VR pod

The Tranquility Lounger is a virtual reality based status device. It is able to keep the user alive in a state of reduced metabolic activity. Internal failsafe systems included in all the programs prevent an accidental death or injury from harming the subject. Certain programs designed for Military applications did not include this failsafe, so if they were run on this hardware extreme injury or death could result. Although the Tranquility Lounger allows the user to suspend the ageing process seemingly indefinitely, severe atrophy is a result. If allowed stay in the pod for long durations without exercise the subject will be too weak to survive without the pod’s integral life support systems.

The tranquility longer was installed in Vault 112 by its inventor Stanislaus Braun. After installation he continued to monitor the experiment as one of its participants. He controlled the programs run using a failsafe console. Several programs were run initially. Including a tropical setting and a Swiss alps setting. But he finally settled on the program Tranquility Lane. The current simulation has been running approximately 170 years.