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- 27 de Sep, 2023
Which Enclave? It might seem hard to notice with Emil's horrible writing and worldbuilding, but there is two in Fallout 3. There is a civil war and each side seems to have radically different ideals: Eden is a moronic, jeet programmed ZAX computer that is stupid enough to get talked into suicide by a teenager, and his "grand plan" is poisoning the water supply. Nevermind that there are much faster methods of killing mutants, you know, like releasing the FEV into the air like the Oil Rig leadership planned to do. The other side is led by Autumn, and considering how much he disagrees with Eden, we can assume he DOESN'T want to poison the water supply and wants to instead take over the purifier and use the water as a means to take over the region and win over the hearts of people. Would be nice to confirm it and actually talk to him about it, but since Enclave are just evil mooks you shoot mindlessly, we will never know. This is not me being facetious btw, after the "deep and complex" story of Oblivion(lol) Bethesda wanted to go with something much simpler and linear with Fallout 3, a story where you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were and didn't put more thought into it...kind of like Star Wars, with Enclave being the Empire and Brotherhood being the Resistance.
F2 Enclave were the clear bad guys, they were the exact same corrupt, out of touch retards that led to the nukes flying in the first place. I don't think this was ever brought into question, the devs made them two dimensional bad guys for a reason(see: the Vice President, based off a real US leader btw). Remember, there were some bad things going on before the bombs, and pretty much everything listed we can assume Enclave had direct or indirect involvement with:
>FEV, which gave birth to Super Mutants and giant animals/insects/mutations within humans(so they caused their own biggest problems they later needed to "correct"). Moreover, unless we take Van Buren lore into account, FEV was meant to be a bio weapon used against China, plain and simple, and if we account for New Plague existing, FEV was the equivalent of Umbrella Corp trying to make the Covid vaccine and creating the fucking T-Virus instead, I don't need to explain how this doesn't make Enclave heroes when even Wesker would tell West Tek and The Enclave to calm the fuck down
>Screwing over China, which led to them retaliating by invading Anchorage, which in turn led to one of the sides retaliating again with nuclear fire and ending the world, in other words the world's biggest slapfight that could have been avoided
>Hoarding what's left of the world's natural reserves of oil, which led to America becoming hated before the bombs and probably not an insignificant reason why the world didn't care that they were invaded by China and led to other parts of the world, like Europe, becoming third world shitholes
>Funding Vault-Tec and pulling their strings behind the scenes, causing unimaginable misery for absolutely no reason before and after the bombs. Note that even if the bombs would not be dropped, they would still perform all these experiments on unsuspecting Americans
If the knowledge of FEV and other bio experiments were leaked before the bombs to the general public, just imagine the chaos they created on top of all that. Unfortunately we never get any clear source on if this happened or not(outside of fan works like F2 Restoration Patch or New California, which sadly cannot be counted as canon in this instance), but we do know how the soldiers stationed at Maripose reacted to the FEV experiments: they got so disgusted by the US government that they seceded and became The Brotherhood of Steel. Now imagine the kind of riots we would see all around the world if the population knew about this, especially when you consider the government was already not popular both because they annexed Canada/indirectly led to the invasion of Anchorage and slaughter of thousands of US soldiers needlessly, but also because the country was being rocked by food riots nationwide(and New Plague aka Fallout Covid on top of that if we take Van Buren into the account).
Also, the Curling plan in F2 isn't supposed to "help Americans", it is meant to quite literally kill EVERYONE outside of the Oil Rig, something that The Enclave is supposedly actually capable of, and then repopulate the Earth with only the population from the Oil Rig. This is beyond parody, Hitler gassing gorillion jews for giggles still doesn't come close to how evil Enclave in Fallout 2 are and how many people they would kill if they actually succeeded. Remember, they would also kill countless animals and plants that were also mutated in some way, so even if their retarded plan would work, they would ruin what little remains of the ecosystem and probably starve to death. Richardson and Eden were the same kind of evil morons that led to the war breaking out in the first place, arguably the only non-moronic part of the Enclave is the splinter cell that Autumn leads after he betrays Eden, but even then we don't know for sure because Emil probably turned the page where he has written what his motivations and plans are into a paper plane and now it's lost to time. Let's also not forget they're hypocrites too, not only did they have a mutant serving for them(Frank Horrigan) but they were also led by a computer rather than a real human being(Eden), so much for being "the last hope for America" when they can't even get their own house in order and get it demolished by illiterate tribals and teenagers on regular bases.. Enclave is a good idea as a faction, but it needed better writers, ironically enough I read some really good fanfiction with Enclave as protagonists so I know there is some good ideas you could utilize to write them, but the closest we got to actually making that a reality in games would be America Rising 2 mod for Fallout 4, where the faction is written better than any vanilla group you can join. Good faction for roleplaying purposes, I will give you that, but it's hard to actually side with them on anything outside of that, especially when they just keep getting their asses kicked at every front.
