Editing Fallout (section)

===Enclave===
Introduced in FO2, the Enclave claim to be the rightful rulers and inheritors of post-apocalyptic America. Y'see, back before the bombs dropped, the situation in the world and the US themselves had already deteriorated to a point a nuclear war was seen as a certainty, so ''obviously'' douchebags in the government decided "fuck the people, ''our'' survival is top priority!" Made up of all manner of high-ranking assholes, including the President, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prize-winning scientists, wealthy industrialists, members of the military, influential politicians and other powerful men and women, they constructed their own secret sea-based survival retreat, and evacuated there several months prior to the big day (at least in the old fluff). These assholes were content to let the rest of the world die and planned on repopulating the wasteland afterwards <s>with their pure and uncorrupted Aryan genes</s>. When they finally deemed the mainland safe to return to, they weren't happy to find out that other people had survived, so they decided the best thing to do was to wipe out everyone who wasn't descended from their ranks (no matter how inbred said ranks might have been).

Basically, the Enclave represented the "Asshole Surviving Elite" archetype from post-apocalyptic fiction; they preserved themselves at the expense of the average American, they maintained and built upon the highest pre-War tech so they are ''the'' ultimate , and they regard all others outside of their ranks as fit only to be enslaved or exterminated.

The ultimate antagonist of FO2 (with [[Awesome|12' tall genetically engineered homicidal maniac cyborg ex-Marine-turned-Secret-Service-agent]] serving as a final boss), they returned in FO3 as a surviving offshoot that is somehow more numerous than the original organization, BoS-style, where here they began to pick up a following amongst fans, largely because the whole "genocidal old world elitist bastards" angle was kinda downplayed by an extensive use of in-game propaganda, despite the plan of eradicating all mutants still being the same. FONV shows the aftermath of the original Enclave being destroyed by the NCR/BoS alliance for several of ex-members, so few in number they are almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Their quest, however, is all about gathering said remnants and convincing them to support your chosen faction during the final fight. They don't show up in FO4, but a separate branch of the Enclave does make an appearance in the lore in FO76, where it turns out that one absolute fucking '''maniac''' of an Enclave member not only got into the POTUS' private survival bunker, but secretly sabotaged the escape effort so that anyone with a higher rank than him would not get to the bunker under Whitesprings, meaning he would be officially left as the POTUS by virtue of being the highest ranked governmental official present and alive. He promptly used this power to flood Appalachia with mutants and killer robots as part of a crazy plan to gain access to remaining nuclear stockpiles to continue bombing China... which, as far as anyone knew, had ''already'' been nuked to oblivion...