Vault 87

Vault 87 is one of the Vault-Tec Vaults, located in the western edge of the Capital Wasteland. As part of the Vault Experiment, experimentation on a Forced Evolutionary Virus strain different from the one in Mariposa was conducted on its inhabitants. The vault is full of super mutants and centaurs. By reading information on the computers, it becomes clear that eventually some Mutants escaped and killed their creators. Various rooms have been sealed from the inside using tables as barricades.

Fawkes is found after fighting through various floors. He remains sealed in a test chamber and appears to have been locked in this room for almost 200 years. However, the main entrance is flooded with radiation that increases exponentially closer to the entrance. Entrance is possible by traveling through Murder Pass after Mayor MacCready opens the gate for you. Another possible access point is to ask Joseph to turn on the computer terminal and hacking the computer. These dialogue/solution options are not present in the game until after Vault 87 is referred to in the main quest Picking Up The Trail.

An unused Garden of Eden Creation Kit can be found here.

Above ground, the radiation at the entrance to Vault 87 seems to peak at 3,695 rad/sec. By using the 'toggle collision' cheat, the radiation peaks at 4,650 rad/sec, a one second dose of which is 15gy over the maximum survivable, This seems impossible, as even a direct hit by a nuclear weapon should fade more than this in 200 years. One of the Engineering Logs on a terminal inside the vault talks about problems venting large amounts of radiation from the GECK chamber; it's more likely that the source of the radiation at the surface is the vault itself.

Characters

 * Fawkes

Appearances in games
This Vault was first mentioned in Fallout 3.