The Anchorage Front Line is established to enforce American military presence in Alaska and protect its oil reserves. Canada is pressured into allowing permanent military bases to guard the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline
The Anchorage Front Line is established to enforce American military presence in Alaska and protect its oil reserves. Canada is pressured into allowing permanent military bases to guard the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline
Canada is pressured by the United States to permit military access for American military units. Its initial reluctance raises tensions, while subsequent agreement sets the stage for the Canadian annexation.
China invades Alaska to seize its oil reserves. The United States declares war in response.
US exploits Canadian resources extensively, destroying vast stretches of timberland and stretching other resources to the breaking point. Canada is treated as Little America and Canadian protests are ignored.
US exploitation of Canada causes riots in several Canadian cities. Attempted sabotage of the pipeline provides the justification for annexing Canada. Canadian protesters are shot without trial, military occupation secures the pipeline, and atrocities commited by the American military fuel domestic unrest.
China and the United States deploy their nuclear arsenals against each other, followed by a number of other countries. The world is engulfed in nuclear flames. Few survive.
The leaders of the rangers and a few others rendezvous at Lighthouse Park. They start attempting small scale search and rescue operations in the Vancouver ruins.
Survivors of the nuclear strikes near Vancouver take shelter on the university campuses around town. While not great at keeping the radiation out, they're better than nothing. Many of these people become ghouls.
The harsh winter forces survivors on both campuses to start building up more infrastructure to survive. City walls are put up and buildings receive makeshift renovations to keep the cold and radiation out.
Prisoners take control of the camp as the military abandons it. They begin making it more homey.
After months of rescue operations, it fully sets in that nobody is coming to help. The Rangers decide to officially establish themselves as an independent group and start digging in around the lighthouse.
After a 25 year period vaults are meant to receive an all clear signal. Some vaults open earlier, or do not receive this signal due to ongoing experiments.
Survivors in the city of Victoria, BC establish a settlement around the provincial capital building.
After a 30 year timer, Canucksafe bunkers are given the all-clear. Most had opened beforehand due to infrastructure issues.
Survivors from the Kelowna area notice an increase of caravans moving through the area, with the lake bridge being a chokepoint. Many decide to capitalize by setting up shops on the bridge.
The people of New Victoria appoint a king to lead them, hoping autocratic rule will keep them safe from the dangers of the wasteland.
After decades of hardship and supply shortages, the town of Banff reorganizes itself into a federal government and sets its sights on expansion. This is slow going as other survivor groups are hesitant to trust them, and traversing the wasteland is a dangerous task.
The leader of the Unity, a supermutant army, is killed by a vault Dweller in California, saving the world from its master plan.
Supermutants take up residence in a castle near New Victoria, vowing to defend the peasantry.
Queen Victoria IV takes the throne, promising that "true humanity will once again have its place in the sun!"
A survivor in California destroys an oil rig being used as by the Enclave, a remnant of the US government, as its headquarters, killing the president.
What happens from here depends on you. Don't keep the rubble waiting, wastelander.