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| hellobion2 said: I have to say two things about the show. Spoiler!
- I love what happened to the New California Republic.
-I hate that Vault Tech launched the first nukes. |
I'm not convinced that they actually did. We know that they planned to, but all pre-existing lore suggests that the Great War was started by China, with the US detecting 3 unidentified submersible objects off the coast of California at midnight on October 23, 2077, and then a squadron of Chinese planes crossing the Bering Strait into Alaska at 3 am. Then at 9:13 am the US detected 4 Nuclear launches with their automated system, confirmed to be from China by NORAD at 9:17 am, those bombs then landing in the US a half an hour later at 9:42 am on the east coast, and shortly afterward on the west coast, with the entire US bombarded with nukes over the next 2 hours. So unless Vault-Tec somehow got ahold of a Chinese plane squadron and 3 Chinese subs, it seems unlikely they actually started the Great War.
Not to mention that Barb Howard's whole plan was making sure that her family got into a good vault, and we saw that on the day of the attack, she had allowed Janey and Cooper to go a birthday party, as a high ranking Vault-tec exec she surely would have known that the nukes were dropping that day if Vault-Tec was behind the attack, and never would have allowed Janey and Cooper to attend a birthday party when the bombs were supposed to land. No, I think the war started on it's own, without direct action by Vault-tec.
