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Old Glory Once Again! (Modern US in Fallout)

Old Glory Once Again! (Modern US in Fallout)
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For many in the Wasteland, the mention of the United States can conjure many emotions, some positive, most scathingly negative.

But there is no doubt that the US of the Old World has been extinguished, a dead nation.

Unless...?

Through chance, the US that won the Cold War, has now found itself an entrance to the Wasteland.

While Old Glory explores this alternative reality, the rumors of a Dead Nation prompt immediate action.

Because if there's one thing that's certain? It's that War....

War Never Changes.
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    • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

    CAUTION
    THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET

    THE CIRCULATION OF THIS DOCUMENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE AUTHORIZED TO HAVE THE INFORMATION IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES.

    IF SUCH DOCUMENT IS AT RISK OF EXPOSURE OR FOREIGN ESPIONAGE, DISPOSE OF AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

    February 4 202X.

    My name is Dr. Holmes. As of present, I'm the head researcher for the Hydra Project. Current studies into the "Panacea" Compound have yielded promising results.

    In vitro preliminary analysis has yielded several theories about the nature of such a compound:

    1. Pluripotent stem cells, combined with growth factors, allows Panacea to be able to repair cellular damage at a rapid rate. However, such a hypothesis takes into question what allows Panacea to distinguish what stem cells need to be formed into? Additionally, what signals allow for such cellular regeneration at such a rapid rate? Further research into this theory will need to be able to find such a cellular signal.
    2. A benign tumor, capable of self-regulation when traumatic cellular damage is fixed, inducing apoptosis at completion. Further research into this theory will need to determine how such a tumor can induce apoptosis by itself, allowing for no malignant tumor to take hold near the entry site.
    In addition, while pre-clinical trials have not been approved, injection of the Panacea Compound during a critical situation allowed for numerous personnel to be saved. Furthermore, in-vivo analysis of such personnel have indicated no severe side-effects. Personnel will be released after a period of twelve months, if no further health effects are recorded.

    However, further insights into the Panacea Compound is limited by the samples of Panacea available. I request that all further samples of Panacea are to be sent to the Hydra Project.

    With current conditions, we hope that the Panacea Compound will be available for deployment within the next five years.

    AN:

    Note, I am NOT a professional researcher. Just to let you know. If anyone wants to do an omake about the Gutsies, you're welcome to, because I don't have the slightest inkling of how to even speak in engineering terminology.
     
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    • As Monroe proceeded to sit down in the air-conditioned room, he could feel the tension in the air, thick enough to slice with a knife in hand. While these men tried to hide it well, he could see the wariness in their facial expressions, almost as if they were anticipating a fight.

    His security detail wasn't doing so hot either. While he knew that they wouldn't start such a fight, the near close calls in the previous days had made them cautious, to say the least.

    Pistols only, but more than enough to spark a conflict. Luckily, Monroe was simply here to initiate talks.

    Starting with the good General from this "New California Republic."

    General Lee Oliver wore khaki pants and a button-up shirt, a dark green tie lining the middle of the shirt. Overall, a dress uniform that wouldn't have looked out of place back home.

    But it was the cap on top of his head that ensured that he was dealing with an entity that was… foreign.

    An emblem of a two-headed bear lined the officer's cap that he wore. A nation, so similar to the United States, yet so different.

    The two stared at each other for a short period of time, before Oliver spoke.

    "I'll admit… when I got word that people were screaming about the Enclave to the North, I thought they were hopped on Jet." Oliver chuckled softly, shaking his head. "It's not usual for the boogeyman of the West of decades past to appear so brazenly near our troops."

    "Which is why we're not this Enclave." Monroe shot back coolly. "Certainly not the horror stories that I've been hearing."

    "Quite. Bitter Springs has been relatively quiet, ever since the additional aid came in. We very much appreciate your help. And it certainly has advanced your case."

    "Really?" Monroe asked with a raised eyebrow. "Not even going to take into account poison or anything of that nature?"

    "Enclave tends to be a lot more overt with their plans. No need for poison, when plasma and lasers will do."

    "Fair enough." Monroe narrowed his eyes. "But you didn't just invite us for tea and biscuits just so we can sing kumbaya with each other."

    "Damn shame that we can't do that to smooth things over. And you're correct, I'm here because right now, you've put in a bit of a mess." Oliver rubbed his forehead in frustration, before taking a deep breath.

    "People back West, to put it mildly, are shitting their pants. The Senate is demanding answers from President Kimball, and while he's been able to placate them for now, it won't last forever."

    "In other words, we're in danger of being at war because we have to deal with the actions of this… military junta." Monroe disdainfully let out, recalling some of the facts that this Enclave had committed.

    Including the matter of worldwide genocide. Frankly, Monroe was impressed at the amount of restraint Oliver was showing.

    "Don't get me started on the senators from New Arroyo. They personally were the ones leading the War Coalition in the Senate. One in particular hates your guts with a passion, if Kimball is to be believed."

    "So what then? You've seen the amount of force we're capable of unleashing, and while I don't know you that well, I'd reckon that you don't want to waste your men's lives." Monroe said, referring to the demonstration of firepower that the US had inflicted on those mutated lizards. Even now, clean-up crews from both NCR and the US were still being conducted.

    A small smirk appeared on Oliver's face.

    "A good judgment of character. I can see why you were made General. Personally, I'm not too keen to go into another war, when we have Caesar across from here." Oliver said, referring to the local warlord. Some tinpot dictator who thought himself a God. "However, orders are orders, and Kimball won't be able to delay them for much longer."

    "So you need to verify that we aren't going to kill all of you, if I'm not mistaken…"

    "Enough proof that it can shut the War Coalition down for good. Something to ensure that you are different from the Enclave of past decades. So? Do you have any evidence?"

    "Well…"



    FEW HOURS LATER…

    As General Oliver stood speechlessly at the portal standing in front of them, Captain Graves could tell that his security detail, made up of gas-masked wearing soldiers, were also in a state of shock. With a smug grin, he turned to General Oliver.

    "If that's not enough evidence, let's go through the portal, shall we?"


    AN: An alternate scenario if the NCR was the main contact.
     
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    • How to Know Who You’re Fighting
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    • While I continue to write the next chapter, here's a small joke that inspired by the RL joke:

    You see a bunch of figures down below, and you fire a few shots over the heads. How do you know who you're fighting?

    You're fighting the Legion if they charge at you full stop.

    You're fighting the NCR if you start getting picked off by sniper fire.

    You're fighting the Brotherhood if lasers start to pepper the ground you're near.

    You're fighting the Enclave if a vertibird drops PA troops.

    But if you don't hear anything for 5 minutes, and then the hill you occupy spontaneously explodes?

    You're fighting the Americans.
     
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