Bloomfield Space Center design document / 1 This is part 1 of the Bloomfield Space Center design document for " Van Buren " , the canceled " Fallout 3 " by Black Isle Studios . Overview . Bloomfield Space Center , surprisingly enough , survived the atomic war – well , for the most part . Thanks to its very remote location in southwest Arizona , the only real damage that the space center received was from time and weather – and also the current occupants . The current occupants in question are the Rusty Hooks , as they like to be called . Comprised of two - dozen raiders , the Rusty Hooks came upon the remains of the Bloomfield Space Center about one year ago , drawn to the sight by tall , pointed structures ( two space rockets ) that could be seen on the horizon ( however , by the time the PC arrives at Bloomfield , Dr . Presper and his NCR guys have already taken the other space rocket to B . O . M . B . - 001 ) . The leader , Kyle " the Hook , " knew they found a special location and decreed among his faithful that this facility would be their permanent residence and base of operations . The raiders then took up occupancy in the building that was once used for flight operations and communications . From there they managed to get the sub - reactor working ( barely ) to power the building and the rest of the grounds . However , the Rusty Hooks found out the hard way that the five high powered turret s surrounding the launch pad and the space rockets were active and had no connection to the sub - reactor they worked on ( two of the Rusty Hooks found out the bloody way that the turrets were active and deadly ) . Suffice it to say that the members of the Rusty Hooks kept a respectful distance from the launch pad and the well preserved , twin space rockets , but that situation didn ' t bother them . All they needed was located right in the building they called home ; a healthy weapons and ammo cache stored in the security block of the Operations and Communications building . The Rusty Hooks are known to make regular raids on caravan s from the tribe s in the area – the area being pretty much all of Arizona . Raids have been known to last upwards of a month or so . Just about anything is fair game to them , and they are willing to trade with anyone who does not have a problem with where they get their merchandise – though very few people in the wasteland know about the Bloomfield Space Center or how to get there . However , the Launch Pad and the twin space rockets are very visible from the horizon , so those who have seen it usually wander to Bloomfield in curiosity . Unfortunately , those who do happen to find the facility rarely lives long enough to go and tell anyone else , thanks to the turrets guarding the Launch Pad ' s perimeter . Should someone be lucky enough to live after finding the Bloomfield Space Center , they would find that there is a touch of dissent within the ranks . Bear , Kyle ' s super mutant bodyguard and right - hand man , seems obviously more intelligent than Kyle and seems to be the one who dishes out better ideas to help the Rusty Hooks . However , Bear also seems somewhat content being the voice behind the man in power , and no one else would dare to usurp Kyle ' s authority with Bear backing him up . If the player has completed his quest of returning all the prisoners to the Big MT , then by the time the player arrives at Bloomfield , Dr . Presper and some of his NCR buddies have taken the other space rocket , Hermes - 14 , and launched to dock with B . O . M . B . - 001 . Four NCR guys stayed behind to guard the remaining space rocket , in addition to coming to an agreement with the Rusty Hooks . The Rusty Hooks would stay away from the launch pad and the NCR guards wouldn ' t kill them . Also , the Rusty Hooks would provide them with food and such and the NCR guys would provide additional protection should the need arise ( NCR tech is much higher than the Rusty Hooks ) . The Area is composed of three maps Map Flowchart & Layout for Bloomfield Space Center . " Legend " Area Background . 2073 was a turbulent year . Nuclear proliferation reached an all time high . As a reaction to possible nuclear threats , the U . S . government completed a space station / satellite that housed two - dozen nuclear missiles each carrying four warheads . Named the Ballistic Orbital Missile Base , or the B . O . M . B . - 001 , it was considered the ultimate offensive weapon . The only things missing were the main power reactor and launch instructions and codes . However , since all other space and rocket facilities already used up their resources constructing the missiles for the station , and launching the cargo rockets to carry them to the base , the U . S . needed to scramble to get the much needed codes and a power reactor to the station . Their answer was to use the new Bloomfield Space Center , which was in the process of building a rocket that would go to Mars , and convert the Mars rocket into the vehicle that would carry the codes and reactor to the base . The conversion started in 2074 . So , in August , 2076 , the Hermes - 13 space rocket was completed and ready to launch at Bloomfield . Unfortunately , by October , 2076 , funding for the rocket and Bloomfield had to be drastically cut and diverted to vault technology , thanks in large part to the rising world tensions and imminent threat of nuclear war – the launch of Hermes - 13 had to be put on hold . All personnel , except for a skeleton maintenance crew , were reassigned to other locations . Bloomfield , B . O . M . B . - 001 , and Hermes - 13 were essentially mothballed . In November , 2076 , the Enclave seized control of Bloomfield Space Center . They knew nuclear war was just around the corner , so they tried to refit the Hermes - 13 and convert it into a vehicle that would take selected personnel ( mainly themselves ) off - planet , destination yet to be determined . Unfortunately for the Enclave , the bombs started dropping less than a year later . All were either relocated to " hot - spots , " or took cover away from Bloomfield . The last people to leave shut down the sub - reactor to Bloomfield and abandoned the facility , letting Hermes - 13 and Bloomfield to brave the elements . For whatever reason , the facility never succumbed to nuclear attack . Only time and weather beat on the facility for almost two - hundred years , and neither was very kind . However , Hermes - 13 managed to stand proud through the centuries , perhaps in hope that one day it would be allowed to carry out its mission . The ruined grounds , dark , cold , and dirty buildings , and rusted launch platform super - structure might have laid dormant forever if it weren ' t for the wandering and greedy spirits of the Rusty Hooks ; a band of raiders who wandered the wasteland . In the scorching summer heat of 2252 , the Rusty Hooks came upon the remote base of Bloomfield . Kyle " the Hook " , the raider leader , knew they had stumbled upon a great potential home . There were plenty of defensible areas , a potential for a rich cache of materials , and that giant pointy thing ( Hermes - 13 ) must be a source of great power . With the eloquence of a junior - high drama student pretending to know and quote the great works of Shakespeare , Kyle declared the Bloomfield Space Center the Rusty Hooks ' new base of operations . One of the first things Kyle wanted to do was find out if the facility had a power source . He ordered Sid , the apprehensive mechanic / scientist of the group , to seek out and find a power source , and find a way to get power running . After about two weeks of swearing , threats on Sid ' s life , and a few deep bruises , Sid managed to not only find the sub - reactor , but he got the thing running – albeit at only forty - five percent efficiency . However , even by bringing this sub - reactor online , the turrets surrounding Hermes - 13 ended up killing two Rusty Hooks who ventured too close . It seems the turrets were running on a different power source and operations computer . It was bad enough that no one in the group could cut through the titanium fencing surrounding the Launch Pad , or climb over ten feet of titanium barb wire , but the gattling turret s mounted high on thorned posts exacerbated the giant pointy thing ' s ( Hermes - 13 ) inaccessibility . Kyle ordered that the power be shut down so they could figure out a way to disable the turrets ( not really being able to figure out that the turrets were on a different power source and computer – I told you he wasn ' t that smart ) , but it seems that once power was turned back on , even if it was not at full efficiency , it could not be turned off without using the proper " security access codes " - whatever those things might be . So , in a flood of cascading wisdom , Kyle decreed the area near the giant pointy thing off limits . Since then , Kyle and his band organized several raids on caravans throughout Arizona , as well as doing some trade with assorted scum of the wastelands . Sid was tasked with figuring out a way to make the sub - reactor more efficient , as well as scavenge the grounds and create something useful – what that something could be , no one ever explained to poor Sid .