Bringing The Fallout Universe into an empire building genre, take control of one of the Wasteland Factions vying for the power and control of the wastes. Guns, Melee, Power Armour, Gunships, Espionage, Diplomacy. What tools will you use to Tame the Wastes? Blood will be spilt and empires will be forged, because we all know. War Never Changes....
HULK SMASH!!!
....Wait....Wrong Franchise!
Destiny DESTINY!!
I understand why the master is not himself, A) It think thats kinda hard to program him and B) You never see him outside his vault
Yes, that is basically it...
It would be awesome to have the proper Master freaky gooey machine version, but as you said... VERY hard to make a Civ Leaderhead of that!