You see, the rationale Moldaver hates Vault-Tec a lot is as a result of she initially designed the chilly fusion reactor in 2077, earlier than the battle that ended the world. Again then, the tech was acquired by Vault-Tec and shortly hidden, because it threatened the battle the corporate so desperately wanted to occur to make sure most earnings for his or her vault merchandise. Over 200 years later, Moldaver desires her tech again so she will lastly share its present of limitless vitality with the remainder of the world.
However Moldaver has an excellent larger motivation for attacking Vault 33 and kidnapping Hank than stolen tech: revenge. We be taught that Shady Sands, the capital of the New California Republic (a staple faction from the early video games), was fully destroyed earlier than the beginning of the present. Within the finale, Moldaver reveals to Lucy that it was Hank and his Vault-Tec goons who nuked the town to cease the NCR from advancing additional on the floor, not solely killing hundreds of individuals but additionally leaving his personal spouse and Lucy’s mom a senseless ghoul skeleton.
Why did Hank blow up Shady Sands? As a result of the NCR was gaining an excessive amount of energy, threatening Vault-Tec’s plan for world domination as soon as it was time to reclaim the floor. Vault-Tec didn’t depend on anybody outdoors the vaults surviving the nuclear battle, so when Wastelanders within the area organized into a significant faction that might in the future rival Vault-Tec, the corporate needed to put a cease to it.
However how did Vault-Tec initially plan to make sure these loyal to the corporate can be those to re-settle the earth centuries after the nuclear battle within the first place? Vault 31 has the solutions.
What’s Really Occurring in Vault 31, 32, and 33?
It’s revealed on the finish of the season that Kyle MacLachlan’s Hank MacLean, the Overseer of Vault 33, is without doubt one of the many Vault-Tec thugs who have been cryogenically frozen in 2077 till which era they have been wanted to additional the corporate’s plans contained in the vaults and on the floor. Lucy learns the reality about her father from Moldaver within the closing episode, however her brother Norm (Moisés Arias) has to do a little bit of digging in Vault 31 to unravel Vault-Tec’s true plans.
All through the season, Norm works to uncover the true objective of Vault 33’s neighboring vaults. There’s Vault 32, which we initially see as a graveyard filled with useless Vault-Dwellers who killed themselves after studying “the reality.” Then there’s Vault 31, which Norm learns, is the place each single Overseer of Vault 33 originaly hails from, together with the vault’s newly elected Overseer, Betty Pearson (Leslie Uggams).
