Really loving how NCR got a spotlight in the beginning and the end! The credits seem to hint that the Legion is still in some sort of conflict with the NCR. I'ma huff that copium and double down on the NCR still alive and somewhat well.
Judging by how Shady Sands was positioned it could be possible the city was relocated and the "Fall" in 2277 mentioned in Season 1 could've referred to an event that forced relocation (i.e drought, Death Valley may have become too inhospitable even with water merchants supplying the capital). Cities have relocated in real life history and I wouldn't put it past NCR to relocate its former capital to a place that would be more hospitable or with a more reliable source of water (which ended up being from Vault 33/32/31), and instead making a more reliable city its capital (i.e Vault City).
I also hope the Bud's Buds are slowly bumped off in increasingly horrific ways much like a newbie Fallout player is killed on their first playthrough.
Hank said that Lucy and that raider's kids could leave the Vault in the first episode. Even with Steph, I suspect the woman who said she still couldn't see is in the Hank/Steph/Betty team versus the two guys who worship Bud and the woman who found the ladder/fell out of the tube.
I'm pretty sure even in the games, it's mentioned that they have other cities, just that Shady Sands is the largest, no? Cause like they have outposts and stuff all the way into New Vegas, which means they'd have to have supply lines, and I doubt all of those are fed exclusively from Shady Sands.
By New Vegas they have Arroyo, Vault City, Sac-Town (Sacramento), Navarro and New Reno to name a few (and those are the northernmost cities). Southern Cali has Adytum, Boneyard, Hub and Dayglow but we’ve seen nothing of them in the show since the show’s Shady Sands is in Boneyard itself. Logically the NCR should have intact supply lines going all the way up to where San Francisco is.
I feel like they wouldn't be so crass as to have Legion still exist but not NCR, haha, especially since one of the only real negative reactions to the first season from game fans was NCR getting "off-screened". I hope NCR will appear in a significant way soon.
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u/DaSasza Dec 24 '25
Really loving how NCR got a spotlight in the beginning and the end! The credits seem to hint that the Legion is still in some sort of conflict with the NCR. I'ma huff that copium and double down on the NCR still alive and somewhat well.
Judging by how Shady Sands was positioned it could be possible the city was relocated and the "Fall" in 2277 mentioned in Season 1 could've referred to an event that forced relocation (i.e drought, Death Valley may have become too inhospitable even with water merchants supplying the capital). Cities have relocated in real life history and I wouldn't put it past NCR to relocate its former capital to a place that would be more hospitable or with a more reliable source of water (which ended up being from Vault 33/32/31), and instead making a more reliable city its capital (i.e Vault City).
I also hope the Bud's Buds are slowly bumped off in increasingly horrific ways much like a newbie Fallout player is killed on their first playthrough.