The Forbidden Zone dome, formerly known as the X-42 robo-warfare facility is a location in Big MT in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Background[]
Sometime before 2281, after carrying out his plan to sabotage the robot shells used by his former colleagues of the Think Tank to prevent their maniacal and unethical experimentation from destroying Big MT and the world beyond it, Doctor Mobius exiled himself from the Dome and took up residence in the X-42 robo-warfare facility, which he renamed as the "Forbidden Zone" and created a super-villainous persona along with his army of brain-stealing robo-scorpions in order to continually reinforce the Think Tank's recursion loop and keep them contained.[1]
Layout[]
Situated slightly west of the Big MT north tunnel and southeast of the Y-0 research center, the outdoor space is typically scattered with several robo-scorpions that will be hostile and attack on sight. The door itself will not be accessible until after finding the three technologies in the X-2 transmitter antenna array, X-8 research center, and X-13 research facility and triggering Old World Blues.
Workshop[]
The workshop area is comprised of a single, vast room that appears to occupy most of the inner volume of the building's dome. In the center is a large cargo elevator, on which resides the X-42 giant robo-scorpion. Around the perimeter of the room are several staircases leading to raised walkways and observation rooms, some containing terminals with information on the giant robo-scorpion. This information can be used to damage or disable the scorpion. One terminal, in particular, located on the highest catwalks in the room, indicates that it can be used to shut down the giant robo-scorpion remotely, but actually resets the giant robo-scorpion to no longer be hostile. Methods of assisting in attacking the giant robo-scorpion include activating turrets to fire upon it from a terminal and starting up target drones to keep it occupied in the same way.
Dome[]
The layout of the Forbidden Zone's dome is largely similar to that of the Think Tank's, but in significantly worse condition: the lighting is a sickly green, the equipment is rusted, broken, or otherwise mostly unusable, and Dr. Mobius has covered most of the surface in the main room, specifically the center, with intricate scrawls of notes and formulas. In the six smaller rooms located off the upper tier, stored office furniture containing random loot can be found, along with am excessive amount of Mentats. Located at the top of the main staircase is the Brain Tank containing the Courier's brain. Unlike the Think Tank's dome, however, instead of five lights located on the front platform, there is only one.
Notable loot[]
Workshop[]
- Audio Sample - Mobius' Robo-scorpion - On the center desk right in front of the north exit on the second floor.
- Emergency shutdown terminal password - By the Protectron containers in the northeast corner of the ground floor, near the last container. Unlocks the Very-Hard terminal to the left of the north exit on the second floor.
- LAER - In the northeast area of the building, to the right of the exit.
Dome[]
- Dr. Mobius' glove - a unique variant of the scientist glove, found on a table left next to the central stairs.
- Dr. Mobius' scrubs - a unique variant of the scientist scrubs, found in a trunk directly next to the central stairs.
- 44 Mentats - In the second farthest right room.
- LAER - In the room left next to the central stairs.
- Proton axe - In one of the upper rooms on a table.
- Proton throwing axe - In a bin in the rightmost upper room.
Appearances[]
The Forbidden Zone dome appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ The Courier: "Can you tell me about your Robo-Scorpions?"
Mobius: "Well, every scientist needs an army. Mine came to me after these rather large scorpions kept coming in from the dessert.
Like poisonous frosting. How scary, I thought! But they had survived when nothing else had. Perfect candidates for improvement, as a reward for their tenacity. Then I thought, what if they shot energy bolts and acted as walking eyes and data-drained computers and acted as bullhorns? Then I made them bigger. Then, I thought about... custard. I do so love custard. Or was it mustard? Mustard custard. Mmmm. I miss sugars and salts."
(Mobius' dialogue)
