Garden of Eden Creation Kit (G.E.C.K.)

I was reading over some of the posts and thinking about what some of the other groups are doing for their presentations (finding a way to redevelop slums) and it reminded my of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit from the Fall Out series of video games. In the game giant vaults are built which can house hundreds of people in case of nuclear war. Nuclear war does break out and each vault is given a G.E.C.K. so once the radiation levels outside the vault are bearable they can emerge and create a liveable environment outside.


"The Kit looks like a small, silver briefcase emblazoned with the letters G.E.C.K.; and, according to Vault-Tec advertisements, 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 Garden of Eden Creation Kit is a terraforming device capable of radically altering the Wasteland and transforming dead, irradiated soil into viable land suitable for farming"


"It contains a fertilizer system, with a variety of food seeds, soil supplements, and chemicals that could fertilize arid wasteland into supporting farming. The GECK is intended to be "disassembled" over the course of its use to help build communities (for example, the cold fusion power source is intended to be used for main city power production), and so on. Anything else people needed, they could simply consult the How-To Books/Library of Congress/Encyclopedias in the GECK holodisk library for more knowledge."


I don't think it helps us in a direct way but its interesting to think about.


"Garden of Eden Creation Kit." The Vault, the Fallout Wiki - Fallout: New Vegas and More. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. <http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Garden_of_Eden_Creation_Kit>.


Tristan Roberton
Nov 13 2010