Big MT (company)

Big MT was a think tank and one of the defense contractors in the employ of the United States during the Sino-American War. It's headquarters was the Big Mountain Research and Development Center in the Southwest Commonwealth.

Background
Big MT was responsible for one of the most breathtaking research endeavors back before the War – endeavors that, at the same time, often violated basic human rights or were sometimes sold to the highest bidder for cold hard cash. As unethical as their operations could be, their achievements were nevertheless groundbreaking. Despite that fact, they never reached widespread deployment due to issues with cost, efficiency or simply greater influence of certain parties such as the other defense contractors West Tek, RobCo Industries and General Atomics International.

Their attempt into the heavy construction industry however was not a success. Hexcrete (named for its shape) was supposed to be a more simplified mass-production method for large uniform special-blend concrete blocks. The remains of this production method is called the X-66 hexcrete archipelago, which has since been dominating the southwestern corner of Big MT.

When customers would come to the think tank for their services, they would create specialized technology for them. However if their town or city was just right they would used it as a controlled experiment. Only on occasion, Big MT had to get permission in order to secure financial assistance for the technology they were developing. Alternatively, the company used detained communists to populate their own mock cities. However, it was not enough: they needed even more laboratory space and tested their experiments on unsuspecting Americans and letting them progress in isolated small towns while Big MT observed. Their partnership with Vault-Tec Industries is in the context of outsourcing laboratory space. Big MT needed "test cities" to test in real time their products in (relatively) controlled environments. Knowing the Vault-Tec was better at it than them, they together conducted experiments with Vault 22, sending the botanists the Beauveria mordicana fungus, among other supplies.

Despite fantastic funding, Big MT was forced to adapt due to budget cuts. In the case of Project: Burke, grave robbing became institutionalized and commonplace in order to acquire human bodies upon which to test their experiments, although it was rumored that the staff used the bodies for other purposes. Another project, Project: Hare was only described as liquidation operations against non-military targets to procure research subjects, another desperate move from budget cuts. They denied the latter completely, finding the insinuation insulting to the point of not responding.

Incident: PLAYTIME was when staff accidentally interrupted the cyberdog programming. Due to its name, it implies that it involved playing with combat hounds, and its settlements further strained their budget.

<!-- LOCATION PAGE HISTORY They lost the test cities first, then the mountain disappeared and created the radar fence Y-0 research center

Knew about Vault-Tec - Test Citites

The loss of the mountain was an accident

HOW THEY CONSTRUCTED THE FACILITY - Their Naming SECTION 4 LOCATION The construction of their headquarters was designed for the utmost secrecy, being built completely underneath Big Mountain in STATE NAME. Each facility was specifically constructed for their various fields of Science. Supplied by rail, via the original entrances to the facility. The rail lines of facility only ran from north to east and north to west (and visa versa), with their only stop inside the facility being the loading station. It appears that after the Mountain of Big MT disappeared they rebuilt the rail lines over the now exposed facility.

With their original construction of the facility, they ... humor ... "Higgs Village" ... Had to have lost MT pre-War ... Big MT however, was still expanding, with their new facility under construction.

The Magnetohydraulics complex presumably could control water with magnets It however controls the water for the entire Big MT facility.

When re-constructing the facility not a little bit of dark humor was added to its construction. The names of virtually every facility and location is a nod to their ironic and dark humor, including but not limited to the Science-Fiction media they were exposed to. The best example of which is the player being able to fire live artillery shells from the X-7a "Left Field" artillery launch, over "The Cuckoo's Nest," and into the X-7b "Boom Town" target zone.

Higgs Village Forbidden Zone Dome entrance The Cuckoo's Nest The Sink                  ????? X-7a "Left Field" artillery launch X-7b "Boom Town" target zone

Their attempt into the heavy construction industry however was not a success. Hexcrete (named for its shape) was supposed to be a more simplified mass-production method for large uniform special-blend concrete blocks. The remains of this production method is called the X-66 hexcrete archipelago, which has since been dominating the southwestern corner of Big MT.

When customers would come to the think tank for their services, they would create specialized technology for them. However if their town or city was just right they would used it as a controlled experiment. Sometimes having to secure permission to use the settlement in exchange for financial assistance with the technology their customers required. As much as they rather have done, they couldn't capture communist cities because of the logistics and materiel involved. Instead capturing communists and creating their own cities. However it was not enough, needing even more laboratory space they tested their super science on unsuspecting Americans. Winding up and letting their experiments go in tiny isolated towns while they observed.

Bioeneneering - Bioweapons - partnership with Vault-Tec X-22 botanical garden

The Magnetohydraulics complex presumably could control water with magnets It however controls the water for the entire Big MT facility.

EMP weapon? - transmition tech facility X-2 antenna X-2 transmitter antenna array

Internal transmition facility? Signal Hills transmitter

Worked to preserve DNA of snakes - other animals too? Z-9 Crotalus DNA preservation lab

Dedicated splicing facility - the "birth"place of the Cazador - names Cazador & Nightstalker escaped Big MT too Z-14 Pepsinae DNA splicing lab

Purpose built facilities - build post MT loss X-7a "Left Field" artillery launch X-7b "Boom Town" target zone

Disintegration technology The security first mindset of the company especially applied to their trash, dedicating an entire facility to waste disintegration.

After losing their external test cities they had an accident with the matter-recombinator facility. Doctro 0 forgetting MATH THING HERE triggered some sort of reaction, causing the entire mountain of Big MT to disapear. Leaving their top secret facility open for all to see... and attack.

SECTION RADAR FENCE Eventually creating the Radar Fence...

SECTION 4 Bioengineering & how they treated their staff Bio-medical - Implants Developed Implant Y-7 which has been proven to increase performance while reducing weight in lab animals. Although they never ran it through any human test trials, its inventor Doctor Calis, decided to give it to Technician Slough. To address his work, which had taken a dive coincided with a marked weight gain over the previous few months.

Implant C-13 Plus 10% damage to cazadores

Implant M-5 Your crouched movement speed is increased by 20%

Implant Y-3 Removes any radiation taken from drinking an irradiated water source.

Implant Y-7 +5 health and +2 restored action points through the consumption of food.

SECTION 4 morality & how they treated their staff

They sold their tech to whomever could afford it, especially if it was to their test cities

They had no real love for their employees, and were compartmentalized to the point of not telling them what they were truly doing.

In truly unprofessional matter they usually used one experimental piece of technology on top of another. This extended to point of helping one facility when something went wrong, instead of calling security.

some even biased against those without degrees from collages - Cyborgnetics - arms industry - brilliance of staff

Dr Calis was the head for the entire facility. As always security was of the utmost priority. Even going so far as to monitor the servers of his staff. The "Server Sniffer" would copy and send any and all emails sent that were of suspicious origin or content. His two terminals both contain notes on the projects of the facility, and the "Server Sniffer".

The virtual reality research laboratory within the X-13 research facility incorporated holography, solid light tools and containers. Whatever testing that was done within the laboratory, also being used to test the stealth suit Mk II, was treated professionally by the administrator of the facility, Dr. Calis. However the programming staff didn't agree, adding a "Jack and the Beanstalk" reference without approval. This may have led to the simulation going haywire and killing its occupants. This unauthorized tinkering caused the Virtual Reality Simulator to become corrupted. In the email sent from Keal opting to tell their boss, Doctor Calis, that the simulator was experiencing "power issues" while they de-corrupted the software. Lamenting that she just optimized the suit's firmware and didn't want the corruption affecting the prototype. Instead focusing on testing the prototype in the REPCONN test set until real world testing could begin. Although these emails were deleted as soon as they were read, Dr. Calis' "Server Sniffer" immediately copied and sent it to him. The finishing of the prototype would never be completed, due in part to the Nightstalkers escaping, and due in part to the Great War.

Their research into stealth was also conducted on the Nightstalkers. Injecting them with a serum that would render them the ability to become invisible. These abominations however were much smarter then the scientists believed. Staying visible in the day, while they knew that they were under-observation, and at night testing out their cloaking ability. Dr. Calis believed this was due to some sort of a physical limitation or some mental drawback to the ability, which prevented its usage under duress. Deciding to pursue stress testing of the animals first thing the next week, he ordered a shipment of cattle prods. When they arrived Captain Hamm of base security sent an email reminding the Doctor that the security of the facility was designed to prevent infiltration by enemy agents, not internal threats. Asking that they foward any such research to the animal testing facility. Emphasizing the sonic emitter as the best example of the facility's force field limitations, being unable to handle power fluctuations well. The nightstalkers however were all the while becoming more aggressive to the humans around them. Causing the staff of the X-8 research center, specifically Assistant Paris, to send an email to Dr. Calis to inquire that if there was a change in their diet. Later he send another message, noting that he blood work on the abominations had no appreciable changes. Voicing concern that the use of the cattle prods on them might affect the chemistry of the injections, changing their brain chemistry. Emphasizing that the creature would be invaluable for the war effort if they could control their behavior. These cattle prods and lack of internal security and controls would be this project, the facility, and Doctor Calis' undoing, shooing off his underlings by having Paris run the tests Paris insisted on. Being more focused in results to show to the project leads that were coming in a few days.

The main experiment of the X-13 research facility was Project 'Blue Blood'. It involved the stealth suit Mk II's programming and development. Its gloves designed to improve the users manual dexterity, with new rubberized dampening compounds on the high wear areas. Its boots designed to enhance the strength and dexterity of the user, enabling them to limbo as fast as they can run. Its torso has a self-updating firmware that automatically adapts the suit to the user. However there is only so much the suit can adapt to if the user continually gains weight while operating the suit.

The testing of Project 'Blue Blood' included both virtual reality testing and a mock REPCONN facility infiltration test. However when the holodeck became corrupted, the project would have to proceed with only the REPCONN testing until real world testing could begin. This test was not full proof however, for there is a critical flaw in the tripwire emitter design. A skilled scientist or someone with advanced electronics repair knowledge could crack the casings and hack their IFF circuit to ignore the current test subject. The technicians of the facility were to reinforce the casing after the project leads visit the facility. However the facility would collapse a few days before their visit.

The testing of suit includes navigating the set while not being detected by patrolling robobrains. Then adding laser tripwires, later adding proximity detectors. The final test was of calibrating the suit's FCG (Field Compliance Generator) to the proper variance, by deactivating the robobrains without being detected.

Advanced AP can debate - fantastical notion about its facilities Old_World_Blues_endings#Crater

Advanced AP can be comforted and interact with each other Old_World_Blues_endings#The_Sink

Advanced AP can argue, bicker and have a love afair Old_World_Blues_endings#Light_Switch Old_World_Blues_endings#Blind_Diode_Jefferson

Advanced AP can dedicate itself to a new mission as long as its in the general work its programmed to do, in this case clean. Matter from thins, the Crater, the Toxins. - Magnetohydraulics Plant for all water in Big MT - Innovative Toxins Plant... poisons bleeding into the soil. Old_World_Blues_endings#Sink

What horrors an Advanced AP could do, WITH TOAST Old_World_Blues_endings#Toaster

Programming trumps all with Advanced AP Old_World_Blues_endings#Muggy Old_World_Blues_endings#Blind_Diode_Jefferson Old_World_Blues_endings#Auto-Doc

X-22 Botanical Garden still active and can decline offers

X-8 & 13 purpose and auotmated computer operations? - also X-13 attraction to REPCONN Old_World_Blues_endings#X-8_Research_Center Old_World_Blues_endings#X-13_Research_Center -->

Products
As a think tank, delving into the theoretical was as natural as breathing. Usually this resulted in mere hypotheses becoming reality. A perfect example is Doctor Mobius' analytical hypothesis of post-holocaust economic systems. This extensive work was completely accurate in predicting that the humble bottle cap would become a currency. Unfortunately brilliance and madness sometimes goes hand-in-had, as exemplified by Gabe, Little Yangtze, the trauma harnesses, their bioengineering projects, their total pacification collars, and every single lobotomite.

This madness led into fields that could only truly be described as "Super Science!". They created a vending machine (a matter recombinator), and a presumably satellite based teleportation device.

Arms industry
Developing weaponry appeared to be a sizable portion of their business model. While they delved into new territory with conventional weapons designs, e.g. the K9000 and FIDO models of cyborganic weaponry, Big MT also developed new designs for energy weapons, such as laser-assisted electricity rifles and proton axes. The company even made weapons by mistake, namely a sonic emitter that was originally intended for therapeutic use that turned out to be capable of destroying robots and power armor, with varying effects based on the sonic module inserted (from knocking back the target, to paralysis, to dismemberment, to explosion, and incendiary depending on the load-out).

Not only did Big MT focus on infantry weapons, Saturnite was also forged in the company's facilities. While cosmic knives were an adequate use for Saturnite, artillery shells were eventually made out this incredibly durable metal to obliterate even the strongest fortifications. Poison and corrosive gas, namely what would come to be known as "The Cloud" was also produced by Big MT at the Z-43 Innovative Toxins plant, and tested at the Hazmat testing ground, where they also conducted experiments for their prototype hazmat suit and matching cowl.

Not satisfied at producing only weapons, they decided to improve upon the stealth technology already employed by the worlds militaries. Biased off of the Chinese stealth armor Big MT developed a wholly American version, the stealth suit Mk I which eventually became more complex. The Mk II including advanced software was not just able to automatically fit to the user, it would enhance the users movement in virtually every way possible. This of course is not all it could do, as its on-board personality would remind the operator of events around them to automatically injecting Med-X and Stimpaks. Numerous advances were made in offensive robotics as well; for these, see the section below.

Biochemistry
Advances were made in animal sciences, but for what purpose other than curiosity, no one is sure. Cazadors were developed from tarantula hawk wasps, and nightstalkers were even made on a dare, using the genetic material of coyotes and rattlesnakes.

Bioengineering
Big MT teams at the X-8 research center were successful in melding animal and machine and created cyberdogs for use by police and military forces. They also had improved upon the designs of General Atomics International's robobrains and created their own series of robobrains. Bioengineers took it even further by creating think tanks, robots similar to robobrains in that they use a biological brain for their processor, but think tanks retain the personality of their brain and are truly intelligent, rather than artificially.

The X-13 research facility also created the psychoanalytic cardiac-dampening stealth suit that interacts and supplements the wearer's own abilities, improving their reactions, manual dexterity and speed which sneaking.

Cryoscience
Delving into cryoscience, Big MT developed chambers to preserve human life in a state of inactivity, characterized by decreased body temperature, breathing and heart rate, and metabolic rate. None however make an appearance in the add-on Old World Blues.

Holography
Big MT's groundbreaking achievements in the field of holography are as hard to understand as they are grandiose. After perfecting the stationary hologram projectors, like the interface of matter replicators, they moved on to even more impressive holograms. Not just mere projections, these solid energy masses spearheaded into human-machine interaction, not least the medical industry. An entire laboratory was dedicated to researching the dynamics of light waves and creating life-like interfaces, vendors and sentries. Even more astonishing than tangible light were the experiments to hone in on if light waves could accelerate natural healing processes. They were successful and it resulted in valence radii-accentuators and atomic-valence tri-radii-oscillators, incredible bands of light that suspend themselves over one's head.

Medical industry
Dedicating an entire facility to the medical industry, Y-17 was where Big MT made their upgrades to the Auto-Doc family, specifically the Mark IX. The Mark IX was not the only Auto-Doc developed at Big MT, and another was specially created to house a artificial personality. Not content to only improve upon the Auto-Doc side of the autonomous medical industry, they also created the entire line of Mister Orderly robots, a niche model in the Mister Handy market.

Creating medical devices did not end as intended, however. For example, the sonic emitter was designed to be a therapeutic vertebral desensitizer, but was far more useful as a multplatform weapon. The Y-17 trauma override harness is also notable: this suit was designed to autonomously carry wounded (or dead) soldiers to a field medical center. However, if the suit was left without a designated home base it would continue to wander in an endless random state. Furthermore its artificial muscle and fibers would take on the function of their housed occupant, namely combat.

All this pales to compare with the advances in light technology. Valence radii-accentuators and tri-radii oscillators for example, are capable of boosting the body's metabolism, increasing its regeneration rate and endurance. Another amazing example was using certain wavelengths of light to enhance cognitive processes and mood.

Metallurgy
Saturnite is a space-age, metallic-ceramic alloy developed for use in a variety of fields, from construction, to cookware, to the arms industry (superior power fists and knives to armor plating ), from their in house research facility.

Meteorology
Big MT even went as far as actively manipulating weather. Small scale tests were conducted within their in-house controlled environment at the X-17 meteorological station; tests were eventually scaled up and used Hopeville as a test town, regardless of its residents. Whatever happened there ended in a disaster, spawning the horrible dust storms for which the Divide is infamous.

Robotics
Delving into the field of robotics, Big MT created entire lines of improved versions of the common mass produced models, namely the Protectron, Robobrain, Mister Gutsy, and sentry bot. One model they attempted to improve upon but could not were RobCo Industries Securitrons, even dedicating an entire facility to their de-construction and reverse engineering. Their only success on the design was a tiny janitor bot that could only collect and clean dishes.

They did not stop at improving proven models of robot and created the robo-scorpion, development upon a pre-War military project, recreated and improved by Doctor Mobius from the X-42 robo-warfare facility. While the prototypical walking eye robots are a less impressive feat, the spider-like robot remained useful for surveillance and espionage.

Software industry
Most of Big MT's achievements would have been nothing withing advanced programs and networks. A poignant example is their line of Mister Orderlys: without advanced medical programs in virtually every field of medicine, the robots are nothing more than repainted Mister Handys. Big MT also endeavored to create artificial personalities; Dr. Mobius dedicating an entire lab (within his living space, no less) to provide each appliance in the lab their very own personality. Furthermore, even their prototype stealth suit has its own personality.

Almost no field of research that Big MT dove into went without advanced software they had created themselves, regardless if it was their vast array of specialized robotic upgrades, or original robot platforms like the robo-scorpion, or the miniature robots that stock the Sink's store. Their most outlandish and criminal projects, like their vending machine, their weather dominator, and their total pacification collar (or its big brother, the "pacification field") especially needed unique software.

Big MT "Think Tank" executives

 * Dr. Klein - Administrator and chief head of logistical operations and idealogy
 * Dr. 0 - Head of robotics and stealth technology
 * Dr. 8 - Head of soundwaves technology
 * Dr. Borous - Head of animalogy, beastology and DNA-scrambling technology
 * Dr. Dala - Head of mineralogy and medicinal sciences
 * Dr. Mobius - Director of Big Mountain Science Complex

Military

 * General Wellesley - chief liaison officer
 * Specialist Akers

Security

 * Capt. Hamm

Appearances
While the parent company is mentioned in the Fallout: New Vegas add-ons Dead Money, the company and its research and development center appear in Old World Blues.