Warning! This article contains spoilers for Fallout season 1.

Summary

• Fallout season 1 ends with connections to New Vegas, setting up a mysterious plot involving Vault-Tec and Hank's escape.
• New Vegas plays a major role in Fallout's vast Wasteland, with the location hosting a territory war in the game Fallout: New Vegas.
• Fallout season 2 will likely explore Hank's ties to New Vegas, hinting at Vault-Tec's presence and faction control.

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Concerning Lucy's story, her life-changing discoveries revolved around her father, Hank. At the end of the season, Hank escapes The Ghoul and Lucy, setting up a continuation of his character and Vault-Tec's plans for Fallout season 2's story. While the promise of Hank's story being further explored alone is compelling enough, the location he escapes to will surely further excite those familiar with the Fallout video games. The final shot of Fallout season 1 is Hank arriving at New Vegas, a city with major connections to the original games.

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Why Is New Vegas Important In Fallout

New Vegas Is A Key Wasteland Location

Concerning what New Vegas is, it is one of the more iconic locations in Fallout's Wasteland. For the most part, only the west and east coasts of the United States have been explored at length in the Fallout games. Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas are the three games in the series that take place in or around California, much like Prime Video's Fallout TV show does. Maintaining continuity with the timeline of the Fallout games, the TV show does a good job of fleshing out the areas of post-nuclear apocalypse California, also known as the New California Republic.

New Vegas' location consists of the recolonized ruins of Las Vegas and the surrounding areas of the Mojave Desert.

New Vegas is one of the primary strongholds of California after Fallout's nuclear apocalyptic event and was shown in Fallout: New Vegas to be the subject of a territory war between the New California Republic and several other factions. As evident by its name, New Vegas' location consists of the recolonized ruins of Las Vegas and the surrounding areas of the Mojave Desert. This is highlighted in the Fallout TV show by the barren stretches of land surrounding New Vegas in the final shot of the series.

New Vegas' History In The Fallout Games Explained

New Vegas Is The Primary Location In The 2010 Spinoff Game

New Vegas became the center of a power struggle between three factions: House's army known collectively as the Three Families, the New California Republic, and a Roman-inspired group named Caeser's Legion.

New Vegas' history in the Fallout video game series is fairly expansive, beginning with a man named Robert House from before the Great War shown at the start of Fallout season 1. House knew that a nuclear war was coming between China and the United States, and began safeguarding his hometown, Las Vegas, against a nuclear holocaust. When the war broke out, House needed only a device called the Platinum Chip to upgrade the town's defenses enough that the major city would remain relatively unscathed.

However, the delivery of the Platinum Chip was late, and Las Vegas was stuck by nuclear warheads. House's defenses allowed some of the city to withstand the attack, but he fell into a decades-long coma. Centuries later, House made his move to retake the raider-ridden city of Las Vegas and formed New Vegas. Eventually, New Vegas became the center of a power struggle between three factions: House's army known collectively as the Three Families, the New California Republic, and a Roman-inspired group named Caeser's Legion.

Outside of the power struggle taking place over New Vegas, the city itself has an illustrious history as being a jewel of the Wasteland. Like Las Vegas was before the war, New Vegas is a place where people can go to gamble, shop, dine, and drink in a somewhat "upper-class" environment, relative to the other areas of the Wasteland. A lot of this is due to Robert House's safeguarding. Without House's defenses or his leadership of the city after the war, New Vegas would not be the important part of the Wasteland that it is in the Fallout franchise.

The power struggle over the city serves as the basis of Fallout: New Vegas, with the player character choosing which side to take in the conflict.

What New Vegas Means For Fallout Season 2 & Beyond

What New Vegas Sets Up In Fallout

Interestingly, it is difficult to say exactly how New Vegas will be important to Fallout season 2. The primary reason why is due to the Fallout TV show's timeline. Prime Video's story takes place almost 20 years after Fallout: New Vegas, a game that has an unclear ending given the many possible outcomes. As such, Prime Video will likely need to make a decision surrounding the state of New Vegas, and which of Fallout's many factions controls it, for season 2. What is even more interesting, is that Fallout season 1 implies Vault-Tec has a major presence in New Vegas.

Lucy's father, Hank, traveled to New Vegas shortly after escaping the Griffith Observatory. This escape was paired with The Ghoul stating that Hank must answer to someone. Therefore, it can be inferred that whoever Hank works for has a big presence in New Vegas, proving that the city will be important to the story of a continuation. However, the city's infrastructure will need to be addressed, specifically how it connects to Fallout: New Vegas, potentially providing the Fallout show with its biggest game change yet.

All that being said, Fallout season 2 could utilize New Vegas to introduce new factions to the world of the show. One of the factions fighting over the city in the 2010 game, the New California Republic, has already been established. As such, the other two could be introduced in a continuation of the show, depending on how Prime Video's Fallout handles the writing of Fallout: New Vegas' ending. From the Three Families to Caesar's Legion, New Vegas could serve as the catalyst for Fallout season 2's factions to grow in number.

How Mr. House Can Become Fallout Season 2's New Villain

One of the main ways New Vegas could impact Fallout season 2 is through the aforementioned Mr. House, also known as Robert House. Mr. House made a cameo appearance in Fallout season 1's ending, played by Rafi Silver. House was shown as part of Vault-Tec's inner circle which came up with ideas on how to use the various Vaults across the United States. With Hank fleeing to New Vegas, it could well be the case that Robert House is the person calling the shots in the Wasteland, or at least allied with Bud Askins' brain robot in Vault 31.

In Fallout: New Vegas, Robert House can serve as an antagonist if the player chooses to side against him. Fallout season 2 could see the creatives at Prime Video write Fallout: New Vegas' ending in which Mr. House retains control of New Vegas into the story of the show. In doing so, Fallout season 2 could position him as a primary antagonist, one who is tied to the plots of Hank, Vault-Tec management, and the other villainous powers at be in the Wasteland.