mutation to create more mutants instead of the forced mutation of "other groups"." - ↑ Development Diary #11 (Dev Diary 11: Welcome to Texas and Oklahoma): "Unity of Austin: led by Keats, the ever charismatic super mutant politician and every man, the Unity of Austin is a staunch ally of the Brotherhood, seeking to create a Wasteland in which mutants and humans live side by side through mutual cooperation."
- ↑ Sole Survivor: "For my first question, what nations have you created, or otherwise worked on/contributed to?"
Zusk: "Heyo! I am a big content designer for Old World Blues and have touched my hands into most of the mod, at one point or another.
Before I joined the team, I did the Yakuza Rising submod!
After I joined the team...
2.0
Tzotzil ( Coding )
2.1
Troll Warren ( Redesign )
Marrow Drinkers
Mirelurk Tribe
Apostles
Bonedancers
3.0
Shale's Army
Unity of Austin
Ironmongers
Twin Mothers
Hangdogs ( Initial design and some scripting )
Mojave Chapter
Think Tank
New Vegas ( Partial Redesign )
Western Brotherhood ( Partial Redesign )
3.1
The Last Patrol
3.2
Lanius's Cohort ( Redesign )
- Obtained from Discord, 10/19/2021 - ↑ Sole Survivor: "2. I've read and documented the Dev Diaries for some of the 3.0 factions, but what would you say you were going for, in narrative and tactical terms, when it came to deviating from how BoS 2 was to present its factions, and your redesigns in 3.0?"
Zusk: "It depends on the country really!
With Shale, I really wanted to retell the story of Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel through Shale's eyes. Shale going through Attis's steps in the same way the player is.
With Juggernaut, I explore the fanon side of OWB, having a fanon-inspired Super Mutant faction primairly interact with the fanon in the mod - Mexico.
With Keats, I primairly focused on painting some elements that would have been seen in Brotherhood of Steel 2, although it wasn't really about Reese in the same way Shale's tree was about Attis.
Really, I think the difference between how we reflected Reese and Attis is that Attis is a much more fleshed out character then Reese. We don't really hear his character reasoning for why he did what he did, so its hard to make a faithful narrative based on his story.
We tried to make it important, mind you. After all - the center of the Super Mutant conflict is the settlement of Eden and Reese's jungle, being guarded by the player character from Brotherhood of Steel 2 in a attempt to protect humanity from the perils there. But its less so then with Shale's story because we could more just focus on talking about what Reese did, rather then Why"
- Obtained from Discord, 10/19/2021 - ↑ There are like three that are just a nuclear symbols in different orientations
Violet: "That’s because they’re Unity fragments :smile:
they’re all Super Mutants, and have essentially derivatives of that “idea”"
- Obtained from Discord, 2/2/2022