Malden Center

Malden Center is a location in the Commonwealth in 2287.

Background
Malden Center is an underground Boston MTA station in central Malden, north of Cambridge with a colorful pre-War playground and park above. In an effort to brighten the area, the city of Malden constructed a park around the subway. Once a clear, clean, and an all-around great place for families and their children, the war turned it to little more than an overgrown field.

By 2287, the station became an encampment for Helter Skelter's raider crew who benefit from the easily defensible location and its relative secrecy, nesting in the luxury railway station deep below the metro railways. By the time the Sole Survivor arrives, the Institute's synths have slaughtered the raiders on the upper level and are fighting the remaining raiders on the bottom level, as part of a campaign to systematically remove the raiders from the area.

Layout
Malden Center subway station is divided into two levels linked together via two elevators. The top level is inhabited by synths and dead raiders, while the bottom level is inhabited by both groups fighting one another. Upon entering, escalators and stairs descend to the main subway platform. The east side of the platform has a room to the north containing an elevator, while the tunnel also leads north through the subway car before reaching a small raider outpost. To the east is the hallway to the side which leads south to an Advanced-locked door concealing the room with the elevator.

The elevator leads down to a maintenance sublevel. A hole in the wall leads into a cavernous hallway that leads back into a luxurious railway station under Malden, which has been converted into a raider camp. The western end of the camp has a cooking station and a weapons workbench in a shack, as well as a hallway leading to another elevator. This elevator leads up to the entrance to the metro, through a chained door.

Inhabitants

 * Helter Skelter

Notable loot

 * Tumblers Today issue #4 and an overdue book - In the easternmost red/orange freight train car on the lower level, in the same room where the synths and raiders are fighting.
 * Eddie Winter holotape 2 - In the Malden police station, on the second floor, in the southeast corner.
 * Fat Man - South of the subway train on the eastern track next to a bed.
 * A mini nuke - In the southwest corner of the main lower subway tunnel, under some scaffolding on a pile of rubble, in the same room as the room where synths and raiders are fighting (Helter Skelter room).
 * Three fusion cores - One in the generator just after descending in the elevator on the main level, one in the cardboard box next to the generator and one on the ground in front of the generator.
 * Bottlecap mine - On the floor in the room where the synths and raiders are fighting. In the area with the weapons workbench and trunk.

Related quests

 * Long Time Coming: Nick Valentine is still disturbed by memories he inherited from pre-War Nick and tells of an old gangster named Eddie Winter, who used to be one of the largest crime bosses in Boston. He needs the help of the Sole Survivor to make peace with his past.
 * Quartermastery: Scribe Haylen has identified the location of a piece of technology she wishes to retrieve and catalog. She asks the Sole Survivor for help in bringing back the technology in one piece.
 * Memory Interrupted - The Railroad sends the Sole Survivor to Malden Center to wipe out the Gen 1 synths occupying the station. Outside, they will encounter Glory, and can either team up with her or go alone.
 * Cleansing the Commonwealth: Knight Rhys gives the Sole Survivor an assignment to clear the location of what he calls "abominations" to further the aims of the Brotherhood of Steel.

Appearances
Malden Center appears only in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes
In real life, Malden Center is an elevated station served by the Orange Line T, multiple MBTA bus lines and MBTA commuter rail.

Bugs
Sometimes on the power armor's minimap line, its icon is replaced with the icon of a metro station.