[quote=@Frengo]
[@Dinh AaronMk] At the end of the day, it's a question of why are people here?

Is it for the story?

Or are they trying to win something? 

Personally, I'm here for the story, and when everything is about the story, benign details matter less and less. If someone wants a legion of Brotherhood clones, armed to the teeth with railguns and an accompaniment of Metal Gear Solids, then let them. If the GM has allowed for such a thing to happen in the scope and lore of his RP, then s'all good.

For me, that doesn't change the soul of the story. The world ended, people hid in bunkers, emerged 200 years later to try and rebuild. This is their tale, not a timeline of their ascent to becoming overlords of the universe. If some horde of impossibly advanced warriors comes pouring across Normandy, then I'd look forward to the nitty gritty posts of a futile defense, and the more clinical posts of an armed resistance to an occupying force.

That's my two pennies on everything. EVER. Like literally, I think I just wrote my thesis on the Theory of Living. 

But enough of that, Normandy needs to crack on with the Spartain II program. 'scuse me :)
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By this logic, as long as the GM approves of something, it doesn't matter how OP it is since its been accepted and its all "for the story".

If that is the case, I demand to have a civilization of pre-war peoples who took shelter in space and decided to come back down to earth to rofl stomp the shit out of everyone with all their pre-war tech that has gotten much more advanced than what any other nation on earth could hope for. And then to brutally exterminate the local populations of where ever I go since there's no way a bunch of rebels with homemade guns would be able to stop my army of power exo-suits and hover tanks that have a 215mm main gun. Don't worry, I'm just in this for the story and will make excellently written post on how I take over everyone else shit.

Any ways, the main issue that I think [@Dinh AaronMk] is having (which I share to some extent) is how people are suddenly able to USE these super railguns and stuff, never mind making one. Its highly likely that the original populations of the vaults were civilians. I'm not a scientific genius but I think that it takes a far bit of skill to get clones or super weapons to work. 

Think of it as if you and a few of your friends where told to get into an M1 Abrams and use it. You'd might be able to figure out what a few of the shiny buttons do, but you'd still be lost for the large part and you'd definitely be lost if you were given all the parts of said tank and IKEA instructions on how to built it. 

On another note, if you're just "here for the story" then why do you need power armor programs? Surely it wouldn't matter right?