The Sole Survivor then meets Preston Garvey - one of the last of the Commonwealth Minutemen - and can assist him in protecting settlers from a group of raiders and a deathclaw. The Sole Survivor heads home to Sanctuary Hills, now ruined from the bomb blast, where they meet a distraught Codsworth, revealing to the Survivor that over two hundred and ten years have passed since they were frozen in the vault, also telling the player character to go to Concord for help. Learning that they are the sole survivor of Vault 111, the Sole Survivor emerges from the vault and vows to avenge their spouse's death and locate Shaun. The Sole Survivor is refrozen, awakening on Octoand escaping the cryogenic tube. Though conscious, the Sole Survivor is trapped in their cryogenic pod and is powerless to do anything but watch their spouse being shot and their child abducted by two mysterious figures. In 2227, the Sole Survivor and their spouse are reawakened by two seen unknown individuals and one off-screen, who open the spouse's cryogenic tube with the intent of kidnapping Shaun. The Sole Survivor is kept almost undisturbed in this state from 2077 to 2287. They were then sealed in cryogenic stasis under the pretense of being 'decontaminated' by Vault-Tec scientists.

Moments later, a newsreader announced that nuclear detonations were being reported, forcing the Sole Survivor and their family to rush to Vault 111. On October 23, 2077, the Sole Survivor was preparing for an event at the Veteran's Hall in Concord, when a Vault-Tec representative approached the family with pre-approved papers for access into Vault 111. If one of these characters is the protagonist, the player chooses the name, but the spouse names are either ( Nate) or ( Nora) respectively.ДЄt some point during the Sino-American War, the Sole Survivor married, had a son named Shaun and bought a robotic butler named Codsworth. According to pre-War records of the Lookout at the USS Constitution, Nate served in the 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment, while Nora was a lawyer (specifically a graduate of the Suffolk County School of Law). The Sole Survivor is either a male retired U.S.

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