#tycho (fallout 1)

[noodle8]

look at my companions dawg I'm going to die!!!

[dystopia-incognito]

I've been replaying Fallout 1 lately. Here's an (unfinished) sketch of my team; Katja, Dogmeat, Ian and Tycho, led by the 'Vault Dweller' Natalia Dubrovhsky.

[yamamotomotoya]

I finished Fallout 1 last week. I was impressed that the game Fallout was already complete in the first game. And this is an illustration to commemorate Clear.

[thedumbasscourier]

a quick rest

[azures-grace]

This game has me in a chokehold help

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

maybe i'm weird but for some reason the idea of the vault dweller and ian hooking up at some point during their travels feels like a given to me

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout: Tycho

“We Rangers hail from back east, what used to be called Nevada. Our heritage stretches back to the days of the Texas Rangers. We learn survival and combat skills in order to go out into the world and have a chance of surviving and making things better.”

- Tycho, Fallout

Tycho reappears in the New California expansion of Fallout: The Board Game, donning Desert Ranger Armor. You can read about Tycho here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Tycho

[enlichened]

fallout fans i beseech thee... whats a plausable m/m couple in the first game. my only stipulation is that it CANNOT include the master

[cosmicfruits]

Desert ranger vs. Vault dweller with cigarette infomercials burnt into his head

[lunasuccor]

Starting PART 4 today, at 4pm est!!! Having gathered our party consisting of Ian, Tycho, Dogmeat, and of course our Vault Dweller Luna, we successfully retrieved a new Water Purification Chip and saved our vault!!! However, as we have learned about a Super Mutant Army in the making, we are tasked with stopping them for the good of not only our home - but all of humanity!

Today we'll be finding our final companion, awaiting us in the Boneyard(I definitely did not look this up) and with our party complete - find more leads about the Super Mutants and their mysterious 'Master'!

NO I'M NOT GONNA GET DIPPED, STOP ASKING.

Starting Fallout part 2 today at 4pm! Come check it out and follow for more HERE! <3

[falloutnewnobody]

i love fallout 1 but if tycho, ian, or dogmeat dies one more time i might have to resurrect interplay entertainment and fistfight them

[newwillinium]

The Desert Rangers of Fallout New Vegas

Okay so I think the NCR Desert Rangers kind of suck, especially in comparison to their direct inspirations from Wasteland. Let me explain.

Okay so ultimately this boils down to the fact that the Desert Rangers. . . do not and never existed in the Mojave or the game world.

So backstory time. So the whole reason that the New California Republic is in the Mojave in the first place is because of their relationship with the Desert Rangers and the potential of using Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam to solve their resource issue back home.

It was their treaty with the Desert Rangers that gave them the mission and duty to secure the region from the hostility of Caesar's Legion after the Desert Rangers were pushed out of Arizona all the way into Nevada and the California wastes.

The survivors agreeing to merge themselves into the New California Republic's Ranger Corps a few years before game start.

And when we come to New Vegas and exploring it's gamestate what do we find?

Not a single bit of evidence that the Desert Rangers ever existed outside of the Monument at the Mojave Outpost. No letters, no computer logs, no Rangers who walked away rather then join a Imperialist power, no Ex-Rangers, No Centurians wearing bits of Ranger armor (The Centurians of Caesar's Legion form their uniforms out of the enemies they defeat up to and including a BOS Chapter and they have the hipplates of the NCR Ranger armor incorporated), their Chief is a NCR Ranger from Redding, every generic Ranger only has dialogue referring to the NCR Rangers as a whole and the NCR.

The Desert Rangers do not exist and did not exist in the game world as designed. There is no evidence of them anywhere in the game, and only exist to be poster-boys for the NCR and to be talked about how badass and cool they are.

And I would like to contrast with their direct inspirations.

The Desert Rangers from Wasteland 1, 2, and 3.

The Desert Rangers of Arizona are descended from the Army Corp of Engineers and they basically exist to be problem solvers. They are Diplomats, Monster-Hunters, Vigilantes, Engineers, Detectives, and feel whatever role they are required to do in order to help nurture communication, traded, and the growth of civilization in Arizona, New Mexico, California, and eventually Colorado.

And the Desert Rangers fuck up. A lot.

Perhaps the most infamous point of this is when they kill a rabid dog, and then kill the dog's furious owner when he charged them with a pellet gun. Unknown to them, the Kid survived, and as he grew so did his hate and he formed a rival group to the Desert Rangers known as the the Red Scorpion Militia.

The Desert Rangers do not rule >!this is a major issue in Wasteland 3!<, they do not conquer. They protect those independent townships that agree to be under their banner, and survive off of their own foraging, donated supplies, and the weapons and armor they themselves manufacture.

They're basically. . .think Fallout 4's Minutemen under a more centralized structure.

And the thing is that it's clear that the Wasteland Desert Rangers are implied to be the same as those in New Vegas. The Lore doesn't line up between the two now franchises, given the hundreds or so years between their nuclear apocalypses and modern day, but this is a inspiration for the series dating back to Fallout 1 with the companion Tycho whose grand-daddy was a Desert Ranger.

And with how important the Desert Rangers are to the impetus of the major main story conflict in Fallout New Vegas, how much they are the poster-boys for the game and NCR faction as a whole, and whom they are directly inspired by.

The Desert Rangers suck in New Vegas.

Because they do not and never did exist.

[sealz888]

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[unholycourier]

ok ok so . in my canon lore for elvis his companions don’t die one by one through the events of fallout 1.

tycho and katja die later on through different circumstances, wether old age or something else in the wasteland.

ian and dogmeat are a different situation though. ian died during the events of the game right in front of elvis, similar to how he died in canon ( being fucking flamed to death in necropolis ) but under different circumstances i’ve yet to decide.

dogmeat lived the longest, but he did die to a the few wandering super mutant patrols after the events of the game as well. being a senior dog at this point, dogmeat was not meant to be involved in the fight, but in the end dogmeat probably tried to save elvis from an attack, attacked the super mutant himself, and that sealed his fate.

elvis misses that dog, and he wears his collar around his wrist like a bracelet. he misses all of his friends a lot. he’s kinda lonely in the present, doesn’t really make friends bc he’ll just watch them die over and over again.

[thedumbasscourier]

Denver can be trusted with the map and not get anyone lost, he promises even

[letters-from-the-new-west]

The NCR's Patrol Armor is manufactured in the NCR, as opposed to the Desert Rangers' appropriation of pre-war riot gear. Before the Treaty it would've been the primary ranger gear for NCR Rangers. It's not fully clear if riot gear-clad rangers were even born in California or its territories - while they're all Veterans, they may simply be Desert Ranger Veterans rather than having handed the armor over for promoted California rangers. Additionally, the Ranger Sequoia was a California tradition, as shown by its design (the Bear and Star, the phrasing, etc). I can see it being a point of contention for the particularly patriotic that NCR wear NCR-manufactured armor, and that the Desert Rangers not be issued the Sequoia. Also, I would expect there to be some culture clash between California and Desert rangers in the years immediately after Unification. Older Veterans may hold onto these differences to some degree, though it clearly doesn't come in the way of ranger effectiveness - New Vegas does not hesitate to lay out all NCR's problems. I think it is a missed opportunity not to show the differences between the two groups in the games directly. This is probably in part owed to the fact that we only speak to a few rangers over the series, Chiefs Hanlon and Elise being the only you hold conversations with as far as NCR Rangers, and Tycho back in Fallout 1 for the Desert Rangers.

Note: It's up to interpretation whether industry was ready to manufacture armor within the NCR as of Fallout 2, so I hesitate to say the Combat Armor that the rangers in 2 wear is something that's been retconned.