Sugar Grove

Sugar Grove, officially designated Naval Radio Station Sugar Grove, is a location in the Savage Divide region of Appalachia.
Sugar Grove housed Sugar Grove SigInt, and was billed as simply just another installation supporting the war effort. However, beneath the veneer of legitimacy, the concrete walls of the installation concealed one of the most important intelligence facilities in the United States, a blacksite focusing on homeland security using any means necessary.
==Background==
As a government surveillance facility, Sugar Grove, among other projects, monitored the miners of Appalachia for seditious sentiments (such as calls for unionization and anti-automation, considered "mostly harmless"),Sugar Grove terminal entries; Project director's terminal, 6-16-77 Mining Chatter complex investigations of money trails for Chinese connections,Sugar Grove terminal entries; Project director's terminal, 8-9-77 Mama Dolce's and as the situation in Appalachia escalated following the increase in automation and the Free States' secession, investigating strikers for communist connectionsSugar Grove terminal entries; Project director's terminal, 9-20-77 Grafton Communists and keeping tabs on the secessionists.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Project director's terminal, 10-13-77 Free States All collected intelligence was documented and deposited in the facility's vast archival system.Sugar Grove terminal entries; SigInt system terminal, 9-10-77 Intel Preservation Directive Sugar Grove, however, also played a role in suppressing dissent and opposition, going beyond just watching.
In just one instance, Edgar Aarsen, a random Appalachian, attracted attention for his union attendance in March 2075. A surveillance warrant was issued on August 13, with an arrest warrant following just two days after New Year's. Within three months Aarsen was dead, with his children, Martin and Olivia, adopted within a month. He was hardly the only American to meet this fate.Sugar Grove terminal entries; SigInt system terminal, ARCHIVES: Index The facility was also experimenting extensively with a variety of surveillance technologies through the Advanced Research Projects Division, many of which were ethically challenged. Perhaps the most notorious of these projects was the Somnus Initiative, an initiative that used hypnosis and drugs to turn willing folks into sleeper agents used by the Navy. Disguised from other analysts as external contractors, the initiative started in late August 2077 and numerous Appalachians were abducted and processed, with a rather spotty success record that included maiming, mind damage, and the accidental creation of superhuman martial artists.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Director's terminal, Somnus Agent EFB825Sugar Grove terminal entries; Director's terminal, Somnus Agent SEL1249Sugar Grove terminal entries; Director's terminal, Somnus Agent AJM1068
However, Sugar Grove was not an impenetrable fortress. While it successfully identified Mama Dolce's as a potential Chinese spy operation, tracing overseas wire transfers with the aid of Washinton analysts to China, leading to a formal request for a full surveillance operation,Sugar Grove terminal entries: Project Director's Terminal, 8-9-77: Mama Dolce's Sugar Grove itself was penetrated by Chinese operatives, who secured complete documentation for the Appalachian Automated Launch System nuclear code encryption.Fujiniya Intelligence Base terminal entries; Security terminal, Nuclear Silo Access 
===Experimental projects===
Sugar Grove also worked on numerous experimental technologies, with varying degrees of success. These included BR-04, Project LOCUST, which sought to develop a self-directed Vertibot swarm capable of covertly accessing enemy installations and extracting data of interest. It was abandoned after engineering estimates indicated that Vertibots equipped with Project LOCUST technology would be approximately the size of a consumer sedan, making covert actions by a swarm infeasible.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, BR-04 "LOCUST" - Vertibot Bugging Network RD-68 BARRIER attempted to develop an electromagnetic suppression field capable of dampening gamma radiation, providing a counter to radiation weapons and enabling operations directly after a tactical nuclear strike. Although initial tests were promising, the field emitter required exponentially more power to operate at scale: Shielding an area 20 feet (6 meters) in radius would require three industrial nuclear reactors. It was also scrapped.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, RD-68 BARRIER - Radiation Suppression Field KM-41 SPOTLIGHT was an attempt to develop a neutrino pulse emitter capable of remotely scanning enemy installations and reconstructing an internal map of the facility. A field test conducted on a civilian office building on June 22, 2077, resulted in mass civilian casualties following a sudden mass psychotic episode. The project was scrapped, though its potential usefulness for military applications was noted.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, KM-41 SPOTLIGHT - Neutrino Pulse Emitter
There were two semi-successful projects. The first was CX-15 or Project SIPHON, an attempt to develop an automated data exfiltration holotape by Patricia Nunes, capable of scanning hostile networks, detecting data sources of interest, compressing the data, and extracting it for later analysis. By June 2077 it achieved a successful data compression ratio of 200:1, but the cost of iridium-infused magnetic tapes ($15 million per holotape), and multiple personal use issues resulting in two lost tapes, forced the project to be put under tight control.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, CX-15 SIPHON - Data Exfiltration Program Access was strictly limited to covert operations specialists of Grade-V or above with prior authorization, with the head of the SigInt Analysis team forcing the system to log every check-out of the holotapes. After all, a single SIPHON was twice the annual budget of the entire SigInt Analysis division.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Analyst's terminal, 9-22-77: SIPHON Holotapes
However, while SIPHON siphoned resources, it was dwarfed by Kyle Lockhart's EX-72 PULSAR, an attempt to develop tactical electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons for use of disabling or destroying electronic security systems of any kind in the field.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, EX-72 PULSAR - EMP Weapons Development Although the project called for extensive testing and analysis, progress was slow. A test cycle required the analysts to fire the weapon, break down the robot, analyze the damage, reset and recalibrate, repeat. Even with a fabricator on-site, they could only perform four tests on a good day. October 4, 2077, represented that peak capacity.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, Research Log: 10/4/77 As a talented engineer, Lockhart soon managed to create a workaround: He could set up the fabrication pod to assemble a robot, pipe the fabricator's steam release into a hydraulic actuator to trigger the weapon, and then have the fabricator disassemble the robot and save off the results. The whole cycle took about eight minutes. Lockhart took the next week off for a well-earned vacation, leaving the testing on automatic.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, Research Log: 10/4/77 
This lack of discipline quickly started to affect Sugar Grove operations, especially since Lockhart neglected to inform his colleagues about the experiment. By the 9th, auxiliary generators had to be brought online.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, 10-9-77: Power Use On the 11th, the routine started to consume runaway amounts of storageSugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, 10-11-77: Mainframe Storage and forced the facility to tap into the Monongah power grid after the tests burned out eight generators. The tap siphoned enough power to cause brownouts.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, 10-11-77: RE: Power Use - URGENT By the 13th, the routine consumed all available data space, forcing a secondary tape drive to be brought online. This continued until 58 tape drives were completely filled, i.e. all the available storage in the facility.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Analyst's terminal, 10-13-77: Disk Write Errors
Lockhart returned to work on the 18th, to a mound of junk data filling up the drives and no way to efficiently analyze it all. Worse yet, General Thomas McAllen, responsible for oversight at the facility, took notice of the impact Lockhart's test had and threatened to sack Lockhart for interfering with a facility crucial to the war effort. Lockhart was given a week to provide a report and an explanation for the incident.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Analyst's terminal, 10-18-77: Project PULSARSugar Grove terminal entries; Analyst's terminal, 10-21-77: RE: SIPHON Holotape
He realized the futility of the work by the 21st, with less than four days to go. The test data was fragmented across the mainframe and the system couldn't handle the volume, leaving him with no means to access the data, much less analyze it. His only hope lay with the SIPHON holotapes, but since the project was taken out from under his jurisdiction, he was not on the list of people permitted to access the holotapes. The strict controls instituted after repeated misuse also made "borrowing" it impossible.Sugar Grove terminal entries; Advanced research terminal, Research Log: 10/21/77
Mercifully for Lockhart - less so for the whole of humanity - the Great War prevented General McAllen's visit. The operatives apparently used the base for a length of time, even preparing to destroy the intelligence they'd gathered using gas cans, turning the whole archives into a bonfire. However, they never seemed to complete the task by throwing the lit matches on the pyre, allowing the robotic staff on-site to preserve it and the system operations. In 2103, MODUS would target the facility, seeking to reestablish its severed connections and tap into the vast Appalachian surveillance network.MODUS: ""(MODUS/Dialogue)Events of One of Us
Unrelated to the facility's intelligence operations, Sugar Grove was also partly under direction of the United States Space Administration. ATHENA, the Deep Sleep project AI, was located in the facility's data center. Sugar Grove also functioned as an USSA beacon, which is why commander Sofia Daguerre crashed in Western Virginia, her pod's safety measures landing her near an available USSA facility.
==Layout==
The facility is nestled on the side of a hill, easily recognizable for the concrete walls surrounding it and the massive bunker attached to an otherwise welcoming office building. The parking lot is densely packed with derelict cars. 
The opening area contains offices and a reception desk, together with a number of robots and a turret. Access to the facility and the bunker is through the door in the back. Players can access the roof of the structure by crossing one of the fallen trees from the cliff overlooking the building. The complex can alternatively be entered through a hole in the roof.
===Interior===
The interior is divided into three distinct sections. The first one entered is the office area, where analysts tried to crack the secrets of the intel provided to them. The main feature is the pile of once-secret documents in the center of the room, surrounded by gas cans and ready for a send-off. The adjacent rooms are mostly empty, save for minor loot, and piled-up furniture. The corridor in the back leads between two derelict conference rooms down below.
At the bottom of the staircase, through low-level robots, lies the security checkpoint and more offices to the side. The offices contain traces of habitation and wrecked office equipment, as well as an intelligence dispenser (used in the quest One of Us). The checkpoint contains hallways covered by a pair of ceiling-mounted turrets. They can be disabled from the booth in the landing area.
Through the checkpoint is the heart of the facility, with broken DEFCON indicators welcoming newcomers to the blacksite. To the right is a hallway leading up to the Sugar Grove director's office, with a terminal and loot. To the left is a hallway that leads to the aforementioned Advanced Research Projects laboratory, filled with rogue robots courtesy of Lockhart's fabricator and the ARP terminal. Down the center lies the SigInt hall.
The SigInt hall contains signals intelligence analysts' terminals (where the player character has to upload MODUS' holotape during One of Us), various holotapes about cryptid sightings, a conference room to the left and the archives chamber - mostly spotless, save for radroaches - to the right. The archives chamber contains a safe at the far end. In the far left corner, on top of the computer and near the safe, is a wooden crate. The opening faces the wall, but it contains the blacksite guard key needed to access the Somnus division. The boss robot for the area is usually patrolling around here.
===Somnus Division===
Accessed from the rear of the facility, the facility requires the Blacksite guard key, located in the Archives wing of the SigInt facility (see above). Once inside, down the flight of stairs lies the Somnus facility, where the Navy processed abducted citizens to turn into sleeper agents. It is shaped like a circle, with the infirmary and processing chamber in the northern half and the cells in the southern. The control center and break room for the staff is to the west.
The cells are locked. Three of the necessary keys are located on the trolley in the break room, while another is on the shelves in the processing room control chamber.
==Notable loot==
===Main building===
; Holotapes and notes
* Blank holotapes - Coming down from the stairs from the facility's entrance into the lower part of the facility, go straight through the first door and make a left. Go up the stairs into the room on the right. The blank holotapes are scattered around a desk in the back of that room.
* I'm watching you - Note, on a desk in the same room as the blank holotapes.
* Cryptid sighting: Grafton Monster 9/27 - Holotape, found on a desk in the main room with the large screens near one of the terminals in the second row.
* Cryptid sighting: Snallygaster 10/4 - Holotape, found on the same desk.
* Cryptid sighting: Wendigo 10/25 - Holotape, found on the same desk.
* Charleston Herald Exclusive: The Motherlode - Holotape, found in the same room, near one of the terminals in the front row.
* Project Siphon holotape - Holotape, from the analyst's terminal which is found in one of the small offices in the lower part of the main facility. Obtainable during Prototypical Problems.
* Automated call recording - Holotape, on the floor near the analyst's terminal.
* C.H. Monthly, October - Note, under a counter at the front reception desk area, on the left side immediately after entering the exterior lobby.
; Other loot
* Six potential Vault-Tec bobbleheads:
** In the northwest corner of the advanced research laboratory, on the upper floor with the window, opposite the collection of blank holotapes on the green cabinet.
** On the lower level, north of the stairs in the storage room, behind the upturned orange cylindrical cabinet on the desk.
** In the curved corner of the narrow reception and security room between the lower lobby and mission control, on a metal desk. 
** In the northeast corner of the archives, on the mainframe computer.
** In the secret facility basement, in the green wallpapered cognitive programming room with the three televisions, on the wooden table.
** On the wooden crates by the wall, near the two blue barrels, in the southwest corner of the Secret Facility, close to a security door and metal shelving.
* Six potential magazines:
** In the upper office with a window overlooking the mission control room, with the archive dispenser vending machine in the southwest corner, on the half-buried curio cabinet beside the Project Director's Terminal.
** Inside the security mesh walled area of the advanced research laboratory, on the upper floor with the window, near the collection of blank holotapes, on the yellow machinery.
** On the north stepped side of the mission control room, near the Nuka-Cola machine, on the small round table with the lunch pail on it.
** In the mission control room, at the foot of the huge map screen, in the center of the shelves of boxes, placed vertically between two cardboard boxes. 
** In the middle of the archives, at the central mainframe computer, below the red wrist rest shelf.
** In the secret facility basement, in the green wallpapered cognitive programming room with the three televisions, on a small side table shelf.
* Two potential plans:
** In the same room as the blank holotapes, on a cabinet behind an armor workbench.
** On the roof, on the staircase to the landing pad, on the second step to the left. (Weapon mod plan)
* Potential weapon mod - On the roof, on the staircase to the landing pad, on the second step to the left.
* Blacksite guard key - In the far back left of the server room inside Sugar Grove, contained within a small overturned box on top of the servers, not to be confused with the toolbox right by the entrance. Opens the blacksite which can be entered by going through the back door at the outside part of the facility.
* Around 40 clipboards can be found within Sugar Grove, a good source for springs. A particularly large quantity is found on a shelf in the main room with large screens.
* Many pencils are among the desks, including ten lined up on a metal shelf in the mission control room of the facility.
*Many telephones are found on the desks, as well as office desk fans.
===Blacksite===
* Cell key A6-KH, B9-AX, B2-RS and V5-XF - These keys open various cell doors located within the Blacksite - Enter the door into the Blacksite from the rear of the exterior part of the facility and go downstairs to the room with TVs. B2-RS will be on a metal bookshelf just on the other side of a hole in the wall. Continue through the hole to the next room and the remaining keys will be on a metal table to the left. There is another key, W9-FZ, in Huntersville.
* Potential magazine - At the second interrogation chair room, underneath a small table.
* Fusion core - Inside the middle of the site within a secured storage room, past a maglock door, on the third metal shelf.
== Notes ==
A large Sugar Grove insignia can be found in a display case at the Mothman Museum, apparently indicating pre-War cryptid enthusiasts postulated some connection between the legend of the Mothman and the activities of Sugar Grove.
==Appearances==
Sugar Grove appears only .
==Behind the scenes==
* Sugar Grove is based on Sugar Grove Station, a National Security Agency communications site outside the community of Sugar Grove, West Virginia.
* Sugar Grove is sometimes referred to as "Sugar Cove" in the game files.
* The research projects found on in the terminal entries for Sugar Grove share a similar function and naming convention to Vault 7 spying tools of the CIA and the ANT catalog of NSA programs and devices.
==Gallery==
F76 Sugar Grove Ext 1.png|Parking lot
FO76 Sign Sugar Grove.png
F76 Sugar Grove Ext 2.png|Exterior lobby
F76 Sugar Grove Int 1.png|Interior panoramic
F76 Sugar Grove Int 2.png|Reception area
F76 Sugar Grove Int 3.png|Office barracks
F76 Sugar Grove Int 4.png|Stairways
FO76 Sugar Grove map.png|Map on mission control screen
F76 Sugar Grove Int 5.png|Mission control area
F76 Sugar Grove Int 6.png|Conference room
F76 Sugar Grove Int 7.png|Mission control area, terminal
F76 Sugar Grove Int 8.png|Consoles
F76 Sugar Grove Int 9.png|Consoles
F76 Somnus Division 2.png|Somnus Division entrance
F76 Somnus Division 3.png|Medical area
F76 Somnus Division 4.png|Test chambers
F76 Somnus Division 5.png|Terminal
F76 Somnus Division 6.png|Hallway
F76 Somnus Division 1.png|Exterior, Somnus Division exit
FO76 Sugar Grove (Automated call recording).png|Automated call recording
FO76 Blank holotapes.jpg|Blank holotape
FO76 Sugar Grove (C.H. Monthly, October).png|C.H. Monthly, October
Fo76 Sugar Grove (Cryptozooids).jpg|Cryptid sighting: Wendigo 10/25, Snallygaster 10/4, Grafton Monster 9/27
FO76 Sugar Grove (I'm watching you).png|I'm watching you
F76 sugar Grove Official Poster.png|Sign of location
==External links==
* Real-world Sugar Grove Station
==References==
Category:Fallout 76 locations
Category:Savage Divide locations
Category:Fallout 76 military and research facilities
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