What was the point of the vault experiments

[Duck]

If most of Vault-tec got destroyed during the Great War, then what was the point of all the wacky and horrible vault experiments? How do you moniter the results when nobody is around to do so.

[troy_cummings]

I've always wondered this. Even if all of Vault-Tec survived, that means nothing when the rest of the world is destroyed? Who cares about cryo-technology and how drugs effect people in a Vault if no one is around to use that science?

[Mutant1988]

Originally posted by troy_cummings:

I've always wondered this. Even if all of Vault-Tec survived, that means nothing when the rest of the world is destroyed? Who cares about cryo-technology and how drugs effect people in a Vault if no one is around to use that science?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Enclave#The_Vault_Experiment

[Not Ryan]

Vault "0" was where all the important government officials and Vault Tec members went when the bombs dropped. They monitered the experiments in all of the other vaults, and used this data.

[jpcerutti]

Nobody makes plans that include dying in a Nuclear war... unless you think Vault-tec vaults are some sort of sociopathic bucket list... which they might well be.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Most of Vault-Tec's high-executives were part of ENCLAVE, the Posiden Oil Rig off California's Coast.

I always assumed Vault-Tec and the Enclave wanted the Nuclear War, they saw the world had reached a point of unsustainable "Dead Weight" and needed to shed what they deemed were "Undesirables"

Part of weeding out, and eventually "Improving" human society was testing various stressors and situations through the Vault-Tec program. They needed to learn, in proper, controlled environments, what the limits of human psychology and physiology were, in order to create a more effecient human society.

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by ♦♢Lord Ryan♢♦:

Vault "0" was where all the important government officials and Vault Tec members went when the bombs dropped. They monitered the experiments in all of the other vaults, and used this data.

Not all of the time, most of it was just vault-tec members monitoring vaults behind the scenes where other members couldn't get to them, but they either never made it there, or gave up on their experimentas on the long run

[ARmodder]

Originally posted by The Filthiest of Jews:

If most of Vault-tec got destroyed during the Great War, then what was the point of all the wacky and horrible vault experiments? How do you moniter the results when nobody is around to do so.

The plan most likely was to see how humanity would be affected by the conditions living in isolation, re-integrating into the post nuclear environment, ect. in many cases data retrieval would be most likely be carried out by recovery teams from o vault-Tec, but in the end Vault-Tec got hit as well, that's part of the reason none of the vaults opened when they were supposed to, because Vault-Tec had benn wiped out so their mainframe computer wasn't there to send the "All Clear" to the vaults.

What most people don't realize is that much of the games Vault-Tec Expirement theme is inspired in part by expiriments conducted on both civilians and Soldiers by the US government in the 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's regarding radiation exposure, viral/Chemical warfare, individual isolation, and other mental and physical and even social situations.

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by ARmodder:

Originally posted by The Filthiest of Jews:

If most of Vault-tec got destroyed during the Great War, then what was the point of all the wacky and horrible vault experiments? How do you moniter the results when nobody is around to do so.

The plan most likely was to see how humanity would be affected by the conditions living in isolation, re-integrating into the post nuclear environment, ect. in many cases data retrieval would be most likely be carried out by recovery teams from other vault-Tec, but in the end Vault-Tec got hit as well, that's part of the reason none of the vaults opened when they were supposed to, because Vault-Tec had benn wiped out so their mainframe computer wasn't there to send the "All Clear" to the vaults.

That's true, and the notes left by the scientists in Vault 111 back it up, claiming how the vaults wouldn't open up and how they needed to get out of there

[Konchuharts]

Vault techs Experements were for a varity of social,Millitary, & shiets and giggles reasons.
Millitary ones range from the Fev vault,the musician vault and the gas vault (just to name a few)
Social experiments were vault 101, Vault Gary,and any of the control vaults
Giggles are vault 69,68,& vault 72(again to name a few)

[GunBoat]

Take solice in the fact that the human race will not survive off this planet and thus all contrived evil will perish with them. So don't worry about Vault-Tek.

[Mutant1988]

Why do people not just read the wiki?

The Enclave ran Vault Tec. The reasons are explained on the wiki.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Enclave#The_Vault_Experiment

[AbsynthMinded]

Originally posted by The Filthiest of Jews:

If most of Vault-tec got destroyed during the Great War, then what was the point of all the wacky and horrible vault experiments? How do you moniter the results when nobody is around to do so.

At the core of survival is chaos theory. In essence the mad schemes all come down to the concept that out of random adversity, evolution occurs. Causing mankind to become more able to survive and thrive as a species. With some Vaults serving more specific diabolical purposes and individual agendas.

[ARmodder]

Originally posted by Mutant1988:

Why do people not just read the wiki?

The Enclave ran Vault Tec. The reasons are explained on the wiki.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Enclave#The_Vault_Experiment

many people don't follow or don't care about the canon, and still others don't even realize there is a canon, I for one only partially follow the canon.

[Deku Scrub]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Most of Vault-Tec's high-executives were part of ENCLAVE, the Posiden Oil Rig off California's Coast.

I always assumed Vault-Tec and the Enclave wanted the Nuclear War, they saw the world had reached a point of unsustainable "Dead Weight" and needed to shed what they deemed were "Undesirables"

Part of weeding out, and eventually "Improving" human society was testing various stressors and situations through the Vault-Tec program. They needed to learn, in proper, controlled environments, what the limits of human psychology and physiology were, in order to create a more effecient human society.

So in a sense, a type of forced Darwinism.

[EmpressOfTheNight00]

Not sure if this is still canon but I read somewhere that the Enclave wanted to leave the Earth and settle on another planet but didn't know how to handle long periods of time in isolation and various situations so they had the vault experiments to see what would happen