The Full Story of Project Cobalt and the Beverageers - Nuka World Lore in Fallout 4 

I honestly think the whole park is a poke at Disney World, and Bradburtons fate is a tribute to the legend that Walt's head was Cryogenically Frozen.

There is at least one military convoy of 2+ APCs on the road to Nuka World from the Commonwealth, I always assumed they had been sent to rescue Rex following his activation of the beacon.

"So what are yo going to do? Shoot me?" Last words of woman who was shot dead.

This is one of my favorite parts of Nuka World. The reference to Disney's Imagineers got a smile from me and the idea of weaponizing soda is hilarious.

I have to say you forgot a holotape, its under a roll of tickets. It has the recording of them arguing then the bombs drop during the recording.

I like how the frozen head is a obvious reference to the Disney land rumor

Bradburton got turned into a low-budget House, poor sod.

One small correction: the 3-way conversation didn't happen in Kate's room because Rex shot her for trying to open the door. Instead, they moved Kate's body to her room which is where she is found.

When I first saw Bradberton, I was reminded of Victor Fries from Batman Beyond. "Take a good look, doctor. I've been like this for nearly fifty years and I haven't aged one day. I have become what many men have dreamed of: an immortal. And yet, there hasn't been a day, an hour, a minute, I haven't thought about death. It obsesses me. Even now." - Mr. Freeze

A couple of the names of these scientists correspond to the 1955 sci-fi film "This Island Earth." Rex Reason played scientist Cal Meacham. Another scientist (the female lead) was named Ruth.

I was expecting to find Kevin turned into a ghoul :D

OK here's a clever little tidbit. In Fallout 3 if you head to the Nuka-cola bottling plant, you will come across a terminal that mentions tests with the Quantum and how the testers died and Huxley (the Nuka cola PR manager I believe sent out fruit and cheese baskets and here in Bradburtons private terminal he's congratulating Huxley on said baskets. So a nice little tie in the fallout three and it also explains why Quantum was so rare in D.C. It was a test bed for the drink with the super duper mart and Oldfield grocery store as the test shops. But of course the bombs happen. Just some little connections there.

So the radiation from the reactor was dumped into the kiddie park...

Y'all missed a Holotape, Meacham recording AB35 , it's under the Nuka-Cade ticket roll It goes as follows. Rex Meacham: This is your last chance, Kate. I could still convince J.C. to keep you here if you just agree to join Project Cobalt. Kate Leavitt: First of all, I'm not "Kate" to you... not anymore. And second of all, no thanks, I'm done being your lab rat. I already have my things packed and I'll be out of here by tomorrow. So, until then, why don't you just stay out of my way. Kevin Bennell: Come on, Dr. Leavitt, be reasonable. After the U.S. wins this war, I'm sure they'll close Project Cobalt and we can get back to making people happy. You're one of the most talented scientists I've ever had the pleasure of working with, and I really hate to see you go. Edmund Medford: I'm with Dr. Bennell. I mean, it's just not going to be the same without you here. Kate: I appreciate what you're both saying, but my mind's made up. Bradberton might own half of Massachusetts, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let him own me. And if you two were smart, you'd both get out of here... Kevin: What the hell is that alarm? What's that noise? Rex: Oh my god. It's happening. How could it be happening now? I thought we were winning this war. Have they launched missiles at us? Damn it... I wish we could see what was going on outside! Edmund: Oh my god... the door just sealed. We're stuck down here. Kate: What are you talking about? There's no way out? Edmund: It's a built in safety precaution. Bradberton must have hit the panic button in his office. It seals all the high security areas up tight, his vault, our lab, the power plant's control center... all of it. We have to face facts. We might be down here for a long time. Kate: Well, Rex... looks like you got what you wanted.

The shooting of Kate probably didn't happen in her room. That's just where Rex and Kevin put her body when they "cleaned up" after the shooting.

All of these tiny stories found in places in fallout 4 would make good movies

"huh, why is there a skeleton in here?" *looks up* oohh...

Dr. Ruth Leavitt was a character in a movie called The Andromeda Strain. She was played by actress Kate Reid. Sounds like Bethesda was making a reference to that movie.

Strontium poisoning in humans does actually happen, but you'd need to consume a decent amount. Maybe a full case of Quantum's worth. But the aftereffects are... unpleasant. Strontium poisoning leads to severe bone conditions, such as bone cancer, tumors, marble bone disease and others. Strontium leaches onto calcium, and focuses most of its radiation on calcium molecules, meaning bones and teeth are most effected. It's a very unpleasant thing, and has a very high mortality rate.

What I want to know is, who cut Bradburton's hair for 200 years?

Thats definetly one of my favorite lore stories in all of nuka world

They're just a goddamned soda company, why are they so evil?!

Lol I love how the nuclear reactor outflow pipe, pumping all of its irradiated waste air and water, was dumping it all directly beneath Kiddie Kingdom. I think we found where Oswaldo found the radiation for his traps. One can only imagine what it was doing to all the kids in the park

is it bad i want quantum urine just because glowing blue pee would be amazing

It makes more sense that Kate was killed down on the main floor. Rex and Kevin then carried her body up to her room then locked the door. The way she lies on the floor supports this. It would make more sense as well that the door he wants her to stay away from would be the main exit door and they removed the body cause who wants a rotting corpse in your main working area.

Your Lore's are the thing That makes me continue playing fallout! Keep up the good work up

Theres so much lore and stories to discover in this game.

Anyone else realized that the radioactive tunnel where Kevin died is tied up to a children area? Kiddie Kingdom?

there is another hidden gem in the irradiated waste pump, the maintenance crew from when the bombs fell have a computer log in the room where they talk about becoming ghouls over the next 100 years and gaining what they called some sort of "affliction" (what we know as feralisation of gouls)

Ruth may have been an assistant he killed earlier.

I would assume Ruth is Rex's wife as if it was a goodbye note, not a reference to Kait

This is one of these things that make Fallout such a good game. You find so many pieces of the past that are funny or tragic and they all are so interesting. I can't even imagine how long this process takes to put all this lore into the game via notes or recordings.

I have to admit, with a name like Project Cobalt, I expected a Saturnite shell or two to turn up. A bit disappointed with the lack of such a wonderous alloy.

I can't help but wonder if Sheogorath is the creator of the Fallout universe. Everyone living in it is batshit insane.

I was re-watching this, and it occurred to me that Ruth Leavitt was one of the characters in "The Andromeda Strain" movie. The Fallout Wiki (which calls her Ruth Leavitt in the entry on beverageers ) pointed that out as well (and that Leavitt was played by Kate Reid - so that may have been involved in the name).

This quest actually made me wonder about robobrains and why they didn't just use the whole head. But I thought about it a little more and realized they were always planning on using "shady" methods of procuring the brains, so they didn't want someone to see the head of someone they knew when they were alive, in a jar attached to a robot. And they were probably just looking to use the processing power of the brains and didn't need them to communicate.

why bethesda dont put the option to find jcb a sinth body? if you were with the institute

There was one more holotape (Meacham Recording AB35) in the lab and under the roll of tickets. It has a little more information and them being locked in when the bombs dropped. : ) a year late but good job on the video

I've been following for awhile now, and I just started watching your lore videos. They've become my favorite thing.

I just realized Nuka Cola is Disney and Coca Cola mixed

Or Rex was indeed crazy and his mind decided that she was someone else entirely.

it does strike me as a profound irony that some of the most powerful and informed captains of industry in the old world, House, Bradburton, ended up taking some of the arguably most restrictive and hellish steps towards immortality . Paying the price of humanity physically as well as Morally. A head in a jar, mummified in a pod, brain sucked out and pickled in a brainbot. all terrible, terrible fates.

Not sure if I’m right, but I think that The Beverageers grouped up with the people at kiddie kingdom. There is a pipe in the back that connects to the spayer system, so I would imagine that they found each other at some point. That might explain who Ruth was, since everyone down in the tunnels became ghouls.

I like to think that Oswald was in kiddy kingdom at the time that he tried to escape, so I wonder if he would be spared as an old friend, or killed by ghouls if he made it.

If you play fallout 76 you'll find Rex Micham in a terminal entry at the mountain view bed and breakfast. He stayed the night there, which is pretty neat.

thanks for explaining the mistake Bethesda made and telling the Story of the event.

Dude I’ve been watching you regularly for a while now. Thanks for that Futurama shoutout #1 favorite show in my #1 favorite game with my #1 favorite fallout RU-vidr

12:55 - just a minor thing. It didn't happen in her room. It happened by the exit. They put her body in the room after the fact - or that is what seems to be the most plausible. She was told to get away from the door controls (not her room) then was shot - then Rex tells Kevin "lets take care of this mess" - presumably they didn't just leave her dead in the open but just put her body away in her room.

when I went through and found Kevin he had a folder next to him. perhaps it was this folder that Rex was afraid of Kevin taking?

Its amazing that you sound like Tom Hanks, especially when you cover these lore stories, great vid

Beverageer=Imagineer. Plus the old, Walt is in cryo-sleep, rumor.

That interesting moment when I go to watch an Oxhorn vid, and the preceding ad is for "Dollar Beard Club."

Imagine the twist if Kevin survived as ghoul. Id like the think that Kevin is out there in the wasteland, living on and bringing his knowledge to others.

Ruth says: “I am Ruth” *then disappears

A tunnel straight from a reactor to an amusement park. Example #1,438 that OSHA was never created in the Fallout timeline. How anyone survived long enough to start the war is a mystery.

You missed a Holotape under a stack of Nuka-Cade Tickets

I bet many of us had the same "oh shit" thought when we saw the noose for the first time.

That's a strange coincidence. I just got to that part of nuka world yesterday and was wondering if you was gonna video on this. Only thing is, "Kate" is killed while trying to leave the lab, but we find a womens body in her room? Ruth, or just another Bethesda oversight?

if Nuka Cola gives you rads how many does it take to kill you

These story videos are brilliant Ox!

why is it so satisfying to listen to those plastic containers going plop when you drop them?

you make amazing content... been subscribed for about a month and I've caught up on all past fallout vids and you never disappoint :)

There's a third recording of when the bombs drop underneath the ticket roll.

the guy that has his head in a jar reminds me of Mr freeze

Oxhorn love your videos. Have been watching for month or so and finally got a channel so I could comment on videos. You have given great ideas for builds and your lore videos are just amazing. I watch Scotch and Smoke Rings every week. Keep up the great content.

I think Bethesda use using the 1950's classic, "This Island Earth" as a reference to the scientists working for Nuka Cola. Cal Meacham was the name of one scientist, and Ruth was the name of the female scientist in that movie. I think they had intended to keep her name as Ruth, but of course, it was a goof.

Just a coincidence but one of Dixie's Souvenirs has a woman named Kate addressing a woman named Ruth.

12:50 i think your off on that happening in her room, because remember in the recording he said "get away from the door controls" and at the end he told the remaining scientist that they need to clean up the mess and get back to work? They probably threw her body in the room so they wouldn't have to see it or smell it IMO anyway

Subscribed a month ago and Oxhorn is without a doubt the best story teller on RU-vid. Perfect voice for it and he speaks so clearly its great.

well it might not be a mistake on bethesda because if Rex is actually going insane, Ruth might be someone from his past and he thinks that Kate is Ruth

12:55 I don’t think the conversation happened in her room, I think it happened closer to the main door. Rex told the other scientist to “clean up the mess and get back to work” so I’m guessing their version of clean up the mess was to put the body in her room, considering the other scientist’s body is still in his room even after he hung himself.

Oxhorn seems like an amalgam of Ken Burns and Paul F. Tompkins. These lore videos are going to make me replay Fallout 4 this summer!

Loving the lore videos, man. Keep 'em comin'!

Very plausible. I believe Rex was scared that Rads would seep in and kill them all when one tried to leave. But Rex... He didn't did it because of him being scared of his fellow beverageers dying. He was totally Nutz.

Excellent job on the video Oxhorn. keep them coming I absolutely love these. you do an amazing job of them.

Jc bradbeutron is JCB, a machinery manufacturer based in the UK

I don't subscribe to many channels but you have good content, so I subscribed. Keep up the good work!

If they were locked down there, how did the Nuka Nuke launcher end up in Bradburton's vault? Did he make it while being just a head in a jar and had it locked away where it would cut off his life support?

I really want to find a RU-vidr that grabs everything that isn't bolted down while looting

is it me or does nuka land sound like some weird cooperation thing between disney and coca cola

You know, this makes me wonder what would have happened if Mr House and Bradberton had met after the War. In return for anything he could do for Bradberton, House could've had those Nuka-Weapon upgrades put on his Securitrons or integrated the Nuka World robots into his army. Can you imagine what the Securitrons would be like with the Nuka-Quantum grenades and other Nuka-Armaments? He wouldn't have needed to have his Platinum Upgrade in the first place to fight off the NCR and Legion!

great videos. I appreciate the effort you out into this interesting art form. you are a true artist my friend !

On my playthrough, I found a Vault 81 jumpsuit in a suitcase inside the room of Edmund Medford (the guy that hung himself). Either this was a random find, or Medford was supposed to be a resident of Vault 81. But one weird thing is, Vault residents are given their jumpsuits upon entry into the vault, not before they enter. Strange.

I think Qauntum is reference to Extreme Slurm which is in a Episode of Futurama and Fry drank so much of that he and his urine had a green glow

Ruth is probably another person who was trying to get in while the bombs were dropping but the guy couldn’t let her in,

I thought the frozen head was a reference to the rumour that Walt Disney had his head frozen.

The three way conversation happened at the door controls they just moved her body to her room as Rex said "Let's clean up this mess and get back to work,"

There appear to be quite many of these instances in Fallouts. Where some scientists are working on a project for the military when the bombs fall and have to finish in order to be evacuated. It kinda makes me feel bad for people like Rex because maybe that hope for evacuation was the thing that drove him to such levels of madness, and especially because everyone the government intended to evacuate were already evacuated before the end, ie the Enclave. I wonder if the Enclave extracted anyone from the ruins after the bombs fell or were all these people still working for the "war effort" simply left to rot, no matter to what levels of inhumanity they would go to prove their loyalty...

They should have called the isotope smurf since it's just a magic maguffin that can be used for anything. Plus it's blue.

I like to think the military notification got the attention of the gunners in one of their hideouts/outposts, and that's why they are at the world of refreshment. I didn't check all of their body's to see if this was the case though

Dr. Bennel sounds somewhat like Kiff from Futurama.

Just wanted to say thanks, Oxhorn! I normally don't comment on videos, but I wanted to make an exception. Your videos make the work day go by faster. :)

I've had an idea for a new video you could make. Obviously there's a plethora of stories throughout the Fallout games, large and small. But Bethesda has always been good about putting in tiny little micro-stories throughout their environments as well. Little anecdotes that aren't really part of a larger narrative, but simply there to help flesh out the world and make things feel that much more organic. Case in point, the female skeleton found in the ladies bathroom of College Square Station. It's just down the first set of stairs on the left, past the indigenous feral ghouls. The woman's remains are hidden away in the last stall behind a closed door, with an empty baby carriage just outside. Once opened (after you've neurotically checked for booby traps) you find a skeleton in a dress with her hand shoved down the toilet, and in her hands she's clutching a baby's rattle. There are no other clues as to who she was or what happened here, but given the evidence one could make a strong argument that this woman was, in fact, attempting to drown her own child in an act of psychotic desperation following the bombs. It would make sense since she could have feasibly survived the initial blast as she was located underground upon detonation, and if she were a woman of weak constitution or mental fortitude she might have seen this as the most merciful thing to happen to her child. And thus we have one of many micro-stories hidden within the code of Fallout for us players to enjoy at our leisure. Now obviously there are FAR too many of these micro-stories to do an in-depth coverage of them all in detail, but I think you could get an episode or three out of the idea. What were some micro-stories that stuck out to you? There are dozens more stories like this of a darker nature, but there are just as many of a more lighthearted and hopeful nature as well. You'd be able to stick as many or as few micro-stories into the video as you like, so it'd be at your own pace. If you ever find yourself stuck for ideas and just want to fall back on something less research heavy I think this would be a good opportunity to make some relaxed and varied content for your channel. And with the holidays coming up I think you'd enjoy a chance to relax a bit, eh?

The name change could also show how far gone rex was

i have a few questions about bradburtons head situation. he said he went a tad mad after staring at a blank wall for 200 years. well, hes a billionair, why not have a tv there, and every movie ever made? why not put himself into a robo brain body? why not do... SOMETHING?! it seems he shares a distinct trait of many geniuses: a lack of common sense. "hey, after im done, i have no body, nor any way to move, so maybe i should do something to occupy my time after the bombs fall." SOMEHOW, this thought didnt cross his mind before he got his head cut off. honestly, i wish bethesda had put SOMETHING into a terminal or somesuch, saying that he did have a plan, aaand it never got done, because bombs.

I have 2 major questions about the Nuka Cola Company. 1: what was the purpose of project cobalt? None of the things that they created through it seem like they would've been particularly useful to the military. And 2: Why in the world did the company feel the need to put radioactive isotopes in soda? They had to have known the radiation would just kill people and get them in trouble.

I get it. The gas created by the reactor in the basement is where the kiddie kingdom gets the spray shit

I'm a huge fan of fall out but I unfortunately do not have the patience to sit and read every terminal every letter in the game so I get left with alot of doubt or just speculation of the stories in fall out but thank god ur around man to explain and break it down for us it is truly amazing

awesome dear Oxhorn i really apriciate xD your efforts so much work and time in all of your vids i watch your vids since wow but with fallout4.. idk i learn so much about all goes and works thank you i am not a native speaker as yoiu can tell :D thank you and keep it coming

Oooo these are so good, keep it up man.