Augusta Byron

Augusta Byron is an unremarkable looking vault dweller with a brilliant mind for computer science and Artificial Intelligence. The brightest child of her generation, she was born with the name “Student #1179F” and raised in Vault 75. There, every child was forced to undergo intense schooling and brutal mental and physical tests by the vault scientists. Mere days before her graduation, #1179F learned Vault 75’s dark secret: every year, graduated students were systematically murdered, and the most advanced of the year’s crop of students were “harvested” to be used in advanced genetic experiments. Horrified by discovering the fate that
awaited her, #1179F and a guilt-ridden Vault-Tec scientist organized a bloody coup. Together, they led the remaining students to murder the other scientists and lead the Vault 75 students to freedom.

After leaving the vault, #1179F took the name Augusta Byron for herself, in honor of 19th century mathematician, Augusta Ada King, the daughter of Lord Byron who is considered history’s first female computer programmer. Life on the outside proved hard for Augusta
and she watched many of her fellow vault survivors die of radiation poisoning and the cruel realities of the Commonwealth. For the past several years, Augusta fended for herself, using her ability to critically assess threats, and her unbreakable will to survive. She travels between settlements and breaks into pre-war ruins, looking for anything that aids her research and efforts to evolve artificial intelligence to new heights.