@geoffreyaguirre4157

1 week ago

In the games, the VAULTS are all different with one similarity: all are really a means of (extremely unethical) experimentation. In the television series, Barb Howard (Cooper's wife) says she worked hard to get them into "one of the good [vaults].' By "good," she could have meant that whatever the social experiment, the living conditions were good. However, she may have been pointing out a disparity in the quality of the shielding of the vaults. Vault 4's inhabitants show evidence of (possibly-radiation-induced) mutation, but there are several other possible explanations, including that the original inhabitants of Vault 4 purposely induced mutation, that some vaulters were taken in from the Wasteland, that vaulters come and go from the vault, and that there is probably interbreeding between populations. We never see post-apocalypse Barb, but Cooper believes that she and his daughter, Janey, are still alive. He reveals that he believes that Hank MacLean knows of their whereabouts. The supermanager experiment (Vaults 31-33) was a "good" setup (for Vault-Tec execs) and Hank knows its whereabouts. It's possible that Vault 31 is Barb's and potentially Janey's location, if alive. Since Janey was with Cooper when the bombs initially fell (on Los Angeles), it is hard to say how he would not know of her whereabouts, but there is 200+ years of missing story. Moving on to Lucy. The fact that her father played a critical role in the bombing of Shady Sands (New California Republic capital) after it had successfully risen after the initial global devastation, clearly shakes her core beliefs. The series highlights for me are the character arcs of Lucy and Maximus, and the fact that Vault 4, free of their Vault-Tec experimenters, have developed a culture that (like the NCR) helps others and carries out what Lucy was taught the mission of her vault was supposed to be.

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