Camp Searchlight

Camp Searchlight is an irradiated former NCR military camp in the Mojave Wasteland.

Background
Searchlight was originally a Pre-War gold mining town. A convoy of flatbed trucks transporting nuclear waste from San Onofre were diverted to Searchlight for safety reasons when the Great War occurred. Local police directed two of the trucks to the fire station and a third headed towards Cottonwood Cove due to lack of space at the station.

Camp Searchlight was established when the New California Republic deployed in force to the Mojave, and became an obstacle for Caesar's Legion due to its size and location. Instead of attacking it outright, Vulpes Inculta used NCR patrol gaps to their advantage and sent in recruit legionaries, directing them to open the nuclear waste containers. The plan succeeded, irradiated the area to the point that Camp Searchlight could no longer serve as a military base, and prompting Caesar to establish additional presence at Cottonwood Cove. Those who were not killed by the radiation turned into feral ghouls and glowing ones.

NCR First Sergeant Astor states that he survived because he was out on patrol when the attack took place. He states that several soldiers including his superiors who survived the initial attack have since died due to radiation poisoning or subsequent Legion attacks. The remaining survivors join him at a recon camp to the northwest, patrolling the area in an effort to warn travelers before they get too close to the former camp.

Layout
Searchlight is located at the intersection of Nevada 164 and Highway 95. In the Searchlight church basement, Logan and a few prospectors are looting the town on a contract from the Crimson Caravan Company. Private Edwards is hiding in a house near the church.

The NCR set up defensive turrets near the police station, behind the fire station and on the intersection just south of it, and under the Cottonwood Cove Road bridge passing over Highway 95. Terminals nearby control the turrets. Astor's Recon Camp is located on the outskirts of the town to the northeast, the base of surviving NCR troopers that patrol the area.

The fire station is locked, with keys carried by Logan. A radscorpion queen and several radscorpions are located inside. Golden geckos inhabit the Searchlight Elementary School. To the west is a trailer park.

Loot

 * Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual - In the east church's basement, by the eastern wall, at the foot of the metal shelves, on the floor.
 * Knock-Knock - Unique fire axe in the right hand corner of the bathroom stall with the skeleton in it, upstairs in the Searchlight fire station. This is only obtainable after starting the quest Wheel of Fortune or killing Logan and taking the key.
 * Seven fire helmets - In the fire station, with five on the ground floor shelves, one upstairs in the chief's office on a shelf, and one in the bathroom stall where Knock-Knock is found.
 * Sunset Sarsaparilla Star Bottle Cap - In the fire station. Upstairs in the northeast corner of the kitchen area, on a table next to two empty bottles.
 * Legion orders - In the fire station, found on two recruit legionaries in the garage.
 * NCR computer parts and NCR radio parts - In the police station, the quest items for Wheel of Fortune.
 * Three Holy Frag Grenades - In the Searchlight church basement. If the Wild Wasteland perk is not selected, the hand grenades will appear as two mini nukes.

Related quests

 * Eye for an Eye
 * We Will All Go Together
 * Wheel of Fortune
 * Arachnophobia

Appearances
Camp Searchlight appears $$

Behind the scenes

 * Searchlight is a real world location in Clark County, Nevada.
 * Denise McMurry designed the location and wrote all the logs, based on the basic high-level design document by Joshua Sawyer.

Bugs

 * Logan will not talk with the player character. Also, he does not have the key when pickpocketed or killed, if having already killed other characters involved in obtaining Knock-Knock. If killed before killing Boxcars while on the Wheel of Fortune quest, his body should have both keys on it.
 * If the player character discovers and raids the supply cave before approaching Logan, it will be impossible to proceed with the quest, only if the 4 radiation suits have been repaired to make one radiation suit already.
 * The back sections of the firetrucks behind the fire station can be clipped through.