Chris Antrim

Chris Wright, also known as the Lone Wanderer, is a half-Caucasian half-African American male. He was a former Paladin of the DC Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel and is currently the Mayor of Megaton. He is married to Lucy Wright, with whom he has two sons: James and Davis.

Background
He was born on July 13, 2258 to James Wright and his wife Catherine at the Jefferson Memorial in the Capital Wasteland. His mother died in childbirth, due to cardiac arrest. This prompted his father to end the project that him and his wife had been working on and take him to Vault 101, with the help of his friend Star Paladin Cross. He was raised in the vault, unaware of his origin in the wasteland. He was also unaware of his father's life before starting Project Purity in the Jefferson Memorial. He only found out after he returned to the vault, after having left it in search of his father, and was able to recover his father's journal. He then learned that his father was born in New Reno and was a member of the local Wright crime family, and that he had a younger brother named Liam that fled New Reno with him to find a better life in the east coast. Initially he didn't know if his uncle was alive or not, only knowing that he and his father had traveled to the Commonwealth together when they were in their late teens.

Events of Fallout 3
Chris lived in Vault 101 without incident for nineteen years, growing up alongside the other kids of the vault. His father was the vault's doctor and physician. While he was growing up he was close friends with, and had a crush on, Amata Almodovar, Overseer Alphonse's daughter. He was didn't get along well with the other kids of the vault, especially Butch DeLoria and his friends. When he was 10, he was given a BB gun from his father and his friend Jonas, giving him some experience in shooting a gun. He also played baseball with the other kids in the vault and his performance was good enough to almost become an MVP. After he turned 16 he got a job as his father's assistant at the vault's clinic, where his father teasingly called him Nurse Chris. There he learned from his father skills in both medicine and science. He would often step in to defend Amata from Butch and his gang's, the Tunnel Snakes, harassment. Their close relationship eventually turned into a romantic relationship in their late teens, much to her father's disapproval.

Everything was going well, but in 2277 James disappeared without any explanation while Chris was sleeping. It was Amata that woke Chris up and told him of what happened, how his father had escaped and that the vault security was now searching for him. She lent him her father's gun and gave him some information to help him escape the vault. He left his quarters to find the vault descending into anarchy as the vault security force attempt to find him, contain the radroach infestation and stop any vault dwellers from escaping. While he was leaving he ran into Butch, who begged him to rescue his mother from the radroaches. Chris agreed and rescued Ellen DeLoria from the mutant roaches, which made Butch thank him with his jacket and honorary membership in the Tunnel Snakes. He was able to escape the vault with little bloodshed, only having to kill a few security officers that ran into him. He later encountered Amata being interrogated by her father and Officer Mack. Chris intervened, letting Amata escape but getting Officer Mack's attention. The two fought, resulting in Mack's death. Amata thanked him for saving her. Instead of confronting Overseer Alphonse he chose to continue on his way. He ran into Jonas's corpse where he found a note from his father. Despite James not wanting his son to follow him, he had no choice. He made it to the Overseer's office and went through the tunnel after finding out the password. When he made it to the vault door, he was forced to fight two officers barring his way. After the fight Amata came after him to say her final goodbyes. He tried to convince her to come with him but she refused, saying the vault was her home, so he gave her a kiss before he left. As the door were opening more guards appeared, but Chris was able to run out before they caught up to him. None followed him outside and the door was quickly closed.

Once outside of Vault 101, he began searching for his father. He first came across Megaton, a nearby settlement located southeast of the vault made up of parts of ruined pre-war airplanes. He talked with the town's sheriff, Lucas Simms, who mentioned seeing his father go to the town's saloon. Chris headed there and talked with the Irish owner, Colin Moriarty. The owner offer to tell Chris where his father when it he gave him 100 caps. Unaware what he even meant at first, Chris learned of the currency of the post apocalyptic world. However, the 19 year old didn't have any caps to give Colin. So Chris left the saloon and talked to the citizens around town to see if any of them knew where his father went. Sadly none did and so Chris returned to the saloon, where Colin was now asking for 300 caps. The boy tried to convince Moriarty to lower the price but was unable to. Colin mentioned that one of his prostitutes, Silver, had recently run away and stole money from the saloon. Chris agreed to go after her and return the money to Moriarty in exchange for the information.

Leaving Megaton, he headed northwestward to Springvale where Silver was hiding out. He confronted her inside a ranch house. After hearing her story, he decided to let her go and tell her former boss that she was gone and he was unable to find her. However, Chris now had to come up with another way to earn caps. He once again asked around town, this time searching for jobs he could do to earn money to pay for the information. He talked with Sheriff Simms about the atomic bomb present at the center of Megaton, and how it was still active. The Sheriff offered 100 caps as a reward to disarm the bomb, but through some convincing Chris was able to get him to offer 500 instead, for he needed at least 300 to pay Moriarty. The boy tried to examine the bomb, but despite being rather intelligent he didn't know anything about explosives. He knew he would have to learn more about them before attempting to disarm the bomb. And so, Chris continued his trip around town. Due to it getting dark, Chris headed back to the saloon to rent a room. The saloon's remaining prostitute, Nova, offer her services to him, but he declined due to his relationship with Amata. When he woke up the next morning he came across a blonde woman sitting in the saloon. He introduced himself to her, learning that her name was Lucy West, and asked if she had something for him to do. She said that she hoped "something to do" meant a job, otherwise to talk to Nova. Chris cleared up the confusion and asked for a job.

Lucy West hired him to deliver a letter to her family, her parents and younger brother, in Arefu, a small town northwest of Megaton. She marked the location on his Pip-Boy and gave him the letter. Chris set off and after a while came across the town, that was built on a bridge. As he walked up the bridge a man tossed a grenade at him. The man, Evan King, then apologizes and explains that the town had been under repeated attacks by a group named the Family. Evan, who was the town's mayor and only guard, asked Chris to check the Ewer, Schenzy, and West residences to make sure everyone was all right. When checking in on the residents, he discovered that the Ewer and Schenzy families were safe, but he found the dead bodies of Lucy's parents. He was saddened from the discovery but further examined the bodies. He found that they had bite marks on their necks, which seemed very strange to him. He reported back to Evan, who asked about Lucy's brother Ian. After he discovered that the boy was missing, he mentioned seeing Ian talking with Vance, the leader of the Family. King suspected that the Family took the boy, but he didn't know where Family's hideout was but had his suspicions. He marked three locations on his Pip-Boy. Chris headed to the closest of the locations, the Northwest Seneca Station. There he encountered a ghoul named Murphy living there and asked him about the Family. The ghoul told him to follow the tunnel in the back of his place. Chris headed down the tunnel, encountering numerous traps and mutant crabs as he made his way to the supposed hideout of the Family.

He found the front gate of the hideout near the end of the tunnel. It was guarded by a Family member named Roberto. At first he wouldn't let Chris in, but after he mentioned the Lucy's letter he was let through. Once inside, Chris talked with Vance. He informed the lad that Ian was there and was in isolation, the only way to him was through a terminal locked with a password. In exchange for the password, Chris agreed to learn the rules of the Family by asking other the members and reading from the terminal in the main lobby. After speaking to them he reported back to Vance, telling him that he understood the Family. The Family were people who hungered for human flesh but quenched their hunger by drinking human blood, like fictional vampires. Vance gave him the password, allowing Chris into Ian's meditation room. He talked with Ian and learned that he was not kidnapped, but voluntarily joined the Family after killing his parents. After a childhood encounter with a threatening wastelander, Ian had begun craving human flesh, even that of his own mother and father. Chris was able to convince Ian to return home to Arefu after showing him Lucy's letter. Before they could leave, Chris had to confront Vance. Chris asked him to stop attacking Arefu for its town's blood, and instead make a deal with the town to supply them with donated blood packs in exchange for protection. The Family leader agreed and gave the lad a schematics as a reward. Chris and Ian then returned to Arefu, where the former vault dweller told Evan about the proposed deal. The mayor agreed to it and welcomed Ian back to town. After reporting back to Vance about Evan's decision, Vance dispatched Alan, a member of the family, to Arefu to fulfill their end of the deal. Evan gave the lad some alcoholic drinks as a reward.

Chris then left Arefu to return to Megaton, where he reported the news to Lucy. She was saddened by her parents' deaths but relieved that her brother was still alive. She thanked Chris for his help and paid him 100 caps for delivering the message, as well as helping her brother and the town. As he was leaving the saloon, Lucy told him to stop by and see her again if he was ever in town. Chris' cheeks blushed a little and he said he would, though outside he shook his head. He was still dating Amata, or so he thought at the time. Despite selling the alcohol he got from Evan he still didn't have enough to pay Colin. However his adventure to Arefu gave him time to learn more about explosives. Thinking now, that he had enough knowledge on the skill to attempt to disarm the bomb, was heading to the center of town. However, by the saloon he ran into a well dressed man named Mr. Burke. Burke told him that his employer wanted to rig the bomb to explode, for he considered the town a blight on the landscape, and that he would pay the lad 500 caps to do it. Chris didn't agree to rig the nuke, instead he quickly headed to Sheriff Lucas to report Burke to him. Lucas was angered by this and told Chris to follow him while he dispensed Wasteland Justice. The two headed to the saloon where Burke was and confronted him. While the two were talking, Chris saw that Burke was going for his gun. He acted quickly and bashed him in the head with his baseball bat. Giving the sheriff a chance to kill Burke before he was shot. Lucas thanked the lad for his aid, Chris then headed down to the center of town to disarm the nuke. He was able to do so and received the 500 caps reward from the sheriff as well as a key to his own house in Megaton.

Happy that he finally obtained enough caps to pay Moriarty, Chris headed to his saloon. He gave Colin the 300 caps and learned that his father headed to Galaxy News Radio in the ruins of Washington D.C. He also learned how dangerous the ruins of D.C. were due to feral ghouls, raiders and super mutants. He knew that he was not ready to head to GNR, so he rested in his new home, where he met his Mr. Handy Wadsworth. He used the rest of his caps to visit the general store, Craterside Supply, to buy some equipment that he would need. He learned that the owner was looking for an assistant to aid in her research, so he decided to help her. She gave him three tasks to complete, but before he left she asked him about the vault suit he was wearing. Moria told him that 10-12 years ago she had met someone from Vault 101 and armored up her suit for her. She pointed it out in the shop and told Chris that if he told her about his childhood in the vault she would give him the suit. He agreed and told her pretty much everything. He then walked out of the store with his new armored vault suit. He did the easiest of the tasks first, getting large amounts of radiation poisoning to see its effects on the body. He drank the irradiated water around the disarmed bomb at the center of town until he his Pip-Boy showed that he had reached the level he wanted, at 600 rads. He made his way back to the shop, which was difficult because of his radiation sickness, and was treated by Moira. After he recovered she informed him that he appeared to have had a tiny mutation that accelerated his healing when he had high levels of radiation poisoning.

The former vault dweller then left to travel to Minefield, a town to the northeast covered in mines, and retrieve a mine from near its center. As he was heading towards the town, he came across a scrapyard where several raiders were fighting a dog. Chris protected the dog and killed the raider, causing the dog to begin following him. He called the dog, Dogmeat and accepted him as a companion. The two then continued north to Minefield. Due to the mines, Chris told Dogmeat to wait in the outskirts of the town while he headed deeper. As he was making his way towards the playground at the center of town he began getting shot at by a sniper. Chris hurried and made it to the center, disarming a mine and taking it with him as he ran out of town with the sniper still shooting at him. Back in Megaton he gave the mine to Moria and told her of his experience. He then set off to complete the last of the first three tasks, scavenging a Super-Duper Mart for supplies. Chris and Dogmeat arrived at the ruined supermarket and were met with hostile raiders. The former vault dweller tested his combat skills against the large group of raiders and came out on top, scavenging what little was left of the food in the store and some medical supplies hidden in the back. He then returned to Moria to tell her about his experience, as a reward he obtained a food sanitizer to remove the radiation from pre-war food. Ms. Brown then gave him another set of three tasks to accomplish.

Chris completed the next set of tasks all at once. He headed to the Anchorage Memorial where he placed the observer unit in a clutch of mirelurk eggs without killing any of the adult mirelurks, then headed to the Tepid Sewers nearby to use the repellent stick on 10 molerats. He returned to Moria without healing any of his injuries, even the crippled left arm he obtained with fighting the 10 molerats. The last set of tasks had Chris head to the Robco Facility to install the processor widget and hack their mainframe, and then head to Arlington Library. In the library he ran into the Brotherhood of Steel, an organization of power armor wearing soldiers that were inhabiting the Capital Wasteland. He talked with the Scribe Yearling, who is tasked with archiving all pre-War knowledge into the Brotherhood's central computers. She, after they talked, gave him access to the library's computer terminal at the front desk, where Chris was able to download the card catalog that Moria wanted. However he still needed to retrieve the complete archive so he and Dogmeat ventured deeper into the library and fought the raiders inhabiting the building. After getting the archive he returned to Megaton. Instead of doing the last task, he decided that he was ready enough to head to GNR. So with his dog at his side, he headed east into the D.C. ruins.

He used the bridge to cross the river, easily making it through the mines after having already done so in Minefield. As he headed to the Farragut West Metro Station he encountered super mutants and raiders. Inside the station he mostly encountered feral ghouls, which his dog helped him dispatch. From there he went to Tenleytown/Friendship Station. Following the tunnels south he exited at Chevy Chase, where more ghouls and super mutants awaited. Near the exit to Chevy Chase North Chris found Sentinel Sarah Lyons with a squad of Brotherhood of Steel soldiers from her unit, Lyons' Pride. He told her that he was heading to GNR and she allowed him to accompany her and her squad there, as that was also their destination. Lyons' Pride had been tasked with clearing out the super mutants that were attacking GNR. They reached the GNR building's plaza and fought the numerous super mutants attacking the building. Once they were all dead, a huge super mutant attacked. With the weapons they currently had the beast would have killed them, but Chris spotted a large launcher by the fountain and picked it up. He used the Fat Man to launch a mininuke at the behemoth, killing it. The Brotherhood soldiers thanked him for his assistance and told him to head to the intercom to the right of the door to get inside the GNR Building. Once inside, he talked with the radio's DJ, Three Dog. The DJ had met James and agreed to tell Chris where his father went if he helped put the radio back on the air.

The super mutants had destroyed the satellite relay dish that the radio used to broadcast, so they would need a replacement. Three Dog told him to head to the Museum of Technology, where one might be located. He traveled to downtown D.C. to reach the museum. Inside he checked a terminal in the Atrium for a location of a possible dish, finding out that one was present in the Virgo II Lunar Lander exhibit in the museum's west wing. Him and Dogmeat traversed the super mutant infested museum and reached the exhibit. He took the relay dish from the lunar lander and then left the museum. He had to travel to the Washington Monument, which was guarded by the Brotherhood of Steel, to place it at near the very top. Returning to Three Dog, he was able to get the information about his father, learning that he had gone to Rivet City to visit a Doctor Li. Three Dog was then able to resume the GNR's broadcast and began telling the wastelanders about Chris' exploits, calling him The Lone Wanderer despite him travelling with Dogmeat. He traveled south to the city, exiting the downtown D.C. ruins. He was amazed at the size of Rivet City and its nature, being a pre-war aircraft carrier. He didn't see a way across to the aircraft, but found an intercom and used it to talk with Harkness, the city's security chief. After a short chat he was granted access to the city, with a large bridge being extended to allow Chris into the aircraft. He headed to the science lab, where he found Doctor Li. She knew James from the days before he went to vault 101, so she offered details on Project Purity and told the lad where James ran off to: the Jefferson Memorial. Before he set off for the memorial he learned the history of Rivet City from Bannon, then learned its true history from Horace Pinkerton. He reported back to Moria so she could finish her guide. She gave him a copy and he grained plenty of experience, becoming a survival guru.

As soon as he approached the Memorial, he encountered a large number of super mutants. After dispatching them he entered through the gift shop. Inside there were plenty more enemies. In the very center, the Rotunda, he walked up to the auxiliary filtration unit near the entry way and picked up the Project Purity journals resting here. One of the tapes, number 10, indicated that his father had left for Vault 112. With renewed enthusiasm he headed westward towards the vault. Vault 112 was located underground of Smith Casey's Garage to the far west. He fought the radroach infestation inside the garage and then used the hidden switch to open the passage to the vault. He activated the vault door using the panel and then walked in. He spoke to a security bot inside and receive a Vault 112 jumpsuit. Next he went to some kind of lab filled with pods. He spotted his father inside one of them, but was unable to open it. Realizing that the only way to free his father was to go inside the unoccupied pod and heading into the simulation that all the pods were connected to. He told Dogmeat to wait by his pod and then entered the simulation.

In the simulation he appeared as a little kid in a suburban neighborhood. At the park in the center he met a little girl named Betty and her dog Doc. He asked Betty where his father was and told her that he needed to get them both free, but she said that she would only do so if he completed a series of violent tasks for her amusement. Chris refused and began searching around the simulated neighborhood. The other residents were of little help, as they seemed to be unaware they were in a simulation, unlike Betty. The only other one that had knowledge of this was Old Lady Dithers, who informed the lad that Betty was actually the creator of the simulation Dr. Stanislaus Braun. She told him about the Fail safe terminal that was located inside the abandoned house in the simulation and how it could get Chris and his father out, but would kill the others. He was reluctant to kill the other residents but upon learning that Braun had them trapped in the simulation for 200 years without being able to leave and kept tormenting them for all that time, he thought it a mercy to finally give them some rest. Within the abandoned house, he found a set of objects that make specific musical pitches when activated. He noticed that Braun was humming a tune and used the objects to replicate the tune. The Fail-Safe terminal appeared. In the terminal he selected the "Chinese Invasion" which summoned a squad of Chinese soldiers who proceed to murder the residents of Tranquility Lane, with the exception of Doc, Betty, and Chris. According to the notes on the Invasion program, this program disabled the fail-safes on most of the pods, meaning that dying in the simulation would kill the real-world person as well.

Chris then spoke to Braun, who angrily scolded him on what he did and lamented that he was now alone and trapped forever within the simulation. That didn't bother Chris, for Dr. Braun was an evil man and deserved this fate after tormenting the other people for 200 years. Dr. Braun then revealed that Doc was James and said he would be waiting for the lad once he left the simulation. Chris quickly left the simulation. Back in the lab he was finally reunited with his father. The two talked and James said he had intended to find some holodisks, memos, or even experiments from Braun related to the G.E.C.K., but what he found was a perfectly alive and insane Braun and got himself duped into Tranquility Lane as a dog. His father then said he would be returning to Rivet City to meet with Dr. Li and resume Project Purity. Chris decided to travel with him, the two catching up along the way.

Upon arriving at the lab in Rivet City, James convinced Dr. Li to reactivate Project Purity. After a short conversation, he asked his son to meet him and the scientists at the Jefferson Memorial. Dr. Madison Li, James, Anna Holt, Janice Kaplinski, Daniel Agincourt, Alex Dargon and Garza all headed to the Memorial with Chris. When they got to the entrance of the Gift Shop, James informed his son that he must clear the Memorial of the remaining super mutant threat before they could proceed. He had already killed most of the super mutants in the facility, but he was unaware that the Memorial had a sub-basement. So he and Dogmeat headed there and cleared the place out. Afterwards he reported to his father, who then led the scientists into the Memorial. He headed to the Rotunda, at the control room. He asked his son to carry out some maintenance tasks to bring the project back online. First he had to turn off Flood Control Pump power then get the fuses from James and replace damaged fuses. Lastly he booted up the mainframe and spoke to his father over the intercom. His father initially told him to return, then changed his mind and told Chris to clear out a blockage in an intake pipe. Once inside the pipe he turned the control. As he was turning around to go back he witnessed something flying above. A flying vehicle landed near the Memorial and dropped off numerous soldiers in a new kind of power armor, different from the one used by the Brotherhood of Steel. Instead of going back the way he came he continued through the pipes and made it to the basement. As ran back to the Rotunda he and Dogmeat fought the men in power armor.

Upon arriving at the control room, Chris saw that Dr. Li was locked out of the main area, while Janice, James, two soldiers in power armor and a man in a long tan coat were locked in. The man in the coat, who was Colonel Autumn, confronted James and ordered him to forfeit the Memorial and assist the Enclave with making the water purifier operational. James refused, stating that the Enclave had no control over such a private project, and asked the Colonel to leave. Autumn shot Janice through the abdomen, prompting James to accede to the Colonel's demands to avoid more violence. James instead overloaded the purifier, flooding the locked chamber with deadly levels of radiation. Colonel Autumn quickly injected himself with something and keeled over. James dragged himself over to the emergency bulkhead and told Chris that he loves him and to run, before slumping to the ground, dead. Chris banged on the glass of the emergency bunkhead, tears rolling down his face as he yelled for his father, despite knowing that he was dead. A stunned Dr. Li informed the grieving lad that the only way to escape the Memorial is through a series of underground tunnels that lead to the Brotherhood of Steel stronghold, the Citadel. She ran to a manhole in the floor not far from the rotunda door, Daniel, Garza and Chris followed. Once in the Taft Tunnel she told him that they must keep moving to avoid detection by the Enclave.

They had to fight their way through Enclave soldiers and feral ghouls. Once in the second section of the tunnels Garza muttered about his heart, saying that he must rest. Doctor Li explained that they need to stop because Garza's heart disease had gone critical, and he would not make it to the Citadel alive if first aid was not administered quickly. Chris nodded and handed her five stimpaks to alleviate his condition until he can see professional medical care. After dealing with the Garza situation, they continued on their way. Eventually, they reached a Brotherhood of Steel checkpoint at the end of the tunnel. The BoS soldier wasn't too happy to see civilians running through his checkpoint. A horde of feral ghouls poured from a near door. The Brotherhood of Steel soldier used his flamer to deal with the ghouls with Chris aiding him. Once topside, an exasperated Dr. Li argued with Paladin Bael for entrance into the Citadel to no avail. She then ran to the intercom and yelled at Owyn Lyons to open the "goddamn" door at once. The door immediately opened. Inside the Citadel, which was the pre-war building known as the Pentagon, Owyn Lyons confronted Dr. Li and the surviving science team. Owyn Lyons, who was the father of Sarah Lyons, questioned Li for a few minutes on what transpired at the Memorial, and Li breathlessly told him about James' plan and the Enclave's intervention. Chris followed Doctor Li and Elder Owyn Lyons to the courtyard of the Citadel. She asked for the Brotherhood's help.

Chris talked with Lyons and the Elder gave him access to the Citadel's lab to search for clues to continue his father's work, as Project Purity still needed a G.E.C.K.. He went to the lab and asked Scribe Rothchild for pre-War computer access. He gave the lad permission to use the Vault-Tec computer terminal in the Archives, located in the A ring. When going through the information on the vaults in the terminal, Chris found out that Vault 87 was issued a G.E.C.K. under the non-standard equipment list. He returned to Rothchild and asked about Vault 87. He said that he would reveal where it is, prompting Chris to follow him. The two stopped in from of a wall map in the laboratory. There he stated that Vault 87 couldn't be entered through the main entrance because of lethal radiation levels. However he mentioned a back entrance through Lamplight Caverns. The map also showed the location of all the other maps in Capital Wasteland. He switched out his gun for a Laser Rifle, find more interest in them than regular guns. He also met with Star Paladin Cross, whom was an old friend of his father and had helped him take Chris to Vault 101. She agreed to follow him and aid him in his mission. Chris left the Citadel, intending to head to the caverns, however, on the way he received a message from Vault 101. The distress message was from Amata asking Chris to return to Vault 101 to help stop her father, the Overseer.

Chris immediately headed there with Dogmeat to help his girlfriend, asking Cross to wait until they returned. He reached the vault and was let inside by Amata. There he learned that since his and his father escaped from Vault 101, it has been divided into two major factions. The faction led by Amata, holed up in his father's clinic, wanted to open the vault and interact with the outside world. The other faction was led by the Overseer and he wanted to keep the vault closed permanently, in accordance with its mission. Butch, however, wished to abandon the vault entirely and live on the surface; the rest of the rebels simply intend to remain living in the vault but wanted to be able to make excursions into the wasteland when necessary. Chris talked with Amata in the vault, finding out that she blamed him and his father for causing the downward spiral that killed many in the vault. He had been expecting a warm welcome from his significant other, but she had thrown him to the dirt. She considered their relationship over the day he left the vault. Even so, he still agreed to help her. He also informed her of his father's death, which gained him a bit on sympathy from her but didn't change their now ended relationship. Butch on the other hand, was now very chummy with his former rival, whom he treated like any other member of the Tunnel Snakes. Amata explained to her former boyfriend that one of the most essential reasons for having access to the wasteland and the remainder of humanity, apart from the obvious need for supplies and parts for the vault's aging life support apparatus, was to avoid collapse due to genetic stagnation and inbreeding. The number of Vault 101 residents had fallen significantly in the two centuries since it was sealed. She wanted Chris to convince her father to let the vault open its door, since he had lived for a few weeks in the Wasteland.

Chris went to talk with Overseer Alphonse, and tried to convince him to step down, using Amata's argument about the vault not surviving more than another generation. However that didn't work, so he began to look for another way to convince him. He accessed the computer in the security office by hacking into it and learned that security was planning an assault on Amata's group against the Overseer's orders. He then freed Mr. Brotch, who knew of the assault, from the jail cell. He then told the Overseer of this and was finally able to convince him. Alphonse, realizing that he failed his job as Overseer, stepped down from his station. Amata took on the role of Overseer. She showed excitement and amazement that her father stepped down without violence. However despite being grateful towards Chris, she told him that he was permanently exiled from the vault. Before he left Vault 101 for the last time, he went to him and his father's old room and gathered up their possessions that had remained in the vault when they escaped, the most important among those were the framed quote from the bible and his father's journal. When he left through the vault door, it didn't close this time and with him left Butch, who traveled to Rivet City. This time, the doors didn't close, but Chris could never return nonetheless as his ex-girlfriend had exiled him. Him and Dogmeat headed to Megaton, where he hung up his vault suit, never to wear it again. He was extremely saddened by the events and drank his sadness away in Moriarty's Saloon, where he was joined by Lucy West. She consoled him on both the loss of his father, where the two had common ground, and his ended relationship. After that night in the saloon with Lucy, the two would meet many times in Megaton. Chris would confide in her and share the stories of his adventure in the Capital Wasteland. This was the beginning of their friendship, that eventually turned into a romantic relationship.

After meeting back up with Star Paladin Cross, Chris headed to the caverns. Once he entered Lamplight Caverns he discovered that the caverns were inhabited by a bunch of children, who had a small settlement there. The settlement's Mayor MacCready stopped Chris and his party at the gates of Little Lamplight, the settlement. He told Chris that he would only let him in if he rescued some of their people that got taken by slavers. MacCready shared with him the location of the slavers' den, Paradise Falls. Chris, Cross and Dogmeat then headed there to free the captured children and the other slaves. As they walked to the slaver town, Chris talked with Cross. They both agreed that the slavers were terrible human beings and didn't deserve to live for what they had done. When they arrived at the town he talked with the guards at the entrance for only an instant, before ordering Dogmeat to attack. With Dogmeat distracting them, both he and Cross drew their Laser Rifles and killed the guards. The fight inside the town was hard and bloody, but the three of them mercilessly killed the slavers. Chris had thought about just trying to sneak the children out, but that would leave the other slaves trapped there and it wouldn't stop the slavers from capturing more people. He knew that there was only one way to permanently put an end to their operation. He even killed the town's leader, Eulogy Jones. He freed all the slaves, including the two women that had been with Eulogy. However, one of them, Clover was not happy that her master had been killed and tried to attack Chris. Cross was able to subdue her without killing her, but they ended up leaving her in the now dead town of Paradise Falls. With the children freed, Chris escorted them back to Little Lamplight and was let in by MacCready.

He asked the child residents of the settlement about Vault 87 and learned that it was filled with super mutants. They told him about the back of the caverns, that led into the vault, which they called murder pass due to the super mutant presence. Chris thought it was highly dangerous for children to be living next to the super mutant hive like that, so he asked the Mayor for a key to access murder pass. With Cross and Dogmeat at his back, Chris cleared out murder pass and entered Vault 87. He ended up in the Reactor Chamber. From there, he proceed to the Living Quarters, then the Test Labs. There, Chris encountered a super mutant named Fawkes who asked to hold a conversation with him over the intercom. Fawkes explained his upbringing in the vault and how he had become intelligible and civilized through continued access to the vault's database. Fawkes promised to retrieve the Garden of Eden Creation Kit from the irradiated halls above if he was released from the room the other super mutants had locked him in. Chris agreed to free the super mutant and used the terminal next to door to his room to do so.

Once Fawkes was free, he thanked the lad and held up his end of the bargain. He proceeded to slowly walk to the room with the G.E.C.K., fighting any enemy super mutants along the way. Once he's was there he retrieved the G.E.C.K.. He then gave it to Chris and the two parted ways. As he was trying to leave the vault with his companions, Chris was incapacitated by a type of flash bang grenade. Colonel Autumn showed up with some Enclave soldiers and took the G.E.C.K. from him. Chris then passed out a few moments later.

Chris awoke behind a force field, in a prison cell. Colonel Autumn, who was outside his cell, demanded that he tell him the access code to the Purifier at the Memorial. Despite being disoriented, the lad thought quickly and told the Colonel the wrong password. An Enclave officer at the purifier tested it over the radio and got one of his men killed. Which infuriated Colonel Autumn. The Colonel left when President Eden, the leader of the Enclave, spoke through the intercom and asked to speak with Chris. Eden released Chris and the lad grabbed all his stuff out of the locker nearby. Shortly after Chris exited his cell, President Eden ordered the troops not to engage him. He met with an Enclave officer that was surprised he was free, though Chris was able to convince him that it was President Eden that freed him and he was going to meet him. Next to his cell he met Nathan Vargas, a resident from Megaton. He tried to help the old man, by freeing him, but he just stayed in his cell, scared to come out. He walked through the rest of the base heading towards the President. But as he approached Raven Rock Level 2, Colonel Autumn countermanded Eden's orders, turning the entire base hostile against Chris. The lad was then forced to fight his way through the rest of the base while heading towards the President. Along the way he picked up an Enclave's Plasma Rifle which was better than his Laser Rifle and began to use it. As he neared his goal he came across Anna Holt, one of Dr. Li's assistants, who was captured at the purifier and then chose to side with the Enclave. Chris was angry at this but didn't do anything about it.

He reached a room with two sentry bots finishing off two Enclave guards. The bots told him to continue on as the president was waiting. He enter the president's chambers, climbing the large staircase he encountered President Eden, who turns out to be a ZAX AI. He informed him of his plan to cleanse the Capital Wasteland of the mutation and disease which had gripped it, by using a modified version of the FEV, previously used in the creation of the original super mutants, in order to kill any mutated or irradiated people living in the Wasteland, and start the Capital Wasteland anew. Despite Colonel Autumn's attitude, Eden revealed that Autumn in fact disagrees with the President's way of thinking, and thought there must be a less extreme method of renewing the Capital Wasteland. With his knowledge in science, Chris was able to argue Eden into realizing his thinking was in fact a fallacy of circular logic, and convinced him to self-destruct himself and the base. However before he left, the President forced him to take the modified FEV. After he left Eden's chamber, the robots in the subsequent hallways turned on the Enclave soldiers, helping Chris out. Once outside he saw a fleet of Vertibirds leaving the base. The base exploded and the tunnel was blocked with rocks. The wanderer then saw Fawkes, who was armed with a Gatling laser and taking care of some Enclave soldiers. The super mutant told him that he took both Dogmeat and Cross out of Vault 87 and told them that he would rescue Chris. He said that the two were back at the Brotherhood of Steel base and that he would join the Lone Wanderer, as thanks for freeing him from the vault and because of his overall actions. With Fawkes at his side, Chris left the ruins of Raven Rock.

Along the way, Chris and Fawkes encountered some Brotherhood of Steel Outcasts and had to complete a simulation for them. The whole ordeal gave Chris a lot more combat experience, making him into a real soldier, and as well as Power Armor training and his own set of Winterized T-51b Power Armor. He then returned to the Citadel where Rothchild, Elder Lyons, Sarah Lyons, and the Lyons' Pride had assembled for a briefing on their upcoming mission. Midway through, Elder Lyons asked Chris for further information about the Enclave. The lad gave him the FEV virus Eden had gave him for proper disposal after the scribes have studied it. Sarah then made Chris an honorary member of the Lyons' Pride and offered him a full suit of either power armor or recon armor. However he declined as he already had his own power armor. Before they left for the mission, the wanderer also told the Elder about Vault 87 and how it is where the super mutants in the area originated from. Elder Lyons began to the operation and Rothchild raised Liberty Prime, the large robot the Brotherhood of Steel had in their arsenal, up an elevator shaft.

Scribe Rothchild objected to using Liberty Prime, as it was not ready for field use. He still had more tests to run with it before it was ready, however Elder Lyons ignored that fact and ordered it to be used in the battle against the Enclave. Chris met up with Star Paladin Cross and Dogmeat, Fawkes had chosen to remain behind when they approached the Citadel because the Brotherhood of Steel didn't like super mutants. Following the order to attack, Liberty Prime was hoisted out of the Citadel on a crane and the Lyons' Pride followed it. Prime crashed his leg on the wall in the bailey on the crane, however it didn't damage it. Once outside the Citadel, Prime began stomping his way to the fallen bridge, killing everything in its path. Chris and the Lyons' Pride followed the robot as they fought the Enclave occupying the area around the Jefferson Memorial. Liberty Prime took down the photonic resonance barriers set up by the Enclave, to stop the Brotherhood from advancing to the Memorial, by walking into them. Once on the bridge, the Enclave desperately threw everything it had at the Brotherhood's machine: soldiers, Vertibirds, and artillery. Their efforts were entirely for naught, and Liberty Prime annihilated everything thrown at it. In the confusion it missed a few ground troops, which Chris's party and Lyons' Pride took care of.

Liberty Prime could not be stopped, it cleared a bloody path to the Memorial. When they arrived at the Memorial, Liberty Prime stopped and held his position along with the rest of the Lyons' Pride while Sarah Lyons, Chris and his party dashed inside the Jefferson Memorial through the Gift Shop. There was light resistance inside the Gift Shop, so they were able to make it to the Rotunda with ease. Colonel Autumn was waiting for Chris and Lyons in the Rotunda, he was not surprised that the lad was able to arrive at the purifier. The lone wanderer and the Sentinel fought against the Colonel and his two bodyguards, managing to defeat them. Chris, satisfied that he got some revenge for his father, headed up the stairs to the control room. Dr. Li used the intercom to speak to him, she was panicking since Project Purity had sustained severe damage in the battle, and had become overloaded. It would soon self-destruct if the purifier wasn't finally started, but the control room had become heavily irradiated since James' sacrifice the last time Chris had been at the Memorial. Chris decided to sacrifice his life, like his father had done before, to get the purifier going and prevent the destruction of Project Purity. He still needed the purifier password to start it, he eventually realized that it was 2-1-6, referring to the verse from Revelation which his mother Catherine had loved. He entered the password and then slumped away from the purifier password panel as the radiation levels were quickly killing him. The central chamber was purged and a statue of Thomas Jefferson was revealed inside. He passed out from the radiation, thinking that it had killed him. As he closed his eyes he had no regrets and was glad that he would finally reunite with his parents.

Other Adventures
During his travels, Chris ran into a house belonging to an old lady named Agatha. She was an elderly violinist who broadcasted her music through her late husband's old radio gear. She wanted to get back the Soil Stradivarius, a violin, which was owned by her great-great-grandmother's sister Hilda. Agatha believed the violin was still in Vault 92, where the nation's best musicians were housed. She offered the frequency of her radio signal as a reward. The lone wanderer already knew the location of the vault from looking at the Citadel's Vault-Tec terminal, so he headed there and fetched the violin for her. While there he also fetched some sheet music which he also gave to Agatha. She gave him her husband's revolver, Blackhawk, as a reward as well.

When he was in Little Lamplight, Chris talked with Sticky and learned about Big Town. Which was the settlement that the kids when they became teenagers. He traveled there and the residents told him about the super mutant attacks and the kidnapping of some of their residents to Germantown. The lone wanderer and his party headed there at once and fought the super mutants at the Germantown Police HQ, rescuing Red and Shorty that had been trapped there. He took them back to the town and was thanked by Red. Red immediately warned Chris that super mutants planed to attack the town yet again. Lacking substantial combative skills, she asked for the wanderer's help in the town's defense. He agreed and began helping them prepare. One of the first things he did was heal the injured Timebomb that was in Red's clinic. With his skill in Science, Chris taught the residents how to build robots to use as bodyguards. He reactivated a run down sentry bot and protectron. With the two robots to help defend the town, they were able to defeat the super mutant raid party. Glad to help Big Town, he didn't accept any reward from Red.

While exploring, Chris came across the Temple of the Union and the former slaves that inhabited it. He spoke to their leader, Hannibal Hamlin, who wanted to relocate his slave haven from the Temple of the Union to the Lincoln Memorial and restore the Memorial as a sign of freedom, despite the fact that it would undoubtedly attract unwanted attention. Hannibal requested that the lone wanderer scout the Lincoln Memorial to see if it was still occupied by super mutants. Hannibal also asked Chris to assist former slave Caleb Smith. Caleb was a stonemason and he asked the lad to obtain a picture of the Lincoln Memorial in the Museum of History, so he would have reference materials to help him restore the Lincoln Memorial. Chris got a poster of the Memorial for Caleb from the museum. Afterwards, he went to the Memorial and discovered that it had been taken over by slavers. He killed the slavers and then told Hannibal. The leader of the former slaves asked the wanderer's help as an escort to the Memorial. So Chris led the former slaves all the way there. The former slaves were greatly pleased with their new home and they began trying to rebuild the memorial. Chris also gave them a bunch of Lincoln memorabilia that he came across.

Upon hearing from Three-Dog about a talking tree somewhere in the wasteland, Chris went in search of it. He came across the village of Oasis in the northern part of the Capital Wasteland. It was covered in trees, it was greener than anything Chris had ever seen. When he approached Oasis, Tree Father Birch asked that he follow him, saying that He had summoned Chris. The wanderer agreed and Birch unlocked the gate to the village and lead him inside to an outdoor hut. Birch explained that he was the leader of the Treeminders, and that He had summoned the lad to the village. The Treeminders asked that Chris drink some sap in a ritual to purge him of all evil that might be inside, so that He may go unharmed. After the ritual, the wanderer went to the inner grove, where he meet Harold, aka He. Harold revealed that he was a victim of the FEV that transformed him into a ghoul-like individual with a plant growing out of his head. He had travelled from the west coast and as the plant grew he got stuck in the Capital Wasteland when it became rooted to the ground. He was now trapped inside the tree and due to his ghoul-like longevity he would not die. He begged for mercy, wanting to be put out of his misery. The Treeminders had other plans. Father Birch wanted to halt Harold's growth, not letting the forest expand any more, while Mother Laurel want to accelerate his growth, so the whole wasteland could benefit from it. As much as Chris wanted to be merciful to the ghoul, he couldn't pass up such a great thing. He sided with Laurel for the good of the Capital Wasteland and applied Laurel's liniment to Harold's heart. He was rewarded by Laurel's followers and then left Oasis.

In Underworld, the ghoul settlement located inside the Museum of History, Chris came across and unconscious woman in the settlement's hospital. He used his skill in medicine to wake her up. The woman, Reilly, explained that she was wounded by super mutants while trying to ex-filtrate and get help for her team, who were stranded on the roof of the Statesman Hotel. Chris agreed to help them and Reilly gave him the code to the ammo cache that one of her people had been carrying. He reached the hotel, going through the next door hospital, and fought his way through the super mutants inhabiting the place. He made it to the staircase in which Theo had died and left the ammo cache. On the roof he encountered the remaining Reilly's Rangers, giving them the ammo cache and asking them what they needed to make it out of the hotel alive. They told him about the elevador and he helped them fix it. Once fixed they got inside and exited the hotel through the lobby. Chris when with the Rangers to their HQ in the D.C. ruins, where Reilly was waiting for them. Reilly thanked the wanderer for his help and offered him a position in her Rangers. Chris agreed and helped them for a while, doing scouting for them, but he once he joined the Brotherhood of Steel he quit the Rangers. As a thanks, Brick gave her minigun Eugene to the lad.

When he was talking with Abraham Washington in Rivet City, the old man gave him a job. To steal the declaration of independence from the National Archives and bring it to him. Abraham said he had sent another treasure hunter after it, but she had not returned. So Chris took the job and headed to the Archives. When he got to The National Archives in the rotunda, he find Sydney, the another treasure hunter sent by Abraham. She had been held up fighting super mutants and offered to team up with Chris in order to finish the job. He agreed and together they defeated the wave of super mutants that attacked the rotunda. After they killed the last super mutant, Sydney told Chris that she had hacked a secret elevator that would get them very close to the Declaration's location. They used it and it dropped them off at the Secure Wing of the The National Archives. They had to fight their way through numerous robots as they made their way to the declaration.

Events of Broken Steel
Chris Wright woke up two weeks after he had passed out at the Jefferson Memorial, at the Citadel's medical bay. He saw that Elder Lyons was by his bed. The Elder explained that he and his daughter Sarah were both knocked unconscious due to an energy spike in the purifier and were found and brought back to the Citadel. Sarah had not yet recovered from her coma and was in a bed nearby. Elder Lyons also explained what had happened in the two weeks since the lad had turned on the purifier.

Trivia

 * Chris was named after his father's cousin, Christopher Wright. Who was a close friend of James when he was growing up in New Reno.
 * Chris' father and uncle had already left New Reno by the time the Chosen One came to the city in 2241.
 * James was 32 and Catherine was 39 when Chris was born.
 * Both Chris and his father married older women. With Catherine being 7 years older than James, and Lucy being 6 years older than Chris.
 * Chris is highly intelligent and perceptive, he is also proficient in charisma. His best skills are: Medicine, Science, Energy Weapons and Speech. Though before his adventures in the Capital Wasteland, he wasn't that charismatic nor that good at speech.
 * Interestingly, in the vault his best skills were: Medicine, Science and Melee Weapons. As he was a pretty good batter in the vault's baseball team.