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Control Station ENCLAVE also known as Enclave main base, Presidential Rig, and Poseidon Energy oil rig served as the primary headquarters of the Enclave.[1][2][3][4][5]
Background
The Poseidon Energy oil rig was a pre-War deep sea drilling platform, built over the world's last accessible underwater oil deposit[6] in the Pacific Ocean, 175 miles off the coast of California.[7] The United States won the international race to establish a platform at the location in January 2073, after which the Chinese accused the US of sabotage.[6] The oil deposit was originally thought to be unreachable, due to it being located thousands of feet below the seabed.
In March 2077, the risk of nuclear confrontation resulted in the president of the United States and other members of the Enclave retreating to various fortified areas around the globe, one of which was the oil rig.[8][9] The oil rig received schematics for X-01 power armor and vertibirds from the Whitespring Congressional Bunker.[10] The oil rig served as the main base and connected to other Enclave facilities via PoseidoNet.[11][12][13]
Inhabitants
According to Dr. Curling, there were approximately 1,000 inhabitants on the oil rig.[14] The inhabitants were pale due to the lack of natural sunlight, but otherwise healthy.[15] Evening entertainment consisted of various safety movies.[16]
Citizens wore blue and yellow jumpsuits, identical in design to those of Vault-Tec shelter inhabitants, and carried no weaponry. Members of the science division wore lab coats and carried personal defense weapons such as Wattz 1000 laser pistols, while the military and Secret Service used T-51b power armor and Gauss rifles.
Equipment
The computer unit used on the Enclave oil rig was a DataPlex 2000 SmarTerminal.[17] Vault-Tek operating systems were used on the platform as well as software such as Fenestra '98 and Apricot OS.[18][19][20] The oil rig was powered by a Vault-Tec nuclear reactor.[21] Scientific equipment included infrared spectrometers and gear for synthesizing compounds.[22]
As a military base, the oil rig was heavily defended.[23] The rig also had a significant transport vertibird fleet. Apart from Enclave soldiers outfitted with advanced power armor, security turrets and sentry robots were present. Security drills were conducted frequently.[24]
The Chosen One traveled there via an oil tanker to save their tribe and the previous inhabitants of Vault 13, as well as to stop the Enclave and President Richardson from releasing FEV Curling-13 into the world's jet streams, killing all humans outside the Enclave. The Chosen One, aided by Marcus and others recruited to his cause,[25] destroyed the oil rig by overloading its primary reactor.[26] Enclave survivors never learned the truth behind the rig's destruction.[27][28]
Publications
During this time, the new President Eden has been slowly rebuilding his resources, thanks in part to the technology already available at the Raven Rock military base. Vertibirds, weapons, and robots were easy to construct, but human followers were more difficult to find. The answer was to rely on Colonel Autumn, who controls the Enclave soldier forces, as well as creating a propaganda-spewing series of Eyebots sent to roam the Wasteland, spreading hope. Eden could spout his pro-government rhetoric, and promise a return of the pre-war America of legend: a land of white picket fences, baseball, apple pie, and good, old-fashioned American global supremacy.
President Eden's secretive plan all along has been to rule over an America of the "pure," free from any mutation. He has learned of a ridiculously ambitious experiment known as Project Purity, and knew the time to strike had come: His Enclave forces would "reclaim" the Jefferson Memorial. By controlling the purified water, Eden would control the Capital Wasteland, and the rest of the country eventually. What better way to administer modified F.E.V.- which kills anyone infected with any form of mutation-than through the water supply?"”— Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition, p. 48
Layout
Dock
The entrance to the rig, a large dock illuminated with yellow spotlights. Every arriving vessel docks here, and the PMV Valdez is no exception.
Entry hall
The entrance hall is defended by auto-turrets. The main hall's floor has a small access terminal in the lower left corner. The hall connects via a spiral staircase to the detention/R&D level and the barracks, via a passageway with a waiting room. The final battle with Frank Horrigan is fought here.
Barracks
Connected to the entrance hall, the barracks area housed a storeroom, where T-51b power armors were used instead of forklifts, troop housing, a large gym, lavatories, an armory stocked with explosives, the admin section for the soldiers and their CO's living quarters. A spiral staircase sealed behind flood doors connected to the presidential level.
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Detention and research level
Houses the prison cells used to contain the Arroyo villagers and the people kidnapped from Vault 13. Also contains several small labs and medical facilities, and storage areas. It is located south of the entry hall and connects to the trap room.
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Access corridor
A series of small rooms with computer-controlled doors and an electrified floor. Unless the right combination of computers are accessed, the doors will trap those attempting. Two small side rooms provide storage and an escape route from the traps. A GECK can be found here in the northeastern room in the left survival locker in the back Survival Gear room. It is south of the detention level and connects to the presidential level.
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Presidential level
Home of the offices of President Dick Richardson, Vice-President Bird, and Richardson's secretary. It also contains a bomb, a war room, a conference room, and medical facilities where testing on the FEV is conducted. A rear staircase connects it to the reactor level, and an emergency stairwell connects it to the detention level.
Doctor Charles Curling has his office at the northwestern end. Talking to him gives an opportunity for the Chosen One to convince him that humans on the mainland are part of the same species as the Enclave, potentially triggering a crisis of conscience that leads him to dump FEV Curling-13 into the ventilation that will kill off all non-protected personnel within 30 minutes. He will inoculate the Chosen One and use an aerosol inoculation on the imprisoned tribe members and vault dwellers so that they aren't affected.
Reactor level
The deepest level of the rig, houses the central computer, the rig's power generators, a small barracks and several scientists and citizens to maintain the former two. It is only accessible by a staircase on the presidential level.
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Notes
- The soundtrack music for the location is Followers' Credo, which was originally used for the Boneyard Library in Fallout.
- Colonel Augustus Autumn, the primary antagonist of Fallout 3, grew up on the Enclave Oil Rig.[Pub 1]
Appearances
Control Station ENCLAVE appears in Fallout 2, and is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76.
Behind the scenes
- According to Chris Avellone, the number of permanent residents on the oil rig was between 60 and 80.[Dev 1]
- The exact coordinates provided by the central computer for Navarro in-game place the oil rig 135 miles inland, between Fresno and Mariposa, California, in a small pond in Raymond, California.
- The oil rig is mentioned in the Fallout Bible.[Dev 2]
- For additional real world information about this topic, check out the Independent Fallout Wiki's Real World article.
Gallery
Dean's Electronics, detention level
Dean's Electronics, barracks' storage
First Aid Book, barracks' storage
Scout Handbook, storage
First Aid Book, experimentation lab
First Aid Book and Scout Handbook, Trap level
Guns and Bullets, detention level
The PMV Valdez approaching the Oil Rig
The explosion of the oil rig in the endgame cutscene
The mushroom cloud from the explosion
Talking heads backdrop
Videos
References
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- ↑ Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p. 66: "Colonel Augustus Autumn
Autumn grew up on an oil rig off the California coast (the base of operations for the Enclave, the secretive contingent of the United States government that survived after the apocalypse). His father was the high-ranking Enclave scientist on orders from the president to move all high-ranking officials to the only other secure Enclave location with a functioning ZAX super-computer, Raven Rock. Colonel Autumn has proven to be far less subservient than his scientist father, often openly disagreeing with the president's decisions."
(Fallout 3 Official Game Guide/Wasteland Census)
- ↑ Question: "I was just wondering how many people were part of the Enclave. How many lived out on the Poseidon Oil Rig and were there others at different locations around the planet/continent? Thanks."
Chris Avellone: "There were 60-80 people stationed on the Poseidon Oil Rig, and yes, there were/are other remnants of the federal government scattered across the planet and the continent, but as to whether they were affiliated with the Enclave is unknown."
(Ask Chris Avellone on Vault13.net (archived) - ↑ Fallout Bible 0 Timeline repair: Second strike: "2077 March Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the president and the Enclave retreats to remote sections around the globe and make contingency plans for continuing the war."
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