What is the Sierra Madre's Cloud? | Full lore and speculation

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  @xboxhomie4 · 3 years ago

  a poisonous corrosive cloud? sounds like the perfect ingredient for a refreshing martini…

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• TR

  @tristanseaver9054 · 3 years ago

  "It's about learning to let go." (Letting go of poverty. As I transport 36 gold bars back to the Mojave.)

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• SG

  @Sgt_Robo · 3 years ago

  What I believe Elijah means by "protecting and preserving" is not entirely literal preservation, but rather, preventing human scavengers from scavenging and scrapping said byildings and relics. That said, the cloud may also perform som preservative function in a way like aluminum oxide, where the corrosion of the cloud only affects the outer layers materials, but paradoxically said reaction creates a protective coating stopping amy further reaction (at least for some materials, others like organic material just corrode into uselessness).

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• GL

  @glaz_man8278 · 3 years ago

  I've seen a theory, that cloud made people inside into some weird spongy thing that moves just like spiders do. Citation: "Each leg's outward movement is controlled through the cephalothroax, which regulates the hydraulic movement and pressure hemolymph". The dude who came up with this theory, said that weird twitchy movement of the ghost people is a result of this hydraulic pressure in limbs. The don't activate muscles by nerves how living things do, but spread pressure around the limbs to move. The Dog also said that when he kills ghost people, they make "hisss" sound and stop moving, which signals about pressurized liquid or gas escaping. Crazy theory, but it caught my eye.

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• GO

  @GoatShaman · 3 years ago (edited)

  Remember that Big MT already has trauma harnesses that can 'preserve' or at least take over the functions of the wearer's body after death. The darklight suits may yet be an attempt to upgrade the survivability of the suits by subjecting them to seriously deadly conditions such as the Cloud. Given that the ghost people could still 'technically' be considered living, this is at least a partial improvement over the walking skeletons we see in OWB, especially by Big MT's fast and loose standards.

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• SN

  @sneedfest3399 · 3 years ago

  The fact the ghost people are still apparently sapient is the worst part. Imagine being stuck in your suit for 200+ years and biologically morphed to the point where you're not even human

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• RY

  @ryanbusch2885 · 3 years ago

  Part of me wonders if the darklight suits contain some parts of what went into the trauma harnesses, like yeah they also appear to have been ghoulified but the way they stand back up after death feels very similar to how the tests for the harnesses were described… and who’s to say that the trauma harnesses wouldn’t take a few more hits if they contained a feral ghoul and not just a skeleton

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• BL

  @bluetoothschizophrenic · 3 years ago

  With how crazy a lot of Big MT’s experimentation is, it wouldn’t surprise me if there is a sort of nanobot component to the cloud, which could interact with components within the suits to engage some sort of dormant life support system or create a chemical mix to transform the occupants

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• WA

  @wayneigoe6722 · 2 years ago

  You could sum up the pre-war history of this DLC with two words: Faustian. Bargain.<br><br>Between Sinclair signing on with the Big MT for new tech, Vera and Dean playing Sinclair, Elijah trading away lives for access to the vault, Sinclair trading Vera to get back at Dean... Its just one bad deal with a devil after another...

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  @xX_K3LLF1RE_Xx · 1 year ago

  I imagine that it’s possible the blacklight suits in conjunction with the Sierra Mist (as I choose to call it) were a Big MT experiment to try to create disposable zombie soldiers out of soldier corpses, necromancer style. They’re durable against gun fire, can seemingly come back to life, move around fairly quickly, and seem to benefit from the Sierra Mist should it be deployed as a chemical weapon.<br><br>Literally as I was typing this, I remembered that a similar thing does exist at Big MT. The Y-17 Trauma Harnesses, suits for soldiers intended to transport a dead soldier and even fight as them.<br>That means that the Big MT were likely trying multiple experiments to create zombie soldiers for the military.<br><br>I feel smart.

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• VA

  @vaultboya6253 · 3 years ago (edited)

  When you first start the dlc, you&apos;re stuck there from beginning to end and you can never go back. I think it makes it super unique and one of a kind. It&apos;s a once of a life time experiences that the courier lives through.

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• TH

  @theetanman · 3 years ago

  I wouldn&apos;t say it&apos;s Sinclair&apos;s ego that made him create the Sierra Madre. If so, it wasn&apos;t a malicious or arrogant ego, but a man who envisioned what he could create with his wealth that could last beyond him.

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