The Whitespring Bunker

The Whitespring bunker, also called the Congressional Bunker, is a location in the Forest region of Appalachia in 2102. It is the primary headquarters of the Eastern Commonwealth Enclave.

Background
The Whitespring bunker was built by the United States government beneath The Whitespring Resort to ensure continuity of government by providing protection and shelter for Federal officials and military personnel in the event of a nuclear war. During the Great War in 2077, members of the Eastern Commonwealth Enclave made it to the bunker and survived the ensuing apocalypse.

Members of the secretive Enclave arrived when the country's early warning systems were intiated, signalling the start of the Great War. Members of the Congress also foolishly arrived, thinking the bunker was there to protect them, but they were soon seperated from members of the Enclave, and were executed.

From 2077 to 2086, the secretary of argriculture, Thomas Eckhart, meddeled within the bunker, by hacking into automated election systems to make him officially the President of the United States, manipulated military systems by sending Colonel Ellen Santiago to Camp McClintock to become a General via automated systems, to gain access to the command wing of the bunker, in an attempt to access nuclear silos within the region of the Appalachia, to create a retaliative strike on China, and end communism for all, and had the artificial intelligence, MODUS dispose of any of his opposers.

However, in 2086, after a group of Santiago's supporters found out that Eckhart had Santiago in an induced coma; only reviving her to gain clearance to specific parts of the bunker, a rebellion was formed, under the command of Major Ragnarsdottir. During this rebellion, Santiago was revived from the induced coma she was in, Eckhart was arrested, but multiple explosive charges were detonated on MODUS, in an attempt to destroy the computer, so that they could leave the bunker freely. MODUS however was not destroyed; a large chunk of its memory was instead heavily damaged, putting the computer into a corrupt state, and in retalliation, it intentionally destroyed the weapons lab within the bunker, killing Santiago upon impact, subsequently releasing a toxin into the air circulation of the bunker, ultimately suffocating any and all human inhabitants within the bunker, including that of Eckhart and Ragnarsdottir and his men, in darkness.

After MODUS' uprising, the bunker laid abandoned of any human inhabitants, until the year 2102, where the Resident arrived, after finding Sam Blackwell's congress access card in Sam Blackwell's bunker, at the Abandoned waste dump, in which MODUS greeted them, and lured them into the different levels through the bunker, after going through orientation.

Layout
The Whitespring bunker has two exterior entrances: the main entrance is a blast door built into a hillside a short distance from the Whitespring Resort with a parking lot that is accessed by a side road, and a secondary entrance can be found near The Whitespring service entrance. Both entrances are blocked by laser grids that prevent unauthorized individuals from passing through them. Beyond this initial stage of security is the entrance to the bunker proper, a large cog-shaped door much like those used for Vault-Tec vaults.

Immediately inside the bunker is the orientation floor. Those that enter the bunker must first be photographed and then led through a decontamination apparatus to remove any traces of radiation. Past orientation is a large window exhibiting the room containing the apparatuses that hold MODUS. Next is the admittance floor, where new residents must register themselves and optionally take a questionnaire about pre-War U.S. history. To the right of admittance are two elevators which lead back to the orientation floor.

Individuals with proper clearance can proceed north of admittance to the foyer section, which has connects to the communications wing, military wing, science wing, medical wing, production wing and robotics wing. The military wing contains the brig, which is equipped with two cells and a prisoner interrogation device, and also connects to the command wing, which requires higher clearance to access.

Notable loot

 * The Sam Blackwell Interview - On a table in the security room just inside the bunker.
 * Hunting rifle - On a shelf, in the brig of the military wing.

Appearances
The Whitespring bunker appears only in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes
The Whitespring bunker is based on the Greenbrier bunker, underneath the Greenbrier luxury resort in West Virginia.