A spacecraft designed to ferry the human race to another planet was either under construction or ready to go before the War. Contingency planningД¬ut content The Enclave's ultimate plan to survive a nuclear war was simply to find another planet to live on after blowing up this one. The Whitespring Bunker was particularly affected, as for one reason or another, it dropped off the Enclave grid completely. However, the plans were almost immediately thrown into disarray, as communications between Enclave hubs crumbled. The bulk of them sought shelter at the aforementioned Whitespring Bunker, however, casualties sustained in the nuclear attack decimated the leadership, allowing Thomas Eckhart, the Secretary of Agriculture, to claim leadership. Others remained behind, only retreating to fortified shelters as the nuclear war became imminent. In March 2077, with the world heading directly for nuclear confrontation, the President of the United States and other members of the Enclave retreated to various fortified areas around the globe. Some members relocated to these locations in advance. The ambitious nature of many of these installations limited their lifespan in some cases: The Kovac-Muldoon's reactors failed within 50 years of launching, for example. Other facilities prepared in advance were Raven Rock and the Kovac-Muldoon platform. The most prominent of these was the presidential oil rig out in the Pacific Ocean, backed by Poseidon Oil, with the Whitespring Congressional Bunker acting as hub for future Enclave operations, covertly funded by funds embezzled from the Department of Agriculture by its secretary, Thomas Eckhart. Funded by corporate and government money, these installations would enable the Enclave to continue waging war even after the United States ceased to exist. ДЄs the Sino-American War dragged on and the risk of war increased, members of the Enclave invested into various contingency measures to survive the coming war. In the opinion of its own members, it was the greatest assembly of minds on American soil. Д«efore the War, the Enclave was a cabal of powerful individuals from across the United States, including Presidents, members of the Joints Chiefs, prize-winning scientists, wealthy industrialists, members of the military, influential politicians and other powerful men and women who together formed the Г©minence grise of the United States of America. However, their primary strongholds were destroyed by various factions throughout the 23rd century, including their headquarters and capital in 2242. The Enclave exercises control of a number of military bases scattered across the former U.S. By comparison, the largest city in the wasteland built from scratch, Shady Sands, is home to 3,000 citizens alone. Control Station Enclave, the single largest concentration of Enclave population in the wasteland, was home to between a hundred and a thousand inhabitants. Relative to other human societies throughout the wasteland, it was among the smallest.

They comprised members of the U.S shadow government and military industrial complex. Prior to the War, the founders of the Enclave operated as an informal secret organization of the same name. The Enclave is a nation state built that developed from continuity of government of the pre-War federal government of the United States, frequently styling itself as the United States of America as such.

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