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Think Tank

Everyone seat back with hungry stomachs. "Last one before dinner." Ruby

FALLOUT Lore: Ch.14 – Think Tank's BIG MT.

The great minds of the 21st Century created fantastic technology that their ancestors couldn't even image. They shot machines into space, built robots too small to see, and harnessed the power of the atom! They also made all of the horrors that ruined the world, and many of those scientific horrors still plague us today. Forced Evolutionary Virus, Nuclear Warheads, Orbital weapon platforms. It's chilling to think that the minds who created such things might still be out there... but they are. Still thinking up new ways to kill, torture and mutilate.

"What!" Yang yelled.

About three hundred and fifty years ago, America was celebrating a war that they won by using the first Atomic bombs. The whole country was inspired by the potential that Atomic energy promised. They dreamed of a future where atomic rocket ships flew through the sky, atomic cars raced through the streets, and giant robots defended America's shores... with Atomic death rays.

"Like Liberty Prime!" Ruby yelled.

At first that view of the future only appeared in movies; the old two-dimensional holotapes of the twentieth century. But by the middle of the twenty-first century, the future had arrived, and it looked exactly how America thought it would. What had once been science fiction had become science fact.

*Mister-Handy cutting a cake*

"I don't think that's how to cut a cake." Blake said, as the Mister-Handy use it's saw.

The wasteland holds monuments to some of the people who brought about that future. The RobCo factory still stands, as does the old Chryslus Factory, Poseidon Energy reactors, and of course Vault-Tec Vaults. The big boys all built their facilities to last. But some of America's greatest pre-war minds engaged in secret work that was best kept out of the public eye. These masters of the ethical paradigm shift called themselves... The Think Tank.

"Why 'Think Tank'?" Weiss ask.

This group of egg-heads engaged in the sort of radical, theatrical, "unpossible" science that was once the stuff of comic books. They concealed their laboratories deep within a complex called Big Mountain, where their innumerable crimes against humanity and nature were hidden beneath miles of stone.

There they constructed facilities to research new ways to fight America's wars. Titanic robot scorpions with laser stingers. Cybernetic enhancements for man and beast. New stealth suit technology that was surprisingly talkative for a stealth suit. Innovative new toxins to kill foreign soldiers by the thousands. Every day at Big Mountain was like a science fiction double feature! No. A triple feature.

"You many like the things Mad King does." Ruby said, about the comic book villain.

Their work wasn't theoretical, it was applied science. Applied with extreme prejudice. Big Mountain maintained its own prison camp where imprisoned Chinese and Chinese-Americans were kept as human test subjects. DNA splicing, automated lobotomy machines, and old-fashioned target practice for new-fangled guns were just a few of the indignities forced on the unfortunate prisoners.

*Three ghoul prisoner behind a metal gate, a skull on the ground*

"Pore Chinese." Ruby said. Blake eyes glared at the TV, Weiss look down knowing what her family company did.

The exploding collars that modern slavers use were widely used in the camp at Big Mountain. There are even a few of those old prisoners still alive in that camp today; turned into ghouls when the bombs fell two hundred years ago, and they have spent the centuries trapped in Big Mountain by their slave collars. A horrid fate, even for suspected Commies.