| rdfs:comment | - Kirkman Artillery Base was founded in 2002, in the Northwest Commonwealth, the state of Oregon, 80 miles from Salem. Following an increase in military activity and updates to US military equipment, the base was constructed as a means to mobilize ammunition and equipment effectively, whilst simultaneously being able to defend US territory, should a war ever break out, threatening US soil or her allies, back when the US still had a part in global affairs.
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| abstract | - Kirkman Artillery Base was founded in 2002, in the Northwest Commonwealth, the state of Oregon, 80 miles from Salem. Following an increase in military activity and updates to US military equipment, the base was constructed as a means to mobilize ammunition and equipment effectively, whilst simultaneously being able to defend US territory, should a war ever break out, threatening US soil or her allies, back when the US still had a part in global affairs. The facility was used to fuel the war effort during the Resource Wars against China when they invaded Alaska and fueled the annexation of Canada when the US government moved into 'unify' the US and its neighbor. The base was relatively unscathed when the Great War broke out, and was even able to use its artillery cannons years after the Great War concluded, leaving the occupants of the facility as radioactive ghouls, following the loss of its occupants the base fell into disrepair, and with the curious snow fall and radical drop of temperature in the area, much like the rest of the United States, where the weather changed drastically. The base was re-activated by the Enclave in 2170, long before the Enclave had revealed itself to the Wasteland, improving the facility's defenses and substantially improving the base's defenses, including re-activating the long dormant laser turret grid, using the facility well into the Enclave's prime, and into the time when they attacked and destroyed the village of Arroyo. The base was eventually destroyed by a team of Brotherhood of Steel Knights and Paladins, wasteland settlers, and explorers from the expedition into the wasteland Vault 14, infiltrating and destroying the base by turning the guns onto the facility, and firing repeatedly into the structure, before detonating the fission rods powering the facility, destroying the base and annihilating the Enclave cell present in the Base. The base was still scavenged by the Brotherhood of Steels chapter in the region up until 2262, before being abandoned to the wastes.
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