Head of State

 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also a PS3 Trophy and Xbox 360 and PC achievement.

Starting the Quest
Talking with the Union
 * The quest is given to you in Temple of the Union by Hannibal Hamlin, who wants to relocate his slave haven to the Lincoln Memorial and restore it as a sign of freedom.


 * Hannibal requests that you travel to the Lincoln Memorial and see if it is still occupied by Super Mutants. He also asks you to talk with fellow slave Caleb Smith. Smith is a mason and will ask you to obtain a picture of the Lincoln Memorial in the Museum of American History so he will have reference materials that will help him repair it. The Lincoln Memorial Poster is at the top of the stairs on the wall above a desk in the Museum Offices area, right across the staircase to the topmost level.


 * HINT: The Museum is overrun by Feral Ghouls, so it helps to complete the Tenpenny Tower quest before entering the Museum. If you convince Tenpenny to let the Ghouls move in, Roy Phillips will reward you with a Ghoul Mask which keeps Feral Ghouls from attacking.

Talking with the Slavers
 * The quest can also be started by speaking to Leroy Walker in the Lincoln Memorial Maintenance area without speaking to Hannibal. Talk to Silas (the only person you can get to without being shot) to have him escort you to Leroy.


 * The player will be asked to retrieve artifacts related to Lincoln in the History Museum. However, Leroy may go onto the restricted part of the memorial thereby preventing you from selling the artifacts to him because the slavers will turn hostile, including Leroy. Alternatively, the same items can be sold to Hannibal (comparison below).

Scouting the Memorial
Lincoln Memorial is free of mutants, but occupied with slave hunters from Paradise Falls led by Leroy Walker. In talking with Leroy, the player is given the option to reveal the slave hideout in Temple of the Union.

Trick Leroy Walker (slavers)
The first time you talk to Walker he asks you to find items related to Lincoln. The second time you talk to him OR after you trade the 1st Lincolns item he asks you to locate Hannibal. (Hannibal is in the Temple of the Union and his location is your reward from Mei Wong in Rivet City, if you offer her caps to buy a gun). If you reveal the location of Hannibal, Leroy tells you that they will be waiting for your help there. He and his slavers leaves Memorial. Just follow the slavers and more then likely they will get finished off while traveling by the Super Mutants or something. Speak to Hannibal and (if you have the Lincoln Memorial Poster) after an hour you can trigger their departure for the Memorial. (While they start their journey it's better to move away from them, in the opposite direction. By doing this you can avoid their deaths from random encounters and if you don't want, to escort them. They arrive safe in Memorial

Escort Hannibal
If the player reports back to Hannibal that there are no mutants, he will gather up his group and head for the memorial. He tells you to wait an hour and they will be ready (press 'T', the 'select' button or the 'BACK' button during normal game play to activate the WAIT dialog). To ensure Hannibal has started the trip, you really should WAIT an hour after speaking with him at the Temple of the Union; after which, you may then fast travel to the nearby Mall Northwest Metro Station, where Hannibal will eventually arrive. If you fast travel to the memorial without Waiting an hour, the group will not arrive until you fast travel back and trigger their departure. However, even this may not work correctly. After telling Hannibal that Caleb is ready, you may have to fast travel to the Mall Northwest Metro station and wait a full 24 hours for the former slaves to appear.

If your strength is high enough you have an option to warn Hannibal about the slavers, at which point he'll tell you to take care of them by any means.

The Fight
Once the slaves arrive, they will ask for your help killing the slave hunters (unless you already killed them while Hannibal was waiting at the metro). If the player does not tell Hannibal to wait while you check it out (giving you time to go kill the slave hunters), then Hannibal will lead his group into battle. He is usually killed, which terminates the quest. However, if you "investigate" and kill the slave hunters, or have already done so, there will be no one to kill Hannibal when he leads the charge and the player can complete the quest.

You get Schematics for the Dart Gun from Hamlin as a reward for completing this Quest for the slaves.

Selling Lincoln Artifacts
The eight Lincoln artifacts can be sold either to Hannibal Hamlin or Leroy Walker or Abraham Washington.

Note that selling at least one artifact to Leroy Walker will grant you access to the memorial without being shot. Just ask him if you can peek around the memorial. If you choose to eventually kill all the slavers then access to the memorial can be handy to set mines before attacking them.

Trivia

 * When entering the Temple of the Union, there is a dog right inside named Four Score, an obvious reference to Abraham Lincoln's famous speech.


 * Many of the former slaves at the Temple are named after men who served in Lincoln's cabinet.
 * Bill Seward - William H. Seward, Secretary of State, 1861-9.
 * Caleb Smith - Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, 1861-2.
 * Simone Cameron - Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, 1861-2.
 * Hannibal Hamlin is named after Lincoln's Vice President.

Unable to Finish Quest (with fix)
If you kill the slavers first and then tell Hannibal about it, the quest can be bugged. Save your game before talking to Hannibal, talk to him, and wait 1 hour, then go outside and stay there till they gather and start marching. Then, do not fast travel to Memorial itself, instead, travel to nearest metro station (Mall Northwest). It's also shown as a quest marker on your map. When you travel there, he and his pack will be there and you will get quest completed (If him and his men are not there, just WAIT around for a couple of hours and he'll be there. They'll appear at the intersection near the top of the escalator outside the metro.) And be sure that the metro station entrance is clear, otherwise, he'll attack whatever is nearby and start marching in the completely wrong direction.

nb: After having the problem with the quest I went to the nearest metro (meeting point on your map) and waited inside for a few hours, after going outside the group was finally there. It has to be noted that in some instances you may have to wait over 18 hours. You can also follow the progress of the group from your Pip Boy.

(I had to wait about 3 days)

Easy fix for the above bug: I tried the solutions mentioned above, and the manumitted npcs just wouldn't show up for me. I decided to try and simply escort them the whole way since I had some time to kill (and it killed a lot of time, seeing as they walk very slowly). After fending off mercs, raiders, radscorpions, robots, feral ghouls, radroaches, super mutants, and even a deathclaw, the party got stuck at Farragut NW station above ground, apparently lost. Maybe this is where they were all those times I tried waiting for them at Mall NW, who knows. So I tried what I should have done in the first place, which is this:

Fast Travel to Mall NW. Open your console and teleport Hannibal to you (prid 239dd, moveto player). He will then talk to you, you'll get the quest complete, and he'll run off to the monument. If you like, you can then go to the monument and warp the other slaves there, just for the aesthetics of it. They're 27fa8 (Four Score), 239da (Alejandra Torres), 278e0 (Caleb), 239dc (Bill Steward), 8b5ff (the brahmin), and 239db (Simone). You may need to kill them and resurrect them if you first tried waiting and they died on their journey, but if you do the warp trick from the beginning this shouldn't be necessary. Now when you come back to the memorial, they'll all be there, and they even have their own little tents set up automatically.

Alternate bug: Sometimes, if you kill the slavers before collecting the map from the museum, Hannibal and the rest of the group will get to the metro station as normal but will then state that the slavers are in control of the memorial, even though they are all dead. If you allow Hannibal to attack, he and the group will get to the memorial but will keep their weapons drawn, and the quest will never complete. This is because the game has not correctly registered Leroy as being dead.

The solution to this bug is to resurrect Leroy, so he can be killed properly. To to this go into the room below the memorial where Leroy was originally found. Press ~ to open the console. Then type:

prid 00027fba

resurrect

press ~ again to close the console.

Leroy will now respawn and attack you. Kill him and the quest will complete correctly. (Note: I tried this, and after several kills, reloads and other strategies such as console killing the slaves, the quest still stalled here. It may be possible that re-killing ALL the slavers is nessecary in some cases.)

Unable to unlock Xbox 360 Achievement (with fix)
If you kill the slavers and the mutants first, when you first arrival at the Temple of the Union, you can have a step (Talk to Hannibal Hamlin) that never gets updated, preventing you from getting the achievement. This happens when Hannibal Hamlin first talks to you if you ask him questions before receiving the Head of State quest. The workaround:

When you first go up the steps and Hannibal Hamlin talks to you automatically, feel free to talk to him but do not ask "why are you holed up" as this is what creates the bug. Tell him you are done and you will receive the Head of State quest. Then speak to him again and you will receive the update for talking to Hamlin. At this point you can talk to Caleb to complete the next step, and then move on to collect the poster. Mention the mutants being dead to Hannibal before turning the poster in to Caleb, then turn the poster in, then tell Hannibal that the slavers are dead, then wait an hour and fast travel to the memorial or NW Mall and speak to Hannibal to get the quest completed and the achievement.

Edit: This applies if you're trying to do the good karma route. After about two hours of experimenting with this scenario, the simplest way to complete the quest and acquire the achievement is as follows (this is assuming that you collected all the Lincoln gear at the Natural Histroy Museum):

1. Go to the Lincoln Memorial, this will prompt you to talk to Hannibal Hamlin as your next duty. 2. Talk to Hannibal but DO NOT talk to Caleb (even if you have the picture) yet. 3. Return to and approach the Memorial. Silas should escort you to talk to Leroy. 4. When speaking to Leroy, choose "I wouldn't tell you if I did." and then choose the speech option. 5. Assuming you succeed with the speech option, kill both Silas and Leroy (I prefer sneak attacking them both). 6. Kill the rest of the slavers. 7. Deactivate the traps at the Memorial. 9. Talk to Hannibal Hamlin. 10. Talk to Caleb. 11. Talk to Hannibal Hamlin again. 12. Wait until the entire group has walked out and start walking the opposite direction. 13. Fast travel to NW Mall and kill anything hanging about. 14. Walk to the Memorial and sleep for 24 hours in one of the beds. 15. Walk over to the NW Mall and they should be waiting for you.

I was able to successfully get the mission done two times with these steps, a second time for verification. Any of the other choices with Leroy only complicate the situation and talking out of order seems to affect things down the line in terms of actually getting the achievement or completion or both.

Unable to complete Quest in PS3 & 360
After telling Leroy Walker the location of Hannibal Hamlin and the Temple of the Union, the slavers begin their trip towards their prize. On their way towards Temple of the Union I decided to kill the slavers and then help Hamlin get to Lincoln Memorial. When Hamlin arrives at the foot of the Lincoln Statue he pauses, and along with his Hunting Riffle, Hamlin pulls out a rake, plus the quest to kill all the slavers can't be finished.

This is usually caused by missing the last slaver, Leeroy Walker himself, who is actually underneath the statue. Before going up the steps turn left and the path will lead through some stacked tires to a door that goes into the memorial called "Door to Memorial Maintenance Room". Go inside and you will find Leeroy Walker - killing him after killing all the slavers outside caused the final part to unlock and the ability to talk to Hannibal Hamlin to complete the quest. ( Add-On: After Killing all slavers while on the quest, Hannibal remains at The Mall Northeast. He keeps saying that there are still slavers around the memorial. The memorial is cleared of all traps and slavers and still no progression from the earlier status.)

Another Bug. Just a note the route Hannibal went with me was, to Friendship Heights, Farragut West Metro Station, Swim across the river, Vault 101, Fairfax Ruins, Nuka-Cola Plant, Arlington Library, The Citadel, across the bridge, past Irradiated Station, then Jefferson memorial (massive detour here, the Enclave hold the place and have erected barriers, Hannibal walks around the whole place...in circles*sighs*) Thats about 5 hours to discover that bug. The solution was to leave them to it and go elsewhere, and just keep an eye on the quest marker, eventually they just appeared at Anacostia Crossing and made it the Lincoln Memorial.

Yet another bug -

It is possible that if you start the mission after having started the mission "Take it Back" Liberty Prime will kill most of the party.

I went to the memorial, found out they were slavers, then killed them all. Then went back to The temple and spoke to Hannibal Hamlin after giving the picture to the other guy. He then says about leaving in an hour, so i jumped to the memorial, they weren't there... waited for hour or so at memorial. They weren't there! went back to the temple... Weren't there. Then following the route the Pip-boy told me, their bodies weren't encountered. They had just vanished off the map.

I had the same problem, what i did to resolve this issue is time wait for a couple of hours at the marker which was near the entrance outside metro station, they will then all suddenly appear where you are.

Edit: I have an even more serious problem ha ha, which is that im doing all these side-quests (such as Head of state) while being on the last mission of the main quest, because i don't want to finish the game yet, without exploring and developing my character and so on. The problem with this is that some elements included in the "American Dream" or last mission in main quest, are there, in the way of the slaves route (bugger). This makes them block, this is also why they didn't eventually arrive when i waited for them at the marker near the metro-station. But to realize this bug existed i had to follow Hannibal and his people all the way through the detour already described above (Hannibal's AI is absolutely catastrophic). So if you are on the last mission of the main quest, than there is a strong chance you can't finish this particular quest.

In another instance, upon completing the quest for Hannibal Hamlin, a significant bug is activated by speaking to one of the members of the caravan as they leave the Temple of the Union site. The whole party freezes in place, and thus can never reach the Lincoln Memorial. This prevents the player from completing the quest, and thus receiving the Schematic, experience, or Karma.

Edit: The bug I had occurred in a different scenario involving the same quest. The slavers recruited me to find Hannibal and report back and so I did. I found the Temple of the Union, but I do not recall asking Hannibal why he was holed up; and I was asked to get the poster for Caleb. Anyway, I sold Hannibal out and told the slavers that Hannibal was at the Temple of the Union (I never did get Caleb his poster beforehand). The slavers went in and wiped the place clean, thanking me for my help and then going on their way. So, I did not receive the achievement for completing the quest as a bad guy either.

Edit: I had the problem where they wouldn't appear at the station near the memorial, after trying lots of trouble shoots in different orders I almost gave up and just waited 24 hours, once this had finished they all appeared and I finished the quest, got the schematics and the achievement.

Edit: i had a problem with Leroy.... he was never there :(

Edit: My scenario (XBox) - Primary Quest = Scientific Pursuits; gave the Lincoln Artifact for restoring Lincoln's head -> checked memorial -> already cleared slavers. I tried fast traveling to Metro Mall NW entrance after watching the caravan leave the Temple of the Union. I then tried using the wait feature for at least 24 hours. The caravan showed up. But Hannibal did not start an auto dialogue with me upon approaching him which updates the quest to complete it and gives you the schematics. After initiating a dialogue with him (which was a normal dialogue and did not update the quest), his caravan went in the OPPOSITE direction of the Lincoln Memorial. I thought they might just walk around, so I used wait for another 24 hours...his caravan just disappeared and I didn't want to look for it.

So, here's what I did. Reloaded at the Temple of the Union. Again, I watched as his caravan started its journey south. This time I moved in the opposite direction, north. I used wait for about 20 hours. I then fast traveled to Metro Mall NW entrance. The caravan was not there, so I waited 24 hours. The caravan showed up and Hannibal, upon spawning, initiated the dialogue to complete the quest and handed over the schematics. His caravan then moved into the correct direction.

Edit: seems this quest is riddled with bugs worked fine until they never showed up at the station wile skiping to the startion after taking ther route my entier xbox crashed!

Edit: BUGGED...I have killed slavers...upon return to Temple Of The Union to speak with Hannibal, it seems Caleb is nowhere to be found and speaking with Hannible does nothing...so far no solution to complete that quest.

Auto complete Quest in PC
My problem is the game just complete the quest itself. What I have done was found slavers and accepted quest during my GNR quest to replace the disc array. I recalled that after accepting the quest, those slavers run to a metro station and disappeared (I was not aware at that time). I then focused on other quests afterward. When I was near Temple of the Union, I heard a big missile bang noise. I thought slavers lost because they were running away from building. But when I approached and discovered the place, I found slaves' corpses (including Caleb Smith, Four Score, a bi-head cow). While I was investigating the others, those slavers come back and told me they didn't trust me and killed those slaves themselves. Quest was forced to be completed with 390XP. NB: I'm not sure whether it's related to my Karma...as my karma was always "Very Good"...


 * This seems obvious. You told the slavers where they were, or at least agreed to do so, and then left them alone. After enough time passed, they went and attacked themselves. The world doesn't always stop when you ignore it. It only stops if you never triggered it in the first place, heh. --DarkJeff 10:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I had a problem that the map said the group was there above the metro but it wasnt, so i went back to the union home and went to were i killed the slayers and there was only the master slayers body there so i blew it up fast traveled to metro and there was the group. celty7

Bug on Slaver's Side
I received the quest from Hannibal, but went to the memorial and sold them to the slavers. Then they told me they were going to take care of the Temple of Union and i could go with them if i wish. Traveled some time with them (there's a tricky ambush with super mutants and grenades in the path) but they don't fight alongside you against raiders so I fast traveled when I lost them and had to wait until they arrived. They camped outside the Temple and when I talked to Leroy he triggered the attack. The slavers stormed in the Temple under some heavy crossfire and i took a sniper and began shooting slaves firing from the windows, I killed Hannibal myself and when the place was safe and cleared I found the slavers up and down the stairs eternally searching for victims. I had to resurrect Hannibal and let him be killed by Leroy's troops to get quest completed.

A quick Fix
If Hannibal's group fail to disembark and end up standing around/moving in circles, begin physically pushing them. I did this after waiting a day and a half both at the Temple of the Union, and at the Memorial itself, along with walking the entire Pip Boy route...I got frustrated and started pushing into all of them, and as I pushed the Brahmin, the entire part began moving. Hurray for frustration!

Lincoln's Head
After having the quest complete successfully, the slaves should set up tents outside the memorial and the statue of Lincoln should have it's head back. It is possible the brahmin never shows up, even though everyone else did, and they do not set up tents and the statue remains headless.