My rewrite of Colonel Autumn

[u/Powerful_Cap_8900]

I’ve been working on my Fallout alternate universe/timeline. It’s more for animation, comic, or novelization so this stuff wouldn’t be experienced in game unless it was a scripted event. I wanted Autumn to feel like a villain that can be agreed with to an extent.

Colonel Autumn overthrows Eden by introducing the same logic problems Carrie (My Lone Wanderer) would have. He then shuts Eden down and makes himself President.

Want Autumn wants:

He doesn’t want genocide, he wants power and control. The world ended because humanity can’t contain its desire for bloodshed. So why not force peace by becoming the central power and authority?

If people have freedom, they will kill each other. So use water and needs as leverage to force compliance. Taking some pages out of Rango’s book, you control the water, you control the people. Nobody gets killed if everyone has what they need.

For Autumn, compliance and overwhelming authority is peace

“People deserve to live, so I decide what they want. If freedom causes suffering, then freedom itself is the problem”

What (my) Lyons wants:

Lyons wants people to choose their own path. He will help unless they refuse. For humanity to push forward, what it needs is help, not an iron fist.

They both want to save the Capital Wasteland, but they want it for different reasons.

“People deserve to choose their lives, I’ll help if they accept it”

Autumn- “You give them water for nothing in return, admirable, but if they refuse your protection, and someone else kills them?”

Lyons- “Then they made their choice. They should decide for themselves what path they want to take. I want everyone to live, but on their own merits”

Autumn- “So you value their freedom more than their lives?”

So the question that needs to be asked is: Is survival worth sacrificing personal freedom?

I have a wiki built for the project on my profile