Deleted2039153User Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Specifically, is there any info according to the lore that details what happened to Japan? Working on a mod that has Japanese-made technology and I want to know how lore-friendly it would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midtek Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 As far as I know, NOPE, never been mentioned in canon lore. We can picture Asian countries were occupied by either China or U.S.S.R before Great War. I've seen some mods depicted Japanese gears more like to Japanese Empire refer to World War II. All is free and up to fanon, until something get officially set up. :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted2039153User Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 As far as I know, NOPE, never been mentioned in canon lore. We can picture Asian countries were occupied by either China or U.S.S.R before Great War. I've seen some mods depicted Japanese gears more like to Japanese Empire refer to World War II. All is free and up to fanon, until something get officially set up. :ninja: Thank you for the quick reply. I just wanted to be sure what I was making (a quest line revolving around a weapon I custom modeled) would fit within the lore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ein Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I would think, given the mindset of the American Government in the Fallout Universe that after WW2 while in the real world we Eventually returned full control back over to Japan the more paranoid and resource hungry America in Fallout would have increased it's presence in Japan, particularly as the cold war began to heat up, and eventually gave way to the Resource Wars. So their Level of Technology would probably be roughly around the same as America's at the time the Bombs dropped. Given it's proximity with what would be the front lines with China they would also probably have a few weapons meant for testing and a fair amount of captured Chinese tech. After the war it's reasonable to guess that there would be a grouping of American military that survived, particularly around Okinawa that has access to the same stuff as the Brotherhood of Steel. The rest of Japan would probably be more inclined to have more of a mix of technology. Things like Reclaimed power armor, and Stealth Suits but they would be rare. Things like Combat armor would be more common. Possibly the biggest difference would be cosmetic. Given the exaggerated nature of the Fallout Universe, there would likely be an abundance of katana with melee being the preferred method of combat due to a return to the more romanticized teachings of Bushido you'd see in TV programs and movies. With combat armor that has more samurai looking accessories. Sorry to go on like that, but if there's a chance I can steer a mod in the direction it might be something I'll use I'm gonna do it. See too many mods coming out that just completely fail to take anything about the setting into account outside of extremely superficial things like 'Power armor exists in this world.' Yes, yes it does. And only America had it, and they had just barely developed it. Canada was still fielding regular troops, not an underground society of super soldiers. Denmark wasn't super advanced, it probably didn't even officially exist anymore given the description of how devastating the Resource wars were in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xab666 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Sorry to go on like that, but if there's a chance I can steer a mod in the direction it might be something I'll use I'm gonna do it. See too many mods coming out that just completely fail to take anything about the setting into account outside of extremely superficial things like 'Power armor exists in this world.' Yes, yes it does. And only America had it, and they had just barely developed it. Canada was still fielding regular troops, not an underground society of super soldiers. Denmark wasn't super advanced, it probably didn't even officially exist anymore given the description of how devastating the Resource wars were in Europe. consider this, the semi-conductor revolution affected japan massively (invention of micro-electronics). in fallout, this never happened. they were still using vacuum tubes in pipboys in 2077 when the war happened. It would APPEAR the enclave vastly past this level while in hidding, so 1. Any other nation group well supplied in a shelter, could advance technology. because a group didn't posses technology before the war doesn't mean they don't in 227-80+2. Stealth suits appear to be more advanced then power armor. (partly my opinion) but I believe active camoflauge is much harder to achieve, and also requires a great deal of power.3. The US fought a War in the Gohbi Desert, and even if they won (victory rifle makes it back to nevada) it made exactly how much difference?(world still got blown up) there's gaurenteed casualties in china. probably fallen Power armor suits, ripe for reverse engineering. 4. Vault-tec was an international corperation and had operations in at least canada (Vault101 rejection letter FO3)(http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Letter_from_Vault-Tec) Id say you have a lot of flexiblity if you can tell the story well and justify it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted2039153User Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 (edited) Thanks for all the replies. It seems I'll have a lot of leeway to write the story surrounding this item I've made without it butting heads with any official information. Edited April 28, 2011 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewdennis Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 well i can imagine that japan would be quite simalar as it is to day to how i was then, given that the bombing of tokyo and all the major citys is the main reason why japan is so advanced as it is today, but since there had basiclly no resorces and much much more tech id say it was run down and still partly occupied by the US i can imagine that some on the buildings would still be destroyed by the napalm strikes, very rundown and very few pices of tech just laying around (if any).Around Hiroshima i rekon that that would still be a ruind iradiated city with possible mutants.i could imgine that some sort of radier gangs would be arond the hole contry.very few people would still be alive (the people that would have suvived would probably be ghouls or very badly burned)because vaults wernt built over there.US army bases would probably be the only source of tech these WOULD be very secure and heavily guarded but after the bombs very few would still be around there might be US soliders still there but ghoulifided and still loyal to the US and still performing there orders a bit like the chinese soliders in Fallout 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AveTruetoCaesar Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Well, you didn't need vaults to survive. The Majority of the inhabitants in Fallout never came from Vaults. As you can see from most of the experiments, a lot of the populace where killed inside of them. I'd figure Japan would have been taken over by China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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