Once they're disposed of, the pod can be activated and the first quest is completed. It leads to the Vault's door, with a typical fortified door arrangement: The access pod on the gantry, with the door in the distance. The entrance area is hidden at the lowest level of Quincy quarries, accessible through an excavated tunnel. Because of where the Vault is situated, it is not uncommon for it to be raided still, the settlement has a complete bottleneck with only one hallway leading into the vault, meaning there is no guesswork when it comes to erecting defenses. In addition, there is a flooded cavern to the east of the main atrium that can be used for high scale water production. The entire cavern is suitable for agriculture, but once an actual vault is built in the cavern, a space will need to be set aside specifically for growing crops. There is a steel supply in excess of 2000 pieces from the abandoned construction teams throughout the cavern, and cavern walls provide more than 500 units of concrete. There is an abundance of scrap materials available within the cavern, including steel, concrete, wood, and even nuclear material in the uranium caves. Vault 88 is absolutely massive after the North, East and North-East sectors have been activated, easily covering the area of Sanctuary Hills (the largest settlement in the Commonwealth) five times over. A brief visit that turned to permanent residence as a horde of ghouls sealed underground with Overseer Valery Barstow. The construction crews were consistently slacking off, using the finished entrance as a dog and pony show to distract any guests, especially the visit by the VIPs planned for October 23. By October, the situation changed little. By August 29, 2077, only the entrance section and the reactor were installed, with the remainder of the Vault still being excavated. The Vault was never completed due to consistent delays and setbacks. Human lives were considered irrelevant, with quick iteration time given a priority. Unlike other Vaults, Vault-Tec would send test subjects before any disaster scenario, starting in early 2078. Once Vault 88 was fully operational, the company expected to roll out new devices every fiscal quarter. Instead, it served as the proving ground intended to test a variety of prototype devices with the aim of rolling them out through the rest of the Vaults. What was her life's work? Under Doctor Stanislaus Braun's directive, Vault 88 was not assigned any particular experiment. Surrounded by feral brethren, she nonetheless refused to let the raiders inside, defending her life's work against them. Overseer Valery Barstow, though ghoulified, was very much alive after 200 years.

They encountered resistance while trying to enter the Vault through the door, which was designed to withstand a direct hit from a nuclear payload. It was only recently uncovered, thanks to the efforts of some curious raiders.

In what was perhaps one of Vault-Tec's greatest construction mishaps, the entrance to Vault 88 became buried in rubble as soon as the bombs fell during the Great War. Vault-Tec's failure to complete the project on time led to countless lost lives. When America descended into nuclear devastation on October 23rd, 2077, Vault 88 was still under construction near a rich deposit of uranium to provide a steady supply of nuclear material for the Vault's many purposes.

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