5 More Misconceptions About Fallout's Enclave

How can they be evil when they wanted to bring back baseball

My biggest question is did Mr. House ever get invited to the Enclave? Did he ever know about them and learn what they were doing?

Another example of how the Enclave isn’t the whole remnant of the Pre-War American Government is the fact that, in Fallout 76, when the bombs drop and a bunch of government officials fled to the White Springs Congressional Bunker, all non-Enclave officials, including members of Congress, were executed.

A perfect way to describe the Enclave isn't them being a continuation of the US government. Rather, they're more of a continuation of the US shadow government. Which is sad, because I'd love to see a legitimate US government continuation faction.

Also for Number 4, "Individuals are smart, People are dumb" is a good way to explain it, combine with the fact that most likely, all Enclave members are indeed born into it, it'd be practically impossible to be truly all good. Also, wouldn't another misconception be the Enclave survivors as a whole retried extermination, because Eden himself tells you about the FEV, and Autumn wants the purifier to effectively bribe them to accept the Enclave?

I think one good general misconception would be the idea that all the vaults were filled on the day the bombs fell. For starters nobody knew that that was going to happen that day and some vaults weren’t even finished. More likely they each had designated windows of time during which they would’ve been filled. Obviously 111 opened as the bombs were falling but even then a lot of the occupants and staff were already inside when you got down there.

For your first argument, all you need to do is look at the definition of the term "enclave" which means, basically, a small part of a whole. I don't think anyone truly thought it was the entirety of the U.S. government. That would be a near impossibility.

Doc Henry and Daisy are also good examples of not all of them were bad guys

#4 don't forget Colonel Whitehill in America Rising 2. Instead of making a worldwide FEV gas (That will kill everyone exposed to a little bit of radiation (99.9% Enclave members included) she switches to a FEV grenade that only kills bugs, ghouls, and super mutants. Humans are unaffected by it.

I think the big impact on gamers about the Enclave was seeing the intro movie of Fallout 2 of the Enclave soldiers in Power Armor murduring those Vault Dwellers including kids. We didn't know at first who did it but later in the game we sure found out. Much like NV and Maxons BoS, Institute, and Legion - zero regrets in wiping them out. Only Enclave members I felt empathy for were the retired old folks in NV. If anything the Enclave suffered from Old World Blues after the bombs fell. OWB is a serious mental issue in Fallout. Most who suffer from it go in dangerous directions like the Enclave and Legion. However there are those like Preston's Minutemen who try to direct those feelings in a way that benefits people. What I want to know is what the US Constitution looked like at the time the bombs fell. I can't shake the feeling it was NOT what it looked when the Founding Fathers created it or that way more amendments were added or removed(including what's in the Bill of Rights) after the real life 25th (26th?) amendment was added.

another example of a good enclave member is a scientist in fallout 2, who after a successful speech check will release the virus onto the enclave, saving you and the captives, sacrificing himself

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One thing we don’t know is if colonel Autumn survived I personally like to think he did but we will never know until Bethesda makes a decision

12:26 Also there is surviving Enclave in FO4 - one of them in far harbor. Now serving Atom.

“Yo dude you should like totally join the enclave”

Whitley has to be my favourite Enclave member. Besides ED-E themselves of course.

14:58 a nice Isaac Asimov reference

Bro just broke my entire existence with the first one

I think the enclave as a whole was pretty large to start. You have facilities like olney power works, the poseidon energy plant, locations in the Divide, chicago several bases in appalachia, several bases in the capital wastes, several bases in California, the oil rig, bradley hercules and highwater trousers, mentions in fallout 4, and more bases eluded to in the game guide for fallout 3. Plus their involvement in Vault tech and other corporations allowing them other unmentioned bases.

I still only recognize John-Henry Eden as the CURRENT President of the U.S.A. ... Change my mind!...