Wasteland 3 endings

This page covers ***Wasteland 3* endings**. Of course, SPOILERS ABOUND!

## Premature endings

These endings are shown if you somehow manage to end your adventure prematurely, one way or another.

And all because Ranger Team November messed around and drowned in a frozen lake. What a bunch of ice holes.

With you and your team dead, the various factions vying for your support had to fend for themselves. As you were by then just a cloud of greasy ash drifting east on a cold wind, you never learned who came out on top. Oh well.
 Team November achieved the impossible. The details are lost to history, but one thing was certain: Colorado would never be the same again.
 With its entire military and political structure gone, it is doubtful that Colorado will survive the chaos, war, and starvation that will follow. But one thing is certain. Those who do survive will forever curse the names of those who triggered another armageddon - the Desert Rangers.

## Aspen

In time, the Breathers became a legend to the people of Colorado. Some said they were evolving into a new form of humanity. Others didn't believe that they ever existed at all.
 Under the Rangers, Aspen became a fortress at the edge of Colorado territory, guarding the mountain passes against incursion from the west.

Soldiers posted in the old resort town claimed to hear the laughter of Vic Buchanan at night - and the screams of his victims echoing across the mountains.
 The Hundred Families reclaimed the old resort town of Aspen, but they never held a meeting there again. Too much blood, they said, and too many bad memories.
 As Colorado Springs died, the city of Aspen was forgotten. The old resort town went dark forever, covered by snow and never reclaimed.

## Steeltown

Workers got the jobs that suited them best, and production processes continually improved. Abigail Markham's genius was proven at last.

Throughout Colorado, people looked to Steeltown for a new vision of the wasteland's future - every person in their place, and every machine a slave.
 The city of Steeltown thrived and grew. Markham was wary of the freed synths at first, but they were smart and efficient planners, *almost* living up to her standards.

Workers got the jobs that suited them best, and production processes continually improved. Abigail Markham's genius was proven at last... just not in the way she had expected.

Throughout Colorado, people looked to Steeltown for a new vision of the wasteland's future - machines making the plans and humans doing the work.
 When the Patriarch dies, Colorado will be remade according to Markham's vision.
 When the Patriarch dies, Colorado will be remade according to Markham's vision. Fortunately, she still owes a debt to the Rangers.
 In Steeltown, Salene Crow set out to build a new kind of factory-city, where everything was owned by the workers themselves. Unfortunately, all the workers were former refugees from the wasteland, and none of them knew anything about running a factory.

But thanks to you, Blue and his Ghosts were there to teach them. Production wasn't strong at first, but the workers learned and output improved.

Steeltown never became the automated wonder it might have been under Markham. Still, the workers met most of their deadlines, kept their families fed, and didn't have to pay any bribes to use the bathroom.
 In Steeltown, Salene Crow set out to build a new kind of factory-city, where everything was owned by the workers themselves. Unfortunately, all the workers were former refugees from the wasteland, and none of them knew anything about running a factory.

Crow was a fast learner... but not fast enough. Accidents ruined machines that no one could repair. Production deadlines came and went. Workers got discouraged, stole equipment, and left.

After a few years, Steeltown was a wreck. Crow and some friends held on, running a garage and repair shop in what was left of the factory, but the old Steeltown was gone for good.
 Steeltown fell into ruin, its workers dispersing into the wasteland. People looted the arcology for scrap, and it became a skeletal eyesore in the wasteland.

In time, no one remembered its purpose anymore, and Markham's dreams for the future died with her.
 In Steeltown, the death of the brilliant Abigail Markham left a void that the less-than-brilliant Bennie Bianchi tried to fill. Things went poorly from the start.

Since she didn't know how to manage a factory, Bennie focused on what she did know - stealing company money for herself. When problems arose, she made sure she was unavailable and assumed that someone else would fix them.
Unfortunately, all the competent people had been killed in the fighting. In less than a year, Steeltown fell into anarchy.
Bennie managed to escape with a load of company money and bought passage to Los Angeles, hoping to build herself a beachfront estate.
Instead, Bennie discovered that people in California didn't accept Colorado dollars. She burned the money to keep herself warm.

## Cheyenne Mountain

At the same time, Theo carries on his investigations and experiments with the mutating powers of the Holy Detonation - always with willing volunteers, of course.

He couldn't be happier with the situation. Elijah Ward, however, never misses an opportunity to speak ill of the Rangers and their works.
 In Cheyenne Mountain, the quiet of its post-Deluge century returned. Those few Primordialists and Nucleists who didn't kill themselves when you snuffed out the Holy Detonation fled into the wastes and have not been heard of since.

A disappointed Theo Curie turned his mind to other projects, but he could not forget what he considered your great betrayal of science and Colorado's future. Elijah Ward, however, remained pleased that you listened to his wisdom.

## Eastern Plains

But the savage plains got their name with good reason. Everyone knew that other gangs would rise, and eventually, they'd cast their eyes on Colorado again.

## Companions

Note: Companion endings only appear if they were recruited, otherwise their endings are skipped.

### Darius Kwon

 Impressed that Team November had kept their promise to the Patriarch despite everything that had happened, Kwon joined them full time, and became their chief liason with the Marshals.
 Appalled by Team November's treatment of the innocent and helpless, Kwon returned to the Marshals and never had anything to do with the Rangers again.
 After Kwon died and was laid to rest, a mysterious veiled woman visited his grave every year on the anniversary of his death, always leaving a ten of hearts on his headstone.
 Freed from the brig by Team November after the coup of the Patriarch was complete, Kwon left Colorado Springs in disgust. Eventually he became a security consultant for the Iron Thunder Arapaho, and never had anything to do with the Rangers again.

### Jodie Bell

And thanks to her help, and the delivery of the promised aid and supplies, Jodie's folks made it through the tough year that followed and prospered.
 Furious with how Team November dealt with the Patriarch, Jodie returned to Arizona, glad to see the last of Colorado's snow and ice.

And despite the shipment of supplies being far less than what was originally promised, thanks to Jodie's help, her folks made it through the tough year that followed, though they never again prospered as they had before.
 Furious with how Team November dealt with the Patriarch, Jodie returned to Arizona, glad to see the last of Colorado's snow and ice.

But though she did her best to help her folks when she got back, without the Patriarch's promised supplies, their farm failed and they were killed by starving raiders, leaving Jodie a bitter and angry woman.
 Disgusted by Team November's bloodthirsty ways, Jodie returned to Arizona as quickly as she could, glad to see the last of Colorado's snow and ice.
 Jodie Bell's death was mourned by her parents back in Arizona. Her baseball cap was given a place of honor in the Ranger Museum.

### Pizepi Joren

 Returning back home to Arizona, Pizepi helped the Rangers distribute the meager supplies from Colorado, and continued to rise in the ranks of the organization in the hard years that followed.
 Returning back home, Pizepi did her best to help the Rangers keep Arizona together, but without the Patriarch's promised supplies it all fell apart, and she went back to Darwin, where she organized its defenses.
 Pizepi did not stay in Colorado. She returned home to Darwin Village, to help her people prepare for the long dark years that followed the Rangers' abandonment of Arizona.
 When they learned of it, Pizepi's death was mourned by the people of Darwin Village, and her name honored as an ambassador and explorer and a seeker of knowledge.

### Fishlips

 Kicked out of the Rangers after the resolution of the Patriarch's mission, Fish-Lips went back into the wastes and resumed leadership of the Hard-Heads. What happened to him after that is unknown.
 In the chaos following the gangs attack on Colorado Springs, Fish-Lips was killed while trying to load corpses onto a butcher's wagon. His passing was unmourned.
 Nobody cried when Fish-Lips died. Some of his old crew, however, dug him up and ate his liver for old times sake.

### Ironclad Cordite

In time, he crossed paths again with Team November, who had also gone east, and as they had heeded his warning not to hunt in Kansas, the reunion was without bloodshed.
 After staying to witness first-hand the fall of the Patriarch, Ironclad Cordite did as he had promised to do, and took the gangs east, where he at last began his bloody campaign to rule all of Kansas.

In time, he crossed paths again with Team November, who had also gone east, and as they had heeded his warning not to hunt in Kansas, the reunion was without bloodshed.
 After staying to witness first-hand the fall of the Patriarch, Ironclad Cordite did as he had promised to do, and took the gangs east, where he at last began his bloody campaign to rule all of Kansas.

Welcoming Team November's decision to join him, he gave each of them command of a company, and only executed a few of them for betrayal.
 Disappointed that the Patriarch remained in power after he left Team November, Ironclad Cordite did as he had promised to do, and took the gangs east, where he at last began his bloody campaign to rule all of Kansas.
 Ironclad Cordite's death was mourned by no one, but, when they heard of it, a number of warlords in Kansas breathed sighs of relief.

### Victory Buchanan

 Bored by the peaceful transition of power when the Rangers deposed his father, Vic headed into the wastes, hoping to raise an army to take back what he felt was rightfully his.
 In the chaos that engulfed Colorado Springs when the Rangers returned to town, Vic headed into the wastes, hoping to raise an army to take back what he felt was rightfully his.
 All of Colorado breathed easier when Victory Buchanan died. Since then his grave has been more beshat than any other in Colorado history.

### Scotchmo

 After Scotchmo died, the Rangers honored him by 'pouring one out' on his grave. That didn't seem like enough, so they then poured out nine more.

### Morningstar

 After years of loyal service, the Kodiak died of rust and hard knocks, but its AI was salvaged and continued to serve in its replacements for decades after.

## Liberty Buchanan

Some guards have gotten a little too friendly with her, and you've been careful to reassign them. You'll have to watch Liberty carefully for as long as she lives.
 Shortly after you left Colorado, Liberty Buchanan vanished from her cell. Nobody was surprised - she'd always had admirers in Colorado Springs.

She resurfaced a few weeks later, commanding a company of her father's former marshals and loyalists. Winning a series of swift victories, she took control of some outlying towns.

With Colorado in chaos, Liberty has a damn good chance of reconquering her father's nation.

Reconquering her father's nation won't be easy, but Liberty has beaten worse odds in the past.
 The Patriarch tried to rebuild his relationship with his daughter, Liberty. He removed her from the Ranger prison and brought her to his palace, though he kept her shackled at all times.

She never a spoke a word to him. Day after day, she sat calmly across the table at every meal, or at the back of his hall when he received petitioners, regarding him in silence.

Though his bodyguards fear for his safety, the Patriarch continues to insist that he can win her over... and that he's not in any danger.
 Nobody expected Team November to team up with Liberty Buchanan... but that's exactly what you did. After rounding up some new goons, Liberty marched on Colorado Springs with the Rangers at her side.

Liberty gave you the honor of leading her assault on Colorado Springs, and the Rangers didn't disappoint. You smashed your way into the city, allowing the gangs to sack the whole place, looting and murdering at will.

In a rare display of 'mercy,' Liberty let her father live, taking him with her in a wheeled cage so he could see the ruin of everything he built. She marched her army north and south until all of Colorado groveled at her feet... and yours.

## Cheater Ending

One moment, the Patriarch was in charge. The next, he had been deposed by mysterious strangers from Arizona.

It was whispered that they were gods in human form, who didn't 'play by our rules.'

Most of the Patriarch's loyalists fled Colorado Springs, while his enemies rallied to Team November.

For the moment, your team has control of the city, and you can start sending much-needed supplies back home. But with all three of the Patriarch's kids on the loose, who knows how long that will last.

Maybe it's enough that Team November pulled off the impossible and kept their friends in Arizona alive, at least for now. As always, the story of the Rangers goes on...