Fallout 4

War. War never changes.

Since the dawn of humankind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God, to justice, to simple psychotic rage. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from it's lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.

In the 21st century, there were too many humans and not enough space or resources to go around. War was waged over the what could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth. Everyone who entered into these resource wars expected victory. Everyone was optimistic. But as the hostilities escalated, optimism faded and society began to collapse.

In 2077, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, the earth was nearly wiped clean of life. An atomic spark struck by human hands had quickly raged out of control, and spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans.

Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth. The world was plunged into an abyss, a quiet darkness falling across the planet, lasting many years. Those who did not die instantly or in the blast waves were heavily burned, irradiated, or mutated.

But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes.

In the early days, thousands of civilian lives were spared the horrors of the so-called "Great War" by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when the vaults opened two hundred years later and the people inside departed the vaults to begin their lives again, only the hell of the wastes greeted them. No order, no law, only survival. Still, the inhabitants set out across ruins of the old world to build new societies, establish new villages, forming tribes. From the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

The date is Saturday, October 23rd, 2077. You are an average American citizen living in Sanctuary Hills, Massachusetts. You're enjoying a nice morning.

Things are about to change, forever.