Navarro

"City of the Dead"

Navarro refers to the area where a Poseidon Oil refinery and an Enclave military base are located, northwest of San Francisco, along the far western coastline.

Background
Before the Great War, Navarro served as a Poseidon Oil refinery for the Enclave Oil Rig, where the Enclave headquarters was located. Adjacent to the oil installations, a government-funded military base was constructed, together with a satellite up-link station, as well as maintenance and repair facilities.

Decades after the Great War, the base was commandeered by the Enclave, who converted it into their primary mainland outpost, establishing a refueling station for their vertibirds. Due to the relatively short range of the vertibird, as well as frequent malfunctions, especially in post-War conditions, vertibird schematics were almost always present on-site for necessary repairs and maintenance, but were prone to misplacement. Four were initially ordered, yet by 2241, three had already gone missing.

In the past, Dr. Henry and Dr. Schreber worked together here, but had different theories about the mutations occurring in the Wasteland population. Henry argued with Schreber about the mutation problem once again when Schreber, in a fit of anger, told Henry he was going to recommend that Henry be transferred to another Enclave facility where he would be put to work on cybernetic maintenance. Henry took the threat very seriously, and within hours, stole a cybernetic dog and left the Navarro facility. Members of the Enclave were not pleased with his attitude and the directions of his research, but even more so with his escape, as they needed all of their available scientists. As a result, several soldiers were punished for neglecting to stop Henry's escape.

In 2241, Navarro is relatively new and not fully staffed. When the Enclave was preparing to use the FEV, many replacements were coming to Navarro from other smaller installations. Chris is supposed to clear many of the new soldiers. At this time the Chosen One visited the base pretending to be a new recruit, who was sent here to assist in the staffing issue. The Chosen One killed Schreber, freed Xarn, repaired K-9's motivator and took him to the New California Republic. He also stole the Tanker FOB from the base commander's locker, and used it to pilot the tanker and destroy the oil rig.

Sometime after the destruction of the oil rig, Autumn Senior led the majority of Enclave forces east. Some years after that, as part of the NCR-Enclave War, Navarro was assaulted by NCR forces in order to remove remnants of the Enclave from NCR territory. The NCR won the battle and the Enclave forces scattered. Navarro was sacked, and the advanced technology left behind was recovered by the NCR, but it was too complex for them to utilize it themselves. However, they noticed that the symbols found upon the technology (American flag, silo stencils, etc.) were identical to those that had been recovered at the Divide, so a tie between the two was suspected. The NCR subsequently hired a Courier to take the item from Navarro to the Divide.

The loss of Navarro as an Enclave base was evidently unknown to the Enclave contingency on the East Coast, as ED-E's creator Whitley makes reference to "Navarro scientists" in his audio logs, under the assumption that they will continue development of the duraframe model eyebots. One of the Fallout: New Vegas endings for ED-E in which its memory is not wiped will show it traveling to Navarro and vanishing, ultimately leaving both its fate and the current state of Navarro unknown. If you rescue ED-E's clone in the Divide and choose to launch Ulysses' payload, it will continue its quest and eventually reach Navarro, however, it is never stated what the clone found or saw at Navarro. Arcade Gannon mentions that after Navarro was sacked, the Enclave remnants went east.

Location
Navarro can be found fifteen squares south of Arroyo once the Chosen One has been tasked with retrieving the FOB or retrieving vertibird plans for the Brotherhood, Shi or Hubologists, otherwise, it will not show on the map.

Layout
Navarro is divided into three districts.

Gas station


The station acts as a checkpoint for the military base. The sentry's role is to turn away any undesirables and direct them through the minefield in the forest next to the station as well as receive replacement recruits from other mainland bases.

Main base


The surface houses the vertibird landing pad as well as a vertibird hangar, maintenance workshop, air traffic control station, barracks, and the drill sergeant's quarters, with adjacent kennels.

Underground


The underground areas of the base contain the base's armory, mainframe, commander's office, and the soundproofed science lab, operated by Dr. Schreber, participating in the deathclaw intelligence enhancement project.

Appearances
Navarro appears only in Fallout 2 and is mentioned in Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Lonesome Road and Fallout Bible.

Behind the scenes

 * Navarro is based on the real world location Navarro, California, located 10 miles (16 mm) from the Pacific coast.
 * A working name for "Navarro" was "Colusa." The real-world Colusa is much farther east and a little south of Navarro. According to one of the lead designers, Matt Norton: "I remember that once we put all of the locations on the world map that we moved some of them around a bit to create a more even spacing of adventure locations. I don't remember if we moved the Enclave's mainland base for this reason, but it's possible."