Fallout (Longplay/Lore) - 0016: Prototypical Problems (Fallout 76)
1The Voice of Set is the Mistress of Mystery's iconic gun. To earn one's own, Krista needs to recover data from an experimental weapons research program.
Sugar Grove was an officially designated Naval Radio Station Sugar Grove housing Sugar Grove Sigint, 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. This meant monitoring the miners in Appalachia for seditious sentiments (such as calls for unionization and anti-automation, considered "mostly harmless"), complex investigations of money trails for Chinese connections, and as the situation in Appalachia escalated following the increase in automation and the Free States' secession, investigating strikers for communist connections and keeping tabs on the secessionists. The Free Staters were considered to be a minor problem, as long as they stayed in their bunkers. All collected intelligence was documented and deposited in the facility's vast archival system. Naturally, the facility's commander had a vested interest in keeping everything that took place within Sugar Grove secret. Commander Whitney Gould implemented a strict policy concerning outside communications: to protect the incredibly sensitive nature of the work, all inquiries or requests for information from outside sources had to be cleared by either him or Captain Joyce West.
It goes without saying that Sugar Grove 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. 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 the 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.
Other projects were less successful. These include BR-04, Project LOCUST, which sought to develop a self-directed Vertibot swarm capable of covertly accessing enemy installations, hacking into mainframe systems, 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 of such robots infeasible. 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. 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.
Other Videos By Sqotch 'Studios'
Other Statistics
Fallout 76 Statistics For Sqotch 'Studios'
At this time, Sqotch 'Studios' has 1,343 views for Fallout 76 spread across 63 videos. The game makes up over 5 days of published video on his channel, roughly 3.31% of Fallout 76 content that Sqotch 'Studios' has uploaded to YouTube.