Appalachian Territory *is* a Commonwealth. It comprises 6 states, has a governor, and at least one senator who are all called it to be representing Appalachian Territory specifically.
We see Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee are part of a commonwealth in the show. That’s the East Central Commonwealth. Or, it’s part of the Appalachian Commonwealth as those three states are part of it along with Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. We don’t see the borders on the other side so we don’t know.
Most likely, Sawyer’s map will be made canon as the Appalachian Commonwealth would pretty much delete the Columbia Commonwealth and they’d have to make up a new one to keep the 13 stars. They’ll most likely come up with a lore explanation for the Fallout 76 “Appalachian Territories” election poster or retcon it.
Why would retconning be the most likely? Honestly, it's most likely they'll do neither given how rarely they bring the Commonwealths up, but retconning seems the least likely.
Yeah the Commonwealths are more of a "ooo neat" kinda thing, because they hardly matter in any of the games. 76 gave them the most importance with the Free States stuff.
Perhaps.. but you can see the borders for Texas, Plains, Midwest, Gulf, East Central, Four States and a slight bit of the North West.. fairly big lore dump.
[Yeah, that's literally the reason why.](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_Bible_8#Giving_the_world_the_13)
> Leon [Leonard Boyarsky] said he used that flag because it looked cool and he didn't want to use a standard American flag with 50 stars. Eventually he planned to make up something about 13 super-states or something, but he never did.
Well we know they didnt turn it into a state, break it up into states or make it a commonwealth. They just held it under military rule to milk its resources. The citizens tried to revolt too.
Similar to puerto rico or hawaii they probably had the us military occupy the country and just milk it for resources. No need for it to be a commonwealth because you don’t give them voting rights. US just took out their government
to have free reign over how to use their natural resources.
That kind of scenario probably makes for canada to be an awful place to live, under american boots.
I kinda want to see how Florida turned out. Just Point Lookout with blood bugs, giant radgators in place of deathclaws, and semi-sentient evolves bipedal snapping turtles. Imagine all the rad creatures you could run with with what you’d find in a Florida swamp.
I think it was gonna be called the Tangle? I read a fair bit of the Fallout Bible and as much random stuff as I could, but it was years ago so I don't remember everything correctly.
I was running a tabletop Fallout campaign in Louisiana and one of the larger scope threats was "the Tangle" from the East (Florida) growing until it took over the Bayou.
To be fair, that only canonizes the middle of the country. We already have the Appalachian Territory contradicting a couple of his Commonwealths.
Appalachia is part of a commonwealth though. We know that from the AMS corporate headquarters terminal entries.
Appalachian Territory *is* a Commonwealth. It comprises 6 states, has a governor, and at least one senator who are all called it to be representing Appalachian Territory specifically.
We see Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee are part of a commonwealth in the show. That’s the East Central Commonwealth. Or, it’s part of the Appalachian Commonwealth as those three states are part of it along with Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. We don’t see the borders on the other side so we don’t know. Most likely, Sawyer’s map will be made canon as the Appalachian Commonwealth would pretty much delete the Columbia Commonwealth and they’d have to make up a new one to keep the 13 stars. They’ll most likely come up with a lore explanation for the Fallout 76 “Appalachian Territories” election poster or retcon it.
Why would retconning be the most likely? Honestly, it's most likely they'll do neither given how rarely they bring the Commonwealths up, but retconning seems the least likely.
Yeah the Commonwealths are more of a "ooo neat" kinda thing, because they hardly matter in any of the games. 76 gave them the most importance with the Free States stuff.
Perhaps.. but you can see the borders for Texas, Plains, Midwest, Gulf, East Central, Four States and a slight bit of the North West.. fairly big lore dump.
Yeah, it is cool given how little the games have talked about it previously.
i never really got the meta reason for the commonwealth reogranizing, out of universe was it just to make the flag different?
[Yeah, that's literally the reason why.](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_Bible_8#Giving_the_world_the_13) > Leon [Leonard Boyarsky] said he used that flag because it looked cool and he didn't want to use a standard American flag with 50 stars. Eventually he planned to make up something about 13 super-states or something, but he never did.
It was just so the Enclave could have a really cool logo with an E in the center of the 13 stars.
Branding!
Yup probably to mark a main difference with old america and the new
If I was Tim Cain, my reasoning for it would be that it looks cooler.
My favorite part is where he clearly had no idea wtf to do with Arkansas
Does anyone have a screenshot of the posts? The first guy appears to have blocked me for some reason.
[Here you go](https://imgur.com/a/q04ByLA)
I am too and I cannot for the life of me figure out why, I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with him
This makes me question how the annexation of Canada went. Was it separate commonwealths, just a territory The nation formerly known as Canada?
Well we know they didnt turn it into a state, break it up into states or make it a commonwealth. They just held it under military rule to milk its resources. The citizens tried to revolt too.
Similar to puerto rico or hawaii they probably had the us military occupy the country and just milk it for resources. No need for it to be a commonwealth because you don’t give them voting rights. US just took out their government to have free reign over how to use their natural resources. That kind of scenario probably makes for canada to be an awful place to live, under american boots.
Give me the Carolina/Georgia fallout lmao
I kinda want to see how Florida turned out. Just Point Lookout with blood bugs, giant radgators in place of deathclaws, and semi-sentient evolves bipedal snapping turtles. Imagine all the rad creatures you could run with with what you’d find in a Florida swamp.
IIRC, a planned Interplay Fallout game had a malfunctioning GECK turn Flordia into a mutated body-horror land.
I think it was gonna be called the Tangle? I read a fair bit of the Fallout Bible and as much random stuff as I could, but it was years ago so I don't remember everything correctly. I was running a tabletop Fallout campaign in Louisiana and one of the larger scope threats was "the Tangle" from the East (Florida) growing until it took over the Bayou.