Lot of good points here, just want to mention that:
1) Those hospital curtains in the signal room can be picked up by holding R and then carried out. I just took them to the workbench and scrapped them into plastic. Also you can break the office cubicles with any melee weapon/tool (crowbar, shovel, axe, etc.) and then move the individual dividers.
2) sv.target alpha to set the compass to base has worked for me, wonder if it's a bug specific to you or something. But base/home don't work. I think of it like I'm targeting the servers in Alpha Base.