Vault 45

**Vault 45** is one of the Vault-Tec Vaults located in New Orleans in 2287.

## Background

Vault 45 is a functioning Vault located in the Algiers Point District. Unbeknownst to its inhabitants, the vault's experiment is active in the form of an induced virus that can only affect children. The vault was finished a significant some time before the Great War, and construction ended in the Spring of 2075. The vault was highly advertised locally and many events were held at its site, including a Mardi Gras parade as a celebration of Vault-Tec's achievements in Louisiana and New Orleans.

The vault's first invitations were first sent in January 1st, 2077, and prioritized workers from medical fields, nurses, doctors and many of the best epidemiologists of Louisiana were also called to join Vault 45's population. More than 40% of the vault's population included medical field workers and researchers. The remainder of the vault population was decided by prize draw, and conditions to enter the vault included a family of two parents and at least one child, whereas 5-weeks or less pregnant couples could not qualify.

The vault's first overseer was Nathaniel Moss, graduated by the Vault-Tec University of West Virginia in Medicine and Epidemiology, Moss was personally commended by his former dean and professors as a fit candidate to oversee the vault's activities and run its habilitation programs. Moss, prior to being appointed as the vault's overseer, was trained to conduct the vault's social experiment months before its official nomination.

### Experiment

Vault-Tec created Vault 45 with the intention of observing and determining the how many, if ever, induced endemics onto the younger residents would take for the adult inhabitants to develop a solution that involved euthanasia, abandonment or any violent means to permanently contain a virus. The virus, named Spook and developed by Vault-Tec researchers prior to the Great War, would be sent through the air-conditioning system of the vault to a single family's room, infecting the children inside.

These children would later contaminate the other children inside the vault and the experiment would begin. The researchers employed by Vault-Tec would continue to work on the experiment, living in another vault the encircled Vault 45 where the experiment was surveilled and studied. The inhabitants of this separate vault would educate and pass down their duties to their children, who would later also study Vault 45's ongoing experiment results and continue to work on the virus. The first vaccine to treat the Spook was developed three months after the first observation of the disease. By that time, only 35 out of the 250 inside the vault at the time were infected, and only patient zero suffered was fatally infected.

The disease reappeared about a year later stronger, infecting almost 50% of the child inhabitants of the vault and killing about 67% of that total infected. Another vaccine was developed, this time also applied to adults, and the virus only came back about 3 and a half years later. Each time the virus re-emerged, either the fatality of infection rate increased in comparison to the last seen variant, and a higher gap between evolving variants was also observed. It was only after 6 endemics later that Lucien Dumont, the son of an first-generation vault dweller and doctor developed a vaccine that could be modified to fit another variants of the virus. The Dumont family became revered as the saviors of the vault, and Lucien was named overseer of the vault by the inhabitants, who overthrew the overseer before him.

Each following variant of the vault later proved weak against the Dumont Vaccine for 30 years, whe the Spook was believed to finally be exterminated by the dwellers. Only 15 years later, with a high infection and fatality rate never seen before, the Spook came back to the vault, which led to the Medical Counsel of the vault to start considering extermination in order to contain the vault and preserve the future of next generations in the vault. The project was first drafted and made public by the inhabitant René Savoy, who is also currently running for the position of overseer. In 2287, Cecelia Dumont, granddaughter of Lucien Dumont discovered that the new variant of the Spook could not have evolved in such a slow rate from its previous variant, and also discovered that the genealogical records of René Savoy were only ever added seven years ago, even though they traced him back to the vault's original habitation.

## Layout

Vault 45 is an extremely large vault, divided into several sections: Entrance, Vault 45, Research Facilities and the Parasite Vault where the vault's experiment is conducted.

### Entrance

The entrace to Vault 45 leads to the vault main gate through an elevator. This section contains many control terminals for registering and logging whomever leaves or enters the vault. It also contains one control panel that opens and locks the main gate of the vault.

## Loot

### Notable Loot

* Vault Boy's Favorite, a unique 10mm Pistol - Inside a locked display in the Overseer's Office.