Re: Vault Tec Commercial of interest to all! Its an alternate world, Doc, where the sciences of the 1950's actually worked, the US divided into 16 states or regions, and the culture of the 50's, never went away. In the mid 21st century, the Chinese invaded Alaska for oil, and vast bomb shelters, called vaults were constructed, to shelter people, but also perform secret experiments on the socially, genetically, etc.