The building of the shelters proceeded rapidly and most were completed by 2063.
įollowing the success of Vault-Tec Corporation's demonstration Vault built near their headquarters in Los Angeles at the time, the company won the bid for constructing the shelters. Installations built as part of the Vault-Tec Societal Preservation Program commonly claimed to have a chance to fail equal to 1,763,497 to 1 however, the reality was a far cry from this bold claim. For example, the intended budget for Vault 13 was $400 billion dollars, and by the end of its construction the total costs reached $645 billion, well over 150% of the initial figure.Īs a crucial element of national defense, much of the project was classified and protected under the New Amended Espionage Act, encouraging embezzlement and corruption. The sheer costs of a single Vault are staggering. The impoverished government was forced to finance the project with junk bonds and even then, only 122 Vaults were ever commissioned, allowing less than 0.1% of the population to save their life in the event of the holocaust. Breakthroughs in construction techniques allow for these gargantuan bunkers to be constructed at a rapid pace. This massive national defense endeavor was intended to create shelters that would protect the population in the event of a nuclear war or plague. In response, the government set Project Safehouse in motion in 2054.
The origins of the Vault network date back to the early 2050s, when the Euro-Middle Eastern War, the New Plague, and the collapse of the United Nations resulted in a nation-wide scare.
A Vault-Tec propaganda poster which hides the reality that many Vaults were sites of civil unrest and mental/physical torture
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