Jack River had wanted to go into the wasteland, to find his parents who were sent out of the dome not so long ago by the Overseer. They had been sent out for unknowingly allowing a band of thieves, posing as traveling salesmen, to come in and rob the dome of its much need …show more content…
When he is encountered with a situation, in which he injured the bunker's Overseer, when she tried to kill him and stop him from leaving the dome with a valuable item, Jack Rivers shoot her, in the leg 3 times to disable her from being able to stand to press the button to signal the guards... he gets inevitably caught
So when the guard caught him, the Overseer came up with a punishment far worse than death. They would send Jack out into the wasteland, to go and find a new civilization for the dome people to inhabit and if he succeeded then he would get the location of his parents and Jack took the deal.
but he took precautions before he left to stop them from shooting him dead. He took the very valuable item from the overseer, a D.S.D with artificial intelligence (called Octavia) the A.I was irreplaceable because she knew of a place where it is safe to inhabit in the waste land and where survivors may be. And about 700,000,000,000 or more things (not all are extremely important or