Chapter 3: Choices

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From what I know about the three Wastelander games, Undercity 7 will probably be my best bet simply because that specific undercity never truly faced any dangers in Wastelander 3. The reason for that is due to it being located quite a number of miles north of Las Vegas in a remote area of the mountains.

Which, no doubt, has helped keep it concealed and from becoming found by any wastelanders, at least to my knowledge. Besides that, the undercity is basically a very well armed sleeping dragon that is more than equipped to handle most of the top tier powers if they ever decided to expand from far below.

With that said, more and more undergrounders are venturing forth out and into the wasteland to complete the increasing amount of lucrative work the Undercity 7 government keeps issuing to the wasteland explorers of the city. Thus, their hidden status won't remain forever, regardless of the many measures they've put in place to try to keep the whereabouts of their location and existence unknown. Despite that, I shouldn't have anything to worry about until the year 2268, which is the time you venture out from Undercity 7 in Wastelander 3 at the age of 18...

My thoughts continued running off into a number of directions and after letting my mind roam uncheck for a while, I reeled it in and resumed my previous train of thought.

Getting back on track, together with its advantageous location, the undercity can provide me with a safe place to grow and strengthen myself prior to many of the events that take place in the three games. One of those events being the main powers of Las Vegas going to war with foreign powers trying to wrestle control of Hoover Dam away from them for its power production and the large reservoir of clean fresh water it holds.

Other than events like that, there are also the Zetan aliens I have to worry about that are still roaming around the planet, capturing wastelanders and numerous types of mutants throughout the wastes for their experiments and other unknown reasons upon their flying saucers. So getting as strong as I can get in the safe confines of the undercity should help with avoiding any abduction attempts and getting anally probed, or at least I hope so...

Another benefit of going with Undercity 7 would be that both of my would-be parents will have quite a bit of knowledge as well as experience in two very useful and important fields. Learning that knowledge they hold will help prepare me for the myriad of dangers that lurk out in the wasteland.

In addition to that, the two of them will be relatively well off, since they are researchers. And assuming both of them are who I think they are, my would-be father should be close to the governor of the undercity with the two of them being childhood friends and all.

Presuming that's how things are, I can potentially use that close relationship that my new father has with the governor to build myself up even further. Expanding upon that idea, the governor's daughter should be born shortly after me, so I can also try to build a close relationship with her as well. Not the most moral thing to do, but this is the wasteland, after all. Therefore, I'm going to need to take and abuse whatever advantage I can to ensure I survive and thrive.

On top of what I've already covered, the state of Nevada has the military site Area 51. That site is supposed to house an underground research facility with many advanced technologies held within, including many of alien origin. I take control of that military complex, the technology it houses will no doubt propel me technology wise leagues above every power in the wasteland with exception to the Zetans. Though it should help me out a decent bit when I eventually need to deal with them at some point or another however that relies upon if I even make it that far.

Apart from the highly advanced tech, the base will most definitely have plenty of military equipment sitting there untouched, ready for the taking, because of the site being heavily guarded by numerous automated defenses and minefields. I don't know for sure if that will be the situation here since it was never accessible, considering it was an unreleased expansion and all. But from what I gathered through in-game information and reading up on it online, that is what it's supposed to be.

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