Vaults in Fallout are no strangers to horrific experiment—according to the lore, that’s why vaults exist in the first place. Vaults were constructed for social experiments, the likes of which couldn’t be carried out in any other circumstance.
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ShoddyCast is back with their newest installment of Fallout lore, and this time they dive deep into the ethically dubious things that certain vaults did. If you have six minutes to spare, you should give it a watch:
Worth noting that the video starts out with an unrelated short about Grognak the Barbarian, which you might know as the protagonist of all those comics lying around in the wasteland. It does go on to talk about cloning in Fallout, though! Skip to the 1:10 mark if you want to get straight to that.