Vault 8 Overseer

The Vault 8 overseer was the only overseer of Vault 8.

Background
In 2091, 17 years after the Great War, the vault received the all-clear signal and the overseer ordered the opening of the Vault, the "all-clear" signal was sent by the Enclave. Fallout Bible 4 Questions, questions: '''7. When the bombs dropped, all communication between the vaults where severed, so if their was no way to communicate with the vaults how did the Enclave send a massage to Vault 13 telling the people its time to go?'''

''Communication between Vaults was never in place (it might ruin the experiments), but communication with the government/Enclave/Vault-Tec was a different story... they needed some way of monitoring the vaults.''

''The Enclave, having access to the Vault-Tec construction plans (not too surprising, considering the fact that the Vaults were funded by the government) had a way of monitoring events taking place within the Vaults... not only could they access their computers and systems remotely, (including PIPBoys and the personal logs of the Vault Dwellers), but the early Overseers of most of the Vaults knew of the ties to the government, and it was part of their duties to download information on the citizens and the Vault into an computer archive that the government could easily access.''

Their tie to the Vault computers also gave the Enclave the ability to override any Vault locking mechanism and send an all-clear signal to sealed Vaults, coaxing the inhabitants to come outside.

''Again, almost no Vault Dwellers were ever aware of this. For some Fallout 2 relevant information on the matter, here's what the player says in Fallout 2, and here's what Lynette says in response:''

Note: As evidenced below, keep in mind that Lynette's archives are suspect, and they should not be treated as truth.

Player: ''How did you know *when* to leave the vault? I heard the vaults were isolated from the outside world.''

Lynette: '''What you heard was incorrect. Our archives are quite clear: our vault received the all-clear signal two years after being sealed.'''

Player: ''The all-clear signal? From where?''

Lynette: '''(Confused) Why... from surface monitors, I suppose. I am certain there were sensors monitoring the environment. How else would the Overseer have known when it was safe to leave?'''

Player: ''So... the order to leave the vault came from the Overseer?''

Lynette: '''Yes... (Thinking, uncertain) ...at least, that is what I remember from the archives. (Confidence returns) However, I am certain many Citizens were responsible for monitoring the surface sensors.'''

Player: ''Really? Do these monitors still exist? Can I see them?''

Lynette: (Angry, not certain where the player is going with this, but doesn’t like it.) Quite likely they were disassembled and used as upgrades for other systems. And that's all she wrote - it is a dark foreshadowing to what was really going on in these cauldrons of evil.

''In any event, I remember having a conversation with the designers about the Overseers roles in the Vaults, and the early Overseers were the ones tasked with supplying information to the government... although when the world blew up, there wasn't really anyone to supply it to anymore, since the Enclave took some time to get back up and running.''

''In any event, enough blather. Hope that helps.'' With the help of a Garden of Eden Creation Kit, they constructed Vault City. In 2101 the overseer retired and a Council of Citizens was established. The council appointed the initial First Citizen, a new administerial role that superseded the overseer in the vault dwellers' new society.

Appearances
The Vault 8 overseer is mentioned in Fallout 2 and the Fallout Bible.