"Sagittarius"

Sagittarius was the alias used by a Boston-area DIA agent who later abandoned her "wallet" identity and became known by the cognomen alone, earning fame as a heavy operator with the Railroad circa the end of the 23rd century. Before the Great War, Sagittarius fronted as a contract lawyer working in corporate practice for the Slocum's Joe corporation, having been recruited in law school to work for the DIA as an operator. Her penchant for tradecraft and subterfuge earned the Railroad her attention in the years following her emergence from cryogenic suspension. Unfortunately, during the time of the secret war between the Railroad and the Institute, Saggittarius was not a prominent diarist, and most of what is known about her activities is either culled from her memoirs (written years after the fact) or evidenced by a scattering of recovered dead-drop messages.

Pre-War Life

The woman who became known as Saggitarius was a native of the greater Boston area. Sometime prior to the Great War, she was enrolled at Harvard Law as a prospective JD student, and attracted the attention of a DIA recruiter. She then proceeded to serve with the DIA at their Lexington monitoring facility while training as a counter-espionage agent, and claims to have been responsible for the exposure of at least two communist spy cells operating in the area.

It is probable that the combination of her service record and the service record of her husband (who she claims to have been in the US Army) that got her and her family admitted to Vault 111.

Post-War Life

Interment in Vault 111

Vault 111 was, in reality a secret experiment on the part of VaultTec to study the viability of cryogenic suspended animation on human subjects. This experiment sustained Sagittarius and the rest of her family, until 2217, whereupon the facility was invaded by Conrad Kellogg and a team from the Commonwealth Institute of Technology, attempting to kidnap Saggitarius's infant son. She was then returned to cryogenic suspension and remained in that state for an additional 60 years, until the cryogenics system failed and she - and she alone - was ejected from her pod.

Joining the Railroad

In the days and weeks that followed, Sagittarius eventually came to the settlement of Diamond City as part of her larger effort to track down and pursue the people responsible for the murder of her husband and kidnap of her only child - an event she mistakenly believed to have been far more recent than it actually was. At this same time, believing herself to have picked up on a DIA countersign, she encountered the general idea of the Railroad, posited at the time to be an anti-institute resistance.

Following the minor verbal clue provided, she eventually located the Railroad's primary safehouse and was tasked with assisting them with the recovery of the former Railroad headquarters position, which to her amusement proved to be her own former headquarters position, the DIA Signals Intelligence Facility in Lexington. Her performance in this respect made an impression on her Railroad handler, and shortly thereafter she was made a full agent of the organization.

Mercer Safehouse

Shortly after this event, Saggitarius established a safehouse of her own, under the Railroad codename "Fixer", giving the location the nickname Mercer Safehouse. Our best analysis indicates that the safehouse in question was part of, or possibly all off, the settlement at Sunshine Tidings Co-Op, in the western Commonwealth Wasteland.

Saggitarius used this safe house as part of the Railroad's mandate to evacuate synths from the wasteland, but also as a personal storehouse and staging area, returning there often.

Pursuit of Conrad Kellogg

Saggitarius's investigation eventually lead her to Fort Hagen, where the institute assassin Conrad Kellogg was staging to cross the Glowing Sea. Working alone, she proceeded to clear the entire Fort Hagen complex of hostile early-gen synthetics and murder Conrad Kellogg. This operation is said to have "lit up the Synth Retention Bureau like a Christmas Tree", and lead to Sagittarius going into hiding for an extended period, which included facial reconstructive surgery.

While this operation would have seemed to be an end to her vendetta, she now had continued business in the form of Railroad operations against the institute. By sheer happenstance, she retained the cybernetic implants possessed by Conrad Kellogg, which lead to her learning of the institute scientist Brian Virgil.

Operations in the Glowing Sea

Acting on Virgil's advice, Sagittarius pursued and murdered an institute courser, in order to obtain a special implant the courser possessed that would give it the ability to use an institute teleporter. Her objective in this case was to bring the chip and related technical data to a Railroad contact, in order to exploit the teleporter to enter the Institute's primary facility.

Relationship to Other Major Factions

Maxon's Brotherhood of Steel

Of her own accord, Sagittarius has no special hatred for the Brotherhood of Steel. Perhaps confusingly, she is loosely coupled to the Synth Liberation portion of the Railroad's mission, focusing more on their mission to undermine the Institute at every turn, a goal the Brotherhood shares. However, shortly after the arrival of the Prydwen in the commonwealth, the Railroad's official policy toward the Brotherhood became one of hostility.

Commonwealth Institute of Technology

With the loss of her son and the death of her husband, Sagittarius has coped by wreathing herself in the fury of the "avenging angel", and the target of her ire is the surviving organization of the Commonwealth Institute of Technology. While her direct interaction with the Institute's forces have been limited up to this point.

The Commonwealth Minutemen

Sagittarius was also, supposedly, the General of the Minutemen. However, this role was too public for her taste, and one she rarely pursued.

Establishments

Mercer Safehouse

The one location firmly associated with Sagittarius in the commonwealth was Mercer Safehouse. While somewhat ramshackle at first, the safehouse eventually became a key fallback position for the railroad as well as a personal refuge.

Gameplay Mechanics

Difficulty and Modifications

Sagittarius was played on the normal difficulty and didn't heavily rely on any modifications.

Combat Style

Sagittarius's combat style relied entirely on the use of the Deliverer handgun and high stealth, supplemented with stealth boys and the occasional use of explosives.