Harpers Ferry

Category:Locations
== Pre-war ==
A hot bed of  Separatist activity, Harper's Ferry was the main demonstration site for the Free states movement. This put them at odds with the town as its revenue came from tourists and nobody wanted to vacation with anti American, borderline terrorists. So after much squabbling the mayor Miranda Vox, shunned the Free States and told Raleigh Clay to "get the hell out of her town."
== Post-War ==
After the bombs fell, Miranda struggled in maintaining Harper's Ferry as many of her townspeople died from the radiation, injuries, the deadly mutated wildlife and other people seeking to take what little supplies the town had.
One day, an ambassador from Vault 94 came to Harper's Ferry and offering food. Miranda took the ambassador's humanitarian offer and sent a group to the vault, including Billy, Cole, Lucas and Red. However, she soon regretted not going to Vault 94 herself when the group heartlessly massacred the vault's residents and causing a nuclear explosion that transformed the surrounding region into The Mire, giving birth to a new and dangerous threat that would later reveal itself.
After the Free State members emerged from their bunkers in 2079, mayor Miranda, contacted the leader of the movement for assistance. Despite previous conflicts, the movement agreed to provide aid. The rebuilding effort began, turning the town into a major fortress and trading post near the heart of the Mire. By 2084, the town was a prosperous outpost, providing support and food to those in need.
== Scorched Crises and First fall of Harper's ==
After the release of the scorchbeasts by the Enclave, Harper's Ferry quickly deteriorated. The creatures wreaked havoc on the region and infected many townsfolk with the Scorched Plague. By 2096, the town of Harper's Ferry had been severely effected by the disease, with some Free States members retreating back to their bunkers. After scorchbeasts breached the automated anti-air perimeter and began to spread into adjacent regions, Harper's Ferry was rapidly destroyed, forcing the remaining members back into their bunkers as well. The leader of the movement, Raleigh Clay, issued a general order to abandon all recovery efforts of the town.
== Reconstruction, rise and second fall ==
When Vault 76 opened and its inhabitants spilled into the world, several came to Harper's to explore, find a loved one or rebuild, among them Eddie Bandeira. Reconstruction was smooth for a time, the town once again gaining prominence but the Second rise of the queen and the subsequent nuclear detonation on fissure site prime and other key locations, resulted in a new level of high radiation once more. People hid where they could, many in burrows which with growing tensions, exploded into a civil war. With their now leader Eddie indisposed of and assumed dead, a blood bath ensued and the town fell to ruin once more, standing as a grave yard to so many lost souls.