Vault-Tec
Vault-Tec
Armor, Construction, Energy, Information, Medicine, Science, Security, & Weapons market sector
Vault-Tec is the manic upstart megacorporation that has sprung up as if from a hole in the ground merely 25 years prior. They have pursued nearly every market sector with reckless abandon, providing many megacorporations with the first real competition they’ve experienced in generations. Apart from perhaps their fusion reactors, Vault-Tec isn’t regarded as the best in endeavor they undertake. However, an argument can be made they are the second best at everything they do.
Alarmists have been citing an ancient Terran philosophy know as Thucydides’ Trap, suggesting that Vault-Tec’s rising status in the economy threatens to destabilize the current hegemony of Third Estate Mercantile powers. Others have pointed out that they seem to the common man or perhaps the Traveller’s Buy-N-Large, rather than Buy-N-Large’s clientele of planetary governors and medium to large mercantile guilds. The market survived the addition of Buy-N-Large, and for the most part they don’t directly compete with any other megacorporation. Either way they is no sense worrying about it since Karl Bishop Weyland the CEO of Weyland-Yutani is due to be resuscitated soon, and the market can simply follow his lead.
Vault-Tec styles itself as a company for S.P.E.C.I.A.L customers (Strong, Perceptive, Endurant, Charismatic, Intelligent, Agile, and Lucky) who are self-starters and problem solvers. If Vault-Tec doesn’t sell it themselves, they often will sell you the tools so you can do it yourself.
Vault-Tec ran into a very early roadblock 10 years after their establishment, with a class action lawsuit related to psychology study that Vault-Tec had supposedly commissioned. The former INGSOC lawyer Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg that represented Vault-Tec was able to have the case dismissed to major irregularities in the court filings of the prosecution. Mr. Zorg made such an enormous sum of money representing Vault-Tec, that he founded his own megacorporation Zorg Industries from whole cloth.
Vault-Tec and Zorg Industries maintain amicable relationship to this day. Zorg Industries remains on retainer for Vault-Tec, and Vault-Tec is the only megacorporation licensed to prescreen and sign their customers onto the waiting lists for restricted Zorg Industries products like the pocket nuke.
Vault-Tec has confidently moved into the construction market with their Neo Art Deco designs. More expensive than OCP and Shinra Corporation designs, but as rugged as OCP and as trendy as Shinra Corporation – Vault-Tec is second only to the Weyland-Yutani luxury designs. One of the hallmarks of Vault-Tec’s architecture is the embedded, almost invisible security features. Decorative reception desks lined with reflec and reinforced against impact, door locks with redundant mechanical and electronic security, atriums that must passed fully though to access areas with immediate sightlines on said atrium, and false edifices that pop out computer linked turrets running proprietary fire control software. Any Vault-Tec construction can be a veritable fortress.
The Vault-Tec line of products are highly customizable. A number of alterations can either be made in house, outsourced to Zorg Industries, or Vault-Tec with give you the instructions to make the modifications yourself using off the shelf products.
The Vault-Tec CEO is a reclusive individual and has evaded general public knowledge. The plan laid out is self-evident in the company mission, “Selling you the tools to rebuild your future”. To this end Vault-Tec has started their own university network to compete with INGSOC and InGen. The operate efficient medical clinics that priorities urgent and routine care over extended recover ICU procedures available at Umbrella Corporation hospitals. They sell basic weapons and armor of tech level 10 or lower (In addition to the FGMP where legal), Computers & Software of tech level 12 and below, and enough tools and parts for anyone to do it themselves. They even sell the drones to do it for you, if you bit off more than you could chew.
Vault-Tec Sells:
- Real Estate,
- TL10 Armor or less,
- TL 10 Weapons or less,
- TL 12 Computers or less,
- TL 12 software or less,
- Weapon Options of any TL, Battle Dress options of any TL, Power Cores,
- Toolkits, Medicine Care and Supplies of TL 11 or less (Not Healing or Replacements),
- Sensors of TL10 or less, Survival Gear & Supplies, Toolkits, Drones, Security Locks (Mechanical, Electronic, Biometric, Smart), and Drones.
- Vault-Tec has no standard interest in buying.
- Construction, Repair (Equipment and building), University, Skills Training, and Security Retrofitting.
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