A Black Box is a technology that appears in the Fallout Television Series.
Background[edit]
A Black Box is a mind control device developed by Robert House. The device, which is affixed to the back of the neck, causes the person implanted to become easily controllable, following orders without question. A side effect of the device is that when the initial orders are completed, and the individual is left aimless, the device malfunctions, causing their head to explode. When functioning as intended, the Black Box erases all of an individual's memories and implants new information from the Vault-Tec X-Branch mainframe, making them obedient.[1][2]
House tested the technology on a construction worker, Bill, in Los Angeles after picking a fight with him in a bar. House forced Bill to kill his friends Dan and Jim, before a malfunction caused Bill's head to explode. After the Great War, Black Boxes were further developed and used in Vault 24 in an experiment to turn Americans into Communists. Here, they improved on the device's brain-computer interface, while another Vault-Tec Facility worked on miniaturizing the devices.
House organized a deal to sell Black Box technology to the Vault-Tec Corporation in exchange for a Cold Fusion Diode.[3]
Hank MacLean utilized a Black Box to force an NCR Caravaner to deliver a nuclear device to the capital of the New California Republic, Shady Sands, resulting in it's destruction.[4] Modified versions of the Black Box were incorporated into collars and used to control dogs by the Enclave at a Research Facility.[5]
After escaping Griffith Observatory, Hank MacLean traveled to Vault 24, taking a DV-ARCH DRIVE containing the site's research data, and proceeded to the Vault-Tec facility, with the hope of merging the two versions and eventually perfecting the device.[6]
Hank would experiment with the Black Boxes, resulting in the deaths of multiple mice and Stephen Winthrop[7]
After getting the box to work, first on the Snake Oil Salesman, Hank used it to assemble a large number of workers to staff the Vault-Tec X-Branch, using them to construct more Boxes which he intended to use to bring order to the wasteland. To this end, he used the brain of the now decapitated Representative Welch to program the boxes as a means of making those implanted with them agreeable. Hank further miniaturized the devices, making a model which was impossible to detect, save for a scar on the back of the implanted's neck. After his plan was foiled by his daughter, Lucy, Hank was implanted with a miniaturized box which he activated himself, wiping his own mind.[8]
Appearances[edit]
Black Boxes appear in the Fallout Television Series.
Behind the Scenes[edit]
Gallery[edit]
Dog Box
References[edit]
- ↑ Hank MacLean: "How would you like to forget everything you've ever known? Everyone you've ever known? Your language and motor skills will remain intact. But every choice you've made, every moment you've cherished, will be completely and utterly removed from your memory."
(S2E5 - The Wrangler/Dialogue) - ↑ Hank MacLean: "Cleans the memory of the horrors they've experienced. This dial controls how much amnesia they have, and the mainframe implants new ideas in their heads. Turning these Wastelanders into well-meaning, good people."
(S2E7 - The Handoff/Dialogue) - ↑ S2E6 - The Other Player
- ↑ S2E2 - The Golden Rule
- ↑ file:Dog Black Box.webp
- ↑ S2E1 - The Innovator
- ↑ S2E2 - The Golden Rule
- ↑ S2E8 - The Strip
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