Garden of Eden Creation Kit
“Whoa, those things come in kits now? The good book don't mention that.”
The G.E.C.K (short for Garden of Eden Creation Kit) ) was a terraforming device created by Future-Tec, a division of Vault-Tec Industries. Its purpose was to revitalize areas of a post-nuclear wasteland. The concept of the device as well as its design was completed by Doctor Stanislaus Braun, a brilliant, if egotistical, Vault-Tec researcher. The GECK was intended to be shipped to all of the Vaults in the United States of America (where the project was located), but only nine were built by the time of the Great War. The GECKs were located in: Vault 8, Vault 13, Vault 56, Vault 39, Vault 87 and the Enclave Oil Rig close to Adams Air Force Base. There was also one on display at the Science Museum in Great Britain and one more was lost during shipping, the location of which is unknown.
The Kit has the appearance of a small, silver briefcase emblazoned with the letters "G.E.C.K."; it contains all the seeds, fertilizer, and other equipment (including a cold fusion power generator and a basic replicator) necessary to start a new settlement in a post-nuclear world after emerging from a Vault shelter. The tribals in Arroyo saw the GECK as a legendary device, and while the item was useful, it was not the miracle maker they considered it to be.
The mutant G.E.C.K[edit | edit source]
One of the GECKs (the one given to Vault 39) was taken out of the Vault without permission by Will Burnns in 2084, who intended to "dispose of it safely", as the Vault had began to believe that it was some kind of god-like miracle machine. Will escaped after the Brotherhood of Steel attacked the Vault, allowing him time to leave without being noticed. He decided to sell it to a person called Miles Reese, but due to the fact that the GECK had been very poorly handled, it was irradiated. When the GECK was opened, it left a strange trail of plant life, and released a large amount of highly radioactive pathogens into the athmosphere, slightly similar to FEV. This erratic ecosystem killed about 1500 wasteland-settlers (roughly 82% of the local population), but mutated at the very least double that amount. The infection was most prominent to the east of New Mexico, until the MC-1 armed forces managed to get it under control. The clan also began a mass-extermination of the creatures mutated from it.
After the War[edit | edit source]
The tribals of the village of Arroyo, which was founded by the Vault Dweller, passed down stories of the "Holy GECK," which they came to believe was a sacred, Magical item which could change the Wasteland into fertile land again. Though the GECK may not have been the holy cure-all the tribal inhabitants of Arroyo intended it to be, in the right hands it was a very useful piece of pre-War technology that could help establish a viable new community in the post-nuclear wastelands. After the destruction of the Enclave, the Chosen One brought it to the tribe and it soon flourished in a way not expected before. The GECK was instrumental in the creation of Vault City by the former inhabitants of Vault 8 (though whether the city's success can be attributed to the GECK alone is not easy to say). By combining their GECK's contents with power from Vault 8's fusion generator, the residents of Vault City were able to erect their settlement's first buildings and generate arable farmland.
See Also[edit | edit source]
- Project Purity
- West-Tek Research Centre
- Max Stone - The "Chosen One".
- Project Safehouse