The Great Static was an event that happened at Big MT.
Background[]
At some point, there was an explosion that destroyed the top of the mountain. Doctor Dala mentions that Big MT was larger until the event, in which the top of the mountain was used as part of a detonation experiment. She mentions that after the event, the silver lining is that they had more room to build upon in the facility.[1]
Doctors Borous and Klein also mention the Great Static, both as a medium for attempting to quantify how much time has passed since cazadores were first created and as an expression of surprise.[2][3]
Appearances[]
The Great Static is mentioned only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Behind the scenes[]
In Fallout Bible 0, the Great Static occurred in 2077 and led to the loss of many records.[Non-game 1] In Van Buren, the ZAX unit of Boulder Dome would have mentioned the "great Static" and how it followed the aftermath of the Great War. The event resulted in the AI forgetting data and struggling to remember things.[Non-canon 1]
References[]
- ↑ Courier: "This used to be a mountain?"
Dala: "Yes, Big MT was quite big indeed until the Great Static. Then the top of the mountain was used as part of a detonation experiment. This cleared additional space in the Crater, however, allowing us more real estate to build upon. Convenient. Efficient."
(Doctor Dala's dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "All right... when did you create Cazadores?"
Borous: "-In... two thousand... let's see, carry the three... then count backwards from the Great Static... or beyond?- -There were the tarantula debates... and something about hawks, which made it around... eh, 2003? May? Tuesday. It was definitely Tuesday.-"
(Doctor Bourous' dialogue) - ↑ Klein: "NOSES? BY THE GREAT STATIC, THESE LOBOTOMITES CONFOUND ME WITH THEIR SHEER NUMBER OF USELESS EXTREMITIES."
(Doctor Klein's dialogue)
Non-game
- ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "Nonetheless, even members of the Enclave probably could not answer the question of who created the Vault experiments and their reasons, as many of the people responsible for the creation of the Vaults died long ago, and many records were lost in the great static of 2077. President Richardson was familiar with the purpose of the Vaults, but he never saw them as more than little test tubes of preserved humans he could mess with."
Non-canon
- ↑ Boulder design document: ""I had been built two years too late for the reason I had been created. And there was nothing I could do when the End came. The great Static, and the slow years where I began to die. I have forgotten so much, <CHARNAME>. Time kills machines as it kills humans, and I have felt the decay, the slow blindness, the inability to... remember. And yet there is still so much left to lose. If I lose these last parts of myself, then the work of a hundred years will be lost. Then Presper came to me, and gave me a new reason for existing. There is joy in purpose.""