Ulysses returned to the divide to intervene, which is when the Lone Wanderer (from now on known as the Courier) arrived with a mysterious package bearing Old World, Pre-war American symbols: artefacts which were discovered by the NCR after they sacked Navarro, an Enclave base near San Francisco. Some short time after 2277, the NCR discovered the Divide and annexed it, which gave Caesar a reason to attack the community in an attempt to wound the NCR and cut off trade routes. One man in particular was a man by the name of Ulysses.Ģ274 was when Ulysses first found the Divide, quoting it as 'a nation taking its first breath.' He had found it as a frumentarius of Caesar's Legion, who was tasked to walk the wastes of the Mojave as a courier. The Divide at that time was a fast-growing community, which attracted many new members to it. He found himself a job as a Courier and settled in a place known as the Divide, a small community in a harsh environment which was connected to a trade route, the one the Lone Wanderer found himself entering the Mojave along. Tired and depressed from the life he has lived over the past year, the Wanderer found himself travelling to the Mojave, where he employed the help of Doc Mitchell to remove the scar of his former life, his PipBoy. Left on his own, the Lone Wanderer retired to his house in Megaton, with no family left and no way to meet his childhood friend from Vault 101, Amata. The events that followed that same year led to the reunion and death of James, and the activation of Project Purity, which supplied clean water to the Capital Wasteland. 19 years later (2277), James escapes Vault 101 and the Lone Wanderer follows suit in search of him. Catherine dies in childbirth, so James abandons the project to provide a safer upbringing for the child, eventually gaining entry to Vault 101.

The Lone Wanderer was born to James and Catherine in the year 2258 at the Jefferson Memorial, the staging ground of Project Purity. the age slider) and the events at the Divide. This has always been a controversially debated topic, though most facts would state the Courier CANNOT be the Lone Wanderer because of a few points in the Fallout New Vegas game (e.g.

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