The Nucleus

The Nucleus, known before the War as the Mount Desert Island Naval Facility,The Nucleus terminal entries; Captain Wabash's terminal is a location on the Island in 2287.
==Background==
The Nucleus is a pre-War United States Navy submarine base, still housing the derelict USS Democracy in its dry dock. While there for repairs and refitting,The Nucleus terminal entries; Captain Wabash's terminal, SUBJ: VR System the submarine's reactor was sabotaged by the captain, Arnold Wabash. With the Democracys nuclear reactor leaking radiation, its crew and captain were recalled while a hazmat team worked around the clock to clean the facility and make the submarine usable again. However, the process would take weeks to complete. Admiral Edward Grath suspected foul play, and informed Captain Wabash that he would file the court-martial personally if he was responsible.The Nucleus terminal entries; Captain Wabash's terminal, SUBJ: Containment Leak: "... A containment leak on the Democracy? Convenient, Arnold. Well, you got what you wanted. Your crew's been recalled and a hazmat team's been dispatched to clean the facility. It's going to be weeks until anyone can get inside safely, let alone deploy the sub.""For your sake, Arnold, I seriously hope this leak was an accident. Because if it wasn't, I'm going to file the court-martial paperwork myself." However, before the investigation could be conducted, the War struck. The personnel of the base would survive the nuclear bombardment, and so would the admiral,The Nucleus terminal entries; Captain Wabash's terminal, SUBJ: Where are you: "... We finally reestablished comms with Mount Desert today and now your XO tells me you haven't checked in in a week. To boot, he says the sub's launch key is missing. I should've thrown you in a cell when I had the chance. The East Coast is gone and if the Democracy was out there, maybe we could've saved New York. Or Washington. Or Boston.""This is on you, Arnold. Their deaths are on you. And if by some sick twist of fate you survived this mess, I'll personally make sure it's temporary." but not the captain.Safe room security tape
Following the War, the base lay idle, the radiation leaking from the docked submarine keeping people away, until around 2178. After DiMA landed on the Island, he found the facility and made it his home. Some time later, after the Children of Atom were exiled from Far Harbor, the congregation led by Confessor Martin were guided to the facility by the Mother of the Fog.The Sole Survivor: "How is it you came to this place?"Tektus: " "(Tektus' dialogue)The Sole Survivor: "What can you tell me about the Mother of the Fog?"Tektus: " "(Tektus' dialogue)Brian Richter: ""The Sole Survivor: "I drank from the spring and a woman led me to this icon. Does this mean something?"Brian Richter: ""The Sole Survivor: "Is there something special about this thing?"Brian Richter: ""The Sole Survivor: "It was... otherwordly. The woman, she was like a living shadow, cloaked in mist."Brian Richter: " "The Sole Survivor: "So what exactly happened to me at the spring?"Brian Richter: " "The Sole Survivor: "So was the Mother real?"Brian Richter: " "(Richter's dialogue) Afterward, DiMA departed to found Acadia, entrusting the base to the Children. They renamed the base the "Nucleus," converting it into a holy site of their cult.The Sole Survivor: "The Children of Atom on this island. You were helping them?"DiMA: "Yes. I know their faith in radiation as a type of god is a bit... different, but who am I to judge? I was using a submarine base as a home when Martin and his followers stumbled inside. They had been cast out of Far Harbor for their beliefs. When I left to found Acadia, I knew the base would be in safe hands. They needed a home. A place to belong, just like I did. But now Martin is gone, and his successor, Tektus, wants to finally end the feud with Far Harbor, by letting the Fog swallow them."(DiMA's dialogue) The fanatics seek to use the submarine's intact and functional nuclear warheads to enact a "Great Division." They tried and failed to hack the system, but without the nuclear launch key, they cannot activate the missiles.The Sole Survivor: "What can you tell me about the sub?"Aubert: ""(Aubert's dialogue)
Prior to leaving the facility, DiMA used its computers to expand his limited storage capacity, offloading his oldest memories onto the command center's databanks.The Sole Survivor: "You left your memories behind? How does that work?"DiMA: "As a prototype synth, my... raw data capacity is limited. I began using computer banks to expand. To give me room to ponder. See new things. "(DiMA's dialogue) In return for the Children's new home,Far Harbor loading screen hints: "The Nucleus is home to the Children of Atom. It is built out of a prewar nuclear submarine base that the Children have converted into a town and center of worship." Confessor Martin agreed to guard the synth's memories.
==Layout==
The facility's exterior is built into the side of a mountain along a small bay. Crude wooden fortifications and Grand Zealot Richter guard the concrete bunker entrance. Beyond the entrance is a corridor, with two doors on the left leading to a locker room and a restroom, and a pair of decontamination arches between (currently not functional). In the restroom is an unowned mattress that can be used by the player character. At the end of the corridor is the main area of the base, a cavernous space lined with metal catwalks and clusters of wooden shacks.
On the right is the Vessel, a pre-War submarine. Through a shack ahead is a wooden ramp ascending to Sister Mai's store and an armor workbench, with the Archemist's clinic and its chemistry station just beyond. Up the metal stairs along the southern wall of the base behind the clinic is an armor workbench and then Brother Kane's store, which includes a weapons workbench and a power armor station. There is no cooking station in this location and no uncontaminated water source. Continuing up the stairs leads to the entrance to the Nucleus Command Center high in the southern wall, guarded by a zealot.
Just beyond the Archemist's clinic, a wooden ramp ascends slightly to the right, while a set of metal stairs in the southwest corner of the base descends to the left. The ramp on the right continues through several wooden shacks to the entrance on top of the Vessel. The stairs on the left lead to Zealot Ware, then to another set of stairs on the right that spiral down to the partly flooded and irradiated lowest level of the base below the submarine.
==Inhabitants==
==Notable loot==
* Repairs in progress - In the entrance corridor, on the decontamination arch console.
* Footlocker key - In the locker room off the entrance corridor, behind the left bench. Opens a footlocker in the Vessel for Witch Hunt.
* Two fusion cores - In the first wooden shack, on the metal shelves.
* Taste test - In Brother Kane's shack, on a small table.
* Brother Devin's diary - In Brother Devin's shack in the southwest section on the top level, under the mattress next to the cabinet.
* Put it from your mind - In the shack in the west section on the top level nearest the sub's periscope, on a chair.
* Two cannonballs - On the upper catwalks after exiting the Nucleus Command Center, in an enamel bucket next to a pile of cans at the end of the first corridor to the west.
* High Confessor's robes and helmet - Worn by High Confessor Tektus.
* Kiloton radium rifle - Sold by Brother Kane.
* Recon Marine right and left arms - Sold by Sister Mai and Brother Kane.
* Radical Conversion - Given by Sister Mai for completing Ablutions.
* Atom's Judgement - Given by Grand Zealot Richter for completing The Heretic.
* Robes of Atom's Devoted - Given by Grand Zealot Richter for completing Visions in the Fog.
* High Confessor's note - Given by High Confessor Tektus during Witch Hunt.
* Inquisitor's cowl - Given by High Confessor Tektus for completing Witch Hunt.
* Atom's Bulwark - Given by High Confessor Tektus for completing Cleansing the Land or Reformation.
* Nuka-Cola Quantum - Part of a shrine in the west area.
==Related quests==
==Notes==
* When visiting the location while wearing power armor, the Children may comment that they don't like the suit because it protects from "division," or that it "runs on the glow, so perhaps it's not all bad."
* There are four torpedo tubes on top of the Vessel's south end, but no torpedo room inside the submarine. The points on top of the tubes are extremely irradiated, emitting roughly 70-90 rads per second.
* The toxic waste barrels scattered around the external wooden fortifications that guard the bunker entrance do not emit any radiation.
* The music heard in the Nucleus closely resembles Vats of Goo from Fallout performed in Gregorian chant, accompanied by chimes. Both tracks consist of monotone panned droning and echoed ringing sounds, periodically interrupted by a short rising-and-falling motif. This track is absent from Fallout 4: Music from Far Harbor & Nuka World and has no given title.
** If played simultaneously, they synchronize and resonate appreciably. This can be heard here. The siren from Vats of Goo can be heard in the Nucleus track.
** Strange indistinct whispers can be heard at several points in the track.
==Appearances==
The Nucleus appears in the Fallout 4 add-on Far Harbor and in Fallout: The Board Game.
==Behind the scenes==
Like "Vats of Goo," the music heard in the Nucleus resembles "Alternative 3" by Brian Eno.
==Gallery==
FO4-FarHarbor-Nucleus-WoodenStructuresFront.jpeg|Wooden shacks
FO4-FarHarbor-Nucleus-VesselBow.jpeg|The Vessel
FO4FH-Vessel-Back.jpeg|Lowest level
FO4FH Repairs In Progress.png|Repairs in progress
Fo4FH footlocker key.jpg|Footlocker key
FO4FH Taste test.png|Taste test
Brother Devins diary loc.png|Brother Devin's diary
FO4FH Put It From Your Mind.png|Put it from your mind
Fo4FH fusion core Nucleus.jpg|Two fusion cores
Fo4FH NC Quantum Nucleus.jpg|Nuka-Cola Quantum
Armor workbench Nucleus.jpg|Armor workbench
Chemistry station Nucleus.jpg|Chemistry station
Power armor station Nucleus.jpg|Power armor station
Weapons workbench Nucleus.jpg|Weapons workbench
Nucleus Titanic wooden panel scene.jpg|Titanic cultural reference north of the Nucleus
FBG The Nucleus.png
==References==
Category:Far Harbor locations
Category:Children of Atom locations
Category:United States Armed Forces locations
Category:Fallout 4 military and research facilities
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