Broken Arrow Bunker

**Broken Arrow** was the name of one of North America's largest facilities for training and educating Synths as Elites, that was destroyed 6-7 years prior to Stormbite. Approximately 10,000 Synths were studying here, the majority of whom were killed during the subsequent explosion and destruction of the facility with many more displaced, abandoned, or deserting ARCDA.

The effect was so devastating, that it is a well known event across ARCDA and even known by humans (though it was reported to be an explosion at a missile silo).

## Facilities

Broken Arrow was one of the largest facilities owned by ARCDA in North America. It had extensive dormitories, ten canteens, a transport hub with a small airport with its own ATC, and below ground there was an entire section dedicated to decommissioning nuclear-era weapons that were owned by the US Government.

* Dormitories
* Classrooms
* Gym and Swimming pool
* Sports grounds and race track
* 3 Canteens
* 4 Café
* Offices
* Library
* Laboratories
* IT Server Room
* Cinema & Bowling Alley
* Dispatch Centre
* Engineer Shed
* Transport Hangar
* Runway and ATC tower
* Missile Silo

## History

### Destruction

It is not known what caused the initial explosion, if it was an error in the storage of nuclear warheads or sabotage. The result however, was the entirety of Broken Arrow bunker being obliterated instantaneously with a force not seen since *Castle Bravo*. With the majority of the warheads being underground, much of the wider area was shielded from the major effects, however the explosion could still be seen nearly 40km away and the shockwave travelled further than that. .

### Aftermath

The aftermath of Broken Arrow caused an international response not just from ARCDA but from the US government and NATO due to the size of the explosion and its effects both on the local area and human population. Many ARCDA units were called in from all over the world to assist in the rescue and clean up leading to many projects and smaller bunkers being abandoned as recourses were focused upon the area at large. Initially a 50km exclusion zone was set up with the human population evacuated (though many did flee fearing radioactive contamination).

Currently 7 years after Broken Arrow (as of Stormbite, 8 as of Silverbird) became a nuclear fall out zone, almost everything within a 6-7km radius became an exclusion zone for decontamination and clearance, with another 13km outside of this (bringing the exclusion zone to a total of 20km from the epicentre) needing to be turned into a safety zone.

Within that zone the remains of Broken Arrow are little more than a crater but the ruins of the nearby city of Tulsa are slowly being excavated and demolished and rebuilt as the area becomes safer, however much of it is deemed "*closed to habitation indefinitely*" displacing the entire population of the near by settlements. Within this exclusion zone mostly low level, short lifespan ARCDA synths are made to help with the clean up and decontaminate the land as much as possible, but what surprises is them is the amount of synthetic plants that have grown across the area and the speed at which they have grown at and evolved. A nuclear synthetic forest growing around a radioactive crater and as rumours would have it, starting to fill with strange creatures and ex-Elites who have gone feral. But that is only rumours after all...

## Location Information

Broken Arrow housed synths from the Quartz Ranks, all the way up to Rubies and Sapphires.

It was half built into an old quarry, with part of the facility built under the ground to store nuclear warheads that were in the process of being decommissioned. With the size of the bunker, it had its own runway big enough to allow for cargo planes to take off and land upon, a green house area to produce food for the bunker, and many training areas and classrooms as well as dormitories and STEM Labs.

## See Also

* ARCDA
* Loch Mullardoch

## Trivia

* Broken Arrow is named Broken Arrow events which refers to an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components that does not create a risk of nuclear war.
* It is also named after a small area outside Tulsa called Broken Arrow.

## References

1. ↑ Castle Bravo thermonuclear test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle\_Bravo
2. ↑ Broken Arrow Events

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