Crashed space station

The Valiant-1, known as the crashed space station in-game, was a United States Space Administration space station that once orbited Earth before the Great War.
==Background==
Sometime prior to entering deep sleep in 2070, astronaut Sofia Daguerre spent some time on the station,Grahm: "Hey. Hey you. You different than the other squishies. You seem fresh. Not stinky. How so not stinky?"Commander Sofia Daguerre: "Oh, uh, well. Okay. Thanks? It's probably because I haven't been irradiated and soaked with all the despair yet. No doubt I'll probably start... stinking... soon though. Being in space kept me safe from a lot of things for a while."Grahm: "SPACE?! You're from... the MOON?! Or... the SUN?! Or... the little TWINKLES?!"Commander Sofia Daguerre: ""Grahm: "Can you take Chally to Space? Chally want to fly someday. Grahm okay with the ground. But Chally have dreams."Commander Sofia Daguerre: "Uh... I haven't been able to get in touch with the USSA ---"Grahm: "What do Space people eat? You eat meat? Space meat?! MOON MEAT?"Commander Sofia Daguerre: ""Grahm: "Oh! Greenies. Like Chally. SEE? Chally is ready for SPACE! Chally is going to the MOON!"Commander Sofia Daguerre: ""Grahm: "Chally isn't Moo-Moo for long! Soon Chally is MOON-MOON!"Commander Sofia Daguerre: ""(Grahm and Sofia Daguerre's dialogue) though little is known about her time there. Left in orbit after the nuclear holocaust, orbital decay and lack of thrust maintenance led the space station to fall back to Earth and crash in the former state of West Virginia, in the area known as the Toxic Valley.
In 2103, the station's wreckage was fortified by Meg Groberg's Raiders and used as their headquarters, renaming it to the Crater. One of the raiders, Caleb Fisher, managed to access the station's computers. According to his analysis of surviving documents from the wreckage, they were building a device in the space station. Dubbing it the "Space Beam" project for lack of better words, Fisher doesn't know if it was some kind of weapon or communications system, since there was a lot of missing information, and it will probably take him years to figure it out.The Core terminal entries; Fisher's terminal, Space Beam
==Characteristics==
Valiant-1 is a circular space station designed like an orbiting wheel. At the center was the command core (which was later converted into a raider encampment), where the main base of controlling the station was present. The module is then connected via connection tubes towards the rotating ring. These rings, such as Airlock C7, contained cargo and pressurized doors to allow spacecraft to dock on Valiant-1.
== Noteworthy loot ==
* Airlock C7 inventory list
== Notes ==
*Daguerre may or may not have been aboard the Valiant-1.
** There would be too much wreckage, between the two crash sites, for just one circular space station--but there is an illogical excess of wreckage in the vicinity of the space station already.
** Daguerre's crash may have somehow occurred in 2103. The location was not present before Wastelanders.
** Daguerre tells Grahm she was on "The Space Station."
==Appearances==
The crashed space station appeared , and was expanded upon in the Wastelanders update.
==Behind the scenes==
*The appearance and design of Valiant-1 (a torus with external engines) resemble the planned design of Ballistic Orbital Missile Base 001 and Ballistic Orbital Missile Base 002, which would have been locations in the canceled Fallout 3 project by Black Isle Studios, codenamed Van Buren. B.O.M.B.-002 would even have crashed into Earth similarly to Valiant-1, and would be located in the Grand Canyon; while B.O.M.B.-001 would have still been in orbit and have been the location of the game's climax. 
** At 13:59 in Noclip's 2018 documentary The Making of Fallout 76, the crashed space station concept art is filmed as it hangs on the walls of Bethesda's studio. In this version, a B.O.M.B.-01 logo is visible on the side of the space station.The Making of Fallout 76 - Noclip Documentary (YouTube)
** ATHENA was the name of an AI on the space station in 76 and an Enclave power armor project in Van Buren.
** The late Ferret Baudoin was a developer on both games.
** Additionally, the Grafton Monster's design strongly resembles a Gehenna, a creature from Van Buren.
* Level designer Craig Bernardo worked on the crashed space station location's original layout.Craig Bernardo - Fallout 76
* According to level designer Steve Massey, the crashed space station was selected as the site of the Raiders' settlement for the Wastelanders update as the team had always wanted to do more with the space station since the game's initial release.BGS_Steve on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
* If one clips underground at Daguerre's crash site in the Mire, they will find a large interior section of a space station with identical architecture. 
* A rotating wheel space station is a real-world concept, though it never progressed past the design and model stages. The concept was proposed by Werhner von Braun in 1950, utilizing Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's theory that a spinning ring could be used in a weightless environment to create artificial gravity. The gravity would be dependent upon the size of the ring and by how fast it would spin. NASA has entertained the concept as early as 1975.
** Such a space station reentering Earth's atmosphere would be torn apart by friction and deceleration. Sixty to ninety percent of its mass would burn away, and whatever remained would rain down over an area of several hundred miles.
==Gallery==
===Pre-Wastelanders===
SpaceStation-E3-Fallout76.png|Pre-release screenshot
Fo76 Crashed space station BETA.png|At dusk
Valiant Space Station.png|In the evening
FO76 Crashed space station (1).png|From afar
FO76 Crashed space station (2).png|Passageway
FO76 Crashed space station (3).png|Skeleton and petrified corpse
FO76 Crashed space station (4).png|Airlock C7 exterior
FO76 Crashed space station (5).png|Airlock C7 interior
FO76 Crashed space station (Airlock C7 inventory list).png|Airlock C7 inventory list
FO76 Crashed space station (6).png|Top/bottom of station
FO76 Crashed space ship vessel name.png|Vessel name Valiant 1 painted on chassis
FO76 Crashed space station (scientist).png|Dead scientist
FO76 Crashed space station (7).jpg|Cooler in tubing
FO76 Crashed space station (c7 door).jpg|C7 door
FO76 Crashed space station (3).jpg|Closed door
FO76 Crashed space station (at night).jpg
ToxicValley-Fallout76.jpg|Space station in the background
PowerArmor Crashed space station.png|Power armor
FO76 Crashed space station (at night).jpg
The Crater76.jpg|Concept art
Icon space station.png|Map icon for the crashed space station
===Post-Wastelanders===
FO76 The Crater Evening.png|Overview
FO76_WL_Crater.png|Promotional image
FO76WL_Crater_Hub.jpg|The central hub
FO76WL_Salute.jpg|Saluting the raider vendor
FO76 Misc lox 7.png
FO76 Misc lox 13.png|Some fun artwork
FO76 081120 Yellow bungalow.png
FO76WL TheCore.png
==References==
Non-game
Category:Satellites and spacecraft
Category:United States Space Administration
es:Estación espacial estrellada
fr:Station spatiale écrasée