Recon Craft (Fallout 3)

A recon craft is a small alien ship with a disc-shaped rear body used for stealth operations that houses only 1 pilot.

Theta
In 2277, a vessel named Theta went on an unascertained mission to Earth, flown by its pilot. Due to unknown causes, the ship crashed north of Minefield, to the northwest of Greener Pastures Disposal Site in the Capital Wasteland, leaving the vehicle heavily damaged and the pilot dead.

Some time later, the crashed shuttle starts broadcasting a radio signal, the Recon Craft Theta Beacon. Once the Lone Wanderer approaches the ship for inspection, he/she is immediately abducted by the mothership Zeta. Shortly after the kidnapping, Theta is presumably beamed up for repairs by Zeta and stored in one of the motherships onboard hangar bays.

2281 Mojave recon craft
By 2281, another recon craft can be located north of Horowitz Farmstead in the Mojave Wasteland (only with the Wild Wasteland trait).

Appearances

 * Fallout 3 (Theta as a crashed vehicle in the wasteland)
 * Mothership Zeta (Theta as a repaired shuttle onboard the mothership and no longer found on Earth)


 * Fallout: New Vegas (a recon craft can be found at the Crashed Alien Ship.