Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters

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“*Howdy partner, welcome to the headquarters of the Sunset Sarsaparilla company. Wrangle up a stool and listen to ol' Festus jaw awhile.*”
—Festus

The **Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters** is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281to 2301, Dust-time. It was the headquarters of the Sunset Sarsaparilla Company before the Great War. It is located northwest of El Rey Motel and directly west of the former NCR sharecropper farms, now Cannibal Camp .

Revelantly, it's northward of Abandoned Warehouse and south of Abandoned Home 9 starting places.

## Background

This pre-War building was the headquarters of a beverage and bottling company in Las Vegas. It is one of the largest buildings in the area and housed corporate offices as well as the regional bottling and distribution center. The building's most notable feature is the giant bottle that also acts as the main entrance into the facility.

## Layout

Entering the factory, to the left is Festus, a cowboy robot who asks for Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps. Asking him "Star Info" reveals the contest and triggers the quest The Legend of the Star.

Another terminal activates a maintenance robot, Mr. Janitor, who collects bottle caps around the factory, and then disposes of them in a garbage can by the maintenance office he is found in. In Dust time, he's already disabled invisibly, and by activating the terminal, now we have an invisible hostile on this building.

There are three Sunset Sarsaparilla Security protections with one on the first floor initially, another is circling around the restroom section on the second floor, and one on the railings overseeing the bottling area.

On the first floor, the office of Marcus Brody can be accessed by picking a Very Hard locked door. Access requires going up one staircase and down another. Within that room is some scrap metal, miscellaneous toolbox items, and a terminal with status reports on the plant's various robots. There is also a miniature empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle on the shelf next to a barrel. There is a second Very Hard locked door down here, but the door is clearly swung open and would have otherwise led to a room of rubble. Opening it earns experience, but nothing else.

In the shipping room, there is an Average locked terminal. Activating the terminal reveals a discussion regarding an experimental delivery robot that was reportedly single-handedly running all the distribution in the Vegas area. The furthest room in the back on the second level factory floor has a safe, an Average locked terminal, and a hole in the floor leading to a door that remains locked until Festus is given 50 star bottle caps, where the remains of Allen Marks can be found.

## Notable loot

* Pew Pew and a holotape - Next to the dead body of Allen Marks, in the Sunset Sarsaparilla vault during the quest A Valuable Lesson. There are about 100+ caps in each of the crates in this room, for a total of about 1,435 bottle caps.
* Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - In an Average locked wall safe in Miss Paige's office.
* Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles - There are about 67 full bottles in crates behind the active bottling robot , and about 15 more bottles outside the headquarters on the righthand side of the building behind some trucks. Notably, the crates in loading room, north part of the map, is full of empty types, not one full bottles.
* There are over 900 empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles throughout the building.
* In Marcus Brody's Very Hard locked office, there is a smaller variant of an empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle next to a small barrel on top of a shelf. It is the only one in the game.
* 319 Sunset Sarsaparilla deputy badges - In the storage room with Allen Marks.

## Notes

* With Robotics Expert, Festus can be deactivated. If The Legend of the Star is still active, completion is impossible, as Festus can no longer be interacted with.
* Various Nuka-Cola products can be found throughout the factory.
* Despite all the Dust changes outside, this building is not very much affected compared to its time in Mojave decades ago. That can be attribute to the robots maintaining things, leading to even the toilets' water tanks not that radiated as elsewhere

## Behind the scenes

The Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters is located in the same geographical area as the real world Coca-Cola Store and Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, that likewise features a large, many-faceted, three-story soda bottle that serves as the main entrance.