An overseer is the leader of a Vault-Tec vault. The overseers were often aware of their vault's purpose as an experiment and helped coordinate it.[1] Overseers were chosen in a variety of ways, with initial leaders chosen before the war, and subsequent overseers afterward. In Vault 11, elections were held each year to choose a new overseer, who in turn would be killed as that year's "sacrifice."[2][3] The overseer's role and extent of their authority varied from vault to vault; in one vault...
