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TheFalloutfranchise has plenty of characters that come from before the War, with each having their own way of surviving for over 200 years. Fallout 4 has the protagonist being one such character, getting frozen in stasis until the events of that game take place.
The thing is, most if not all of these characters have the way they survived explained, all but one: Moldaver, the leader of the bandits that storm Vault 33. She isn’t just a bandit, of course, but the more we learn about her, the more questions that remain; how exactly did she survive for so long?
Spoilers for the end of the Fallout show!
Moldaver Before The War
Before the War,Moldaver was known as Miss Williams, and she was a scientistleading research on Cold Fusion. She claimed that the technology, once finished, would allow for aninfinite source of energy, solving the energy crisis plaguing the world.
The last thing we know of Miss Williams is thatshe’s trying torecover her research from Vault-Tec, since they bought everything related to the technology and shelved it.She enlists Cooper Howard to aid herin doing so, but the first season ends before we can find out more.
Moldaver After The War
Changing her name from Miss Williams to Lee Moldaver, the earliest we see her during post-war times is in a flashback regarding Lucy’s mother. Since they are both seen in the fully active Shady Sands, we can assumethis is around the year 2241, 164 years after the bombs dropped.
The only physical change Moldaver has is longer hair, so the question remains as tohow she managed to survive this long.There are plenty of ways this could happen, and a few of them are even shown in the show itself, so it is only a matter of finding the right method.
How Did Moldaver Survive For So Long?
There are a few ways to survive for over 200 yearsin the Fallout universe, and as we said, a few of these methods are present in the show. The most commonly used ones areghoulification, artificial intelligence, and cryogenics.
We can quickly scratch ghoulification off the list, since Moldaveris clearly not a ghoul. She certainly doesn’t look like one, and consideringshe died due to a gunshot to the stomach, she doesn’t share their special characteristics either.
She’s also not a robot or artificial intelligence, so that only leaves cryogenics. This is the most likely answer:she froze herself like many others have(Betty and Hank from the show, to count a few), coming back to life circa 2241.
While Moldaver could be some form of Synth, the technology to create them wasn’t around in pre-war times.
The sudden resurgence of Cold Fusionalso lends itself to the idea that Moldaver was frozen, sinceif she had been activeduring those few hundred years,she would have recreated her pet project sooner.If she only came back a few decades ago, it makes sense for Cold Fusion tobe a factor in the wasteland just now.
As for where she froze herself, well,we’ll have to wait for the next seasonof the show to answer that. Since we already know of at least two Vaults that keep people frozen (both in the show and in Fallout 4), it isn’t a stretch that she was able to stay safe inside one of those places too.
