In the Fallout TV series (2024) Season 1 finale, Episode 8: “The Beginning," there's a scene where the top executives of the companies: Vault-Tec, RobCo Industries, Big MT, West Tek, and REPCONN Aerospace share ideas for the Vault-Tec Vault experiments.
Before the TV series, the Fallout video games first revealed that Vault-Tec’s Vaults were not just for survival; they were actually created to carry out a variety of experiments, many of which are heinous. Related question in Arqade: Which Fallout game was it first stated that vaults were designed to conduct experiments?
Barb Howard (Vault-Tec): We have over a hundred vaults spread across America. Enough for each of you to claim several, where you can play out your own ideas for how to create the perfect conditions for humanity. Whatever you want to do, no one needs to know. And may the best idea win.
Here are the (disturbing) vault experiment ideas the executives proposed:
Frederick Sinclair (Big MT): We could intentionally overcrowd a vault so people have to compete to survive inside it.
Julia Masters (REPCONN Aerospace): We have been developing a robot that delivers milk to the front door. It's quite intelligent. I would like to see a vault governed by it.
Leon Von Felden (West Tek): What about using a vault to develop a super-mutant soldier using illegal immigrants?
Frederick Sinclair: We could pump psychotropic drugs into the air supply.
Julia Masters: We could separate parents and children, and only the smartest kids reach adulthood.
Are these Vaults the same ones encountered in the Fallout video game series? If so, which specific Vaults are they referencing, and in which games did they make an appearance?