Vault 0 (also known as Calculator's lair) is a location in Fallout Tactics that can be reached from Cheyenne Mountain.
Background[edit]
Unlike most Vaults involved in the Vault experiment, Vault 0 was not an experiment in human behavior. It was constructed by expanding and reinforcing the Cheyenne Mountain Complex near Colorado Springs and was by far the largest of the underground Vaults by volume.[1] It was intended to be the nucleus of the Vault network.
Vault 0 was a place where the geniuses of the pre-War United States could be kept in cryogenic stasis; their brains were extracted and frozen for the duration of their "residence" in this Vault. They were hooked up together to one big supercomputer called the Calculator, which was supposed to function in collaboration with the brains of these pre-War geniuses to design and nurture an ideal human society in the post-War U.S. by educating the survivors and residents.
Vault 0 thus becomes the endgame-setting of Fallout Tactics, as the player character, the Warrior, and their team of Brotherhood of Steel paladins have to stop the machine. The Warrior's squad came to Vault 0 after the nuclear explosion that opened the Vault door. There, they finally met the infamous Dagger Squad of the Brotherhood, which consisted of squad leader Paladin Lord Maximus, Tais, Maelyra, Khronis and Phoenix. Dagger Squad aided the Warrior in defeating the first wave of Vault protectors and then secured the lift which later could be used to enter the Calculator's chamber.
The Vault power nodes were rendered offline after the explosion, so the Warrior had to activate them manually. Going through security, living and cryogenics facilities of the Vault, the Warrior battles many robots and encounters remnants of Vault 0's citizens, who were revealed to be severely brain-damaged due to malfunctions in the cryogenic chambers. Ultimately, the Warrior activates the power nodes and proceeds to the lift, entering the Calculator's main lair.
Related missions[edit]
- Vault 0 (mission): The mission in Vault 0 is to activate three power nodes throughout the Vault in order to reach the Calculator.
Appearances[edit]
Vault 0 appears in Fallout Tactics.
Behind the Scenes[edit]
- Cheyenne Mountain is a real world location in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Quotes[edit]
1. Vault 0 is designed to repopulate the continent if the other vaults fail. It contains the biggest "brains" of the time, and their genetic data.
2. The Calculator was designed before the ZAX series, to control and regulate the vault network. Originally, it was supposed to do just that, but it eventually grew to the point where it could control the vaults individually (had the connections with each vault remained constant).
And Gareth Davies said:
1) "The sturdy Vault 0 was to be the nucleus of the vault network. Housing the greatest leaders, artists and scientists, the inhabitants of Vault 0 were to reunite the vaults and lead the people to a new life, a new world. But, after the bombs, the world would be a harsh one. To ensure the creation of a post-nuclear utopia, the Vault Dwellers would need help. Machinery was constructed to tame a land hardened by the ravages of war, then tempered by nuclear winter."
2) As far as I know the Calculator was completely unique, and unrelated to Zax, but can't find any documentation to support either side of the theory. I think it's fairly safe to assume Zax and the Calculator have very little in common.”— Chris Avellone quoting Orman and Davies on Vault 0, Fallout Bible 8Gallery[edit]
Lower level map
References[edit]
- ↑ Fallout Tactics Chapter 4 ending: The Brotherhood's fears are confirmed, the robots now have multiple production factories around the wasteland. They are concentrated heavily around the great mountains, in a region known as Colorado Springs. This is the fabled location of Vault 0, which houses the mastermind behind the robot menace, the Calculator.
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