MR. CHRONICLE
A MISTER HANDY ARCHIVE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN WASTELAND
REACTOR HUMMING · OPTICS POLISHED · ADVISORIES ARMED
RECORDS CURRENT THROUGH: THE TELEVISION RECORD · SEASON ONE
NEW TO THE WASTELANDOrientationWhat this place is, what the story is, and where to begin without being ambushed by it.HERE FOR THE TALEThe Story So FarEvery reel recounted whole, in canonical order — 2102 to 2296 — with the lore each one feeds.WALK THE YEARSThe AlmanacTwo hundred and nineteen years on one spine, from the Old World to the city of lights.HERE FOR EVERYTHINGEnter the stacksThe record spine, the dossiers, and the Network of every thread between them.
THE RECORD SPINE
ordered as the wasteland lived it
RECORD 01EXTINCT
The Old World
I was manufactured in that world, sir — a lovely place to be a robot, right up to the morning it wasn't.
ERA RECORD · THE WORLD BEFOREno advisories
RECORD 02CLOSED · TWO HOURS
The Great War
Two hours, give or take. I have longer maintenance cycles.
ERA RECORD · EXTINCTION EVENTno advisories
RECORD 03SEALED BY VAULT-TEC
The Vault Experiment
Every door sealed on schedule, sir. What was scheduled behind them is this record.
ERA RECORD · CONTROLLED CONDITIONS▲ 7 advisories
RECORD 04ONGOING
Appalachia
The greenest record I keep, and for the longest while the quietest.
ERA RECORD · FIRST RECLAMATION▲ 1 advisory
RECORD 05EXTINCT
The Master and the Unity
The most courteous monster in my files, sir — he offered humanity a fair hearing, and then the vats.
ERA RECORD · FORCED ASCENSION▲ 1 advisory
RECORD 06RECORD CLOSED · REPUBLIC EXTANT
New California
The eighty years in which humanity, having survived the end of the world, attempted something far harder: paperwork.
ERA RECORD · REPUBLIC AND RIG▲ 2 advisories
RECORD 07EXTANT
The Capital Wasteland
The seat of the Old World's government, sir, two hundred years after the government stopped sitting.
ERA RECORD · GOOD FIGHT▲ 2 advisories
RECORD 08VICTOR UNRECORDED
The Mojave
The bombs were mostly turned away at the door, sir; the argument over who owns the place was not.
ERA RECORD · CONTESTED RECORD▲ 1 advisory
RECORD 09CONTESTED RECORD
The Commonwealth
Every archivist fears fire, sir; the Commonwealth taught me to fear the perfect copy.
ERA RECORD · SOMETHING SYNTHETIC▲ 1 advisory
RECORD 10ONGOING — REEL TWO IN PROCESSING
The Return West
Two hundred and nineteen years after the bombs, somebody finally went up to ask who dropped them.
ERA RECORD · TELEVISION RECORD▲ 1 advisory
THE DOSSIERS
subjects that refuse to stay in one era
DOSSIER D1SOLVENT, DISTRESSINGLY
Vault-Tec
They sold the apocalypse door to door, sir, and the doors were the finest ever made.
DOSSIER · CORPORATE ENTITY▲ 3 advisories
DOSSIER D2EXTANT · IN CHAPTERS
The Brotherhood of Steel
Knights of the leftover atom, sworn to keep the Old World's weapons from the people who used them once already.
DOSSIER · MARTIAL ORDER▲ 6 advisories
DOSSIER D3REMNANTS EXTANT
The Enclave
They saved the flag, the anthem, and the presidency; the people, sir, were filed under impurities.
DOSSIER · CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT▲ 5 advisories
DOSSIER D4CONTESTED RECORD
The New California Republic
The wasteland's first state: laws, courts, taxes, a flag — and minutes, sir, which is how an archive falls in love.
DOSSIER · SUCCESSOR STATE▲ 2 advisories
DOSSIER D5EXTANT · STERILE LINE
FEV and the Super Mutants
The giants were somebody's idea of an improvement, sir — and somebody's idea of a weapon before that.
DOSSIER · PANDORA STRAIN▲ 6 advisories
DOSSIER D6EXTANT, PATIENT
The Ghouls
My esteemed colleagues, sir — the only other things in the wasteland old enough to check my citations.
DOSSIER · THE LONG-LIVED▲ 5 advisories
DOSSIER D7EXTANT · TRAIL OPEN
The Ghoul
The one patron old enough to check this archive against his own memory; he has never once come in.
DOSSIER · FIGURE — BOUNTY HUNTER▲ 1 advisory
DOSSIER D8EXTANT — RECORD OPEN
Lucy MacLean
The wasteland has broken sturdier optimists; at last filing, it was still working on this one.
DOSSIER · FIGURE — VAULT DWELLER▲ 1 advisory
DOSSIER D9EXTANT — RECORD OPEN
Maximus
I have filed two centuries of Brotherhood doctrine, sir; this is what it does to one boy.
DOSSIER · FIGURE — SQUIRE OF STEEL▲ 1 advisory
DOSSIER D10EXPERIMENT ONGOING
Vault 33 and Its Sisters
Three doors under Santa Monica, kept tidy for two centuries; the tidiness, sir, was the experiment.
DOSSIER · TRIPLE EXPERIMENT▲ 1 advisory
DOSSIER D11CONTESTED RECORD
Shady Sands
The wasteland's first great city, sir — the file every other record in New California leans against.
DOSSIER · CITY▲ 3 advisories
FURTHER ENTRIES IN PROCESSING
the spindle never stops, sir
QUEUEDIN PROCESSING
Caesar's Legion
Eighty-six tribes and one man's Rome. In transcription.
QUEUEDIN PROCESSING
Mr. House
The man who bet against the end of the world and nearly broke even.
QUEUEDIN PROCESSING
The Institute
The Commonwealth's whisper, filed under its proper name.
QUEUEDIN PROCESSING
The Railroad & the Minutemen
Two answers to the same synthetic question.
QUEUEDIN PROCESSING
The Children of Atom
A faith that grew where nothing else would.
QUEUEDIN PROCESSING
The Television Record — Season Two
A city of lights on the horizon. Reel received, not yet catalogued.