» Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:24 am Vault Number – 25
Location – Underneath NYC
Starting Construction Date – December 2069
Ending Construction Date – December 2075
Starting Budget – $400 000 000 000
Final Budget, with Interest – $800 250 000 000
Total Number of Occupants – 800 (actual), 1000 (at capacity)
Total Duration – 25 years (at capacity)
Number of Living Quarters – 100 (Bunking required at capacity)
Door Thickness – 4 yards, titanium
Earth Coverage – 3 200 000 tonnes of soil, at 400 feet.
Computer Control System – RobCo SANTA AI 3000
Primary Power Supply – Dual Hydroelectric
Secondary Power Supply - General Atomics Nuclear Power backup systems
Power Requirements - 25 MKW/day (Due to extensive use of Christmas lighting, decorations, and entertainment)
Stores – Complete construction equipment, hydro-agricultural farms, water purification from Underground River, perpetual snow machine, Christmas lights, Christmas trees, Christmas cards, Christmas decorations, Holiday special entertainment tapes and music, Christmas candy, toys, Christmas themed foods
Vault 25 Apparel – Similar to standard Vault Jumpsuits, but blue and yellow color scheme replaced with holiday styled red and white.
Behind the Scenes
True Purpose – To observe how a population lives in an environment where it is Christmas every day. 200 families of four (two parents and two children) are chosen. SANTA RobCo Robot sneaks into childrens’ quarters at night to leave toys by their beds every night.
Results – For the first week, families are pleased with the thought of having Christmas every day, and enjoy their Christmas related amenities. However, after that time period, initial advlt subjects begin to descend into a spiraling pit of insanity. After four weeks, a fraction of the advlt population (25%), kills their spouses/children, and then commits suicide by hanging themselves with Christmas lights. Others (30% of the advlt population), commit suicide right away; the 45% of advlts with their sanity intact attempt to resume life normally. However, the SANTA robot designed to deliver children presents at night based on their “niceness” becomes corrupt by an unknown hacker from within the vault, and goes on a massacre. Over 100 people are killed by the initial assault, and remaining families quickly fashion their Christmas decorations into weapons to defend themselves from the SANTA robot. The SANTA AI system senses a danger, and puts the vault door into a permanent lockdown state, preventing it from ever opening again. Rumours are that a few families managed to escape the vault before lockdown, but most either commit suicide or spend the rest of their lives hiding within the shadows of the vault, protecting their families from the SANTA robot.
Aftermath – Today, in 2281, Vault 25 is unlocked, but descendants of initial vault residents still hide below in the darkest levels of the vault, living with their families in constant fear of the still-murderous SANTA robot. Entering the vault, one should note that bright, multi-colored Christmas lights still decorate the halls, some fashioned into nooses and wrapped around dangling corpses’ necks. Blood is all over the floors and walls, in the form of splatters, trails, and even handprints. Cheery holiday tunes still echo through the halls of sorrow and murder, making Vault 25 that much more eerie. You may find children, dead in their beds, locked into an eternal sleep. If the average wanderer is really unfortunate, they may come face to face with SANTA, the corrupted mass-murderer of Vault 25.
SANTA AI Specifications
Base Model – RobCo Protectron
Height – 6 feet
Weight – 100 pounds
Operating System – Protectron Mk.XII 2.5 (2074)
Weaponry – N/A
Function – To deliver toys to sleeping children every night in Vault 25
Acronym – SANTA: Sentient Autonomous Neurological Toy Assembler
Voice – 108kb “Santa Claus” RobCo Voice Module 2.0
Color – Red Santa Claus suit, with matching Santa hat
Feel free to leave feedback, constructive critique, etc. This was basically a random thought which made it's way onto paper, and may need some touch-ups. But I thought it was a pretty neat idea, maybe they'll stick it in the next Fallout game!
