Military site
Ashton silo control station
The control building over the Ashton silo, where ED-E helps you launch the nuke that creates the Courier's Mile.
- Map
- The Divide
- Faction
- None
- Danger
- High
- Map position
- 14 × 10
The Ashton silo control station is a small ruined building at the eastern end of the High Road, overlooking a silo door. Ulysses sends you here because the Ashton silo is the only way forward and only ED-E can wake it. The off-ramp leading in is laced with hidden satchel charges, and just southeast of the station Bonesaw, a fast chainsaw-wielding marked man, waits at a camp by a small building. He wears the unique marked beast tribal helmet.
The silo doors stay sealed until a preset launch is finished. Let ED-E unlock the console, then throw the switch: the last missile in Ashton launches and bursts over Hopeville, creating the irradiated crater Ulysses calls the Courier's Mile. ED-E then plays Doctor Whitley's final recording, and the launch completes The Launch. Entering the Ashton missile silo starts The Divide with a long lift ride down while tunnelers climb aboard and explosions shake the shaft.
A toolbox on the shelf to the right of the double doors holds the industrial hand, a new unarmed weapon. Construction hats, a workbench and two sniper rifles are spread around the area. Inside the silo, the medical room has an Auto-Doc and a commissary terminal behind a sentry bot, an eyebot upgrade circuit board sits behind a Hard Science terminal, and a set of riot gear waits in a locker on the level 2 launch deck.
How to get there
Take the off-ramp at the end of the High Road and follow the road between the rock walls to the station above the silo.
Notable loot
- Industrial hand (toolbox on the shelf by the silo doors)
- Marked beast tribal helmet (worn by Bonesaw)
- Roughin' it! bedroll kit (Bonesaw's camp)
- Eyebot upgrade circuit board (inside the Ashton missile silo, behind a Hard terminal)
- Big Book of Science (level 3 wreckage inside the silo)
- Riot gear (locker on the level 2 launch deck)
Related quests
- The Launch
- The Divide
Notable characters
- Bonesaw
- ED-E
Tips
- On the silo lift, use V.A.T.S. or a strong melee weapon; the explosions make aiming hard.
- The silo's eyebot board has no key or password, so you need the Science skill to hack its Hard terminal.
- After the launch, a hint tells you something valuable lies where the missile hit; that is the Courier's Mile, reached from the Hopeville side.
Collectibles and items here
- Armor Riot gearA full set in a locker on the right, behind a locked door on launch deck level 2.
- Character BonesawSoutheast of the Ashton silo control station.
- Main quest The DivideStarts once the missile launch in The Launch opens the sealed doors of the Ashton missile silo. Ride its lift down while tunnelers attack.
- Skill book Big Book of Science (Science)In the wreckage of the level 3 launch deck after the missile launch, in the north corner just past a Hard locked safe (to the left when facing the safe). Easiest to reach by dropping down from the catwalk right after entering the silo on level 2.
- Skill magazine Fixin' Things (Repair)Level 1 launch deck, inside a desk in the medical room with the Auto-Doc, together with a Programmer's Digest.
- Skill magazine Programmer's Digest (Science)Level 1 of the launch deck, inside a desk in the medical room with the Auto-Doc, together with a Fixin' Things.
- Eyebot upgrade Eyebot upgrade circuit boardOn level 1 of the silo, go through the medical area, out its rear door and turn right. Hack the locked terminal beside the metal door to open the room off the level 1 launch deck catwalk; the destroyed Eyebot is on the right side of the room.
- RALPHIE poster RALPHIE posterAlong the road east of the control station entrance, in a blown-out building across from Bonesaw's marked men camp, on one of the central pillars of the second level.
- Unique armor Marked beast tribal helmetWorn by Bonesaw, the chainsaw-wielding marked man at the camp by a small building just southeast of the Ashton silo control station.
- Merchant Commissary terminal (Ashton missile silo)In the medical room on level 1 of the Ashton missile silo, beside the Auto-Doc, guarded by a sentry bot.
- Doctor Auto-Doc (Ashton missile silo)In the medical room on level 1 of the Ashton missile silo, next to the commissary terminal and guarded by a sentry bot.