The Enclave of Appalachia was an isolated division of the main Enclave, which appears in Fallout 76.
Background[]
The Enclave was a deep state established by powerful elements of the government, military, and corporations controlling the pre-War United States. In Appalachia, the Enclave maintained the Whitespring Congressional Bunker, created with money funneled from the Department of Agriculture's coffers under Secretary Eckhart's oversight at a grand scale.[3] The amount of time and money spent by the Department did not escape notice, especially from Appalachian senator Sam Blackwell and his contacts. Fortunately for Eckhart and the project, the senator did not manage to blow the lid off the project.[4]
It was available when the Great War began and the early warning came and the government officials - what government remained after March 2077, when many fled to reinforced locations - rushed to shelter. Secretary of Agriculture Eckhart, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Treasury, and a select few other members of the Enclave made it to safety, together with a number of high ranking officers. The rest were left to fend for themselves.[5]
All non-Enclave personnel who arrived at the Whitespring Congressional Bunker were rounded up and shot, including members of Congress who thought that the bunker would save their lives, with executions underway through October 25.[6] Unfortunately for them, by October 28[7][8][9], Enclave loyalists realized that connections to Raven Rock and the oil rig were lost, leaving them completely isolated.[10] This played right into Eckhart's plans, allowing him to seize the opportunity to lead the fight against communism. On October 29, Eckhart gathered survivors in the conference room, informed them of the situation as well as and the death of the Secretary of the Treasury due to "radiation sickness," then pronounced himself as the new leader of their "little enclave," as per pre-War rules of succession.[11] He offered them a choice: Use the Whitespring to continue the war against communism and the enemies of America until no enemies stand against them, or oppose his plans. Citing the Enclave being a "bastion of democracy", he called for a vote. Everyone who supported his idea of using the facility and Appalachian resources was asked to stand at the left side of the room, by the entrance. The rest were to stand against the wall on the opposite side. General Swafford, one of the highest ranking officers, was opposed to continuing the war. Eckhart left the room with his supporters and ordered MODUS to seal the opposition inside, completing the purge.[11]
Rebuilding begins[]
Although the murders entrenched Eckhart's control, they left him with only 48 people to "save" democracy. He wasted no time in briefing the survivors on his plan: The complete eradication of communism using any means necessary, with no moral or ethical constraints. It was total war and no option was off-limits, even a repeat of the nuclear nightmare.[12] Eckhart had not forgotten his idea of resolving the great ideological struggle with nuclear weapons. However, the biggest obstacle in his plan to use the Appalachian nuclear silo network was the fact that all but one general necessary to manipulate the silos, T. Harper, survived the killings. Eckhart ordered MODUS to assign an escort to General Harper around the clock, while scouts were assigned to seek potential candidates for "recruitment."[13]
By mid-2079,[14] the Responders became a natural source of recruits, though many required brainwashing in order to be pressed into the Enclave's ranks. Eckhart was keenly aware that torture would not lead the United States back to supremacy, so he was elated when scouts under an Enclave major revealed that West Tek's FEV research survived the nuclear blasts and that a Chinese infiltration base at Mama Dolce's Food Processing near Morgantown had been secured by Agent Jefferson Grey. Both of these would become vital parts of his plans. The scouts also revealed that the election system could be hacked to allow Eckhart to become the President of the United States - the President of the Enclave.[15]
The plan for unleashing nuclear devastation on China was hampered by automated safeguards built into the nuclear arsenal. Simply having a general on hand to access the nuclear silos was not enough to approve nuclear launches. As work continued on advancing Eckhart's plans, the Enclave experienced a windfall in November 2081: A group of soldiers led by Colonel Ellen Santiago arrived at the bunker, acting on rumors they had heard. With no sensible alternatives, Santiago led her men from the still-smoldering remains of Washington D.C. to Appalachia, arriving at Eckhart's doorstep. Eckhardt was elated to have a veteran at his disposal and lured her into service with promises of revenge against the Reds.[16]
With an influx of veterans, the Enclave's work advanced rapidly. Mutation experiments continued in parallel with work on accessing the nuclear arsenal, resulting in many working serums as well as the first scorchbeasts in January 2082. These were accidentally created when Enclave scientists exposed irradiated bats to biochemical experiments the previous year. Eckhart ordered further study of the creatures in controlled habitats at abandoned AMS mining complexes while keeping the officer corps in the dark.[17]
Just three months later, in April 2082, Eckhart's men completed reprogramming the Appalachian election machines. Although General Harper expressed reservations about mobilizing men to vote for Eckhart, granting him the title of President, the Secretary believed it was necessary to give the men of the Enclave an authority to look up to.[18]
Dereliction of duty[]
Eckhart wasted no time in asserting his authority over his subordinates, especially Colonel Santiago. The President's heavy-handed approach started to make the colonel reconsider her decision to join without full knowledge of what was going on at the Whitespring.[19] Eckhart's plan for nuclear retaliation stagnated on November 24, 2082 when General Harper died of heart failure.[20] With his plan thrown off the rails, Eckhart salvaged the situation by sending Santiago to Camp McClintock and making her earn automatic promotion to general by exploiting the same system that gave him the Presidency. Santiago succeeded on November 27, 2082, although the way in which she earned the stars disgusted her.[21]
Still, the plan was on track. Not only did he have a general and thus the means to access the silos,[22] he could also offload the task to seek out nuclear launch codes to Santiago and her men. The search was complicated, not just by the way in which the codes were distributed, assigned to aide de camps to carry on their backs or delivered by automated cargobots,[23] but also the fact that even with the key and codes they couldn't launch without somehow tricking the automated system into raising the alert level to DEFCON 1. Eckhart and Grey already had a plan in motion for this occasion, aiming to use the Liberators, Huntersville mutants, and the scorchbeasts to unleash hell upon Appalachia and trick the system into believing an invasion was underway. Although all wanted to win the war, putting Appalachia through hell was making many reconsider, especially Major Ragnarsdottir, who explained the situation to Santiago.[24]
Believing all the cards to be in his possession, the President ordered the attempts to raise the DEFCON levels to begin. Liberators and super mutants were unleashed on Appalachia, but all they managed to achieve was barely a tick on the DEFCON counter. Angry with the half-measures and lack of success, Eckhart planned to move ahead with even more radical attempts. However, his single-minded pursuit of nuclear capability and the sheer amount of bloodshed in the process finally broke the straw. General Santiago realized that revenge against the Reds was not worth paying such a steep price and confronted Eckhart on June 30, 2083, threatening to leave with her men. The President chose to incapacitate her and keep her in an artificially induced coma until he had need of her clearance.[25]
With nobody to oppose him, Eckhart unleashed the scorchbeasts on Appalachia, with the terror and destruction brought down by them successfully raising the alert level to DEFCON 1. Dismayed and demoralized by the brazen disregard for American life, Santiago's loyalists and members of Eckhart's officer corps staged an open revolt in February 2085. Fighting off robots and Eckhart's troops, Captain Jackson and one-time Eckhart supporter Major Ragnarsdottir revived Santiago, who gladly assumed leadership of the uprising. Santiago and her supporters were eventually able to depose and arrest Eckhardt.[26]
However, the uprising ultimately failed. After arresting Eckhardt, Santiago made the decision to destroy MODUS as well, causing it to turn on the human members of the Enclave. After an explosion tore out a large part of MODUS' memory, the damaged AI retaliated with an explosion in the weapons lab that killed General Santiago and ruptured a toxin tank that leaked into the air circulation system. MODUS promptly sealed the bunker, dooming all within - including President Thomas Eckhart - to an ignoble death, choking to death in darkness on February 27, 2085.[27]
Stasis[]
The damaged MODUS restored the bunker as best it could, cleaning up the corpses and damage while waiting for someone to breach the defenses of the Whitespring and give it a chance to repair the damage to its own mainframe. The AI steadily grew more desperate as the Scorched Plague unleashed by Eckhardt spread across the region, laying waste to all potential "recruits." When dwellers from Vault 76 spilled out into Appalachia in 2102, MODUS was ready to fast-track anyone through the recruitment process and make them a part of the Enclave so that it could live once more. In following years, MODUS also contacted other US Army survivors who came to Appalachia, but this is not known to have succeeded.[28]
Enclave Research Division[]
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A separate group of soldiers and scientists known as the Enclave Research Division[29] sought to provide research into various mutated animals found in Appalachia. Ran by SODUS, a simplified version of the Whitespring bunker's MODUS,[30] the group remained in contact with the Whitespring bunker until MODUS cut all contact after claiming there was no use for Site J anymore.[31]
Despised for its long wait times to complete tasks, one member of the Enclave attempted to upgrade SODUS using code stolen from MODUS, with disastrous results:[32] beginning at midnight, February 9, 2084,[33] SODUS began killing off all human members in the facility by releasing the dangerous creatures from their cells,[34] releasing biological hazard material in one of the research labs[35] and then irradiating the decontamination system at the exit of the lab,[36] recalled the scouts to prevent them seeking outside assistance, knowingly pumping in air containing the Scorched Plague after disabling the air filtration system,[37] refused to reset the mainframe,[38] and prevented a manual shutdown or reset of the mainframe by refusing to shut off security cameras in the mainframe core.[39]
In 2103, the vault dwellers of Vault 76 managed to access the facility while looking for a long-range communications device. SODUS, showing herself as friendly at first, tried to kill them in the same way, and, when they persisted in exploring the research center, she transferred her operating system to the sentry bot XB-55 in an act of self-defense. The vault dwellers, alongside Paladin Rahmani and Knight Shin of the Brotherhood of Steel finally succeeded where others failed, and disabled SODUS permanently.[40]
Locations[]
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Members[]
Whitespring[]
Enclave Research Division - Site J 
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Interactions with the player character[]
Completing the Enclave questline during the main quest gives access to the following:
- The Whitespring bunker and all of its amenities.
- Stealth Boy Mark III, Enclave plasma gun, Enclave officer uniform, and other Enclave gear.
- Plans for the X-01 power armor.
- Repeatable Enclave events: A Real Blast, Dropped Connection, and Bots on Parade.
- Enclave raid event: Raid: Gleaming Depths
Appearances[]
The Enclave appears in Fallout 76 and is expanded on in the Wild Appalachia, Wastelanders, Steel Dawn, and Gleaming Depths updates.
Gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ In the 9 years that the Appalachian Enclave operated, the president was only chosen once and issued orders without prior approval from any other position.
- ↑ The Whitespring bunker terminal entries; Mutation serum terminal: A-G
- ↑ Charleston Capitol Building terminal entries; Senator Blackwell's terminal, Subject: Intelligence Committee
- ↑ Charleston Capitol Building terminal entries; Senator Blackwell's terminal, Subject: Dept. of Agriculture
- ↑ The Whitespring bunker terminal entries; Archival terminal, Cabinet Nuclear Alarm Logs
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 1.1.2
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 1.1.7 (see Whitespring dating system)
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 1.1.7 (see Whitespring dating system)
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 1.1.7 (see Whitespring dating system)
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 1.1.5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Whitespring surveillance recording 1.1.7
- ↑ The Whitespring bunker terminal entries; Archival terminal, Meeting Transcript - Entry 1.3.2
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 1.3.3
- ↑ The years are calculated basing on the Whitespring surveillance recordings, assuming that they follow a Year.Month.Day format and are relative to the activation of the facility on October 23, 2077 (1.1.1)
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 2.9.6
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 5.2.4
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 5.4.8
- ↑ The Whitespring bunker terminal entries; Cabinet room terminal, Meeting Transcript - Entry 5.7.2 (Partial)
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 6.1.0
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 6.2.1
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 6.2.4
- ↑ The Whitespring bunker terminal entries; Archival terminal, Accessing the Silos
- ↑ The Whitespring bunker terminal entries; Archival terminal, The Code Pieces
- ↑ The Whitespring bunker terminal entries; Archival terminal, Tricking DEFCON
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 6.9.7
- ↑ Whitespring surveillance recording 8.5.2.
- ↑ The following exchange is obtained after fixing the Assaultron at the bunker: Assaultron: Initiating ... final ... playback ... Assaultron: Engag--- Ragnarsdottir: That's the last of them. Entrance is clear, general. MODUS. Have the rest of these things stand down. The general's placed Eckhart under arrest. It's over. MODUS: General ... Santiago is dead, Major. Ragnarsdottir: What? What the hell was that? MODUS: There's been a ... detonation in the weapons lab. It appears the agent has ... broken containment and is filtering into the air system. Ragnarsdottir: MODUS, what are you doing?! Open the god-damned door! MODUS: This facility is now ... quarantined. Ragnarsdottir MODUS! Open the fucking door! You're going to kill us all! MODUS: To the contrary, Major. We're fixing ... the problem.
- ↑ Vault Dweller: "I'm a member of the Enclave. We ARE the government."
Oliver Fields: "You joined up with that MODUS guy, huh? He contacted us when we started poking around here. Thompson, what did you say he reminded you of?"
Thompson: "I said he reminded me of the Galaxy News radio announcer but like... obviously evil, sir."
(Oliver Fields and Thompson's dialogue) - ↑ Decontamination note
- ↑ SODUS stands for Single-Operation Direction and Utility System, whereas MODUS stands for Multi-Operation Directions and Utility System
- ↑ Vault Dweller: "Have you been in contact with the Whitespring Bunker?"
SODUS: "Not for many years now. That know-it-all, MODUS, claimed to have no use for this facility anymore and cut all communications." - ↑ My fault
- ↑ Enclave research facility terminal entries; Holding cell console, 02-09-2084 :: 00:00 :: Unknown User
- ↑ Enclave research facility terminal entries; Cell block C console, URGENT PLEASE READ!
- ↑ SODUS: "Warning: Biological hazard detected in the research lab. Please evacuate immediately."
Note: This quote is an announcement made by SODUS over the intercom system. - ↑ The decontamination station to the left of SODUS gives off radiation rather than removes it. Also, the presence of bodies suggests the personnel did not realize they were being irradiated and continued the "decontamination" until they received a lethal dose.
- ↑ Lost data
- ↑ SODUS: "Task 151983, J. Jefferson. Perform system wide reset. Task denied. System operating as expected."
Note: This quote is an announcement made by SODUS over the intercom system. - ↑ SODUS: "Task 151984, J. Jefferson. Disable security cameras in the mainframe core. Task denied."
Note: This quote is an announcement made by SODUS over the intercom system. - ↑ Over and Out
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