Children of Atom (ideas and requests from users)

[genolune]

I'm in agreement with you Flowerguy. I'm mostly trying to get an idea of shape right now. I'm thinking "round and scrap metal" but that's as far as I've gotten. Mostly because it's easier to nicely fit a round object in the craters due to their round shape because sharp corners like to catch and create the floating object thing.

 

If I understand what you were saying, the half-cylinder is part of the vanilla game. You wouldn't even need to scale it in blender as you can do that in the Creation Kit and place one.

[pra]

Not sure if I should necromance this thread, but it is a CoE-Related idea afer all.

 

I just had a random idea for a sect of the Children of Atom. Basically, this variant is mostly: fusion good, fission bad.

They see it in the sun, since it runs on nuclear fusion, but also in conception (fusion of egg and sperm), and in more abstract concepts like community or family.

The sun is to them Atom's gift to the world, for which they thank Him at sunrise services. Things like community and marriage are very important to them. They might be somewhat polygamous, but also homophobic (since there is no conception there).

 

Fission, on the other hand, is Atom's wrath. The nuclear war was His divine punishment, because He was angry with the old world. Radiation is not worshipped directly, but is supposed to only harm the sinful. Of course, pretty much everyone is sinful, so the devotees irradiate themselves to get rid of sin, similar to how real-life flagellants used to whip themselves. If this ritualistic irradiation kills you, then Atom has taken you to himself. Becoming a ghoul is automatic sainthood (since you are immune to radiation). Becoming feral is still divine punishment, though. It means that you become "a tool of Atom's wrath", which in turn means that there is a lot of sin in the community and not enough of cleansing. If a regular ghoul turns feral, it means he f*cked up REALLY bad, and Atom revoked his sainthood.

 

They would probably be mostly peaceful towards outsiders, even seem right-out nice, with everyone helping each other, a lot of children running around, etc. But they might decide that their neighbours live in sin, especially if they get attacked by ferals repeatedly, and decide to "cleanse" them with radiation. Also, they might consider it okay to rape childless people in some circumstances. For example, they fight against some raiders, capture a few of them, but afterwards notice that a lot of their men died in the process. So, in order to keep the whole holy conception thing going on, female cultists just "use" some of the male prisoners.

 

For them, "sin" could be things like: using rad-x/radaway or hazmat suits, homosexuality, contraceptives, abortion, general childlessness, staying away from the sun too much (=Night Person), being too greedy/egoistical or just introverted (you are supposed to "fuse" with your community, after all), plus regular stuff like theft or murder, of course.

 

Not sure about their interaction with the mainstream CoE. Most probably they would consider each other to be heretics.

Not sure about super mutants and irradiated animals either. They are immune to radiation, but obviously hostile. They could be again collectively considered to be "instruments of Atom's wrath".

 

And I have no idea for a good name, either...

[coolphoton1234]

Not sure if I should necromance this thread, but it is a CoE-Related idea afer all.

 

I just had a random idea for a sect of the Children of Atom. Basically, this variant is mostly: fusion good, fission bad.

They see it in the sun, since it runs on nuclear fusion, but also in conception (fusion of egg and sperm), and in more abstract concepts like community or family.

The sun is to them Atom's gift to the world, for which they thank Him at sunrise services. Things like community and marriage are very important to them. They might be somewhat polygamous, but also homophobic (since there is no conception there).

 

Fission, on the other hand, is Atom's wrath. The nuclear war was His divine punishment, because He was angry with the old world. Radiation is not worshipped directly, but is supposed to only harm the sinful. Of course, pretty much everyone is sinful, so the devotees irradiate themselves to get rid of sin, similar to how real-life flagellants used to whip themselves. If this ritualistic irradiation kills you, then Atom has taken you to himself. Becoming a ghoul is automatic sainthood (since you are immune to radiation). Becoming feral is still divine punishment, though. It means that you become "a tool of Atom's wrath", which in turn means that there is a lot of sin in the community and not enough of cleansing. If a regular ghoul turns feral, it means he f*cked up REALLY bad, and Atom revoked his sainthood.

 

They would probably be mostly peaceful towards outsiders, even seem right-out nice, with everyone helping each other, a lot of children running around, etc. But they might decide that their neighbours live in sin, especially if they get attacked by ferals repeatedly, and decide to "cleanse" them with radiation. Also, they might consider it okay to rape childless people in some circumstances. For example, they fight against some raiders, capture a few of them, but afterwards notice that a lot of their men died in the process. So, in order to keep the whole holy conception thing going on, female cultists just "use" some of the male prisoners.

 

For them, "sin" could be things like: using rad-x/radaway or hazmat suits, homosexuality, contraceptives, abortion, general childlessness, staying away from the sun too much (=Night Person), being too greedy/egoistical or just introverted (you are supposed to "fuse" with your community, after all), plus regular stuff like theft or murder, of course.

 

Not sure about their interaction with the mainstream CoE. Most probably they would consider each other to be heretics.

Not sure about super mutants and irradiated animals either. They are immune to radiation, but obviously hostile. They could be again collectively considered to be "instruments of Atom's wrath".

 

And I have no idea for a good name, either...

The Atoms Light Heritics.