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US Route 66 Information Database

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In the year 2053, RobCo and Nuka Cola entered a partnership to contribute to American self-reliance in the wake of international fragmentation. With the worldwide Resource War ravaging nations, and the recent invasion of Mexico, the CEO's of these mighty corporations devised a scheme to modernise North America's transportation system and become unimaginably wealthy at the same time. Looking to the vast network of interconnected railways in Europe as a strong example of ideal and more energy efficient methods of cross-country navigation, they decided that they would take advantage of the rapidly growing midwestern population and use the Mother road to reorient America's heartland. When the international scene began to crumble, Americans were enamoured with an America that was strong and isolated, thus the 1950s Americana Renaissance was born years prior. As such, Route 66 was already a hot topic. RobCo's engineers helped build a new innovative method of nuclear-powered monorail system that would serve as a precursor to the invention of Nuclear Fusion, while CEO Robert Edwin House would lead a project to re-map North America's highway network out of what already existed, and Nuka Cola had a devious plan to buy out a large majority of the diners along the network prior to construction and market the road heavily as it was being built. They would both serve as nationwide advertisement and personal vendors, with them in essence being their own supplier. And so, as America's nervous system was being built, their companies would be built into it. This heavily streamlined system of rails and roads was in fact many more roads than Route 66. However, if the road and rail system of America's future was a nervous system, 66 would be its spine. 

 

With this as the proposition given to the United States Congress, they were faced with opposition claiming they designed the roads to be most profitable for their factory supply lines, not the American people. In the wake of this obstacle, they were approached by a solution. Poseidon Energy. Deeply ingrained in American congress, Poseidon was an oil company that had grown to massive scale. It was beyond company, it was America itself, owning almost every source of oil remaining on Earth. They would remove the obstacle, if their deal was modified. Nuka Cola would sell them half of their already owned Diners, and they would rename their already owned Nuka Diner's to 'keep the competition fair'. Nuka Cola stuck to a more traditional method of naming these diners after the people who owned them. Using completely fabricated names associated with the retiring generation, they founded Dot's Diners, Rita's Café, Drumlin Diners, Smitty's, Parker's and many more. Poseidon renamed the remaining diners and converted them into fuel refilling stations, known nationwide as "Red Rocket". RobCo would be forced to exclusively use their products for power along the railways, forcing them to adopt cruder methods and severely downgrade the power and cost of the engines. This came with a caveat as well; RobCo was not to make their research on Fusion public, and the scientists who had devised this ingenious method of power generation would be signed over to their research division. Those employees that attempted to leave the company and call attention to this were silenced with RobCo's refusal to acknowledge their efforts ever even existed.

 

Begrudgingly, the deal went through. Route 66 and the United States Route Network was reborn. Songs were written and rewritten, dances and pop culture orbited the topic of the Route and the diners along it, once again becoming the symbol of escape, loss, and the hope for a new beginning. Families flocked to the road for the diners and a chance to sample the rural beauty of their nation. Party folk and academics alike funnelled through the city of Kingman to visit the Heartland University, RobCo's flagship engineering school, or the nearby Las Vegas, another personal investment of Robert House's. In the end, America's supply network and self-dependence was assured for some time, and two powerful companies became truly titanic in influence, though still living in the shadow of a true goliath that once reminded them of just how small they truly are.