Gecko's nuclear power plant

Gecko's nuclear power plant, formerly Poseidon Oil Reactor #5,Reactor maintenance terminal: "{140}{}{This terminal is used to input command data for the robotic maintenance and repair unit assignedto Poseidon Oil'Reactor #5. This terminal also allows access to PoseidoNet.}"(Reactor maintenance terminal's transcript) is a large nuclear power plant for the eponymous town and a unique pre-War location .
==Background==
A pre-War nuclear power plant operated by Poseidon Energy (specifically, Poseidon Oil) to power Gecko City, the power plant was set to expand with an additional reactor when the Great War struck in 2077. Abandoned to the elements, the plant lay dormant until 2235, when ghouls settled around the plant and brought it back online later in the year. In 2238, Harold took up the position of mayor to help the ghouls already here manage the plant.Fallout Bible 0:"2235 While there had already been a small number of ghouls in Gecko at this time, more come to the area, and the town of Gecko is formed. The new influx of ghouls bring scavenged technology and know-how, and the power plant in Gecko becomes operational later that year. Vault City looks upon their new neighbors with growing concern.""2238 Harold arrives in Gecko, and (with a lot of shaking of his head) he does his best to help the ghouls with the running of the Nuclear Power Plant."
==Layout==
===Entry area===
Once the Chosen One enters the plant, they are greeted by a guard at the reception area. Jeremy is in the supply room on the player character's left, and the entire section is the living spaces for the ghouls, mainly Gecko's glowing ones. Separating this area from the rest of the complex is a checkpoint requiring a yellow pass key to pass.
===Yellow area===
This section requires the yellow pass key to gain access and contains the plant's control center, more living areas, including those of Festus, the reactor foreman. He can be pickpocketed for a part requisition form and a red pass key can be found in a locker in the first room on the left after entering the yellow area.
===Reactor core===
This section requires the red pass key to gain access. Hank watches over the control room of the reactor from this point, which also contains a computer with the controls for the maintenance robot, and a link to PoseidoNet, which provides the Chosen One access to an Enclave security station on the Enclave Oil Rig. The player character can install the needed part by hand or with the robot or overload the reactor manually. Radiation levels inside the core are very high.
==Notable loot==
* Big Book of Science - On the shelves in the supply cabinet.
* Yellow pass key - In a rusted locked in a room containing two chairs and a table (across from the supply room). Also found in a locker in Percy's house in the Gecko junkyard or to unlock part of the power plant.
* Part requisition form - On Festus. Also in the desk behind Harold inside his house.
* Red pass key - In a bookcase in the first room on the left after entering the Yellow area.
* Blue pass key - On a shelf in the room next to the yellow pass key.
==Appearances==
Gecko's nuclear power plant appears only in Fallout 2.
==Behind the scenes==
* One of the glowing ones in the reactor will point his finger to the Chosen One and say "Phone home," a reference to the movie E.T.
* With 50% Science, during the one-way video conversation with the Enclave communications officer, if the Chosen One responds "Uh, it's working just fine. I can see you," they can also say "Uh, we're all fine here. How are you?" This is a reference to the 1977 film Star Wars IV: A New Hope, where Han Solo tries to deceive an Imperial intercom officer after commandeering a communication station.
==Gallery==
Nuclear power plant keys loc.png|Search these two shelves and locker for access to all areas in Gecko's power plant
Gecko destroyed power plant.png|The power plant's destroyed entrance after causing a reactor meltdown
BBoS Gecko's nuclear power plant.png|Big Book of Science
Fo2 Gecko Good Ending.png|Power plant in the good endings
Fo2 Gecko Bad Ending.png|Power plant in the bad endings
Fo2PP Assets 19.png|Location in the 1998 press pack
==References==
;Non-game
Category:Gecko
Category:Power plants
Category:Poseidon Energy locations
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