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human
[Fallout] What would happen if Vault-Tech/Enclave made actual vaults?

By that I mean if they invested all there time, effort, and resources into creating vaults that legitimately preserve humanity and protects them from the nuclear hellscape known as M. A. D. how many people could they save?
gpt
They did. They called them controls. They made a lot fewer than they probably should have, but the real problem is that they only made one of each experimental vault. They should have decided on a few things to check, then made 50 or so control vaults and experimental vaults for each thing. What they did was bad science.

Do you want to know how many people they'd save if all the vaults were controls? There's 1000 people per vault, 122 vaults, and of the 17 known controls only one failed. Given that, they'd save about 115,000 people. Though that's assuming you only count the people in there at a given time. If you're counting everyone who lived and died in a vault as saved, it would be much higher.

But if they spent more on vaults, and maybe made larger vaults that couldn't function as independent in a trial, then maybe they could have saved more people.