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** To sum it up, the vault was set up so that the automated system within the vault would order the death of a member of the vault after one year, and the entire vault population would be exterminated if the people refused to send one of their own to their deaths in a chamber below the Overseer's office. After the first Overseer was "democratically elected" as the first sacrifice (read: as the bearer of bad news, the other inhabitants ''forced'' him to go out of spite), the Overseer was elected every year by the vault's citizens, and that overseer would be the sacrifice. For ''decades'', [[HumansAreBastards the people of Vault 11 callously voted for which member of their vault to kill, and some people found ways of manipulating the voting process to ensure that they would never be voted]]. This changed when a woman whose husband had made enemies with a corrupt voting party was forced to [[SexualExtortion have sex with all of the party's members]] or else her husband would be on the next ballot. Then, they betrayed the agreement and placed him on the ballot anyway. She decided that enough was enough and began [[SerialKiller murdering members of the offending party]], killing as many as she could knowing she would be caught all the while. Now the hands-down favorite to be elected to Overseer, she promptly changed the process so that the sacrifice should be determined by a random number generator instead of the now corrupt voting system (she could do this, being the Overseer). Because everyone now had an equal chance of being selected for death, some people didn't take it too well and a massive battle broke out. The few survivors, [[EverybodysDeadDave five out of literally hundreds]], fled to the chamber below the Overseer's office, to inform the vault system that they just didn't care anymore and that no-one would be sacrificed anymore. Here's the kicker: the vault was [[ILied lying]] about killing everyone in the vault if they refused to take part in the voting process. If the people of Vault 11 defiantly stood up and refused to sacrifice one of their own to save their own hides, they would have actually been ''rewarded'' for their "commitment to human life". [[SecretTestOfCharacter The whole thing was a test to see where the average person stood]] on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism. And they failed. '''Hard'''. [[FridgeHorror This means that the hundreds of people sacrificed "for the good of the vault" actually]] [[SenselessSacrifice all died for nothing.]] The five remaining survivors became suicidal upon the realization of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what they'd done]] and with the exception of one (who escaped into the wasteland), [[ShootTheShaggyDog they all killed themselves]].
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** To sum it up, the vault was set up so that the automated system within the vault would order the death of a member of the vault after one year, and the entire vault population would be exterminated if the people refused to send one of their own to their deaths in a chamber below the Overseer's office. After the first Overseer was "democratically elected" as the first sacrifice (read: as the bearer of bad news, the other inhabitants ''forced'' him to go out of spite), the Overseer was elected every year by the vault's citizens, and that overseer would be the sacrifice. For ''decades'', [[HumansAreBastards the people of Vault 11 callously voted for which member of their vault to kill, and some people found ways of manipulating the voting process to ensure that they would never be voted]]. This changed when a woman whose husband had made enemies with a corrupt voting party was forced to [[SexualExtortion have sex with all of the party's members]] or else her husband would be on the next ballot. Then, they betrayed the agreement and placed him on the ballot anyway. She decided that enough was enough and began [[SerialKiller murdering members of the offending party]], killing as many as she could knowing she would be caught all the while. Now the hands-down favorite to be elected to Overseer, she promptly changed the process so that the sacrifice should be determined by a random number generator instead of the now corrupt voting system (she could do this, being the Overseer). Because everyone now had an equal chance of being selected for death, some people didn't take it too well and a massive battle broke out. The few survivors, [[EverybodysDeadDave five out of literally hundreds]], fled to the chamber below the Overseer's office, to inform the vault system that they just didn't care anymore and that no-one would be sacrificed anymore. Here's the kicker: the vault was [[ILied lying]] about killing everyone in the vault if they refused to take part in the voting process. If the people of Vault 11 defiantly stood up and refused to sacrifice one of their own to save their own hides, they would have actually been ''rewarded'' for their "commitment to human life". [[SecretTestOfCharacter The whole thing was a test to see where the average person stood]] on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism. SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism, with the desired outcome by the system being to prove that RousseauWasRight. [[RousseauWasWrong And they failed. '''Hard'''.failed.]] '''[[RousseauWasWrong Hard]]'''. [[FridgeHorror This means that the hundreds of people sacrificed "for the good of the vault" actually]] [[SenselessSacrifice all died for nothing.]] The five remaining survivors became suicidal upon the realization of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what they'd done]] and with the exception of one (who escaped into the wasteland), [[ShootTheShaggyDog they all killed themselves]].
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** It's a small detail and only brought up in the ending where the Sorrows evacuate Zion, but it's mentioned the White Legs turn Zion into a "polluted cistern". In a world where the [[GaiasLament ecology has been ravaged]] by the Great War, Zion stood as a shining beacon of healthy nature, and the White Legs destroyed it.
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** Becomes even worse if you don't complete his companion quest before the end of the game (something likely to happen due to certain NPCs involved with it being notoriously buggy). Never having the epiphany that traveling with the Courier gave him, Raul continued to wander aimlessly in the wasteland, never finding peace nor purpose in his super-old age.
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** Becomes even worse if you don't complete his companion quest before the end of the game (something likely to happen due to certain NPCs [=NPCs=] involved with it being notoriously buggy). Never having the epiphany that traveling with the Courier gave him, Raul continued to wander aimlessly in the wasteland, never finding peace nor purpose in his super-old age.
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* Raul's backstory. In the 200 plus years since the Great War, he was forced to watch everyone that he loved or cared about die horribly around him while he was unable to do anything about it. First, his entire family, save for his younger sister, was killed right after the Great War. Then, his sister got tortured to death by a group of raiders. Finally, the ReplacementGoldfish for his sister was killed by ''another'' group of raiders. By the time you meet him, he's totally disillusioned of life.
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* Raul's Raul Tejada's backstory. In the 200 plus 200+ years since the Great War, he was forced to watch everyone that he loved or cared about die horribly around him while he was unable to do anything about it. First, his entire family, save for his younger sister, was killed right after the Great War. were burned to death in their family ranch by hostile refugees who even put a bounty on Raul's head when he retaliated against them. Then, his sister got was tortured to death by a group of raiders. raiders while trying to scavenge for medicine to help her brother who was suffering from radiation poisoning. Finally, decades after that, the ReplacementGoldfish for his sister was killed by ''another'' group of raiders. raiders before he could rescue her. By the time you meet him, him as a slave of the crazed nightkin Tabitha at Black Mountain, he's totally disillusioned with life.
** Becomes even worse if you don't complete his companion quest before the end oflife.the game (something likely to happen due to certain NPCs involved with it being notoriously buggy). Never having the epiphany that traveling with the Courier gave him, Raul continued to wander aimlessly in the wasteland, never finding peace nor purpose in his super-old age.
** Becomes even worse if you don't complete his companion quest before the end of
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* There is some harrowing environmental storytelling about the people who were trapped in the Sierra Madre. The sealed doors outside have several skeletons piled up around them, presumably having died pounding against the door, maybe even having trampled others to death. Several skeletons deeper in are surrounded by syringes or alcohol bottles, or have a gun lying next to them. Of particular note is in the backstage of the Tampico two adult skeletons with a child-sized skeleton between them, with both syringes and a gun next to them. You do the math.
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* There is some harrowing environmental storytelling about the people who were trapped in the Sierra Madre. The sealed doors outside have several skeletons piled up around them, presumably having died pounding against the door, maybe even having trampled others to death. Several skeletons deeper in are surrounded by syringes or alcohol bottles, or have a gun lying next to them. Of particular note is in the backstage of the Tampico Tampico: two adult skeletons with a child-sized skeleton between them, with both syringes and a gun next to them. You do the math.
