Rewrite vault 87 and east coast fev

RoosterCole

First time out of the vault
so i was playing fallout 3 and the vault didn't make sense and it's lazy concept they needed a geck+super muatnts origin+fev+inhuman experiments= a vault!
This just makes more question why did the military give vault tec the fev to use it when they have mariposa and scientists to work on it and see the results and write it it's also retcon west tech holodisk that said all the fev experiments converted to mariposa
so i will rewrite my version of the vault more sense
Let's change the fev into a retrovirus called narcissus the man who saw his reflection in the lake and fell in love with himself so much that he turned into a flower as i remember
narcissus virus was the first government project (since the enclave/the government love greek mythology names like athena power armor from van buren so i think it makes sense) to make a super soldier but failed
the idea here is that the project failed because it has random results on the body because it depends entirely on dominant genetic traits and even that the probability of the immune system recognizing the virus is high
the virus works by entering the cell and releasing its dna to merge with the nucleus but it increases the rate of dna mutation by manipulating the genetic text strengthening it as a whole and doubling it this increases the growth rate the virus uses the same nucleus of a cell for reproduction the second-gen of the virus let's call it the the new cell which is the somatic cell that is produced by an infected cell but it has less mutation rate than the previous infected cell the new cell will eat other cells mimic them and take their place and multiply to make another new cell to replace every body cell

the infected organism continues to mutate and the whole dna with the dominant genetic trait will be strengthening but less after time passes
When the dna gets strengthened the repair genes will work much better so if the radiation destroys some part of the dna the corrupted genes will not accumulate and will be repaired quickly
radiation will not be a problem and as time passes the mutation rate decreases as it's not important and the dominant genetic traits become less potent until all of the body cells remain constant on one genetic code and you have a mutant how he looks like? depends

But if the person is too much radiated the mutation rate of the new cells will last longer and different effects will happen on the body like changing the dominant genetic trait imagine it as the "mutant!" perk from fallout 1,2 and tactics so your dominant genetic trait change and you get some genetic disorder
but unlike the fev narcissus virus doesn't cause sterility and you will have a stronger generation than the previous

so if we rewrite the vault to be more about social experiments it will be about "how people would react to genetically engineered operations on humans" the point of the experiment is that when humans go to a new planet it won't be 100% viable planet maybe cosmic radiation or ultraviolet rays etc will be a problem and to make the life easier their body must adapt so to make it faster and easier humans will use genetic engineering on human but not everyone will like it
so the vault experiment will go like this
the overseer says the capital is so radiated and the vault is a cheap poor ventilation system that only works for a few minutes intermittently over hours (pumping drugs) unfinished corridors unfinished rooms nuclear waste inside the same cave and a nuclear reactor in a vault that won't last for years
so vault but vault tec gives them narcissus virus so they can adapt and develop immunity against radiation and live in rough and radiated places but it will change their look most of the vault accepts that fearing death after that the vault dwellers will turn into mutants
the rest of the humans vault dwellers on the other hand wouldn't accept to change in the situation between the mutants and the humans becomes nervous the racist starts in the vault because they fear the super mutants and start to collect weapons the fight begins the super mutants win but with a lot of losses so they decide to turn the rest of the vault dwellers into super mutants by force so they can be one race and racist stop and that expand to the rest of dc and because of radiated the mutation rate is higher so it go wrong and they turned into alive meat pieces or something
it's just the fev in another name and the idea suffers from the lack of originality but this is my attempt
what do you think
 
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yeah, it never really did make much sense. i think they should've just made a military bunker like mariposa instead of a vault. maybe theres a mod out there that could do it?
 
V87 and east coast need another fucking full-staff department of writers to work on it, that's how bad the writing, the background, the scarcity of all of it.

But we shall not have anything official working, and asking for amateur (aka modders) would be too much.
 
V87 and east coast need another fucking full-staff department of writers to work on it, that's how bad the writing, the background, the scarcity of all of it.

But we shall not have anything official working, and asking for amateur (aka modders) would be too much.
Yeah this game needs a whole new story to be fixed It's bizarre how most if not all of fallout 3 main storyline is just plagiarism from the classic games with the laziest explanation and out of character actions merged into one rotten tomato in a broken tree in the middle of the desert
To be fair fallout 3 there some parts of it that could work if the radiation doesn't last 200 years the enclave was just a small branch and doesn't have an ia has no loyalty to them as their president (like why? They will most likely use it to study and develop and store data they are the faction who most cherish humanity why would ai be their president) the Lyons are a new military faction and had no connection to the bos and replaced the super mutants with something else and no harold there
 
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Don't make it a Vault, and don't make it produce Super Mutants.

FEV had to be refined to create Super Mutants. If West-Tek had a facility near Washington, DC the strain would not be that used by Richard Grey 80 years later.
 
Don't make it a Vault, and don't make it produce Super Mutants.

FEV had to be refined to create Super Mutants. If West-Tek had a facility near Washington, DC the strain would not be that used by Richard Grey 80 years later.
Well it's vault but without fev and no mention to it the post is about a whole new virus the idea is that fev was cured to the new plague so it must be there some old super soldier project the military of the government done since chems like psycho don't last long and do problems after the war (addiction and this stuff) but didn't go well since the virus have random results on the body
 
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Well it's vault but without fev and no mention to it the post is about a whole new virus the idea is that fev was cured to the new plague so it must be there some old super soldier project the military of the government done since chems like psycho don't last long and do problems after the war (addiction and this stuff) but didn't go well since the virus have random results on the body
I think I take issue with a Vault experiment involving the production of super soldiers because that doesn't directly relate to isolation studies for the purpose of space colonization, which is what we were led to believe the Vault experiments were meant for.

Maybe there's a different way of framing it. I like the idea in the OP involving the Vault editing people's genes to fit the environment they'll be taking over, and I think you could even work it so that maybe the people in this Vault are opposed to the healing of the Wasteland (via Project Purity) because they'll be unfit for the environment. It's playing God versus playing God from two sides, basically.

Do the mutants from the Vault have to be hostile? Could it be that there are multiple types of mutants, some who are actually engineered for life in the Vault (their parents created designer babies out of their own ego) while the mutants on the surface are their servants? Perhaps the children in Little Lamplight aren't really children, but another type of mutant from this Vault. You might be inspired for mutant designs from Man After Man by Dougal Dixon.
 
Rewritten V87 = the origin of The Oasis in Fallout 3.

We have seen plenty of beast-centric FEV mutation in the form of Super Mutant Human, Centaur, but how about virus that is designated for flora and plants?

Granted this could be just lazy version of Vault 22. But we can definitely go into druid-like cult about this, the Oasis, Vault 87, and Little Camplight are connected. In fact actually bunch of major settlements. But not every people agree with their rule, so The Big Town formed. Or The Big Town is basically the one of main outpost for Talon Company and by the time the game start, ready to invade the triple settlements, under the payroll of The Enclave.
 
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I think I take issue with a Vault experiment involving the production of super soldiers because that doesn't directly relate to isolation studies for the purpose of space colonization, which is what we were led to believe the Vault experiments were meant for.

Maybe there's a different way of framing it. I like the idea in the OP involving the Vault editing people's genes to fit the environment they'll be taking over, and I think you could even work it so that maybe the people in this Vault are opposed to the healing of the Wasteland (via Project Purity) because they'll be unfit for the environment. It's playing God versus playing God from two sides, basically.

Do the mutants from the Vault have to be hostile? Could it be that there are multiple types of mutants, some who are actually engineered for life in the Vault (their parents created designer babies out of their own ego) while the mutants on the surface are their servants? Perhaps the children in Little Lamplight aren't really children, but another type of mutant from this Vault. You might be inspired for mutant designs from Man After Man by Dougal Dixon.
i imagine it like the mutants do one specific work when it isn't kidnapping or you aren't near to their vault you are safe
as for the types of mutants the ordinary will be tall and muscular with harsh skin maybe blue because why not
read man after man a long time ago i like the small evolved black human at the end who looks like an insect they would work as the fetus made in laboratory with genetic manipulation and extensive use of the virus to create a being that can communicate with animals in various ways even chemically it's like having animal friend (or maybe something like? i will write some sci-fi explanation about them maybe the idea will change to be better) and because of their early nature they need something like a dog or maybe og mole rat carry

the idea of the children in little lamplight being mutants fits the rewrite
children got genetically engineered so their bodies muscles grow but they are still small as kids because their bodies get confused so they don't grow up physically
 
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Rewritten V87 = the origin of The Oasis in Fallout 3.

We have seen plenty of beast-centric FEV mutation in the form of Super Mutant Human, Centaur, but how about virus that is designated for flora and plants?

Granted this could be just lazy version of Vault 22. But we can definitely go into druid-like cult about this, the Oasis, Vault 87, and Little Camplight are connected. In fact actually bunch of major settlements. But not every people agree with their rule, so The Big Town formed. Or The Big Town is basically the one of main outpost for Talon Company and by the time the game start, ready to invade the triple settlements, under the payroll of The Enclave.
i prefer turning dc into a forest than the nonsense desert we have in 3
 
i prefer turning dc into a forest than the nonsense desert we have in 3
Yes, basically make it fits with the actual biome of Eastern Coast lol. We have seen that it works with Point Lookout. You can still have post-apocalypse with it.

I want to make the invasion of V87, Little Camplight, and The Oasis to be tragic. Much like why we cannot have Sentient Deathclaws.
You can still work with the Talon Company, and maybe turn things little bit better.
 
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