Mod:DUST Survival Simulator/Searchlight Airport

Searchlight Airport is a derelict airport overrun by a Radscorpion plague in the southern Mojave wasteland.

Background
Paladin Ramsey, suspecting that Hidden Valley was about to become a death trap, lead some members of the Brotherhood of Steel Mojave chapter towards Fort Searchlight in an attempt to avoid complete erradication by NCR forces by keeping a low profile.

Estimating their chances of survival being near non-existent, if the situation remained unchanged, Ramsey evaluated different options for escape, or at least improving on intelligence gathering to gain strategic advantages.

Knowing, that NCR was in possession of at least one working Vertibird, Ramsey settled in on sending a team to Searchlight Airport for evaluating the remaining airplane wrecks, aiming for repairing one up to the point of being usable for scouting flights.

Initial communications between the team and Fort Searchlight suggest, that at least one of the planes, provided the needed parts were available to properly skilled personel, could be brought back up into the air.

Contact to the repair team was lost, though, before the goal of getting airborne was achieved, with the remains of one of the members still in very close vicinity of the plane that was being worked on and the Workbench intended for preparing the missing airplane parts.

Tactical Considerations
With large numbers of Radscorpions swarming the tar of Searchlight Airport, Survivors interested in exploring the area should either try and make their way to points of interest unnoticed, e.g. by using a Stealth Boy, or use the fence surrounding the installation as convenient cage holding back creatures, while picking them off using any means available.

While Giant Radscorptions seem to be generally unable to escape the Airport, smaller specimen might be able to make their way through the collapsed part of the runway down to the road, attacking surivivors trying to take pot-shots using the fence as barrier.

Trivia

 * Scribe Huxley, obviously being one of the BoS members convinced about Hidden Valleys fate being sealed, and thus having followed Paladin Ramsey to Fort Searchlight, was supposedly the last person to communicate with the evaluation and repair team sent to Searchlight Airport.