Fort Bannister

Fort Bannister is a Talon Company outpost near Vault 87 in the Capital Wasteland. It is heavily guarded by several Talon mercenaries in entrenched positions and shooting platforms.

It appears that when the bombs fell, Fort Bannister took a heavy beating. The external sections of the fort are almost completely destroyed, with small craters surrounding a singularly massive nuclear crater. Despite the near-total annihilation of the fort above, the underground sections remain mostly intact. The main part was built in the hill on the north side of the fort.

The underground bunker is extensive and can be accessed either by lock-picking the bunker entrance door in the SW corner of the fort (need lockpick 100) or through the sewer access point found inside the tent located in the crater in the NW corner of the base.

Enemies
The underground levels of the fort are crawling with Talon Company Mercs who are all very heavily armed. If your combat skills are high enough to clear the place out, the area contains a staggering amount of valuable hardware to scavenge. In the Commanding Officer's Quarters are Commander Jabsco and a Mister Gutsy.

Hint: Try shooting the missile launchers out of the mercenaries' hands if you're having trouble with them. Mines may also help. This may also be a good time to use up one of your many Stealth Boys to get critical hits on the many Mercs.

Items

 * There are 96 Alien Power Cells in a large radioactive crater to the east of the Fort itself and due south of VAPL-58 Power Station. There is an overturned military truck in the crater, as well as several barrels of waste. The Alien Power Cells are beneath the truck, as if they spilled out of the bed.


 * A copy of Nikola Tesla and You can be found on a ledge between the stairs in the missile launch room, near an Ammunition Box visible from the stairs. (It's one of the non-evident ones : Enter the commanding Officer's quarters from the wastelands, when you enter the missile silo, walk till you bump in an ammo box on the ground to your left. Face west, then slightly left and down : you'll see another ammo box on the stairs' roof and a ham radio. The book is between those).


 * A copy of Guns_and_Bullets is found on top of a gun locker inside the Bunker Area of Fort Bannister.


 * In an Average locked room at the top of the stairs in Fort Bannister Main (which can be entered through a door directly west of the entrance to Fort Bannister Bunker), there is a copy of Big Book of Science, a Fat Man, and one Mini Nuke.

Enclave
The Enclave set up a small mobile outpost near the above mentioned large crater after The Waters of Life quest. There is a terminal (Average hack difficulty) on a desk that explains why they are there.

Appearances
This place only appears in Fallout 3.