Possible lore-friendly plot continuity mod..

[Puppettron]

i think the best place to put info re:  security measures for v112 would be in the vaultco HQ.  so in addition to bottlenecking the player into going to NV for the key, you're forcing him to explore VW more.  plus, it makes sense to keep that info there. 

[JaxFirehart]

Agreed

[icecreamcooper]

This is a more lore friendly version, comments and criticism welcome.

I was thinking what about perhaps the break could be right after Traquility Lane in vault 112, your dad that says he is heading to rivet city and that you must follow him, he gets there convinces the others to being work and sends you off to retrieve a geck. He states that the BOS might know more and that you should contact them. Through them you learn of the train to the DC and that the faction in the Mojave had that kind of information, unfortunately their systems had been corrupted and they lost their copy of the information. However, you arrive in the Mojave and get no information because the data was recently stolen by a former BOS member and their systems erased...a dead end. Then before you start journey back into DC, before reboarding the train, you find the corpse of the Courier as portrayed in Lore, not the corpse part but the courier part, and a dead BOS (making it appear that they had a shoot out) and also find the delivery order, the platinum chip and an added note hinting on some of the strange events surrounding the chip and how it seems unique, the BOS has another generic seeming usb device (disguised however as a semi-valuless item with no obvious purpose) you pick it up and continue your journey home but just as you are about to head back you are ambushed and the NV main quest begins, at this point you could continue the NV or DC quest. With a strong focus on NV quest, due to Amnesia but always having along with you the secondary usb device. Later after retrieving the Platinum Chip you realize how it is unique and tie in that perhaps the other usb device may also have special characteristics. You load it up on your pip-boy, now that you realize you can, and it gives you loads of information on the GECK and where one could be found, you guessed it back at Vault 87. This realization also comes with memories about dad coming back to you leading you to remember why you were here in the Mojave in the first place. (IE cutscene with video snippets of dad). This gives you the opportunity to head back to DC or finish the Mojave. Idea here is that with the platinum chip in hand you essentially halt majority further development of plot in Mojave until you are ready to begin moving forward, allowing you time to go back to DC and finish Project Purity, where your dad and the other scientists are working on getting it going, but as you arrive to tell your dad that you have the information project purity is attacked by the enclave. The escape leads you to the citadel where you normally learn of the location of the geck, instead shorten this to only give you the location of vault 87 since they no longer had the files and since you already know based on your excursion to the Mojave. I agree with others that once the enclave become involved there should be a no turning back until Broken Steel is finished, perhaps because the Enclave broke the train and you can't fix it until the end of Broken Steel. Similar once the player initiates the main quest in Mojave, like the war part and the house mission then the train will be broken until the main plot is resolved. Once one is done then the other can be completed and DLC can be explored as appropriate.

My main point, lets use an item needed in FO3 and relocate info on it into the Mojave, like the geck and then tie in the start of Mojave with you finding the original courier and the chip and a note about the delivery, only to get caught up in the whole scene for no other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, only believing you are the courier because of the bullet to the head and later remembering why you came to the Mojave in the first place and being able to get what you need and head back to DC to continue there.

Thoughts and discussion welcome, thanks for reading.