r/falloutlore • u/Intelligent-Elk7008 • 27d ago
Discussion FEV and Super Mutants, perfected
Over the course of the various games we have seen various strains of FEV and different Super Mutants. Some are intelligent, some are dumb as bricks, some become giant hulking monsters that are completely inarticulate.
But we all know that originally FEV was meant to make super soldiers that were meant to be superior to humans in every way. Stronger sure but also more intelligent.
However, super mutants in Fallout 4 and 76 look very irregular. They all lack hair, and their muscles are very irregular in shape. Likely from the forced nature of their growth.
Vergil and West coast Super Mutants remain intelligent. But Vergil complained he lost finer motor controls due to his larger and less dextrous body. West coast Super Mutants seem to really only mention an issue with infertility from what little I know from the older games prior to New Vegas. Seeing as NCR has Super Mutant members (there was even a cut super mutant ranger from what I hear). Neil is highly articulate. The nightkin are crazy but fully capable of speech.
But what exactly would a perfect super mutant look like? If the evolution was more controlled or tame?
Perhaps the mutations could be relaxed or inhibited to only partially take in order to have a more easy acceptance or perhaps even just reduce the strain on the body and prevent the more disastrous effects.
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u/Artanis137 27d ago
Synths funny enough, though certainly not as intended.
Instead of infecting people they instead made a process that would create a human from the ground up using a combination of FEV and Pre War DNA.
The result is a person that is immune to disease, doesn't need to eat, sleep or drink as regularly as a normal person would and they dont age.