Warning: Spoilers for Fallout season 1
Summary
- Shady Sands, the original home of the Brotherhood of Steel's Maximus, met its end due to a nuclear bomb in 2277.
- Shady Sands evolved into the New California Republic and was its capital, boasting over 700,000 residents prior to its destruction.
- Hank MacLean destroyed Shady Sands in response to his wife leaving Vault 33, a key event that led Maximus to the Brotherhood of Steel.
A new mystery was created when Prime Video's Fallout timeline.
Shady Sands made its debut in the original Fallout video game, released in 1997. A major location in the game, Shady Sands was a town where the player took on a number of important quests, associated with various NPCs, and advanced the main story. It's since been acknowledged by other games in the franchise as well, such Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4. As for its ultimate fate in Fallout's apocalypse, it's now known that while the community from the first game did survive for some time, it was destroyed before the start of the show.
Shady Sands Was New California Republic's Capital In Fallout
Shady Sands has been around since before the timeframe of the first Fallout game
Shady Sands was the central building block in the creation of New California Republic, a large and powerful network of settlements in Fallout's world. Shady Sands was founded in 2122, between the events of Fallout 76 and the 1997 game. In 2189, people within the society formally established the New California Republic and its governing principals in Shady Sands. In other words, Shady Sands was the New California Republic, but over time, it evolved into a network of communities, with Shady Sands being one among them, albeit the most important.
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As time ed, Shady Sands formed official ties with nearby settlements like Los Angeles and Hub. The more communities it ed forces with, the stronger it became. As the settlement that started it all, Shady Sands was designated the capital of the New California Republic in 2198. Across all its connected settlements, the NCR eventually boasted a booming population of over 700,000, with at least 3,000 of those located in Shady Sands by the 2240s. But though Shady Sands had come far since its introduction, its numbers naturally couldn't save it from a nuclear bomb, which wiped out Shady Sands in 2277, 200 years after the apocalypse happened.
Hank Had Shady Sands Destroyed After Rose Took Lucy & Norm To Live There
Lucy's father eliminated Shady Sands from the board
In a shocking twist, it was discovered that Vault 33 Overseer Hank MacLean was the real cause of all the deaths at Shady Sands in new Fallout character Moldaver, Hank "burned that city to the ground" in response to his wife's decision to flee Vault 33 with her children, Lucy and Norm. After leaving the vault in pursuit of her, Hank took both of the kids out of Shady Sands and launched a nuclear bomb at the city. As Muldaver said, "that's how Vault-Tec deals with competition."
Muldaver's comments go to show that Hank was motivated by more than just a need for retaliation against the people who took his wife from him. Hank told Lucy that in order to stop the constant fighting, they have to eliminate the factions in Fallout and only then can they "make the world us." Hank even itted that they - Vault-Tec, essentially - believed that the world was only theirs "to shape." Because of the power the city had developed with the New California Republic, Shady Sands had become a threat to Vault-Tec's plans to restart civilization in their image.
The Destruction Of Shady Sands Caused Maximus To The Brotherhood Of Steel
Hank MacLean's past formed a bridge between Lucy and Maximus' backstories
What happened to Shady Sands wasn't just vital to the backstory of the MacLeans, as it was also what brought Maximus into the Brotherhood of Steel's ranks. He said as much as himself when he claimed that he ed the Brotherhood to "hurt the people who hurt him" in the first episode. He was referring to the destruction of Shady Sands, the catastrophic event that made him an orphan. His flashbacks confirmed he was found as a child by one of the Brotherhood of Steel's knights, decked out in Fallout's Power Armor. Inspired by the Brotherhood's rescue of him, Maximus was further motivated into pledging his life to their cause.
In a sense, Maximus' earlier speculation about why Shady Sands was destroyed was surprisingly accurate, though he obviously had no knowledge of Vault 33's involvement. Maximus described its fate as "what always happens," attributing it to the perpetual violence of the apocalypse and humanity's inability to agree on how to save the world. Hank's words proved Maximus wasn't necessarily wrong; the Overseer was convinced that Vault-Tec needed Shady Sands gone so that they could fulfill their twisted vision for the rebirth of civilization in Fallout's future.
Fallout
- Release Date
- April 10, 2024
- Showrunner
- Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
- Writers
- Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
Cast
Lucy MacLean
Aaron MotenMaximus
WHERE TO WATCH
- Franchise(s)
- Fallout
- Seasons
- 1
- Streaming Service(s)
- Prime Video
- Creator(s)
- Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham Wagner
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