Nuka-Vault (Vault 44)

Name: Nuka-Vault (Vault 44)

Type of Faction: Open Vault

Faction Leader: Overseer Malcolm Caleb-Bradberton

Active Characters: Malcolm Caleb-Bradberton

Other Notable Figures: Tourist guide Marge, Merchant Lewis, Security Manager Griffin

Goals:
The primary goal of the vault dwellers are primarily to seek out new tastes of the wasteland, which is pretty much anything BUT Nuka-Cola as they’re sick of it.

Beliefs: most of them still hold onto pre-war religious beliefs, other than that there is no set “standard”

Allegiances: Fans of Nuka-Cola

Enemies: Raiders



Headquarters: Vault 44

Locations: Purchase, New York City

Armaments: Mostly low-end weapons, anything they can get their hands on, mostly pistols and low-tech rifles or shotguns.

Armor and Uniform:


Besides the jumpsuits, they do have red (painted) combat armours with the nuka-cola symbol on the chest.

Vehicles:
None

Technology:
Nuka-Cola Production Facility:
In this wing of the Vault, Nuka-Cola is created in gigantic vats, like the bottling Factory, everything is run by robots. The overseer and the board of directors are the only ones with the power to alter the formula used. Many, many pipes lead off from the vats, into what would be the “Water system” of usual vaults.

Bottling Section:
The main source of post-war Nuka-Cola, it’s manned by machines only (as part of the vault experiment). Everything is automatically controlled.

Nuka-Radio:
Only heard within the vault and the headquarters, it’s a cheery backdrop on the post-apocalyptic setting, playing nothing but Nuka-Cola jingles all day every day!

Recycling Plant:
One of the cleaner areas of the Nuka-Vault, here bottles and caps are cleaned, sanitised and sent onto the bottling section of the vault. Due to the increasing demand of Nuka-Cola, empty Nuka-Cola bottles and caps are in high demand. So much so that outsiders can bring their empty bottles to the HQ for payment. If the customer hands in enough glass bottles, they’ll receive a free bottle of Nuka-Cola!

Other:
Nuka-Cola Security:
Set up after they open the vault, they’re a mix of outsiders and vault dwellers, fans/addicts, who act as the vault’s defence force.
Numbers: About fifty (some of these are made up on the numbers from the vault, about 16 are actual employed fans, some Nuka-Cola Securitrons)



Nuka-Cola merchant inventory:
Many Nuka-Cola variations can be bought from the Nuka-Vault in return for items of various kinds.
Nuka-Cola is obviously very common, but other varieties can be bought if they have been made. Varieties such as quantum and cherry are a common sight, but new varieties never-before seen have been produced such as:
Nuka-Cola Pak – This Nuka-Cola variant was invented by the doctors of Vault 44, combining Nuka-Cola with the fluid from a stimpak. According to the experts the caffeine helps the healing effects enter the system quicker than a stimpak on its own! However it can’t be injected, and as such really works slower than the average stimpak and for half the health benefits, but for twice the addiction.
Nuka-Cola Rocket – this is a combination of Nuka-Cola and Jet, it’s highly addictive and not recommended to be drunk in large quantities! (As it may or may not be highly toxic)
Nuka-Cola Energy – A sickly sweet variation made with Ant Nectar, granting the strength bonuses.
Nuka-Cola Patriot – A special patriotic variation, that’s only for adults! Ingredients include Nuka-Cola, whiskey and liqueur.

Numbers: 100 vault dwellers, 25 employed Nuka-Cola Enthusiasts, numerous robot workers.

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Vault 44’s concept was initially begun after contracts between Vault-Tec and the Nuka-Cola Corporation were made to put (at least) a single Nuka Cola machine in each vault. The relationship between the two companies blossomed, as both used each other as mutually beneficial marketing. During the later years before the Great War, Vault Boy started to appear in Nuka-Cola ad-campaigns, and Vault-Tec started using Nuka-Cola as an incentive to sign up for the Project Safehouse programme. Soon after the advertising campaigns started, rumours began to spread of a Nuka-Vault, and sure enough it was reveal, built near the Nuka-Cola headquarters just outside of New York City.

It was really more of a tourist attraction than anything to start off with. Tours of a Nuka-Cola plant within a vault brought many people across the eastern seaboard to see the insides of a vault. Everything was themed, the Vault-Tec jumpsuits, replaced by bright red ones, with the company logo branded on the back, with a “44” in the same style. The wall trims were bright red, the walls pure white. There were Nuka-Cola refill stations in every private room. It was a joke that there was no water in the Nuka-Vault, only Nuka-Cola and nothing but Nuka-Cola, little did they know that, this was actual parameters of the vault’s scientific goal. When the vaults were closed, Nuka-Vault, or Vault 44, was populated by Nuka-Cola’s owner, board of directors, the employees (of the headquarters) and their families. John Caleb-Bradberton Jr., son of the inventor of Nuka-Cola, and now chairman (and owner) of Nuka-Cola was to be the vault’s overseer.

The novelty of vault 44 didn’t last very long, as within weeks; people were already bored of nothing but Nuka-Cola. After a while, it soon became apparent that people had smuggled drinks other than Nuka-Cola into the vault. These drinks were confiscated (in line with the Vault’s rules) by the overseer, but were not destroyed (which was also a rule) as he too had gotten tired of the same thing over and over again. Instead he began hoarding the confiscated drinks in his room, until everyone knew of his large stash. Every day there were people hammering at the overseer’s door demanding the release some of the confiscated drink. With very little sleep and the constant noise outside his door, vault 44’s first overseer began to drink heavily and was soon replaced by his son.

With his new responsibilities, this overseer sacrificed his father’s stash to the ingredients department who turned them into various special Nuka-Cola’s for the vault to enjoy. Years went on. They started getting desperate for something new, and every so often a new variation would crop up. Out of demand, soon the supplies used in making that type dried up and they moved onto the next one. Eventually they had exhausted all the “healthy” options within the vault itself up, and as a result, there were demands to open the vault up and scout for new ingredients. By now Malcolm, the latest overseer and descendant of Caleb-Bradberton, was in charge and like everyone else he was sick of the sight of Nuka-Cola. They decided to open the vault. They were met with a steady stream of scavengers to the Nuka-Cola HQ building, who worked out a trade agreement with the vault dwellers. Ingredients for Nuka-Cola, it was a simple deal. But word spread across the wasteland, more and more people showed up. Every so often they would be attacked by raiders, who had come to “sample” the Nuka-Cola. When scavengers heard that the Nuka-Cola vault, was about to be closed again to stop any more casualties, they offered their services. They started training the vault-dwellers to protect themselves and even organised a small force of guardsmen and women, who’d protect the vault from raiders. Numbers would be supplemented with fans of Nuka-Cola, who would be paid mostly in bottles. Soon enough a small settlement was created around the Nuka-Vault, which incorporate the small campus of buildings that the Nuka-Cola Corporation had inhabited before the war. Tours around the vault, began to move through the vault during the daytime, although the factory floor was still out of bounds, even for the vault dwellers themselves.

As the vault dwellers got used to life on the outside, they took a liking to practically any drink they could get their hands on. Each drink, to them, was worth it’s weight in gold, and as such merchants have begun selling it to them at a high rate.

Purpose of the Vault:
The purpose of the vault was to see how the inhabitants would react to having nothing to drink but Nuka Cola. To avoid any other substance being drunk within the vault, drinks were to be confiscated on sight. Water used for cleaning oneself was to be heavily treated with chemicals, so that it would be poisonous. Another control put in place, was to allow only the overseer and the board of directors control over the formula used in the creation of the Nuka-Cola. Vault Dwellers were also barred from the mixing room, as well as the bottling section, was to remove the ability to tamper with the recipe.