20:War. War never changes.
70:The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted.
125:Too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around.
190:The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones.
285:The Earth was nearly wiped clean of life.
360:A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out of control.
460:Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies.
520:Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans.
600:Humanity was almost extinguished,
630:their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the Earth.
720:A quiet darkness fell across the planet, lasting many years.
810:Few survived the devastation.
840:Some had been fortunate enough to reach safety, taking shelter in great underground vaults.
920:When the great darkness passed, these vaults opened,
980:and their inhabitants emerged to begin their lives again.
1040:One of the northern tribes claims they are descended from one such Vault.
1100:They hold that their founder and ancestor,
1140:one known as the "Vault Dweller," once saved the world from a great evil.
1210:According to their legend, this evil arose in the far south.
1280:It corrupted all it touched, twisting men inside, turning them into beasts.
1370:Only through the bravery of this Vault Dweller was the evil destroyed.
1440:But in so doing, he lost many of his friends and suffered greatly,
1500:sacrificing much of himself to save the world.
1570:When at last he returned to the home he had fought so hard to protect, he was cast out.
1650:Exiled.
1685:In confronting that which they feared,
1740:he had become something else in their eyes... and no longer their champion.
1795:Forsaken by his people, he strode into the wasteland.
1860:He traveled far to the north, until he came to the great canyons.
1930:There, he founded a small village, Arroyo, where he lived out the rest of his years.
2025:And so, for a generation since its founding, Arroyo has lived in peace,
2095:its canyons sheltering it from the outside world.
2165:It is home. Your home.
2225:But the scars left by the war have not yet healed. And the Earth has not forgotten.

