Julia Masters was a member of the pre-War REPCONN Aerospace company, serving as its chief financial officer (CFO). She is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and appears in the Fallout TV series.
Background[]
Meeting with Vault-Tec[]
At some point prior to the Great War, Julia was invited to attend a meeting at the Southern California headquarters of the Vault-Tec Corporation in Los Angeles, along with Vault-Tec's Barb Howard and Bud Askins, Big MT's Frederick Sinclair, West Tek's Leon Von Felden and RobCo Industries's Robert House. She was informed of Vault-Tec's protracted plans to extend their network of Vaults across the nation and heard their offer of selecting some vaults to be used for social experiments at the behest of the corporate heads; Masters herself mentioned REPCONN had been developing an intelligent robot that "brings milk to the front door," and that she would like to see a Vault governed by it.[1]
Corporate espionage[]
When Poseidon Energy sought to buy out REPCONN, she and Vice President Leonard Steeple worked together to keep REPCONN independent, successfully stopping the Poseidon deal from occurring. However, when RobCo Industries later made an offer to buy the company, Julia instead worked with General Manager Piers Isley to push the deal through to completion while Steeple was out of commission because of an illness.[2] On Leonard's return, he heard about the deal and attempted to stop the buyout, hoping to enlist Julia's support, which Julia pretended to agree with. In reality, she used Leonard's message to confirm his standing before convincing the REPCONN board to hold a vote of no confidence against Leonard, removing him from his position and freeing up the way for the RobCo deal.[3][4] Julia then took over Leonard's duties interim until the RobCo merger took place and Carl Rook became REPCONN's vice president.[5]
Following the merger, however, Julia proved to be no more loyal to RobCo than to REPCONN before it. She began stealing trade secrets from REPCONN to sell to an unknown outside party, including trade information related to the Quantum Plasma Modulation Matter Injection Rifle project, as well as the password to Piers Isley's computer, and conspired to have her contacts steal the project's Q-35 model prototype while it was in transit to the Department of Defense.[6]
Sara Wang, an IT specialist for REPCONN, had detected the encrypted messages sent by Julia, but did not know she was the one sending them. Sara believed that Julia's recipient was Poseidon Energy, but she did not have enough evidence to back her claim.[7] Ulimately, like the rest of America, Julia's plans went up in fire at the breakout of the Great War.
Appearances[]
Julia Masters is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and appears in the Fallout TV series episode "The Beginning" where she is portrayed by Rebecca Watson.
References[]
- ↑ Fallout Season 1 Episode 8, "The Beginning"
- ↑ REPCONN headquarters terminal entries; terminal, Inter-office Correspondence #3262173
- ↑ REPCONN headquarters terminal entries; terminal, Inter-office Correspondence #3262178
- ↑ REPCONN headquarters terminal entries; terminal, Inter-office Correspondence #3262179
- ↑ REPCONN headquarters terminal entries; terminal, Inter-office Correspondence #3262725
- ↑ REPCONN headquarters terminal entries; terminal, Encrypted Message
- ↑ REPCONN headquarters terminal entries; terminal, Inter-office Correspondence #3457785