MacArthur

**MacArthur** are an Enclave remnant nation in The Great North region.

## Historical background

Supported by the Chicago Enclave, MacArthur has set itself up in attempting to re-establish itself as a power in the region.

## Politics

### National spirits

MacArthur starts with two national spirits:

**Go East, Young Man**

* Research Speed: **-12.00%**
* Land Doctrine Research Speed: **-5%**
Although Colonel Santiago has helped develop Western Montana and brought law and order, MacArthur's research base cannot rival the bright lights of Chicago. As one of her few scientists lamented, it felt like the visionaries at MacArthur spent their time relearning basic techniques like crop rotation instead of harnessing the power of the atom or FEV as they did out east.

**Support from the Secretary of the Interior**

* **MacArthur** is but a fraction of the **Chicago Enclave's** power, but serves a vital role as the western outpost of the United States. The Colonel can always get more support, assuming they act in the best interests of the **Secretary of the Interior.**
* Research Speed: **3.00%**
* Support from Chicago: **+5.0%**
* Extra (unrecognized string "Scrap Metal" for Template:Icon) **-1**

### Leaders

Main article: Political parties and leaders

## National focus

Main article: MacArthur National Focus Tree
Main article: MacArthur national focus tree/scriptoutput

## Technology

The  **MacArthur** Detachment also starts with Advanced Power Armor and Vertibird Schematics, allowing easy access to those special technologies.

## Behind the scenes

* MacArthur was created by Faeelin, and is based on the mentioned-only location from the cancelled *Fallout* game, *Van Buren*.
* Although not intended, MacArthur had an incomplete version of its focus tree released with Old World Blues patch 4.0, resulting in various fixes being made. Faeelin hoped to wrap up MacArthur development by August of 2022, with the completion ideally being in the form of an independent focus tree release.
	+ As of July 29, 2022, Faeelin had since left the *Old World Blues* team, with the updated MacArthur tree, as well as a Storm Mongers focus tree, to be released as an independent submod. The submod will potentially be integrated to the main mod. The submod was instead integrated into *Old World Blues*, resulting in the tree's completion as of Old World Blues patch 4.2.
* At one point, Faeelin wanted the Rotpurgers to work with the MacArthur Enclave, but was outvoted.
	+ Faeelin also wished for the MacArthur Enclave's ability to reform the United States of America, but was also outvoted on the matter.
	+ However, as of Old World Blues patch 4.2, they can form the Reunited States of America

## References

1. ↑ Faeelin: *"MacArthur wasn’t supposed to be in this release so some stuff to work out"*
- Obtained from Discord, 5/31/2022
2. ↑ Faeelin: *"Since Colonel didn't work on macarthur and I did, I'm hoping to wrap it up by the end of august. Ideally would be an independent release kind of like some of our other trees"*
- Obtained from Discord, 6/5/2022
3. ↑ Faeelin: *"I’ll probably release as a submod among with the storm mongers."*
- Obtained from Discord, 7/29/2022
4. ↑ **I thought Fae was finishing MacArthur before leaving, but in #owb-chat people said that it was going to be put in a submod. Which of these if either is true?**
Shudderfly: *"It will be a submod, and potentially integrated afterwards."*
- Obtained from Discord, 7/31/2022
5. ↑ Faeelin: *"I wanted them to work with MacArthur but got outvoted"*
- Obtained from Discord, 12/27/2021
6. ↑ **Very based. Was there any parts of the design where y'all actually said "no this is too much"?**
Faeelin: *"Yes, when I wanted to let macarthur form america"*
- Obtained from Discord, 2/8/2022
7. ↑ Faeelin: *"you can say outvoted for america
instead of "not able to impelment it""*
- Obtained from Discord, 6/10/2022