F.E.V. wasn't initially meant to create super soldiers, but instead folks immune to Chinese biologicals, but even in the first Fallout the background had the United States government looking into using it for just that purpose once they realized its strength/size-increasing capabilities. And...
Ah, thank you for the corrrection. I still like that idea though.
For the same reason a ton of Star Wars fans tend to ignore the prequels, even though they have no way of actually affecting the canon of that universe. No matter what type of entertainment you look into, there are inevitably...
I thought it was fairly obvious that the Super Mutants in the Capital Wasteland were just a remnant of the Master's Army that went all the way over to the East Coast, and were attracted to certain areas in it where there were exceedingly high levels of radiation. Vault 87 just happened to be a...