The Y-17 medical facility is a location in Big MT in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Background[]
Pre-War[]
Prior to the Great War, the medical facility was focused on the development of the Y-17 trauma override harness, a semi-mechanical full body suit capable of locating and retrieving injured people and bringing them to a safe location for medical treatment. Initial tests appeared successful, and the researchers began drawing up designs of testing the suits' ability to mimic the behavior of their passengers, up to becoming capable of operating discarded weaponry for additional defensive measures during military combat scenarios.
However, over time, the Y-17 staff discovered that the suits had several design flaws, including that identifying the threshold of injury that would activate the suits to transport a subject was difficult, a lack of a programmed "home base" location would cause them to wander aimlessly, and critically, that the suits were unable to discern between an injured subject and a dead one; the latter was considered by the researchers as an acceptable feature since they could simply double as a tool for corpse retrieval in such cases.[1]
Post-War[]
Sometime before 2281, the Circle of Steel assassin Christine Royce, after pursuing her target, the rogue Brotherhood of Steel elder Father Elijah to the Big Empty, made a failed assassination attempt on him at his base in Little Yangtze; Elijah sent the ghoulified inhabitants wearing explosive collars against her as a distraction, resulting in Christine being knocked out and later captured by robots sent by the Think Tank who brought her to the medical facility. In the facility, she was experimented on, including undergoing extensive ECT (electroshock therapy) resulting in her losing her ability to read and write, though retaining her higher faculties and ability to do compelx math.[2][3]
At an indeterminate point after Christine's capture, the medical facility was attacked by Ulysses who used explosives to break in, followed by rescuing her from her cell and taking her to his camp to nurse her back to health.[2]
Layout[]
Situated between the X-8 research center to the northeast and Higgs Village to the southwest in the ordinal southeast side of Big MT, the facility consists of a large main room, consisting of two levels, and a cell block in a side room. The main room is filled with computers and desks surrounding a buried and inoperative Auto-Doc in a lower area, in the center of the room. Hostile Mister Orderly robots inhabit all levels of the facility including the unique enemy Doctor Orderly MD PHD DDS. The cell block cannot be accessed until one acquires the upgraded sonic emitter from the X-8 research center.
Notable loot[]
- Sink Project: Auto-Doc - Leaning against a typewriter on a desk on the northeastern side of the room on the upper catwalk.
- Auto-Doc Upgrade: Implant C-13 - On a desk in the south corner of the main room on the lower level, in front of a destroyed terminal.
- Auto-Doc Upgrade: Cosmetic Enhancements - On a cabinet shelf on the southeastern edge of the mid-level catwalk.
- Christine's CoS recon armor - a unique variant of the recon armor, found near the wreckage in the sunken center of the main room.
- One Stealth Boy - Near Christine's recon armor in the sunken center of the main room.
- Valence radii-accentuator - Carried by Doctor Orderly MD PHD DDS.
- Sterilizer glove - On the counter of the large electronic console just inside the force-field-protected doorway of the holding cells room on the southwestern end of the main room.
- Patient log Y-17.0 - In the holding cells room, on the floor in the doorway of a cell on the southeast side of the cells next to the torn off cell door.
Notes[]
- The cell formerly inhabited by Christine contains a small chalk-mark Brotherhood logo.
- Upon taking the sterilizer glove from the console in the cell block, three lobotomites will spawn at the entrance of the facility.
- The facility's front door is marked with a red Old World flay symbol left by Ulysses.
- The patient log recorded by Christine found in this location mentions Y-17 trauma override harnesses operating the facility, but none are encountered within the building or its immediate surrounding area at any point.
Appearances[]
The Y-17 medical facility appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues and is mentioned in the add-on Dead Money.
Behind the scenes[]
Joshua Sawyer confirmed in a Tumblr comment post that the Y-17 medical facility was the location where Christine Royce was disfigured as mentioned in her backstory in Dead Money.[Non-game 1]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Y-17 medical facility terminal entries
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patient log Y-17.0
- ↑ The Courier: "Can the Auto-Doc heal your scars?"
Christine Royce: "While I was hunting Elijah in the Big Empty, he trapped me in one of those medical research centers buried there." It... did something to my head... and I got off lucky. It's difficult enough to read now, and somehow the leap between what's in my head and words... ...it just ends up being a mish-mash of symbols, not letters. Can still do math, formulas, equations... writing poetry's out.
The Courier: "You said you got off lucky?"
Christine Royce: "Yeah... I saw records of other "patients," and what had been done to them. Some couldn't hear anything but static. Others, just... gibbering wrecks. Never going back... and Elijah was on his way here, so I couldn't stop to see if it was something I could fix... ...if you can even fix what happened to me when they jabbed the electrodes into my skull and turned my head into a flashlight. Then I got here, and my voice got severed... now I have a new one. "Another thing Elijah has to answer for."
(Christine's Dead Money dialogue)
Non-game