What's your Vault 111 Theory?

[SapphicFlame]

What's your Theory of what goes down in Vault 111?

[Tyrant]

Opprinnelig skrevet av BlackRabbit:

I think Andriod and Cryogenic is exactly what everyone else is saying, and because of that reason the writers probably decided to do something else instead (being too predicatble and cliché is something every write strives to avoid). It would make only sense to try and deceive the fans and make something even more mind boggling.

The idea of FTL time travel is not great, but it is the only explanation I can come up with that doesn't involve cryo/cloning/andriod, but that it gives the main character the illusion that time has not passed (as demonstrated in the E3 video).

true enough but im thinking a bit back towards biomedgel

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sierra_Army_Depot

What's kept in cryogenic suspension? Brains and other body parts (most long since turned to soup), Private Dobbs (an experiment in the biorestorative properties of the bio med gel) and viruses: Anthrax, Black Plague (Strain 238), Small Pox (Strain 1025), Ebola and the Hantavirus (Strain 304).

you can retrive Private Dobbs and he is kept alive by the biomedgel, actually he is revived by it as he was ''killed'' and thrown into a corpse pile and later picked by scientists to try out how capable the biomedgel was

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Dobbs
Dobbs is a soldier of the United States Army. Sometime before October 23 2077, he was killed in battle and pronounced dead, and he claims to have learned this via an out-of-body experience. While he was out of body he observed his physical shell being taken to a laboratory and immersed in bio med gel, in an attempt to regenerate and revive him

its not quite the same as cryo sleep and it would explain how the player ''survived'' the nuclear blast

biomedgel ties in to MZ in a way as the aliens use a gel like substance to heal themselves and it works on humans too, further enforced by the 2 alien skeletons inside sierra nevada depot suggesting that they got the medgel from them and reverse engineered it and thus got the giant boom in cyberbrains with alien technology which is also hinted at being used when creating AI

[AshleyIsMeow]

well one how can a human live for 200 years so it could be be like Vault 112 but less insane and with Mr house he could be using the same tech but upgraded to be able to speak though screens

[Tibbs versus Japan]

Surprise butt secks

[Decay Tempest]

The obvious one would be Cryogenics. Unlike vault 112.. It's likely that the subject never needed to be conscious, so could be frozen solid.. unlike the other case where I would assume, the body was kept in something similar to hypothermia to preserve the body, but warm enough to allow the brain to function for the VR world. Same deal in NV.. since House needed to remain conscious most of the time.

Could have an energy base time-shift device, maybe some kind of chamber that have a time of 1 second per year ratio. Could be that the power needed for that would be so astronomical you'd only get 1 chamber, but that wouldn't really explain why you. Or they could have many chambers, but very unreliable results.

Android/Replicant: This could work, but likely replicants would be more game friendly, as biological replica of a human being. Similar to cloning, then having your mind imprinted from some stored data base. But this also would be a why you moment.. Why would the Vault do that only for you? Tho perhaps you were the first one not to go ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crazy...in a long line of Gary.

Something more far-out could be Teleportation experiments... Subject goes in, gets Atomized, the system glitch and Bio-data is kept in the buffer for two hundred years.. and then poof it works, 200 year later you appear in the Teleportation chamber.

[Xeno 115511]

Based off the boston setting, i think your not the original dad, but a robot copy with his memories implanted into it. Your not him, but your only memories are his own, thus you act and think, and feel like him. Why only you, idk, just a thought, be pretty cool of a twist though.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

I'm still holding out for the whole "Your character is an android/cyborg thing" and you gotta find out who built you and why they built you. That seems a lot more original and fun than the whole overdone "cryogenics trope" thing.

[Artcake]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

I'm still holding out for the whole "Your character is an android/cyborg thing" and you gotta find out who built you and why they built you. That seems a lot more original and fun than the whole overdone "cryogenics trope" thing.

This story would never work with me, I HATED FO:NV story, you were shot in the head and had to find out why and who. You know the first thing I said was? WHO CARES, I survived a shot to the head, I am going to let it go and worry about more important stuff, but nope, we were forced to follow a story of revenge I couldn't care any less.

If we found out we were cyborgs at the start I would go "yeah ok whatever" and couldn't; care less to find out who build me or why, to me that's not what FO is about at all.

Fallout has always been about embarking yourself on a great quest to save your people and then figuring out there is always something more important than your silly little quest, something which can change the future of mankind.

Cryogenics which I do not believe it will be the choice since the devs expects everybody to go for this one, would at least give you an original motive to set out look for your remaining family (perhaps defrosted before you) and hopefully find out later there is something more important than to find your son/spouse.

Like someone else here pointed out, Teleportation experiments gone wrong could also be a possibility, but my money remains on the FTL travel experiments which end up advancing time for everyone except the protagonist (sine that is based on true theories). Both theories at least have not yet been done within the FO universe so at least would carry a certain originality to it and it would explore new ideas which have not already been done over and over before within this game (cryo and androids).

[Vinnie Mack]

Opprinnelig skrevet av BlackRabbit:

A possibility is that because for the first time the vault entrance is vertical, this could have been made so that the protagonist can "fall" into it and being the only civilian to do so.

But my money still remains on a similar concept of the Mass Effect Protheans:
Cryo tubes requires power to function, but over the years power becomes less and less, so to save power they need to switch off 1 Cryo at the time, this would mean that if the character got out 200 years later and there are 1000 people in the vault, 1 person needs to be switched off every 2-3 months for the rest to survive. This will either mean these people are let out of the vault or they simply die. First idea seems cooler because it means there would be survivors of Vault 111 throughout the wastelands and it could make it interesting for your character to go find his unfrozen, older son/spouse.

But since we were told the protagonist was the only survivor it could either be what the actual protagonist believe (which is not the truth) or just a way to screw with our minds until the game is released.

Edit:
Oh and one very last theory without the use of cryo, could by that they were experimenting with traveling at the speed of light in that vault, and as you know traveling at the speed of light means you are propelled forward in time.

very interesting theories, especially the last one concerning the speed of light.