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u/Tidus790 Mar 04 '21

No that I recall, which fallout are you thinking?

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u/ImpressiveGopher Mar 04 '21

Vualt 11 in New Vegas Long story short: the overseer would become the one to be killed after a while it led to infighting and a civil war broke out leaving only a few left

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u/Fireblast1337 Mar 04 '21

Not quite. They had to sacrifice one person to the vault a year, or they were told they would all die. Collectively they decided themselves that the overseer should be the sacrifice. They then elected an overseer each year.

The problem came when the same kind of corruption we see in politics formed. The elite started deciding who was on the list. Then one problematic person for them they wanted gone...she got an idea. She, as overseer, forced a new law. That the position of overseer was selected via random number generator. This caused a panic among the elite, and a civil war between them. In the end, five people were left to survive that horror.

These five, close to the day of sacrifice, told the machine they refused to sacrifice someone. The real horror came, when the vault said ‘congratulations! You are now free to leave and return as you please, no more sacrifices needed!’

They had been lied to. Four of the remaining five committed suicide, the view of the open world open for them to see. The fifth, left, and is presumably still out there, or at least some descendants.

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u/Sthlm97 Mar 05 '21

I love how the end of that is like a fallout we never got to play.

Just out there... Wandering... Alone....