After defeating the Master, the Vault-Dweller convinced a group of inhabitants from his home, Vault 13, to head out into the wasteland and create a new life on the surface. The village of Arroyo was founded in 2167, and soon became a thriving tribal community. Arroyo continued to grow until 2241, when a terrible drought brought the village to the brink of extinction. The Village Elder (the Vault-Dweller's daughter) asked The Chosen One (the player, and the Village Elder's son) to seek out a Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK). These powerful devices are capable of regenerating vast swaths of desolate land and make them fertile again, and play a big part in many major events of the Fallout canon. While the Chosen One was out searching for the GECK, Arroyo was attacked by an Enclave force armed with powerful Vertibird aircraft, and its inhabitants were taken away to the Poseidon oil rig, to be experimented on with FEV. The Enclave had created an airborne strain of the virus designed to kill any 'impure' people, leaving alive only those with no radiation in their bodies. The Arroyo tribals were to be used as the 'impure' sample in the experiments, while the inhabitants of Vault 13 were to be the 'pure' sample. The Chosen One eventually destroyed the Enclave oil rig, killing its president and saving the hostages. This move all but wiped out the Enclave's presence on the west coast of America. During the Chosen One's mission, the Brotherhood of Steel came into its first conflicts with the Enclave too. Concerned by the Enclave's advanced technology and growing power, the Brotherhood sent the Chosen One to steal the Vertibird schematics for them. While the Chosen One succeeded in this mission, it's not known if the schematics ever made it back to the Brotherhood.
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