REPCONN Headquarters

"Second Chance"

REPCONN headquarters is the headquarters building of REPCONN Aerospace, a company based in Nevada that specialized in rocket manufacture.

Background
REPCONN headquarters was the home office of REPCONN Aerospace (Rocket Engineering and Production COmpaNy of Nevada), located in Henderson.

After the company was acquired by RobCo Industries in 2075, the building was overhauled, providing greatly increased security, so that they would be able to handle classified research. The security took the form of automatic facial recognition monitors, badge scanners, security locks and heavily armed sentry bots for defense. All employees were required to wear identification badges at all times, lest they be harmed by the security system. The third floor was marked executives only, with the employees requiring a daily password to gain access.

No amount of automated security could replace humans, however. A mole was delivering information on REPCONN's plasma rifle project undertaken at the headquarters to Poseidon Energy, their other competitor. Although the fact was detected by the company's information services, no concrete evidence could be located to take official action against such industrial espionage. Ironically, REPCONN itself was guilty of industrial espionage, as their plasma rifle project relied in its final stages on Project Semele schematics "acquired" from Poseidon Energy.

The project eventually produced the first working prototype, the Q-35 matter modulator. Poseidon Energy's mole, Julia Masters, was tasked with intercepting the prototype on its way to the Department of Defense. The weapon was never delivered, as its delivery was interrupted by the Great War. The building was left abandoned for decades, haunted by its automated, self-maintaining security systems forever on watch for trespassers. The centuries were not kind, leading to structural damage in the building's shell, but not the electrical system and computers.

Layout
The building contains many hacking and lockpicking tasks. The main purpose of lockpicking and science in this location is to obtain security clearance so that the many defensive sentry bots do not become hostile. There are several safes as well, most of which can be opened with either Science or Lockpick. The hardest of which are two very hard hacking terminals and one very hard locked door. The first very hard locked door and very hard terminal can be bypassed by playing your way through the entire building carefully. Behind them lies the unique weapon, the Q-35 matter modulator.

Exterior
Outside the building, there are 3 friendly maintenance robots.

First (main) floor
Upon entering the building, the Courier will find 3-5 Fiend corpses and a number of maintenance robots. The area has several locked doors and safes. The most notable is the Very Hard-Locked door that leads to the unique plasma rifle, the Q-35 matter modulator. This weapon can also be obtained via the second level through another locked door, however this is only a hard lock and not a very hard lock. There is a tour guide REPCONN robot that will greet the player character upon entering the facility. He will tell the player character to return between the hours of 10AM and 5PM (if it is not any time between then). If the Courier chooses to wait, they will get to take a free tour, thus avoiding all lockpicking (unless the player wants to gain XP from doing so) that is needed to get to the utility room located in the orrery where they will find Jenny Millet's security keycard. Along with the keycard, the player can enter their face into the facial recognition database computer in the room behind the locked door the Fiend corpses are in front of, to bypass the security robots. The door can be unlocked by lock-picking or cracking the security terminal (both Average difficulty).

Note: ''There are 12 hidden doors throughout the building (starting at the tour bot), they require 8 Perception in order to detect them and 65 Repair to jam them closed. The "Watch Your Step!" display during the tour warns of the hidden danger (though doesn't give an exact number), similar to how the "Ready, Set, Launch!" display warns of the possible repercussions for Novac. Jamming all of the doors closed is worth 540 XP (45 XP each) with no modifiers, such as Well Rested or Swift Learner. This is 60 XP less than what the sentry bots are worth (50 XP each). Though killing the bots requires ammunition or other resources that may be in scarce supply, most have missiles in their inventory, making the ammunition investment worthwhile.''
 * Hidden door: The first door in the building is to the left of the bathroom door and the doors leading to the exhibits.
 * Hidden door 2: Along the left wall of the second exhibit room (rocket room).
 * Hidden door 3: Through the first door on the right after entering the building ("average" lock), then to the left of the regular door at the other end of the room.
 * Hidden door 4: Go through the regular door next to the above hidden one, its at the end of the hallway through the "very hard" locked door. Right beside the chamber that holds the Q-35 matter modulator.
 * Second floor access: For the purposes of this guide, use the stairs, not the collapsed ceiling behind the "very hard" locked door.

Second floor
You may gain semi-free access to the second floor by passing a 7 Intelligence challenge at one of the mobile facial recognition scanners. Mentats may help you if your Intelligence isn't high enough. You also have the option of quickly finding a very easy hackable computer on this floor to add your facial data to the database.

A second floor security card can be found in one of the rooms on this floor. It is in the same room as the terminal where you can print the third floor executive pass. This is required to get past the maintenance robots who will request that you vacate the floor, even if you're visiting between the hours of 10AM and 5PM.

There is a door that leads to a room "REPCONN Office Main Floor" that requires a keycard to access. Inside there is a hole in the floor that will lead to the unique Q-35 matter modulator plasma rifle, bypassing the very-hard locked door and terminal.

There is a hard locked terminal on this floor at which you may print out a pass that allows safe passage on the top floor. This is useful in the event that you are unable to hack the very hard locked terminal allowing access on the top floor and if you are unable to pass the 7 Luck check with the mobile facial recognition scanner. To the left of this terminal, along the back wall is a first aid box that may be invisible to the player until they scroll over it.
 * Hidden door 5: Directly to the right of the security poster when entering from the stairs to the first floor.
 * Hidden door 6: Right of the facial recognition terminal, left of the regular door out of the room. To find the terminal on this floor, go left and through the bathroom when coming up the stairs mentioned above.
 * Hidden door 7: When using the regular door next to the above hidden one, head straight to the end of the hall, go right through the broken wall. The hidden door is to the left of the well preserved corporate espionage poster.
 * Hidden door 8: From the above hidden door go out the regular door on the other side of the poster, turn right and then take the first left. At the intersection then turn left, the door is along the left wall here.
 * Hidden door 9: From the last door, enter the small office on the right (the one without a collapsed ceiling), the southwest cubicle in the room has the final hidden door on the wall behind the chair.
 * Third floor access: Use the office opposite this last door and the ceiling ramp to reach the third floor.

Third floor
In order to remain protected from the robots, you must possess a 7 or higher Luck or an Intelligence of 2 or less which allows you to guess the password (which is Ice Cream). Giving the correct password once is all that is required. You can also find a REPCONN third floor security card in Piers Isley's briefcase close to two dead Brotherhood of Steel paladins near the main entrance to the third floor. In the room with an Average lock on the second floor (across the hall from the locked entrance to the main floor) is another terminal with an encrypted message on it. This contains the password to Isley's terminal on the 3rd floor, which you would otherwise have to hack. It is possible to destroy the mobile facial recognition scanners and sneak around the floor, but without high sneak this will almost surely trip a security alarm and release sentry bots.

You also have a choice of disabling the robots on one of the executive computers. If you do so, you can then destroy the maintenance and scanner bots with no impact to Karma. The alarms also will not go off.

Thirdly, simply destroy the first scanner robot you encounter before it talks to you. The alarms will not go off and no other robots on the floor will interact with you.

You will also visit during the quest Still in the Dark for the BoS to find the missing patrol. The missing patrol can be found dead on the third floor; you are free to loot their T-51b power armor and laser rifles. Nearby lies a skeleton and Piers Isley's Briefcase; it contains 200 pre-War money and a REPCONN third floor security card allowing you to move on the third floor without the harassment from robots, as well as letting you open the Very-Hard locked door (on the first floor) to the Q-35 Matter Modulator. It should be noted that even if you fail the identification challenge of the robots on the third floor, the 30 seconds they give you to leave is ample time to empty the briefcase and run once you know where it is.
 * Hidden door 10: Use the door on the right when first appearing on the floor, the hidden door is along the right wall in the bathroom.
 * Hidden door 11: Turn around and head down through the bathroom, step through the hole in the wall and it's along the right wall.
 * Hidden door 12: When exiting through the large double doors in the room you entered for the last door, turn right and head through the open doorway, turn left and head to the end of the hall. In this room head through the hole in the wall, turn left and the final door in the building is between the file cabinet and bookshelf.

Related quests

 * ED-E My Love
 * For Auld Lang Syne
 * Still in the Dark
 * Access Powers
 * Honorary Rocketeer

Appearances
REPCONN headquarters appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes
REPCONN headquarters is based on the real world PEPCON (Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada), a chemical plant formerly located in Henderson, Nevada, that produced ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid propellant rocket boosters. The plant was destroyed due to a series of explosions determined to be caused by incorrect storage of the chemicals, known as the PEPCON disaster. The facility was rebuilt, but the company ultimately rebranded and relocated to Utah.

Bugs

 * Picking up Isley's security badge out of the briefcase doesn't seem to affect the mobile facial recognition scanners' luck/intelligence check.
 * The robots asking for facial recognition on floors 2 and 3 will ask again every few minutes or so, making it easier to earn speech challenges. Switching from floor to floor does not seem to speed up the process.
 * Printing the executive pass may not always work, as it may simply disappear after a few seconds, and thus not make it to the top floor.
 * The safe in the gift shop can be unlocked twice, as two safes have been coded in the exact same location. Slightly move your cursor up or down to select the second safe. The contents will be different from those of the first safe.
 * If you kill all the robots, then go to the top floor, activate the terminal on the big desk, and click "Disable Robots," you can go to all their dead bodies and punch them a couple of times. This counts as killing them again and you get more experience points, even if they have been disintegrated.
 * If you exit and re-enter the building, some of the already twice-killed sentry bots can be killed a third time, allowing you to exploit this bug even more. This bug seem to be fixed in version 140525.
 * When the player has Rex as a companion his "Search and Mark" ability will highlight several desks on the second floor of the building even if the player is not zoomed in or aiming.