

Seeing it as an act of resistance, The Enclave forcibly breaks through the vault and kills everyone inside the vault. In the dead of night, remnants of a faction called The Enclave would arrive and demand for the vault door to be opened, to which the Vault-Tec staff would refuse. Unfortunately for them, in the year 2297, tragedy would arrive at their door step. We just need to be sure that the outside world is safe enough to exit without any risk of harm." which would calm the vault dwellers. When they asked the overseer on why they haven't opened the doors yet, he would always say something like "All of you will leave eventually, I can assure you.

They knew that they had to come out one day, but since so much time has gone by, they grew curious as to why they haven't left yet. To ensure that no future overseer would be elected and risk exposing his plans to the residents, the overseer had his engineers build him a robobrain so that way he could live forever, or at the very least, a very long time.Īs the years went on, the residents began to wonder when they would leave the vault to the outside world. The vault door is also stated to remain sealed shut at all times and that anyone caught attempting to open it will be heavily punished.

But due to a change in leadership to a more power hungry overseer who had more nefarious intentions, that plan was secretly scrapped and was replaced with one to isolate the vault dwellers inside the vault and to prevent them from leaving, to ensure that he would have full control over them. You are the sole survivor of a vault labeled Vault 71, a control vault that was originally intended to open up 30 years after the bombs dropped.
