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The Old World Blues intro starts with a blank slide, reading Fallout: New Vegas. The words Old World Blues slowly fade into view at the bottom. The narration kicks in while several slides are shown about the history of Big Mountain.

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Narrated by Doctor Mobius.

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In the years before the Great War, Big Mountain had been the home to the brightest minds of the 21st century.
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Scientists of vision were drawn to the facility to tackle the greatest technological challenges of the era.
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They sought to create a new world, fueled by technology, for the benefit of all mankind.
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Sonic emitters, space age alloys, DNA hybridization, force field particle research, Auto-Doc advances in cranial, cardiac, and trauma surgery... the hopes and dreams of a century became realities in the electronic forges of Big Mountain.
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The nucleus of this research was the Dome, a huge stone facility that held the labs of every science known to man. It was a think tank where no problem could not be solved, where no question could not be answered.
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The Great War brought a new energy to Big Mountain and its scientists.
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Although sheltered from the frontlines, the scientists waged their own war, fighting their battles at the atomic level.
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Equations and calculations marched endlessly across chalkboards and computer terminals toward one solution: Winning the war.
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For years, the minds and computers of Big Mountain were a blaze of trajectories, weapon schematics, and nuclear theories.
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The problems began to outpace the solutions, first geometrically, then exponentially. As the war escalated, so did the questions.
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On the night of October 23rd, 2077, the scientists received an answer that put all their questions to rest.
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In the aftermath, Big Mountain's silent experiments went to sleep, their creators slowly dying in the new world that had been left behind.
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And the great stone in the middle of the Big Empty lay untouched, filled with countless technological wonders... Wonders that, in the end, had been answers to the wrong question.

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