» Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:21 pm For the greatest of time now, many fallacies about my favourite faction have become the predominant belief despite the fact that evidence to the contrary is in plain sight. In this weekly series I will continue to dispel whatever gripe I have about something I consider incorrect or just something which I believe should be known. Questions regarding the Enclave will be answered should anybody wish to inquire and there may even be discussions between the resident Enclave boffins. This thread is about educating you about the truth of the Enclave which often get’s immediately overlooked or ignored. Without much further ado I shall start this thread with my prepared essay and argument on the Enclave, not as some secretive New World Order society, but rather on the Enclave as the United States Government which I believe it in disputably to be. Not a ‘continuation’ or a ‘remnant’ but just the American Government.
The Enclave as Continuity of Government
"We were winning, too. And then those damn Reds launched everything they had. We barely got our birds up. But at least it knocked the damn Red menace back into the Stone Age.” – President dike Richardson, 2242
Canonically the origins of the Enclave remain unknown, despite this however the prevalent and predominant opinion is that the Enclave is the remains an Illuminati-style conspiracy that sought to or actually did control the pre-war United States in a complicated power-play of mega corporations and agents within the federal government in order to promote their own agenda. This opinion is not supported or even-hinted too in any of the Enclave’s appearances or any of their source material, in-fact all in-game sources seem to confirm that the Enclave is rather the remains of the pre-war Government who were evacuated to the Poseidon Energy Oil Rig, officially designated Control Station: ENCLAVE[1][2], and other Continuity of Government facilities throughout the United States before converging at Control Station: ENCLAVE[3].
During the March of 2077, Chris Avellone wrote that the following occured:
"Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreats to remote sections around the globe and make contingency plans for continuing the war."
Notice what he has written, “make contingency plans for continuing the war”, a far cry from the supposed “wait and take over America” or “hide whilst the legitimate government fails before assuming power” which many seem to be under the impression is the truth.
President Eden too states that those aboard Control Station: ENCLAVE are the remains of the pre-war Government when he states the following:
“A great many years ago, the remnants of the government had a similar idea.”[5]
Now to any who would say, “Well Eden would believe that those aboard Control Station: ENCLAVE are the government, doesn’t mean that it’s true”, ponder on this. Why would he be of that opinion? Because Control Station: ENCLAVE was the main facility of Continuity of Government operation? Or perhaps because he observed government officials relocate there during the decades following the war?
In addition to the former, Control Station: ENCLAVE is clearly designed with Continuity of Government – of the highest order – with a Presidential Office, Cabinet Meeting Room and a War Room. Smaller details to note are the Presidential Seals on the large bulkhead doors that connect to his office – Fallout 2 players may remember their long opening animation – and desk, a podium with Camera equipment from where the President can address the nation and the two large situation maps which have marked the locations of various capital and important cities across the world such as Beijing and Paris[6]. Corroborated by the Fallout Bible and President Eden it is clear that this location was designed for the continuation of the American Government in the event of nuclear war. It, being the ultimate source of all of the Enclave we have thus seen, therefore confirms that the Enclave is the continuation of the proper United States Government.
Even Raven Rock and President Eden himself are connected to the “Enclave as Continuity of Government” proposal when he himself states that:
“This facility was designed for Continuity of Government, in the event that a catastrophe occurred. My terminal was installed to oversee the basic functions of the facility, and to act as a relay between other installations around the country.”
All of the evidence clearly corroborates the fact that the Enclave we see in-game are the pre-war government whom found themselves aboard Control Station: ENCLAVE and not the remains of a New World Order society. The term ‘Enclave’ is used mostly interchangeably with that of the US Government and isn’t used once by President Richardson to refer to the organisation itself, more than likely it is a derivate of the Oil Rigs correct designation which has became a colloquialism for the organisation itself and perhaps – by Fallout 3 – as an even greater form of identity.
1. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/PoseidoNet identifies the Oil Rig as ‘Control Station: ENCLAVE
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1VbY3oCaV4#t=2m20s where the PMZ Valdez docks with Control Station: ENCLAVE, terminals reads “Welcome to the Enclave.”
3. Stated by President Eden after inquiring about him:
“In the decades following the war, I watched as the remnants of the Government retreated to the West Coast.”
4. Control Station: ENCLAVE, Presidential Level
7. Dialogue with President Eden in response to, “Where did you come from?”
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. The Enclave have been known to be slow to mobilise at times, there was always a blind-spot regarding the Oil Rigs Reactor cooling system but nobody ever got around to fixing it. 
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