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Todd Howard Says You Haven't "Heard The Last Of The NCR" In Fallout
18.04.2024 - 22:25 / thegamer.com / Todd Howard / Howard Says
Spoilers for the Fallout series.
The new Fallout TV show reveals that Vault-Tec nuked New California Republic capital Shady Sands after the events of New Vegas. That left a lot of fans wondering what happened to the NCR themselves, as the most we see of them in the show are scavengers wearing their ranger gear. Are they still around, or did the capital's untimely demise spell the end of an already collapsing government?
"We're careful about saying what's going on in other parts of the world. And we always take this view of, communication is difficult," Todd Howard said in an interview with IGN. "If you look at the background, the NCR is a wide-ranging sort of organisation and group across not just California, but other places. So the show focuses on this period of time and this group here, and that's what we can say right now. But I don't think you've heard the last of the NCR."
The Fallout series takes place 15 years after New Vegas, which is when we last saw the NCR. A lot could've changed in that time, but let's dig a little into the most recent information we have.
By New Vegas, the NCR had expanded so much that it had spread itself thin. To make matters worse, it had just come out of a war with the Brotherhood of Steel into another with Caesar's Legion and the Great Khans. We find them fighting in the Mojave for control of the entire region, Hoover Dam, and the Strip itself despite struggling to keep a hold of the territories it already has.
Depending on the Courier's actions, they may have even lost the second battle over Hoover Dam, plunging them into further disarray. It's unclear what ending is canon right now, but during the Fallout TV series, NCR vertibirds are littered along the Strip with destroyed Mr House securitrons and even dead deathclaws. A battle erupted in New Vegas that appears to have left it in ruin, which would no doubt take a toll on an already weakened NCR.
One of the big reasons the Brotherhood of Steel goes into hiding in New Vegas and remains so secretive is due to the war with the NCR leaving them so weakened. By the time of the show, they're confident enough to fly an airship over the West Coast. Clearly, the NCR isn't the threat it once was.
Then there's, of course, Shady Sands. Not only did it begin to collapse in 2277, but a significant chunk of the NCR population was wiped out and scattered. We see the impacts of this as self-proclaimed governors have started to stake a claim on parts of the Wasteland that would previously have been under NCR occupation. Luckily, the welcome sign reveals that it's the "first capital", meaning that the centre of the republic had moved before Shady Sands was wiped out. Perhaps we'll find out where to in the second
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