Diamond City

Welcome to the great green jewel of the Commonwealth, save, happy, a fine place to come, spend your money, settledown. ~ Mayor Mcdonough

Diamond City  commonly referred to as "The Great Green Jewel," is a fortified settlement in the Commonwealth. This settlement is based on the pre-war structure of Fenway Park, it's distinctive "Green Monster" color visible on the reinforced walls. The city quards can be seen wearing baseball jerseys with umpire's pads and helmets, reflection the location's former use.

Diamond City was founded in the 2130's in Fenway Park and quickly established itself as a safe haven for settlers of the Commonwealth, thanks to what its residents affectionately referred to as "the Wall." Later decades saw Diamond City grow into the Commonwealth's largest and most prosperous community. It developed a degree of social stratification as wealthier residents came to occupy properties in the settlement's exclusive upper stands, these overlooked the lower field where everyone else strived to make a living.

In 2180, the Commonwealth Minutemen defended the city from an attacking horde of super mutants. This caused the faction's eventual rise to fame.

The "Broken Mask Incident" occurred in 2229, when a man calling himself Mr. Carter arrived. At first, the people of the city warmed to Mr. Carter, but while he was drinking at the bar that occupied the center of Diamond City's marketplace, he went berserk and killed several residents. When security personnel killed Mr. Carter, they discovered he was a synth created by the Institute. From that moment on, the people of Diamond City lived in fear that they would be covertly replaced by synths. Although such talk was discouraged and ridiculed by the city's leadership a number of people began inexplicably disappearing from the city over the following years, a disturbing trend that no one wished to acknowledge.

In 2272, the protectron Takahashi took up residence in the marketplace's old bar and opened Power Noodles, a restaurant that became a staple of Diamond City culture.

By 2282, Diamond City's mayor was McDonough, who's controversial election campaign centered on the expulsion of all ghouls from the city. Upon election to office, the decree was enacted and the ghouls were driven out by the human residents. Some ghouls relocated to Goodneighbor and continued to bear a grudge against both Mayor McDonough and the inhabitants of Diamond City in general, who did little to reverse the decree.

By 2287, some residents came to believe McDonough had been replaced by a synth, a suspicion exacerbated by Piper, her sister Natand their newspaper Publick Occurrences.

When Piper reaches idolized status with the Sole Survivor, she explains that when she first moved to Diamond City with Nat, the Great Green Wall was broken and patched with a solitary bookcase. This drove her to create Publick Occurrences to address the issues of Diamond City.

The city is split into social classes where the rich and powerful reside in the upper stands, whilst the common people live in the field below.

At the back and to the side of the stadium there is a crop field and brahmin pen, similar to the one in Abernathy Farm. There is also a small lake to the right of the marketplace, which is irradiated.

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