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|affiliation =[[Pitt raiders (faction)|Pitt raiders]]<br />[[Brotherhood of Steel (Capital Wasteland)|Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel]] (formerly)
  
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|image desc =Megaton's front gate
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|location =[[Haven]]
  
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|local map desc =Aerial view and guide over Megaton
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|map marker ='''Megaton'''
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|family =[[Sandra Kundanika]] - wife<br />[[Marie]] - daughter
  
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|leaders =[[Lucas Simms]]
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|merchants =[[Colin Moriarty]] (drinks)<br />[[Gob]] (drinks)<br />[[Jenny Stahl]] (food)<br />[[Leo Stahl]] (chems)<br />[[Moira]] (general)
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|buildings =[[Billy Creel's house]]<br />[[Brass Lantern]]<br />[[Megaton clinic|Clinic]]<br />[[Church of the Children of Atom]]<br />[[Common house (Megaton)|Common house]]<br />[[Craterside Supply]]<br />[[Jericho's house]]<br />[[Lucas Simms' house]]<br />[[Lucy West's house]]<br />[[Megaton armory]]<br />[[Men's restroom]]<br />[[Mister Burke's house]]<br />[[Moriarty's Saloon]]<br />[[My Megaton house]]<br />[[Nathan and Manya's house]]<br />[[Water processing plant]]<br />[[Women's restroom]]
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|quests ='''[[Following in His Footsteps]]'''<br />[[Blood Ties]]<br />[[Holy Water (quest)|Holy Water]] {{icon|FO3BS|link=Broken Steel}}<br />[[The Power of the Atom]]<br />[[The Replicated Man]]<br />[[The Wasteland Survival Guide (quest)|The Wasteland Survival Guide]]<br />''[[300 Pieces of Silver]]''<br />''[[Church Donations]]''<br />''[[Leo's Drug Habit]]''<br />''[[Treatment]]''<br />''[[Walter's Scrap Metal]]''
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|cell name =MegatonTown (gate)<br />MegatonMainGate (Dep. Weld loc)
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{{quotation|Welcome to Megaton. The bomb is perfectly safe, we promise.|[[Deputy Weld]]}}
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{{Quotation| I bring you good news! We stand at the dawn of a new golden age. Where others merely survive, we thrive! And while I have led your efforts, it has been by your own strength that you have earned all the envy of the world. And most of all, they envy our victories in the struggle for freedom. Because, yes, freedom is what we all work towards.|Ishmael Ashur}}
  
   
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'''Megaton''' is a sprawling [[Fallout 3 locations|settlement]] in the [[Capital Wasteland]], set in and around a crater with a Megaton class [[Megaton atomic bomb|unexploded nuclear bomb]] at its center, giving the location its name. The town of Megaton is protected by large metal walls made from various scavenged materials, primarily the scraps of old pre-[[Great War|War]] airplanes, which were assembled and reforged together several decades ago by the founders of Megaton in an effort to make the town safer. With 28 named inhabitants and several unnamed [[Megaton settler]]s, it is rivaled only by [[Rivet City]] in population.
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'''Ishmael Ashur''', known as '''Lord Ashur''' to The Pitt's inhabitants, is the lord of [[The Pitt (town)|The Pitt]] and leader of the [[Pitt raiders (faction)|Pitt raiders]] in [[Timeline#2277|2277]].
  
   
 
==Background==
  
==Background==
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===Beginnings===
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Ashur reveals his personal history and motives, as well as much of the history of The Pitt, in a [[Ashur's Diary|series of holotapes]] found in his personal safe, addressed to his daughter [[Marie]], which must be stolen. He reveals he was once a member of the [[Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel]], and participated in their assault on The Pitt twenty years ago, known as the [[Scourge]]. During the fight, Ashur was caught in an explosion and was presumed dead, so the Brotherhood left him within the mill. After being pulled out of the rubble by [[scavengers]] trying to steal his armor, Ashur impressed them, some even considering him a god ([[Midea]] sarcastically calls him the "God-King"). He then brought together the scavengers in the area, starting the city.
  
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Megaton's crater was first settled by a large group of people who sought shelter in [[Vault 101]], but were denied access because the residents of the vault were not allowed to leave or let anyone in as part of the vault's policy. Locked out of the vault, these settlers, led by [[Manya Vargas|Manya Vargas']] father, constructed their homes using aircraft debris from a nearby air station. The air station is no longer visible since all of its parts were used up as building materials for the town's construction.
   
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Megaton's construction was aided by the [[Children of the Atom]], who worship the undetonated atomic bomb at its center. The settlers left the bomb unmoved in exchange for their much needed help.
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He chose to start the city in The Pitt because he was touched by the tenacious locals, and the fact that it contained the only operational steel mill the Brotherhood had ever run into. So he recruited everyone in the area, killed raider leaders and made the rest follow him. When that wasn't enough, he resorted to using slaves (whom he insists on calling "workers" to remind them that they all have a chance at freedom, no matter how slim); he admits he hates to do this, but claims "it has to be done" since citizens of The Pitt are unable to have children due to the [[Troglodyte Degeneration Contagion]]. His ultimate goal is to create the first city that is "producing" once again, and he claims that every other post-War community (including the Brotherhood of Steel) has lived off of leftovers and has been unable to create things anew.
  
   
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===First contact with Vault 101 and raider attack===
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The accuracy of this statement by Ashur is unclear, as is whether or not he is including [[Enclave|The Enclave]] or the [[New California Republic]] in his assessment, since those communities clearly ''do'' have advanced capacity to produce and manufacture new material. Despite Ashur's condemnation of the Brotherhood of Steel as "lazy" scavengers, in the original ''Fallout'' set many, many years before ''Fallout 3'', they were also depicted as possessing some form of manufacturing capabilities. It's entirely possible he knew about these facts, but kept them secret to inspire the slaves further, although it is unlikely that most, if not all, factions in the Wasteland have anywhere near the industrial capacity of [[Pittsburgh]], a major steel-producing location, even if it has only a fraction of its pre-War capacity intact. It is noteworthy that The Pitt is the only location in ''Fallout 3'' that has visible ammunition production operations, an aspect of the city that the player can eventually utilize.
  
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In February [[Timeline#2241|2241]], an expeditionary party of Vault 101, led by [[Anne Palmer]] and sent by the [[Unnamed Overseer|Overseer of the Vault]], made contact with the residents of Megaton. Initially, the locals were cautious of the strangers before eventually accepting and welcoming them into their settlement. Palmer appointed two vault residents, [[Agnes Taylor]] and [[Lewis]], as vault ambassadors to Megaton. A record of this expedition was archived in the Overseer's terminal in his office.
   
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That same year, a group of [[raiders]] attacked the town, resulting in the death of the 14 year old [[Colin Moriarty|Colin Moriarty's]] father. After the raid, Moriarty inherited his father's wealth and his bar, [[Moriarty's Saloon]].
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==Daily schedule==
  
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Ashur is found in his office at the top of [[Haven]], and gives speeches to the slaves of The Pitt every once in a while. He also runs [[Pitt Broadcast|The Pitt's radio station]].
  
   
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===Boppo's raid===
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==Interactions with the player character==
  
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In [[Timeline#2277|2277]], a gang of raiders occupied the nearby [[Springvale School|Springvale elementary school]], intending to tunnel from the school basement into Vault 101. A group, led by [[Boppo]], staged a raid on Megaton, but the attack was foiled when Boppo was shot in the head and killed by the town's sheriff, [[Lucas Simms]]. The raiders did not leave the area, though, choosing to remain at the Springvale School, although their mining operation stopped when they opened a nest of [[giant ant]]s.
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===Interactions overview===
  
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==Layout==
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|essential =Until the start of [[Free Labor]]
  
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The city of Megaton has been built in a steep-walled crater around an undetonated atomic bomb which rests in a small puddle of radioactive water at the bottom of the depression. This gives the city two roughly circular levels centered on the bomb. The main gate consists of two old aircraft wings and a jet engine which can be opened and closed to protect the only entrance/exit to the town.
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If you follow the entry path to the bottom of the depression the [[Megaton Clinic]] will be on your right and [[The Brass Lantern]] on your left. Just past the bomb to the right is the [[Church of the Children of Atom]] and past it to the left lies [[Mister Burke's house]]. [[Confessor Cromwell]] can usually be found here sermonizing from the puddle to random settlers.
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If you turn right when you first enter so that you are still on the lip of the crater, the "path" will take you past [[Lucas Simms' house]], around the [[Water processing plant]], down to [[Craterside Supply]], then back up to the [[Men's restroom]], Moriarty's Saloon and [[Billy Creel's house]]. Going down the ramp from there will take you around [[Nathan and Manya's house]] (a bus) and to the [[Women's restroom]]. Craterside Supply can also be easily reached by taking the ramp directly to the right of the Megaton Clinic.
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If you instead turn left at the upper lip, you'll find a locked house (which is rewarded to you by Lucas Simms if you deactivate the central atomic bomb), followed by [[Jericho]]'s house. From there, going down will take you to [[Lucy West]]'s house while going around to the left will get you to the end of the right hand path.
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The [[Megaton armory]] (very hard lock) can be reached by going up the ramp and around the Church of the Children of Atom to the right or by going down the hill starting from the back door of Moriarty's Saloon. There are strong enemies inside. Prepare with strong weapons and armor before entering.
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The [[Common house (Megaton)|common house]] can be reached by going around the Women's restroom to the right or by passing behind Moriarty's Saloon rather than going around the front past the entrance to the Men's restroom. Just look for the couch sitting outside.
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In front of the city, outside the walls, you'll find a caravan stop, [[Micky]] the [[Water Beggars|water beggar]], and [[Deputy Weld]]. Behind the city, near the south west corner is the [[Hollowed-out rock (Fallout 3)|hollowed-out rock]].
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===Megaton ruins===
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If you revisit Megaton ruins after blowing it up in [[The Power of the Atom]] quest, Deputy Weld's head with an orange (or purple) eye will be nearby, sticking out of a pile of debris. He says, ironically, "Welcome to Megaton. The bomb is perfectly safe. We promise. Please hold," in a garbled voice that sounds broken. The sky will be green, and, if you started the [[Wasteland Survival Guide (quest)|Wasteland Survival Guide]] quest, [[Moira Brown]] will survive as a ghoul and appear to tell you that she is relocating to Rivet City. If you have not started the quest, Moira can still be found in [[Underworld]]. However, the [[Bobblehead - Strength|Strength Bobblehead]] will be unobtainable if you detonate the bomb before retrieving it. The area around Megaton will contain higher levels of radiation the closer you get to the town's ruins
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==Buildings==
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* [[Billy Creel's house]]
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* [[Children of Atom]]
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* [[Common house (Megaton)|Common house]]
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* [[Craterside Supply]]
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* [[Jericho's house]]
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* [[Lucas Simms' house]]
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* [[Lucy West's house]]
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* [[Megaton armory]]
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* [[Megaton clinic]]
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* [[Men's restroom]]
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* [[Mister Burke's house]]
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* [[Moriarty's Saloon]]
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* [[My Megaton house]]
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* [[Nathan and Manya's house]]
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* [[The Brass Lantern]]
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* [[Water processing plant]]
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* [[Women's restroom]]
 
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===Quests===
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==Inhabitants==
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* [[Unsafe Working Conditions]]: Your first interaction with Ashur is when he gives a speech to the slaves to pick a fighter for [[The Hole (The Pitt)|The Hole]].
  
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* [[Andy Stahl]]
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* [[Free Labor]]: After you're done fighting in The Hole, he will ask to meet you and talk to you about becoming a Pitt raider. You can then choose to side with him or [[Wernher]], and if you side with him you fight to stop the slaves revolt, and if you side with [[Wernher]] you kill him.
  
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* [[Billy Creel]]
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* [[Colin Moriarty]]
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* [[Confessor Cromwell]]
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* [[Church (Fallout 3)|Doc Church]]
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* [[Gob]]
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* [[Harden Simms]]
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* [[Jenny Stahl]]
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* [[Jericho (character)|Jericho]]
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* [[Leo Stahl]]
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* [[Lucas Simms]]
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* [[Lucy West]]
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* [[Maggie]]
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* [[Manya Vargas]]
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* [[Megaton settler]]s
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* [[Micky (Fallout 3)|Micky]]
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* [[Moira Brown]]
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* [[Mother Maya]]
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* [[Burke|Mister Burke]]
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* [[Nathan Vargas]]
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* [[Nova]]
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* [[Rory McLaren]] (After being released from [[Paradise Falls]])
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* [[Silver]]
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* [[Deputy Steel]]
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* [[Stockholm]]
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* [[Wadsworth]]
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* [[Walter (Fallout 3)|Walter]]
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* [[Deputy Weld]]
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==Notable loot==
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* [[Bobblehead - Strength]] inside [[Lucas Simms' house]], on a desk in a bedroom on the second floor.
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* [[Grognak the Barbarian (Fallout 3)|Grognak the Barbarian]] and a [[Chinese officer's sword]] in [[Jericho's house]], on the floor, between a teddy bear and a red pylon along the right wall.
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* [[Nikola Tesla and You (Fallout 3)|Nikola Tesla and You]] in your Megaton home after buying the [[Science Theme]] from [[Moira Brown]].
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* [[Lying, Congressional Style (Fallout 3)|Lying, Congressional Style]] in your Megaton home when you buy the [[Love Machine Theme]] from Moira Brown.
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* 4 [[pre-War book]]s in Billy Creel's house (must be stolen).
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* [[Stealth Boy (Fallout 3)|Stealth Boy]], and the [[As Requested]] note in the [[Hollowed-out rock (Fallout 3)|hollowed-out rock]] located outside Megaton along its southern wall. Look for the rock with three small trees in a triangular pattern around it.
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* 300-700 [[Bottle cap (Fallout 3)|bottle cap]]s in The Brass Lantern. A terminal (very easy) unlocks a floor safe which is otherwise locked (average).
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* A [[rolling pin]], a rather hard-to-find and mostly cosmetic weapon can be found in the water processing plant.
   
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==Inventory==
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==Related quests==
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{{Inventory
  
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* '''[[Following in His Footsteps]]'''
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|apparel =[[Ashur's power armor]]<br />[[Recon helmet]]
  
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* [[Blood Ties]]
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|weapon =[[Combat shotgun (Fallout 3)|Combat shotgun]]
  
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* [[Holy Water (quest)|Holy Water]] {{icon|FO3BS|link=Broken Steel}}
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* [[The Power of the Atom]]
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* [[The Replicated Man]]
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* [[The Wasteland Survival Guide (quest)|The Wasteland Survival Guide]]
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* ''[[Following in His Footsteps#Megaton and '300 Pieces of Silver'|300 Pieces of Silver]]''
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* ''[[Church Donations]]''
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* ''[[Leo's Drug Habit]]''
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* ''[[Water Caravan Squabble]]'' {{icon|FO3BS|link=Broken Steel}}
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* ''[[Treatment]]''
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* ''[[Walter's Scrap Metal]]''
 
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==Notes==
  
==Notes==
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* If you intend to obtain the Strength bobblehead, you should do so before blowing up the town in [[The Power of the Atom]] quest as the explosion will destroy Lucas Simms' house, rendering the bobblehead inaccessible.
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* Despite his insistence that the residents of [[Downtown]] be called "workers", he still refers to them as "slaves" a few times in dialogue.
  
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* If you have very good [[karma (Fallout 3)|karma]], a Megaton settler will approach you each day you are in Megaton (after around 8am) and give you a random item of loot, saying something like, "I wish there were more people like you in the world." The gift can range from ammunition (around 10 to 20 of any standard type) to medical supplies (stimpaks, [[Rad-X (Fallout 3)|Rad-X]], etc.) to packaged food. She will sprint from wherever she happens to be in town to reach you; occasionally this action will not be triggered, but finding and talking to her will produce the appropriate dialog. If you have very bad Karma, the same settler will approach you and mutter insults instead of giving you something.
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* If the player lets Ashur live at the conclusion of the [[Free Labor]] quest, the player can come back and kill Ashur and loot his body for negative karma. Sandra and The Pitt raiders inside Haven (assuming they're alive) will attack you. However, The Pitt raiders outside of Haven will not attack you.
  
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* If you are wearing a [[Vault jumpsuit (Fallout 3)|Vault 101 jumpsuit]] when you enter Megaton for the first time, Lucas Simms and the other named settlers will comment on it during the initial greeting. This special greeting does not occur when wearing the Vault security, utility jumpsuits and Vault scientist coat.
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* Megaton will occasionally be attacked by various enemies when you approach or leave it. These are usually one or two raiders or giant ants, but can be more dangerous enemies such as [[giant radscorpion]]s. Usually, Deputy Weld can easily dispatch them, with the help of Stockholm and any merchant caravan that happened to be in front of Megaton when the fight happens.
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* If you look up during Megaton's daytime you will see a flock of birds circling the settlement.
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* If you choose to blow up Megaton, the fast travel point will be renamed 'Megaton Ruins.'
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* If you travel to Megaton Ruins, an eerie green glow will surround the wreckage and will still be evident when you travel to places like Super-Duper Mart.
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* You cannot enter Megaton after destroying it, and getting very close will result in a hefty dose of radiation.
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* If you destroy Megaton you are likely to be encountered by [[Megaton refugee]]s; they are hostile at first sight.
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* The first time you come to Megaton the gate is closed but opens as you approach it. The gate never closes again after that.
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* Nathan and Manya's house appears to be made up of a bus, as does the bridge near their house, rather than planes like the rest of the town.
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* Even if you gain access to your own Megaton house, perform various tasks for the locals and spend a significant amount of time in Megaton, the settlers will still qualify you as an outsider if you approach conversations with them. In fact, nobody besides the Simms' family and Moira comments on anything remotely related to the fact that you have a permanent house there.
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* Because it is an open environment, you can fast travel into and out of town without going through the town gates.
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* There are additional unused sniper towers seen on the inside perimeter of the town, although they cannot be seen from the outside and there is no visible way to enter them.
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* It is possible to get to [[Stockholm]] by entering Lucas Simms' house, going through the trapdoor on the second floor, jumping on the fence on the roof, running along the fence, getting on top of the plane, running along the left side of the plane, and making a jump at the perfect time to land on the city walls. From here, carefully walk along the edge until you get to his platform.
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* When you are outside of the Megaton city walls and look through the holes in the walls, you may see only a large crater with nothing in it.
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* Despite the fact that Manya tells the story of her father and others scavenging from an airport, and the buildings were claimed back by the waste, there is no evidence at all to a nearby airport; no runway or large area in the vicinity that seems reasonably in range.
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==Appearances==
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Megaton appears only in ''[[Fallout 3]]''.
   
 
==Behind the scenes==
  
==Behind the scenes==
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* The bomb in the center of the town and the people worshiping it are likely a reference to ''Beneath The Planet of the Apes'', which features a cult worshiping an undetonated nuclear weapon after the modern world has been destroyed.
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* Both Ishmael and Ashur are Biblical names. Ishmael was the son of Abraham, who was exiled by his own parents. Ashur was the second son of Shem, the son of Noah. Ashur was also the name of the capital of Assyria, an ancient Mesopotamian empire in what is now modern-day Iraq.
  
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* A Megaton is used to measure an explosion equivalent to the force of a million tonnes of TNT- a fitting name for a town with a nuke at its center.
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* In the Japanese version of ''Fallout 3'', Burke is completely gone, and therefore, the quest to blow up Megaton has been completely removed due to its "parallels to real historic events",<ref>[http://oxmonline.com Official Xbox Magazine]</ref> referring to the atomic bombs that were dropped on [[Wikipedia:Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] in 1945.
   
 
==Bugs==
  
==Bugs==
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* {{Platforms|ps3|xbox360|pc}} After ''Broken Steel'' is installed, if you pick-up the note from your door, after completing quest [[Holy Water (quest)|Holy Water]], the note will respawn every day. This can be very annoying, and it is recommended to achieve the note from a settler.
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* If your carrying the mesmatron and fire it at Ashur he may become hostile to you, doing this will cause the turrets and the nearby raiders to attack Ashur and kill him, without harming or turning on the player, effectively allowing you to rule the pitt with all the raiders alive.
  
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* Upon leaving Vault 101 Megaton may not spawn. To fix this, restart your console. {{verify|20:51, February 1, 2012 (UTC)}}
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* Sometimes when you kill Ashur, Pitt raiders will not become hostile towards you except for the ones in the area you killed Ashur. [[Sandra]] will still become hostile towards you.
  
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* {{Platforms|ps3|xbox360}} Occasionally the player will be shot at by the settlers of Megaton upon first entering, which can be rather troublesome for a low level character.
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* {{Platforms|xbox360}} Sometimes after the initial meeting dialog with Ashur he will repeat the words "Don't let me keep you" a few times to before leaving. This appears to be a bug, supposedly caused by speaking to others in Haven before speaking to Ashur or by skipping through too much of Ashur's dialog.
  
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* Sometimes when entering Craterside Supply, All the people in there will fall through the ground.(including you) {{verify|20:51, February 1, 2012 (UTC)}}
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* Ashur will sometimes fall down (exactly like [[Harkness]] if you tell [[Zimmer]] about him) at random moments. You can also loot him while he is in this state and guards will not be hostile when he gets back up.
  
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* {{Platforms|ps3}} Rarely, after you fast travel to Megaton a Brotherhood soldier may appears in the entrance of the city, a few seconds later he will leave the city.
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* {{Platforms|xbox360}} After accessing the computer in the room with Marie, Ashur's corpse is very likely to disappear if you have killed him, so be sure to loot his body before using it.
  
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* If you choose not to kill Ashur at first, continue the game and after turning off the flood lights and coming back to the surface, Ashur will confront you and tell you he should have killed you. If you once again choose not to kill him and sneak away, he will sometimes die standing up if killed by trogs.
  
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* Usually, after finishing the main quest, and regaining entry to Haven, Ashur will be waiting for you on his floor, alive but having only what was left after looting his corpse. He is marked essential hereafter, and cannot be killed. However, unusual glitches have been reported (e.g. Dismembered limbs floating near their appropriate areas, and Ashur walking weirdly, as if skating. Also, if you remove Ashur's head, when you return it will be at his feet and on his body. When you enter V.A.T.S., you can target the one at his feet but the one still attached to his head won't register. When talked to, the head at his feet will speak.)
  
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** In the above case, Ashur cannot be killed, nor looted for any possessions. He will simply go unconscious repeatedly with no XP gain, and no Loss or Gain of Karma. Thus in doing so, all you really get is a waste of ammunition. In addition, if he still has his combat shotgun, he may shoot it at you while he is on the ground, even if it is not pointed at you.
  
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* Sometimes Ashur stops in the middle of his speech and nothing happens when you are chosen to fight in [[The Hole (The Pitt)|the Hole]]. This forces you to reload to your last save and try it again.
  
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* {{Platforms|pc}} Ashur's speech prior to entering the arena is bugged. In the PC version of the game, he will skip every other text block, causing the speech to be much shorter (the skipped portions of the speech can be heard in the background playing at the same time as the heard portions). The full speech plays in the Xbox and PlayStation version of the game.
  
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==Appearances==
  
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Ashur appears only in the [[Fallout 3 add-ons|''Fallout 3'' add-on]] ''[[The Pitt (add-on)|The Pitt]]''.
  
   
 
==Gallery==
  
==Gallery==
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Megaton_interior.jpg|Sky view.
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Ashur_in_his_office.jpg|Ashur in his office
  
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Megaton inside.jpg|Inside Megaton.
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Megaton 2.JPG|Outside Megaton.
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“Welcome to Megaton. The bomb is perfectly safe, we promise.”— Deputy Weld

Megaton is a sprawling settlement in the Capital Wasteland, set in and around a crater with a Megaton class unexploded nuclear bomb at its center, giving the location its name. The town of Megaton is protected by large metal walls made from various scavenged materials, primarily the scraps of old pre-War airplanes, which were assembled and reforged together several decades ago by the founders of Megaton in an effort to make the town safer. With 28 named inhabitants and several unnamed Megaton settlers, it is rivaled only by Rivet City in population.

Background

Beginnings

Megaton's crater was first settled by a large group of people who sought shelter in Vault 101, but were denied access because the residents of the vault were not allowed to leave or let anyone in as part of the vault's policy. Locked out of the vault, these settlers, led by Manya Vargas' father, constructed their homes using aircraft debris from a nearby air station. The air station is no longer visible since all of its parts were used up as building materials for the town's construction.

Megaton's construction was aided by the Children of the Atom, who worship the undetonated atomic bomb at its center. The settlers left the bomb unmoved in exchange for their much needed help.

First contact with Vault 101 and raider attack

In February 2241, an expeditionary party of Vault 101, led by Anne Palmer and sent by the Overseer of the Vault, made contact with the residents of Megaton. Initially, the locals were cautious of the strangers before eventually accepting and welcoming them into their settlement. Palmer appointed two vault residents, Agnes Taylor and Lewis, as vault ambassadors to Megaton. A record of this expedition was archived in the Overseer's terminal in his office.

That same year, a group of raiders attacked the town, resulting in the death of the 14 year old Colin Moriarty's father. After the raid, Moriarty inherited his father's wealth and his bar, Moriarty's Saloon.

Boppo's raid

In 2277, a gang of raiders occupied the nearby Springvale elementary school, intending to tunnel from the school basement into Vault 101. A group, led by Boppo, staged a raid on Megaton, but the attack was foiled when Boppo was shot in the head and killed by the town's sheriff, Lucas Simms. The raiders did not leave the area, though, choosing to remain at the Springvale School, although their mining operation stopped when they opened a nest of giant ants.

Layout

The city of Megaton has been built in a steep-walled crater around an undetonated atomic bomb which rests in a small puddle of radioactive water at the bottom of the depression. This gives the city two roughly circular levels centered on the bomb. The main gate consists of two old aircraft wings and a jet engine which can be opened and closed to protect the only entrance/exit to the town.

If you follow the entry path to the bottom of the depression the Megaton Clinic will be on your right and The Brass Lantern on your left. Just past the bomb to the right is the Church of the Children of Atom and past it to the left lies Mister Burke's house. Confessor Cromwell can usually be found here sermonizing from the puddle to random settlers.

If you turn right when you first enter so that you are still on the lip of the crater, the "path" will take you past Lucas Simms' house, around the Water processing plant, down to Craterside Supply, then back up to the Men's restroom, Moriarty's Saloon and Billy Creel's house. Going down the ramp from there will take you around Nathan and Manya's house (a bus) and to the Women's restroom. Craterside Supply can also be easily reached by taking the ramp directly to the right of the Megaton Clinic.

If you instead turn left at the upper lip, you'll find a locked house (which is rewarded to you by Lucas Simms if you deactivate the central atomic bomb), followed by Jericho's house. From there, going down will take you to Lucy West's house while going around to the left will get you to the end of the right hand path.

The Megaton armory (very hard lock) can be reached by going up the ramp and around the Church of the Children of Atom to the right or by going down the hill starting from the back door of Moriarty's Saloon. There are strong enemies inside. Prepare with strong weapons and armor before entering.

The common house can be reached by going around the Women's restroom to the right or by passing behind Moriarty's Saloon rather than going around the front past the entrance to the Men's restroom. Just look for the couch sitting outside.

In front of the city, outside the walls, you'll find a caravan stop, Micky the water beggar, and Deputy Weld. Behind the city, near the south west corner is the hollowed-out rock.

Megaton ruins

If you revisit Megaton ruins after blowing it up in The Power of the Atom quest, Deputy Weld's head with an orange (or purple) eye will be nearby, sticking out of a pile of debris. He says, ironically, "Welcome to Megaton. The bomb is perfectly safe. We promise. Please hold," in a garbled voice that sounds broken. The sky will be green, and, if you started the Wasteland Survival Guide quest, Moira Brown will survive as a ghoul and appear to tell you that she is relocating to Rivet City. If you have not started the quest, Moira can still be found in Underworld. However, the Strength Bobblehead will be unobtainable if you detonate the bomb before retrieving it. The area around Megaton will contain higher levels of radiation the closer you get to the town's ruins

Buildings

Inhabitants

Notable loot

Related quests

Notes

  • If you intend to obtain the Strength bobblehead, you should do so before blowing up the town in The Power of the Atom quest as the explosion will destroy Lucas Simms' house, rendering the bobblehead inaccessible.
  • If you have very good karma, a Megaton settler will approach you each day you are in Megaton (after around 8am) and give you a random item of loot, saying something like, "I wish there were more people like you in the world." The gift can range from ammunition (around 10 to 20 of any standard type) to medical supplies (stimpaks, Rad-X, etc.) to packaged food. She will sprint from wherever she happens to be in town to reach you; occasionally this action will not be triggered, but finding and talking to her will produce the appropriate dialog. If you have very bad Karma, the same settler will approach you and mutter insults instead of giving you something.
  • If you are wearing a Vault 101 jumpsuit when you enter Megaton for the first time, Lucas Simms and the other named settlers will comment on it during the initial greeting. This special greeting does not occur when wearing the Vault security, utility jumpsuits and Vault scientist coat.
  • Megaton will occasionally be attacked by various enemies when you approach or leave it. These are usually one or two raiders or giant ants, but can be more dangerous enemies such as giant radscorpions. Usually, Deputy Weld can easily dispatch them, with the help of Stockholm and any merchant caravan that happened to be in front of Megaton when the fight happens.
  • If you look up during Megaton's daytime you will see a flock of birds circling the settlement.
  • If you choose to blow up Megaton, the fast travel point will be renamed 'Megaton Ruins.'
  • If you travel to Megaton Ruins, an eerie green glow will surround the wreckage and will still be evident when you travel to places like Super-Duper Mart.
  • You cannot enter Megaton after destroying it, and getting very close will result in a hefty dose of radiation.
  • If you destroy Megaton you are likely to be encountered by Megaton refugees; they are hostile at first sight.
  • The first time you come to Megaton the gate is closed but opens as you approach it. The gate never closes again after that.
  • Nathan and Manya's house appears to be made up of a bus, as does the bridge near their house, rather than planes like the rest of the town.
  • Even if you gain access to your own Megaton house, perform various tasks for the locals and spend a significant amount of time in Megaton, the settlers will still qualify you as an outsider if you approach conversations with them. In fact, nobody besides the Simms' family and Moira comments on anything remotely related to the fact that you have a permanent house there.
  • Because it is an open environment, you can fast travel into and out of town without going through the town gates.
  • There are additional unused sniper towers seen on the inside perimeter of the town, although they cannot be seen from the outside and there is no visible way to enter them.
  • It is possible to get to Stockholm by entering Lucas Simms' house, going through the trapdoor on the second floor, jumping on the fence on the roof, running along the fence, getting on top of the plane, running along the left side of the plane, and making a jump at the perfect time to land on the city walls. From here, carefully walk along the edge until you get to his platform.
  • When you are outside of the Megaton city walls and look through the holes in the walls, you may see only a large crater with nothing in it.
  • Despite the fact that Manya tells the story of her father and others scavenging from an airport, and the buildings were claimed back by the waste, there is no evidence at all to a nearby airport; no runway or large area in the vicinity that seems reasonably in range.

Appearances

Megaton appears only in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

  • The bomb in the center of the town and the people worshiping it are likely a reference to Beneath The Planet of the Apes, which features a cult worshiping an undetonated nuclear weapon after the modern world has been destroyed.
  • A Megaton is used to measure an explosion equivalent to the force of a million tonnes of TNT- a fitting name for a town with a nuke at its center.
  • In the Japanese version of Fallout 3, Burke is completely gone, and therefore, the quest to blow up Megaton has been completely removed due to its "parallels to real historic events",[1] referring to the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Bugs

  • Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 After Broken Steel is installed, if you pick-up the note from your door, after completing quest Holy Water, the note will respawn every day. This can be very annoying, and it is recommended to achieve the note from a settler.
  • Upon leaving Vault 101 Megaton may not spawn. To fix this, restart your console. [verification overdue]
  • Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 Occasionally the player will be shot at by the settlers of Megaton upon first entering, which can be rather troublesome for a low level character.
  • Sometimes when entering Craterside Supply, All the people in there will fall through the ground.(including you) [verification overdue]
  • Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 Rarely, after you fast travel to Megaton a Brotherhood soldier may appears in the entrance of the city, a few seconds later he will leave the city.

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Official Xbox Magazine
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Megaton
LocationsArmory · Atomic bomb · Billy Creel's house · The Brass Lantern · Children of Atom · Clinic · Common house · Craterside Supply · Jericho's house · Lucas Simms' house · Lucy West's house · Men's restroom · Women's restroom · Mister Burke's house · Moriarty's Saloon · My Megaton house · Nathan and Manya's house · Water processing plant
CharactersAndy Stahl · Billy Creel · Burke · Child of Atom · Doc Church · Colin Moriarty · Cromwell · Deputy Steel · Deputy Weld · Gob · Harden Simms · Jenny Stahl · Jericho · Leo Stahl · Lucas Simms · Lucy West · Maggie · Manya Vargas · Mother Maya · Megaton settler · Mercenary · Micky · Moira Brown · Nathaniel Vargas · Nova · Patient · Rory Maclaren · Rosa · Stockholm · Wadsworth · Walter
QuestsMainFollowing in His Footsteps
SideBlood Ties · Holy Water Broken Steel  · The Power of the Atom · Wasteland Survival Guide
UnmarkedLeo's Drug Habit · Treatment · Walter's Scrap Metal
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