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On October 27th 1763 William Maclure was born in Ayr.

Maclure knew his own mind from an early age, changing his name from James, and adding the “A” to his surname,he had a private education and went on to travel widely in Europe and briefly to America in 1782 at the age of 19.

He spent a lot of time in Paris and was witness to the events of the French Revolution. He worked there as one of the commissioners appointed to settle the claims of American citizens on the French government during the early years of the new Republic. He also became interested in geology and studied throughout his twenties on the subject.

Maclure returned to the US in 1824, by now he was in his 50’s, he became friends with Robert Owen,of New Lanark fame and settled in the community of New Harmony, formed by Owen.. Maclure had by now earned himself a small fortune and was financially independent, he set about on a self imposed geological survey of America. The results of his unaided labours were submitted to the American Philosophical Society in a memoir entitled Observations on the Geology of the United States explanatory of a Geological Map, and published in the Society’s Transactions. It is due to this and further suveys that Maclure is known as the “father of American geology”

The Enclave is the shadowy remnant of the pre-War United States government, evolving from deep‐state continuity protocols into a quasi-state paramilitary force obsessed with restoring a “pure” America through genocide and advanced technology. Originating in the cold corridors of West Tek and other defense contractors, the Enclave survived the Great War on offshore platforms and fortified bunkers, later resurfacing as the main antagonist in Fallout 2 under President Dick Richardson before being shattered by the Chosen One. Decades later, it reemerged in the Capital Wasteland as John Henry Eden’s Raven Rock faction, led on the ground by Colonel Augustus Autumn, only to be undone at Project Purity by the Lone Wanderer in Fallout 3. By the time of Fallout 4, the Enclave proper has collapsed, leaving behind preserved schematics—most notably for X-01 power armor—and a handful of surviving soldiers featured in Creation Club content known as the “Enclave Remnants”.

Origins and Pre-War Activities

West Tek, FEV and Early Projects

The West Tek Corporation was founded in 2002 as a U.S. defense contractor specializing in advanced weapons, power armor, and FEV research for the Department of Defense. In the mid-2070s, its NBC Division spun off the Pan-Immunity Virion Project (PVP) into the Greenhouse Initiative before pivoting entirely to the Forced Evolutionary Virus—an artificial pathogen designed to create super-soldiers.

Continuity of Government and the Vault Experiment

Fearing nuclear war, the continuity of government established secret programs to preserve elite citizens. Vaults—ostensibly for public safety—were actually sociological and technical experiments directed by the Enclave, monitored from fortified locations like the Poseidon Oil Rig and Raven Rock.

The Great War and Enclave Survival (2077)

On October 23, 2077, as global nuclear exchange commenced, President Richardson and key government figures evacuated to the Poseidon Oil Rig—their primary stronghold offshore—and other secure sites worldwide. There, the Enclave consolidated its remnants, preserving technology, data archives, and vertibird forces to one day reclaim the mainland.

Fallout 2 Era (2241–2242)

Mariposa Excavations and FEV Production

In July 2236, Enclave scouts rediscovered the Mariposa Military Base—home of pre-War FEV research—and began large-scale excavations using forced labor from nearby settlements. Exposed slaves and scientists released residual FEV into the ruins, spawning the first super mutants and subjects like Frank Horrigan.

Richardson’s Genocidal “Project”

Under President Dick Richardson, the Enclave weaponized FEV Curling-13 for a final genocide: any “genetically non-compliant” human would be eradicated via tainted water supplies. The Chosen One’s infiltration and sabotage of the oil rig in 2242 halted the plan and obliterated the Enclave’s headquarters.

Fallout 3 Era (2277)

Raven Rock and President Eden

A core group under President John Henry Eden—an AI housed in the Raven Rock military complex—reassembled the Enclave on the East Coast.

Eden employed Eyebots for propaganda and relied on Colonel Augustus Autumn to command ground forces in the Capital Wasteland.

Project Purity and Internal Schism

Autumn seized control of Project Purity, intending to leverage purified water for Enclave dominance. Eden, however, planned to inject the purifier with a deadly virus, igniting a rift between ideology and tactics. The Lone Wanderer’s intervention—either by self-sacrifice or with Brotherhood aid—destroyed Eden’s plans and dismantled the Capital Wasteland Enclave.

Fallout 4 Era (2287)

Technological Legacy: X-01 Power Armor

The Enclave’s archives preserved schematics for the experimental X-01 power armor, the pinnacle of pre-War design. Post-War, limited production runs by the Enclave and other factions kept X-01 suits in occasional service.

Creation Club: Enclave Remnants

In April 2024, Bethesda’s free next-gen patch for Fallout 4 introduced “Enclave Remnants”—a Creation Club faction of surviving Enclave soldiers seeking lost X-02 armor in the Commonwealth. This group’s quests and workshop items offer the only living Enclave presence in the Fallout 4 era.

Conclusion

Reformists or “nurture uber alles” feminists often take the stance that “If there is a biological component to the male desire to rape, beat and murder, then that is tantamount to saying that it is impossible to end women’s oppression, and it is therefore incompatible with feminism.”

The problem with this is that no one, not even the meanest, hairiest, scariest radical feminists, are saying that men are hardwired to behave in X way and that even if they DID try hard not to, they would be COMPELLED BY A FORCE BEYOND THEIR CONTROL to act on their violent impulses.

Nor are we saying that there is no component of nurture at all in the ongoing, completely pointless “nature vs nurture” debate.

We’re saying that, by a combination of violent urges and an entire global religion built up around the satisfaction and legitimization of those urges, we are in a situation with both biological and sociological aspects which CANNOT and WILL NOT be solved by reducing the conversation to “boys only join patriarchy if feminists let them.”

Men are capable of not killing and mutilating. 

Men are capable of not using rape as a means of reproduction and power consolidation.

Men are capable of letting go of their unearned power.

While we are not in power, reformism is our only option

What do you expect we do while we do not have the power to enact change? Let people die while we wait for the coming “revolution?” Or should we suggest a policy that will allow us to save our fellow American’s from certain death, advocate for it, march in the streets, and protect any small dash of policy that could save someone?

If you are saying advocating for people rights and expanding those rights is being a reformist, count me as a reformist.