Navarro

Navarro refers to the area where a Poseidon Oil refinery and an Enclave military base are located, located north of San Francisco along the coastline. A company brand gas station is also present here, but it's fuel reserves have been empty for a long time.

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

Years after the Great War, the base was comandeered by the Enclave, who converted it into their primary mainland outpost, estabilishing a refueling station for the 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 be lost (for instance, in 2242, four were ordered, but by the time the Chosen One arrived, three were already lost).

Construction
The Navarro military base is divided into two segments - the surface and underground areas. The surface houses the Vertibird landing pad, as well as a Vertibird hangar, maintenance worksop, air traffic control station, the barracks and drill sergeant's quarters, with the adjacent kennels.

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

In 2242 the recent construction and retrofitting of Navarro meant the base had yet to meet its full staffing requirements.

Cover and Security
To hide the Enclaves operations at Navarro they have utilized the old service station as cover. An Enclave agent reffering to himself as "old Chris" keeps watch outside the gates and claims to be the proprieter of the gas station turning any wanderes away as well as guarding an entrance to the underground section of the base via manhole.

Should someone attempt to circumnavigate Chris and sneak through the woods they are confronted with heavily booby trapped expanses of land, though the rocky path leading to the base is clear. For those who are interested in enlisting as Enclave recruits,a specific password would be required by the entrance guard. The base itself is crawling with enclave troopers clad in advanced power armors and armed with plasma rifles and to further enhance security, the Enclave constructed several plasma and mini gun turret emplacements. The scientists in Navarro are also issued Laser Pistols for self-defence purposes.

Behind the scenes
A working name for "Navarro" was "Colusa". 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."

The real Colusa is much farther east and a little south of Navarro.

Navarro