Vault 76

This will definitely have been brought up before as a point but I thought it would be interesting to discuss here. So here it goes.

Vaults are a staple of the Fallout series. False promises of safety from nuclear annihilation turned into sinister and creepy social experiments. There's been so many notable ones and quite honestly makes for some of the best lore of Fallout.

One question about the experiments however.....why?

So here's the thing: Vault-Tec creates these experiments to test human beings in a wide variety of conditions whether psychologically, physiologically, emotionally, physically and mentally. But whats the real purpose? Some of these experiments seem so bizarre and random that they are almost a waste of precious resources which are vital in the post-apocalypse

Take Vault 118 and Vault 114 for example. Both were designed to test the ultra wealthy. One had an incompetent overseer and extremely cramped conditions, the other was meant to propograte a severe upper/lower class divide and most likely Instigate conflict between residents. One question, why? What is the point?

What use is the research for rich families living in cramped conditions? What psychological lesson are they trying to learn from it? It makes me ask what the general purpose of these experiments are considering we know about so many of them at this point.

The games from what we can tell have implied that Vault-Tec no longer exists after the war (many vaults wait for a signal from HQ and never receive it) and yet it is Post - War when most of these experiments take place. Vault 87 experimented with FEV. Useful stuff for sure, but to who? The company is gone. West-Tek was annihilated into oblivion. Who does the data from that very specific experiment benefit aside from the scientists in that one vault?

I've heard people say the experiment data is transmitted to the Enclave. Fair point but then that begs the question, why? What use is social experiments when your plan is the genocide of all mutated life in the wasteland? I would doubt it's repopulation when considering half of the overall population of pure human vault dwellers are most likely dead by the time FEV Curling does its job. I've heard I think in the Fallout Bible about a mission to colonise another planet. That certainly helps with some of the experiments but that information isn't fully canonical and doesn't answer some of the other ones.

Essentially the points I'm getting at are this. A) What is the overall purpose of the Vault Experiments? (We have control vaults, mind control, super soldiers, FEV, disease cute. But who recieves the data? Who benefits really from these experiments? )

B) What is the genuine point behind some of these experiments? (For example one man and a crate full of puppets. Or Vault 76 securing nukes for Vault-Tec, even though the company is defunct 25 years later?)

If Vault-Tec is still active somehow, like a secret control vault full of personel or the Enclave is confirmed to be recieving all the data then it makes more sense but as far as I can tell the games have never doubled down on that.

If there's a clear and direct answer about this I'd be more than happy to know it. I'm just confused about the Vault-Tec situation.

If Gecks were only given to Control Vaults (or if the experiment needed one), then why doesnt Vault 76 have one? Why does a Vault that experiments on FEV have one? It doesnt make sense.

In Fallout 76 we learn that there is a system in place to make sure people don't try to return to Vault 76, with there being a security system in place that does things like shut down the air 24 hours after reclamation day. Yet, if you start a new game your PIP-Boy says "2103" the year after 76 opened. I know it is probably an oversight but why is it like this?

It doesn't matter where you live, or the vault's backstory*. It can be a vault of your choice.

*Don't worry, we all survive in this scenario. I know, a little non-canon, you think? In a nutshell, i'm just asking which vault number looks good on your back.

Call this choice bare or not, but I would choose to go towards Vault 111.

I started thinking about this after seeing @Road Warrior-NCR Patriot Post "Another Simuation DLC?"

The lore right now is that Valutle 76 was a normal vault ment to open 27 years after the bombs and the 76ers were ment to rebuild america, sounds good right? I think to good

What i think is 76 could be almost like the vault under smith and casesy garage in fallout 3 we know that they can make a simulation identical to real life but instead of the overseer picking what it can be, it could be hooked up to our imagenations or the Radio

We know that before wastlanders that there was no NPCs just automated signals (Event / quest starters) so maybe the vault intercepted the signal so it woulden't leave apalacha and let us hear the signal to think about it and put it into our simulation. This would explane why we can chose who to play with or think about in this case.

But what i want to talk about is the Old ABoS the ones that got wiped out. The ABoS are one thing i really dont like about fallout 76 i personaly dont think that their could be that much people that made it to apalachia from where ever, but I see other sites say that a small group meat up with a pre war millitary group witch would make sense but how does the Bos contact the home base? With a transmiter. and if the vault keept signals from going in and out that would explane why no one came for them untill the First expodiniary force (Steel dawn Update).

Now all that may not make sense or matter really but what i wanted to talk about is the time. in your pipboy it says the time is always october 28, 2105 ( at least it was a while ago i havent looked in a while) and it keeps on repeting the same day over and over again like that one movie. and that would explane why there are abundance of enemys in apalacia (By now apalacia would be safe thangreenland)

obviously this is just me just fantasising let me know what you think! :)

In the achievement Never Go It Alone in F4 is Vault Boy giving high five with other dwellers. One got 76 on his jumpsuit. Did you know about it?

Edit: Found out that this isn't refference, just someone made misstake and I didn't found out. Explanation in the comments.