THE VANDERHOLT FAMILY

THE VANDERHOLT FAMILY

“The Last Old Money Kings of Diamond City.”

Location: Outskirts of Diamond City, high above the slums
Family Wealth Tier: S-Class (“Planetwide Elite”)
Industry: Energy Infrastructure / Quantum Batteries / Power Grid Control

I. THE VANDERHOLT ESTATE

“A palace built on a mountain of wires and secrets.”

The Vanderholt Estate sits on a fog-covered bluff overlooking Diamond City — an architectural contradiction of:

  • gothic Victorian towers

  • shimmering chrome terraces

  • stained glass windows lit from within by humming quantum reactors

The locals call it:

“The Lighthouse of Hell.”

Because its lights burn bright over a city drowning in darkness.

Guards patrol the grounds using silent hover stakes and heavy drones.
No civilian has ever been inside.

II. THE COMPANY — VANDERHOLT DYNAMICS

One of the richest private energy corporations on Nova Prime.

Founded: 27 years ago
Founder: Graham Vanderholt, self-made genius
Specialty:

  • high-yield quantum cores

  • renewable megastructures

  • power-grid monopolies

  • zero-loss conductive grids used by HavenReach, Silverpoint, and parts of Arkos

Vanderholt Dynamics invented the first:

  • micro-reactor the size of a soda can

  • infinite-loop power storage bank

  • unhackable grid nodes

Millions rely on their energy.

This is why what happened next shook global markets.

III. THE COUP — GRAHAM IS FORCED OUT

The Board staged a legal coup, citing:

  • instability

  • “unpredictable moral behavior”

  • refusal to weaponize Vandercore reactors

  • refusal to license tech to Daemos

  • refusal to accept Orion Syndicate “security partnerships”

He was removed during a routine board meeting and replaced by:

  • CEO Roderick Vale — a vicious corporate parasite

  • Backed secretly by Daemos Industries and the Orion Syndicates

Graham was escorted out of the building by armed security like a criminal.

The world believed he retired.

Diamond City residents know better.

IV. THE FAMILY NOW

Graham Vanderholt (The Exiled Founder)

Age: 57
Status: Wealthy but isolated
Mind: Brilliant, obsessive, morally fixed
Role in world: Potential lightning rod in future conflicts

Graham now spends his days trying to build something bigger —
something he claims will change the world again… this time for good.

He believes the board coup wasn’t just hostile —
it was orchestrated by powerful groups.

He’s right.

Maribel Vanderholt (Wife / Social Powerhouse)

Age: 54
Race: Human
Background: Former opera superstar in New Haven
Traits: Elegant, manipulative, fiercely protective

Everyone in Diamond City calls her:

“The Velvet Knife.”

She can make or break someone’s career with a single phone call.

Silas Vanderholt (The Son)

Age: 19
Race: Human
Role: Heir, Prodigal, Future protagonist or antagonist
Speech: Elite HavenReach English with exaggerated aristocratic tone

Raised in unimaginable wealth — Silas’s life until now has been:

  • private tutors

  • imported holo-games

  • zero consequences

  • hover-limousines

  • robot servants

  • international galas

He was raised a prince in a city of poverty.

Key Traits:

  • charming

  • entitled

  • naive

  • unused to hardship

  • morally influenceable

  • sympathetic but spoiled

He has no idea his father’s downfall was political — he thinks it was “stress.”

He will learn the truth soon.

V. THE FAMILY SECRET

The Vanders are not just rich.

They are critical to the world.

Graham has:

  • a prototype

  • a machine

  • a core

  • something
    in his private underground lab beneath the estate.

Something their enemies want.

Something dangerous enough that:

Daemos wants it.
Aegis wants it.
Orion Syndicates want it.
The Triune Pact would kill to destroy or acquire it.
Xratinia would guard it out of honor if invoked.

Whatever Graham built…
…it could reshape Nova Prime.

VI. DIAMOND CITY & THE VANDERHOLTS

Their estate overlooks:

  • the crime alleys

  • the gaslit streets

  • the Victorian fog

  • the syndicate murders

  • the orphaned children

  • the brothels

  • the kidnappers

Silas has never walked its streets.

But one day he will.

And when the world burns…
…Silas Vanderholt may be the flame or the firefighter.

VII. POI — THE VANDERHOLT ESTATE GROUNDS

  1. The Quantum Garden (Artificial Sunlight Dome)
    Silas’s training ground. Perfect grass and holographic butterflies.

  2. The Resonance Gate (Giant Iron Entrance)
    Can stop a tank.
    Responds only to Vanderholt blood.

  3. The Copper-Wing Observatory
    Graham’s private lab hidden in plain sight.

  4. The 300-Step Staircase
    A symbol of the distance between the rich and the dying.

  5. The Old Ghost Fountain
    A fountain that runs pink due to iron in the water —
    locals think it’s blood.

THE “FROSTLIGHT CORE”

“A coin of frozen light that can power a city.”

Filed under: HavenReach Energy Regulatory Oversight (SEALED — ULTRA BLACK)

I. Overview — What Graham Is Building

Graham Vanderholt’s secret project is a revolutionary energy source:

The Frostlight Core

A coin-sized disc — no bigger than a silver dollar — containing:

solidified photonic energy
stabilized under absolute-zero quantum lattice pressure

creating a “frozen beam of light” that can power an entire city for ten years.

This is not magic.
This is engineering mastery combined with forbidden physics.

It is the future.

Which is why every faction wants it.

II. Technical Summary (In-Universe Science)

The Frostlight Core operates by:

1. Photon Condensation

Light is compressed inside a nano-lattice until it enters a “solid-light” state known as Lumifrost.

  • Lumifrost stores energy without heat loss

  • A single beam of captured light becomes stored infinite energy

2. Absolute-Zero Stabilization

The lattice is kept at –273°C exactly, achieving zero thermal bleed.

This is done with:

  • micro cryo-rings

  • quantum refrigeration

  • counter-rotating magnetic fields

3. Lossless Conversion

Anything plugged into a Core receives energy with 0.04% loss, compared to 38–42% in current Nova Prime reactors.

This means:

✔ No reactors
✔ No power plants
✔ No grid
✔ No fuel
✔ No monopolies

A single Frostlight Core can replace an entire sector of Haven Reach’s infrastructure.

III. Why It’s Dangerous

If released publicly:

  • Daemos Industries loses the cybernetic grid

  • HavenReach loses most of its economic control

  • Arkos loses all energy leverage

  • Aegis loses all surveillance control

  • Xratinia becomes irrelevant as an ore supplier

  • Criminal syndicates lose half their income

  • The world’s power balance collapses

The Frostlight Core doesn’t just provide energy:

It ends energy as a commodity.
And no one in power wants that.

IV. What It Looks Like

Graham’s prototype resembles:

  • a silver coin

  • softly glowing with pale blue light

  • frost constantly forming and evaporating on its edges

  • tiny cracks of trapped photons shimmering like miniature lightning

On the back is the Vanderholt family crest — a sun split by a vertical line.

The Core vibrates faintly like a heartbeat.

V. Graham’s Notes (Recovered From Lab Tablet)

“If one Core can power Diamond City…
what could ten do?
What could a thousand?”

“Frozen light is purity. No corruption, no politics, no control.”

“Silas won’t live in a world ruled by Daemos or Aegis.”

“I will finish this before they silence me.”

VI. Why the Coup Happened

The board ousted Graham because:

  • He refused to patent the Frostlight Core

  • He refused to submit it to HavenReach regulators

  • He refused Daemos partnership

  • He refused Orion Syndicate “protection”

  • He refused Aegis supervision

  • He refused to weaponize it

He told them:

“Energy belongs to the people. Not to the powerful.”

Within 72 hours, the board removed him.

Within 24 hours after that, Daemos agents raided his office.

They never found the prototypes.

Silas has them.

He just doesn’t know it yet.

VII. Where the Core Is Located

The prototype Frostlight Cores are stored:

In a hidden cryo-vault beneath the Copper-Wing Observatory

Accessed only by:

  • a retinal scan

  • a voiceprint

  • and Graham’s biometric pulse signature

However:

Silas’s pulse is a 97% match.

He can open it without ever knowing what he is touching.

VIII. Faction Reactions If They Discover It

Aegis

Wants it classified forever.
Would use it for black-site grids.

Daemos Industries

Wants to mass-produce it and plug every cybernetic system into their monopoly.

Arkos Syndicates

Want to control black market sales and energy smuggling.

Xratinia

Would guard it zealously — or destroy it, seeing it as an unnatural threat to human discipline.

Triune Pact

Would steal it to prevent any one government from gaining total control.

Finstad Security

Would bid billions to house it in orbit.

The Proven’s Myth Followers

Would interpret it as “light stolen from Heav.”