It does. It was a bit confusing to wake up to. But it makes sense and in my opinion probably the only decent thing to happen because of the bombs. The last thing we need is to be a large group with power. A lot of the ....comparatively smaller post-war groups have already shown they shouldn't have had the power they did have.

They're terrible and sadly only a small fraction of the worst things out there.

Wait, really? Does the west not have cats. ....wow that sucks. No, we have cats here. I've seen a few in my travels. Also, my home settlement. Sanctuary Hills? We've got a few running around when I got brought here. Had to bait them out of the wilderness with mirelurk meat but they've decided to stay.