What if Mr House received the Platinum Chip on time? - Fallout New Vegas Alternate History

The Platinum Chip is potentially the single most important item in the Fallout universe, yet it was never able to be used to it's full potential. But what if it was, what if Mr House was able to use the Platinum Chip before the war started?

00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Setup
01:36 - The Chip
02:03 - The Great War
02:30 - Chaos
03:59 - Situation Red
05:04 - Changing of the Guard
06:00 - A New Vegas
06:43 - The Campaign
08:03 - The Cavalry
10:04 - The Coalition
10:38 - Power is everything
11:31 - The Wall
12:22 - Food
13:08 - The Big Empty
15:00 - The Nuclear option
15:20 - Problem Solved?
16:32 - The Outbreak
18:50 - Operation Overwhelming Force
19:10 - Reclamation
20:20 - Old World Ghosts
21:30 - Pandora's Box
23:11 - Civil War
24:57 - Burying the Past
25:25 - A New Legacy
25:42 - Looking Forward
26:54 - Water
27:23 - Eden
27:57 - Fortified
28:06 - Progress
30:10 - Lifeblood
31:22 - New Technologies
32:15 - Rearming
32:38 - Pearl Harbor
36:53 - The Navy
37:04 - Moon
37:43 - Paradise
38:10 - An Unknown Threat
39:05 - Incursion
39:45 - Salvage
40:09 - End

[cooldownboi]

World: nukes itself a day later
House: _starts stellaris on a nasa pc_

[akranov]

This just shows how a slight delay in shipping can have such a great affect on humanity. I've tried this argument with my local post office but they didn't quite appreciate it.

[Jed.Blazer]

My personal head canon is that House insisted the data case be made into the form of a casino chip for purely aesthetics and they said "ok but thats gonna push us back a day".

[riddell]

Imagine coming out the vaults to a more advanced world than when you entered

[defordumbas]

The Timeline where House plays his life like a grand strategy game

[planetbob]

President: "What are you gonna do? Disobey orders?"
General: "You do realize I’m sitting on an arsenal of nukes, right?"

[chernobylthing]

As somebody who lives in sunnyvale, I apologize on behalf of our postal system fit not giving House his chip on time

[PRMAN]

I like to imagine that in this timeline the Courier still ended up being a mailman and lives a peaceful life delivering packages.

[hailtothejew]

Well, obviously, we would have industry restored after 20 years, space flight in 50, and colony ships by the time the sole survivor was defrosted

[paladinprime]

Man this sounds like a origin for a human faction for one of those space strategy games.

[TheRealLeeisHere]

One minor criticism, he wouldn't need to send the platinum chip to the vault since he would still have complete remote access. The nukes made him lose that access so it required the manual connection.

[sirhurricane]

Anyone else think it’s ironic that Vegas, a city built on sin-industries and the exploitation of human addiction, becomes the safe haven for humanity and is rebranded as “Eden”?

[rejvaik]

Basically House delivered upon everything he said he would and more:
_"Give me 20 years and I'll reignite the technology sectors. 50 years and I'll have people in orbit, 100 years and my colony ships will be heading towards the stars to search for planets unpolluted by the wrath of a bygone generation"_

[Goldcat]

In short: if Mr house got the platinum chip early the wasteland wouldn't have been so bad and it would have been kinda liveable around Vegas

[jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

Not gonna lie, this hast to be the most optimistic alternate alternate history for the Fallout timeline. Stories of rebuilding after such a cataclysmic event are really inspiring to me.

[willlane]

It's hard to kill House. Even without the Platinum Chip he has things moving in this general direction.

[cipherxi]

I like to think The Desert Rangers/11th Armored Cavalry Regiment all were given some sort of military honors for their service.

[Wodferd]

This alternate timeline sounds like the perfect setting for a Fallout Tabletop RPG.

Just enough civilization to allow for different styles of adventuring or player choices, but still more than enough chaos and classic Fallout wasteland to make it an amazing sandbox.

[mackenzieseib]

Ironic...it seems that the only person who has a slightly tragic end is house himself. Who like a parent can watch his children grow without his guidance, but lost the only man he ever called a friend. Even if he would never admit it

[jordank]

I feel like house is one of the best ways to have a character who seems like his motives are selfish, and yet everything he does helps everyone