Other than the numerical connection, there is the whole "preservation of prewar society" in the way of keeping a group of citizens alive for hundreds of years. I propose that vault 111 could possibly have been another vault filled with simulator cells. However, I know that they probably are cryogenic cells. Additionally, I wonder if the spouse who did serve in the military is the one that you choose, if it isn't just both.

They are undoubtedly connected in some way. If you notice, the Vault experiments often had variations on a theme for sequentially numbered vaults. So you are correct that preservation of prewar people into the far future is the goal of both. Vault 112 preservation of the mind, Vault 111 preservation of the body.

I think both husband and wife where probably in the military, it would change too much if one was and the other wasn't, as far as gameplay and plot points for quests, but I could be wrong.

Fallot 4 is a simulation confirmed.

Also is being sequential a connection? I always assumed it was more connected to Vault 101 based on it being our 'starting' location.

Not always, but in quite a few cases.

Vault 55 -> All entertainment tapes removed.

Vault 56 -> All entertainment tapes removed except for those by a particularly bad comedian.

Vault 68 -> 999 men and one woman.

Vault 69 -> 999 women and one man.

Vault 12 -> Vault door designed never to close.

Vault 13 -> Vault door not designed to open for centuries.

I just don't get why Braun wouldn't of gone with Cryo for 'his' vault, instead of the VR simulation he was running. If he had been in a cryo Vault himself he could have emerged relatively sane in a mad mad world.

He outright says he believes rebuilding the old world is a dumb idea when you can make a new one.

He didn't WANT to return to the world outside.

Exactly. He wanted to be conscious. To create his own virtual playground where he was God and could indulge in his sadistic tendencies by torturing the people he trapped in his wonderland with him.

A masochist and a narcissist, I wish they did more with him.

He is alive and fairly happy by the end of all my playthroughs! Screwing with those people was so much fun!

Well...ok. It's been years since I played Fallout 3 my bad, I don't even remember what I had for dinner last night. I kinda just thought by the time we had met him he no longer held any attachment to the 'world' but I guess he held no desire to begin with. So it's safe to say he still designed 111 right? I kinda forget his background.

My silly guess.

Vault 111 = you're an android brain in a human body.

Vault 112 = you're a human brain in an android body.

... or vice versa.

Fallout 3 has Vault 112, and it is involved in the Main Questline of the Game

Please, God.. no, no android protagonist. Don't do it, Bethesda.

Well Vault 112 was preservation of the prewar mind through endless simulation, what if Vault 111 is just simple preservation of the prewar body? Free from any possible mutations or afflictions that could be found in a post-war environment? A sort of "perfect specimen" type affair.

The way cryo and cryonic stasis works, is that they freeze you to the point that there is no longer cell death- this means you're technically dead.
If you're technically dead, you don't have any brain waves, therefore you can't participate in a simulation.

At least, that is how it is supposed to work.

Oh.. Have they used vault 110 yet? My thing could still work if vault 110 hasn't been used yet..

I have a feeling that they will have as much in common as Vault 21 and Vault 22 do.

Oh.. I know! If Vault 112 was a simulation of a pre-war world, then Vault 111 could be a simulation of the post war world. At the end of the game we'll wake up and everything will be back to normal.

Could just be that these two vaults are experimenting with different means of "preserving" humans. One in the form of cryogenics, which no one would've been able to test for 200 years at a time untill now. And the other through that simulation thing and some life-support system. (didnt Mr. House use a similar system?)

Hi guys,

Loving these theories!

SarahMay

According to lore, IIRC there were 112 vaults in total - so obviously they couldn't use 113...

I think there has to be something with simulation in vault 111. In the E3 gameplay, we see the character above ground when the nuke drops, but we're assured by Todd he does make it safely into the vault. The only way I can reconcile this is through a simulation. I suppose they could go with the "it was only a nightmare and cryo" route.

There are 122 vaults. According to the Fallout wiki, Vault 112 was just the last to be completed.

I really hoping they don't go with it's "All just a simulation" That's such a cop out ending.