Raleigh Clay was a founding member of the Free States.
Background[]
In addition to being the figurehead of the Free States movement, Raleigh was also best friends with Senator Sam Blackwell for over forty years.[1] He lived in Harpers Ferry for all of his life before the Great War.[2] Due to his founding of and open affiliation to the Free States, he was the target of many government-led attacks and derision in the eyes of the public,[3][4] which were contributing factors to the Free States' secession from America. The mayor of Harpers Ferry, Miranda Vox, shunned the Free States and demanded for Raleigh to leave town, upon which he and his family retreated into their personal bunker.
After the Great War, Raleigh emerged with his family. Using his Free States connections, he made an attempt at stabilizing the dangerous region of the Mire and to help the civilians that used to chastise the Free Staters. When Miranda Vox, who also survived the War, asked for help with rebuilding Harpers Ferry, Raleigh and his daughter Marty went to investigate and found the town in a pitiful condition. Raleigh would have left them to die, but Marty sympathized with the survivors and proposed that they help rebuild Harpers Ferry. Raleigh eventually agreed, and they accomplished this by fortifying the town and teaching its citizens how to survive.[2]
It wasn't long until the Free States became involved with other groups. Raleigh, at first, was supportive of cooperation with the Responders but had been wary of the Brotherhood of Steel due to their demands for supplies. Shortly afterward, Raleigh led the push for the Free States to take over the Harpers Ferry Armory and use it as the staging ground for Free States operations after the war, as well as a way to prepare for any aggressions from the Brotherhood to try and get resources from them.[5]
After seven years of reconstruction, their work came undone. In 2086, the Scorched and Scorchbeasts overwhelmed the town, killing many and causing the Free States to retreat to their bunkers.[6] Raleigh's wife and Marty were among those killed. Raleigh and his other children survived and retreated to their bunker, but he was left in despair at his family's losses and angered by the non-presence of his oldest friend, Sam Blackwell (who had, unbeknownst to Raleigh, died by then at the hands of an Enclave assassin).[1] This did not deter him from continuing to look out for the Free States, sending out a warning to abandon efforts to recover Harpers Ferry and stay in hiding.[7]
In the wake of Harpers Ferry's destruction, he was also a key part in the development of the Scorched Detection System, an early warning system against the Scorched with Niraj Singh, Ella Ames, Edward Hayes, and later Niraj's daughter Abigayle. One of the system's other names, "Operation Cooldown," was made in memoriam of Marty. Eventually, the research bore fruit, and Raleigh helped to set up the network of Scorched detectors.[8][9][10] He also oversaw the development and implementation of Scorchbeast lures around the Mire, further working on instructing people how to use them.[11]
Raleigh's work as the Free States' leader continued past the fall of the Brotherhood in 2095, when he sent out teams to scavenge equipment from Camp Venture[12] and the following year, when he sent a team into the Cranberry Bog to investigate the Brotherhood's final transmission, "Defiance has fallen."[13] By 2102, Raleigh's bunker has been abandoned, but there is no evidence of his death.
Notes[]
Raleigh's voice is heard on a recorded message during the Heart of the Swamp event.
Related holotapes[]
Appearances[]
Raleigh Clay is mentioned only in Fallout 76.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Family and so-called friends
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harpers Ferry proposal
- ↑ Overseer's log - Free States
- ↑ Charleston Capitol Building terminal entries
- ↑ Protecting our own
- ↑ Abbie's bunker terminal entries; Niraj's terminal, The Scorched
- ↑ Raleigh Clay's bunker terminal entries; outgoing notifications station, Scorchbeasts
- ↑ Raleigh Clay's bunker terminal entries; terminal, Early Thoughts
- ↑ Raleigh Clay's bunker terminal entries; terminal, First Plan
- ↑ Raleigh Clay's bunker terminal entries; terminal, Promising Results
- ↑ Raleigh Clay's bunker terminal entries; outgoing notifications station, Scorchbeast Lures
- ↑ Abbie's bunker terminal entries; Abbie's terminal, Fort Defiance
- ↑ Defiance mission report
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