SPOILER Wastelands theories

I want to preface this by saying that no, I did not glitch my way into the Wastelands, however I did find this fellow while peeking through a gate. "Powderman", level 107. Attacks by rolling a TNT minecart at you.
107, how strange, isn't the Wasteland supposed to have Cinnabar, the level 115 ore? Well, yes, but it stretches across the length of both the Roughworks and the Mistwoods. It likely has a very wide level range as well.

As you (hopefully) know, Deraj Prison is a major location in the Wastelands. I think it's going to be a "town" in some way, or at least have a safe zone. There's a train stop, presumably at Deraj, which implies that it's in a safe area. Aside from that, I have basically no clue how the story would play out regarding actually breaking in. The Canopy seems to have someone on the inside, so it'll probably tie to them.

Project Hallowground, a top secret experiment conducted a few decades ago, will most definitely be expanded upon in the Wastelands, considering that's where most of it took place. Sovereign Selium died because of it, or was at least presumed dead. The fact that they don't know really seems like a Chekhov's gun to me, I think he might actually be alive.

There's a massive cave network under the Wastelands, definitely a major location. According to the Project Hallowground files, these caves were deemed very dangerous, to the point of it being deemed necessary to memory wipe most of those who knew. Who knows what could be lurking down there? (It's changelings. There are changelings down there.)

Some small details include: Slag Beetles are native to the Wastelands, there are a lot of mines, and most of the labor in them is performed by inmates, there appear to be two kinds of tree, one that looks dead and one that looks a lot like a jungle tree, which is found near the mountains that separate Fruma from Wynn, and there's a ravine(?)

Maybe there's Wastelands-Jungle fast travel?

That's all.

 

The enemies that are there are temp ones I made a while ago, and the levels shouldn't be considered much. Originally I wanted a lot of Fruma enemies to have lower levels than the player to make it clear that they weren't exactly equipped to do combat with you

 

My only hope is for a dungeon. This will not happen. But I will hope.

 

I'm aware this is what's in game, but it feels weird to me... It feels like Ascension to Sovereignhood is enough of a tie for Her Majesty to at least have known his state.

Though obviously she didn't say anything, and didn't write the report anyhow I guess.

 

And she said to the public that he ... retired .

 

I'm guessing the wastelands is where we'll finally learn more about Sohso, given that the Hallowground report seemed to allude to him.