Liberty Prime



Liberty Prime is a forty-foot-tall, U.S. Army combat robot brought back to working order by the Brotherhood of Steel in 2277.

Background
Liberty Prime's original purpose was to aid American troops in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese invaders. Through the computer terminal at the foot of Liberty Prime, it is revealed that the project was commissioned by General Constantine Chase and was a joint effort between the U.S. Army, General Atomics International, and RobCo Industries. However, problems with the power system led to delays, and Anchorage was ultimately liberated in a much longer and more costly battle using their other secret weapon, the more successful and reasonably-scaled T-51b Power Armor.

Roughly two centuries later, Liberty Prime was finally pressed into service by the Brotherhood of Steel after they discovered it in the basement of the destroyed Pentagon. They modified its targeting system to consider Enclave forces to be Chinese communists.

Liberty Prime requires a massive amount of power to operate, and the Brotherhood was long unable to power him properly even with the advanced technology discovered inside the Pentagon. With the aid of Doctor Li, they eventually manage to solve this problem.

His large backpack holds a seemingly inexhaustible supply of explosives, similar in potency to a mini nuke but several times larger. He can remove and hurl these nukes at enemies with unerring accuracy. He is also equipped with twin head-mounted energy beam weapons, similar to a Tesla cannon, and can kill Enclave soldiers in a single hit. His massive size and strength count as weapons too: he is endowed with strength befitting a forty foot tall robot, and can rip anything in his path to shreds, if he doesn't step on it first. He can sustain massive amounts of damage and short out energy barrier fields by forcefully walking into them. Finally, to inspire his allies and demoralize foes, he constantly spouts anti-communist phrases. Like most of the robots in the game, he seems unaware that any time has passed between 2077 and the present, or more accurately, that any cataclysmic or important events have transpired to cause the world around them to function any differently.

Quests

 * Take it Back!: The Brotherhood of Steel, with the help of Dr. Li, manages to fully power the robot. With the immediate need to reclaim Project Purity, Elder Lyons orders Prime deployed without proper testing.  It makes its way to the Jefferson Memorial, destroying Enclave energy barriers, vertibirds, and troops en route.  Once the Jefferson Memorial has been reached, Liberty Prime assists the Brotherhood in standing guard outside the building.  It remains here for the duration of the quest.
 * Death From Above: Liberty Prime joins the player in the battle against the Satellite Relay Station, an Enclave base located beyond the Rockland Car Tunnel. After the Enclave initiates an orbital strike, Liberty Prime will crawl from the wreckage and initiate a self-destruct sequence to prevent its capture by the "communists." Its head, both feet, and what appears to be a forearm are later taken back to the Citadel. Similar to Deputy Weld, its head can be activated to play back some of its anti-communist phrases, albeit much more garbled than during Take it Back! At the conclusion of Broken Steel's main quest line, Scribe Rothchild vows that the Brotherhood will rebuild Prime, but it might take months or even years. As a result of this conversation, the repeatable quest Getting Ready for Prime Time becomes available.

Other interactions

 * Liberty Prime is first seen in the lab beneath the Citadel in his inactive state. The player can gain information about Liberty Prime as well as hear some of its dialogue by using a nearby computer terminal to initiate a dialogue test.

Notable Quotes
Most of its quotes are highly formal versions of common '50s and '60s anti-communist slogans. Appearing below is a list of five quotes, selected by the wiki:

Designation: Liberty Prime. Mission: the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska."''
 * "Liberty Prime is online. All systems nominal. Weapons hot. Mission: the destruction of any and all Chinese communists."voc robotlibertyprime init 01.ogg
 * ''"Voice module online. Audio functionality test initialized. Designation: Liberty Prime.
 * "Obstruction detected, composition: titanium alloy supplemented by photonic resonance barrier. Probability of mission hindrance: zero percent!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 28.ogg
 * "Chairman Chang will fail: China will fall! "voc robotlibertyprime combat 07.ogg
 * "Revised strategy: initiate photonic resonance overcharge!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 24.ogg
 * "Communism is the very definition of failure!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 18.ogg
 * "Communist engage!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 08.ogg
 * "Communism is a temporary setback on the road to freedom."voc robotlibertyprime combat 21.ogg
 * "Communism is a lie!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 13.ogg
 * "Communist target acquired."voc robotlibertyprime combat 16.ogg
 * "Communists detected on American soil. Lethal force engaged!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 09.ogg
 * "Democracy is non-negotiable."voc robotlibertyprime combat 03.ogg
 * "Freedom is the sovereign right of every American."voc robotlibertyprime combat 05.ogg
 * "Embrace democracy, or you will be eradicated."voc robotlibertyprime combat 22.ogg
 * "Democracy is Truth! Communism is Death!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 23.ogg
 * "Democracy will never be defeated!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 10.ogg
 * "The last domino falls here!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 19.ogg
 * "Established stratagem... inadequate"voc robotlibertyprime combat 25.ogg
 * "Tactical assessment: Red Chinese victory... impossible."voc robotlibertyprime combat 15.ogg
 * "Engaging Chinese invader!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 12.ogg
 * "Engaging red Chinese aggressors."voc robotlibertyprime combat 04.ogg
 * "Commencing tactical assessment: Red Chinese threat detected."voc robotlibertyprime combat 02.ogg
 * "We will not fear the red menace!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 20.ogg
 * "Initiating directive 7395: destroy all communists!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 14.ogg
 * "America will never fall to Communist invasion!" voc robotlibertyprime combat 01.ogg
 * "Anchorage will be liberated."voc robotlibertyprime combat 17.ogg
 * "Alaska's liberation is imminent!voc robotlibertyprime combat 11.ogg
 * "Warning! Forceable impact alert. Scanning for Chinese artillery. voc robotlibertyprime combat 29.ogg
 * "Death is a preferable alternative to Communism!"voc robotlibertyprime combat 06.ogg

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Appearances
Liberty Prime appears in Fallout 3 and the add-on Broken Steel.

Bugs

 * Liberty Prime often gets stuck, especially on the left side of the highway when heading to retake the Purifier located at the Jefferson Memorial and on the first large bridge you cross.
 * Once you complete the Broken Steel add-on, you can find Liberty Prime's severed head in the Citadel, but at the same time you can find it on the ground at the Satellite Relay Station.
 * Liberty Prime will sometimes not move from his starting location. This may be caused by the death of one of the Paladins, and can be fixed by finding the body (typically within the entry corridor of the Citadel) and carrying it past Prime and over the footbridge.
 * Liberty Prime can fail to blow up one of the Vertibirds in his path, resulting in him just walking into it until he walks off the side of the bridge. You can use a Fat Man to blow it up for him. He will sprint to Project Purity to catch up to where he is supposed to be, killing no Enclave forces on the way.

Behind the scenes

 * According to an interview in 1UP. Emil Pagliarulo denied any intentional relation between Liberty Prime and Optimus Prime. Pagliarulo admitted he could have made the reference subconsciously.
 * The GECK lists a cut quest called "Infiltration" which was situated between The American Dream and Take it Back! and had the player stealing a power source from Rivet City to power Liberty.
 * Liberty Prime throws football-shaped mini-nukes as if he were a quarterback. "The Nuclear Football" is a term used to refer to the briefcase containing the launch codes for America's nuclear arsenal, with the President as the football's "quarterback".

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