Outcast outpost

The Outcast outpost (also VSS FacilityOperation: Anchorage loading screens: "The Brotherhood Outcasts now control the VSS Facility, and hope to gain access to the advanced technology contained within." or VSS OutpostAiding the Outcasts, Quest Stage 30) is a small Brotherhood Outcast compound located in a relatively pristine pre-War military bunker in the Capital Wasteland in 2277. The building itself was under construction, with only the superstructure, elevator and the VSS Bunker completed. It is the primary location for the Fallout 3 add-on Operation: Anchorage.
==Background==
The Outcasts have set up in the remains of the VSS Facility, a pre-War compound of Virtual Strategic Solutions, to get the combat gear stored in the VSS armory and any other equipment they can acquire.
Their previous efforts are illustrated by a dead Gary clone (numbered 23), who can be found in an Easy-locked room on the left just before the doorway of the room with the simulation pod. His arm is dismembered and it appears he was beaten to death with brass knuckles, as implied by the blood trail around a chair in the room's center and a pair of brass knuckles sitting on a table nearby. They tried to reason with the clone to take off his Pip-Boy 3000 but, due to having been the product of a failed cloning experiment, he was unable to understand. The Outcasts then proceeded to attempt to remove it forcefully, as can be read in the interrogation log which was cut before release and can only be obtained through console commands.
==Layout==
===Exterior===
The exterior of the outpost is an underground parking/delivery area at the base of a half-made superstructure that is guarded by up to four Outcasts, including Defender Morrill, and two Mark IV turrets.
===Interior===
Most of the Outcasts stationed at the facility are down here, along with a dead Gary clone in a locked room. The surface elevator leads to a small collapsed chamber with a door to a two-story utility room guarded by two ceiling-mounted turrets. To the right of the room is a tiny side chamber behind a door that is entirely collapsed and has a milk crate filled with Abraxo Cleaner. Underneath the milk crate, the white container is full of Jet and Buffout bottles. Through the main doorway, a T-shaped hallway links to a nuclear generator room with nothing of interest, a research room with lots of storage and a password-protected terminal called the VSS research terminal, a medical room with Gary 23, a staircase leading to a bedroom with one bed and a gun cabinet, and the VSS armory with all the loot mentioned below.
==Inhabitants==
* Defender Morrill
* Defender Sibley
* Protector McGraw
* Specialist Olin
* Brotherhood Outcasts
* Gary 23 
==Notable loot==
* Gauss rifle - In the armory after completing the simulation.
* Jingwei's shocksword - In the armory after completing the simulation.
* Trench knife - In the armory after completing the simulation.
* Chinese stealth armor - In the armory after completing the simulation.
* Winterized T-51b power armor - In the armory after completing the simulation.
* Mini nuke - In the armory after completing the simulation.
* Neural interface suit - Given by Specialist Olin
* Outcast scribe robe - Worn by Specialist Olin
==Related quests==
* Aiding the Outcasts
==Notes==
* A locked terminal (Very Easy) in the room where McGraw is located provides details on how the Anchorage Reclamation simulation was developed. Hacking it will not result in Karma loss.
* Even if one takes everything from the armory, the Outcasts will still comment on how they are cataloging everything they found.
* There are at least three (inaccessible) other floors to the VSS Bunker that can be seen during the cinematic of going down the elevator to the main level.
* Followers will not go down to the outpost, and will remain on the surface. If they are not there, search between Bailey's Crossroads and the outpost as they may have wandered off.
* Sometimes, McGraw and other Outcasts inside the Outcast outpost may say "Casdin said you're clear" after one gets the trust of the Outcasts.
* If one places clothing in Gary 23's inventory, then goes back up to the surface and back down again, he will be wearing the clothing placed in his inventory. His arm bits will also be there with him. Removing all clothing will revert him back to wearing his Vault 108 jumpsuit upon the next entry to the facility.
* If one wears full Outcast power armor upon first entering the base, the Outcasts will assume that the player character is one of them, and express this through dialogue.
* If the player character wears only the Outcast power armor, but not the power helmet, Defender Morrill will question where they got it from before entering the outpost.
* Wearing Linden's Outcast power armor will not make the Outcasts treat the player character as a member of the Outcasts.
* It is possible to use this location as a player home as it comes with an armory, room, defensive turrets and plenty of storage.
* The super mutants outside of the outpost will respawn.
==Appearances==
The Outcast outpost appears only .
==Bugs==
* The elevator occasionally starts at the bottom of the shaft, with the door closed, if you should get stuck in the bottom of the shaft, activate the switch. You should go up now, taking you back outside.
* Pressing the switch while leaving the outpost and running out of the elevator will lock the player character in the outpost. One can see the elevator going up while doing so, then it stops with the outline of a clear door closed, along with the elevator gate closed. To avoid this, press the button while inside the elevator to travel back to the surface. If the player gets stuck, the only way to leave is to load a previous save.
==Gallery==
Outcast outpost sim pod.jpg|Sim pod
FO3 Op Anch location 50.jpg
Outcast outpost McGraw's room.jpg|Protector McGraw
Outcast outpost generator.jpg|Generator
OO utility room.jpg|Utility room
FO3 sealed armory.jpg|The interior of the sealed armory
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FO3 sealed armory2.jpg|Gauss rifle
FO3 sealed armory3.jpg|Jingwei's shocksword, trench knife and Chinese assault rifle
FO3 sealed armory4.jpg|Chinese stealth armor and mini nuke
FO3 sealed armory5.jpg|Winterized T-51b power armor
Bailey's Crossroads map.jpg|Exterior local map
==References==
 
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