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Season one ofThe Last of Usstruck it well.
It was the seasons best.
For all intents and purposes, itsFallout 5, just not interactive.
But we havent been to the home territories or their capital of Shady Sands sinceFallout 2.
Well, now we know why its taken so long to arrive at the party.
As it turns out, the NCR is … pretty much gone.
At least, as far as we know right now.
Its a decision that will undoubtedly prompt vociferous debate online.
Its also a pretty ballsy move that you have to respect, assuming it pays off.
Its where he grew up.
He saw it destroyed.
Fuckin vault dwellers.)
So he decides to reveal the truth, and it goes disastrously wrong.
Lucy happens upon Maximuss predicament the next morning.
They both want to contribute to a better world.
Theyre kind of soul mates.
Its really starting to look like weve got a conspiracy on our hands.
(An evil conspiracy and/or experiment, inside a vault?
Maybe thats hardly a surprise, with their higher education standards and allegedly better mashed potatoes.
Theres even an insidious slogan: When things look glum, vote 31.
Its not like the raider attack is the first terrible thing to happen to them in an election year.
Davey says he ran against Hank but lost when the weevil famine came.
Seems like these poor people do not have the real democratic franchise they think they do.
Lucy and Maximus find themselves in the middle of a trust exercise back on the surface.
Its a tense standoff, and Lucys solution is for both parties to cross with their hands up.
They venture farther inside, but theyre gassed, knocked out, and seemingly captured.
When they wake, Lucy is pleased as punch.
Theyre in another vault.
Whether or not they can trust the intentions of this one, though, is yet to be seen.
I voted for Betty.
So, whats the deal with the NCR?
Is it just Shady Sands that has fallen, or has the NCR ceased to exist in entirety?
What happened to them afterNew Vegas?
In the credits sequence, we see a Shady Sands library book, which was last stamped in 2276.
Thats a year beforeFallout 3and five years before the events ofFallout: New Vegas.
Gotta say, Johnny Pemberton really knows how to scream.
Well, when you put it like that … Theyre drug-addled, sadistic raiders based out of a captured vault on the outskirts of Vegas.
