Design your own Vault experiment!
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I propose a study to observe the incremental changes inflicted upon societal amd socio-ecological when subjects have all their oxygen removed.
Vault is filled with scientists on the cutting edge of their fields. The systems in the vault are designed to fail at regular intervals, but there are enough spare parts and electronics to make repairs. Do their egos get in the way or do they work together to repair/improve upon the systems as they break down.
Vault is sealed but empty. Inside is all the nessessities to live very comfortably. A radio signal from the vault states that the vault enterance will open to the first one who can get through the various bobby traps that lie in the tunnels that lead to the vault. The test is to see what would a person do or go though to get the big reward.
There are two vaults. One is located on a military installation and the other is located in the city nearby. The draw of these vaults were that they would be connected together by a tunnel that would allow the personnel in the military vault to vist with their loved ones that lived in the city vault and has enough people in both to maintain a stable population. The tunnel does not exist. Each vault can run indepently of the other. It was designed to see how two groups of people can grow seperated from friends and loved ones. The overseers play the role of inept leaders, though they are actually observing and recording how people work around their general ineptitude.
Vault is sealed but empty. Inside is all the nessessities to live very comfortably. A radio signal from the vault states that the vault enterance will open to the first one who can get through the various bobby traps that lie in the tunnels that lead to the vault. The test is to see what would a person do or go though to get the big reward.
There are two vaults. One is located on a military installation and the other is located in the city nearby. The draw of these vaults were that they would be connected together by a tunnel that would allow the personnel in the military vault to vist with their loved ones that lived in the city vault and has enough people in both to maintain a stable population. The tunnel does not exist. Each vault can run indepently of the other. It was designed to see how two groups of people can grow seperated from friends and loved ones. The overseers play the role of inept leaders, though they are actually observing and recording how people work around their general ineptitude.
They tried similar stuff with kids back when psychologists could get away with electrocution and stuff.ryai458 said:
The babies died idiopathically.
So, a vault filled entirely with furries. Okay. That actually would be an interesting vault to enter (doors opened by buttons on the floor meant for animal paws, really weird bathrooms).nuba km said:
That is just fucking evil......you Win!Billska said:
OT: I can't believe no one has said:
2 weeks after the Vault closes, the overseer and his lackeys spreads a rumor among the populace that all the Vaults, INCLUDING this one, were actually designed to conduct social experiments. The catch being that there is NO social experiment for that vault. But people don't know that.....
Second Idea (inspired from a certain TV show, cookie for reference): A small vault (of 20 people) is set up to monitor 5 other experiment vaults in the state. They are instructed to write down everything they monitor from all the evil experiments and send them through a vacuum tube system to a "Vault-tec bunker for detailed analysis).
The vacuum tube leads to nowhere (dumping all the notes in a landfill). and the observation vault itself is under observation to see if they crack from watching the sick experiments, but being more powerful than the other vaults.
Third Idea: 2 weeks after the vault closes, it is announced that the door has jammed and can never be opened. THEN, it is announce that the vault will self-destruct in one year....
Last Idea, I swear: 200,000,000 books/ 100,000 holotapes/ 1000 video games (non-canon)/ 1 (wo)man (NOT the overseer; there is NO overseer, the vault is run by robots). If the dweller manages to read, watch and play every single object in the vault (and maybe give a test to prove it), he/she will be set free.
Okay THIS is the last idea: A MASSIVE cylindrical vault with it's own fully functional forest. The ceiling is so high up (and painted in such a way) that it is indistinguishable from a real sky. If you are standing in the middle of the cylinder you can't see the edges without traveling in any direction for a month.
A heterosexual married couple is given forced amnesia (somehow) and stranded at the exact centre of the vault. Can they be the new Adam and Eve? sub-experiment: Does a marriage/relationship survive amnesia?
Vault 41 - A recreation of ancient Sparta: Children are trained practically from birth in hand-to-hand military combat, and all that Spartan jazz. Oh, and they are expertly trained in the operation and respect for firearms. No wild-shooters here; they'll be trained to only shoot when they need to, and never miss. When the vault opens after 200 years, these guys'll dominate everything. Fuck Caesar's Legion, these are the real hard-arses.
Vault 90 - A vault where, before the Nucleur holcaust, around 40 people were brought in as children. They were then raised entirely naturally; no language or anything. Entirely feral people, so to speak.
When the new people arrive, all of the people above 16 will be killed, hopefulyl leaving about 60 teenagers/children.
The experiment is to see how quickly the children degenerate into savages, and how successful they bring up their own children and live their new lives using pretty much nothing but instinct.
The vault will have the original metal frame, but it will be covered in dirt and rock and grass, making man0made tunnels, fields, etc. Also, it will be much larger, at least 4-5 times as big as any other vault. Wide, open expanses make up a good 2/3rds of it, the other areas are designed as dens for the people.
The vault comes complete with a fake day/night cycle, which, just to add confusion, happens at a different time to our current days. For instance, if it's 1 o'clock, lunchtime, now, for these savages it would be midnight. At our nidmight, they would be up and hunting for lunch.
Which brings me to my next point; hunting.
The 'native' creatures of the vault are common, relatively small wild animals. Foxes, frogs, domestic cats and dogs (Which as a side experiment would be also raised in an entirely natural enviroment; bringing a feral side to the pets we so often see house-trained), rabbits, even some birds like Owls and sparrows. A few snakes here and there.
However, a small section of the vault (About 1/15th) would be set up as the den of some mountain lions. These would hopefully hunt the humans as well, and would be interesting to see if the people either a) Co-existed, simply avoiding the mountain lions, though a few would be killed every now and then, or b) worked together to over-hunt the lions, making the feral humans the top of the food chain.
It'd be cool seeing how a people brought up on aggresive music, action movies and the history of war would turn out.
Vault 90 - A vault where, before the Nucleur holcaust, around 40 people were brought in as children. They were then raised entirely naturally; no language or anything. Entirely feral people, so to speak.
When the new people arrive, all of the people above 16 will be killed, hopefulyl leaving about 60 teenagers/children.
The experiment is to see how quickly the children degenerate into savages, and how successful they bring up their own children and live their new lives using pretty much nothing but instinct.
The vault will have the original metal frame, but it will be covered in dirt and rock and grass, making man0made tunnels, fields, etc. Also, it will be much larger, at least 4-5 times as big as any other vault. Wide, open expanses make up a good 2/3rds of it, the other areas are designed as dens for the people.
The vault comes complete with a fake day/night cycle, which, just to add confusion, happens at a different time to our current days. For instance, if it's 1 o'clock, lunchtime, now, for these savages it would be midnight. At our nidmight, they would be up and hunting for lunch.
Which brings me to my next point; hunting.
The 'native' creatures of the vault are common, relatively small wild animals. Foxes, frogs, domestic cats and dogs (Which as a side experiment would be also raised in an entirely natural enviroment; bringing a feral side to the pets we so often see house-trained), rabbits, even some birds like Owls and sparrows. A few snakes here and there.
However, a small section of the vault (About 1/15th) would be set up as the den of some mountain lions. These would hopefully hunt the humans as well, and would be interesting to see if the people either a) Co-existed, simply avoiding the mountain lions, though a few would be killed every now and then, or b) worked together to over-hunt the lions, making the feral humans the top of the food chain.
I think this is a really good idea for a vault, on it's own.smv1172 said:
It'd be cool seeing how a people brought up on aggresive music, action movies and the history of war would turn out.
Thank goodness that the great works of Shakespeare will be preserved through the nuclear holocaust.mr-fix_it said:
0mn1p0t3ntg6y said:
Ok, I've already posted, but I just had to say that I think these are some of the most awesome vault ideas.XHolySmokesX said:
That anarchy one would be awesome. Obviously, eventualy they'd overthrow the leadership, but what then? How can they function with no form of formal leadership whatsoever... what would they resort to?
And I love the psychology behind the 'Kitten' one. I guess one person would eventually kill them, but before that... would be cool to watch them running in genuine terror of a small, cute, cuddly kitten.
...plese
Vault 109:500 inhabitants are placed in the vault perfectly divided to 250:heterosexual women 250:heterosexual men Every time someone is impregnated protectotrons kill the father then after the child is born they kill the mother. After this the child will be given to another family. This is to see if the child will ever find out that their true mother and father are dead,or accept their fake parents as the real ones.Oh and the murdering shall be disguised as accidents.
And in contrast: A vault that emphasizes hippie culture and non-violence stocked with Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan music, as well as books on Buddhism, as well as copies of Abbey Hoffman's "Steal this Book". The overseer is Timothy O'Leary.Captain Pirate said:
Vault 1337 - No Gods or Kings. Only Man. and watch as society crumbles. HAH! Take that Ayn Rand!