

It is one of the few non-control vaults that didn't end in failure.Īpparently a vault designed to develop advanced agricultural technologies. This vault's purpose was gambling, reinforced by having only compulsive gamblers admitted as vault residents, and with all conflicts within the vault to be resolved through gambling. The groups lived in separate sections of the vault and the inhabitants may have been chosen due to pre-existing paranoia.

The vault was segregated into two groups, Red and Blue. It is unknown what this vault's experiment was, or if it was one of the seventeen controlled vaults. They were subsequently turned into super mutants. The vault was raided in 2154 and its inhabitants taken prisoner by the Master's Army. The birthplace of three raider groups and Shady Sands (later to become the New California Republic). Gathered from what Aradesh says in Fallout, he has quite a bit of multicultural flavoring to his speech. Intended to stay closed for 50 years and include people of radically diverse ideologies. Later study of the Vault 13 records by the Enclave led them to their current plan to end the war. Intended to stay closed for 200 years as a study of prolonged isolation, the broken water chip forced Overseer Jacoren to improvise and use the Vault Dweller as a pawn. This is the Necropolis vault and a large population of ghouls was the result.

In order to study the effects of radiation on the selected population, the vault door was designed not to close properly. This vault was a social experiment testing human nature - most specifically the ability to sacrifice oneself for others, and the ability to place ideals above one's own life. Unfortunately, all of the vault's residents were massacred by a group of raiders known as the Fiends shortly after they opened the vault door.Ī control vault, intended to open and recolonize the surface after 10 years and is equipped with a GECK. However, an unplanned water leak forced the occupants to open in hopes of trading with the outside. Southern California, near Los Angeles (Cathedral)Ī special vault designed to "monitor and control" other vaults, maintain the geniuses of the pre-War United States in cryogenic stasis and improve the future Wasteland conditions with a robot army.Ī control vault designed to open after 20 years, but kept closed longer due to the wishes of the vault inhabitants. It was not part of the experiment, and was the Master's vault under the Cathedral in Fallout.
