Navarro

"City of the Dead"

Navarro (also known as Navarro Refinery and Camp Navarro ) is a pre-War installation, where a Poseidon Energy refinery and an Enclave military base are located, located north of San Francisco along the coastline. Navarro was subsequently overrun by the New California Republic, its inhabitants killed. Navarro can be found fifteen squares south of Arroyo.

Background
Before the War, Navarro served as a Poseidon Oil refinery. Adjacent to the oil installations, a government-funded military base was constructed, together with a satellite up-link station and maintenance and repair facilities. Over a century after the Great War, the base was used by the Enclave, who converted it into their primary mainland outpost, establishing a location for refueling and maintaining their Vertibirds. Due to the limited 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. By 2242, Navarro was still a relatively new base, without a full compliment of staff. Replacements were transferred to the base from other, smaller installations on the mainland.

While the Enclave used Navarro, it played host to a number of important figures, including two prominent Enclave scientists, Dr. Henry and Dr. Schreber. They worked together, but had radically different theories about the mutations in the wastelander population and methods of curing them. Their disagreements had dire consequences: when Henry was arguing with Schreber about the mutation problem for the five billionth time, the latter told Henry in a fit of anger that he was going to recommend Henry's transfer to another Enclave facility and reassignment to cybernetic maintenance. Henry took the threat seriously and within hours, he stole a cybernetic dog and slipped away from the Navarro facility. The Enclave, although not pleased with the doctor's attitude and avenues of research, were unhappy with his desertion (they need all the scientists they can get), which resulted in several soldiers from Navarro being punished for negligence. Henry wasn't the only deserter: Navarro's location on the mainland made it possible for others to abandon the Enclave (for example, A. Ron Meyers). The fact that soldiers were issued leave to San Francisco couldn't help the situation.

Around 2246, the New California Republic destroyed Navarro, stating that it posed a threat to the region. The New California Republic Army was victorious and the Enclave remnants fled. Advanced technology was recovered from the base, including Vertibirds in operational condition and a mysterious package bearing markings similar to those found in the Divide. Whitley created a Duraframe eyebot prototype and referred to "Navarro scientists" in his audio logs, requesting that they continue development of the duraframe eyebot. The eyebot carried on from the Divide and continued traveling to where it thought Navarro was.

Location
Navarro can be found fifteen squares south of Arroyo once the Chosen One has been tasked with retrieving the FOB, stopping the Enclave or retrieving the vertibird plans for the Brotherhood, Shi or Hubologists, otherwise, it will not show on the map.

Layout
Navarro is divided into three districts.

Gas station


The station acts as a checkpoint for the military base. The sentry's role is to turn away any undesirables and direct them through the minefield in the forest next to the station as well as receive replacement recruits from other mainland bases.

Main base


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.

Underground


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

Appearances
Navarro appears only in Fallout 2 and is mentioned in Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Lonesome Road, and the Fallout Bible.

Behind the scenes

 * Navarro is a real world location of the same name.
 * The location name Colusa/Nevarro is listed in game scripts.
 * Chris Avellone shared several developmental notes regarding the location, including that the NCR hired a courier to take a package from Navarro to the Divide, inadvertently bringing about a catastrophe.