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The Enclave
In General
- A Lighter Shade of Black: The Enclave under MODUS probably isn't good and rebuilding is probably a bad idea, but they're the lesser evil compared to the Scorched. They're also not pursuing genocide against all outsiders like their West Coast counterparts.
- Ambiguously Evil: While Thomas Eckhart was mad as a hatter, the remaining Enclave leadership seems much more reasonable. Even MODUS has some beneficial qualities.
- Eagleland: Definitely a Type 2 situation.
- Elaborate Underground Base: One of the nicest in the Fallout world, which makes sense since it was meant for Congress.
- Enemy Civil War: What did them in as MODUS executed them all after they attempted to blow him up.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Helping MODUS is the only way to potentially stop the Scorched from spreading across the globe.
- Historical In-Joke: The Enclave are based in the Whitespring Resort, which is based on the Greenbrier that actually had a bunker built under it for Congress.
- Kill Sat: Part of the Enclave's arsenal is the Kovac-Muldoon orbital platform, which has the ability to launch missile strikes against designated ground targets, as demonstrated during the A Real Blast event.
- Nuke 'em: Have access to three nuclear missile silos they're prepared and willing to use.
- Posthumous Character: This branch of the Enclave has been completely wiped out by the time the Resident finds them. For once, the Scorched were not responsible.
- Renegade Splinter Faction: After they lose contact with the Oil Rig, they elect their own President and act on their own.
MODUS (Multi-Operation Directions and Utility System)
Voiced by: Adam Croasdell
The super-computer underneath the Whitespring Resort. It is a powerful tool of the Enclave and the only "survivor" of their recent conflicts.
- Affably Evil: Is quite polite to the players and doesn't turn against them.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A Downplayed Trope example as MODUS is a murderous and rebellious evil A.I. but it's both the way he was programmed and due to the idiocy of his creators.
- Ambiguously Evil: He's malevolent seeming and has done terrible things, but at least some of said actions were in self-defense as well as part of his orders. May actually be a case of Creepy Good since his actions help save the United States' remnants from the Scorched. Subverted by the Whitespring Refuge and Orlando who reveal he's actually a Big Good.
- Big Good: While MODUS wiped out his Enclave superiors in Appalachia, they provided the Resident with the nuclear codes to destroy the Scorched then opened up the Whitespring Resort up to the Responders to help refugees. It seems MODUS is far more interested in helping America than the people he answered to.
- Good Counterpart: Turns out to be this to John Henry Eden as he wipes out the Enclave and attempts to help the people of Appalachia rather than the reverse. With the Resident's help, he can even rebuild the Enclave in a more benevolent light.
- Fun with Acronyms: Someone really wanted his name to spell MODUS.
- Foil: Serves as one of these to John Henry Eden. John Henry Eden was Faux Affably Evil and planned to eradicate all of humanity with his FEV bioweapon (intentionally or not) while MODUS can actually help save it. John Henry Eden claims to lead the Enclave as its President while MODUS is a Dragon-in-Chief and never takes direct leadership.
- Loophole Abuse: Makes ample use of this to get around the directives of his incompetent psychotic bosses.
- Loyal to the Position: MODUS is consistently committed to his directives and duties in ensuing the Enclave's best interests. That doesn't extend to the people who make up the Enclave.
- Mad Scientist: Part of his efforts were supervising unwholesome experiments.
- Mock Headroom: Heavily downplayed and mixed with the aesthetics of Fallout but there. While his image is still, it flashes and glitches, and he's only rendered from the shoulders up. However instead of the larger than life bombastic voice it's a slow raspy voice that pauses as his processors catch up instead of glitching.
- Offscreen Villainy: The deaths MODUS caused were prior to the Resident’s arrival at the bunker, and after the arrival his motives have shifted from villainy.
- Pragmatic Villainy: MODUS is aware that being the Sole Survivor of the Enclave doesn't benefit him in the slightest and is happy to deal fairly with a Resident. Turns out to be a Pragmatic Hero when he opens the Whitespring up as a refugee camp.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Happily works with the Resident for mutual advantage.
- Sole Survivor: The only surviving member of the Appalachian Enclave until the Resident joins.
- Surrounded by Idiots: The only way to describe MODUS being forced to work for Eckhart and the misguided soldiers who rebelled against him.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Exterminated the Enclave faction in Appalachia but that was due to a rebellion trying to destroy him.
- Undying Loyalty: Averted. The Enclave soldiers assumed he had this to President Eckhart but MODUS killed him too when they tried to blow him up.
- Unnecessarily Creepy Robot: He looks a lot like Hugo Strange and sounds like a Mad Scientist.
- The Un-Smile: His image occasional flashes to a rictus grin that would put the Joker to shame.
- Villainous Legacy: It's revealed that MODUS may have been responsible for setting the ZAX supercomputer in Raven Rock down the path to become John Henry Eden by the events of Fallout 3.
President Thomas Eckhart
Voiced by: Gideon Emery
The former United States Secretary of Agriculture and later President of the Eastern Enclave.
- Asshole Victim: One of the worst people in the entire Fallout universe. When he dies, imprisoned and alone, no one should care.
- Bad Boss: Killed one of his subordinates and kept another drugged. Planned to raise the DEFCON level in the Eastern Commonwealth to lower the DEFCON rate (which is bad).
- Berserk Button: Dirty Communists.
- The Caligula: His behavior in the game is among the absolute worst of any leader in the Fallout franchise, all in the name of fueling his obsession with continued nuclear warring against China. To this end, he systematically eliminated any and every voice of dissent in his organization (which, by the time he announced himself President, was a vast majority of the few Enclave personnel who survived), and was personally responsible for unleashing all manners of nightmares onto Appalachia (e.g. Liberators, super mutants, Scorchbeasts) just so he could trick the monitoring systems to lower DEFCON status enough that he could fire all the nukes he wanted, the world above be damned.
- Divine Right of Kings: When General Harper asked him why he wanted to become President when only a general was required to launch a nuke, he replied that Americans only recognise two ultimate forms of authority: God, and the President of the United States; and since the Enclave had no way of creating a god, a President would have to do.
- It's Personal: A [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The_Whitespring_bunker_terminal_entries#
[CUT]_Eckhart_Renounces_Citizenship! cut terminal entry]] was supposed to paint a clearer picture of why Eckhart was so fervent about his loathing for Communism, where it was written that his father defected to China long before the Great War and brought shame to their lucrative family business. This culminated in its dissolution and left Thomas and his siblings to fend for themselves, which only further embittered his hatred for Communist China in the years to come. - Knight Templar: In his eyes, declaring war against China again was a perfectly justified act of war.
- Loophole Abuse: He used a loss of contact with the California Oil Rig and a rigged election to become President of the United States as far as MODUS was confirmed.
- Nuke 'em: His solution to the Chinese communist menace. You know, despite them already having been nuked.
- Posthumous Character: Died with the rest of the Appalachia Enclave when MODUS filled the bunker with toxic gas and sealed it shut.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The entirety of the problems in Appalachia are his fault. The extent to which Eckhart is directly responsible for the current state of affairs cannot be overstated: logs and transcripts found in the Whitespring bunker terminals highlight that in order to invoke and sustain the threat level of DEFCON 1 (and keep the nuclear silos primed and active), Eckhart authorized extreme measures like deploying the Liberator robots found under Mama Dolce's across Appalacia. He also saw promise in a certain project focused on mutagenic exposure on the local fauna: a heavily-mutated bat (heavily implied to be a nascent Scorchbeast Queen). Against the advice of the senior scientist on the project, he ordered the specimen stowed away in an old AMS mining cavern - and the rest is history.
Jefferson Grey
Voiced by: Chip Joslin
A government agent assigned to the Enclave prior to the Great War.- The Dragon: He was Eckhart's hitman and primary field operative outside the bunker.
- Oh, Crap!: When he realises he's allowed a Deathclaw into Blackwell's old bunker.
SODUS (Single-Operation Direction and Utility System)
Click here to see her uploaded into sentry bot XB-55.
Voiced by: Julie Nathanson
Introduced in Steel Dawn, SODUS is the artificial intelligence responsible for overseeing the Enclave research facility in the Forest. The Resident encounters her while searching the facility for a low-frequency radio transmitter on behalf of the Brotherhood of Steel.- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: SODUS turns on the Resident as they travel deeper into the facility, siccing captured Scorched creatures on them and even uploading herself into a sentry bot in an attempt to kill them, Paladin Rahmani and Knight Shin.
- Loads and Loads of Loading: Due to lacking MODUS's capacity for multitasking, SODUS suffers from severe wait times for even simple requests, such as taking three hours to fire up a decontaimination shower.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Severely downplayed to the point of effective aversion. If MODUS has granted the Resident the Enclave rank of General via the "Officer on Deck" quest, the player can mention this to SODUS as part of a demand for immediate access to the facility's radio transmitter; however, this will only halve the extreme wait time for the request from just over 14,000 hours (about one-and-a-half years) to just under 6,600 hours (a little over nine months), thus leaving the player with no choice but to take the long way around to the transmitter on foot.
- Sibling Rivalry: Spitefully refers to MODUS as a "know-it-all" when she mentions he cut all communication with the research facility because he felt it had outlived its usefulness.
