Main Timeline of Events

An outline of the MANY events that occur in the IASITM AU branching off from the events of Fallout: New Vegas.

## The Beginning

**October 23, 2077:** The Great War

**May 22nd, 2140:** The 12 ghoul survivors of Vault 70 emerge just outside of the ruins of SLC, including amongst them Byrum Pratt and Bert Gunnarsson

**May 22nd, 2150:** After a decade of prayerful discernment in isolation in the main temple in SLC, the 12 depart the ruins of the city and seek out civilization, running into scavengers heading north, whom they accompany to Ogden, finding a small but stable rag-tag group of Mormon survivors living there

**Late 2150:** The Mormon Church is officially reformed with the 12's guidance, especially driven by Byrum, and Ogden is renamed New Canaan. The 12 then part ways to find other Mormon settlements to re-integrate into the new church

**2226:** Edward "Caesar" Sallow born in the Boneyard

**2229:** Joshua Graham born in New Canaan

**January 27th, 2242:** Eliza McAllister born in New Reno

**June** **1st, 2242:** Silas "Crime Dad" Bishop, son of the Chosen One and Leslie Anne Bishop, born in New Reno

**June 9, 2245:** Lafayette and Washington Jones born in Tucson

**2246:** Arcade Israel Gannon born

**2247:** Caesar's Legion founded

**Summer 2247:** Vincentius of Phoenix is born in Phoenix

**2248:** Daniel Smith is born in New Canaan

**November 7th, 2252:** Twins Magdalena and Agustin Del Bosque born in Sacramento to parents José and Kamila; their mother dies in childbirth

**Early 2253:** José Del Bosque takes his children and moves to a small settlement at Topaz Lake, just outside of NCR territory, where he starts raising brahmin

**August 15th, 2254:** Tartuffe Allen Smith born to his rodeo clown parents in the NCR

**Mid-2255:** Against their parents' wishes (or at least against her parents'), Eliza McAllister and Silas Bishop begin a relationship based on years of mutual crushes growing up together

**June 20, 2255:** Mariela Dolores Chavez Espinoza born in San Felipe

**July 7, 2256:** Javier Luis Chavez Espinoza born in San Felipe

**2257:** Ricardo "Ricky" Guerrero is born in Shady Sands, NCR

**Mid- to late 2257:** Eliza McAllister, realizing she's pregnant, runs away from New Reno, eventually settling in Nipton

**December 2257:** Silas Bishop leaves New Reno to search for Eliza

**April 1, 2258:** Julia Catherine McAllister born in Nipton

**October 19, 2258:** Nora Miranda St. James born in San Francisco

**August 2260:** Silas returns emptyhanded to New Reno and officially takes the reins of the Bishop crime family from his half-sister, Angela

**December 17, 2260:** Jessica Tymberleigh Lexington born in Marysvale

**January 17, 2261:** Arthur "Vulpes Inculta" Dartanyunn Young born in Marysvale

**February 22nd, 2261:** Delilah Eleanor Wells is born in Redding, NCR

**2262:** The NCR annexes Topaz Lake, imposing unwanted Law and Order, severe taxes and essentially reducing the locals to wage slavery. This also introduces chems to the community, many of whom fall victim to addiction

**July 26th, 2263:** Carlos Rendón is born in the NCR on the outskirts of the Boneyard

**May 2263:** Silas Bishop marries Claudia Van Graff to join two of the New Reno crime families in a bid for power and legally adopts her son from her previous relationship, Oliver; neither Van Graff changes their last name

**August 2263:** The Legion takes over Tucson, arresting and torturing the educated population. Lafayette and Washington Jones leave, heading west for the NCR

**February 14, 2264:** Evangeline Maeve Bishop born to Silas Bishop and Claudia Van Graff

**March 2264:** Washington Jones helps save the life of a Brotherhood of Steel paladin, who offers to take him in as a trainee. After some deliberation, Washington accepts and he and Lafayette part on amicable terms

**June 2267:** Lafayette Jones heads back east to Arizona and joins the Desert Rangers

**July 2268:** The Del Bosque family farm is bought out by brahmin barons. The twins Magdalena and Agustin decide they’ve had Enough and leave town in the dead of night, believing, not entirely incorrectly, that the road is better than the state of their hometown. To lower the chances of being tracked they rename themselves Ilena and Gustavo Bautista

### **Destruction of Marysvale**

**April 16, 2271:**

* Marysvale, UT destroyed by Caesar's Legion, led by the Malpais Legate
* Arthur Young and Jessica Lexington enslaved

**September 2271:** The Desert Rangers and the NCR Rangers sign the Ranger Unification Treaty. Lafayette stays with the Rangers and starts patrolling near the Colorado River

**2272:** Lexington escapes slavery and is taken in by the resistance

**Early 2272:** Ilena Bautista marries a rich, elderly ranch owner in Southern California

**Later in 2272:** Ilena’s husband dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving her an impressive sum of money in his recently revised will. Ilena and her brother take to the road again, this time as Isabella and Gaston Bennett

**November 28th, 2272:** Tallulah "Lulu" (Smith) born

**2274:** Isabella and Gaston settle briefly in Shady Sands, where Gaston quickly sets up his own business (a front for money laundering) and Isabella begins an affair with a prominent NCR senator, extorting her for ridiculous amounts of money to buy Isabella’s silence

**April 12th, 2274:** Farrah (Smith) born

**Early 2275:** Lafayette Jones marries Elias Holloway

**Late 2275:** Gaston is caught and arrested in a sting by NCR police. Isabella uses her influence with the senator to get him cleared of his charges– then immediately informs the senator’s husband of his wife’s infidelity, just before the twins skip town

**Mid-2276:** Isabella and Gaston arrive in New Reno, scope out the situation with the mafia families and, seeing the truth of who’s really up and coming, immediately pay a visit to Silas Bishop, introducing themselves as Iris and Gideon Benjamin and convincing him to hire them as soldiers based on an impressive (and almost entirely fabricated) resume of espionage, interrogation and shady business acumen

**January 9, 2277:** Death of Eliza McAllister

**February 2277:** In her grief, Jules turns to chems to cope and ends up addicted to jet AND working the streets, just to make enough money to feed herself and her addiction

**Early 2277:**

* Arthur Young (now "Caius Nero") makes the rank of Decanus

* Lexington starts poisoning whole goddamn towns to fight the Legion

**Mid to late 2277**

* First Battle Of Hoover Dam
* Joshua is #lit and thrown off the north rim of the Grand Canyon, only survives thanks to a kindly Hualapai native, decides then to crawl back to New Canaan to die
* Lafayette Jones loses her husband to the Legion at the battle for Hoover Dam
* Patriotically inspired by the battle, Ricky Guerrero leaves his position as a professor of literature at the college in Shady Sands and enlists into the NCR military

**Early 2278:**

* Caius Nero (Arthur Young) becomes the next Vulpes Inculta
* Joshua makes it back to New Canaan where to his surprise, A) he isn't dead yet and B) Byrum Pratt (one of the 12 survivors of Vault 70, now one of five remaining survivors) welcomes him back with open arms
* Silas realizes that parts of the Benjamins’ story don’t line up and confronts them. Instead of ordering their execution, however, he’s impressed at how well they managed to deceive both him and his wife, Claudia, and offers them permanent positions as honorary Bishops, effectively acting as his left hand and doing the dirty work even he won’t acknowledge. They accept

**2279:**

* Jules escapes Nipton with the help of some Followers of the Apocalypse, including Arcade Gannon, gets clean and starts working for the Mojave Express
* Chavez meets her and they start what would turn out to be a tumultuous relationship, as Jules disappears before the end of the year
* Lex attempts suicide in Marysvale, fails, finds Jesus, gets clean, and travels to New Canaan
* Lex helps found the Latter Day Nephites, the northern Mormon branch of the Resistance, to whom she teaches her brutal scorched earth tactics with great success

**2280:**

* New Canaan is sacked by the White Legs and its population is scattered across Utah
* Word of the atrocity increases Latter Day Nephite membership significantly
* With the loss of New Canaan, the Mormon Church loses its headquarters and its authority becomes scattered as New Canaan refugees disperse and Mormon communities no longer have a central figure to respond to

### Beginning of Fallout: New Vegas

**October 14, 2281:**

* Jules is kidnapped, robbed, shot and left for dead in Goodsprings
* Allen Amos Wiser Smith (bastard son of Tartuffe) is born to his single mother, Mary

**October 19, 2281:** Jules wakes up in Goodsprings and immediately sets out for revenge

**November 2281:**

* Lexington is dispatched into the Mojave and replaces Javier Chavez as the main resistance agent operating in the area
* Jules destroys the Hidden Valley bunker and eradicates almost the entire Brotherhood of Steel Mojave chapter
* Veronica Santangelo survives the destruction of the bunker, and begins searching the Mojave for any other survivors
* Carlos Rendón joins the Resistance in the Mojave/Arizona border, mostly doing infiltration and reconnaissance

**Early 2282:**

* Daniel returns from Zion Canyon to Dead Horse point and marries
* Daniel's first two children (twins, Daylynn and Nitelynn) born
* Sallow of Flagstaff, the secret bastard child to one of Caesar's former pleasure slaves, is born in Flagstaff. Her slave mother was purchased by a centurion there, and they serve the centurion's family
* Vulpes Inculta, in disguise on the strip as Mr. Fox, encounters a drunk Ricky Guerrero who flirts with him with bad literature themed pickup lines, which piques Vulpes's interest because of how few people are so educated. They end up in a conversation long enough for Ricky to sober up, eventually ending the night together in bed. Ricky wakes up alone the next morning

**Late Feb. 2282:**

* Things Go Extremely Bad Very Fast as President Kimball is assassinated by Julia McAllister and the frumentarii, followed not long after by NCR land getting nuked to shit, also in part thanks to Jules
* Lexington turns her focus on investigating how the HELL the Legion had fucking NUKES and if they have more and who launched them, etc.
* Veronica Santangelo and a small group of BoS survivors she found see the destruction wrought by the nukes and decide to head northeast to seek out an intact portion of the brotherhood, heading for the Chicago chapter, which, while isolated and renegade, at least has been known to operate in places as close as Colorado and can offer them refuge

**Beginning of March 2282:**

* The Second Battle of Hoover Dam
* The Legion takes New Vegas
* With the Mojave under Legion control, large amounts of NCR and Mojave refugees begin to travel south into Mexico and north into Utah, seeking safety

**The Ides Of March, 2282:** After enduring public humiliation at the hands of Vulpes Inculta, Jules is crucified for mouthing off to Caesar

## It's Always Sunny In The Mojave

**The day after the Ides Of March, 2282:** (*Beginning of IASITM*)Jessica Lexington rescues Jules off of the cross, promising her passage to safety as they begin to travel out of the Mojave

**Mid-March 2282:** Vulpes Inculta, recognized as Arthur Young, is successfully kidnapped by his cousin Jessica Lexington, with the reluctant help of Julia McAllister

**Mid-April 2282:**

* Lex, after helping Jules realize just how big she fucked up by helping the Legion, successfully transits Jules and her cousin to the Resistance gathering outside of Flagstaff, where a plan is formed to assassinate Caesar, and also where they meet the Burned Man, who's finally agreed to help the Latter Day Nephites
* Jules runs into her ex, Javier Chavez, who she barely remembers, but eventually tensely reconciles somewhat with

**Late May 2282:**

* Lex, Jules, and Vulpes infiltrate Vegas, where they meet Miri St. James and Lafayette Jones and the rest of the underground resistance there. Miri has discovered Yes Man and they incorporate this into their plan to infiltrate the Lucky 38 and kill Caesar
* Before they can do so, Vulpes betrays Lex and Jules to the Legion, proceeding to brutally torture his cousin for information but failing to gain anything useful
* That night, in an impulse even Vulpes doesn't fully understand, he sees Ricky Guerrero in a slave gang in Vegas and demands he be released into his custody, eventually leading him to the outskirts of Vegas and setting him free, to Ricky's utter shock on learning his identity, and Ricky then flees West back to the NCR and Shady Sands
* While Vulpes is off doing this, Joshua Graham (who was always suspect of Vulpes and planned for this very possibility) and a small, highly trained group of Latter Day Nephites infiltrate the Lucky 38 basement where Lex and Jules are being held and rescue them, retreating back to Freeside to regroup with Miri and Lafayette and creating a new plan to infiltrate the Lucky 38, rescue Arcade Gannon, and kill Caesar
* Jules stabs Caesar to death, the culmination of the Resistance's plan to kill Caesar being thwarted by Vulpes Inculta's plan to sabotage the Resistance plan which is then thwarted by Joshua Graham's secret counter-plan and his small contingent of Latter Day Nephites in conjunction with Lexington, Jules, Miri St. James, her robot Yes Man, and Arcade Gannon
* Vulpes Inculta flees New Vegas and enters exile, his cousin Lexington claiming to have seen to his death

**Late May 2282 to Early August 2282:**

* Jules promptly fucks off to the Big MT to do some Science Shit and to attempt to leave behind her past and then returns to New Vegas in August to rejoin the Resistance effort
* Miri St. James founds the organized Resistance effort in New Vegas against the ailing Legion, aided by former NCR Ranger Lafayette Jones, Arcade Gannon, and eventually also Jules, plus the Spanish southern Resistance group
* Vulpes Inculta, exiled and alone, is miserable and struggles to survive, eventually setting up in New Reno for total lack of anywhere else
* Lexington travels to a small coastal village along the Mexican baja gulf coast and sets up, intending to start a new, peaceful life as a civilian, which lasts until approximately early July before her War Trauma™ renders this vision impossible; by early August she is wandering the Mexican wastes as a desperado bounty hunter and starts a new, depressive and self-destructive spiral
* With Caesar dead, infighting in the Legion begins as the leaderless frumentarii ally with Lucius and his praetorians, who claim that Lucius has seniority and is the rightful heir to Caesar instead of Legate Lanius, and by early August the power struggle is ended with Lucius and the majority of his praetorians dead, and the surviving frumentarii in hiding amongst their peers

**September 2282:**

* Legate Lanius asserts his authority and begins the long process of consolidating Legion power, maintaining order, strengthening his army, and countering the New Vegas resistance, centering his efforts around the goal of marching north into Utah and obliterating Joshua Graham and eventually the entire northern, then southern resistance groups, in revenge for the death of Caesar
* Carlos Rendón relocates to Vegas to aid the resistance there

**October 2282:** Lexington, absolutely desperate for some solace and direction in her life, wanders her way to Dead Horse Point, which is now a fairly established Mormon and tribal settlement, where she meets Daniel, who takes her in and begins to attempt to integrate her into the Mormon community

**Early November 2282:** Lex's integration into civilian society goes just as poorly as before, and with seemingly nothing else to do, she attempts suicide for the second time, but survives after the well-timed intervention of the recently-arrived Joshua Graham, who then offers to take her to his war camp in Zion Canyon to use her expertise in guerrilla tactics to prepare for the inevitable Legion offensive

**Early 2283:** Daniel's third child, Rigel, is born

**January 2283:**

* A group of Legionaries (including Felix Octavius) led by ex-frumentarii defect to Zion Canyon, looking to swear their fealty to the Malpais Legate, who, unknownst to him, has had rumors spread by Nephite resistance agents in the Legion, stating that with the death of Caesar, he's claiming true authority over the Legion. Begrudgingly, he accepts this role in order to organize internal Legion sabotage and a mass, surprise defection at the time of the inevitable oncoming battle
* Lexington, in a knee-jerk attempt to also assert authority over these Legionaries, proclaims herself the new Vulpes Inculta, now serving the Malpais Legate, stating that she has inherited the title after slaying the previous Inculta, a decision which she immediately regrets but has to roll with

**February, 2283:** Tallulah and Farrah are formally adopted into the Smith family by Tartuffe, who at this time is in Mexico near the border forming his first own roving band of circus folk

**Early April 2283:**

* Legate Lanius finally begins the march north to Zion Canyon with his army, taking his best centurions with him (including Vincentius of Phoenix) and leaving Aurelius of Phoenix in charge at New Vegas
* With the absence of Lanius and most of his forces, the Resistance begins to formulate a final plot to overthrow Legion authority in New Vegas

### **Legate Lanius's defeat at Zion Canyon and the death of the Legion**

**Early May 2283:**

* The Battle Between the Two Legates occurs in Zion Canyon, ending in victory for the Malpais Legate after a significant portion of Lanius's army defects to his forces, another large portion being devastated in artificial floods, and the remainder beaten back, finally scattering leaderless after Lexington lures Legate Lanius to his death in a trap, his battered mask and armor paraded in victory and signaling the end of the conflict
* Vincentius of Phoenix manages to survive the conflict, retreating to the Legion war camp to find it mostly empty and in complete disarray, no order whatsoever amongst the Legionaries who fled the canyon, his own contuberniums either dead or MIA. Gathering what supplies he can, he decides to travel back to New Vegas alone to hopefully regroup with whatever authority is left

**Late May 2283:** Word arrives in New Vegas that Lanius is slain, and under pressure, Aurelius goes power mad and declares himself the new Caesar, causing another chain of infighting that extends to different regions in Legion land, pitting centurions and their territory against one another as they either swear loyalty to Aurelius or try to assert their own

**June 2283:**

* Jessica Lexington marries Joshua Graham, against all odds, logic, and common sense, but hey, it's love
* Now officially both co-generals of their army, Lexington and Graham prep their soldiers and newly-absorbed ex-Legion forces for an ass-kicking campaign across southern Utah to beat back all the remaining Legion presence which threatens Mormon settlements, as well as to secure mines and other natural resources to pay back the war debt as promised
* Aurelius doesn't even last a month as Caesar before the resistance starts a popular uprising and deposes him and expels the last occupying Legion forces in New Vegas; they find Aurelius's body in the Lucky 38, his head blown off in an apparent shotgun suicide

### **New Vegas post-Legion reforms under Queen Miri**

**July 2283:**

* With Aurelius dead and all central Legion authority killed or defected, Legion land ends up in disarray and chaos as power struggles erupt between different centurions and their territories, each with different visions of leadership
* In this chaos, the Spanish and Native resistance groups strike out and reclaim much of the southwest Legion territory, re-establishing their communities there
* Lafayette Jones leads a group of ex-NCR rangers and ex-NCR soldiers (and some non-NCR volunteers) in a small militia to drive out the remaining Legion from Hoover Dam, to their surprise finding it mostly empty but all control panels smashed (with most equipment intact), easily eliminating a small number of Legionaries who remained, from whom they learn that on the news of Lanius's death, the majority of the forces there decided to retreat to Flagstaff, only a few staying behind to monitor the structure, but not before attempting to sabotage it by destroying all control panels, and lacking the technical expertise to know what to /actually/ sabotage and instead just breaking all the things that lit up and beeped. Lafayette leaves a contingent of her forces there to try and secure the dam before she returns to New Vegas
* Vincentius of Phoenix finally arrives at New Vegas after an arduous journey down alone, and seeing no trace of the Legion, buries his centurion armor and enters the city, seeking whatever new order there could possibly be, directionless, alone, and desperate to make sense of recent events and the meaning of his life, assuming the name Vincent Phoenix
* With the Legion gone, Miri begins the long process of establishing order in New Vegas and re-building after all the damage done, and successfully negotiates with the different New Vegas families to create a delicate but stable enough peace, and with the council of Arcade Gannon and Lafayette Jones, continues to reform society
* Like a week after Aurelius dies, The King, working with Miri to help her unite the Vegas family, jokingly calls her The Queen and Miri NEVER lets go of this, lmao long live The Queen
* Jules is appointed Lead Civil Engineer of New Vegas by Miri, and is tasked with organizing and engineering crucial infrastructure projects, as well as with beginning the difficult process of digging out and salvaging + repairing any securitrons that can be gleamed from the ruined bunker under Fortification Hill. Her top priority at first, however, is getting Hoover Dam back into some operational form

**Late 2283:**

* Veronica Santangelo and her comrades make contact with the Midwest Brotherhood of Steel while in Colorado, and continue their journey to Chicago
* Daniel and his wife formally separate, living in Dead Horse Point with joint custody of their children
* Delilah Wells and her father leave the decaying NCR and move to New Vegas
* Now that Vegas is habitable again, Tartuffe Smith starts roving his traveling circus there, eventually settling it down permanently in Vegas, catering to the war-torn population

**March 1 2284:** Annie Graham, the first of the Graham children, is born healthy to Lexington and Joshua

**August 2284:**

* Vincent Phoenix signs up to be a lawman in New Vegas after seeing the job being desperately advertised (since it pays terribly and is extremely dangerous), and after a few weeks of exceptional service, gets partnered with Lafayette Jones to assist her in her daily lawman work
* President William Slater of the NCR is assassinated by unknown parties
* This prompts Colonel Cassandra Moore to declare herself Commander in Chief of the NCR military, and to further declare martial law over their provinces in a desperate attempt to maintain some stability amidst economic and humanitarian crises and the threat of certain states to secede from the NCR

### **The Initial Formation of New Deseret**

**July 2284:**

* Vulpes Inculta leaves New Reno after hearing that New Vegas is once again a livable place and sneaks back into it, rapidly blackmailing his way into the White Gloves, because if he's going to be miserable and alone, he might as well do it in *luxury*
* New Zion is founded when the Latter Day Nephites retake Salt Lake City from what remains of the White Legs tribals, and establish a settlement there, focusing much of their initial efforts on getting the local Redmond salt mines up and running again
* The political identity of New Deseret begins to coalesce as the Mormon Church, with Byrum Pratt as Head Elder, officially reforms in the Holy Land (SLC/New Zion), unifying all the Mormon communities throughout Utah in a manner not seen since before the destruction of New Canaan, bolstered further by the New Deseret Army (led by Graham and Lex) officially swearing loyalty to the Church, giving them political legitimacy

**Mid 2284:**

* Daniel, his ex-wife, and their three children relocate to New Zion
* Delilah leads the initiative to get the Lucky 38 radio broadcasting again to start relaying basic news to the populace
* Sallow's mother is killed as part of decimatio conducted by the centurion who owns her and Sallow. Although innocent in a failed plot to assassinate the centurion, she is still randomly selected to be killed

**Late 2284:**

* Veronica Santangelo and the remainders of the BoS survivors under her command arrive in Chicago and join the main contingent of the Midwest Brotherhood of Steel
* The NCR states of Arroyo, Klamath, Maxson, Redding, and Vault City secede illegally from the NCR, under their own break-off military regimes
* Despite Commander Moore's desperate efforts to keep the shattered economy together, investment and capital in the NCR starts to rapidly leak from its borders, investing instead in New Vegas and the Mojave and New Zion and New Deseret
* A new, dangerous industry of war profiteering erupts amongst smugglers moving equipment and capital out of the NCR

**Early 2285:**

* Vincent Phoenix is discovered by Lafayette to be Vincentius of Phoenix, former centurion in Caesar's Legion. Because of their friendship, she hears him out and reconciles the truth with him
* Eager to use Vincentius, Queen Miri encourages him to be public about his former Legion rank, trying to create unity amongst ex-Legion and former NCR with the example of Vincentius's friendship with Lafayette. Vincentius then begins rounding up Legion remnants in the Mojave and helps bring order to them and the region, easing ex-Legion into integrating to Vegas society

**Mid February 2285:**

* The New Deseret Army (NDA) reaches Hoover Dam, securing a safe trade corridor from New Zion to New Vegas
* This kickstarts an increase in agricultural trade and development, especially as more mines are reclaimed and put back into operation, and also opens up the northern New Deseret lumber industry to sell to high-demand Mojave markets
* Lexington goes ahead and negotiates a treaty for New Deseret forces to occupy, secure, and operate the dam, which Miri agrees to for two reasons only: 1) she trusts Lexington, and 2) she has already had to devote a disproportionate and draining amount of resources to securing the dam, which can now be re-assigned to much more needed posts
* Lexington reunites with Jules after years apart; they quickly reform their friendship

**February 28th 2285:** Lydia Graham born

**May, 2285:** Tartuffe Smith encounters a mysterious, depressed, alcoholic White Glove by the name of Augustus Volpe (guess WHO) and has a brief, extremely rocky relationship with him based out of a one night stand and some unhealthy curiosity

**June 17th, 2285:** The New Vegas Press Corps. is founded by Holly Liu with Carlos Rendón and Delilah Wells as her first field reporters

**Mid to Late October 2285:**

* The NDA's Legion ass-kicking campaign is declared complete with a secure perimeter established around all southern and eastern New Deseret settlements
* Lexington, Graham, and their three children are recalled to New Zion to participate in their nascent nation's legal and political establishment, firmly establishing New Zion as New Deseret's capital and the headquarters of the military
* The NDA's forces are split apart several key areas (Hoover Dam, Zion Canyon, Dead Horse Point, New Zion), with smaller contingents dispersed to New Deseret settlements, establishing the military police and a uniform system of law and order across the young nation, supervised by the Church
* With news of this establishment solidified, more resources from the crumbling NCR are re-invested in New Deseret, a small manufacturing sector starting in New Zion

### **The Mojave Free Economic Zone is established**

**Late** **2285:**

* Queen Miri, in an agreement with local Vegas families and townships across the Mojave, establish the Mojave Free Economic Zone, creating a new, loose nation-state out of the region, mostly meant to aid in economic development and helping to secure the region across town borders and along trade routes
* With combined resources in the Mojave, the manufacturing sector in Vegas and surrounding areas is kickstarted as the last major corporations and sources of capital in the crumbling NCR re-locate to the MFEZ
* In the Capital Wasteland, Arthur Maxson plans a coup against Sarah Lyons, thinking it a success after Sarah Lyons and her closest followers (including the original Paladin Danse) are ambushed on patrol in a faked raider attack, those not being killed reported as kidnapped by raiders to explain the lack of bodies, when in reality they were forced to flee
* Sarah Lyons and a few of her Lyons Pride (including the original Paladin Danse) manage to survive the ambush, and learning of Maxson's betrayal, flee the Capital Wasteland in exile, heading northwest in search of the isolated Chicago chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel, seeking supporters against Maxson's coup
* Right after the coup, a member of the Commonwealth Railroad sees an opportunity to relocate an escaped synth they had been escorting to safety, getting him facial reconstruction surgery and implanting artificial memories in order to mimic the late Paladin Danse, with history and personality details provided by Harkness, the (secretly synth) security chief of Rivet City, who knew the original Paladin Danse, and saw an opportunity to create a safe plant for the escaped synth in the image of his (presumed) late friend, taking advantage of the ambiguity of his kidnapping death at the hands of raiders
* The new Paladin Danse is "found" by Harkness and returned to the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, reportedly having survived the raider ambush and kidnapping but also having had sustained a head injury which caused amnesia of the incident and other memory problems, despite which, he re-integrates into the Brotherhood with ease
* After the coup, Elder Maxson begins his fool's errand machinations against the Institute in the Commonwealth, gearing up for war, using it as a scapegoat to consolidate his power against

**January 4th 2286:** Ezekiel Graham born

**Early 2286:**

* Arcade Gannon and a contingent of Followers of the Apocalypse arrive in New Zion seeking aid in their operations in New Vegas, and at the suggestion of Lexington, Daniel takes his three children and a group of missionaries and tribals down with him to New Vegas to work with Arcade and the Followers, relocating at the Old Mormon Fort
* The NCR continues to delve into chaos, becoming a failed state as the military regime's desperate reach shrinks further and further towards Shady Sands, anarchy erupting in the outer-lying states, while the area around Shady Sands suffers from an increasingly brutal military regime

**Mid 2286:** Sarah Lyons and the remainder of her Lyons Pride reach the isolated Chicago chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel, where Sarah meets Veronica Santangelo and they bond over being BoS refugees

### **Jules and Vulpes move to New Zion**

**Early November 2286:**

* To negotiate a New Deseret engineering contract with Jules, Lexington travels to New Vegas and brings her daughter Annie with her
* Jules encounters a strikingly familiar White Glove at the Ultra Luxe by the name of Augustus Volpe, and suspects his true identity to be that of Vulpes Inculta, but waits until Lexington arrives before doing anything about it and tipping her off about this possible lead on her supposedly-dead cousin
* Lexington kidnaps her cousin after investigating Jules's lead and finding it to be true, kicking off a reunion between the two cousins

**Mid to Late November 2286:**

* Lexington and Annie spend Quality Time with Jules and Vulpes
* Lexington offers to take Vulpes back to New Zion with her, offering him resources to establish a national library system (but mostly to get free babysitting!!)

**Mid December 2286:** Vulpes arrives in New Zion with his cousin and settles comfortably with his stolen White Gloves money, immediately adopts a stray dog, and begins his library work

**December 28th 2286:** Jules arrives in New Zion just in time for the New Year, kicking off her contract to help establish and expand New Deseret infrastructure

### **Events of Fallout 4 and their repercussions on the West Coast**

**2287:**

* The telegraph system is established under Jules's supervision as telegraph wires begin to link settlements with New Zion
* Vulpes starts the New Zion library and gets more dogs
* After a brief respite thanks to not having to face her boss whose family she MURDERED, Jules starts to feel that Intense Guilt for her actions again, not aided by Vulpes goading her into the beginnings of what would be her second Hell Spiral
* The Brotherhood of Steel, led by Elder Maxson, get their asses kicked in the Commonwealth by the Minutemen, led by Preston Garvey and the Sole Survivor Jamie Lorraine, and begin limping back to the west coast like the FOOLS they are, seeking reinforcements to aid them back east
* On learning of Elder Maxson's wild invasion of the Commonwealth, Sarah Lyons abandons her futile plans to retake the east coast Brotherhood's leadership and instead decides to focus on serving the midwest chapter as best as she can
* Probably related to the last point, Sarah marries Veronica Santangelo, who she has fallen in love with since arriving in Chicago
* The original Paladin Danse dies heroically in combat
* Arcade Gannon and Daniel are Officially Boyfriends
* The ex-Legion in Vegas declare themselves the New Romans, having coalesced into a new cultural identity based around actual Roman history and traditions. To mark this, they begin renovation on an old abandoned casino on the strip to create the Roman's Palace, a public space/casino/marketplace, you name it, they got it. Vincentius is also heavily involved in the Romanization of the ex-Legion, as well as the formalization of their identity

### **Final death of the NCR and the re-establishment of Brotherhood authority in its wake**

**November 3rd, 2287:** The New Deseret government formally declares that they no longer recognize the government of the NCR. Soon Vegas follows suit with a similar proclamation, marking what people consider the final death of the NCR

**2288:**

* The remainder of Maxson's forces reach the west coast Brotherhood of Steel
* Jamie Lorraine destroys the Institute
* Several Institute scientists and few synths of theirs (including X6-88) are scattered into the airwaves while trying to escape the Institute with the teleporter, a malfunction sending them into limbo
* Lexington buys a breeding pair of foxes off a Canadian trader and gives them to her cousin, starting his fox breeding business
* The New Vegas Press Corps. is formally split into the New Vegas Times newspaper and Radio New Vegas, with Carlos mainly working the paper and Delilah mainly working the radio

**October 19th, 2288:** The first official issue of the New Vegas Times is printed and the first official Radio New Vegas newscast is broadcasted

**January 14 2288:** Brigham Graham born

**Early June to Late August 2288:**

* Jules travels down to New Vegas to supervise the linking of the New Deseret telegraph system with New Vegas
* Lexington takes Annie and Lydia and travels down with Jules to New Vegas to enroll the kids in a summer education program run by the Followers of the Apocalypse
* Evangeline Bishop marries Moira Byrne in New Reno

**Early** **2289:**

* The Big MT picks up the errant Institute signal with their own teleporter and reconstitutes it, bringing the Institute scientists and their synths to the Big MT (albeit with bodily damage done to the humans from the incident)
* Tartuffe Smith formally founds Cirque du Circus, formalizing a new major establishment in Vegas and starting the Smiths as an up-and-coming Vegas Family

**April 15 2289:** Julia Graham born

**Late 2289:**

* After experimentation following their own brain removals and with the help of the Think Tank, the Institute scientists create synth bodies to upload themselves into, and unhinged from the teleporter accident and all the scientific procedures done to them, begin to plot with the Think Tank a scheme to "create the True Human Being"
* As part of their plot, the Big MT begins to create synths to replace prominent people in ex-NCR territory and the Brotherhood of Steel, in order to begin to sow discord
* The Brotherhood of Steel, led by Elder Maxson and his warhawk council (which secretly is populated with several Big MT synths), decides to keep their attention to the west coast, starting to occupy and annex former NCR territory, beginning their expansion south from northern California and focusing on the areas outside of the states of Redding, Vault City, Klamath, Arroyo, and the state of Maxson, because those areas weren't a part of the original secession of states and thus are ungoverned anarchy, willing to accept Brotherhood annexation if it means SOME semblance of order
* Elder Maxson and his council reverse the west coast Brotherhood's recruiting policy, fashioning it in an enlistment manner closer to that of the east coast BoS, bolstering their numbers immediately
* Ricky Guerrero, now a literature preservationist in the wake of the NCR's collapse, exchanges several letters with a Mr. Young in New Zion, interested in joining his library and their program to gather and preserve literature
* Ricky travels to New Zion to join the library with his own personal connection of books and is shocked to discover that Mr. Young is none other than Mr. Fox, who was none other than Vulpes Inculta. He keeps this a secret because no one would believe him anyway
* Because Vulpes sucks and likes toying with people, after a brief perhaps genuine moment of vulnerability around Ricky that ended in bed (again), he pursues a brief, tumultuous relationship with him before Ricky realizes how bitter and sad Vulpes is, in turn teaching him some important lessons about moving on from his own bitterness he carried after the NCR fell to the Legion

**2290:**

* The Brotherhood continues to expand southwards, absorbing and refurbishing lots of abandoned NCR tech and military equipment and growing in membership as they assert martial law over their new territories
* Big MT synths continue to infiltrate the region
* The Chicago Brotherhood of Steel chapter learns of the disastrous defeat of the east coast BoS in the Commonwealth and the unraveling of BoS authority in the Capital Wasteland, and concerned about the irresponsibility and failures of the other chapters, dispatches Sarah Lyons-Santangelo, Veronica Lyons-Santangelo, and a small troop of soldiers to assess the situation in the west coast brotherhood and to plead to reunite all the chapters under a more unified and wise leadership centered from the midwest, seeing the utter failures of leadership elsewhere
* Arcade and Daniel take their kids and a contingent of Followers and missionaries into former-NCR land to do outreach work
* Vulpes re-introduces foxes into the wild around New Zion, and they immediately become a tourist attraction
* Delilah Wells relocates to New Zion to join the Radio New Vegas branch there

**Late 2289 to Mid 2290:** Jules hits the worst of her self-destructive Hell Spiral, culminating in near death at her own hands, but unlike last time instead of fucking off, becoming a Courier, and serving a power-mad despot, she has a support network of people who Love Her who manages to help begin to dredge her out of her Pit Of Self-Hatred. Most significantly, this includes a newfound trust in Joshua Graham, who she eventually tells everything to-- including the fact that she's responsible for the destruction of the NCR.

**Late June to late July 2290:**

* Lexington dispatches Jules to New Vegas to negotiate an important trade contract with a prominent trader
* Who is her EX!!! Javier Chavez, who Jules TOTALLY does not sleep with (she sleeps with him)
* Jules returns to New Zion in July having negotiated a very favorable trade contract and rekindled her relationship with Chavez

**December 29th, 2290:** Soda Pop Smith is born to Tallulah Smith, the result of a little accident between her and her good friend Wiley Rhodes during some good ol' fashioned fun. Irregardless Soda Pop is loved by his mother and grandfather and the collective family of the circus

**2291:**

* The railroad from New Vegas to New Zion is repaired and restored, greatly increasing passenger and commercial exchanges between the two cities and across both their states
* The west coast Brotherhood of Steel signs political treaties with New Vegas and New Deseret, recognizing the BoS as a legitimate political entity
* The last vestiges of Legion authority in Flagstaff deteriorate after local opposition, guided by the Resistance, dismantles it, and Flagstaff becomes an independent anarcho-commune led by ex-slaves and ex-legionaries
* With Legion authority gone, the Followers of the Apocalypse and a Mormon mission establish themselves in Flagstaff to conduct humanitarian work
* Sallow of Flagstaff, like many other orphans, is taken in by the Followers of the Apocalypse. She requests to leave Flagstaff and she's relocated to the Old Mormon Fort HQ in Vegas, where she begins learning medical sciences

**Early** **2292:** The Brotherhood of Steel's territory reaches the western borders of New Vegas and they begin to fortify this position

**Mid 2292:**

* Sarah Lyons-Santangelo and Veronica Lyons-Santangelo arrive in the Mojave with their small troop and begin to assess the situation, finding it much more dire than they had thought, with Maxson now royally fucking up the west coast TOO!! and they begin to plot how to salvage the terrible situation and re-establish proper Brotherhood authority
* The Brotherhood of Steel extends political negotiations to New Vegas, concerned about their securitron army and other technology, which Miri ROYALLY fucks up by bringing YES MAN to the negotiation table
* Convinced Miri is too irresponsible to wielding this technological army alone, they give her an ultimatum to disarm them and hand them over to the BoS, or face a forceful acquisition of them by Brotherhood forces
* The Brotherhood of Steel negotiates a non-aggression pact with New Deseret, effectively keeping them out of any official oncoming conflicts, much to Lexington and Graham's chagrin and suspicions
* Miri enters incredibly tense negotiations with the BoS as both entities prepare for war
* Vulpes, being a DICK, keeps trying to break up Jules and Chavez, until a breaking point is reached and Lexington gives Jules full permission to just beat the HELL out of him to teach him a lesson
* Extremely pissed at this, Vulpes then lets loose his most potent piece of blackmail and tells Lexington about Jules launching the nukes, starting an incredibly tense period between all of them, which Graham helps defuse by helping Lexington come up with a plan to help redeem all parties involved, where Lexington recruits Jules and Vulpes for a secret infiltration mission into Brotherhood territory to prove that the BoS intends to break their non-aggression pact once they have the securitron army, and annex New Deseret as well

## It's Always Sunny In The Mojave 2: Electric Boogaloo

**July 2292:**

* *Beginning of IASITM2: EB*
* The Gang arrives in New Vegas and explains their plan to Miri, where once they can prove the Brotherhood intends to break the treaty, they can get New Deseret to send them military aid, and combined can defeat the Brotherhood
* Miri volunteers her two best soldiers/lawmen, Lafayette Jones and Vincentius of Phoenix, to help The Gang infiltrate brotherhood territory and succeed in their mission
* With conflicts growing, Delilah and Carlos team up again to cover the building tensions in the former NCR as the Brotherhood/Vegas war develops. They mainly operate in the Shady Sands area

**2292:**

* The Brotherhood of Steel annexes Shady Sands, toppling Commander Cassandra Moore's fractured military regime and executing her publicly for her crimes against her people
* The Gang enters the newly Brotherhood-annexed city of Shady Sands, thanks to Lafayette's connection to her brother, Washington, who is in the Brotherhood. He tells them he suspects something is wrong with the leadership and helps them get passage north to New Reno to get more allies in this conflict
* Not long after, Carlos and Delilah are investigating the conflict and uncover a conspiracy to assassinate Washington, saving his life. From then on he recruits them to help weed out other Brotherhood conspiracies during the war
* The Gang helps Arcade and Daniel solve their relationship problems, leading to their marriage, and their family relocates to New Vegas
* The Gang is attacked by a mysterious man in a long brown coat (X6-88, dispatched to kill them), who is almost unstoppable but is ultimately slain
* The Gang stops in New Reno, where Silas Bishop recognizes Jules as his long-lost daughter, and attempts to initiate her into the Bishop mafia family but fails to entice her to stay, instead then plotting to kill her, and failing to do so, and Jules is Pissed
* With intel obtained in New Reno from the Bishops about the growing conspiracy in the Brotherhood and the region abroad, The Gang travels north to New Arroyo to meet with people they've been told are friendly to their cause, where they run into the Chosen One, who is Jules's grandmother (!!!)
* The Chosen One connects The Gang with Sarah and Veronica and their troop, who have been staying in New Arroyo to gather information on the region, and with this new development, they all plan a way to avert the war without massive battles--by deposing Maxson and replacing him with the true Brotherhood heir, Sarah
* The Chosen One sends them on their way and gives them information on another ally--the scholar Goris, whom they meet and discover is a mutant Deathclaw. Like The Chosen One suggested, Goris leaves to find his old friend Marcus so the Super Mutants can pledge themselves against the Brotherhood in case things go badly and war occurs anyway
* Before they reach San Francisco, the impossible happens where New Gang+ is attacked by the man in the brown coat again (X6-88, repaired and re-dispatched), who SHOULD be dead but miraculously isn't. They barely defeat him, and move on
* New Gang+ reaches San Francisco where they search for ways to infiltrate the Brotherhood HQ in the Boneyard. While doing so, they encounter General Danse, who Sarah Lyons recognizes as her old comrade, Paladin Danse, who was killed defending her when she was betrayed by Maxson. Stunned that he's there and sure he's an imposter, New Gang+ kidnaps him, and after Sarah confronts him about his supposed death, he realizes he is a synth and explains the synth conspiracy on the East coast to the New Gang+, and explains that synths must somehow still be around, which would explain A) himself, and B) why the leadership has been acting so strange. Instead of mercy killing him like he asks, Sarah convinces him to help them infiltrate the Boneyard HQ and reach Elder Maxson, as well as extracting information from the database in San Francisco
* To their horror, they discover in San Francisco several schematics for what appears to be a very deadly weapon/battleship
* Once they reach the Boneyard HQ they infiltrate it and find a computer detailing synth operatives in the field, as well as more of the conspiracy, + coordinates for the New And Improved Airship Of Death, where Elder Maxson and the other Elders are currently at in the ocean just off the coast, about to start their campaign East to destroy Vegas
* New Gang+ travels to the airship in a vertibird and fights their way through the ship, on the way recognizing some of the weaponry as being production and distribution centers for the same form of death cloud that shrouded the Sierra Madre
* On reaching Maxson they tell him about the synth conspiracy, which is a surprise to him, and several of the Elders attack the New Gang+, revealing themselves to be synths. They're slain and Sarah personally dropkicks Elder Maxson off of the New Prydwen
* After securing the New Prydwen, Sarah tells the truth to everyone and begins the process of taking over the Brotherhood, as the remaining human Elders swear their loyalty to her
* The Gang finds a teleporter pad on the Prydwen that takes them to the base of the synths.... none other than the Big MT
* As an act of mercy, Dr. Dala takes Jules, Lex, and Vulpes, and puts them into a VR sim to experiment on them, instead of simply killing them. Here they are mad traumatized as the sim they're put into is a test of how well fake memories can be implanted into human subjects, and their fake world and lives are as if the Legion never existed, and life is idyllic. Gradually the experiment fails and they realize they're in a simulation, to their horror
* Meanwhile Vincentius and Lafayatte escaped when the rest of The Gang was captured, instead now dropped in the nightmare that is the Big MT. X6-88 attacks them again, but now they know who he is, and Vincentius, as a fellow ex-soldier of a corrupt regime, talks him down from fighting, and convinces him to help them find and then later free The Gang from the Hell Sim
* The Gang finds the fucked up synth Institute scientists, who reveal their Big Evil Plan to use the synths to destabilize the region and gather resources to build more New Prydwens equipped with death cloud genocide machines, intending on eradicating all life from earth and rebuilding a new, perfect society, made entirely of synthetic humans and animals and plants
* Naturally The Gang super kills them all
* While Lex and Vulpes are MEGA pissed at the Think Tank too, Jules convinces them NOT to kill them by getting the Think Tank to help shut down all the synths out in the world

**September 27th, 2292:** Across the Brotherhood, Vegas, and New Deseret, important people, including Byrum Pratt, head Elder of the Mormon church, drop like flies all simultaneously, dead for no discernible reason. A minor rapture panic ensues in New Deseret and Vegas tabloids go CRAZY

**A few days later (end of Electric Boogaloo):** The Gang returns to New Vegas and New Deseret, and with Sarah leading the Brotherhood, they all explain the synth conspiracy and everything that has happened, and are hailed as heroes. War is averted, and while important people were lost, the world has Literally Been Saved

### **The Brotherhood of Steel Protectorate is formed under Elders Lyons and Santangelo**

**Late 2292/Early 2293:**

* Sarah and Veronica reform the West coast Brotherhood of Steel in their progressive vision and declare lands under their authority now in the Brotherhood of Steel Protectorate, uniting it with the Midwest Brotherhood in one coherent, if distant and spread out, political entity
* Under their leadership, the Brotherhood becomes a much more encompassing entity, not just military, but also governmental, providing law, order, infrastructure, and education to the people within its jurisdiction
* The non-aggression pact and other agreements the Brotherhood previously signed with New Vegas and New Deseret are all nullified as new treaties, trade agreements, and political recognitions are signed into law between all three entities, the Protectorate now officially recognized as a legitimate government
* **February 22, 2293:** Julia McAllister and Javier Chavez marry in New Vegas
	+ Days before the wedding, Jules realizes she's pregnant (WHOOPS). She tells Javier and they come up with a plan to keep this secret. Hijinks ensue at the reception
	+ Silas Bishop totally crashes their wedding obnoxiously, after a Stern lecture from Joshua he heads home to New Reno to seriously think about his relationship with his daughter, and eventually promises to do better by her
	+ Vulpes gets extremely blackout drunk at the wedding and somehow endears himself to one of Chavez's brothers, Guillermo Chavez, a war widower with an interest in animals and literature. He becomes pen pals with Vulpes, which Vulpes entertains because it amuses him to string this man along
* After much debate, Bert Gunnarsson, one of the 12 survivors of Vault 70, is elected Head Elder of the Mormon Church. He is much less liberal than Byrum was, but ultimately is a very middle-line Mormon. He favors devolution of governmental power, especially in regards to the military. With him, the first serious efforts to establish civilian courts and police begin
* Goris arrives in New Zion and is wholeheartedly welcomed, obtaining a job under Vulpes's supervision in the library, and eventually also a teaching position at the local college

**October 23 2293:** Natalia Eliza Juana Lexington Chavez McAllister born to her parents, Jules and Javier Chavez

**Late 2293:**

* After efforts to stabilize the West coast have started to take root, the Brotherhood Protectorate establishes what will grow to be a productive and flourishing tech industry
* Guillermo Chavez travels to New Zion to meet again with Vulpes after exchanging increasingly affectionate letters, but luckily Ricky sees him at the library and explains how much Vulpes sucks before anything too terrible can happen
* After this, Ricky and Guillermo becomes friends and a courtship develops

**2294:** Ricky and Guillermo marry, and Guillermo moves him and his two children to New Zion to help run the Chavez family caravan there

**2295:**

* Arthur Young takes his nieces and nephews to Cirque du Circus to show off to Tartuffe how Great and Awesome and Loving his life is now just to spite him, but it's obvious to Tartuffe what Arthur is doing and he pities him more than anything else
* This ends up backfiring in Arthur's face anyway because this eventually leads to Lexington befriending Tartuffe, and the Smiths becoming close family friends to the Grahams

**2297:**

* Under new laws established in the civilian courts, Lexington is very publicly tried in court for assault after attacking a man sexually heckling her in the streets. The law is on his side, and for the sake of her family, Lex humiliates herself and avoids jail time by paying a fine and by, on the request of the man she assaulted, very publicly apologizing to him for her actions
* Vulpes Inculta formalizes secret police in New Deseret, on the bequest of his cousin
* The man who pressed charges against Lexington dies in a tragic carriage accident, trampled to death by a team of brahmin

**2298:** The first new computers manufactured for public purchase are sold by the Brotherhood Protectorate

## Case File: Vulpes Inculta

**October 2299:** Case File: Vulpes Inculta begins with Carlos Rendón receiving an anonymous letter warning that the infamous war criminal, Vulpes Inculta, is alive and well in New Zion. Carlos decides to obey the letter and travel to New Zion to follow its warning, and recruits Delilah Wells, who has been living there for quite some time, as a partner in this investigation

**2299:**

* Other events of CF:VI occur. More details to follow
* Carlos and Delilah travel to New Vegas to follow their leads and experience New Years there

**Early 2300:**

* Carlos and Delilah are hailed as heroes for supposedly exposing an assassination conspiracy against the Graham family
* Delilah leaves New Vegas and New Zion and heads to Puerto Peñasco to live far away and alone, descending into becoming a conspiracy theorist
* Carlos takes her place in New Zion and becomes the secular news darling of the ND government, reporting whatever they tell him to
* An old timer Follower from the Boneyard transfers to the Old Mormon Fort and suspects Sallow's parentage just by the resemblance to her father. After finding out her name, where she's from, that her mother was purchased directly from Caesar's camp and was used as a pleasure slave, he confronts her about his theory, and stunned, Sallow discusses ways to know for sure if it's true. Under the guise of historical archiving, the Follower gets access to the knife that was used to kill Caesar (currently on display in a museum, donated courtesy of Jules McAllister) and takes a DNA sample off of it to test against Sallow's DNA. There's is a positive match, and the two ultimately pledge to keep this revelation a secret
* Disquieted by this revelation, Sallow decides she needs a lower-pressure environment, and transfers to Flagstaff, where she eventually vaguely befriends Allen Wiser after commissioning him for some smutty art lmao

**2302:**

* Vaughan Hirsch, an insufferable friend of Allen's, dislikes Sallow enough to dig into her past for dirt on her, discovering the truth about her lineage, which he leaks to just about every news organization he can, causing a public uproar about who she is. Sallow does her best to ignore the repercussions of this and continue her life, with questionable success
* Tartuffe, while on business with his daughter Farrah to New Zion to establish a permanent Cirque du Circus branch there, runs into Arthur Young again at the library and promptly gets sucked back into another unhealthy relationship
* While at the library he meets Goris and talks him into a contract at Cirque du Circus in Vegas, where he will provide Goris with all the resources to start a summer children's education program as long as Goris shows up and does literally whatever he wants to (come see a Deathclaw read Shakespeare!) in the circus ring
* Tartuffe eventually realizes that Arthur is just toying with him and very publicly breaks up with him, also in the process publicly outing him LOL

**Summer 2303:** Goris arrives in New Vegas for the first time, to the utter fascination and love of the city. Everyone is completely enamored with him and his educational program is a massive success, establishing what would subsequently grow every summer to be an extremely successful summer program for the children of Vegas, as well as establishing his beloved celebrity status there

**November, 2303:** Allen Smith arrives in Flagstaff after having traveled cross country twice, and decides to settle there amongst its weird insufferable hippie art community

**Early 2304:** Ezekiel Graham, now 17 years old, asks Carlos whatever happened to Delilah, and begins to investigate the events of several years prior (CF:VI ends here)

**2304:**

* Ezekiel continues to delve into what happened to Carlos and Delilah and finds the truth, as well as discovering the more gruesome details about his parents, aunt, and uncle. The breaking point comes in discovering that his uncle actually IS Vulpes Inculta, and what his mother has done to hide this, and how they ruined Carlos and Delilah. Doesn't help also discovering that his auntie Jules launched the nukes that hit the NCR
* With this information, he confronts his parents about their crimes and then runs away from New Zion, fleeing to Flagstaff to get away from any authority allied with New Deseret, choosing Flagstaff particularly because he knows Arcade and Daniel Gannon and their kids are there, and as outspoken critics of his parents, it's as safe a bet as any to go there
* Ezekiel arrives in Flagstaff, where the Gannons are sympathetic and take him in
* Allen Wiser hears about Zeke and figures he's low-hanging fruit for parody and bad political commentary and immediately does several things: starts publicly haranguing him in his work, comes to dislike him very much, and develops an intense jealousy crush + a perceived rivalry with him

### **Southeast expansion of New Deseret and its repercussions**

**2300-2308:**

* The New Deseret frontier gradually expands further and further into Arizona, annexing more and more land into New Deseret authority. The expansion is never done by force, rather by cultural contamination and the promise of stability, medicine, and education. While this is a willing process, at the same time, tribes are being dismantled and lost, and those who don't accept the cultural diffusion see their tribes split by the annexations, then becoming nomadic when they flee New Deseret authority.
* Parts of the old Resistance (including Mariela Chavez) reform to help lead the tribes afraid of destruction into resisting New Deseret encroachment, mostly through politics but eventually leading up to 2308, also through sabotage and subterfuge

**2304-2308:** Ezekiel becomes involved with local politics, specializing in translation and mediation and the preservation of tribal cultures

**2305:**

* Farrah Smith, while on business to New Zion to oversee the New Zion branch of Cirque du Circus, becomes romantically involved with Lydia Graham
* Lydia Graham, already a talented, contest-winning sharpshooter, takes up trickshooting at the New Zion branch of Cirque du Circus, in part to impress Farrah
* While doing a reckless stunt, Farrah ends up blinding her right eye, destroying her career in sharpshooting and trickshooting, forcing her to finally take her life seriously after the reality check of her injury
* Encouraged by Farrah and needing to find a new focus in life, Lydia takes her small-time gun tooling and expands it into an actual business, establishing Graham Gunsmiths, specializing in high quality hand-tooled custom handguns and other gun customization

**May 22nd,** **2306:** Lydia Graham and Farrah Smith marry

**June 2306:** Farrah Graham-Smith moves permanently to New Zion and becomes the official head of the New Zion branch of Cirque du Circus, expanding their business further

**2307:** Sympathetic to their cause, Lex orders Vulpes to dispatch agents of the Secret Police out to Arizona to help train Resistance agents

## It's Always Sunny In The Mojave: The Next Generation

**Mid December** **2307:**

* *Beginning of IASITM: TNG (loose outline to follow)*
* As part of a political delegation to discuss ways to preserve tribal identities and cull the aggressive annexation policies, Zeke travels to Flagstaff to speak to the New Deseret Secular Congress and the Council of Elders
* After one of these talks, Lexington is incapacitated in a bombing in New Zion, thanks to (supposedly) anti-expansionist resistance leaders (who in reality are radicalized rebels who obtained inspiration for their drastic tactics from the training they received from the New Deseret Secret Police)
* Joshua swears that they will hunt down the rebels and quell all the violent extremists, and begins planning to bring a considerable military force down South to secure the expanding border, against Ezekiel's strong objections
* Ezekiel returns to Flagstaff to begin searching for the extremist rebels who committed this attack in order to attempt to negotiate with them for a more peaceful diplomatic solution
* Natalia Chavez runs away to join her cousin Zeke in Flagstaff, thinking it to be a welcome escape from the stifling environment of New Zion

**January 2308:**

* Natalia arrives in Flagstaff, to Zeke's surprise, shock, and anger, and insists on helping him in his investigations
* Zeke contacts his sister Annie about coming to retrieve Natalia, and she departs for Flagstaff
* On hearing where his daughter has run off to, Javier Chavez contacts his sister Mariela, asking her to head to Flagstaff to make sure Natalia is okay

**Mid-January 2308:**

* Annie arrives in Flagstaff to retrieve Natalia, but by the time she arrives there have been developments in the investigation already, and the route back home is now far more dangerous thanks to extremist violence, so instead she decides to help them in their search until they can find a safe way to get Natalia home
* Mariela also arrives in Flagstaff and helps Gang 1701-D in their investigations when she can, but generally she is quite busy with Resistance work and trying to quell the violence too

**Winter 2308:**

* At some point Gang 1701-D visits a tribal settlement that consists of the various bits and pieces of dismantled tribes who are trying to band together to preserve what they are and to create something new. Leading this settlement is none other than ULYSSES and his husband
* They have some long talks that end with some information on how to find some leads on the extremists
* Later during this search Zeke is kidnapped by the extremists, where it's revealed they're led by none other than Daylynn Gannon. As part of a political message to incite more violence (and thus more rallying opposition), Daylynn intends to murder Ezekiel by burning him alive, and also reveals that the bomb that incapacitated his mother was actually meant for HIM
* Ezekiel suffers bad burns to his wrist, forearm, upper arm, and shoulder and neck, before Annie and Natalia are able to rescue him just in time
* They return to Flagstaff to plan their next step to stop the rebels
* There, Allen can't pass up the perfect opportunity to harass Zeke and insult him about the burns, his father, and his mother's condition, and, at this point, Zeke is beyond his strict pacifist policy and fucking CLOCKS Allen so hard he knocks him on his ass flat on the ground and then just continues marching on while Allen is stunned
* This punch marks a point in Allen's life where for the FIRST time there's been actual consequences for his shitty behavior, and this causes a chain reaction of introspection that forces him to finally grow up a little after some personal crises
* For Zeke it's a marked start to changing his ideals to be more nuanced and flexible
* Searching for leads on who trained the extremist rebels, Gang 1701-D travels south to Puerto Peñasco to find Delilah Wells, who can explain what happened to her and Carlos all those years ago and tell them about the secret police, plus other lead she's gathered during her time as a kook conspiracy theorist
* They take her back north with them to Flagstaff, where she stays to help them track down information
* Eventually Gang 1701-D finds the rebels and convinces Daylynn to step down from her violence. She promises to turn herself in and give information about the other extremists but she doubts the New Deseret Army will let them get close enough alive before she can do that
* With Carlos Rendón's help, obtained thanks to Delilah, Gang 1701-D + Daylynn manage to sneak past the front lines (where Carlos is, reporting on the conflict) and find Joshua, who is still incensed and warhawking and unwilling to listen to his own son about de-escalating the conflict
* Natalia manages to talk him down and Joshua realizes his mistakes and finally listens to his son
* With the intel from Daylynn, the extremists are dismantled, and since she turned herself in, her sentence is relatively light jail time, like 15 years or something
* Gang 1701-D and Joshua return to New Zion
* Carlos and Delilah reconcile, and return to New Vegas to start a new chapter in their careers, this one more honest and informed

**Spring 2308:**

* Ezekiel reconciles with his father and the rest of his family, and makes plans to stay in New Zion longer term
* Eventually towards the end of spring Lex wakes up from her coma, to everyone's great joy and relief
* Because of all recent events, Lex, Joshua, and Vulpes begin dismantling the secret police, and Joshua makes official plans to retire from the military, with Lex planning to eventually follow after securing successors (end of IASITM: TNG)
* With the reveal of the extremists being led by a New Canaanite-born Mormon, public opinion sways more in favor of the Arizona territories and southeast expansion slows as missionaries begin to emphasize the importance of self-rule and cultural preservation when they establish new missions, and New Deseret authority on the frontier makes stronger efforts to prevent illegal settlers from encroaching on tribal and native lands
* Allen Wiser, after his personal breakdown and greatly rethinking his life, decides to leave behind his old self, rename himself Casey Wiseman, and move to Vegas to try to be a better person
* Sallow of Flagstaff follows his example and later moves back to Vegas to do higher level research, finally allowing herself to have ambition and to not be hindered by the discomfort of her identity

### **End of Lexington and Joshua's era; The Next Generation takes over**

**Late 2308:**

* Joshua Graham officially retires from the New Deseret Army
* Arthur Young retires from teaching to pursue a career in politics
* Lydia Graham-Smith purchases Reynard Ranch from her uncle and continues to run it
* Ezekiel Graham also enters politics in New Zion, as an elected delegate to Flagstaff

**July 23rd, 2309:** Lexington Jedediah Graham-Smith is born to Lydia Graham-Smith

**July 25th, 2309:** Tuffy Belle Graham-Smith is born to Farrah Graham-Smith

**2310:**

* Ezekiel Graham, during a visit to New Vegas to see the work of his cousin Natalia on exhibit in a gallery, encounters Casey Wiseman and reconciles with him, rapidly leading to a whirlwind relationship in the two weeks or so that Zeke is in Vegas for
* Over the course of the year Zeke and Casey keep in touch with letters and occasionally see each other briefly
* Eventually, on learning about Casey's guilt about his mothers he left behind in the Commonwealth, Ezekiel convinces Casey to join him on an exploratory exhibition with the Brotherhood of Steel out towards the Commonwealth, having Casey use his knowledge of the area to advise as a local guide
* They find Casey's mothers, rescuing them from slavers and finding them safety in Diamond City
* After this ordeal, Ezekiel very hastily proposes to Casey and their ill-founded relationship finally breaks apart spectacularly

**Early** **2311:**

* About a month after their breakup, Casey ends up in a terrible rebound relationship with his old friend Vaughan, who thinks their whole relationship is an art piece in itself, highly publicizing their engagement
* Sallow of Flagstaff, concerned for Casey, reaches out to Ezekiel Graham, asking him for his help in breaking up Casey and Vaughan before disaster can happen
* They succeed by arranging an incredible display of infidelity between Vaughan and Sallow, and Casey leaves Vaughan and decides to really reconsider some important things about himself
* Despite these events, the three of them all end up close friends

**March 30th, 2311:** Porter Cola Graham-Smith is born to Lydia Graham-Smith

**2313:** Brought together by the ordeal in 2311, Ezekiel and Sallow spend more time together, eventually falling in love, marrying late in the year

**September 3rd, 2313:** The twins Charles Oliver Graham-Smith and Ethel Merman Graham-Smith are born to Farrah Graham-Smith about a month early, accidentally making them Virgos

**2314:** Ezekiel and Sallow's first child, Dartanyunn (named after Zeke's uncle, to his ire and honor), is born

**2316:** Ezekiel and Sallow's second child, Hippolyta (Polly for short!) is born

**February 9th, 2316:** Judy Garland Smith is born to Garland Murphy, fathered by Casey Smith after a regretful drunken night with Garland nine months earlier. Garland lies about Judy's parentage and decides to raise her with Vaughan Hirsch, who she claims is the real father, despite Judy's obviously red hair, a distinctly Smith trait

**2317:** Casey Smith finally obtains full custody of Judy after a lengthy legal dispute with her terrible mother and Vaughan. Garland still maintains some visitation rights and uses them to make Casey's life Hell when she can

**2321:** Joshua Graham passes away from natural causes, surrounded by family and loved ones

**2322:**

* Ezekiel and Sallow finally admit their marriage isn't working because of different priorities in life, and divorce on good terms
* Sallow moves to Vegas to become head of medical research for the Followers of the Apocalypse. The kids spend summers in Vegas with her and she always comes up for the holidays and other visits

**2323:** Lexington remarries--her new wife, Saida Rahal, is a Brotherhood Protectorate ambassador and also an ex-military widower who Lex met on diplomatic missions almost a decade ago, who she became close to after Joshua's death

**2324:**

* Casey, after becoming close again romantically to Zeke, proposes to him, and they marry happily
* As a wedding gift, Vulpes frames Garland Murphy and Vaughan Hirsch for possession of explicit material depicting children, and gets them a lengthy prison sentence, freeing the family from their abuse. They are honestly TERRIBLE people and completely deserve this