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 its fuel reserves have been empty for a long time. By 2281 Navarro is a part of NCR.

Location
Navarro can be found fifteen squares south of Arroyo.

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

Years after the Great War, the base was commandeered by the Enclave, who converted it into their primary mainland outpost, establishing 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 misplacement (four were initially ordered, yet by the time the Chosen One arrived, three had already gone missing).

Sometime after the destruction of the Oil Rig and after Autumn Senior led the majority of Enclave forces east, Navarro was assaulted by NCR forces in order to remove remnants of the Enclave from NCR territory. The NCR won the battle and Enclave forces scattered, whether the base was captured or destroyed in the conflict is unknown.

Its loss was either unknown or classified by Enclave forces on the East Coast as ED-E's creator makes reference to "Navarro scientists" in his audio-logs, under the assumption that they will continue his development of the duraframe eyebots. On that note, in one of the endings for ED-E where it's memory isn't wiped it will travel to Navarro and vanish leaving it's fate and the current state of Navarro unknown. If you rescue ED-Es divide clone and choose to launch Ulysses' missile it will continue it's journey and eventually reach Navarro, however it is never stated what the clone found at Navarro, saying the journey was more important than the location.

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 workshop, air traffic control station, barracks and the drill sergeant's quarters, with 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 Enclave's operations at Navarro they have utilized the old service station as cover. An Enclave agent referring to himself as "old Chris" keeps watch outside the gates and claims to be the proprietor of the gas station turning any wanderers away as well as guarding an entrance to the underground section of the base via a 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 armor and armed with plasma rifles and to further enhance security, several plasma gun turret emplacements were constructed. Moreover, scientists in Navarro are also issued laser pistols for self-defense purposes.

Personnel

 * Main articles: Enclave soldier, Enclave Patrolmen, Enclave Technician, Enclave Specialist

The Base Commander resided underground, along with the base's medical doctor of dubious reputation, Dr. Schreber, supported by Drill Sergeant Dornan and the Quartermaster. They commanded two kinds of troops - the heavily armored sentry guards, clad in advanced power armor, toting plasma rifles, and light troops, outfitted with Enclave combat armor. Then there were the mechanics, wearing Enclave-brand leather armor, headed by Quincy (regulars) and Raul (dedicated Vertibird mechanics) and technicians, wearing white lab coats, operating the base's air traffic control etc.

According to one of the soldiers, personnel can be granted leave to San Francisco.

Appearances
Navarro appears only in Fallout 2 and is mentioned in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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.
 * The real Navarro is located in California, south-east of the towns of Fort Bragg, Little River (which has an airfield near the coast), and Albion Ridge. In the Valley of Anderson, west of Booneville. There is a small gas station, Navarro General Store, which may be what the gas station in Fallout 2 is based on.