"Steer the Ship!" is the sixth episode of the Vault Seller's Survival Guide, a series of short promotional videos for the Fallout TV series, consisting of training videos for prospective Vault-Tec sales employees narrated by Bud Askins (Michael Esper).
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Bud greets the Senior Executive Senior Vice President and calls him the best of the best, as he fights and kills all of his co-workers. This is to achieve the top position that signifies him as the best of the best and the exact type of person Vault-Tec needs to "Steer the Ship".
Bud then explains how all state-of-the-art ships, Vault-Tec, run automatically by computers so advanced that they can't be comprehended or controlled. Hence, it's the Senior Executive Senior Vice President's job to make sagacious decisions, all while projecting stability and intimidation. It's also the Senior Executive Senior Vice President's job to develop creative strategies that'd guarantee corporate continuity, even after the inevitable war.
To achieve this, it's the Senior Executive Senior Vice President's fiduciary responsibility to monitor certain "numbers" and ensure all returns are made to investors, even after doomsday. Thankfully, with modern technology, this can be done anywhere, as the Senior Executive Senior Vice President uses a typewriter to draft something all while attending an opera. One such place is a yacht where a real captain helming your ship.
Two places are promoted where you can perform your work; those are your boat or your newly decked-out office, where your friends and family will be closed off from you. Bud assures that the Senior Executive Senior Vice President isn't out of touch, because the uniform framed on the wall proves his humble origins. It's also suggested that the Senior Executive Senior Vice President have his staff invoke it when conducting layoffs.
Sitting at a table with his pregnant wife and terminally ill son, the Senior Executive Senior Vice President is told by Bud that his attention is too valuable to be focusing on the small things. Switching to when his wife gives birth to their newborn child, the Senior Executive Senior Vice President dashes off as he needs to focus on his work. That's because there is no today or tomorrow, only forever.
Transcript[]
Greetings, Vault-Tec's Senior Executive Senior Vice President.
You are the best of the best. You are ruthless, calculating, and single-mindedly ambitious.
In short, you're exactly who we need steering the ship.
Like all state-of-the-art ships, Vault-Tec is run automatically by computers so advanced they can't be comprehended or controlled. Your job is to look to the future pondering serious things, projecting stability and intimidation.
You'll be developing strategies to guarantee corporate continuity even after the inevitable. To achieve this, you have a fiduciary responsibility to monitor certain numbers, guaranteeing shareholder returns on their investment in the end of the world.
Luckily, with modern technology, this can be done from anywhere. Work from your yacht, staffed by people who really can steer ships. Make the scene without ever leaving work or spending your hard-earned salary onshore. Or work from your new corner office, complete with isolating handlers who will keep your dwindling friends and family at bay with expensive gifts.
You're not out of touch. The Vault seller's uniform framed on the wall proves your humble origins. Always have your staff invoke it when conducting layoffs.
Your attention is too valuable to be focused on the small things. You've got a ship to steer. You have to give it your all until the journey is complete.
Because here at Vault-Tec, there is no today, there is no tomorrow. There is only... forever.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fallout - The Vault Seller's Survival Guide - Studio Showoff
