government would work together to build 122 vaults and pre-select groups of the American population who would inhabit them. Known officially as the Societal Preservation Program, Vault-Tec and the U.S. Since each vault cost around $400 billion or more, they elected to follow a more sinister plan to preserve the country. The United States government knew that they couldn’t save everyone - with a population of almost 400 million by 2077, they need 400,000 or more vaults to protect everyone. government itself - so when the Great War of 2077 loomed on the horizon, Vault-Tec was brought in to help with Project Safehouse a plan to build vaults to protect the U.S. As time went on, the corporation became so involved with the the government that many considered it a department of the U.S. Originally Vault-Tec served as a contractor for the United States government, working on top-secret military projects for the Pentagon and advanced technologies for the country.
They designed and built all of the nuclear fallout shelters throughout the post-apocalyptic world of the game and its predecessors. If you’ve been playing Fallout 4 non-stop over the past few weeks, odds are you’ve heard of a little corporation called Vault-Tec.