Malachi Dip was the founder of Renewalism, an ideology centered on self reliance and abandonment of pre-War ideas (such as capitalism) and technology (such as most firearms, medicine, etc.). A prolific author and philosopher, Malachi however suffered in obscurity as no one wanted to distribute his books in his hometown of Shady Sands. Eventually, he moved to the Boneyard in 2199 to try again, only to develop a chem addiction and become chronically homeless and poor. For the next forty years, he began a slow spiral into insanity, distributing his books on Renewalism and self-reliance to any who would take them. He died in 2242, unknown and unloved, but was discovered and popularized more than twenty years later by some people who took his words to heart.