It makes a key appearance in an early episode of season two in Prime Video’s adaptation
Prime Video’s second season of live-action adaptation Fallout is finally here and fans have already noticed plenty of references to the original games.
However, as the series is knowing to be taking heavy inspiration from title Fallout New Vegas, the show is making its own mark. While the makers of the show have already prepared fans that the eight-part series won’t be telling the same story as the game, they are taking the chance to go to places the game didn’t.
One of those is clearly the use of vaults. So just what is Vault 24 that appears early in Fallout season two? What is it used for and does it appear in any of the games? Here’s what you need to know.
What is Vault 24 in Fallout?
Vault 24 is one of hundreds of vaults created by the Vault-Tec corporation across America. The company made these a series of subterranean shelters designed and constructed alongside the government.
They were created with the idea they would be ready for a vast number of humanity to see out a nuclear winter, provided they could afford it. Down below they would be able to survive and continue to reproduce until it was deemed safe to return to life on the surface.
What was seemingly ignored by Vault-Tec is that some life, including humans, would be left to fend for themselves out in the open. Despite odds stacked against them, they would find a way to survive and Vault-Tec’s projected Proclamation Day would never really arrive.
Another quality of vaults, which usually wasn’t common knowledge to those living within them was that they all had their own experiment being conducted within.
A number of Fallout games have the players begin as vault dwellers or leaving a vault for the first time. Fallout 3 begins in Vault 101, Fallout 4 in 111. While the series protagonist Lucy is from Vault 33. New Vegas doesn’t have the player start in a vault but instead take on the role of someone known as The Courier.
Is Vault 24 in Fallout?
Vault 24 is actually making its debut in the Fallout series. However, it seems to be one of many references to Fallout New Vegas, which season two is taking most of its inspiration from.
In the Prime Video adaptation, Vault 24 is found in a cave behind the screen display of a Starlight Theaters drive-in. The Vault was assigned to carry out experiments via brainwashing techniques.
The characters discover a scene which looks like something out of A Clockwork Orange, where a type of brain-computer interface chip is used alongside a loop of propaganda material is used to see if its possible to turn the test subjects into communist agents.
According to one of the game’s designers, Vault 24 was actually cut from the New Vegas game. Obsidian, who made the game didn’t actually choose a designation for their version of the vault. The only asset that players found buried in code, was a vault 24 suit. However, lead designer Joshua Sawyer admitted that this could have been created by the team for a different questline.
Fallout is streaming on Prime Video.
