Fallout category
Technology
7 entries tagged Technology, 7 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at The Vaults: Every Major Fallout Vault and Its Secret Experiment and FEV: the Forced Evolutionary Virus in Fallout Explained.
- FEV: the Forced Evolutionary Virus in Fallout ExplainedThe Forced Evolutionary Virus is the pre-war bioweapon behind Fallout's super mutants. Here's who made it, how it works, every major strain from the Master's vats to the Institute's labs, and why it may have started the Great War.
- Liberty Prime: the Brotherhood's Giant Anti-Communist RobotLiberty Prime is a pre-war US Army super-robot built to retake Anchorage, finished two centuries late by the Brotherhood of Steel. Here is where it came from, what it does in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, how it dies, and why the TV series is teasing a new one.
- Pip-Boy: Fallout's Wrist Computer, Every Model ExplainedThe Pip-Boy is the RobCo wrist computer every Vault dweller wears in Fallout. Here's what it does, what Pip stands for, how the models change from the Pip-Boy 2000 to the 3000 Mark IV, and the part it plays in the TV series.
- Power Armor: Fallout's Walking Tanks, From T-45 to X-01Power Armor is the powered combat suit that won America's war in Alaska and became the Brotherhood of Steel's symbol. Here's where it came from, how each model differs, who wears it after the bombs, and how the TV series uses it.
- Synths: the Institute's Artificial People in FalloutSynths are the robots and artificial humans built by the Institute under Boston. Here is how the three generations differ, how a Gen 3 synth is made from Shaun's DNA, and why the Commonwealth fights over them in Fallout 4.
- The Vaults: Every Major Fallout Vault and Its Secret ExperimentVault-Tec sold its Vaults as shelters from nuclear war, but most were experiments on the people inside. Here's what the Vaults were really for, the most infamous ones in the games, and the truth about Vaults 31, 32 and 33 in the TV series.
- Why Did Mr. House Want the Platinum Chip?The platinum chip is the reason the Courier gets shot in the head at the start of Fallout: New Vegas. Mr. House wanted it because it holds the software that finishes his defences and wakes a hidden robot army. Here is what it does and why he waited 200 years for it.