The Story behind Vault 34

[Sn1p3r187]

Why did Vault 34 fail? Was it because of gun control in the Vault? Or people having so many reigns over their weapons that they decided they had more authority than the overseer and the security team? To me Vault 34 was something that kinda reflects on a real life issue before it got insane and wild by 2012 and may have a bit of a message there. What do you think?

 

[PossibleCabbage]

I think the experiment behind Vault 34 is reasonable - "If we're to colonize space, we're going to need to bring weapons with us in case there is hostile alien life where we land, how do we keep these guns out of the hands of people and what happens when that fails."

The takeaway from the outcome of the experiment is much the same as everything else in Fallout - "People really are terrible to each other, aren't they?"

It is interesting though that the only people who seem to have thrived coming out of Vault 34 are the isolationists who just want to be left alone with their ordinance, but secretly dream about blowing up everybody else. There are parallels here.

 

[mrchaos]

Vault 34 supposedly fail because of a faulty reactor, radiaton vented throughout the vault.

The boomers rebelled and left the vault (with some weapons) way before that happened.

 

[Sn1p3r187]

Vault 34 supposedly fail because of a faulty reactor, radiaton vented throughout the vault.

The boomers rebelled and left the vault (with some weapons) way before that happened.

I'm talking more like the morals to what led to the fall of the Vault before radiation got in.

 

[mrchaos]

I'm talking more like the morals to what led to the fall of the Vault before radiation got in.

The radation was what kill the vault. The boomers leaving probably helped since the vault was overpopulated.

 

[Sn1p3r187]

The radation was what kill the vault. The boomers leaving probably helped since the vault was overpopulated.

Yeah but wasn't there a small civil war in the vault over guns?

 

[mrchaos]

Yeah but wasn't there a small civil war in the vault over guns?

Yes, and the boomers left with a bunch of those guns and eventually settled in air base Nellis.

 

[Sn1p3r187]

Yes, and the boomers left with a bunch of those guns and eventually settled in air base Nellis.

My point is- Did that conflict reflect on the idea of gun control and how there needs to be it or was everyone that paranoid and fearful of the overseer that they decided to fight back and there was a justified reason for it?

 

[mrchaos]

My point is- Did that conflict reflect on the idea of gun control and how there needs to be it or was everyone that paranoid and fearful of the overseer that they decided to fight back and there was a justified reason for it?

The lore keeper (or whatever the kid calls himself) says that the boomers left the vault beacuse the overseer didn´t allowed them play with weapons. He never goes into specifics of what exactly happened.

 

[Spacemunkey]

My point is- Did that conflict reflect on the idea of gun control and how there needs to be it or was everyone that paranoid and fearful of the overseer that they decided to fight back and there was a justified reason for it?

I think there's some subtext about gun control there, especially with "The All-American" being located there. I don't think that it was meant to highlight one particular side of the argument though more like what extremes in both directions can lead to; Overseer controlled too much and ended up causing a coup and Boomers were too free and ended up isolated weirdos playing catch with live grenades.Just my opinion though.