Sideburns Speculates: Fallout and Watchmen.

Okay, this isn't actually Sideburns speculating at all. This is some Wild Mass Guessing I found on TV Tropes that I felt to be rather interesting:

"It's a reality where Veidt's plan was thwarted/failed/exposed afterwards by Rorschach's journal, and war came. Vault-Tech one of Veidt's competitors/subsidaries, developed the Vault's as backup in case the initial plan failed. All the uber-tech is either courtesy of Veidt, or reverse-engineered by the government from Drieburg's abandoned Owl-Nest- note that he had laser weaponry and (abeit, a faulty prototype of) powered armour, both of which are ubiqitous amongst Fallout's more tech-savvy factions. The mutants, and indeed FEV, are part of a failed attempt to recreate Dr Manhattan, the most successfull, albeit still failed attempt being The Master from Fallout 1. The Mechanist and the Antagoniser are simply a small-scale repeat of the same social abberation/fad that lead to the existence of costumed heroes before the war."

But, why would I post something like that here? I don't post EVERYTHING I think is cool on my blog. Well there was a comment underneath that I think justified the sheer geekiness of the idea.

•"The accumulated rads of all their dirty water and sugar bombs will foam up around their waist and all the mutants and Megaton Settlers will look up and shout 'Save us!' ... and I'll look down and whisper 'Tunnel Snakes Rule.'"