The Glow

West Tek Research Facility was a high-tech weapons-research facility. West Tek created a number of useful things for the American military. Laser and plasma weapons were being experimented with here. Power Armor, massive self-contained suits that turned a single soldier into a walking tank, was developed here. And most importantly, some terribly important research into immunity drugs was being conducted at West Tek. The Forced Evolutionary Virus was originally developed there.

During the war, a nuke directly hit the facility, shattering the FEV containment tanks and releasing the radiated virus into the atmosphere. Due to its high radiation, it came to be known as The Glow. The Brotherhood of Steel sends people who wants to enlist into the Brotherhood (but they don't want) there on a "quest", just to laugh about it later when they end up dead because of the high amount of radiation in the area. It was quite a surprise to them when one known as the Vault Dweller actually fulfilled the quest, and got initiated into the Brotherhood.

Some time after 2162, some ghoul survivors from Necropolis settled north and west of the Glow, and founded the town of Dayglow, whose inhabitants formed partnerships with scavenging companies from New Adytum and the Hub and have built quite a profitable corporation from their salvage efforts.

Comments
The name of the facility is sometimes spelt West Tech, but West Tek is more common and probably more correct. Its name in the old design documents was FSEF.

Related Quests

 * Become an initiate

Appearances in games
The West Tek Research Facility appeared only in the first Fallout game.

Related Holodisks

 * Ancient Brotherhood Tape
 * FEV Experiment Tape
 * West Tech Records