It was while taking a very close look at all my notes in regards to the vaults that I noticed some very interesting things with Vault 108.

There is no Computer Control System for Vault 108. Its suggested that a vaults comuter system automated many functions in the vault. For instance, a terminal entry in Vault 87 said that the main computer controled things as simple as the color of the tapioca being dispensed. If Vault 108 had no main computer, did that mean no food synthesizers ? Did everyone eat from food packets in instead? And was everything else simply run manuely?

And as far as the cloning labs go, thoughs weren't mentioned in the list of non-standard equipment. It didn't make sense until I learned Vault City in FO2 had a cloning lab for replacing missing limbs and organ transfers. Meaning the doctors just pushed that technology to the next level on their own when it came to making clones. Which might also explin why the Gary clones were messed up.

I already have some idea in my head, but I would just like to hear some different opinions. What was vault life like for the citizens of Vault 108, before the Garys took over?

There is another thing I do not get about Vault 108:
Cloning by itself does not provide fully grown individuals. What processes were used to get instant advlt Gary-clones?

Cloning as we know it does not. However, neither do we have tiny nuclear reactors in our cars.

Just imagine cloning in the early days of sci-fi...they always stepped out of a pod, fully grown! It's just that classic!

So, it is not a question of science, but of style?

:intergalactic:

I like that!

I am honestly more confused by how the gary clones are still alive after they overran the vault decades ago, though that isnt as confusing as vault 106 where everyone inhaled the gases 10 days after the bombs fell and still managed to reproduce for a further 200 years despite being violently insane.

Well, they're violently insane to the player.

It's entirely possible that they're "normal" when their gas-filled environment doesn't contain individuals who haven't gone insane yet.

And normal could still be disfunctionanl, just not to the point that they couldn't successfully reproduce.

As to the Garys isn't it obvious what was happening before they took over? For some reason the cloners were trying to create the perfect vault citizen. When they thought they had the recipe right they started pumping out Gary clones (probably they started out as children and were raised by those who lived in vault 108). Then the Gary's started exhibiting violent behaviour, killing anyone who wasn't one of them. This probably occured when they all hit puberty at the same time. Life before the Gary experiment was obviously insanely boring if they had so much time on their hands that they concluded the coolest thing to do would be to clone a whole generation of ideal vault dwellers. You can imagine that they were tired of cloning themselves and wanted something more standardized. Just because they could. Maybe Gary was a clone of the Overseer and the experiment was an attempt to make everyone equal. Maybe they had all sent into the lab requests for clones of themselves but some mad scientist replaced all their clones with a clone of himself. In any case things got really dull, people went nuts, cloned Gary and the rest is history.