Rise of Vault-Tec

"The Vaults were never meant to save anyone" Quote from Penny Arcade Comics's 'One Man, and a Crate of Puppets' this is very much true as we have seen in the Fallout Universe. But Vault-Tec is not silly oh no, they knew that if the experiments were be activated it would mean a Nuclear Holocaust. So they would of been prepared for it and they will be monitoring, they spent so much money in this so the CEO's would expect nothing but perfection. I believe they would be a second Vault like Vault 0 as a back up where they will be many Vault-Tec personal and troops there will be factories, labs and warehouses. There will be a rise of Vault-Tec in a later game. They planned for the end or the world what there mission was unknown. What I am saying is there should be a game based on Vault-Tec's rise they could not of just stopped, it's in logical.

So what's your idea on Vault-Tec's future, forum?

I was working on a very well put to gether vault DC mod a while ago.. it fell apart

You know, from fallout 2, I always got the impression that it was the enclave that was monitoring the vault experiments. So while Valut-Tek may have looked like a privately owned corporation it might have been a shell company for some government organization.

From the Vault Wiki:
"Enclave was once the shadow government of the United States. Members of the Enclave both embraced the idea of a nuclear war and knew that the common man could not survive it. They believed that as long as the "important people" of the United States survived, they could regroup quickly and wipe out communism once and for all. Though not technically part of the Enclave, many powerful corporations benefited from the Enclave's actions and their research facilities were protected during the "firestorm" of 2077."
"It is composed mostly of the descendants of government officials and military officers with ties to powerful corporations"


Vault-tech was probably one such a company, and was essentially controlled by the Enclave/US government pre-war


Kind of off-topic, but while researching Vault-tec i found this :
"the true reason for the construction of the Vaults was to allow the government to secretly study pre-selected segments of the American population to observe how they would react to the stresses of isolation and how successfully they would re-colonize the devastated Earth after the Vault opened"
I already knew this, but reading it again made me wonder....
Maybe the events of all these games take place within a massive computer before the war, in some kind of simulation? MAYBE ITS ALL A DREAM? I think I just blew your mind.

Consider playing Fallout: Tactics.

I had always thought that Vault-Tek had connections with most governments and organisations, but was covertly working with the Enclave/US Government on the experiments to be carried out in the Vaults.

Not canon :\

I remember reading in one of the Vault Tech computers in FO3 that all personel were to keep a loaded side arm in their desk incase the feds came in.

Whether or not FO:T is canon is really up to the individual. Some people think its canon, some think its not, while others only accept certain parts of the game to be canon.



I remember this too. Clearly someone must have figured out that Vault-Tec was doing something bad.

Vault-Tec and the Shadow organisation the Enclave did work together but I think in my mind the Enclave was sponserd by Vault-Tec, to be the money maker behind Enclave because the government money can't stay hidden but Vault-Tec money could of been easily given to the Enclave for research and weapons building. I believe that Vault-Tec and the Enclave will rise because the point if they knew that the bombs will happen and they will gather there date and reform when they are (Last fallout game like 10-15 years later) but each game up to that can lend hints

I like setting fire to canon. It makes certain people act in hilarious ways.

And...Wasn't the Vaults purposes to test whether or not a collective of human individuals could sustain themselves in a space shuttle for long periods of time? I think this got detailed somewhere in Fallout 2, unless I'm mistaken.

mind not blown.

the whole "simulation" idea was/is/never will be a good idea as an ultimate plot device. simulations make you feel like you wasted your time because in the end you never really accomplished anything. it leaves you feeling robbed.

I should play FO2 again because I missed that they wanted to go to space

Speaking of this--does anybody know what this is about? http://fallout.gamesas.com/eng/games/fnv-overview.html Please tell me I'm reading into this wrong and New Vegas isn't going to be set up as a simulation like Operation Anchorage. That would make me sad.

That's actually not a Vault Tec facility. It's the L.O.B. Enterprises (or Industries? I'm not sure..) Headquarters. They were expecting a Federal raid because they were providing tech to the Chinese.

It is, it's out on the market and it's official.

Its just a catch phrase that Beth uses for the games now. They said the same thing with Fallout 3. So its like in real life, Bethesda is Vault-Tec, and Fallout 3 and New Vegas are Post-Apocolyptic Simulations for us gamers. Its got nothing to do with the plot in game.

Well technically the general consensus seems to be that Tactics is semi-canon. Chris Taylor says as much:





Yeah that occurred to me that they could be talking about "us" but I wasn't sure. I panicked. I thought "If this is how they explain an off-shoot game. I mean--I think it pretty much worked ok in Operation Anchorage but to say a whole game with parts of what probably would have been my favorite in the series (weeps for VanBuren) was just a simulation would have been a really lame cop-out." Glad to hear I just misinterpreted that paragraph.

I understand VT to be a front for the pre-war "Enclave Conspiracy" (along with Posidon Oil). Anyone "worth saving" would have been in the oil rig... The rest, well there's always the vaults!

I still think Vault Tec and the Enclave have bigger shoes to fill

I remember reading that on a computer, except it was in a subway office, it said something about the operation and use of a laser pistol