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Mentioned-only character John Malleus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I was stupid for rushing these experiments. And now over thirty-five people are dead.
”Professor John Malleus was the chief scientist of Vault 92.
Background[]
Malleus was in charge of implementing the experiment conducted by Vault Tec on the residents of Vault 92 which was intended to subject some of the world's greatest musicians (who made up Vault 92's population) to white noise-containing subliminal messages. The hope was that this project could be used to create "super soldiers" who fought harder and with greater endurance for the United States military. Malleus was initially intrigued and optimistic about the results of the test, until those residents subjected to the white noise began to go violently insane. When the killings began, however, Malleus quickly got to the bottom of the situation and discovered that Rubin, the Overseer of Vault 92, had been brainwashing the musicians using the white noise, without controls or safety measures, with "combat suggestions" that came from Vault-Tec itself, turning the residents of Vault 92 into violent, primal animals.
Malleus' conscience may have cost him his life, as Rubin's personal logs stated that the professor was an impediment to the project and was to be removed.[1]
Appearances[]
This character is mentioned in Fallout 3 but does not actually appear in the game. There is an non-player character with his name in the game's files, but it is only used as a placeholder to play his audio logs and was most likely never meant to appear in the flesh.
Behind the scenes[]
Malleus is probably named after one of the three auditory ossicles (the 3 smallest bones in the human body, located in the middle ear), which transmit sounds from the air to the inner ear. The Malleus is the "hammer" in the set of "hammer, anvil, and stirrup," so named after their shapes.