Diksha Sundriyal
The second season of Prime Video’s ‘Fallout’ expands the world of the Wasteland, while continuing to focus on the conflicts inside the Vaults. The plot gets denser as more factions come into the mix, and the finale sets up the story for a third season that will have at least two major wars in focus. The season ends on a bittersweet note where characters like the Ghoul receive hope, while Norm has nothing but uncertainty in front of him. Lucy laments the fact that she could have stopped the war that is right at New Vegas’ doorstep, but Max knows that this is not the only war going on in the Wasteland. The post-credits scene reveals how chaotic things are and how much more dangerous they are going to get. SPOILERS AHEAD.
What is Liberty Prime Alpha?
The post-credits scene of ‘Fallout’ Season 2 takes the audience back to the Brotherhood of Steel. The last time we saw them, Max had killed Paladin Xander Harkness. He tried to kill Quintus but couldn’t and ran away with cold fusion. As he fled, he knew that the wrath of the Commonwealth would now rain down on his faction of the Brotherhood, and he was right. At the same time, a fight was also instigated between the other factions, and the post-credits scene reveals that it has only gotten worse. With the sounds of guns and bombs in the background, we watch Dane enter the inner sanctum where she meets Quintus. They have brought him the schematics he asked for.
Before opening the package, Quintus says that he tried to unify the Brotherhood, but it didn’t do him any good. So, now, he is going to stop playing the part of “Quintus the Unifier” and will become “Quintus the Destroyer.” The destruction he speaks of is going to come from the blueprints in front of him, which feature something called Liberty Prime Alpha. From the looks of it, it seems like just another robot, but those familiar with ‘Fallout’ games will know that it is anything but that. Liberty Prime Mark II is a major presence in the third and fourth games in the series, and is set up as an unstoppable killing machine. According to the lore, it was created in the pre-Wasteland era by the United States government to fight Chinese communist forces.
The robot’s towering size is one of the many intimidating things about it. It is a tool of mass destruction, and in the wrong hands, it can be used in the worst ways possible. In the games, the US government never got to use it because working such a humongous machine requires a greater source of power, which they didn’t have yet. After the bombs dropped, the robot was left to rot in the Pentagon, and it was a leader of the Brotherhood of Steel who discovered it. With the help of a scientist named Madison Li, Liberty Prime was brought to life, marking its presence in the game. The show’s creators revealed that the introduction of Liberty Prime was always a matter of how and when, rather than if. They knew that it had to pop up at a critical moment in the story, and the beginning of the third season seems ripe for it.
The Introduction of Liberty Prime Alpha Sets Up a New Villain
The introduction of Liberty Prime shows that Quintus has been keeping some cards up his sleeve, perhaps because he anticipated the murky waters he would land himself in by challenging the Commonwealth. Now, with Liberty Prime, he is ready to pull out a weapon whose mere presence might cause the rest of the factions to fall in line. It is possible that he may not even have to use it. Or if he does, once should be enough to teach his enemies a lesson. Still, going by the game’s lore, powering the robot would be his biggest challenge, and with the cold fusion gone (thanks to Max), he will need to restart his search for the power source.
It is possible that he may have enough to make Liberty Prime work once, just for show. But to continue to keep the factions in line with fear, he will have to find cold fusion, which means he will eventually find his way to New Vegas. This would pit Quintus and his version of the Brotherhood against the Legion and the New California Republic, or whoever remains after their impending conflict. It might also bring him face-to-face with Max again, who is still in New Vegas, but all of that takes a backseat in front of Quintus finding cold fusion and meeting Robert House in the process.
Another interesting thing the blueprints reveal is the names of the companies involved in the robot’s construction. We already know RobCo, owned by Robert House. But the blueprints also mention General Atomics and Mass Fusion, with the latter focusing on producing components like fusion cores. This suggests that the second season will bring both companies into the mix and put more focus on the background of cold fusion, particularly what happened to it after Cooper handed it over to the President, who turned out to be working for the Encalve. All of this sets up the third season to be bigger and better than its predecessors, with some of the baddest villains appearing to shake things up.
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