gm_fork - formerly known as the town of Fergus, now known as Fork. A suburb in the northern region of walled-off Alabama, the city fell victim to fallout from a neutron bomb that hit the isolated state in 2053, during a nationwide revolution against America's first true imperial government. This bomb was dropped by the New American Empire in order to systematically kill off all survivors who were part of the remnants of the New Confederacy - this resulted in the death of most human life in the state through radiation poisoning, making way for an irradiated variant of nature.

The town was once an industrial hub known for its status as a major player in Alabama's steelmaking industry, reaching its peak in the mid-20th century. It slowly faded from history, becoming forgotten as decades passed. During the Second Civil War, Fergus suddenly regained its importance as it housed a Neo-Confederate base with an underground missile silo until its seizure by Imperial authorities in 2046. With the arrival of the state's Imperial Border Wall in the late 2040s, the city would be doomed to rot behind a towering curtain of concrete and steel.

Fergus has been abandoned since the bomb struck the state, staying intact and laying dormant until the 2060s, when raiders and rogue robots came from the southwest to settle in the city - a bombed out billboard would give the city its post-war name of Fork. Settlers in Fork would have to deal with attacks by radioactive wildlife attempting to reclaim Alabama for itself.

2083 would have Fork see the arrival of the Roamer; along with the Roamer's arrival would come promises to make the state and city livable in just 5 years through salvaged Imperial technology, hoping to have the city thriving once more by 2090.

Update: It's been 7 months since I originally wrote this, and it hasn't aged well. I've seen the flaws in this lore, such as various parts of it not matching up with the map's details. Then came the additions and explanations in the comments that only made the lore become too confusing to follow as more of it was written down there...

This lore originally came from a combination of Fallout and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ized Wolfenstein with America put in the place of the Nazis, and the idea eventually came to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in general.

I've pretty much dropped the idea now that some time has passed, so I'll just unsub from this thread. I won't return to see if it's either left alone or if it becomes total hell.