Fort Daggerpoint, also called Daggerpoint Airbase before the Great War and nicknamed the Prison of Ten Thousand Horrors afterwards, is a seemingly abandoned pre-War United States Air Force base located in the southeastern mountains of the Pass.
Background[]
Pre-War[]
Fort Daggerpoint was constructed in the Black Bear National Forest to serve as an auxiliary research site for the Pan-Immunity Virion Project alongside Mariposa Military Base. A joint U.S. Army and Air Force base,[1] Fort Daggerpoint was renamed to Daggerpoint Airbase following its acquisition by the Enclave;[2] however, most continued to refer to it by its original name or some combination thereof. The site was leased to West-Tek Industries by high-ranking Enclave member Senator Andrew Oran, who rolled back environmental protections in the National Forest specifically to allow for its construction.
Post-War[]
Since the Great War, the base has sat unopened and unclaimed, a silent city of the dead that had developed a reputation for being haunted by ghosts and demons of the Old World.
Over the decades, various attempts by the Raider Alliance, New California Republic, and other factions to secure the site have been attempted (as evidenced by the skeletons and signs of conflict that litter the base), but all have been driven off or frustrated away by the base's stubborn refusal to surrender its secrets. What is known is that the fort contains a treasure trove of pre-War weaponry and technology, but all who have managed to enter the fort's depths have never returned.
Layout[]
Fort Daggerpoint consists of a large region, located in a massive mountain valley in the southeastern region of the Pass. The entire base is sealed off by a high concrete wall, with only the main gate offering access. Beyond is a huge ruined town consisting of stores, office buildings, and housing for the base former personnel and their families. The area is a snarl of rubble and wrecked prewar military vehicles. To the south lies the military barracks and common facilities for base personnel. Fort Daggerpoint itself looms over the entire site, built into the easternmost mountains, divided from the town by a road with numerous abandoned checkpoints and walls. To the south of the fort is the Daggerpoint airstrip, with an air control tower, hangars, and other support buildings. A ruined high-tech monorail leads south into the mountains.
Fort Daggerpoint proper is an imposing concrete monolith, covered in abandoned artillery emplacements and solar panels, and only accessible by a reinforced concrete tunnel. The large plaza outside it is covered in both dead US military personnel killed in the Great War as well as the corpses of numerous Survivalist and NCR expeditions to scavenge the fort. The faded US flag has been torn down and replaced with the skull and hubcap of the Raider Alliance, ironically surrounded by the rotting corpses of the overly-ambitious raiders.
References[]
- ↑ "Fort" is a term given to Army bases.
- ↑ "Project Brazil" Development Note 1