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After arriving, he and his people cleaned out the remaining corpses at the summit and restored it to full functionality. The former sheriff of Broken Hills went east into the Rockies after accompanying the Chosen One around 2242, looking for other mutants like himself. However, it only started to prosper after Marcus arrived. Settling in, the super mutants slowly returned parts of the facility to habitable shape.
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The remoteness and radiation kept humans at bay, while the surviving facilities proved comfortable enough to support long term habitation. The fall of the Unity in 2162 scattered the super mutants in New California to the winds, with the facility at Black Mountain becoming a haven for first generation mutants moving east. Unoccupied for over a century after the Great War, Black Mountain was hellishly ir radiated, deterring scavengers and regular humans, despite the valuable salvage found in the buildings. With no shelter to hide in, the crew manning Black Mountain succumbed to radiation poisoning. Nuclear fallout was particularly intense. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for the radiation. The blast destroyed about half of the facility, with the upper terrace shielded by the mountain. As a prime military target, the facility was attacked with nuclear weapons and was one of the unfortunate few targets in the Mojave that weren't spared nuclear devastation, as the Chinese warheads managed to punch through Mr. The facility was responsible for monitoring Chinese satellites, leading to a natural buildup of tension as the Sino-American War dragged on endlessly. Before the Great War, Black Mountain was a communications center operated by Hermes Communications, Inc.