AMS corporate headquarters

The AMS corporate headquarters is a location within Watoga. It is a high-rise tower housing the headquarters of the pre-War company Atomic Mining Services.
==Background==
Located at the heart of Watoga, the headquarters of Atomic Mining Services towers over all the other buildings in the city. Concealed within its thick walls are laboratories where the corporation worked to unlock the full potential behind ultracite, its patented ore, and plotted to corner the energy market in the United States by leveraging it.AMS corporate headquarters terminal entries Their experiments included exposing mole ratsSubject 43 and cowsSubject 67 to heated ultracite and observing the mutations that occurred as a result of the radiation. However, they had trouble disposing of the ultracite once it had been depleted.AMS corporate headquarters terminal entries; Ultracite R&D Report The records of their problems with disposal were vital in aiding the development of anti-Scorched weaponry when Hank Madigan investigated the building after the War.Message from Hank Madigan
After the Great War, the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel used the plaza in front of the HQ as a staging area during Operation Touchdown, leaving behind a wrecked Vertibird and several dead members, but putting Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy a step closer to finding the source of the scorchbeasts.Belly of the Beast
In 2104, the building was taken by the Hellcat Company under Sergeant Kit as part of Doctor Edgar Blackburn's research into the Forced Evolutionary Virus. It was soon attacked by the Crater War Party, who had received a tip from Marcia Leone that the location was of interest to the Brotherhood First Expeditionary Force. They were unsuccessful and forced to surrender to avoid death; most of them were sent to Blackburn as test subjects, while a few were kept prisoner in the basement.Hastily written noteBlue Ridge delivers again The prisoners were eventually rescued by Marcia Leone and a Vault Dweller from Vault 76, who killed the garrisoned mercenaries and gained crucial information about the disappearances across Appalachia in the process.Events of Missing Persons
==Layout==
At the bottom of the location is a destroyed waiting area with an elevator leading to the main headquarters. The building has nine floors which are connected by a series of pneumatic tubes, not all of which are still operational. Once inside the building, the player character will experience low but steady amounts of radiation. 
===Lobby===
Directly in front of the elevator exit to the main lobby is a large Protectron model with a sign saying "Caution: This machine has no brain use your own." The elevator exit also faces a reception desk - a terminal sits on the desk and there is a locked floor safe (Picklock 2) behind it. Around the perimeter of the lobby are pneumatic tubes marked with the floors they are connected to. Green and red lights indicate whether the tubes are working or are out-of-order. Only the tubes to the third and top floor are working and the tube to the top floor is inaccessible.
===Third floor===
There are automated turrets all over the third floor which will automatically target the player character when they exit the pneumatic tube. The corpse of a yao guai which escaped its enclosure lies near one of the turrets. There is a locked security terminal (Hacker 1) on a raised area, however, it does not have the functionality to disable the security turrets. A corridor runs around the outside of the floor, leading to storage rooms, animal holding pens, and scientific test areas. The fourth floor can be accessed via a staircase at the end of the corridor.
===Fourth floor===
Directly in front of the staircase leading to the fourth floor is a room with lockers, scientific equipment, and a piece of ultracite scrap. There is a corridor leading right from the stairs which pass by some offices and a room with three fusion generators, one of which may hold a fusion core. A short flight of stairs at the end of the corridor leads to the fifth floor.
===Fifth floor===
The fifth floor has a large open area that looks down at the floors below. There is only one way to go which is along a walkway around the perimeter of the floor. The walkway first passes an employee break room with two Nuka-Cola machines, five cigarette machines containing caps, and a Port-A-Diner. 
Secondly, the walkway passes by a large animal holding area behind a set of double doors in the northern section of the floor. A brahmin corpse and a mole rat corpse can be found in this holding area, as well as the skeletons of two scientists. On a shelf at the back of the room is a piece of ultracite scrap, two first aid boxes, two ammo boxes and two security batons. 
The walkway finally passes two bathrooms in the southeast section of the floor before reaching a staircase which leads up to the next floor.
===Sixth floor===
The sixth floor is a small area that overlooks the third-floor atrium. It consists of a small storage area and another locked security terminal (Hacker 1).
===Seventh floor===
At the top of the staircase leading to the seventh floor is a water fountain, a cigarette machine, and a cramped office space with five desks squeezed inside. There is a small reception area containing the facilities terminal in front of the stairs leading to the eighth floor. There is a room connected to the reception area which contains three fusion generators, one of which may hold a fusion core. 
===Eighth floor===
There are more machine gun turrets aimed at the top of the stairs to the eighth floor. They are situated on the floor above but will target the player character while they are on this floor. To the left of the staircase is a room with two more fusion generators, one of which may hold a fusion core. 
CEO Kilson's office occupies the western edge of the eighth floor. Inside his office is his personal terminal, and an eyebot, Protectron, and Mr. Handy model on his shelf, along with one of the more rare undamaged American flag displays. He has a private bathroom adjoining his office which contains a dirty tan suit, toilet paper, soap, and a locked floor safe (Picklock 2). 
An open flight of stairs in the middle of the floor leads to the building's top floor.
===Top floor===
There is a set of control panels directly east of the top of the staircase. Offices sit to the south and north but do not contain much of note. On the west side of the floor, several skeletons in suits sit around a large wooden boardroom table. A pile of pre-War money and three ultracite scraps sit in the center of the table and a locked safe (Picklock 3) sits on the ground next to it. 
Beside the table is a pneumatic tube that will take the player character back to the lobby.
===Basement lab===
==Notable loot==
* Message from Hank Madigan - Holotape, loaded in the receptionist terminal. 
* Stuck - Holotape, found on a counter to the left after exiting the elevator on the third floor. 
* Subject 43 - Note, in one of the labs on the third floor. It is opposite a mole rat corpse in a cage.
* Subject 67 - Note, in the animal holding area. Hacker 1 or Picklock 2 is required.
* Sue them - Note, on the desk in the small office of the seventh floor.
* Copy of research notes - Holotape, on a black console in the room where Sheena and Burke are held, during Missing Persons.
* Blue Ridge delivers again - Note, on Sergeant Kit, during Missing Persons.
* Dove necklace - Quest item, after taking a right at the fork in the hallway on the third floor, it is in the last room on the left, next to the hydraulic press control terminal.
* Hastily written note - On the floor next to the security terminal, during Missing Persons. It cannot be taken.
* Attention night crew - Note, on a cart in the room across from where Sheena and Burke are held.
* AMS basement key - Found during Missing Persons, on a table in Sergeant Kit's office.
* 59 cigarettes are scattered around the level.
* Two potential Vault-Tec bobbleheads:
** On the executive level floor of the building's interior, in the west conference area near a safe, next to a typewriter and slumped skeleton, on a small ornate desk.
** On the top floor, on the western end of the data processing center.
* Potential magazine - In CEO Kilson's office on the upper executive level, in the restroom, by the toilet and newspaper.
* Three fusion cores - Found in fusion generators all over the building.
==Related quests==
* Missing Persons 
==Appearances==
The AMS corporate headquarters appears only in Fallout 76.
==Gallery==
Automated mining services.png|Exterior
F76 AMS HQ Int 6.png|Second floor elevator
F76 AMS HQ Int 7.png|Second floor lobby
F76 AMS HQ Int 5.png|Third floor, past the elevator
FO76 AMS corporate HQ mole rat cage.png|Mole rat cage (third floor)
F76 AMS HQ Int 4.png|Animal control area entrance
FO76 AMS corporate HQ animal control.png|Animal control area
F76 AMS HQ Int 2.png|CEO's office
F76 AMS HQ Int 3.png|Top floor, stairway
F76 AMS HQ Int 1.png|Top floor, board meeting
FO76SR AMS basement 01.png|Basement laboratory, after entering
FO76SR AMS basement 02.png|Basement laboratory, consoles
FO76SR AMS basement 03.png|Basement laboratory, side room
FO76SR AMS basement 04.png|Basement laboratory, power armor area
FO76SR AMS basement (Copy of research notes).png|Copy of research notes
FO76 AMS corporate HQ (Message from Hank Madigan).png|Receptionist terminal (Message from Hank Madigan)
FO76 AMS stuck.png|Stuck
FO76SR_Fort_Atlas_(AMS_Basement_Key).jpg|AMS basement key
FO76 AMS corporate HQ (Sue them).png|Sue them
FO76 AMS corporate HQ (Subject 43).png|Subject 43
FO76 AMS corporate HQ (Subject 67).png|Subject 67
FO76 AMS corporate headquarters sign 3.png|Entrance sign
==References==
Category:Watoga locations
Category:Atomic Mining Services
Category:Hellcat Company locations
Category:Instanced locations
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