Vault 76 Residents

The Residents of Vault 76 are the main protagonists and player characters of the Online RPG Fallout 76. Having lived inside Vault 76 for 25 years after the Great War/World War III that devastated the United States in nuclear fire alongside the People's Republic of China, the vault opens in the year 2102 on the proclaimed Reclamation Day to allow the residents out to begin rebuilding the United States with recolonizing Appalachia.
==Background==
However, upon collecting holotapes left behind by the Vault 76 Overseer in her various caches she left across Appalachia during her own exploration of the Wasteland 25 years after the Great War/WWIII, who left the Vault hours before they did, they learn that she was assigned by Vault-Tec to secure three still-active U.S. military nuclear I.C.B.M. silos in Appalachia: Site Alpha, Site Bravo, and Site Charlie, known together as the Appalachian Automated Launch System, even if it meant going against any surviving USAF personnel in the silos, including the missileers. After following her trail, they learn about the Scorched and Scorchbeasts, and become members of the former factions that lived in Appalachia before being wiped out or forced to flee from the Scorched by finishing what they had been working on at the time, those factions being The Responders, the Raiders, Free States, and the Brotherhood of Steel.
After that, the residents then do what the Overseer couldn't, and manage to get into the Whitespring Bunker and meet MODUS, the A.I. of the Enclave in charge of the bunker. After helping MODUS with reestablishing its link with the orbiting Kovac-Muldoon space platform to keep eyes on Appalachia, MODUS agrees to aid the residents with getting into the silos, and uses the bunker's automated promotion system to allow them to quickly climb from a U.S. Army Private from completing basic training at Camp McClintock to becoming a U.S. Army General, the only officers granted access to the silos per security precautions against sabotage or having any U.S. Armed Forces rank below General enter without USAF missileer escort, as the security robots in the silos are programmed to shoot to kill if any unauthorized entry is detected, deeming the entry as having hostile intentions. After acquiring a nuclear keycard and the pieces of a launch code for one of the silos, the residents fight their way through the silos' automated security robots dealing with problems in each sector of the silos as they do until reaching the Launch Control Center. Once completing launch prep and protecting the Crew Chiefs from the security robots as they try to interrupt the unauthorized preparations, they use the keycard and launch code to authorize a launch against Fissure Site Prime, the lair of the Scorchbeast Queen. Once awakening the Queen from her slumber, the residents work together to bring her down, along with all her Scorched Plague-infected troops, Scorched, and fellow Scorchbeasts. With the Queen dead, her hive mind with the Scorched is broken, and the residents continue rebuilding Appalachia.
A year later, in 2103, the residents are summoned by their Overseer again, this time in person at her new home in Sutton, to aid the new groups coming into Appalachia and protect them from the Scorched Plague. Having them meet with the leaders of the New Appalachia Settlers and New Appalachia Raiders, get their permission to have them inoculated with the vaccine the Responders were working on, and then traveling to the defunct Kanawha Nuka-Cola Plant to mass-produce the vaccine in a drinkable form, the residents then are asked by the Overseer to join her at Vault-Tec University to investigate the rumors of hidden treasure that brought people back to Appalachia. After passing the Overseer's Exam in the Simulation Vault to be granted access to the university's Restricted Wing that is only allowed to freshly-graduated students of VTU, they learn that Vault 79 is the home of the United States gold reserve from Fort Knox, transferred there in the event of impending nuclear war, and is as heavily-defended as it was in Fort Knox before the Great War/World War III, with laser grids, robot guards, and RobCo-manufactured automated turrets. The Overseer realizes that only two groups would know how to get into the Vault and get past the security defenses to reach the gold: The Settlers and the Raiders. At which point, the residents go to meet with Paige and Meg Groberg and tell them about Vault 79. After helping both groups with getting their raiding parties gathered for hitting the Vault, with Meg opting to hit the Vault head-on through the front door while Paige suggests drilling in from the side with the giant Motherlode drill, the residents face a difficult decision: Who to raid Vault 79 with? Paige and the New Appalachia Settlers? Or Meg and the New Appalachia Raiders? Once the choice is made, there is no turning back after casting their lot for who they want to hit the Vault with. After dealing with some last minute preparations once making their choice on who to hit they Vault with, they are ready to breach it. Once the Vault is successfully raided, finding surviving members of the U.S. Secret Service within that were assigned to defend the gold, the residents are granted 1000 gold bullion as thanks for saving the Secret Service agents, which they can either keep all for themselves, split 50/50 with the faction they raided the Vault with so each side gets 500 bullion, or split it three ways with the Settlers and Raiders, with the two factions each getting 250 bullion while the residents get the other 500. After that, the residents can continue to do daily quests for the factions to continue increasing their reputation with the Settlers and Raiders and unlock new items from their vendors as they become better friends of both factions.
Later, when the Brotherhood of Steel First Expeditionary Force arrives in Appalachia from New California under orders from Elder Maxson to investigate what became of Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy's Brotherhood, the residents aid the Brotherhood with helping them better settle into their new home base at Fort Atlas/ATLAS Observatory and make friends with the Settlers while trying to deal with threats from the Raiders, who see the Brotherhood as another threat they need to keep a close eye on, all while the Scorchbeast Queen and her Scorched minions remain a threat to Appalachia.
By 2104, things in the Appalachian Wasteland are still going well thanks to the Vault 76 Residents, but there is still some unease and hostility between Paladin Rahmani and Knight Shin over the Brotherhood's primary objective between either protecting the people of Appalachia, or continuing to secure the weapons and tech of the pre-War world to keep it out of the wrong hands and prevent it from being lost forever or repeating past mistakes, like the Great War/World War III. The residents later have to make a difficult decision as to who to side with after dealing with an attempt to reintroduce the Forced Evolutionary Virus (F.E.V.) into Appalachia again as whoever they choose to side with, they will either have to kill the Brotherhood member they went against, or let them go, hoping they will reconsider their decision and come back once they see sense.
*If they side with Paladin Rahmani, Shin is livid, and intends to return to Elder Maxson and report Rahmani's actions to him and the other Elders so she and her Brotherhood forces will be punished and stripped of their titles and duties, with the Expeditionary Force disbanded, considering their mission a failure.
*If they side with Knight Shin, Rahmani is disappointed, upset that she couldn't turn them from their ironclad loyalty to Maxson and the Elders and decides to leave and try again somewhere else, going into exile while Shin brands her a traitor before she departs to avoid seeing the bloodshed from the execution of Blackburn's co-workers.
After the residents make their decision about who to side with, that person will become the sole leader of the Brotherhood, and dub the residents "Knight-Errant" in the Brotherhood, allowing them to come and go from Fort Atlas as they please due to other obligations to Appalachia, and thanking them for all they did to help out the Brotherhood.
Some time after that, the residents discover that the Whitespring Resort has become the new base camp for The Responders, who have started rebuilding their organization, and gained access to a working Vertibird to allow them to aid those outside of Appalachia in need of their help, such as in the ruins of Pittsburg, AKA The Pitt. The residents help them out, knowing that aiding those outside of Appalachia will help further their cause in rebuilding the United States from the ashes of the Great War/World War III and the nuclear holocaust it resulted in.
They also take part in seasonal events that occur from time to time in Appalachia, such as Fasnacht in Helvetia, Grahm's Meat Cook near Vault 76, The Mothman Equinox in Point Pleasant, and Invaders from Beyond in random locations throughout Appalachia, among new ones that pop up as time goes on.
==Notes==
*Along with the Sole Survivor, the residents are the second protagonists to potentially have lived before the Great War.
*In the Whitespring bunker, one can take a membership quiz in which they can choose their former occupation and belief system.
*As of the latest update to the game, players can create up to a maximum of five Vault 76 Residents to play as in the game, allowing them some variety in their gameplay, especially during the Wastelanders quest line with who they will side with for hitting Vault 79 for the gold within, and who they will side with at the end of the Steel Reign quest line to lead the Appalachian Brotherhood from now on, so if they didn't agree with how things worked out on one character, they can try something else on another one.
*Those with high intelligence can show proficiency in a number of subjects and feats, such as: familiarity with short-wave radio broadcasting and signal jamming, familiarity with the history of soil science and its founder (Vasily Dokuchaev), and ability to discern a human's personality based solely on visual inspection of their brain.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Resident" article on Nukapedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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