Bud's Buds

Bud's Buds is an experimental management training group organized by Bud Askins within the broader Vault-Tec Corporation, featured .
==Background==
According to Bud, the group's stated goal was to achieve an "absolute monopoly" by outliving and overpowering all other factions. In his own words, "The ultimate weapon of mass destruction is time." It was this group, through the introduction of the idea by Barb Howard at a meeting involving many other corporate officials, that first envisioned, and later carried out the social experiments that infamously plagued most of the Vaults.
On the day of the bombs, the members of Bud's Buds flocked to Vault 31, where they would then enter cryonic pods, similar to those found in Vault 111, planning to reawaken one day in the future and covertly integrate into the populations of the two nearby Vaults.Norm MacLean: "Is this where my dad's from?"Bud Askins: "You'll never find out. Oh. He's gonna find out. These are Bud's Buds. My Buds. America outsourced the survival of this country to the private sector. But it would have been insane to keep a failed nation alive. So, we kept Vault-Tec alive instead. A well-trained staff of highly supervised junior executives from my own assistant training program. Because the future of humanity comes down to one word: Management."(The Beginning) As of 2296, around 219 years after the Great War, the majority of the group's members remain dormant in their cryostasis.Fallout, The Radio
It was the application of the Bud's Buds program that was the reason behind the Three Vaults construction of Vaults 32 & 33 and the social engineering to make a triumvirate out of 31, 32, and 33. Every few years, or as needed, a member of Bud's Buds would be awakened from their pod and released from Vault 31 into the population of the other two connected vaults, who had all been taught that Vault 31 was also a normal, populated Vault. The ultimate goal was to breed a generation of "super-managers" from the original Vault-Tec staff, who would go on to claim the post-War world as their own and lord over it, unchecked by Old World government regulations. This process carried on uninterrupted for 217 years up until 2294, when the residents of Vault 32 apparently managed to figure out the truth behind the three Vaults' interconnection, followed by which the entire Vault rebelled, destroying their home and capturing and killing their Overseer before turning on and killing each other; their corpses remained strewn around the Vault for the next two years before Lee Moldaver's group of raiders came to invade Vault 33, for which a cover story was invented that 32 had suffered a famine.
Bud Askins himself was able to live past the Great War for all 219 years to the present by turning himself into a robot so-called a "brain-on-a-roomba." By 2296, some members of Bud's Buds that awoke and left Vault 31 were also still alive, including Hank MacLean, Betty Pearson, and Stephanie Harper.
==Members==
* Bud Askins
* Steph Harper
* Betty Pearson
* Hank MacLean
* George Yaffe
* Alexander Boamer
* Archibald Sachs
* Arthur Wormeley
* Ava West
* Casey Schulz
*Chase Powell
*Chloe Glass
*Christyn Mari
*Claire Feldman
*Elmer Greene
*Francesca Mahajan
*Ian Jackson
*Jean Polansky
*Joanne Wormwood
*Joseph Moerder
*Kathryn Cep
*Laurence Ronald
*March Sherwood
*Maximillian Dottino
*Patricia Peters
*Robert Olsen
*Tatyana Lee
*Thomas Hamilton
*Victoria Alexander
==Appearances==
Bud's Buds appears only .
==References==
Category:Fallout TV series factions
Category:Vault-Tec Corporation