Today in the CBO
Settlements Today
by Nat Wright-Kowalski
20 April 2297 - Sunshine Tidings Co-op
On certain Tuesdays for the 2297 season, we will feature one of the settlements, teams, and owners of the Commonwealth Baseball Organization. This is meant to tell you more about life in the Commonwealth, as well as give you more information about the teams and their owners. These will be done at Nat Wright-Kowalski's availability
In our eighteenth installment of "Settlements Today," I visited the old hippy compound, Sunshine Tidings Co-op. In the days before the bombs dropped, this settlement was a place where Commonwealth citizens were looking to "Free the Robots." It seems, the Railroad was predated.
When Nate Howard first appeared on scene, the area was mostly abandoned other than a few ghouls and Professor Goodfeels, the "far out" Mister Handy. Nate cleared out the ghouls and planted his symbolic flag.
Sunshine Tidings Co-op - 2287
Today, the settlement has started to boom with modernity and a good self-contained crops field that also delivers to other areas along the West Bank.
This is one of the few settlements around without a true "native" population, meaning the adult settlers all came here from someplace else, several at the urging of Nate.
One of those imports is the operating pacifist mayor Talia McGovern. We'll write more about her below, but she is the leader of one of the more easygoing settlements in all of the Commonwealth.
Sunshine Tidings Co-op - 2297. Find this build at: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/41814
Owner - Talia McGovern
Talia first met Nate when she lived in Covenant as the settlement's maintenance expert and tools craftsman. According to a terminal entry about Talia, "Talia acts kind and compassionate towards others, but she shows a deep fear of synths. It is implied that she lost her family to the synths, like other members of Covenant."
Talia McGovern
So why did she agree to leave Covenant and take up residence in a former robot hippy commune that would have been sympathetic to the Railroad cause, something she does not seem to favor.
According to Nate, heavy therapy. And perhaps a push towards chem addiction. Now, Talia is still nervous around conflict, but she is a lot more chill.
When things do get stressful for her, you can find Tali tinkering in the central tool shop of STC.
The Brotherhood's Mother Ship - ArcJet Systems
According to a terminal entry, "In 2075, ArcJet began working on a nuclear-powered rocket, the XMB booster engine, in hopes of convincing the United States Space Administration to award them the lucrative contract for their Mars Shot Project[3]. Despite the risk of starting work before the contract, it paid off when the USSA gave them both the contract for the booster engine and the contract for a deep range transmitter. Both projects were completed before 2077. However, ArcJet only received payment for the deep range transmitter project, as the rocket was delayed before the Great War due to problems on the western front. CEO Thomas Reinhardt promised the USSA to finish both projects by July 2077, a year before the expected launch date."
ArcJet Systems logo
While the complications of the bombs falling in 2077 may have delayed the launch to Mars, the Brotherhood of Steel has now begun exploring that project more.
On top of that, the pre-War ArcJet's technology is going to help in providing full speed boosts to the Commonwealth's plans to have moving nuclear-powered videos. With the excess in power cells, with the ability to recharge them, there can be hundreds of motor vehicles, like the Corvega, spanning the Commonwealth landscape.
Investors have poured quite a lot of money into ArcJet Systems, so the BoS-run company in running in jet black.