In season 2, episode 3 of the Fallout collection, Lucy encounters Caesar’s Legion, or what stays of it.
Followers of Fallout: New Vegas are primarily involved with one query: Which ending of the Obsidian role-playing sport is canon? In reality, the Fallout collection won’t present a transparent reply to this query, as has already been formally confirmed.
Nonetheless, this doesn’t forestall Robert Home (Justin Theroux), the NCR, or Caesar’s Legion from making an look: With the 2 main factions combating over Hoover Dam and management of the Mojave, Lucy (Ella Purnell) and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) have now made their acquaintance 15 years after New Vegas.
What’s the standing of Caesar’s Legion 15 years after New Vegas?
Within the third episode of season 2, Lucy finds herself in a Caesar’s Legion camp (and instantly factors out that they’re announcing the Roman normal’s identify fully improper). A handful of vital particulars concerning the destiny of the brutal slave drivers are revealed:
- Caesar’s Legion nonetheless exists, however is nowhere close to as highly effective because it was 15 years in the past.
- In reality, the faction has fallen out: After Caesar’s dying, at the very least two completely different leaders have claimed management. That is although Caesar had really chosen a successor. Every of them now sits on their very own throne and wears their very own outfit, which bears a hanging resemblance to that of the unique Caesar.
- Nonetheless, the unique’s corpse is laid out in the course of the camp, round which a entrance has shaped: anybody who tries to ship Caesar’s message to his survivors is shot down by one faction or the opposite.
- The combatants are thus in a relatively absurd stalemate that even irritates Lucy: Nobody can advance, nobody needs to again down. Consequently, the as soon as highly effective faction has torn itself aside.
- Caesar’s Legion is so preoccupied with its personal civil struggle that the faction hardly has any important affect on the Mojave anymore. That’s excellent news for the NCR, as a result of after the destruction of Shady Sands, there appears to be virtually nothing left of the New California Republic.
What does this imply for the canon ending of New Vegas?
Caesar’s Legion is damaged and defeated after the dying of their nice chief. However doesn’t that imply the faction should have misplaced the battle for Hoover Dam?
Not essentially. This reveals how intently showrunners and screenwriters Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner studied New Vegas. It stands to purpose that the unique Caesar died someday 15 years after the occasions of New Vegas.
Even throughout New Vegas, Caesar is 55 years previous and affected by a mind tumor. No matter whether or not Courier 6 cured him with the Auto-Doc or an enormous revolver, it’s in no way far-fetched {that a} warmonger in the course of a radioactive desert wouldn’t make it to his 70s.
Let’s get to the purpose: Caesar’s Legion was held collectively solely by Caesar himself.
Nearly each sensible individual in New Vegas predicted that the faction could be doomed as soon as its chief died. Key figures similar to Robert Home, Ulysses, and Joshua Graham made it clear to gamers that Caesar’s Legion would fail in the end.
The Fallout collection has thus solely fulfilled the prophecy that was already foreshadowed in New Vegas. And it did so with out essentially committing to a canonical ending.
By the way in which, you’ve in all probability observed that Macaulay Culkin is carrying the armor of Legate Lanius. Nonetheless, that doesn’t robotically imply that the star of Residence Alone is taking part in Lanius. It’s more likely that his character merely relieved Lanius of his belongings after his dying. Guidelines of the wasteland and all that.
