#vault 75

[nikinikori]

"You are not like them. You are more. In here, you will be broken— and rebuilt stronger than before.”

[queer-spiro]

Charon (fallout 3) headcanons:

Most people assume Charon is pre-war because of his shear size—how could anyone get that big with the malnutrition post-bombing? Charon never corrects them unless it’s one of his contract owners asking him directly. But most of his masters have given a shit where he’d come from.

Charon was born in vault 75 in the Commonwealth. The vault has long been abandoned, cleaned out, and used by gunners by this point. Charon had been genetically created to be bigger, stronger, and to follow orders without question supposedly so he could fight the monsters that inhabited Uptopland. He’d also been part of a special batch of subjects created to test the effects of long term radiation exposure. A junior scientist held his contract once he had turned 10. When the uprising had started between the junior test subjects, he had managed to escape the vault with his contract holder. As far as Charon knew, they had been the only survivors.

Charon had stayed with the scientist until his death. The ghoulification process was slow. He didn’t start showing signs of it until his late thirties. His contract passed multiples hands before ended up with Ahzrukhal. Charon guesses he is about seventy years old.

Charon carries in a small bag a scrap of his old vault suit with the number 75 embroidered on it and his old broken pipboy that hasn’t turned on it twenty years. 

[kellastarian]

Updating my old reference sheet for my fallout gal for artfight this year! So drawing pretty merc mama is always a good go to

Excited for Artfight and doing the necessary prep work for it!

[bellonathedragonborn]

I know this isn’t new but I found a Gary reference in Vault 75.

[sstar-nerd]

Something I’ve had on my mind since getting back into some of my favorite franchises is a crossover between Fallout and Star Wars. The Empire and Vault Tech are honestly both evil organizations who have no qualms with how they achieve results.

A vault I have always been interested in is vault 75. This vault’s story, which you can learn about from either looking on google or watching Oxhorn, has so many different possibilities it could go if connected with the Star Wars universe. Kallus has also been a point of interest for me since I feel the show wasted his story potential after Zero Hour. I wanted to see more of his past, more interactions with the Ghost crew and Zeb, and also how he fit into the rebellion. Speaking of his past was the one I wanted the most though. Though if Fulcrum comics does become a thing a few of those loose ends might be explained.

Now, what if vault 75 was instead experiment 75 created first by the Republic and then continued by the Empire? And what if Kallus was a product of that experiment? Instead of ISB-021 he’s experiment 021? The Republic felt lacking with its Clones and wanted some ‘better’ soldiers?

It gets long so it’s under the cut.

So here it is: The Republic brings in some people that are their brightest and most hopeful. Their top scientists, best soldiers (maybe one of them being Rex), and even a few high ranking Jedi are given routine ‘checks’ which act as a cover to extract dna and other materials from their body. These materials are then jumbled around and used to create children. The children are subjected to prodding from needles, strenuous physical tests, academic lectures and quizzes, and isolation. Each child’s only interactions are with the researchers and caretaker droids. They only create 5 children every couple of years so as to not be overpowered/avoid an uprising of the children. When the children reached the age of 18 they were killed by their caretaker droid and their body would be harvested for further experiments. Their end goal would be a genetically better line of soldiers that, although it would take longer for them to be battle ready, would have greater intellect and battle prowess.

Kallus, as a child, only had the name 021. When he was 15 the project was being shut down in a hurry with all evidence burned because a Jedi had become suspicious of the routine checks and had begun an investigation with several other Jedi and Republic Officials. The children were to be killed and harvested early and all unnecessary parts burned. But the children caught on and through skills learned in their academic sessions they killed the researchers and escaped. Overall there were 12 children that escaped successfully with one of them being Kallus.

When they got out they knew very little about the Galaxy at large since their lessons never touched on history or practical things beyond making food. They knew one thing though: they hated the Republic for the twisted experiments that they went through.

So fast forward to when the Republic fell the children (now reduced to just 8 due to the younger ones dying) chose to join the Empire as they believed it would stand against what the Republic stood for (in their eyes). Plus, because of how they were designed, they longed to be useful to some extent. On the streets the children had been given nicknames based on how they acted or actions that they took. Kallus got his name from becoming emotionally hardened as he was left to take care of the children who would die of disease or from a gang attack. Most of the children got into ISB and even requested their original experiment numbers so they could recognize one another in reports.

After his run in with Zeb, Kallus decided to look and see if the remanents of Experiment 75 were discovered and cataloged. He instead found out that the Empire continued the experiments since the Jedi were no longer a problem. Kallus, angry that more people were being forced to go through what he went through, chose to defect and encouraged the other surviving children to do the same. Fast forward to being in the Rebellion after Zero Hour Kallus was reunited with some more of the children (who are basically his siblings) although some died by defecting. In the end there are 5 left including Kallus.

Now Kallus has gotten comfortable with the Ghost crew (especially with Zeb wink wink) and is at one of their rare family dinners. At some point Ezra jabs at Kallus for never giving them his first name to which he replies that Kallus was just a nickname given to him by his siblings (the other children). So they jab at him wanting to know his name to which he replies: 021. They think he’s joking at first but as the seconds go by they see no change in his serious face: no smirk, no mirth in his eyes, just nothing. He takes a deep breathe, and decides to tell them everything from the beginning. He lives up to his nickname by completely shutting down emotionally while speaking of the events and just staring at the table in front of them. By the end, when he looks up from where he was staring at the table, he sees looks of shock and horror in his new family’s eyes. All it takes is one Lasat hand to fall on his shoulder for him to let the sorrow that he buried so deep down to come forward. He lets himself cry into Zeb’s shoulder letting out 40 years of repressed emotions.

The Ghost Fam decides that he needs a proper name. They hold a family meeting while Kallus is on a mission and shoot name ideas back and forth (“Ezra we are not naming my Boyfriend Jabba or Meiloorun SHUt UP”) in the end they settle on a name suggested by Rex (who I believe would decide to just straight up adopt Kallus after realizing he could potentially be his genetic offspring (I do realize that could be said for the whole of the Clone army as they have the same genetics but for the sake of it the fact the DNA came out of Rex specifically is important to him)) So Kallus comes back to the base and is immediately grabbed by the Ghost Fam and presented with some sealed official documents. He starts crying after he opens them and realizes they gave him a real name.

Later down the line, when he and Zeb get married, he happily lets go of the last remanents of his past and becomes Alexsandr Orrelios.

Gonna make a fic out of this soon hopefully!

[ixar-of-the-bargains]

So the Gunners are Vault 75 survivors, right? It's one of my few serious headcanons in FO4 that I won't argue over. They're former Vault 75s child soldiers.

[ivankaramazovart]

Rohit, a character from a Fallout 4 fanfic I swear I'm going to write someday

[falloutuniverse]

75 DAYS UNTIL FALLOUT 76

Vault 75

Location: Malden, Massachusetts

the Vault was commissioned by the United States military to experiment on children to breed battle-ready super-soldiers who would obey orders without a second thought. Built as a long term sealed environment, it was envisioned as a laboratory focusing on human genome improvement through a combination of selective breeding, hormonal treatments, genetic modification, and an accelerated generational cycle, under the command of an Overseer with a military background.

In order to achieve the mission outlined by the Army and Vault-Tec, the Overseer followed six directives:

Residents aged 18 and older must be removed from the general population annually.

Residents who have exhibited genetic promise are to be preserved for genome harvesting and reintegration.

Residents of average genetic promise but high intelligence and docility may be recruited to the Research staff at Overseer discretion.

All other Residents to be removed must be culled.

Research staff is responsible for cultivating embryo replacements to maintain consitent resident population numbers.

Vault 75 is to remain sealed until an all-clear order is issued by Vault-Tec.