Why Every Fallout Vault Is Evil Explained (Vol 1)

I think the white noise experiment could also be testing how people react living inside a space ship that might be constantly generating a hum or background frequency

i feel like a lot of vault experiments could be summed up as "its better to have the data and not need it, than need it and not have it"

With the number of rich people who'd be buying their way onto these ships, the tests on how the rich would react if given poor quality lodgings and people to subject seem extremely useful in a very grim way.

Vault-Tec was seriously convinced it was worth spending billions of dollars to build a vault for a single man to play with puppets

With the freezing of vault 111 you also get the benefit of not having to deal with a lot of other problems, like the inhabitants fighting each other, running out of food, things like that.

One point about vault 34, the armoury didn't come fitted with a lock, the overseer had it rigged up after the boomers left the vault to try and prevent a similar rebellion in the future. In fact when the vault was built the armoury was made to SPECIFICALLY not be lockable to test how residents would react when their access to all those extra weapons COULDNT be restricted easily.

As dark and inhumane as these experiments are, Vault-Tec really had a sadistic sense of humor when designing some of the vaults.

The Hawthorne excitements were famously inconclusive. They found that changing the lighting, in any way, increased productivity. This was because ppl knew they were being tested and that changed the results! One of my favorite studies :)

For the love of God being stuck in a Vault with only Brendan Shaub playing would be torture

As for the vault that was all children being raised by Robots. I believe ot was to test a different form of space travel like in Interstellar, where criogenically preserved embrios were packed into the ship in case humanity needed to be restarted. The resulting infants would have needed to be raised by a non-human.

This paired with the "Vault Tec launched the nukes" theory brings a chilling thought: What if Vault-Tec knew that atomic armageddon wouldn't be enough to snuff out humanity, and just wanted data for when humanity made superweapons that actually could make us go extinct in a day? Having data on how to make a perfect spaceship is useless in a wasteland, but in a few hundred years after society has found its footing? That data may just save countless lives. You really have to wonder. Is Vault Tec simply being arrogant, letting hubris and pride blind them to the fact that their method of data collection had several failure points? Or Did they know something we don't?

Something you might have missed about Vault 21 is that it could also be used to create traditions. Traditions are important and having a unified culture is absolutely necessary to keeping a society together.

Wow. That's such an obvious observation that just clicks so much into place. Them being cruel morally bankrupt monsters is one thing, but them having an actual definable purpose makes the Vault Tec opportunism all the more chilling.

I always had an idea for a vault where it was filled with known criminals, megalomaniacs, and paranoid people. The staff would be entirely robotic and the vault would be entirely devoid of weapons with a strict anti-violence policy. The only weapon in the vault was a recharger pistol with a biometric lock where one random dweller was the only person to be able to use the gun for that day, any violence committed by them would be ignored by the security. The overseer would be secretly living among them to try and make sure things never got too quiet. Destroying the gun was not an option due to its incredibly sturdy design and hiding the gun was not allowed. I imagine in the context of the generation ship, it would be used to determine how people would react not only to being deprived of traditional weapons, but also when someone is able to bypass those rules.

I knew absolutely nothing about Fallout lore, and thanks to you now I understand how open it is to create diverse and rich stories, and why it was so popular.

Considering the theory that Vault Tec is already gone for a while, could it be possible that the Generation Ship has in fact already left at the time of the Fallout Games?

Its nice that, even after everything that's happened, the original creators of Fallout are still invested in the franchise.

I like that vault tecs plans kinda went to shit after the enclave was destroyed and pushed back by decades, it's also worth noting vault Tec was planning on the government surviving considering vaults like vault 79 with all of America's gold, perhaps the vaults and experiments were only meant to last 25-30 years see vault 76 "rebuilding America"

I would like to add that the radiation vault might also be for the natural radiation of space and the plant vault can also be for renewable oxygen but yeah, this all makes total sense. The only thing thats missing is how they were planning on creating the ship after the final result.

As a woman, Vault 68 is something out of my worst nightmares.