Blueprints from Fallout season 2 finale reveal fate of legendary ultimate weapon from the games
The post-credits scene of Fallout season 2 episode 8 showed blueprints for one of the franchise's most formidable weapons, but only hardcore fans of the game series will fully grasp the significance of this moment.
Warning, spoilers ahead!
Brotherhood on the brink of defeat receives a trump card
The post-credits scene returns us to the Brotherhood of Steel, and things are going catastrophically wrong for the organization. While factions war amongst themselves, Scribe Dane arrives with something that could give their side a decisive advantage.
Dane presents Quintus with a scroll containing blueprints for a giant robot styled after Power Armor and designated Liberty Prime Alpha. Behind this name lies a rich history rooted in events from recent games in the series.
Pre-war superweapon with a troubled past
Liberty Prime was conceived as a hundred-fold scaled-up version of Brotherhood of Steel Power Armor. Pre-war United States planned to deploy the giant robot to end the Sino-American War and liberate Anchorage from Chinese forces in Alaska. Technical problems prevented this plan from becoming reality, but the blueprints survived.
Brotherhood of Steel discovered the schematics around the time of Fallout 3 events – nearly twenty years before the show's timeline. That game's protagonist helps the organization reactivate Liberty Prime, after which the robot pushes back Enclave forces, allowing activation of Project Purity and returning clean water to the Wasttes.
In the Broken Steel DLC for Fallout 3, Liberty Prime is destroyed, but its parts are salvaged. In Fallout 4, depending on player choice, the restored robot is used either to demolish the Institute, or it inadvertently destroys a Brotherhood detachment itself. After this, the machine is considered lost forever – until the blueprints appear with Quintus.
Killing machine in the hands of Quintus the Destroyer
At full combat readiness, Liberty Prime is equipped with powerful laser weaponry and nuclear devices, turning it into a killing machine in a single unit. Whether the "Alpha" version will possess the same arsenal remains unclear, but even the robot's basic capabilities are imposing.
With a fractured Brotherhood of Steel, Quintus clearly intends either to unite the factions by force or completely annihilate his opponents. There's a high probability his targets won't be limited to internal enemies – New Vegas, Caesar's Legion, and the New California Republic may also find themselves in his sights. Especially considering Maximus's presence in the region and the incredibly powerful cold fusion core.
Thus, Brotherhood of Steel transforms from a secondary threat into a force wielding potentially unstoppable power. For Wasteland dwellers and Vault inhabitants, this means a formidable new adversary emerges heading into season 3.
