Replaying FO3 via TTW with a buttload of mods. It really is nice to have the NV crafting system, iron sights, hardcore mode, and all the other shit you get with NV.
One thing I always wondered about Fallout 3 was who the actual fuck are Talon Company? Where did they come from? Why do they have such good standardized equipment? And I think I finally figured it out.
We know that Talon Company is on a continuing mission to make sure the Capitol Wasteland stays a lawless, disorganized place. Even if you don't piss off Burke doing too many good deeds and getting your karma too high eventually attracts their attention. And even if you play as an evil character you'll probably end up fighting them at one of the locations they'll pop up at across the waste, and you can still get them sent after you by Burke if you disarm the Megaton bomb even with high Karma. So it's obvious they're not just The Regulators but for bad guys because The Regulators only appear if you end up with evil Karma or if you access their headquarters with the Lawbringer perk, but Talon Company has a physical presence in the waste regardless of your karma or perks.
So who benefits from the Capitol Waste staying lawless? Well, The Enclave does. Makes it much easier to take over a wasteland that isn't unified. It explains why Talon Company is trying to take the Capitol building, a place the Enclave itself shows up to take during the events of Broken Steel. It also explains the standardized surplus US Army Combat Armor that every single one of them wear. Sure Rivet City and Tenpenny Tower have enough suits for their guards, but Talon Company have enough for an army. That shit has to come from somewhere, and the Enclave just makes sense. They, like the Brotherhood, are a remnant of the US Army. And we know early on the Brotherhood did have many suits of US Army issue Combat Armor for their soldiers. Stands to reason the Enclave did too, but it was completely phased out after the introduction of the Advanced Power Armor MKI, and later the MK2.
So the Enclave fund Talon Company with old surplus equipment and send them to hunt wannabe heroes, fuck with the wastelanders, and try to secure prime targets.
I also figure they were buying a lot of the steel from the Pitt to manufacture their armor and vertibirds. Just makes sense to me.
One thing I always wondered about Fallout 3 was who the actual fuck are Talon Company? Where did they come from? Why do they have such good standardized equipment? And I think I finally figured it out.
We know that Talon Company is on a continuing mission to make sure the Capitol Wasteland stays a lawless, disorganized place. Even if you don't piss off Burke doing too many good deeds and getting your karma too high eventually attracts their attention. And even if you play as an evil character you'll probably end up fighting them at one of the locations they'll pop up at across the waste, and you can still get them sent after you by Burke if you disarm the Megaton bomb even with high Karma. So it's obvious they're not just The Regulators but for bad guys because The Regulators only appear if you end up with evil Karma or if you access their headquarters with the Lawbringer perk, but Talon Company has a physical presence in the waste regardless of your karma or perks.
So who benefits from the Capitol Waste staying lawless? Well, The Enclave does. Makes it much easier to take over a wasteland that isn't unified. It explains why Talon Company is trying to take the Capitol building, a place the Enclave itself shows up to take during the events of Broken Steel. It also explains the standardized surplus US Army Combat Armor that every single one of them wear. Sure Rivet City and Tenpenny Tower have enough suits for their guards, but Talon Company have enough for an army. That shit has to come from somewhere, and the Enclave just makes sense. They, like the Brotherhood, are a remnant of the US Army. And we know early on the Brotherhood did have many suits of US Army issue Combat Armor for their soldiers. Stands to reason the Enclave did too, but it was completely phased out after the introduction of the Advanced Power Armor MKI, and later the MK2.
So the Enclave fund Talon Company with old surplus equipment and send them to hunt wannabe heroes, fuck with the wastelanders, and try to secure prime targets.
I also figure they were buying a lot of the steel from the Pitt to manufacture their armor and vertibirds. Just makes sense to me.
