Fialer Earth

Fialer Earth

Fialer Earth, also known as the Post-War World and nicknamed '50s style Post-Nuclear War Earth', is a version of Earth from the Fialer Universe, where the planet's nationstates destroyed each other in a nuclear holocaust at the end of a gruesome series of wars over the planets' ever decreasing resources. The planet stayed this way for some three hundred years before it was reterraformed by the Alliance. Despite being the namesake of the New Earth Republic, Fialer Earth is not its capital, instead, the planet is still heavily divided between various nationstates, each still having their own forms of government and leadership but ultimately answers to the NER's Federal Government and follows any Republic-wide laws passed.

Flora and Fauna

The distinctive creatures of Fialer Earth were the result of exposure to radiation and biochemical agents released during, before, and after the Great War. New species of both flora and fauna being created almost overnight, the impact of these spices combined with the latent contaminants impacting where and when life could grown and heal. The near spontaneous rise of many new species is most evident in larger, hardier and more dangerous mutations of animals and insects. Creatures such as radscorpions, giant ants, and brahmin descended from emperor scorpions, household ants and cows, respectively.

Among the humans subspecies and mutants would emerge. One such subspecies is the slags, a group of humans who adapted to life underground and have pale skin, enlarged pupils, and a sensitivity to light. Another subspecies are the swampfolk, inbred residents of Point Lookout who have slowly devolved over the decades. They have sinewy, pockmarked bodies, and ooze with pus. The swampfolk are stupid, violent, and strong.

Ghouls are humans or animals who were subjected to fatal levels of radioactive poisoning, but did not die. Due to unknown factors, rather than suffer organ failure, their bodies mutated and adapted to radiation, resulting in immunity and an extended lifespan. The drawback is that the adaptation also caused widespread necrosis of the skin, lesions, and rot, resulting in a horrifying appearance that has been likened to that of undead creatures from Earth horror media. This is also the primary cause of ghoul discrimination in the wasteland, with its mildest being racial slurs like "zombie." Another ghoul variant includes the glowing ones, who, as their name suggests, literally glow. They can be both normal and feral. Feral ghouls, unlike normal ghouls, have lost their ability to reason and have become aggressive. This has caused much discrimination by human wastelanders toward other ghouls who have retained their mental faculties.

The origins of the super mutants lies in the Forced Evolutionary Virus, the development of West Tek's Pan-Immunity Virion Project. The goal was simply to make the human immune system strong enough to resist any pathogen, natural or engineered. Some of the side effects, discovered during testing, were increased size and strength. The catalyst for the project was the New Plague, which ravaged the planet in the 2050s. In development since 2073 (1261 NE), by 2075 (1263 NE), the project moved from an effort to defend against a Chinese biological attack, to creating larger, stronger, and smarter creatures. The federal government became increasingly more interested in the project.

In early 2075, West Tek and the government offered the West Virginian town of Huntersville a rural development grant. Seeking an end to their economic floundering the town accepted, with no idea that they were to become lab rats. The flow of commerce suddenly halted in February 2076, after several people fell ill with a strange disease. The town suddenly became quiet as the commercial traffic from West Tek stopped and more and more people started to become sick. As the situation steadily deteriorated, West Tek physicians convinced the people of Huntersville that it was just a rare strain of flu. It was not. By August, armed hazmat teams guarded the town, and by November the 12th Mountain Division was deployed to the town and ordered to enforce the quarantine. This was not enough, as the 12th Division was simply unaware of the threat the now-mutants posed and were overwhelmed, creating a local populace of mutants that would harass the region for decades to come.

Another source of FEV was Vault 87. Constructed as a part of Project Safehouse, starting May 2066 (1257 NE) and finishing in December 2071 (1262 NE), this Vault's experiment was the Evolutionary Experimentation Program, an aerosolized variant of the FEV. This too would create a local population that would escape the Vault and become a dominant, if fragmented, force in the region for centuries to come. Two centuries later, this variation of FEV made its way into the hands of Dr. Weston Lesko, who inadvertently created fire ants in an attempt to shrink the giant ants back to their pre-War size. These mutants would spread across the continent within a few years.

On January 6, 2076 (1264 NE), the military secured West Tek research sites in the name of national security, effectively nationalizing the company. The next day the all Californian FEV research was moved to the newly-constructed Mariposa Military Base from the West Tek facility to commence testing of the virus on human subjects, and eventual full scale production.

Following the Great War, Mariposa was abandoned, the surviving guardsmen having left to form the Brotherhood of Steel. After laying dormant for 30 years, the base was rediscovered a team led by Harold, a successful merchant of the Hub. Seeking an answer to where the increased mutant attacks on their caravans were coming from. Among the team was Richard Moreau, an exile from Vault 8. After their loss to the automated security, only Harold and Richard would emerge from the facility. Neither would be unharmed, as both were exposed to contaminants. Each would continue to mutate, with only Harold retaining his sanity. Eventually, Richard Moreau, now calling itself "The Master," realized that the FEV could be used to create a mutant capable of thriving in the post-nuclear world, he attempted to raise an army to conquer the world, but was defeated by the Vault Dweller.

Despite the destruction of Mariposa base, however, a sample of its FEV was claimed by the Enclave. Using slave labor kidnapped from nearby Redding (among other places), the Enclave excavated Mariposa. Those slaves inadvertently exposed to the FEV mutated into a new batch of super mutants.

History

Combine Conquest

By 2278 (1466 NE), the Combine Empire crossed into the Fialer Universe where they discovered this version of Earth in a post-nuclear wasteland. With no military forces to defend the planet in its current state, the Combine easily overwhelmed any resistance that fought them and the strongest forces that could have stood a chance against them. The Combine were to set up a Citadel as the new base for resources that are still available and take any still operational technologies to the Axis of Empires, limiting the reproduction for the time being for labor force and collaborators they find useful. Most Vault communities such as Vaults 31, 32 and 33 known as the Three Vaults made agreements to work with them in cooperation, hoping to reclaim their world without violence and earn the COmbine's favour, regardless of what happens to the rest of the population of the surface.

Many Pure Combine soldiers that took part or in charge of governing the planet considered it a wasteland and a dustball, wasting their time while there was a war on and only occupying other neighbouring systems in the Fialer Universe.

List of Cities

• New Vegas
• Diamond City
• sanctuary

Native Species

• Human
• Necro Human
• Meta-Human