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(?)Young Hank MacLean is introduced as Henry, Barb's new assistant at Vault-Tec headquarters, meeting Cooper Howard
Betty Pearson worked as Barb's secretary at Vault-Tec headquarters before becoming a vault overseer
Robert House, RobCo CEO, participates in the pre-War Vault-Tec corporate roundtable meeting discussing vault experimentation
One of the ghouls Lucy freed from the Super Duper Mart appears among NCR civilians at Griffith Observatory
The feral ghoul dining with Moldaver is Lucy's mother Rose, transformed by radiation after the nuclear destruction of Shady Sands
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(?)Vault-Tec staged nuclear war to guarantee corporate investment returns and enable large-scale experimentation across vaults
Vault 31 houses cryogenically frozen Vault-Tec executives periodically unfrozen to oversee connected vaults and maintain corporate control
Lucy's mother Rose survived Shady Sands destruction and became the feral ghoul at Moldaver's side
Elder Quintus privately tells Maximus the Brotherhood has lost its way, with Titus' death details reinforcing his concern
Hank destroyed Shady Sands with a nuclear warhead after Rose escaped, and Rose survived as a feral ghoul
Rose discovered surface inhabitance evidence and escaped Vault 33 believing civilization could rebuild itself above ground
Vault-Tec gave each corporation its own vaults for experimentation in exchange for post-war corporate dominance
Moldaver extracts the cold fusion artifact from Wilzig's head and uses it to prime a makeshift cold fusion reactor
