Fallout Creator：The Vaults were not designed to avoid war

I believe that most Fallout series players knows that on the surface, the radioactive vaults in the game is built ti help Americans to survive after the nuclear war in 2077, but if you’ve also played Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4, you’ll get to know that Vault Tec, the tech company behind the vaults, is doing something even more evil.

And the theorycrafting and guesses of players have been clarified recently by Tim Cain, one of the founder of the Fallout series.

As the early co-creator of Fallout, and part of the designer team in Fallout 2, Cain was in the development of this post-apocalyptic open world game from the start. And in Valut Tec’s plans, they are going to build 1,000 vaults that can hold 1,000 person, and Cain believes that this plan by Vault-Tec has other ulterior motives other than restoring the American population.

「After the war, Earth will not be the planet that can let humans live at ease.」Cain explains，「Thus, the leaders and government of Enclave decided unanimously『Let us build a spaceship! And let humans move to nearby planets』But it is known that the project will take a long time to achieve, so it must be a spaceship that can fit several generations of humans in it, and the only way to reach it, the known technology to humans is atomic energy.

「Thus, we can build nuclear power stations to help us build the intergalactic spaceship, but that’s all we will do. Other than the energy for the spaceship, we know nothing about all the other technological difficulties. That is when the PIC of Vault-Tec said:

『Why don’t we use the vaults to find out the technologies we will need for the spaceship?』

In Cain’s initial plans, every vault is built to test a different situation, or to create different building techniques.

「Let’s see if these experiments sound familiar,」Cain continues,「『People will need food on the spaceship, so we will have to cultivate plants in a closed environment. We’ll have to think of a way to conserve the important tech members, we’ll need cyrochambers, and take them out every few years to see what is going to happen.』」

Those who have played Fallout players will instantly recognise these sceneries, including the Vault 22 that is taken over by the overgrowth of biotech mutated plants in Fallout: New Vegas, and the Vault 111 in Fallout 4, where Nate and Nora is frozen in the prelude of the game.

Cain stated:「I always believed that the Vault City in Fallout 2 is a controlled vault. The design was perfect, and it gave Vault-Tec the goal to『Save the American population and release them back to a nuclear deadzone』」

「But placing them to a dying planet full of nuclear radiation is pointless. By changing the vaults into experimental labs to develop a spaceship, and bring all the smartest and greatest humans away from Earth after the Nuclear war is meaningful.」

Besides, Cain has also talked about Bethesda, and how the Skyrim creators have revived the Fallout series. Nevertheless, next time you are searching in a vault, remember that it existed to help humans to reach outer space.

I can’t really imagine what my favourite Vault 106 is made for, releasing neurochemical substances into the air, I wonder what it is for?

Source：PcGamer