I do apologize, but honestly... WHo is making the OOC!? I am the kind of Lore Keeper and Fallout Fanatic who gets to thinking about a plot and Characters and can't stop.. I have been trying not to over-hype myself by turning my attention to my Original Warframe, Warframe Character Design Project, but it just won't work.. I have this idea for implementing the War for the Hoover damn, in a side-note, rather then directly. 

The reason for this being, is because if we want out characters to have different and opinionated Moral standings, we can't do the Merc concept. I like that concept as well, but someone mentioned it giving us moral freedom, when that isn't true. Our character being hired as Mercs would mean we would have to form them with what is called the "Merc Morality" which is a form of either True Neutral or Chaotic Neutral Morality. Thus it wouldn't give us freedom. If we were to however have our characters say run across a single, or series(for the fact we may not all meet up right off the start), of events involving skirmishes, objectives, or occupation attempts by the members of the war, and having the war's intensity or complexity revealed to our characters indirectly, we could then truly have total Morality freedom and our characters would be free to choose whatever course of action fits their character design and moral standing best. 

This is just my opinion and my way of looking at the writing. (I am not pushing it, or forcing it on you all.)