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I believe the difference is in the person, rather than the radiation – a genetic factor that makes a small percentage of people mutate instead of dying
It’s the same. It’s mostly luck for People. Sometimes It’s death, sometimes ghoulification. Hancock from Fallout 4 become a ghoul after exposure to radiation from wasteland.
It’s completely unknown at this point. Largely believed to be certain genetic markers combined with a precise amount of exposure to high energy radiation. Though sometimes prolonged exposure to lower energy radiation has resulted in similar conditions. There’s also known to be exotic drug cocktails that can create ghouls.
The children of atom hold a belief that their god Atom chooses who becomes a ghoul and who doesn’t to fulfill a grand design that they themselves are servants to. While on its face the theory is best treated as the ravings of a cult, there is evidence to support both paranormal and alien influences on those afflicted with radiation. Atom itself has no direct evidence but giant creatures that predate humanity as well as Zetans from another world and the Precursor civilization that allegedly created humanity do exist. It’s possible that some significance to genetic engineering of the human race is the result of ghouls or accidental cross contamination from these non human sources.
If there is any differnece I assume it’s the dosage.
Do we even know of people that died of long term radiation exposure in the Fallout universe? The ways we see people die of radiation si rather acute radiation syndrome (ARS) which is a very different thing to the deadly effects we know of long term radiation exposure which leads to increased cancer rates instead. For all we know of the Fallout universe’s radiation is different and when exposed to it in a long term and low dosage basis leads to ghoulification instead of increased cancer rates (or at least the cancers it causes are not incompatible with ghoul phisiology).
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I believe the difference is in the person, rather than the radiation – a genetic factor that makes a small percentage of people mutate instead of dying
It’s the same. It’s mostly luck for People. Sometimes It’s death, sometimes ghoulification. Hancock from Fallout 4 become a ghoul after exposure to radiation from wasteland.
It’s completely unknown at this point. Largely believed to be certain genetic markers combined with a precise amount of exposure to high energy radiation. Though sometimes prolonged exposure to lower energy radiation has resulted in similar conditions. There’s also known to be exotic drug cocktails that can create ghouls.
The children of atom hold a belief that their god Atom chooses who becomes a ghoul and who doesn’t to fulfill a grand design that they themselves are servants to. While on its face the theory is best treated as the ravings of a cult, there is evidence to support both paranormal and alien influences on those afflicted with radiation. Atom itself has no direct evidence but giant creatures that predate humanity as well as Zetans from another world and the Precursor civilization that allegedly created humanity do exist. It’s possible that some significance to genetic engineering of the human race is the result of ghouls or accidental cross contamination from these non human sources.
If there is any differnece I assume it’s the dosage.
Do we even know of people that died of long term radiation exposure in the Fallout universe? The ways we see people die of radiation si rather acute radiation syndrome (ARS) which is a very different thing to the deadly effects we know of long term radiation exposure which leads to increased cancer rates instead. For all we know of the Fallout universe’s radiation is different and when exposed to it in a long term and low dosage basis leads to ghoulification instead of increased cancer rates (or at least the cancers it causes are not incompatible with ghoul phisiology).