the Tabernacle was founded in 2273 by Phineas Holden, a refugee from the western Badlands and a Jet addict. Heading east, he would come across a worn farmhouse that kept catching his eye as he walked towards it. He decided to investigate when he got closer, and found it looted and and ransacked already. He camped there for the night, and found a door to the basement while breaking a bookcase for fire wood. Lighting one of the boards, he advanced down the stairs.