1. #1History of Caesar's Legion

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   “ All territory east of the Colorado River is recognized as Caesar's land, an area indisputably under the control of the Legion and agents acting on Caesar's behalf. ”

   Caesar's Legion is a totalitarian dictatorship and slavery-based empire modeled after Imperial Roman military legions, founded and led by the powerful Caesar. The legionaries are a well-organized army of slaves, serving as the fighting force that mainly operates east of the Grand Canyon and in the former state of Arizona.

   Origins Born around 2226 near the Boneyard as Edward Sallow, Caesar was once a citizen of the New California Republic. Following the death of his father at the hands of raiders in 2228, his mother sought the protection of the Followers of the Apocalypse. While she worked for the Followers, cooking and cleaning in their library, the young Edward learned how to read and started taking courses, provided by the organization free of charge.[1] Taught to "bring the torch of knowledge to the wastes", Sallow was a student of uneven quality.[Non-game 1] Though he was highly intelligent, his success in scientific pursuits was only proportional to his interest in the given subject nor was he particularly popular among his peers, due to his bad temper. For Sallow, the Followers were never an inspiring example, their devotion to scholarship too stifling, and their mission of enlightenment too naive.[Non-game 1][2][Non-game 1]

   In the year 2246, the Followers of the Apocalypse sent a group to the Grand Canyon to study the region’s tribal languages.[3][Non-game 2][4] The group included Followers Edward Sallow, Calhoun, a physician, and Mormon missionary Joshua Graham, a specialist in tribal dialects. On the way to the canyon, Sallow and his companions happened upon a cache of historical books, including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Commentarii by Gaius Julius Caesar. Sallow studied the books rigorously for two weeks, not yet aware of their coming significance.[Non-game 1] Subsequently, the group was captured by the Blackfoot tribe and held for ransom.[5]

   Sallow saw the weakness of the tribe , who were currently at war with seven others in the region, outnumbered and bound to lose. Unwilling to sink with them, Sallow decided to take certain steps. Objections from Calhoun went unheard.[6] Sallow taught the tribe how to properly maintain their firearms, properly shoot targets, and reload ammunition, after which he began teaching them how to make explosives and drilling in small unit tactics, all of which was based on old books he had recently read.[6] Once they were ready, Sallow led them against the Ridgers, their weakest enemy.

   When the tribe refused to surrender, he ordered every man, woman, and child killed. No exceptions were made. The Blackfoot moved on under Sallow's lead, surrounding the Kaibabs tribe. Upon their refusal to surrender, Sallow took their envoy to the ruins of the Ridgers' village. The piles of corpses were a shocking sight to a tribesman who had only experienced small examples of war, but what Sallow had led was total warfare.[7]

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   The Kaibabs promptly surrendered rather than suffer the same fate, then the Fredonians, then all the remaining tribes.[8] Sallow was acutely aware that the root cause of all the problems was tribal identities, leading to internecine conflict and preventing any substantial recovery. He knew what had to be done.[Non-game 3] He had to erase all traces of tribal identities and substitute a single, monolithic culture in their place.[Non-game 3]

   In 2247,[Non-game 4] when his confederation was large enough, Sallow crowned himself as Caesar, leader of the Great Tribe: the Legion.[9] He deliberately patterned his new society after imperial Rome.[10] He soon began putting his words into practice. Calhoun was sent back west to warn that Caesar should not be interfered with, while Graham stayed with Caesar, becoming the Legion's first legate.[9] In the decades that followed, the Legion conquered minor holdings in Utah and Colorado, while the entirety of Arizona and a sizeable portion of New Mexico were brought under its control.

   Tribes were forcibly assimilated into the Legion, while cities and their inhabitants lived on as subjects of the Legion. Each tribe Caesar fought against and assimilated were primitive even by the standards of the post-nuclear world, with nothing even remotely comparable to what existed out west. No towns, no roads, no meaningful industry. One by one, they fell to the superior forces marshaled by Sallow.[Non-game 5][Non-game 6]

   Betweeen 2248 and 2274, Caesar conquered and assimilated more tribes, forging a well-organized, culturally insular fighting force that expanded steadily across the region. His Legion conquered tribes of southeastern Utah, southwestern Colorado, the western edge of New Mexico and the northern half of Arizona.[11] By 2250 he had declared himself the Son of Mars. By 2255, he had established a capital amid the ruins of Flagstaff.[Non-game 7][Non-game 8][12] Caesar's ultimate goal is to conquer the New California Republic and merge its civilian culture and infrastructure with the military strength of the Legion, creating a new totalitarian empire.[12] Foreign to anyone outside its ranks, the highly militarized autocracy adept at integrating conquered cultures formed the perfect template for a society that could adapt to the challenges of the post-apocalyptic world and thrive, establishing prosperity and peace: a new Pax Romana.[10] The Legion would be a nationalist, imperialist, totalitarian, completely homogenous culture that would focus on long-term stability at all costs.[13]

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   The Republic has the distinction of being recognized by Caesar as a worthy adversary and conflict with the NCR was inevitable. He sees himself as Caesar returning from his conquest of Gaul and the NCR as the corrupt Roman Senate.[Non-game 9] A textbook example of Hegelian dialectics, where the thesis and antithesis conflict, creating a synthesis when the conflict is resolved.[14] When the Legion conquers the NCR, it will be transformed from a republic crippled by bureaucracy, corruption, and gridlock into a highly efficient military dictatorship. The Legion will become a standing army protecting all the citizens of the new empire and the absolute power of its dictator.[15][Non-game 10]

   The New California Republic was not willing to roll over and surrender. In 2271, the Legion's presence served as a catalyst for the Ranger Unification Treaty. President Kimball recounts during that year, the Desert Rangers of Nevada joined the New California Republic's forces to protect the region against "the tyranny of [Caesar's] regime."[16]

   Subsequently, a series of skirmishes and smaller battles (such as the destruction of Fort Aradesh out east) occured, and the Legion forced a confrontation. In 2277, the Legion faced the NCR at Hoover Dam, in what became known as the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Discovered by Ulysses, a frumentarius, the dam was a symbolic Rubicon. At the time, Caesar's forces under the command of the Joshua Graham marched against the NCR garrison at Hoover Dam, in an attempt to take the strategic asset and river crossing. However, Graham's elite troops were drawn into a trap laid by Chief Hanlon of the New California Republic Rangers. As General Lee Oliver's soldiers held the line, Rangers and Army sharpshooters targeted the Legion's commanders (primarily centurions and decanii), sowing chaos among the common legionaries. When the Legate, unable to adapt to new strategies in combat, ordered his elite forces to punch through and pursue Rangers decimating his officers, the Rangers and First Recon sharpshooters executed a tactical retreat into Boulder City. Elements of the Army and Rangers kept the Legion engaged long enough to allow the most experienced legionaries to enter the city. When they did, the Republic's forces pulled out of the city. Once most of them were safe (soldiers and rangers trapped behind Legion lines had to be abandoned), they triggered explosives packed into the buildings in advance.

   Chief Hanlon's plan went off without a hitch. The exploding buildings acted as giant fragmentation bombs, killing and maiming most of the legionaries and leaving the rest in a state of shock; effectively crippling their offensive. The Army and Rangers followed the detonation with a counter-attack, pushing back and eventually routing the Legion forces and forcing the Malpais Legate to retreat from the cam back to the east of the Colorado River. Flanking attacks at Camp Golf and other camps in the Mojave were similarly repulsed.[17] The Malpais Legate returned to Caesar in shame. To demonstrate that failure is not tolerated, even at the highest of ranks, Caesar ordered Graham to be burned alive. The former Legate was covered in pitch, lit on fire, and thrown into the Grand Canyon. This was the worst defeat in Legion's history.[18]

   Graham was replaced by Legate Lanius, who embarked on a campaign of expansion eastward to subjugate further tribes for the Legion and gather forces for another confrontation with the Republic.[19] Over the next four years, Caesar rebuilt his army with 14 newly assimilated tribes,[20] creating the finest possible blade with which to cleave through the Republic. The Legion's increasing power was accompanied by a noticeable decline in Caesar's health. Once healthy, his face became sunken and sickly, his nature more reclusive. But the worst were the headaches, increasing in strength and frequency, affecting his ability to lead. Although they remained silent, the decline was visible to his officers, but Caesar denied these problems, lashing out at any queries.[21][22][23] The first hints of what might have been the problem appeared only a couple months prior with infrequent headaches. The headaches recurred increasingly along with blanking out mid-conversation. The most recent symptom to occur is Caesar's left leg stiffening and him being only able to drag it.[24] While Caesar is untrained to diagnose himself, he's figured that he's likely suffering from a brain tumor, but defers to a professional's opinion on the diagnosis.[25]

   By 2281, Caesar returned to Fortification Hill, poised to take the dam with what remained of the 86 reformed tribes that his Legion had conquered and claim New Vegas as his Rome.[26] He is emboldened by Legion victories at the Battle of Willow Beach and the Battle of Arizona Spillway, but is playing his cards more cautiously this time, and will not give the order for Lanius to attack the dam until he can unearth the contents of the vault sealed beneath his base in the Mojave.[Non-game 11] Caesar also needs to neutralize the ruler of New Vegas, Robert House, assassinate NCR President Kimball, attempt to forge an alliance with the Boomers, Great Khans, and White Glove Society, destroy the Brotherhood of Steel, and, perhaps most importantly, deal with his brain tumor.

2. #2List of tribes assimilated by Caesar's Legion

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   Assimilated This section lists all tribes that are confirmed as assimilated, meaning they were integrated into the Legion, with their individual tribal identities and legacy destroyed to be replaced by Legion culture.

   Grand Canyon The first seven tribes that formed the foundation of the Legion were known to be inhabiting the Grand Canyon area, where the expedition led by Edward Sallow, Bill Calhoun, and Joshua Graham arrived around 2246.[3][4] Some minor tribal settlements managed to evade notice but were eventually all united.

   Of these seven assimilated tribes, only three have been named to date:

   Blackfoot - The first tribe led into battle by Caesar.[3][4] Former members include Canyon Runner.[5] Fredonians - One of the original seven tribes, conquered by Caesar after the Kaibabs.[3] Kaibabs - One of the original seven tribes, conquered by Caesar after destroying the Ridgers.[3] Arizona Twisted Hairs - Said to be a powerful tribe known for their signature dreadlocks, this tribe served as scouts for the Legion during its conquest of Arizona. They were forcibly assimilated by Caesar and Vulpes Inculta at Dry Wells, with malcontents crucified along Interstate 40.[6] Former members include Ulysses.[7] Hidebarks - The 67th tribe conquered by the Legion. By some accounts, Legate Lanius formerly belonged to this tribe.[8][9] Painted Rock - It is stated that some of the longest-serving and most dangerous veterans of the Legion by 2281 formerly belonged to this tribe.[10] Colorado Hangdogs - Said to be one of the few tribes that dwelled in the ruins of Denver, living in symbiosis with its population of wild dogs. Conquered and assimilated by Legate Lanius sometime after 2277. Former members include Antony.[11][12][13] Unknown Sun Dogs - Conquered sometime in the mid-23rd century with Dead Sea participating in the campaign.[14]

3. #3List of tribes exterminaded by Caesar's Legion

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   This section makes up the tribes that were destroyed by Caesar's Legion due to either not surrendering to Caesar's rule or not being seen fit to be assimilated into the Legion proper. A total of six tribes are known to have been conquered by the Legion and then exterminated due to various reasons.[15]

   Grand Canyon Ridgers - The first tribe conquered that was exterminated without assimilation, said to have been the weakest enemy of the Blackfoots. All men, women, and children were killed.[3] Unknown Twin Mothers - Said to have created the recipe for bitter drink. Ulysses' account of them is ambiguous as to whether they were assimilated into the Legion or exterminated.[16]

4. #4Blackfoot

   Keys: Blackfoot, Blackfoots, Blackfoot's

   Blackfoot

   Post-War tribe Blackfoot CaesarLegionSymbol Information Leaders Caesar Members Canyon Runner Organization Parent Caesar's Legion Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas Honest Hearts The Blackfoot were a tribe that lived in the former state of Arizona and played a pivotal role in the history of Caesar's Legion as the first of the 86 tribes that constitute it.

   Background At some point in 2247, Mormon missionary Joshua Graham, as well as two Followers of the Apocalypse - Bill Calhoun and Edward Sallow ventured into the Grand Canyon. Edward had been sent there to learn the dialects of the canyon tribes, with Calhoun sent to assist, and the pair met with Joshua along the way. Upon reaching their goal, they climbed down into the canyon and encountered the Blackfoot first. Graham was able to communicate with them, and the two groups at first had friendly relations. However, at one point the tribe became hostile for an unknown reason, capturing the three and holding them for ransom. Graham would come to blame himself, believing that he must have mistranslated something causing the Blackfoot to turn on them and decide that the outsiders wouldn't be leaving.[1] At the time the tribe was at war with seven other tribes, a war they were inevitably going to lose. Unwilling to be destroyed along with them, and against the wishes of his companions, Sallow chose to use his knowledge to train the Blackfoot tribe in the art of warfare after witnessing their lack of knowledge firsthand. He showed them how to clean and maintain guns, operate with small unit tactics, create their own explosives and to strike at their weakest enemies first; divide et impera - divide and conquer (Latin). He quickly impressed them enough to the point where he was made their leader.[2]

   He soon introduced the concept of total war to the tribes around them - Sallow knew that though the tribes had always fought each other via occasional skirmishes, he considered them to only be "playing at war" having never seen warfare at its most destructive and barbaric. They defeated the weakest of their enemies first and enslaved many of the able-bodied survivors but Sallow ordered the rest, including women and children, killed and their remains piled high. When they confronted the next tribe, they brought an emissary back to view the carnage. The concept of total war was an entirely new, and terrifying, facet to his strategy that the Grand Canyon tribes had never confronted before, one that would form the core of the Legion's tactics and outlook.[2]

   After subduing all of the tribes in the canyon, Edward Sallow cemented his power, forsaking his original name, and declared himself as Caesar, with Joshua Graham as his right-hand man, now known as the Malpais Legate. While Calhoun was sent back to the Followers to inform them of what he was doing. Caesar formed his Legion out of the tribes that had either been conquered or had chosen to capitulate to avoid total destruction.[2] Caesar chose the concept of the Roman Empire to model the Legion after because of its parallels to what he considered the status-quo of the post-apocalyptic world. Ideologically, the Roman Empire was also appealing to him for its ability to assimilate those it conquered, the destruction of such "tribal" identities a key goal to the Legion's long-term strategy of unification. He intended to erase their individual identities and replace them all with a single, monolithic culture - the Legion - where individuals have no value outside of what they offer the greater whole; long term stability at all costs.[3]

   In 2281, speaking with a slave master at Cottonwood Cove named Canyon Runner has him mention being a former member of the tribe, and that they were the first he led into battle as their war chief during Sallow's ascent into becoming Caesar and founding the Legion.[4]

   Appearances The Blackfoot are mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-on Honest Hearts.

5. #5Kaibabs

   Keys: Kaibabs, Kaibab's, Kaibab

   Kaibabs Tribe Kaibabs CaesarLegionSymbol Organization Related Caesar's Legion Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas The Kaibabs were a tribe conquered by Caesar.[1]

   Background At war with the Blackfoot tribe, Edward Sallow took control of the Kaibabs after showing one of the tribes envoys the aftermath of the Ridgers slaughter.[2]

   Appearances The Kaibabs are mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

   Behind the scenes There are many things named Kaibab in Arizona, including the Kaibab National Forest, Plateau, county (all near the Grand Canyon), and the Kaibab Indian Reservation.

   References Courier: "What happened to the tribes?" Caesar: "The Kaibabs joined me, and the Fredonians after that - all the pissant tribes, with names that should be forgotten." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "What happened after you trained the Blackfoot?" Caesar: "Divide et impera - divide and conquer. I led the Blackfoot against the Ridgers, their weakest enemy. When they refused to surrender, I ordered every man, woman, and child killed. When next we surrounded the Kaibabs and they likewise refused... I took one of their envoys to the Ridgers' village and showed him the corpse piles." (Caesar's dialogue)

6. #6Fredonians

   Keys: Fredonians, Fredonian, Fredonian's

   Fredonians Post-War tribe Fredonians CaesarLegionSymbol Locations HQ Grand Canyon Organization Related Kaibabs Ridgers Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas The Fredonians were a tribe which were once based in the Grand Canyon.

   Background At war with the Blackfoot tribe, the Fredonians were eliminated by the Blackfoots when Edward Sallow and Joshua Graham took control of them.[1]

   Appearances The Fredonians are mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

   Behind the scenes Freedonia was temporarily used as a demonym for citizens of the United States of America shortly after the American Revolution. There is a town in Arizona near the Grand Canyon named Fredonia. References The Courier: "What happened to the tribes?" Caesar: "The Kaibabs joined me, and the Fredonians after that - all the pissant tribes, with names that should be forgotten."

7. #7Hangdogs

   Keys: Hangdogs, Hangdog's

   Hangdogs Post-War tribe Hangdogs CaesarLegionSymbol Information Members Antony (formerly) Locations Region Denver (formerly) Organization Related Caesar's Legion Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas Lonesome Road The Hangdogs were a tribe formerly living outside of Denver, Colorado before being absorbed into Caesar's Legion.

   Background When Caesar's Legion arrived at Denver, the Hangdogs resisted them like most other tribes, and fared better than most. Eventually however, they surrendered to Legate Lanius when he began burning their dogs alive. The tribe's elders could not bear the thought of their spirit animal burning in the afterlife, so they submitted to Caesar. After they were integrated into the Legion, Caesar, seeing how useful the Hangdogs' talents were in taming dogs, made the male members of the tribe the houndmasters of the Legion, specializing in training and taming the Legion mongrels.[1][2]

   Members Antony (formerly) Appearances The Hangdogs are mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-on Lonesome Road.

   References The Courier: "How did you end up joining the Legion?" Antony: "When the Legion showed up, we fought, most tribes did. Hangdogs hung out longer than most... broke us by throwing our dogs on the fire. So we gave up, our elders couldn't bear the idea of our spirit animals burning in the afterlife. Still, Caesar was impressed enough to conscript us, use our skills with dogs to join the Legion as houndmasters." (Antony's dialogue) The Courier: "Who is Legate Lanius?" Ulysses: "Lanius... the 'Butcher.' Monster, Terror of the East. Not even his slaves have seen his face - struck them blind so they can't. Wears a mask, don't even know if it's the same man. He put Colorado to the sword, broke the Hangdogs by throwing their hounds upon the flames, so they might burn forever in the afterlife." (Ulysses' dialogue)

8. #8Hidebarks

   Keys: Hidebarks, Hidebark's, Hidebark

   Hidebarks Post-War tribe Hidebarks CaesarLegionSymbol Information Members Legate Lanius Locations Region Arizona Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas The Hidebarks were a tribe located in Arizona.

   Background One of Legate Lanius' varying origin stories states that he was the greatest warrior of the Hidebarks. When the Legion found and surrounded the Hidebarks' camp, the chieftain chose to surrender. This enraged Lanius so much that he struck down the chieftain himself and began attacking his own tribe members.[1]

   Lanius killed 15 members of the tribe before he was rendered unconscious, his face being maimed in the process. Upon awakening, Caesar offered Lanius a helmet to conceal his ruined face and requested that he fight for the Legion. Lanius agreed on the condition that he be allowed to kill the surviving male members of the Hidebarks, though he was convinced by Caesar to kill the adult males only.[2]

   Notes Lanius has multiple clashing backstories offered by numerous members of the Legion, the Hidebarks version being told by Caesar.

   Appearances The Hidebarks are mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

   Reference Courier: "I've heard rumors of your legate, Lanius. What's his story?" Caesar: "Lanius is the greatest of my battlefield commanders. Some might call him a great man, but I'm not sure he qualifies. Once, he was the greatest warrior of the Hidebarks, a tribe of the Arizona. Maniacal in battle. Sometimes he'd ambush Legion patrols by himself. When, after several months we found and surrounded the Hidebarks' camp, their Chieftain raised a banner of surrender. The warrior who was not yet Lanius went insane with rage. He struck down his Chieftain and attacked his own tribe." (Caesar's dialogue) Courier: "What happened when Lanius attacked his own tribe?" Caesar: "He killed fifteen before they brought him down. He didn't die, obviously. I had him tended to. He was maimed, most of face torn off. It was days before he regained consciousness. When he did, I went to his bedside and showed him the helmet I'd had forged to cover his face. I said he could have it if he'd fight for me. He accepted... on condition that he be allowed to kill the surviving males of his tribe. I said, make it the adult males and you have a deal." (Caesar's dialogue)

9. #9Ridgers

   Keys: Ridgers, Ridger's, Ridger

   Ridgers Tribe Ridgers Organization Related Caesar's Legion Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas The Ridgers were a tribe exterminated by Edward Sallow and the Blackfoots.

   Background The Ridgers were the weakest among the seven tribes at war with the Blackfoot tribe when Edward Sallow was captured. After training the Blackfoot members in warfare, he led them against the Ridgers first. The tribe refused to surrender, so Edward ordered every man, woman, and child killed. He then led the Blackfoot against the Kaibabs, who likewise refused. In response, he took one of the Kaibab envoys back to the Ridgers' village to provide an example of what they were capable of. After this display, the Kaibabs joined the Blackfoot under Sallow's command, pushing forward to conquer other tribes.[1][2]

   References The Courier: "What happened after you trained the Blackfoot?" Caesar: "Divide et impera - divide and conquer. I led the Blackfoot against the Ridgers, their weakest enemy. When they refused to surrender, I ordered every man, woman, and child killed. When next we surrounded the Kaibabs and they likewise refused... I took one of their envoys to the Ridgers' village and showed him the corpse piles." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "What happened to the tribes?" Caesar: "The Kaibabs joined me, and the Fredonians after that - all the pissant tribes, with names that should be forgotten."

10. #10Painted Rock

    Keys: Painted Rock, Painted Rocks, Painted Rock's

    Painted Rock Tribe Painted Rock CaesarLegionSymbol Locations Region Arizona[1] Mojave Wasteland Organization Parent Caesar's Legion Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas The Painted Rock tribe are a mentioned-only group associated with Caesar's Legion in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background Once inhabiting the former American state of Arizona, sometime between 2248 and 2281, the Painted Rock tribe was conquered and absorbed into the Legion. In the Legion, the former tribals became well renowned for their toughness, outdone only by the centurions, the Legate, and the Praetorians guarding Caesar himself. Alongside the Red Okie Centuria, they make up a large number of the Legion's veteran members, spoken of as the best the Legion has to offer that have slain many enemies and earned their rank.[1]

    In October 2281, they remained behind in the Legion's territories east of the Colorado River,[1] but later that same year, they migrate into the Mojave Wasteland at the behest of Caesar to answer the call to war against the New California Republic at the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.[2]

    Behind the scenes The tribe's name and their former presence in Arizona seemingly implies that they took their namesake from the Painted Desert, a real-world location in eastern Arizona.

    References Legion officer: "Soon the Legion's veterans will arrive from Arizona. Each has killed many times his number." (Legionaries' dialogue) The Courier: "What's the Legion been up to?" Hanlon: "Word is that the Legion's old timers have shown up, Caesar's veterans from the Red Okie Centuria and what was the Painted Rock tribe. They're the best of the best and the baddest of the bad. Short of a centurion or praetorian, they don't come any tougher. You come across a pack of them, weigh your options carefully."

11. #11Red Okie Centuria

    Keys: Red Okie Centuria, Red Okie Centurias, Red Okie Centuria's

    Red Okie Centuria Post-War organization Red Okie Centuria CaesarLegionSymbol Locations Region Arizona[1] Mojave Wasteland Organization Parent Caesar's Legion Inclusion Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas The Red Okie Centuria is a sub-group within Caesar's Legion in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background According to Chief Hanlon of the NCR Rangers, the Red Okie Centuria is an elite group of legionaries who, along with former members of the Painted Rock tribe, make up a large number of the Legion's top veterans. Hanlon personally describes them as "the best of the best and the baddest of the bad," and claims that the only groups in the Legion tougher than them are the centurions and Caesar's own Praetorian Guards.[2] Officers in the Legion speak of the veterans as having earned their reputation, each one having killed "many times his number."[1]

    As of October 2281, they initially remained behind in Arizona.[1] Later that same year, as the situation in the Mojave Wasteland develops towards an all-out offensive between the Legion and the New California Republic, they are also called into the Mojave in preparation for the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.[2]

    Behind the scenes In the ancient Roman military, a centuria was a unit originally consisting of 100 men, commanded by a centurion.

    References Legion officer: "Soon the Legion's veterans will arrive from Arizona. Each has killed many times his number." (Legionaries' dialogue) The Courier: "What's the Legion been up to?" Hanlon: "Word is that the Legion's old timers have shown up, Caesar's veterans from the Red Okie Centuria and what was the Painted Rock tribe. They're the best of the best and the baddest of the bad. Short of a centurion or praetorian, they don't come any tougher. You come across a pack of them, weigh your options carefully."

12. #12Sun Dogs

    Keys: Sun Dogs, Sun Dog's, Sun Dog

    Sun Dogs Mentioned-only faction Sun Dogs CaesarLegionSymbol Appearances Mentioned-only Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas The Sun Dog tribe was a tribe which existed after the Great War.

    Background Sometime in the mid-23rd century, Caesar's Legion defeated and assimilated this tribe. The legionary Dead Sea was part of this campaign and was recognized for his contributions against the Sun Dog tribe, for which his centurion gifted him with a unique machete called the Liberator.[1]

    Appearances The Sun Dogs are mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

    References Courier: "I've slaughtered the enemy at Camp Forlorn Hope." Dead Sea: "A glorious victory. You must be very satisfied. I'll send word of your achievement. Perhaps Caesar will see fit to send another contubernium to occupy the Camp. Here - take this, my blade. It was a gift from my Centurion upon the defeat of the Sun Dog tribe." (Dead Sea's dialogue)

13. #13Hierarchy of Caesar's Legion

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    Hierarchy of Caesar's Legion Caesar's Legion, being a military force in and of itself, operates in accordance with a strict hierarchy based on the Legions of ancient Rome. Overview Main article: Caesar's Legion Caesar's Legion is an army of slaves subordinate to the rule and ideology of Caesar. All members of Caesar's Legion are slaves, but not all of these slaves become legionaries. The legionaries are simply those slaves who are deemed physically fit to serve Caesar in a military capacity, whether they were born into Legion slavery or assimilated from a conquered tribe.[Non-game 1] Only male slaves are allowed to serve as legionaries; women are forbidden from serving, as per Caesar's ideology, their only role in the Legion is for birthing more male slaves.[1] Any male slaves who do not qualify for combat are simply used for slave labor instead. The same is true of all women.[Non-game 2] The Legion's soldiers serve for life, and the only way out of their service is death. This applies to even prominent Legion commanders such as Lucius, head of the Praetorian Guard.[Non-game 3]

    Though the bulk of Caesar's soldiers have only improvised or low-tech weapons, their discipline, ferocity, and sheer numbers dampen the impact of the NCR Army's technological advantage. Combined with their skill in infiltration and sabotage, the warriors of Caesar's Legion have managed to score important victories against the NCR and maintain a powerful and feared presence in the Mojave Wasteland.

    Organization Caesar is the supreme leader of the Legion, and his orders are law; as a slave army, all members of the Legion are subordinate to Caesar's rule. Directly below Caesar is a legate, ensuring that Caesar's orders are followed faithfully. The centurions are responsible for directing the legionaries and coordinating their attacks. A contubernium consists of eight legionaries.[2]

    In additional to a standard hierarchy of common legionaries, the Legion also includes some special functional units. The Praetorian Guard are an elite group of soldiers who operate as Caesar's personal bodyguards.[3] Though they are not part of the main fighting force, they will accompany their legate in crucial battles and occasionally serve as Caesar's executioners. The frumentarii are legionaries trained in the arts of espionage and sabotage. Due to the clandestine nature of their work, they operate as independent units. Thus, only trusted individuals become frumentarii.

    Legionaries “ Legionaires are the standard soldier in Caesar's Legion. Their level of experience and overall toughness can be determined by noting the color of their armor. ” — Loading screen Legion Massive Black 7 Once enslaved men or boys are deemed fit to serve as legionaries, their training begins. The training is harsh, and underperforming recruits are threatened with injury or death, even if they are children.[4] If the trainees survive the instructors' trials, they are given the right to join the Legion's ranks. As a result, the Legion's fighters are skilled, tenacious, fearless, and completely disciplined. In comparison to the NCR's recruits, who are sometimes given as little as two weeks of combat training,[5] legionaries are consummate soldiers whose training conditions them almost to the same level as the most elite troops of the NCR.[6][7] Legionaries also receive some level of education in both English and Latin, enough to speak both languages (and presumably also read and write in them as well).[8]

    Recruits face the most dangerous combat within the Legion. The most inexperienced warriors in the Legion are given only sparse equipment, such as crude machetes, improvised throwing spears, and antiquated firearms. As part of the Legion's tactics, they are marched to the front to act as human shields for the more experienced prime and veteran legionaries, intended to wear out the enemy for the back waves to deal with.[9][Non-game 4]

    Should the recruits survive and even excel through multiple battles, they are granted the right to be promoted to prime legionaries, who are given better equipment and situated in the second wave in combat, behind the recruits. If they continue to demonstrate aptitude in battle, they gain the status of veterans. The veterans are given the best equipment of the common legionaries and are kept even further away from the front lines, in a third wave only deployed if the ranks before them should fail their mission. This method of organization is not out of kindness to the Legion's seasoned warriors; it allows the Legion to hold its best soldiers in reserve so they may be unleashed if the lesser legionaries fail to defeat their foes. Even if this happens, the logic is that any enemies will have been worn out by the previous two waves and the veterans will be well-positioned to mop them up.[9][Non-game 4]

    If legionaries demonstrate aptitude in essential crafts, they will be assigned to such duties. These jobs can range from training the Legion's hounds to repairing and expanding the Legion's arsenal.

    Discipline and advancement Caesarslegionmember Caesar's army is highly stratified in terms of rank. A low-ranking soldier must defer to the wishes of his superiors, even if that means facing death. The Legion's success comes from the legionaries' fearlessness, cooperation, and loyalty to Caesar. Thus, cowardice and disobedience will earn the wrath of Caesar and his officers.

    Advancement is primarily achieved through valorous or ingenious acts on the battlefield. If a legionary can earn a decisive victory for the Legion, he will be recognized for his efforts even if it involves disobeying orders. Vulpes Inculta is a notable example, as he managed to defeat a tribe by breaking ranks and exploiting a weakness in their formation. The centurion wished to execute Vulpes for his disobedience, but Caesar elevated Vulpes to the position of frumentarii.[10] Especially well-performing legionaries can be invited to positions of leadership, such as that of a centurion.[3]

    However, recognition does not come with any military honors, wealth or class incentives, safety, or comfort. Promoted legionaries are simply to continue fighting for Caesar, with their experience being rewarded only with better equipment to match greater danger.[Non-game 5] Higher-ranked legionaries also receive increased scrutiny, especially those who have been given leadership responsibilities.[Non-game 3]

    Incompetence brings the threat of serious injury or death. The first legate, Joshua Graham, failed to seize Hoover Dam and his forces were routed by the NCR. Though he was the second most powerful man in the Legion and Caesar's life-long friend, Caesar nonetheless ordered his Praetorians to immolate Graham and toss him into the Grand Canyon.[11] Other punishments that may be applied for failure range from crucifixion[12] to decimation.[13] Consequently, legionaries will frequently commit suicide when defeated to avoid suffering from dishonor.[14]

    Equipment Caesar is determined to maintain a Roman theme for his army due to his belief that technology makes men complacent and weak, and his army is equipped as such. The most common armaments in the Legion are crude machetes and improvised throwing spears, but the legionaries are relatively free to use whatever weapon is available, so long as they can wield them well. As rank improves, the quality of a legionary's armament also increases. In fact, the centurions can be seen wielding weapons that are technologically advanced, ranging from thermic lances to anti-materiel rifles.

    Standard legionary armor is composed of pre-War athletic gear (football equipment salvaged from places like the University of Arizona) reinforced with metal and leather and worn over makeshift imitations of traditional Roman body armor. Again, rank dictates the quality of armor. A recruit will be given armor that is ineffective against even crude bludgeons while centurions are equipped with armor that can resist knives and SMG bullets.

    Due to a ban on modern medicine, alcohol, and synthetic chems, the legionaries are provided with medicines derived from the local flora and fauna. Healing powder and bitter drinks are the most common remedies used to heal wounds. In order to restore crippled limbs, the Legion uses a chem called hydra, a potent brew derived from the Mojave Wasteland's wildlife and cave fungus. Legionaries also carry antivenom as a precaution against poisoning from encounters with the venomous creatures of the desert. In addition, many legionaries carry purified water and food gathered from the wasteland for rations.

    Variants The legionaries can be divided according to experience as such:

    Recruit legionary Nv-legion-armor Main article: Recruit legionary Recruit legionaries are the lowest-ranked members of Caesar's Legion. Freshly trained, these legionaries are given only basic equipment, mostly rudimentary melee weapons, although rarely, they also have access to firearms.[Non-game 6] Recruits who show results will be "awarded" with a promotion to the class of prime legionary. Recruits are the most common type of the legionaries, and they emulate the ancient Roman hastati.[Non-game 5][Non-game 7]

    In combat, legionaries are most commonly organized into three waves based on their experience, with recruits occupying the first wave. As the least experienced and least equipped, the role of the recruit legionaries is simply to act as meat shields for the more experienced legionaries. Even if they are wiped out, the intent is that they will have wore out the enemy so that the back waves have a better chance of defeating their opponents.[9][Non-game 4]

    Prime legionary PrimeLegionary Main article: Prime legionary Prime legionaries are the second lowest-ranked soldier class of Caesar's Legion. These legionaries have been promoted from recruit legionaries due to showing results in combat, and their relatively higher experience is "rewarded" with better equipment, including regular access to powerful firearms.[Non-game 6]

    The prime legionaries emulate the principes of the ancient Roman military.[Non-game 5] In combat, legionaries are most commonly organized into three waves based on their experience, and the primes are organized in the second, middle wave. They are deployed only if the first wave of recruits is defeated, with the intent of mopping up opponents worn out by the first wave of combat. Even if their wave is defeated, the third wave of veteran legionaries is intended to step in and wipe out any remaining enemies.[9][Non-game 4] Prime legionaries who show results are "promoted" to join the ranks of the veterans.

    Veteran legionary VeteranLegionary2 Main article: Veteran legionary Veteran legionaries are the best equipped and most experienced among the standard legionaries, given regular access to powerful, high-tier firearms.[Non-game 6] In battle, they are typically held in reserve until the earlier two waves of recruit and prime legionaries are defeated, emulating the triarii of the ancient Roman military.[Non-game 5] The intention of this tactic is that even if the first two waves have been wiped out, any remaining enemies would have been worn out and made easier to defeat for the veterans.[9][Non-game 4]

    Legionary decanus Decanus2 Legionaries are given the position of decanus when they consistently display leadership potential in battle. A decanus has the authority to run small camps as well as act as a deputy for the local centurion. Like standard legionaries, the decani have their own hierarchy. Seniority determines the quality of the decanus' armor; a standard decanus will only have the recruit's armor whereas a seasoned decanus will be given a veteran legionary's armor. They are easily distinguished by their helmets, which are adorned with feathers. The decani ranks are similar to the standard legionary ranks, that being:

    Recruit decanus Prime decanus Veteran decanus Centurion Centurion Main article: Centurion Centurions serve as field commanders during major operations. They are often appointed to their position through years of dedicated service in combat and conquest, and their martial prowess reflects the rigors they have endured; they are considered strong enough by Caesar to be considered for his personal Praetorian Guard.[3] Outside of battle, centurions act as administrators of Legion camps with the assistance of the decanus.

    They are clad in heavy armor cobbled together from their fallen foes and use various weapons to great effect. Their armor frequently includes pieces scavenged from power armor, which suggests that they have killed opponents wearing power armor in the past.[Non-game 8]

    Legate Lanius A position above the rank of Centurion that acts as a general or field marshal. A legate, or legatus, is shown to be appointed directly by Caesar, opposed to solely through career advancement. The two explicitly referenced legati have also acted as the second in command to Caesar, that being the Malpais Legate (Joshua Graham) and Legatus Lanius. While Lanius is the only legate in the Mojave, Caesar's Legion has several other Legati in the command structure elsewhere.[15]

    Legion explorer LegionExplorer2 Main article: Legion explorer These legionaries serve as scouts and messengers, as well as sentries for various Legion camps. They are not intended for combat and will thus only carry basic weaponry.

    Legionary assassin LegionaryAssassin Main article: Legionary assassin A specially trained legionary, sent after Caesar's most hated enemies. They are extremely dangerous due to the fact that they travel in packs and utilize powerful firearms and melee weapons. Legionary assassins are typically led into battle by a vexillarius[16]

    Other positions Frumentarii - The eyes and ears of Caesar, the frumentarii serve as spies, saboteurs, and assassins. They operate separately from the main Legion forces and are hand-picked by Caesar himself. In 2281, the leader of this unit is Vulpes Inculta. Houndmasters - The remnants of the Hangdogs tribes, a tribe assimilated by the Legion. After they were integrated into the Legion, Caesar, seeing how useful the Hangdogs' talent was in taming dogs, made the male members of the tribe into hound masters of the Legion. Caesar also made the hound masters begin training and taming the Legion mongrels. LegionVexillarius Vexillarius - A soldier chosen as a vexillarius is a standard-bearer that carries the vexillum, a military standard (flag or banner) displaying the emblem of the Legion. The vexillarius provide troops with a rallying point and morale during heated exchanges. These soldiers are given luxuries including firearms, superior armor and distinctive helmets in comparison to the standard legionary. Praetorian Praetorian - They are soldiers or officers with the potential to become centurions but operate as members of Caesar's security detail. Prospective Praetorians must challenge the Praetorian they think is the weakest. The two men will then fight to the death in hand-to-hand combat for the title of Praetorian. They are proficient in unarmed combat and augment their innate fighting abilities with lethal ballistic fists. In 2281, the leader of this section is Lucius. LegionBlacksmith Blacksmith - The blacksmiths are responsible for the maintenance, repair, and creation of the Legion's weapons and armor. These men are generally found in Legion camps. LegionInstructor Instructor - The legionary instructor is responsible for the training of future legionaries. They are trusted with turning boys into potent warriors and thus are encouraged to subject their charges to rigorous training. They frequently threaten to kill their students should they not give full attention to improving their skills. Speculatores Front Speculatores - While little is known about this rank within the Legion, they are featured in the Vault playing cards that came with the Fallout: New Vegas collector's edition. Speculatores are on the 8 of clubs, with the card featuring a blood stained sword stuck into the ground and a quote about Mars. They are also mentioned in the quest Oh My Papa by Melissa. She is told she could become one by a frumentarii agent named Karl. However, it is apparent that Karl is lying to Melissa given the fact that the Legion does not allow women to serve.[17] Ancient Roman speculatores filled scouting roles. It is possible the Legion's speculatores handle mapping and battlefield reconnaissance, as opposed to the covert spy work of the frumentarii, or it may be the official title for another rank. Behind the scenes The hierarchy of Caesar's Legion resembles the army of the early Roman Republic, predating the Marian reforms. Joshua Sawyer has alluded to this, comparing the Legion's recruits, primes, and veterans to the hastati, principes, and triarii, soldier classes from the military of the early Roman Republic.[Non-game 5][Non-game 7]

    References The Courier: "A woman in the Legion surprise you?" Ulysses: "It's not Legion - the Legion I know, but they change, even in small ways as they march West, with every tribe they break. But yes... last I heard, you needed a weapon between your legs to carry one for Caesar." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "What is your role here?" Severus: "I'm an officer of the Legion, of the rank Decanus. When we encamped, I commanded a contubernium of eight Legionaries. So I command what's left. Under the wise leadership of Centurion Aurelius, of course." (Severus' dialogue) The Courier: Are your bodyguards special in any way? Caesar: My Praetorians embody the martial ideals of my Legion. Each one of them has done enough conquering and killing to deserve the rank of {Ken-TOO-ree-on} Centurion. Instead, I invited them to join my guard. So the invitee chooses whichever current guard he thinks is weakest - and challenges him. The fight is to the death. It keeps them from getting complacent." (Caesar's dialogue) Legionary instructor: "What the fuck was that? I've seen crippled slaves move faster." "Run faster or I will throw you off the side." (Legionary instructor's dialogue) The Courier: "Administrative discharge? What does that mean?" Arms merchant: "It means my C.O. was an asshole, and I told him to eat shit. He ordered me to flog a couple "deserters." Those kids didn't desert. They just got liquored up on the Strip and missed roll call. I don't know what else the brass expects... half these kids don't get more than two weeks of training before they ship 'em out here." (Arms merchant's dialogue) The Courier: "What impressed you about their discipline?" Col. Cassandra Moore: "I've never once seen a single one of them back down, or disobey an order. They'll happily charge a fortified position with little more than a sharpened stick if ordered to, and do so without hesitation." (Cassandra Moore's dialogue) The Courier: "You mentioned that they were in good shape?" Col. Cassandra Moore: "Yes, extremely so. They must use conditioning routines on par with the rangers, or better. Their soldiers can run near half again as fast as my best men, and close distances with frightening speed. And they're as strong as they are fast. Their superior physicality makes them extremely dangerous up close, so I've had the men run drills for taking on larger, stronger opponents. But they've all been instructed to take them down at range, if possible. I've made it clear I don't want any heroes in my squad, just survivors." (Cassandra Moore's dialogue) All legionaries can be heard speaking English and using some Latin words in their dialogue. During Silus Treatment, a Courier with high Intelligence can intersperse Latin phrases in conversation with the centurion Silus, which further evidences this, but it is unclear how indicative Silus is compared to other legionaries. The Courier: "So what happened at Hoover Dam and Boulder City?" Hanlon: "In big battles, Caesar deploys his legionaries in waves. Recruits up front, prime soldiers behind the recruits, old guard bringing up the rear. Opponents wear themselves out dealing with the first two waves, if they survive that long. When the veterans step up, there's not much fight left. Caesar can adapt, though, and when required, he can run any mix of legionaries as skirmishers and still retain order in the ranks." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier: "Tell me about Vulpes Inculta." Caesar: "Vulpes is the best of my Frumentarii. A remarkable individual from an unremarkable tribe south of the Utah. He was brought into the Legion as a boy, survived training, fought well enough as Legionary to be promoted to the rank of Decanus. Then, in battle against an unimportant tribe, he broke ranks and led his contubernium through a hole in their defenses to capture its chieftain. Well, his Centurion wanted him crucified for disobedience. So I made him a Frumentarius." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "How did you end up as Caesar's legate?" Joshua Graham: "This way lies the path to hell. Edw- Caesar needed me to translate. Translation became giving orders. Giving orders became leading in battle. Leading in battle became training, punishing, terrorizing. A series of small mistakes before a great fall. And I stayed in that darkness until after Hoover Dam. After I failed Caesar and he had me burned alive, thrown into the Grand Canyon." (Joshua Graham's dialogue) The Courier: "I apologize for my failure, mighty Caesar. It will not happen again." Caesar: "That's right. Under normal circumstances, the reason it wouldn't happen again is that you'd be crucified - or worse." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "He sounds more like a savage than a general." Caesar: "Lanius is savage. Savagely loyal, too, but only to me - he has no love for my Legion. But this has its uses. He has no attachment to his men, no compunction about battlefield losses. All he cares about is destroying the enemy. When another legatus or a Centurion fails to achieve results, I send Lanius to make things right. His first step is to beat the failed commander to death in front of his assembled troops. Then he orders the ritual of decimatio." The Courier: "What is "decimatio?"" Caesar: "It means "decimation," but in ancient Rome the word had a very specific meaning - a punishment for cowardice. The Legionaries are lined up in ranks. Every tenth man steps forward and is beaten to death by his brothers. It instills a certain... robust obedience." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "Do you need any help?" Carrie Boyd: "Yeah, so far this has gone exactly as expected - poorly. But with the work you've done for NCR already, you might be just what I've been looking for. We captured an honest-to-God centurion of Caesar's Legion recently." The Courier: "Is that a big deal?" Carrie Boyd: "Better believe it. Everybody, everybody in Caesar's Legion from Caesar on down will kill themselves before they can be captured. They're so twitchy they'd probably do it if you reached out to hug them. But here's this guy who's an elite commander in their army and he just gives himself up, even as his men are slitting their own throats around him." (Carrie Boyd's dialogue) The Courier: "He sounds more like a savage than a general." Caesar: "Lanius is savage. Savagely loyal, too, but only to me - he has no love for my Legion. But this has its uses. He has no attachment to his men, no compunction about battlefield losses. All he cares about is destroying the enemy. When another legatus or a Centurion fails to achieve results, I send Lanius to make things right. His first step is to beat the failed commander to death in front of his assembled troops. Then he orders the ritual of decimatio." (Caesar's dialogue) Fallout: New Vegas loading screens: Not commonly seen on the front lines, the vexillarius is a standard-bearer for Caesar's Legion. Their presence on the battlefield inspires legionaries to fight to the death for the glory of Caesar. . The Courier: "Regis says I should talk to you about speaking against the Great Khans' alliance with Caesar." Melissa Lewis: "You can ask, but why would I do that? Karl's told me all about life in the Legion! He says I've got all the makings of a speculatore." The Courier: "Did he also tell you women aren't permitted to serve in the Legion?" Melissa Lewis: "What? No, he... what do you mean, aren't allowed to serve? Why would he lie about that?" The Courier: "If the Great Khans join the Legion, you'll be sold as a slave. An officer's wife, if you're lucky." Melissa Lewis: "That lying little weasel! I almost fell for it, too! All right, you've got a deal. You can tell Papa I won't support an alliance." (Melissa Lewis' dialogue) Non-game

    Question: "Reducing women to breeding material is, uh, still misogyny? Not really "another" reason, that. "Women can't go to war; they need to make babies" is something women hear today, and it's plain old sexism. No need for new words. Caesar's still gross/inept" Joshua Sawyer: "All members of Caesar's society are forced into specific roles. It's kind of bizarre to say that reducing women to breeders (which select legionaries are also forced to participate in, by arrangement) is misogynistic but forcing all able-bodied men to fight or die is... apparently not misandric? It's not like Caesar is giving men (who, again, with the exception of the Blackfoots, were either directly enslaved as children or born to enslaved women, never knowing their fathers) the option to fight or raise ponies." (Formspring reply on October 26, 2011) Question: "I think the point is that when you've defended the Legion's moral complexity by saying it's just the grunts who are misogynists, then turn and say Caesar wants women for breeding, you're not convincing anyone who doesn't see "breeding" humans as positive." Joshua Sawyer: "I've gone over this before ad nauseum. Everyone is treated terribly in the Legion. Men who are able to fight are slave soldiers who serve until they die. Men who aren't able to fight are slave laborers who work until they die. Women who are able to give birth are forced into breeding until they are unable to give birth. Then they're slave laborers until they die. Caesar doesn't do this because he hates women or views them as inferior to men; he does it because all he is concerned with is the end goal: more legionaries. The legionaries are also a means to an end: conquering NCR. Conquering NCR is also a means to an end: reforming it and producing a new quasi-Roman empire. If it doesn't convince you, that's fine, but I've already made this argument and don't see the point in continuing it." (Formspring reply on June 2, 2012) Question: "One token Nazi medal for pure aryan mothers hardly balances the the vast, VAST majority of male-dominated civilizations throughout history that have treated women as sub-human or property. Men in the Legion have power, women don't have any." Joshua Sawyer: "Why are people so obsessed with the "balance" between the different gendered roles under the Legion? I've never said it's balanced. But there is very clearly a trend among people questioning the Legion to project the concept of military service as a noble endeavor (for which one is rewarded, no less) onto legionnaires when it's never presented in that way. They are slave soldiers. Service is not voluntary, they can't retire, there are no parades and pats on the back for them. They aren't Roman patrician officers who are going to retire to a Tuscan estate when they turn 50. The only power that male legionaries have is to serve Caesar well enough to be promoted to a position of more responsibility. Nothing really comes with that additional responsibility other than increased scrutiny and better equipment (to match the increased danger). Most of my commentary on this topic has been to highlight the following: Caesar's Legion is subdivided (by Caesar) based on gendered/sexed roles. These subdivisions are sexist (inherently), but they are neither misogynistic nor misandric. Legionaries under Caesar are not like Roman patrician officers. They are not part of a larger society that celebrates and rewards military service with things like conference of honorific titles, triumphs, etc. All legionaries are slave soldiers, period. The opinions of individual legionaries are not the opinions of Caesar. These individuals may make misogynistic comments, but those comments did not originate with Caesar, nor is there any reason to believe that he shares them, given his willingness to employ a female courier. If you want to weigh the individual horror of rape and forced child-bearing against forced military service for life, knock yourself out. It's two terrible ways to go through life." (Formspring reply on October 28, 2011) Question: "Just how expendable are troops to the Legion? Roman tactics involved 2 lines of fresh meat, then a third line (Triarii) that would devastate the opponents that have tired themselfs killing the first 2. Does NV's Legion do similar?" Joshua Sawyer: "That's exactly what the Recruits, Primes, and Veterans are." (Formspring post on October 25, 2011) Question: "Would Caesars Legion ever have Triarii? Or is it based on Marian Reforms era military?" Joshua Sawyer: "Veterans are the equivalent of triarii, Primes as principes, Recruits as hastati. Wealth and class are not parts of Caesar's Legion's structure, but experience and access to equipment are." (Formspring post on July 4, 2012) Question: "Could Caesar really win a war of attrition with the NCR, or is he just deluded by an environment of yes-men into believing they have the numbers for ancient tactics to still work when the enemy is just cutting down your front lines with gunfire?" Joshua Sawyer: "Primes, Veterans, and even some Recruits use powerful firearms. Most of the legionaries who use melee weapons are early/weak scrubs. It's true that some Centurions and most Praetorian Guards also use melee/unarmed weapons, but as people who assault those characters in close quarters (where they are often encountered) can probably attest, it's not much of an impediment for them. As to whether or not Caesar has the numbers to ultimately win (and hold power) in the long run, that's unknown." (Formspring reply from October 26, 2011) Question: "Maybe not "bows" per se - It does seem plausible, though, that in a post-apoc. wasteland there would be a (relative) scarcity of ammunition leading to the use of more primitive projectiles. Dirty tribals could more readily improvise "arrows" than bullets." Joshua Sawyer: "They could more easily improvise spears than either! That's what they had in Fallout 2 and one of the reasons we brought them into F:NV. Also, they fit the style of Caesar's Legion's 'recruits' better. Though the primes and veterans use much better equipment, the recruits are the equivalent of pre-Marian reform hastati: multitudes of scrubs with the most basic gear they can find." (Formspring reply from September 4, 2011) Question: "The Legion centurions have power armor pieces so does this mean the Legion and the Brotherhood fought at some point?" Joshua Sawyer: "It means that Centurions killed someone wearing power armor at some point."

14. #14Caesar's Legion armor

    Keys: Caesar's Legion armor, Legion armor, Legioneriers armor

    Caesar's Legion armor Characteristics The Legion crafts their suits of armor in the style of the Romans, complete with stylized crests for their decanii, centurions and legates. A typical legionnaire's armor consists of a torn red T-shirt, worn underneath repurposed sports equipment, consisting of a football player's protective shoulder and chest pads, reinforced with additional leather padding and worn over a baseball catcher's vest. This football equipment was taken by the Legion from the former University of Arizona.[Non-game 1](Note 1)

    A tunic is worn over the legs, held up with a red belt and what appears to be work boots are employed as standard footwear. Leather hand wraps are used to improve grip, and all forms of Legion armor use some sort of tape around their right arms.

    Centurions of the Legion wear armor made from a mix of various armors taken from defeated foes from the wasteland, including pieces of vault jumpsuits, super mutant armor, T-45d power armor and NCR Ranger combat armor.[1]

    On all sets of Legion armor, the armor's shoulder pauldrons (whether that be the football pads or the centurions' scavenged armor) are marked with red X's, in reference to the Legio X Gemina, an army commanded by the historical Julius Caesar.[Non-game 2](Note 2)

    Variants Legion explorer armor Main article: Legion explorer armor Legion explorer armor has a Damage Threshold of 4 and can be repaired with any Legion armor. It can be looted from Legion explorers, along with their corresponding headwear.

    Legion recruit armor Main article: Legion recruit armor Legion recruit armor provides a Damage Threshold of 6 and can be repaired with any Legion armor. It can be looted from recruit legionaries, along with their corresponding headwear.

    Legion prime armor Main article: Legion prime armor Legion prime armor has a Damage Threshold of 8 and can be repaired with any Legion armor. It can be found in Cottonwood Cove or looted from prime legionaries along with their corresponding headwear.

    Legion veteran armor Main article: Legion veteran armor Legion veteran armor has a Damage Threshold of 10 and can be repaired with any Legion armor. It can be found in most legion camps across the wasteland or looted from veteran legionaries along with their corresponding headwear.

    Legion vexillarius armor Main article: Legion vexillarius armor Legion Vexillarius armor provides a Damage Threshold of 14 and can be repaired with any Legion armor. It can be found in the Caesar's Legion safehouse, the Vexillarius at The Fort, and on Legion assassins.

    Legion praetorian armor Main article: Legion praetorian armor Legion praetorian armor has a Damage Threshold of 12 and can be repaired with any Legion armor. The armor can be looted from Caesar's honor guards, the Praetorian guards' corpse. It can also be found in the Caesar's Legion Safehouse.

    Legion centurion armor Main article: Legion centurion armor Legion centurion armor has a Damage Threshold of 18 and can be repaired with any Legion armor. The armor can be looted from Aurelius of Phoenix at Cottonwood Cove, or Silus at Camp McCarran. It can also be found in the Caesar's Legion safehouse, and on Legion assassins.

    Locations Caesar's Legion recruit armor can be found on the south side of Nipton in the trailer park on an ash pile next to a dead wastelander with a laser rifle. Veteran armor can be found at Fortification Hill looted from footlockers. There is also a Legion camp southwest of Ranger station Charlie, and south of Novac. The Legionaries will level with the player, so they will have different armor depending on your level. There are dead legionaries in a house in Nipton, they have Legion armor on them. In Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide/Behind the Bright Lights & Big City, pieces of the Legion armor are depicted as being a combination of others found in the wasteland. Behind the scenes ^ (Note 1) Stated by Joshua Sawyer in the Fallout: New Vegas 10th anniversary charity stream, Joshua Sawyer stated the football equipment was found by the Legion at the University of Arizona.[Non-game 1] ^ (Note 2) Stated by Joshua Sawyer from a Formspring post in 2012.[Non-game 2] Under Julius Caesar's command, however, the legion was known as X Equestris, with the cognomen Gemina being given years after Caesar's assassination. Gallery Seen as part of Caesar's Legion armor in Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide/Behind the Bright Lights & Big City Seen as part of Caesar's Legion armor in Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide/Behind the Bright Lights & Big City Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide/Behind the Bright Lights & Big City Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide/Behind the Bright Lights & Big City References See Gallery Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream (reference starts at 5:05:37) Joshua Sawyer: "'Where did the Legion find all the football equipment?' From the University of Arizona. I don't know if that's actually explicitly stated anywhere, but yes, they got it from... uh... they got it from the University of Arizona." Question: "Why do Legionary forces in New Vegas have "X's" on their shoulder pads? Also, was there any reason why the Legion didn't have any armor that was as iconic as V. Range Armor? NCR gets its best armor showcased all over the place, while the Legion didn't." Joshua Sawyer: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_X_Gemina Centurion Armor is the Legion equivalent of NCR Ranger Combat Armor."

15. #15Battle of Arizona Spillway

    Keys: Battle of Arizona Spillway, Arizona Spillway, Spillway

    Battle of Arizona Spillway Event Battle of Arizona Spillway FNV Arizona Spillway 2 The spillway in question Overview Location Arizona Spillway, Arizona Date Unknown Result Decisive Legion victory NCR foothold on the eastern bank of the Colorado River removed The Legion controls all territory east of the Colorado River Involved parties FNV NCR Flag New California Republic CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Leaders Unknown Unknown Forces NCR Army Legionaries Casualties Heavy Unknown Connected events Part of: NCR-Legion War Previous: Battle of Willow Beach Next: Battle of Nelson The Battle of Arizona Spillway was a conflict fought between the Caesar's Legion and the New California Republic during the NCR-Legion War. It took place after the Battle of Willow Beach and was part of the attempt to remove the NCR's presence from the eastern side of the Colorado River.

    Background After the fall of Camp Willow at Willow Beach, Caesar's Legion attacked New California Republic forces at Arizona Spillway, one of two water overflow diversion tunnels underneath the roads surrounding Hoover Dam. As a result of the battle, the NCR lost its bridgehead across the dam, giving the Legion complete control of all territory east of the Colorado River.[Non-game 1]

    References Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide pp. 372-376: "Recently, the Legion pushed the NCR off of the east side of the river at the Battle of Willow Beach (which destroyed an NCR military camp) and the Battle of Arizona Spillway. Day to day military operations at the dam are under the command of Colonel Moore. While troopers are active here, there are also a large number of civilian contractors who are trying to keep the dam running. They are of a secondary concern to Moore, who is preparing for an impending attack by Caesar and a visit by President Kimball." (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)

16. #16Battle of Nelson

    Keys: Battle of Nelson, Nelson

    Battle of Nelson Event Battle of Nelson NelsonFNV Overview Location Nelson Date 2281 Result Nelson captured and fortified by Caesar's Legion The Legion uses the town as a staging area for raids against Camp Forlorn Hope and deserts around Novac Involved parties FNV NCR Flag New California Republic CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Leaders Unknown CaesarLegionSymbol Vulpes Inculta[1] CaesarLegionSymbol Decanus Dead Sea CaesarLegionSymbol Decanus Alexus Forces 32 troops[2] 16 troops[2] Casualties Heavy Multiple soldiers severely injured At least three captured alive Unknown Connected events Part of: NCR-Legion War Previous: Battle of Arizona Spillway Concurrent: Searchlight Sabotage Next: Massacre of Nipton “ I'm just the only ranger around. The rest of the kids here are troopers, inexperienced, out-numbered and under-equipped. ” — Ranger Milo The Battle of Nelson was a major battle in the NCR-Legion War, where Caesar's Legion exploited the New California Republic's slowed mobilization during their Mojave Campaign to send a battalion led by the decanii Dead Sea and Alexus to occupy the pre-War town of Nelson, taking it for themselves and starting a prolonged ground campaign against the nearby NCR Army base at Camp Forlorn Hope. The event is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background In the late 23rd century, during the early stages of the Mojave Campaign, the New California Republic Army tried to move quickly and secure valuable stretches of land along the Colorado River, including the pre-War town of Nelson; it was considered to be a significant gap in the security web between the NCRA's established bases at Forlorn Hope and Searchlight. Part of the NCR garrison at Nelson was a logistics and planning force, intended to support the patrol efforts of Camp Forlorn Hope.[3][Non-game 1][Non-game 2] Due to being deployed to garrison the town on short notice, the soldiers sent there had few resources and fewer time to set up proper defenses against attack.

    Word eventually reached Caesar about the NCR's weak position at Nelson. On his lord's orders, frumentarii leader Vulpes Inculta ordered the invasion of the town as both a strategic military strike and a demoralization procedure to weaken Republic interests in the surrounding area.[1][2] Simultaneously, in order to further cement the Legion's push into the southern Mojave, Vulpes himself orchestrated the destruction of the military base at Searchlight, freeing up the attack force to move on Nelson without interference.

    Battle Sometime around mid-October 2281, two contubernia under the command of the Legion decanii Dead Sea and Alexus executed a surprise attack on the under-equipped garrison at Nelson.[2][4] Although the Republic's forces outnumbered them two to one,[2] the legionaries swiftly overran the poorly furnished defenses, killing most of the troopers and capturing the rest.

    Aftermath By late October, the Legion's firm control of Nelson, coupled with the fall of Camp Searchlight to the southwest, has allowed them to openly war against the nearby Camp Forlorn Hope. However, conflict eventually reached a rough standstill: each side periodically sends out a party of skirmishers to try and weaken the other, but neither has had any success meaningfully gaining territory, rendering the battle lines static.[5]

    Even with this hurdle, the Legion has taken advantage of the NCR's constant surveillance to ramp up their demoralization efforts, torturing captured soldiers and then executing them either by cutting their limbs off or hurling them into the river in full view of spotters. A group of three soldiers that weren't executed were condemned to a slower death by being crucified in the center of the town; the Legion hopes to use these crucified troops as hostages to keep any counteroffensives at bay and further break the NCR's spirit.[6][7] Attempts to get close to Nelson have often ended in further death or capture, including one time when Private Renolds' squad was ambushed and taken by Alexus to the Legion's makeshift prison within the nearby Techatticup Mine, with the private the only one to escape before then.[8][Non-game 2]

    Despite the risks, a patrol Ranger named Milo has taken it upon himself to gather together a motley force of troopers and take back Nelson.[9] The numbers disadvantage aside, Milo has chosen to preemptively dismantle the Legion's demoralizing tactics by directly killing and thereby ending the suffering of their crucified hostages,[10] believing that with the crucified troopers taken out of the equation as efficiently as possible, their comrades would not be so reluctant to commit to an assault on the enemy stronghold.[6]

    Appearances The Battle of Nelson is mentioned only in Fallout: New Vegas.

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    References The Courier: "Towns? The Legion destroyed Nipton, poisoned Searchlight, butchered Nelson." Lanius: "[SUCCEEDED] {Pauses}Vulpes... brought the touch of Caesar to such places.{Beat} It was necessary to weaken the West, show that the Legion could strike deep into the places where NCR thought it safe.{Rallying} But we do not need those towns. Like Hoover Dam, there is the power within Vegas... we can harness it for our needs." (Lanius' dialogue) The Courier: "Why haven't you attacked the enemy?" Dead Sea: "I have attacked the enemy. I led the assault on Nelson with two contubernia against twice our number. It is Caesar's wish that we hold this position. Our mere presence this side of the Colorado humiliates and demoralizes the enemy." (Dead Sea's dialogue) The Courier: "Tell me about Nelson." Chief Hanlon: "Nelson was barely set up. We had a big stretch of unprotected land between Forlorn Hope and Searchlight, and Nelson was the solution. A decanus named Dead Sea took the place and caused a lot of damage." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier: "What happened here?" Milo: "Troopers tried moving down from Forlorn Hope because we got this big gap between there and Searchlight. Turns out we were spread too thin. We took our sweet ass time setting up in Nelson and the Legion managed to hop over the Colorado and attack before things were settled." (Milo's dialogue) The Courier: "Elder McNamara sent me for your report. He asks if the bears are still hunting." Brotherhood scout: "Then I am sworn to report. I've been dividing my time between the camps to the north and south of here. One belongs to the NCR, the other to a band of slavers known as Caesar's Legion. I was sure the NCR would quickly win, but that has not happened. Instead, the two sides have reached a stalemate, and only occasionally send skirmishers against one another. If I didn't know better, I'd say neither side is confident enough to push for a full victory. Which seems strange given the NCR's technological edge. In any event, I've recorded my findings in this report. Please deliver it to the Elder. I am sure he will find the contents most interesting." (Brotherhood scout's dialogue) Note: This dialogue only occurs if the scout close to Camp Forlorn Hope and Nelson is spoken to during Still in the Dark without either completing Restoring Hope or We Are Legion, or killing all inhabitants at both locations. The Courier: "Why take out the hostages?" Ranger Milo: "The troopers won't go down into the camp with their comrades at risk. Dirty game the Legion likes to roll out whenever they get a chance. Problem is, Ranger Milo doesn't want to play. If we take out the hostages, they've got squat for leverage." (Milo's dialogue) The Courier: "You're demoralizing the enemy by leaving them alone?" Dead Sea: "I do not question Caesar's will! I do not second-guess! I butchered this town. Those who weren't hacked limb from limb were forced to throw themselves from the cliffs. Three more, I have just crucified. All this, in full view of the enemy's spotters to the north. Yes, our presence here demoralizes the enemy." (Dead Sea's dialogue) The Courier: "Why are you out here alone?" Private Renolds: "My squad was ambushed by a Legion party lead by that bastard Alexus. He was taking us into the mine up ahead, but I managed to get away. I need help to get them out." (Renolds' dialogue) The Courier: "Don't you have the authority to command the troopers to go into the camp?" Milo: "I'm a ranger. They're troopers. Different branches. I don't have authority over them even though they're as green as a Super Mutant's backside. Besides, they'd probably start crying as soon as they saw the hostages get so much as a bruise. Nope, they don't got the stomach for it." (NVNelsonRangerMilo.txt) Events of Back in Your Own Backyard in Fallout: New Vegas Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition pp. 417-418: [6.02] Camp Forlorn Hope After NCR captured Hoover Dam, it took them a while to fully reinforce the river to the south. The first camp that was established was Camp Forlorn Hope; an improvised mess of tin shacks, salvaged rubble from Boulder City, tents, and lots of sandbags, it is the most pathetic-looking of all NCR's camps, but the one that sees the most action. It only exists at all because of the natural spring there (in fact the camp is named for the spring). Recently, Caesar's Legion captured NCR's logistical/planning forces in the ruins of the small, ruined town of Nelson, a disaster that has disrupted Forlorn's Hopes attempts to patrol the western coast of the river. Graveyard of No Hope A nickname some in the camp whisper about the collection of graves of the fallen, on a two-tiered promontory behind the shacks, overlooking the Colorado River. Shoot the Bloatflies in the area for sport. Due to the height disadvantage, attack from here only if you plan to be stealthy. Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition pp. 418-419: [6.06] Nelson Nelson was a second NCR outpost, as the Republic slowly gained ground along the Colorado River to stem the tide of the Legion's advancement across Arizona. But Caesar struck back, razing Nelson, and capturing any NCR troopers that weren't executed or shot, and crucified them as an example of barbarism; to crush the NCR morale.

17. #17Battle of Willow Beach

    Keys: Battle of Willow Beach, Willow Beach

    Battle of Willow Beach Event Battle of Willow Beach FNV NCR Flag CaesarLegionSymbol Overview Location Camp Willow Date Post-2277 to pre-2281 Result Decisive Legion victory Loss of Camp Willow and the subsequent Battle of Arizona Spillway drives NCR military entirely off the eastern shores of the Colorado River Involved parties FNV NCR Flag New California Republic CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Leaders Unknown Unknown Forces New California Republic Army Legionaries Casualties Heavy Unknown Connected events Part of: NCR-Legion War Previous: First Battle of Hoover Dam Next: Battle of Arizona Spillway The Battle of Willow Beach was a military engagement within the war between the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion, sometime around 2281 between the events of the First and Second Battle of Hoover Dam.

    Background Since being driven from the Mojave after their disastrous loss during the First Battle of Hoover Dam, the Legion's only conflict with the NCR military near the Colorado River were clashes with small skirmishing parties, meanwhile as the main forces were preoccupied with expanding east to conquer more tribals to rebuild their military strength.

    Sometime in mid-to-late 2281, however, the Legion returned to their former stomping grounds in force, starting formal hostilities with a pitched battle at the NCR's Camp Willow on the eastern shores of the Colorado. No details are known about the scope or number of casualties, but the result was the camp's destruction. The loss of Camp Willow was subsequently followed by the Battle of Arizona Spillway, both ending in a decisive Legion victory that completely forced the NCR back across the river and gave their enemy complete control of its eastern side including a direct route to the Hoover Dam.[Non-game 1]

    References Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide pp. 372-376: "Recently, the Legion pushed the NCR off of the east side of the river at the Battle of Willow Beach (which destroyed an NCR military camp) and the Battle of Arizona Spillway. Day to day military operations at the dam are under the command of Colonel Moore. While troopers are active here, there are also a large number of civilian contractors who are trying to keep the dam running. They are of a secondary concern to Moore, who is preparing for an impending attack by Caesar and a visit by President Kimball." (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)

18. #18First Battle of Hoover Dam

    Keys: First Battle of Hoover Dam, Hoover Dam

    First Battle of Hoover Dam Event First Battle of Hoover Dam JoshuaGrahamLegate The Malpais Legate leading the charge at Hoover Dam Overview Location Mojave Wasteland Hoover Dam Boulder City Date ca. 2277 Result Decisive NCR victory Legion forces depleted of the bulk of veteran warriors; Caesar orders a full retreat back to Arizona to regroup NCR Rangers' strategic contribution elevates them to high social status, overshadowing Army achievements Joshua Graham punished for the loss of Hoover Dam by being tarred, immolated, and thrown into the Grand Canyon; he survives and returns to New Canaan as the "Burned Man" Involved parties NCR Flag New California Republic CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Leaders FNV NCR Flag President Aaron Kimball FNV NCR Flag Ranger Chief Hanlon FNV NCR Flag Army General Oliver CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar CaesarLegionSymbol Malpais Legate CaesarLegionSymbol Lucius Forces New California Republic Army Bravo Company[1] First Recon NCR Rangers Legionnaires Praetorian Guard Total forces greater than NCR's[2] Casualties Heavy 103 confirmed troopers[3] 5 confirmed Rangers[3] Heavy Legion forces almost completely destroyed[4] Veteran legionary units decimated Less-experienced infantry units routed and largely, not fully destroyed Connected events Part of: NCR-Legion War Concurrent: Mojave Campaign Next: Battle of Willow Beach NCR flag Part of a series on the New California Republic Government Senate · Council and President · Judiciary Office of Science and Industry · Republic Reserve States and territories Shady · Los Angeles · Hub · Maxson · Dayglow Military NCR Army · NCR Rangers Brotherhood War (Operation: Sunburst, Battle of Griffith Observatory) · Mojave Campaign (First Battle of Hoover Dam, Second Battle of Hoover Dam) Politics Republican Farmer's Committee · Stockmen's Association · Agri- and Brahmin barons · Propaganda Economy NCR dollar · Crimson Caravan · Gun Runners · Far Go Traders · Van Graffs History Fall of Shady Sands · Thaler Act · New Vegas Treaty Lists Characters · Conflicts v · d · e “ In 2277, NCR forces defeated Caesar's Legion during the Battle of Hoover Dam. The NCR has held Hoover Dam since then but the Legion has not made it easy for them. ” — Fallout: New Vegas loading screen The First Battle of Hoover Dam is a major military conflict that occurred in the Mojave Wasteland in 2277,[5] fought between a combined force of Army troopers and Rangers of the New California Republic against Caesar's Legion, vying for control of the eponymous Hoover Dam. One of the biggest conflicts within the scope of the NCR-Legion War and the precursor to the Second Battle of Hoover Dam in 2281, the event is mentioned as a major story element of the NCR and Legion faction quest arcs in Fallout: New Vegas and as a minor element in its add-on Honest Hearts.

    Background The course of history in the Mojave Wasteland first turned towards open war sometime around 2274, when frumentarii scouts of the Legion, including a former tribal of the Twisted Hairs,[6] discovered the intact structure of the Hoover Dam - along with the NCR flag being flown over it after the formation of the New Vegas Treaty between the NCR and the Free Economic Zone of New Vegas ruled by Mr. House.[7] A former Follower of the Apocalypse and citizen of the NCR himself, Caesar came to view their coming conflict as inevitable, a textbook case of Hegelian dialectics that will bring about a better wasteland - one ruled by him, that is.[8] From that point on, his vision of the future narrowed considerably and the Legion's forward momentum became focused on taking control of the dam as a symbolic "Rubicon" to be crossed on the way to conquering New California,[9] along with the conquest of New Vegas as its "Rome."[10][11] In the years leading up to the battle, deep raids on NCR territory were carried out by small groups of skirmishers, as well as sabotage campaigns by frumentarii.[12]

    On the other hand, the NCR had found great difficulty in pacifying the Mojave over time, in no small part due to frequent skirmishes with local tribes and substantial resistance from other established groups; one such being Operation: Sunburst, a battle to seize the HELIOS One power plant from the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel that ended in the Brotherhood's defeat, though not without cost to the republic's military position.[13]

    These problems were further amplified by weakened supply lines: along with the main trade route of Interstate 15, the republic found another stable route passing through a remote community called the Divide. Their subsequent rush to garrison the new route into the Mojave also attracted the attention of the Legion, who sought to cut it off. The events that followed proved disastrous for both sides, as by coincidence, a package was brought to the Divide by a courier, one that unknowingly contained a device with launch codes for the pre-War nuclear missile silos in Hopeville and Ashton. Once it got in range of the siloes, the device activated, triggering the missiles' launch right into the walls of the long-sealed silos. The resulting cataclysm turned the entire region into a deathtrap for years afterward. The loss of the Divide not only cost the NCR and Legion a moderate amount of soldiers, the impassable geography left in the aftermath prevented military reinforcements and vital trading outfits from taking the 127 to reach the Mojave.[14][15][16]

    With the NCR in a weakened position as the Legion approached, Caesar took proactive steps by ordering a series of flanking attacks against the republic's forward operating base at Camp Golf,[17] along with skirmishes against other NCR outposts along the Colorado River. Once they had seized a base of operations by taking Fortification Hill, the bulk of the Legion's forces were set to march on the dam itself.[18]

    Battle Under the leadership of Joshua Graham, the "Malpais Legate" and first of his station, the Legion opted for a direct attack using overwhelming force. Upon first contact, with casualties manifesting on both sides, General Lee Oliver ordered his troops back to the middle of the dam; Graham responded by pushing all his forces onto the dam's crossway, low-ranking recruits upfront, experienced prime legionnaries in the middle, and long-serving veteran warriors at the back in accordance with the Legion's military doctrine.[19]

    Consequently, however, this slowed the Legion's advance with so many bodies packed into a narrow space. Furthermore, Oliver's entrenched troops put up fierce resistance against the enemy. From range, NCR First Recon sharpshooters and Rangers were given the order by Ranger Chief Hanlon to pick off veteran Legion officers. After a minute of such an attack, with their veteran casualties mounting and chaos sown among the front ranks, the Legate ordered the rear guard veterans to push through to the front and rush the ridge where the sharpshooters were located.[19][20] This move only caused further chaos among the younger legionaries and a total breakdown in the chain of command.

    Seeing the change in tactics from the enemy, Oliver's troops fell back to the side walkways, letting the veterans pass through to the ridge. By the time the legionaries reached that point, the sharpshooters had also fallen back to Boulder City west of the dam. Thinking they were retreating in fear, the veterans pursued them. But this was the intention: the Legion was being led into a trap. Once the Legion's best reached the streets of Boulder City, First Recon and most of the Rangers had already pulled out, leaving behind a "gift" of several tons of explosives packed into the surrounding buildings, which they promptly detonated.[19][Non-game 1]

    The blasts themselves and the resulting storm of concrete shrapnel decimated most of the legionaries within Boulder City, while the survivors were left in no shape to defend themselves. Without the field direction of their officers, the legionaries at the dam were left disorganized and disoriented, allowing the NCR's forces to come back and rout them. Seeing the tide had turned against them, the Legate withdrew the remaining legionaries and retreated back to Caesar in defeat.[19][20][21]

    NCR forces could potentially have pursued after the retreating Legion, but the ramifications of the Divide's destruction and the loss of its supply route limited the ability to get reinforcements from the Core Region, ultimately leading NCR military command to decide against further action. The choice to break off pursuit allowed the Legion's core members to escape and live to fight another day; otherwise, the First Battle of Hoover Dam would have been their last.[14]

    Aftermath Rebuilding the Legion The Malpais Legate's fiery fall into the Grand Canyon, punished for failing to take the dam for Caesar The Malpais Legate's fiery fall into the Grand Canyon, punished for failing to take the dam for Caesar

    When Graham returned to Caesar with the news of the Legion's defeat, the Son of Mars was enraged and decided to make an example of Graham, to show that failure will not be tolerated even at the highest levels. Returning to the Grand Canyon in Legion-occupied Arizona, Caesar had his surviving forces watch as the Praetorian Guard covered the ex-legate in pitch, set him ablaze, and threw him over the cliffs to the canyon floor far below.[22] Graham's position as the legate was then filled by Lanius,[23][24] a former warrior of the Hidebarks, an Arizonan tribe conquered by the Legion. Under Lanius, the Legion temporarily held back from returning to the Mojave, instead expanding further into areas such as Utah to claim more tribes for Caesar and rebuild their military strength.[25]

    Though their primary focus for the intervening years was assimilating more tribes, Legion skirmishers continued to harass NCR forces on both sides of the Colorado River. By 2281, 4 years after their first loss, the Legion began marching back west, engaging in separate battles like the Battle of Willow Beach and the Battle of Arizona Spillway to secure the eastern banks of the Colorado for themselves. Bolstered by the addition of 14 newly conquered tribes, Caesar's Legion is preparing to finally complete their conquest of the Mojave during the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.[26]

    NCR preparing for the future Though the Rangers' plan successfully turned the tide of battle and severely impacted the Legion's power for some time,[27] it came at a cost, as the destruction of Boulder City also claimed the lives of over 103 soldiers and Rangers. Some of the dead deliberately chose sacrifice: Sergeant Donald Kowalski acted bravely to hold the Legion back and allow for the wounded to be evacuated.[28][27] Another group, consisting of Ranger Teresa Lutz, Private Jeffery Hui, and Corporal Marcus Christensen, were blocked from escape by advancing Legion troops and decided to remain and draw as many legionnaires as possible to their position in the city before the detonation.[29]

    The Boulder City Memorial, honoring the fallen of that day in 2277 The Boulder City Memorial, honoring the fallen of that day in 2277

    While the victory was celebrated throughout the Republic, many of the fallen were not able to be recovered from the ruins, preventing a proper burial. In place of a grave for their remains, the republic honored the dead by erecting a memorial at the entrance to Boulder City.[Non-game 2][3] Each of the fallen are listed by name and rank on the side facing east to the Colorado River, while the inscription and insignia of the Army and Rangers are carved into the side facing west to New California.[Non-game 3]

    “ On this spot in the year 2277, rangers and soldiers of the New California Republic turned back the forces of Caesar's Legion during the Battle of Hoover Dam. Over one hundred men and women gave their lives on Nevada soil to defend local civilians and the principles of the Republic. May this humble stone be an enduring memorial to their valor and sacrifice. ” — Boulder City Memorial Even in victory, however, the NCR found itself faced by internal conflict. The decisive action of the Rangers in concocting the trap at Boulder City led to them receiving the bulk of the credit for the battle's success. This incensed General Lee Oliver, who saw it as overshadowing the sacrifices paid by his troopers. During the NCR's subsequent military push into the Mojave, Oliver bull-rushed the deployment of Army forces to concentrate on Hoover Dam, hoping to cement him and his men as the true winners of the next great battle against the Legion, while deliberately leaving the Rangers in the wind and flat-out ignoring every piece of tactical advice given by Hanlon as a personal snub.[30] A combination of being stonewalled by his own people and weariness over the unending Mojave Campaign causing more and more deaths of the NCR's finest eventually wore on Hanlon, and he began discreetly sabotaging field reports to give the illusion of frequent and severe casualties, hoping to foul up operative effectiveness enough for NCR military command to deem the Mojave a lost cause and let everyone go home.[31]

    Appearances The First Battle of Hoover Dam is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-on Honest Hearts.

    References The Courier: "What was your rank?" Arms merchant: "Staff sergeant, Third Platoon, Bravo Company. I was at the Dam when the Legion hit us, three years back. That was a shitstorm, and don't let anybody tell you different. The brass try to play it down, but most of them were back at McCarran." (Arms merchant's dialogue) The Courier: "How did the NCR defeat the Legion at Hoover Dam before? Lucius: "We had the numbers, but not the tactics. I know - I was there at Boulder City when we were defeated. We relied too much on veteran Legionaries for direction and leadership, and the Rangers exploited our weakness by killing our best from afar." (Lucius' dialogue) Boulder City Memorial The Courier: "Tell me about the Burned Man." Vulpes Inculta: "Ah, yes - we are forbidden from speaking his true name. He was a shaman of some kind before he met Caesar, a holy man from out of the Utah. The Burned Man proved dangerous, unpredictable, and impossible to kill. He helped Caesar form the Legion but almost led it to destruction." (Vulpes Inculta's dialogue) Fallout: New Vegas loading screen: "In 2277, NCR forces defeated Caesar's Legion during the Battle of Hoover Dam. The NCR has held Hoover Dam since then but the Legion has not made it easy for them." Ulysses' final message The Courier: "Wasn't the NCR's army big enough to defeat your Securitrons and the Three Families?" Robert House: "Indeed it was - and still is. But not without taking significant casualties. Would Kimball and Oliver have traded the lives of hundreds of soldiers for absolute control of Hoover Dam? Oh yes. They weren't afraid of me, they were afraid of Caesar - that attacking me would leave them vulnerable to a Legion offensive. And so they negotiated. Not out of the kindness of their hearts, as they try to make it seem. Because the calculus of power left no other choice." (Robert House's dialogue) The Courier: "So you'll destroy the NCR because you hate its inefficiencies?" Caesar: "No, I'll destroy it because it's inevitable that it be destroyed. It's Hegelian Dialectics, not personal animosity." The Courier: "Hegelian Dialectics? What are those?" Caesar: "How do I put this basically enough? It's a philosophical theory, the kind you might encounter if you took time to read some books. The fundamental premise is to envision history as a sequence of "dialectical" conflicts. Each dialectic begins with a proposition, a thesis... ...which inherently contains, or creates, its opposite - an antithesis. Thesis and antithesis. The conflict is inevitable. But the resolution of the conflict yields something new - a synthesis - eliminating the flaws in each, leaving behind common elements and ideas." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "Surely, the NCR is a powerful foe?" Caesar: "Of course. The most powerful my Legion has faced. Also the first to which I am ideologically opposed. Until now, every tribe I've conquered has been so backwards and stunted, enslavement has been a gift bestowed upon them. My conquest of the Mojave will be a glorious triumph, marking the transition of the Legion from a basically nomadic tribe to a genuine empire. Just as my namesake campaigned in Gaul before he crossed the Rubicon, so have I campaigned, and will cross the Colorado." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "And since forming the Legion, all you've done is conquer other tribes?" Caesar: "That's right. Decades of warfare, absorbing lesser tribes, gathering power. Forging the dross into a vast, razor-sharp scythe. My Legion's expansion has never ceased. Much of the Utah and Colorado, and all of Arizona and New Mexico, are mine. We have cities of our own, but nothing compared to Vegas. Finally, my Legion will have its Rome." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "Why is Caesar's Legion so... strange?" Caesar: "I used imperial Rome as the model for my Legion precisely because it was so foreign, so alien. I'd seen what had become of the NCR's attempts to emulate the culture of Pre-War America - the in-fighting, the corruption. Rome was a highly militarized autocracy that effectively integrated the foreign cultures it conquered. It dedicated its citizens to something higher than themselves - to the idea of Rome itself. In Rome I found a template for a society equal to the challenges of the post-apocalyptic world - a society that could and would survive. A society that could prevent mankind from fracturing and destroying itself in this new world, by establishing a new Pax Romana." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "On the High Road, you mentioned NCR and Legion fought here... before and after the Divide?" Ulysses: "The two-headed Bear made its claim, dug its claws into the trail you made. For once, it seemed like it might succeed - cut a route to the Mojave. Couldn't let NCR stay in the Divide. Trade route, road the military could use... can't have two roads into the Mojave. Not after the work we'd done to cut off New Canaan, other routes, killing caravans... all we'd done to make the West bleed." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "Why was the Brotherhood of Steel here?" Lt. Haggerty: "Damned if I know. Put up a hell of a fight, though. We had them outnumbered, I don't know, twenty to one, maybe. They held out as long as they could. Lost most of their force before they retreated. Gave us a little parting gift, too. They had some of the plant running, but they shut it all down. Enabled an old security system, too, to keep us away from the controls. Jerkoffs." (Haggerty's dialogue) The Courier: "I'm guessing you don't like Caesar very much." Joshua Graham: "Love the sinner, hate the sin. With Caesar, it's often very difficult to see through all of that sin to the person inside. I can say that we were both lucky that NCR's supply lines and land routes north of Mojave Outpost were destroyed before the Battle of Hoover Dam. Something bad happened near Death Valley, at a place called the Divide. NCR couldn't cut across anymore and it slowed down their reinforcements. Terrible storms ripped entire companies apart before they even got to Nevada soil. The aftermath of Hoover Dam could have been even worse for Caesar." (Joshua Graham's dialogue) The Courier: "The Divide blocked all of their northern land routes?" Joshua Graham: "Not all of them. But they couldn't take 127 north to get around the mountains. As if Death Valley weren't enough, they had the Divide and Big Empty to deal with. From what the Legion's explorers reported, the Big Empty may as well have been a wall to any living thing approaching it." (Joshua Graham's dialogue) The Courier: "What's at the Divide?" Joshua Graham: "I don't know for certain, and I don't think NCR knows, either. Whatever happened at the Divide was too much for them to handle. Our frumentarii told us what they saw. Only fools and madmen would march into a place like that. All roads wind down to the same spot, the grave. They said all that's left there is a gaping wound cut into the Earth, cursed and damned. No place for God-fearing folk." (Joshua Graham's dialogue) The Courier: "What was Camp Golf like?" Craig Boone: "It was on the front line for a while. The only resort in New Vegas no one wanted to get sent to. Doesn't have that kind of importance anymore, though. They pulled most of the troops out of there after we took the Hoover Dam." (Craig Boone's dialogue) Caesar: "Down the hill, at the west edge of camp, is an old building. It was here when the Fort was taken in 2277." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "So what happened at Hoover Dam and Boulder City?" Hanlon: "In big battles, Caesar deploys his legionaries in waves. Recruits up front, prime soldiers behind the recruits, old guard bringing up the rear. Opponents wear themselves out dealing with the first two waves if they survive that long. When the veterans step up, there's not much fight left. Caesar can adapt, though, and when required, he can run any mix of legionaries as skirmishers and still retain order in the ranks." The Courier: [Continue] Hanlon: "Joshua Graham, Caesar's old legate, he's wasn't so flexible. When the Legion attacked Hoover Dam, General Oliver ordered his troopers back to the middle ground just after the first contact. Graham pushed all of the legionaries onto the dam, filling the east side with recruits up front and veterans in the back, by the book." The Courier: [Continue] Hanlon: "But once they were in, they were stuck there. Oliver's troopers were entrenched and wouldn't give a foot. That's when we ordered the rangers and 1st recon sharpshooters to start picking off veteran legion officers from a high ridge west of the dam. That only lasted about a minute before Graham ordered the back ranks to push through to the front and rush the ridge." The Courier: [Continue] Hanlon: "Caused total chaos among the younger legionaries, and Oliver's troopers fell back to the side walkways and stayed out of the veterans' way. By the time the veterans got to the ridge, we were already in Boulder City. They followed us down there, but we were out before they realized what was happening." The Courier: [Continue] Hanlon: "We had packed the old city with C4 and dynamite. Crude, but it did the job. Those who didn't die in the blast were in no position to mount a defense. The ones left on the dam didn't know what to do. The troopers routed them. Graham pulled the remaining legionaries back, but the battle was over. He went south, back to the Grand Canyon, back to Caesar. And that was the last we saw or heard from Joshua Graham." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier "Tell me about the first battle." Alex Richards: "The Legion attacked in full force. Chief Hanlon had the troopers fall back pulling the enemy in, before entrenching into secure positions. The Legion got bogged down and Rangers and 1st Recon sharpshooters started taking out the Legion officers. They sent their best men to stop the Rangers and 1st Recon, but the Rangers pulled them into a trap at Boulder City and blew them all to hell. After that the Legion's forces were in disarray and tried to retreat. However, our forces advanced rapidly and routed them. And that was that." (Alex Richards' dialogue) Fallout: New Vegas loading screens: "At the Battle of Hoover Dam, the tide turned for the NCR when Rangers and First Recon sharpshooters lured Caesar's soldierIn-game spelling, punctuation and/or grammar into the booby-trapped ruins of Boulder City." The Courier: "What happened to Graham after Hoover Dam?" Hanlon: "Losing the dam was the worst defeat the Legion ever suffered. Graham had been with Caesar since the beginning, but he had to set an example. The praetorians covered Graham in pitch, lit him on fire, and down into the Grand Canyon he went." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier: "Are you the Legion's second-in-command?" Lucius: "No, Legate Lanius is Caesar's second. The Legate replaced the Burned Man after the Legion's defeat at the Dam several years ago." (Lucius' dialogue) The Courier: "Are you the Legion's second-in-command?" Lucius: "Legate Lanius has not chosen anyone to be his second yet. It would be an honor to be selected, though." (Lucius' dialogue) The Courier: "Move forward? The Legion spent years trying to take Hoover Dam." Lanius: "[SUCCEEDED] Hoover Dam has never seen the massed strength of the East. Only Legates such as Graham... who deserved the fire Caesar blessed him with. Now I am here, and make markers of your people as the Legion carves its way West." (Lanius' dialogue) The Courier: "Who is this Legatus you mention?" Vulpes Inculta: "Legatus Lanius, Monster of the East! Quite a man, if man he be. Caesar prides himself on selecting the right tool to overcome each new obstacle. In Lanius, he found his hammer. He's never been defeated in battle. 14 tribes have laid down arms at his boots. Another five, rendered extinct. His latest campaign in the wilds of the Utah has concluded, and he is en route. When he arrives, your doom arrives with him." (Vulpes Inculta's dialogue) Private Kowalski: "It commemorates the Battle of Hoover Dam. The rangers lured the best of Caesar's Legion into Boulder City, then blew the whole town up. The NCR still lost a bunch of troops in the fighting, though. My older brother sacrificed himself so they could evacuate some of the wounded." (Private Kowalski's dialogue) Fallout: New Vegas message box transcriptions; Boulder City Memorial Ranger holodisk message The Courier: "What will you do if I don't turn you in?" Hanlon: "Oliver can't stand that rangers got credit for victory at Hoover. Whatever I recommend, he does the opposite. I said I wanted them on the ridge. He put them right on the western part of the dam itself. We don't have enough firepower to hold that spot. If the troopers fall back, and they will, the rangers will advance to cover Oliver's retreat. We lose the dam, Oliver and the senate are ruined." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier: "But you're inventing your own intelligence reports. I've seen the logs and talked to the rangers." Hanlon: "You have, have you? Misdirection. When you're pinned down, outnumbered, and two days from any help, it's just about the best friend you can have. Misdirection's what's saved me all these years. It's what saved us at Hoover Dam. But it's been five years now and Caesar's right across that lake. He's closer now than he ever was before. I was a young man once. I know what it's like to want to fight for your home, but this isn't it." (Hanlon's dialogue) Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 370: [3.31] Boulder City "Boulder City, sprawling though its ruins are, has never been a sizable settlement post-war. It is a minor location, mostly notable for its proximity to Hoover Dam [3.33] and the 188 Trading Post [5.02]. It's a common resting spot for people on their way to New Vegas and for troops moving to and from the dam. There are not many intact buildings, as it was the site of intense fighting between NCR and Caesar's Legion during the first Battle of Hoover Dam. The Rangers lured some of the toughest veteran Legionaries into the town and blew it to pieces with explosives that had been strategically placed ahead of time." Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide p. 458: "Important Dates" "2277 Legion forces under the command of the Malpais Legate fail to wrest control of Hoover Dam from the NCR. Despite heavy casualties, the NCR's victory is celebrated back home." (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide/Behind the Bright Lights & Big City) Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide: ''War Memorial" "A slab of limestone carved with the names of those who gave their lives during the first Battle of Hoover Dam. Private Kowalski is paying his respects here. Carve additional indents into the War Memorial to begin Free Quest: Defacing the Humble Stone."

19. #19Massacre of Nipton

    Keys: Massacre of Nipton, Nipton

    Massacre of Nipton Event Massacre of Nipton FNV Legion flag 1 Overview Location Nipton, Mojave Wasteland Date 2281 Result Near-complete massacre of Nipton's population Traffic westbound from Highway 95 stopped completely Involved parties CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion PowderNewVegas Powder Gangers FNV NCR Flag New California Republic Nipton Leaders CaesarLegionSymbol Vulpes Inculta CaesarLegionSymbol Gabban* Unknown Unknown Mayor Steyn Forces Seven Legionaries Legion mongrels Several escaped convicts Boxcars Oliver Swanick Four NCR troopers Nipton residents Casualties Two Legionaries Several Legion mongrels Nearly all Powder Gangers killed, enslaved or crucified Heavy Total Connected events Part of: NCR-Legion War Previous: Battle of Nelson Searchlight Sabotage Concurrent: Mojave Campaign Next: Second Battle of Hoover Dam The Massacre of Nipton,[1] also called the Nipton lottery,[2] was a pivotal event in the Mojave Wasteland, occurring within the scope of the NCR-Legion War in 2281, when forces of Caesar's Legion carried out a torturous operation of killing, crucifying, or enslaving the inhabitants of the town of Nipton, decided using lottery tickets.[Non-game 1] The event is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background Around mid October 2281, hoping to capitalize off the results of the recent breakout at the NCR Correctional Facility, Nipton mayor Joseph B. Steyn invited members of the newly formed Powder Gangers to the town and offered them the services of prostitutes, plentiful chems and other entertainment.[3] Simultaneously, the mayor made entreaties of similar offerings to the soldiers of the New California Republic Army, who began to occasionally visit the town as well. The mayor cleverly avoided confrontations between the conflicting groups by having the gangsters visit during the day, and the troopers at night.[3]

    Sometime later, Steyn was discreetly approached by Vulpes Inculta, the highest ranking frumentarius of Caesar's Legion, under the alias of "Mr. Fox," and given a proposition: for a payment of 8,000 caps, he would help facilitate the arrival of both groups at the same time in order for the Legion to capture them together.[4] Steyn agreed without hesitation and began making plans to abandon the town with his newfound riches, including stockpiling at a stash location in case he had to return west to the Hub in a hurry.[4][Non-game 2]

    Event When both groups arrived at the time that Steyn specified, the Legion sprung their trap, capturing both the gangsters and troopers. However, the mayor learned the hard way that his survival was never guaranteed as he too ended up getting grabbed and dragged out of his home along with everyone else in Nipton.[5] Before the assembled captives, Vulpes announced that due to their profligacy, the inhabitants and guests would be forced to participate in a "lottery", with everyone being given lottery tickets to determine their fates.[6] One by one, each victim of the lottery was given a punishment based on their assigned tickets, from swift decapitations (the "lucky losers" as some think) to slow and painful crucifixions.[7] When the duplicitous mayor himself's ticket was drawn, he was given a unique treatment of being thrown onto a burning pile of tires and roasted alive.[8]

    After the bulk of the deathly tickets were drawn, they got to the first, second, and third place "winners." At least two Powder Gangers "won" the chance to be enslaved, taken from Nipton to be held at a nearby raid camp. The second-place winner, a Ganger named Boxcars, was left alive and un-enslaved but still suffered from the Legion breaking his legs with hammers.[9] Lastly, the first-place winner, another Ganger named Oliver Swanick, was allowed to leave Nipton free and unharmed.[7]

    As Vulpes sees it, the lottery was due course for what he perceives as the Niptonites' sinfulness on full display; he claims to have witnessed many who just stood by and watched silently as their family members and friends were killed, without resisting, caring only for themselves.[10] However, physical evidence shows that this is not completely true, as one can find the corpses of at least five dead legionnaires in the town, with weapons lying next to dead Nipton residents that suggests they did put up a struggle even if they ultimately lost their lives.

    Once they had decided Nipton's fate and before returning to the Fort, the Legion gathered many of the bodies and other flammable junk and set them ablaze, causing plumes of black smoke to rise into the air, visible for miles.[11]

    References Caesar: "You spread word of the massacre of Nipton, just like Vulpes asked you." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "How did you survive?" Boxcars: "Luck, that's how! I'm just that fucking lucky! You're looking at the second place winner of the Nipton lottery! That asshole Swanick took first place, so him they let walk!" (Boxcars' dialogue) Mayor Steyn's journal Nipton terminal entries; Mayor Steyn's terminal The Courier: "What exactly happened here?" Vulpes Inculta: "Nipton was a wicked place, debased and corrupt. It served all comers, so long as they paid. Profligate troops, Powder Gangers, men of the Legion such as myself - the people here didn't care. It was a town of whores. For a pittance, the town agreed to lead those it had sheltered into a trap. Only when I sprang it did they realize they were caught inside it, too." (Vulpes Inculta's dialogue) The Courier: "You captured everyone?" Vulpes Inculta: "Yes, and herded them to the center of town. I told them their sins, the foremost being disloyalty. I told them that when Legionaries are disloyal, some are punished, the others made to watch. And I announced the lottery. Each clutched his ticket, hoping it would set him free. Each did nothing, even when "loved ones" were dragged away to be killed." (Vulpes Inculta's dialogue) The Courier: "How'd your plan go wrong?" Boxcars: "We get in position and next thing we know, we're surrounded by those fucking Legion freaks. They dragged us and everybody else into the center of town. And that asshole with a dog on his head, he starts talking about how we're bad people! He said we needed to be punished for what we did, not all of us, but some of us. And then he gives everyone a fucking lottery ticket..." The Courier: "What happened after everyone got lottery tickets?" Boxcars: "What do you think? He started drawing tickets, and that's how people got punished. First up was the "lucky losers." They got decapitated - guess that's "lucky" because it's pretty quick. Then came the crucifixions. Goddamn but those went on and on and on... Third-place runners-up got enslaved. I got the fuck beat out of my legs, and the winner they let go free." (Boxcars' dialogue) The Courier: "What happened to the mayor?" Boxcars: "Him? When his ticket came up, they burned him alive on a pile of tires." (Boxcars' dialogue) The Courier: "Why are you still here?" Boxcars: "I dunno, I just love it here. What the fuck do you think, asshole? Prize for second place was I got to live, but they beat my fucking legs with hammers. I'm fucking crippled, get it?" (Boxcars' dialogue) The Courier: "You slaughtered innocent civilians?" Vulpes Inculta: "Innocent? Hardly. Cowardly, though. They outnumbered us, yet not once did they try to resist. They stood and watched as their fellows were butchered, crucified, and burned, one by one. They stood and hoped their turn would not come. Each cared only for himself." (Vulpes Inculta's dialogue) Ranger Ghost: "I think there's trouble in Nipton - no traffic from there on the roads, and while I can explain that away, the smoke from the town I can't. I'm sure it's been hit - what I need to know is if they survived it. Might be Powder Gangers with all that smoke in the air. If there's anybody left, they'd be in the Nipton Town Hall. Go there, check it out, let me know what you find." (Ranger Ghost's dialogue) Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition pp.391-393: "[4.30] Nipton "Forces of Caesar's Legion, under the command of Vulpes Inculta, have swept around the poorly defended Camp Searchlight [6.16] to sack Nipton and kill every living creature within. Ironically, this camp had previously been terrorized by Powder Gangers, who were routing the regular population before they fell to the Machetes and bloodlust. The signs of devastation are obvious from outside this settlement; black smoke rises from the town, corpses are strewn on pyres, and victims crucified to telephone poles." Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.393: "Nipton Town Hall This structure is where Vulpes Inculta and his Legionaries are camped, although they’re about to move back to The Fort. Search this location using the information below." (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)

20. #20Mojave Campaign

    Keys: Mojave Campaign, Legion in the Mojave, Legions campaign in the Mojave, Mojave

    Mojave Campaign Event Mojave Campaign FNV NCR Camp Overview Location Mojave Wasteland, Nevada Date 2253 - 22831 Result Dependent on the Courier's actions Involved parties NCR Flag New California Republic Potential: Boomers Boomers Mojave BOS banner Mojave Brotherhood of Steel Enclave Symbol (FO3) Enclave remnants GreatKhans Great Khans FollowersApocalypseLogo Followers of the Apocalypse CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Potential: Boomers Boomers Enclave Symbol (FO3) Enclave remnants GreatKhans Great Khans Three Families: Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Omertas White glove society White Glove Society Potential: Icon platinum chip Free Economic Zone of New Vegas Boomers Boomers FollowersApocalypseLogo Followers of the Apocalypse Three Families: Nv blackjack-casino-logo01 Chairmen Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Omertas White glove society White Glove Society Leaders Present: NCR Flag President Aaron Kimball NCR Flag General Lee Oliver NCR Flag Chief Hanlon NCR Flag Colonel Hsu NCR Flag Colonel Moore Formerly: NCR Flag President Wendell Peterson Potential: Boomers Pearl Mojave BOS banner Elder McNamara Enclave Symbol (FO3) Cannibal Johnson GreatKhans Regis FollowersApocalypseLogo Julie Farkas The Courier * Present: CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar CaesarLegionSymbol Legate Lanius CaesarLegionSymbol Lucius CaesarLegionSymbol Vulpes Inculta Formerly: CaesarLegionSymbol Malpais Legate Potential: Boomers Pearl Enclave Symbol (FO3) Judah Kreger GreatKhans Papa Khan Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Big Sal Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Nero White glove society Marjorie The Courier * Present: Icon platinum chip Robert House Potential: The Courier * Yes Man Boomers Pearl FollowersApocalypseLogo Julie Farkas Nv blackjack-casino-logo01Swank Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Cachino White glove society Marjorie Forces NCR Army NCR Rangers At least 14 battalions[2] Potential: Howitzers Great Khan warriors Brotherhood paladins Enclave remnants One B-29 One Vertibird Legionaries Potential: Howitzers Great Khan warriors Enclave remnants One B-29 One Vertibird Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Omerta thugs White glove society White Gloves Securitrons Howitzers One B-29 Nv blackjack-casino-logo01 Chairmen Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Omerta thugs White glove society White Gloves Casualties Heavy, 107 troopers and Rangers at the First Battle of Hoover Dam ~1000 troopers annually Mojave Brotherhood of Steel: Half of all their forces Great Khans: Heavy losses to the Three Families Many killed in Bitter Springs Massive, Legion Army nearly completely destroyed at the First Battle of Hoover Dam alone. Great Khans: Heavy losses to the Three Families Many killed in Bitter Springs Low Casualties for the Three Families before the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Very low losses of Securitrons due to lack of the Strip's official involvement in the war. Connected events Concurrent: NCR-Brotherhood War NCR-Legion War NCR-Great Khan War Next: Fall of Shady Sands NCR flag Part of a series on the New California Republic Government Senate · Council and President · Judiciary Office of Science and Industry · Republic Reserve States and territories Shady · Los Angeles · Hub · Maxson · Dayglow Military NCR Army · NCR Rangers Brotherhood War (Operation: Sunburst, Battle of Griffith Observatory) · Mojave Campaign (First Battle of Hoover Dam, Second Battle of Hoover Dam) Politics Republican Farmer's Committee · Stockmen's Association · Agri- and Brahmin barons · Propaganda Economy NCR dollar · Crimson Caravan · Gun Runners · Far Go Traders · Van Graffs History Fall of Shady Sands · Thaler Act · New Vegas Treaty Lists Characters · Conflicts v · d · e The Mojave Campaign, also known as the Pacification of the Mojave, is a New California Republic military offensive, beginning in 2253 with the objective of annexing the entire Mojave Wasteland.

    Contents 1 Background 2 The campaign 2.1 First conflict with the Legion 2.2 Continued conflict with the Legion 2.3 Conflict with the Brotherhood of Steel 2.4 Conflict with the Great Khans 3 Notes 4 References Background The campaign erupted after the massacre of 38 NCR citizens at the hands of Mojave raiders in 2253. President Tibbet subsequently lost a motion of no confidence. Her replacement, Wendell Peterson, ordered three battalions of NCR infantry into the Mojave, beginning the campaign.[Non-game 1] The campaign's initial intent was to pacify all raider forces to make safe headway for NCR citizens, but has since shifted the aim to remain in control of the Hoover Dam and prevent Caesar's Legion from advancing across the Colorado River and in turn, keeping them from endangering the Republic to the west.[3]

    The campaign To secure transportation routes from the Mojave to the NCR in the west, the Mojave Outpost was established in 2272.[Non-game 1] As early as 2273, the New California Republic sent Rangers out east to scout for anything of interest.[4] Most importantly, the Rangers discovered that the pre-War city of Las Vegas (now renamed "New Vegas") had been relatively untouched by the Great War and that Hoover Dam was in repairable condition. Realizing the militaristic and economic values of these locations, the Republic quickly sent a detachment of their army in 2274 to take control of the New Vegas region in hopes of using the rich resources there to their advantage[5] The NCR, after having moved in the Mojave area, seized other nearby areas such as Bullhead City in what came to be known as the "Pacification of the Mojave."[Non-game 1]

    Once they were able to mobilize a sizable force, the NCR occupied the Hoover Dam. If not for the Treaty of New Vegas the NCR reluctantly signed in 2274, the Republic would have marched on the city and taken it soon after occupying the dam. With the treaty, the NCR was given control of Hoover Dam and was allowed to divert 95% of the electricity generated to the Republic's core regions, while diverting the remaining 5% to the Strip. Also, the NCR was allowed to deploy its military forces in the region and allow NCR citizens to visit the Strip without interference but would have to recognize New Vegas independence. To ensure Mr. House stayed true to the treaty, the NCR Embassy was established on the Strip after the treaty was signed.[Non-game 1][5]

    The city took off when Hoover Dam was started up again and began providing power to the Strip. The upper class citizens of the Republic trickled in to see the city, curious of such a place.[Non-game 1] Even so, the New California Republic is having difficulties administering such a large region. The campaign is a logistical nightmare, with supplies and troops being slow to get anywhere and Republic funds for both are tied up in the Los Angeles Boneyard, where Senate elections are underway.[6] The Mojave Campaign is so unpopular with NCR citizens, that senators do not want to ruin their chances at an election by diverting funds into a desert that many will never see and have their brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters die there.[7] In addition, defending Hoover Dam, keeping it operational, and bolstering defenses against Caesar's Legion is a tall order to fill; to date, only the former two can be accomplished.[6]

    First conflict with the Legion See also: NCR-Legion War See also: First Battle of Hoover Dam The NCR's newfound wealth and territory would soon come under threat however, from the looming power of Caesar's Legion. Under the command of the Malpais Legate, Legion forces marched against the NCR garrison at Hoover Dam, in an attempt to take the strategic asset and river crossing, in what became known as the First Battle of Hoover Dam.[Non-game 1] Malpais Legate advanced against the NCR defenders but his forces were unable to penetrate the Republic's defenses. The 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and NCR Rangers, under the command of Chief Hanlon, executed a tactical retreat west across the dam and into Boulder City after using their prowess in marksmanship to kill the Legion's centurions and decanus from afar, an act that prompted the Malpais Legate to order the Legion's elite forces to push forward in pursuit of the enemy sharpshooters.

    He realized too late that the Rangers and First Recon had booby-trapped Boulder City, laying explosives all along their route of retreat and throughout the city itself. When the Legion's elite forces entered the city, the Rangers and First Recon detonated the explosives and inflicted severe casualties on the enemy, crippling their offensive. Shortly after the few survivors of the trap at Boulder City were finished off, NCR troopers under the command of General Lee Oliver then counter-attacked, pushing back and eventually routing the Legion's main force after having successfully held the dam.

    The NCR also met resistance from a new incarnation of an old enemy, the Great Khans, culminating in the Bitter Springs Massacre. The Khans quickly began to arm themselves and the Fiends against the NCR.

    Continued conflict with the Legion See also: Battle of Nelson See also: Searchlight Sabotage See also: Massacre of Nipton The Legion would not stay quiet for long. One of the NCR's forward bases, Camp Nelson, was completely obliterated by a Legion task force in an eerie repeat of Fort Aradesh's loss. Another camp, Searchlight, was heavily irradiated in a Legion feint, which transformed all the survivors of that base into feral trooper ghouls.[8] Led by President Kimball and General Lee Oliver, morale among the soldiers is at an all-time low, and desertion rates are high. The main camp on the front lines is Camp Forlorn Hope, though nicknamed by the soldiers and citizens of the Mojave, which as its nickname suggests, is full of depressed and constantly embattled soldiers.[9] They are holding a defensive line across the Colorado River and preparing for the upcoming battle on the Hoover Dam that could decide the fate of the entire area. The soldiers have spread far too thin across the front thanks in no small part to both Oliver's insistence on massing troops and resources at Hoover Dam at the expense of the rest of the front lines and bureaucratic red tape to prevent the Legion from crossing the river, as is illustrated by the attacks on Nipton and Ranger Station Charlie.[10]

    The NCR's gold-backed currency lost much of its value after the Brotherhood of Steel ambushed and destroyed their gold deposits, which resulted in the NCR's dollar now being backed by water. They hold an iron fist over Hoover Dam's production capabilities and lease electricity and drinking water to the Strip and other nearby communities in exchange for military supplies and a firm foothold in the region.

    The NCR aims to wrestle control of the Strip from Robert House eventually, but cannot do so while Caesar's Legion remains a threat. While the NCR does openly engage Legion patrols upon sight of them, such efforts have proved futile in any sort of long-term damage to the Legion. The Securitron armies possessed by House pose a massive threat to both the NCR and the Legion, but this uneasy stalemate between the three factions is threatened by the arrival of the platinum chip. In addition, the Mojave Campaign has become increasingly unpopular amongst NCR citizens, mostly in regions far away from Vegas, to whom the campaign is nothing but taxes and lost children. Senators opposed to the war leverage this unrest to their advantage in the upcoming Senate elections of 2281.

    Conflict with the Brotherhood of Steel See also: NCR-Brotherhood War See also: Operation: Sunburst Before even entering the Mojave, the NCR and the Brotherhood of Steel staged a long and bloody war spurred by disagreements on how technology should be regulated in the wasteland. Despite having far superior technology and training, the Brotherhood has gone into retreat after having lost many battles on the front lines. When the New California Republic established Camp McCarran as its base of operations in the Mojave region in 2275, it spurred sporadic guerrilla attacks from the Mojave chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel.[Non-game 1] The outcome of the war is best illustrated by the Mojave Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel. After taking heavy losses in 2276 in a battle for control of HELIOS One, dubbed Operation: Sunburst, the Brotherhood retreated to Hidden Valley and have remained in essential exile sending scouting parties for only essential requirements.[Non-game 1][11] The NCR success can be traced to their superior numbers as well as their superior leadership, tactics and strategy. Outnumbering the Brotherhood by a margin of 20-to-1, the NCR swiftly and decisively overwhelmed and routed the Brotherhood in what can be readily described as the single most decisive victory in the entire NCR-Brotherhood War. The NCR would go on to immediately redeploy their forces to Hoover Dam shortly afterward.[12]

    Conflict with the Great Khans See also: NCR-Great Khan War See also: Bitter Springs Massacre In the early parts of the war, the Great Khans took to raiding NCR military outposts and civilian settlements. The NCR then stated launch counter-attacks against the Khans. They eventually traced a group of Khan raiders to their settlement at Bitter Springs, leading to the Bitter Springs Massacre.[Non-game 1] The Khan leader Papa Khan now holds resentment against the NCR and is contemplating joining an alliance with Caesar's Legion.[13] He has also forged an economic alliance with the Fiends, selling them chems so they will harass the NCR in return.[14]

    Notes ^ (Note) The outcome of the Mojave Campaign in the endings of Fallout: New Vegas is player-determinant and no canon ending has been officially stated; however, the Fall of Shady Sands in the Fallout TV series TV series likely caused the end of NCR expansion, and is dated to 2283. References The End script: MAXIMUS (19) is getting the shit beaten out of him, encircled by other ASPIRANTS. They wear dirty white t-shirts and khaki fatigues. [...] FLASH (102-C): A barely-conscious YOUNG MAXIMUS (6) opens the door of a fridge, half-buried in rubble. Note: Maximus is stated to be 19 in the script, placing his date of birth in 2277. The script also identifies that the fridge scene, which is set shortly after Shady Sands was nuked, took place when he was six. This gives the year of Shady Sands' destruction as 2283. NCR Emergency Radio: "Deploying battalion 14 to the southwestern flank." (NCR Emergency Radio) The Courier: "Why is the NCR interested in this desert?" Hayes: "It is no secret. Our interest here is two fold. First, we want to remain in control of Hoover Dam. It supplies the Republic with power, and is a source of fresh water. Second, we want to prevent the Legion from advancing across the Colorado River and endangering the home states." (Hayes' dialogue) The Courier: "Have you always been with the First Recon?" Sterling: "Used to be a Ranger... one of the first they sent out east, back before we took the Dam. Observation and reconnaissance. We took the lay of the land, checked out the locals, and kept ourselves inconspicuous. Couple friends of mine were the first to scout the Dam. That was back in '73, if I recall. Lot of those Rangers are dead now. Vegas always chewed men up... it's just a little more literal, nowadays." (Sterling's dialogue) The Courier: "I'd like to know more about the NCR." Dennis Crocker: "I can provide a quick history lesson, if that's what you're looking for. In 2274, President Kimball sent the NCR army into the Mojave in force, with the objective of occupying and repairing Hoover Dam. Rangers and army scouts had confirmed that the dam was basically unoccupied and could be restored to an operable condition. Upon arriving at the dam, however, they discovered that a large force of tribals and robots had occupied it. This was our introduction to the Three Families, the Securitrons, and, of course, Mr. House. Using his Securitrons as intermediaries, Mr. House called for parlay. He claimed his forces had occupied Hoover Dam in order to safeguard it for our arrival. And that he was ready to turn it over to us, so long as we could agree to terms. Those terms became the Treaty of New Vegas. The Treaty recognized Mr. House's sovereignty over the Strip and granted us rights to establish military bases at the Dam and McCarran Airport. The NCR is legally permitted to send 95% of the electricity produced by the dam to our home states. The remaining 5% goes to the Strip. The treaty actually makes it illegal for the NCR to prevent its citizens, or troops on furlough, from visiting the Strip. Once on the Strip, our citizens are subject to arrest - or punishment - by House's Securitrons, though that's a rare occurrence. Our troops enjoy a different status. It's illegal for the Securitrons to take action against them. Of course, it's also illegal for our troops to carry firearms on the Strip, so there isn't much trouble they can get into. Our military police does an adequate job of keeping the troops on furlough in line. I don't envy them that task. The embassy was established a few weeks after the Treaty was signed. Basically Mr. House handed us a dumpy little building he had no interest in renovating. I'm the third ambassador to hold this post. And the first, I think, to accept its limitations. My predecessors had ambitions of engineering the annexation of the Mojave. They thought they'd convince Mr. House to join up. I've never even spoken to the man - or whatever he is. Maybe the situation will change once we've beaten the Legion once and for all." The Courier: "Go on." Dennis Crocker: "Now we mostly just keep track of the NCR citizens and troopers around and make sure they don't get in trouble, but that's Captain Pappas' job. I keep myself busy with paperwork and reports that get sent back to the NCR. It's mostly busy work, but every once in awhile, we make progress." (Dennis Crocker's dialogue) The Courier: "How is NCR doing?" Hanlon: "It's no secret that we've had better campaigns. Holding this whole length of river isn't easy. We're stretched thin and the Long 15 just keeps getting longer. Slow to get supplies. Slower to get reinforcements. NCR's senate has got funds tied up at the Boneyard and President Kimball ordered our most experienced rangers to chase ghosts down in Baja. Even Caesar knows that General Oliver's coming back to Hoover. Colonel Moore's doing a fine job of running things over at the dam. In her own way, of course, when she's not trying to wrangle my rangers into helping her. But just keeping that dam secure and operational day to day is enough work for one person, never mind building a defense against the Legion." The Courier: "How is NCR doing?" Hanlon: "Mojave Outpost sent word through the stations. The rangers coming up from Baja moved through Dayglow a week ago. Some of the patrol rangers have reported that Oliver's power armor heavy troopers are starting to reinforce the front lines. Wish they got here a bit earlier, but that's the senate for you." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier: "Why are funds tied up at the Boneyard?" Hanlon: "Senate elections are coming up. Local representatives don't want to push any more funding to the Mojave campaign because it's unpopular. Most of the folks around the Boneyard haven't been to New Vegas and probably never will. All they know is that their money gets sucked away to this desert and their brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters die here." (Hanlon's dialogue) We Will All Go Together Restoring Hope Return to Sender Still in the Dark The Courier: "Shouldn't there be more people than this defending a power plant?" Haggerty: "There should. But we're not getting much power out of it so none of our enemies have a big interest in it either. Not like Hoover Dam, anyway. We had a real fighting force here just long enough to take it from the Brotherhood of Steel. Then they got sent east to the dam like everybody else. Caesar's Legion sends skirmishers every so often. Prodding for weaknesses, mostly. The reality is, if they really wanted it, we'd all be dead." (Haggerty's dialogue) Oh My Papa Aba Daba Honeymoon Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 458 Important Dates: "2253 President Tibbett is removed from office by a vote of no confidence following her "timid" response to the massacre of 38 NCR citizens at the hands of Mojave raiders. Her replacement, President Wendell Peterson, orders three battalions of NCR infantry into the Mojave." "2270 The extirpation of tribals in the area of present-day Bullhead City is complete. "The Pacification of the Mojave," as it comes to be known, makes General Aaron Kimball a national hero." "2272 The NCR's Mojave outpost is established." "2274 NCR forces move east and occupy Hoover Dam. The NCR reluctantly signs the Treaty of New Vegas recognizing Mr. House and his stewards, the Three Families, as the rightful owners of the Strip. The Strip opens for business." "2274 Hoover Dam restarts and the Strip blazes with light. The first trickle of privileged, curious NCR citizens visits the Strip." "2275 Camp McCarran is established as NCR Headquarters in the Mojave. Sporadic fighting begins with the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel. The NCR government withdraws official support from the Followers of the Apocalypse and founds The Office of Science and Industry." "2276 Conflict with the Brotherhood of Steel escalates, culminating in decisive victory at HELIOS One. The Mojave Brotherhood is considered 'neutralized.'" "2277 Legion forces under the command of the Malpais Legate fail to wrest control of Hoover Dam from the NCR. Despite heavy casualties, the NCR's victory is celebrated back home." "2278 Following the abduction and killing of four soldiers, NCR troops assault the Great Khans' settlement at Red Rock CanyonIn-game spelling, punctuation and/or grammar and massacre several dozen men, women, and children. This event goes unreported in NCR press." Note: The Guide erroneously states that the NCR attacked Red Rock Canyon.

21. #21NCR-Legion War

    Keys: NCR-Legion War, Legion, NCR

    NCR-Legion War Event NCR-Legion War SecondBattleOfHooverDam Overview Location Mojave Wasteland Date 2277-present Result 2270s-2280s Legion defeat at the First Battle of Hoover Dam The Destruction of Hopeville and Ashton Outcome following Second Battle of Hoover Dam dependent on the Courier's actions 2290s

    Hostilities reportedly continue between the NCR and the Legion Succession crisis in the Legion after original Caesar's death Involved parties FNV NCR FlagNew California Republic Potential Allies: CaesarLegionSymbolCaesar's Legion Potential Allies: Potential Third Parties: Leaders FNV NCR Flag President Aaron Kimball FNV NCR Flag General Lee Oliver FNV NCR Flag Chief Hanlon Potential Allied Leaders: CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar † CaesarLegionSymbol Legate Lanius CaesarLegionSymbol Lacerta Legate Potential Allied Leaders: Potential Third Party Leaders: Forces NCR Army 1st Reconnaissance Battalion NCR heavy troopers NCR Rangers Legionaries Frumentarii Praetorian Guard Casualties

    ~1,000 troopers per year[1] Unknown; Severe Legion casualties during First Battle of Hoover Dam Connected events Part of: Mojave Campaign Previous: NCR-Enclave War Concurrent: NCR-Brotherhood War Brotherhood-Enclave War (West Coast) The NCR-Legion War is an ongoing military conflict in 2281 between the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion.

    Contents 1 Background 1.1 First Battle of Hoover Dam 1.2 Destruction of Hopeville and Ashton 1.3 Willow Beach and Arizona Spillway 1.4 Holding pattern into late 2281 1.5 The Second Battle of Hoover Dam 2 Pause in Hostilities 3 Hostilities Resume 4 Events 5 Forces 5.1 Legion 5.2 NCR 6 Outcome 6.1 2281 6.2 2296 7 Ending slides 8 References Background The rise of Caesar's Legion, an army of conquered slaves under Caesar, in Arizona pushed out the Desert Rangers who had maintained order in much of the Southwest. Despite their superior equipment and manpower, the Legion overwhelmed them with numbers until they retained only limited control of southern Nevada. In 2271, what remained of the Desert Rangers agreed to peacefully join the NCR in exchange for the NCR protecting southern Nevada from the Legion.[2][3]

    In 2270, Aaron Kimball rose to prominence as the "Hero of the Mojave" by mitigating tribal threats to NCR citizens in the region around Bullhead City.[4][Non-game 1] Four years later, in 2274, Kimball attained the NCR presidency, and his first act of office was to send the NCR Army into the Las Vegas region of the Mojave with the objective of occupying and repairing Hoover Dam. Meanwhile, Caesar's Legion established a presence on Fortification Hill in 2277, overlooking the Hoover Dam from the east.[5] Hoover Dam represented a vast resource of electricity, and Lake Mead a source of clean water. To the NCR, these resources would be crucial to supporting their core territory in New California.

    To Caesar, the dam served primarily as a barrier to his eventual conquest of New Vegas and California; Caesar's ultimate goal was to take his Legion and merge it with the NCR to form a new, stronger empire, with New Vegas acting as a proper capital.[6][7][8] Meanwhile, Robert House had recently taken control of the Vegas ruins, forming a functional city-state on the New Vegas Strip. He aided the NCR in repairing the dam, agreeing to relinquish control of it to them in exchange for enough power to keep the Strip lit while the rest was sent back to New California. While New Vegas was officially neutral in the conflict, House greatly favored an NCR victory in the war and counted on their military might to act a buffer to the Legion.

    The ensuing war became seen within the NCR as belonging to Kimball, and the NCR's occupation of the Mojave is inextricably bound to his political career; the NCR's rivals were also aware of this fact.[9] With the conflict between the Legion and NCR looming, during a time of political unrest, Kimball serves more than ever as a symbol of the NCR occupation of the Mojave.[10] Caesar himself notes that his troops will capitalize on the moment of Kimball's death, watching the NCR subsequently recoil from the Mojave, providing the opportunity for the Legion to strike.[10]

    First Battle of Hoover Dam Main article: First Battle of Hoover Dam Shortly after arriving in the Mojave, Caesar ordered the Malpais Legate to attack NCR forces at Hoover Dam, starting an engagement which would become known as the First Battle of Hoover Dam. The NCR fended off the attack, managing to both successfully prevent Hoover Dam from getting overrun by Legion troops and trap the Legion in the middle of the dam, at the same time. Taking advantage of the situation, NCR sharpshooters targeted the officers and battle-hardened veterans from afar. In an attempt to salvage the deteriorating situation, the Legion's elite forces were ordered to pursue the sharpshooters. Assuming it was a retreat, the Malpais Legate ordered Legion forces to follow into Boulder City.[11]

    When the Legion's elite forces stormed the city, they were unaware that the NCR had rigged explosives and C4 across the entire town, the detonation of which eliminated what remained of the attacking forces, resulting in 107 NCR casualties.[12] Furious at the Malpais Legate's humiliating defeat at the dam, Caesar ordered his men to cover the legate with pitch, set him on fire, and throw him into the Grand Canyon. He then bestowed the rank on Lanius.

    Destruction of Hopeville and Ashton In 2277, Caesar's Legion committed a significant force to capture the independent towns of Ashton and Hopeville near the state line of California and Nevada, recognizing that the area was a major supply line for the NCR's efforts.[13] The NCR contested the Legion's control, in the process of annexing the area and solidifying its position by way of special forces.[14][15]

    Meanwhile, a courier arrived from Navarro with a package, the contents of which were unknown to both the courier and recipient. This shipment contained a detonator that when in range, remotely linked with the ICBM computers, sending a signal to the dormant nuclear missiles lying in the silos beneath the ground.[Non-game 2] The weapons began to detonate one after another, splitting the earth, cracking and twisting the landscape, causing massive earthquakes. The disaster created the Divide, comprised of a wind-beaten maze of twisting canyons, skin-flaying dust storms, and abominations.

    The detonation had significant effects on the war in the Mojave. Firstly, both the NCR and the Legion suffered casualties, the survivors being transformed into Marked men. Secondly, the Divide was rendered impassable, greatly hindering the NCR's logistics.[16] They were not able to properly capitalize on their victory at Hoover Dam, with the Malpais Legate having survived, crediting this event with the Legion being able to persist after the battle.[16]

    Willow Beach and Arizona Spillway Despite their major setback, the Legion found some success in conducting smaller operations against the NCR in the following years. In 2281, they opened the radioactive waste containers from San Onofre in the firehouse within Camp Searchlight,[17] and established the Cottonwood Cove outpost, and raiding bases. They also sent spies into the New Vegas Strip. They secretly plotted their second assault on the dam at Fortification Hill. As they had finally rebuilt their strength, Caesar ordered his forces to expel the NCR from the east side of the river in what would be known as the Battle of Willow Beach, Battle of Arizona Spillway and the Battle of Nelson. All three of these battles would prove to be victorious for the Legion.[Non-game 3] Chief Hanlon remarks that the NCR loses over a thousand troopers every year.[18]

    Holding pattern into late 2281 The Legion limited itself to raiding activities into the NCR side of the Colorado, such as with Ranger Station Charlie and the towns of Nelson and Nipton -- the latter being the furthest they had ever penetrated into the Mojave. Caesar's strategy was to strain the NCR's supply lines and demoralize them in preparation for another assault on Hoover Dam.[19] The planned sabotage of the monorail between Camp McCarran and the New Vegas Strip was one such operation.[20]

    Caesar also attempted to make allies in southern Nevada. The most eager of these were the Great Khans, a raider tribe who had a rivalry with the NCR going back to their founding and still held a grudge over a recent massacre of their people committed by the NCR. In addition to simple revenge, the Legion also promised the Khans with high positions within the Legion, though they did not intend to provide anything of the sort. Another such ally were the Omertas, one of the Three Families of the New Vegas Strip under House, who agreed to attempt a bloody takeover of the Strip during the oncoming battle at Hoover Dam, seemingly in exchange for being allowed to run the Strip after the Legion's victory.[21]

    The NCR's general fortunes also took a downturn, as a prison break occurred at the NCR Correctional Facility, leading to the rise of the Powder Gangers, which disrupted both traders and supply caravans in the nearby area. As time went on, the NCR would be reinforced by the veteran Rangers who had previously been assigned to Baja, which helped to boost morale. In another bid to boost morale, President Kimball himself chose to make an appearance at Hoover Dam for a motivational speech and awards ceremony, but this also gave a chance for Legion assassins to strike.[22]

    However at the same time Caesar's health would start to deteriorate due to a prominent brain tumor that would increasingly interfere with his daily functions. Legate Lanius was poised to take control of the Legion in its war with the NCR if it came to be that Caesar ultimately died from his illness.[23]

    The Second Battle of Hoover Dam Depending on the actions of the Courier, the NCR and Legion would eventually clash again, aided by different factions throughout the Mojave, some of them potentially attacking at the NCR from behind their lines such as the Fiends. A concurrent attack was made by the Legion on Camp Forlorn Hope.

    Pause in Hostilities The Second Battle of Hoover Dam would be a major turning point in the war for both sides. However, the NCR would be unable to truly capitalize on it, as not long afterwards, Shady Sands would be destroyed with a nuclear device by Vault 33 Overseer Hank MacLean, forcing the NCR to retreat from the Mojave, with only a small, fragmented contingent remaining behind for the next 14 years.

    Sometime between October 2281 and July 2296, Caesar would die, leaving no known heir. His death would spark the Legion Civil War, which would continue until July 2296. New Vegas was left effectively in anarchy with Mr. House left offline, and Deathclaws moving up from Quarry Junction to occupy the Strip. House asserts the latter was due to Enclave intervention, but he did not elaborate on how or why.

    Hostilities Resume “ Together, we will reclaim the holy land that they call Vegas. There, we'll build a palace worthy of our empire. Caesar's Palace. Now, to New Vegas! ” In July 2296, the Legion Civil War would conclude after a third party would ignite open hostilities during a rescue. Both sides saw heavily losses, including the death of both sides' self-appointed Caesars. Lacerta Legate would - during a slight lull in the engagement - retrieve Sallow's skeleton from the hill between camps and read the note on his person that stated his successor. To his shock, it read simply "I AM CAESAR I AM THE LEGION IT ENDS WITH ME". To hide the truth, Lacerta stabbed the legionary that was with him in the tent, took Sallow's crown and declared himself Caesar, uniting the factions behind him.

    He would then proclaim that they will fulfill his predecessor's vision of New Vegas as the capital of the Legion, and marching on New Vegas.

    At the same time, Rodriguez arrived in Freeside with a contingent of NCR Rangers and NCR troopers to help secure the Strip.

    Lucy MacLean, in the penthouse of the Lucky 38, speculated to Maximus that her recent actions would lead to war.

    Events The following events took place or ran concurrently with the NCR and the Legion conflict.

    Conflicts Events Concurrent Destruction of Hopeville and Ashton Battle of Arizona Spillway Battle of Willow Beach Battle of Nelson Searchlight Sabotage Racket First Battle of Hoover Dam Second Battle of Hoover Dam NCR-Khan War NCR-Brotherhood War NCR-Fiends War NCR-Raiders War Forces Legion Aside from their main base at Fortification Hill, the Legion currently has control of Cottonwood Cove, Camp Nelson, the Techatticup Mine, and Nipton. The area around Camp Forlorn Hope is also populated heavily by Legion forces.

    After the Courier enters the Lucky 38, they are subsequently approached by Vulpes Inculta or Alerio on behalf of Caesar, inviting them to the Fort. Caesar instructs them to enter a nearby underground bunker and destroy it. Caesar also orders the Courier to execute Robert House and asks them to assist in forging alliances with the Boomers and the White Glove Society.

    Legion forces Leadership Potential alliances Caesar Malpais Legate (formerly) Legate Lanius Lucius Vulpes Inculta Aurelius of Phoenix Silus Gaius Magnus Courier (optional) Great Khans Omertas Boomers Enclave remnants White Glove Society NCR Although the NCR struggles against various enemies such as the Great Khans and the Powder Gangers, they hold various strongholds including the Mojave Outpost. Ambassador Crocker noted the Courier's entry into the Lucky 38, summoning them to the embassy. Crocker asks them to assist in forging alliances with the Boomers as well as help ease the tension between NCR and the Kings in Freeside.

    Colonel Moore asks the Courier to gain the support of the Great Khans or destroy them, then destroy or sign a truce with the Brotherhood of Steel. The Courier is then tasked with protecting President Kimball during his visit to Hoover Dam.

    NCR forces Leadership Potential alliances President Aaron Kimball Ambassador Dennis Crocker General Lee Oliver Chief Hanlon Colonel Cassandra Moore Colonel James Hsu Colonel Royez Courier (optional) Boomers Mojave Brotherhood of Steel Enclave remnants Followers of the Apocalypse Great Khans Outcome 2281 Main article: Fallout: New Vegas endings The NCR-Legion War ends with the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, and the outcome of the war ultimately depends on the decisions made by the Courier. If the NCR is supported, it secures Hoover Dam, all major Mojave territories (including the Strip and Freeside), and Fortification Hill. If Caesar's Legion is supported, it conquers Hoover Dam and the entire Mojave region up to the Mojave Outpost. Legate Lanius will express a desire to go on to conquer California.

    Alternatively, the war is brought to an abrupt halt if the Courier either supports Mr. House or works with Yes Man to take over the Mojave for themself. The NCR initially defeats Caesar's Legion at Hoover Dam while Mr. House's Securitron army destroys Fortification Hill. After this, the Securitron army pushes back all NCR military presence from the region, the violence of this forced withdrawal depending on the Courier's negotiation with General Oliver.

    2296 Regardless of what happened during the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, neither the NCR nor the Legion were able to gain the upper hand in the long run. The NCR and the Legion continued to fight for Vegas over the years, and Vegas was seemingly also claimed by Securitrons for Mr. House once more at some point amidst the two factions' conflicts.[24] Following the destruction of Shady Sands, the NCR had all but vanished from the Mojave by 2296, with major NCR encampments such as Camp Golf left abandoned.[25][26] The only known NCR personnel remaining in the Mojave were a handful of isolated holdouts who had been there ever since the destruction of Shady Sands, and the citizens of Freeside had not seen any NCR symbols in seemingly a very long time.[27]

    New Vegas changed hands several times between the NCR and Legion, with the Securitrons briefly reasserting control. New Vegas was in effective anarchy as deathclaws from Quarry Junction had settled onto the Strip, causing its abandonment,[24] while neither Mr. House nor Yes Man were operational within the Lucky 38.[28]

    The Legion seemed to hold a stronger grip over the Mojave compared to the NCR, but were divided into a civil war following the death of Caesar and unable to capitalize on the situation. They considered themselves to still be at war with the NCR, as well as with the Brotherhood of Steel and the Great Khans, their former ally.[29] The Khans seemed to benefit the most from the situation, having expanded their control of the Mojave to include at least Novac and even having encroached back into the Shithole area of Los Angeles, which was formerly a core NCR territory.[30][31]

    Ending slides Caesar's Legion

    Narrated by Ron Perlman

    Slide Voice-over narration In-game condition

    1 Legion end slide 01 Caesar entered The Strip as though it was his Triumph. The Legion pushed the NCR out of New Vegas entirely, driving them back to the Mojave Outpost. The Legion occupied all major locations, enslaving much of the population and peacefully lording over the rest. Under the Legion's banner, civilization - unforgiving as it was - finally came to the Mojave Wasteland.Icon sound trigger Do not allow Caesar to die in Et Tumor, Brute?, complete the endgame quest Veni, Vidi, Vici for Caesar's Legion. 2 Legion end slide 02 The Legate is crowned as the new Caesar. He entered The Strip as though it was a military target, destroying anyone who resisted him. The Legion brutally occupied all major locations, killing and enslaving a large amount of the population. Under the Legion's banner, civilization - savage as it was - finally came to the Mojave Wasteland.Icon sound trigger Allow Caesar to die in Et Tumor, Brute?, complete the endgame quest Veni, Vidi, Vici for Caesar's Legion. New California Republic

    Narrated by Ron Perlman

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    1 NCR end slide 01 The New California Republic celebrated its second victory at Hoover Dam, establishing definitive control over the entire Mojave Wasteland. Soon after, they negotiated terms to annex The Strip, Freeside, and many surrounding communities. The Mojave Wasteland, at long last, had entirely fallen under the NCR's banner.Icon sound trigger Complete the endgame quest Eureka! for the NCR. Independent

    Narrated by Ron Perlman

    Slide Voice-over narration In-game condition

    1 House end slide 01 The Courier, with the aid of Yes Man, drove both the Legion and the NCR from Hoover Dam, securing New Vegas' independence from both factions. With Mr. House out of the picture, the remaining Securitrons on The Strip were hard-pressed to keep order. Anarchy ruled the streets. When the fires died, New Vegas remained, assuming its position as an independent power in the Mojave.Icon sound trigger Complete Wild Card: You and What Army? for an independent New Vegas without upgrading the Securitrons. 2 House end slide 01 The Courier, with the aid of Yes Man, drove both the Legion and the NCR from Hoover Dam, securing New Vegas' independence from both factions. With Mr. House out of the picture, part of the Securitron army was diverted to The Strip to keep order. Any chaos on the streets was ended, quickly. Chaos became uncertainty, then acceptance, with minimal loss of life. New Vegas assumed its position as an independent power in the Mojave.Icon sound trigger Complete Wild Card: You and What Army? for an independent New Vegas with the upgraded Securitrons. Mr. House

    Narrated by Ron Perlman

    Slide Voice-over narration In-game condition

    1 House end slide 01 Mr. House's Securitron army took control of Hoover Dam and the Strip, pushing both the Legion and the exhausted NCR out of New Vegas. Mr. House continued to run New Vegas his way, a despotic vision of pre-War glory. The streets were orderly, efficient, cold. New Vegas continued to be the sole place in the wasteland where fortunes were won and lost in the blink of an eye.Icon sound trigger Complete The House Always Wins for Mr. House. References The Courier: "What will you do if I don't turn you in?" Chief Hanlon: "Oliver can't stand that rangers got credit for victory at Hoover. Whatever I recommend, he does the opposite. I said I wanted them on the ridge. He put them right on the western part of the dam itself. We don't have enough firepower to hold that spot. If the troopers fall back, and they will, the rangers will advance to cover Oliver's retreat. We lose the dam, Oliver and the senate are ruined." The Courier: "That's crazy." Chief Hanlon: "Maybe fifty rangers will die on that dam. We lose over a thousand troopers every year. Being here is crazy. Getting out's the only sane thing to do." (Hanlon's dialogue) Message box transcription - Mojave Outpost: "In the year 2271, the Desert Rangers of Nevada and rangers of the New California Republic met at this spot to sign the Ranger Unification Treaty. Under this treaty, the Desert Rangers agreed to be absorbed into the NCR in exchange for NCR's protection of Hoover Dam, New Vegas, and southern Nevada against the forces of Caesar's Legion." Courier: "Why are the rangers here?" Hanlon: "There's a lot of answers to that question, but it started with the Ranger Unification Treaty. We weren't always the only show in town. Nevada had its own posse, the Desert Rangers. They fought Caesar even farther east, out in Arizona. Didn't go well for them. Years back, we met with the Desert Rangers at Mojave Outpost and agreed to help them against Caesar if they would join the NCR." (Hanlon's dialogue) Courier: "Why do you care whether Kimball lives or dies?" Robert House: "I care because he is a known quantity - not the man so much as the political context he inhabits. Kimball rose to prominence as the "Hero of the Mojave" when he led a campaign of reprisals against tribals who dared to attack NCR citizens. Ordering the occupation of Hoover Dam was his first act of office. As water and electricity flowed to NCR cities, his popularity soared. Conversely, his failure to annex the Mojave these seven years, and the immense costs of occupying a foreign land, have eroded his popular support." (Robert House's dialogue) Caesar: "Down the hill, at the west edge of camp, is an old building. It was here when the Fort was taken in 2277." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "And since forming the Legion, all you've done is conquer other tribes?" Caesar: "That's right. Decades of warfare, absorbing lesser tribes, gathering power. Forging the dross into a vast, razor-sharp scythe. My Legion's expansion has never ceased. Much of the Utah and Colorado, and all of Arizona and New Mexico, are mine. We have cities of our own, but nothing compared to Vegas. Finally, my Legion will have its Rome." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "So you'll destroy the NCR because you hate its inefficiencies?" Caesar: "No, I'll destroy it because it's inevitable that it be destroyed. It's Hegelian Dialectics, not personal animosity." The Courier: "Hegelian Dialectics? What are those?" Caesar: "How do I put this basically enough? It's a philosophical theory, the kind you might encounter if you took time to read some books. The fundamental premise is to envision history as a sequence of "dialectical" conflicts. Each dialectic begins with a proposition, a thesis... ...which inherently contains, or creates, its opposite - an antithesis. Thesis and antithesis. The conflict is inevitable. But the resolution of the conflict yields something new - a synthesis - eliminating the flaws in each, leaving behind common elements and ideas." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "So what's "dialectic" about you and the NCR?" Caesar: "The NCR has all of the problems of the ancient Roman Republic - extreme bureaucracy, corruption, extensive senatorial infighting. Just as with the ancient Republic, it is natural that a military force should conquer and transform the NCR into a military dictatorship. Thesis and antithesis. The Colorado River is my Rubicon. The NCR council will be eradicated, but the new synthesis will change the Legion as well... ...from a basically nomadic army to a standing military force that protects its citizens, and the power of its dictator." (Caesar's dialogue) Courier: "So why don't you want the NCR President to die?" Robert House: "Kimball's entire political career is inextricably bound up with the NCR's occupation of the Mojave. It's his war. If I compel the NCR to retreat, Kimball will be the sacrifice offered to the gods, so decent NCR citizens can get on with their lives. In retrospect, the Mojave and Hoover Dam will seem like one man's misadventure. Kimball will be blamed, not me. Not New Vegas." (Robert House's dialogue) Caesar: "You have to understand that Kimball is a symbol. Without him, there would be no NCR occupation of the Mojave. He mustered the troops - as many as his senate would allow - and sent them in. All the right reasons, done all the wrong ways. Any invasion by a democracy is a half-measure. When Kimball dies, the NCR will recoil from the Mojave, and from his legacy. By the time they recover and try to strike back, I'll be invading them." (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier "Tell me about the first battle." Alex Richards: "The Legion attacked in full force. Chief Hanlon had the troopers fall back pulling the enemy in, before entrenching into secure positions. The Legion got bogged down and Rangers and 1st Recon sharpshooters started taking out the Legion officers. They sent their best men to stop the Rangers and 1st Recon, but the Rangers pulled them into a trap at Boulder City and blew them all to hell. After that the Legion's forces were in disarray and tried to retreat. However, our forces advanced rapidly and routed them. And that was that." (Alex Richards' dialogue) Boulder City Memorial The Courier: "That's what made the Legion come to the Divide." Ulysses: "Caesar's orders. {Emph} Every supply line gets cut, every community that feeds the Bear... cut its throat, starve the Mojave." (Ulysses' dialogue) Courier: "On the High Road, you mentioned NCR and Legion fought here... before and after the Divide?" Ulysses: "The two-headed Bear made its claim, dug its claws into the trail you made. For once, it seemed like it might succeed - cut a route to the Mojave. Couldn't let NCR stay in the Divide. Trade route, road the military could use... can't have two roads into the Mojave. Not after the work we'd done to cut off New Canaan, other routes, killing caravans... all we'd done to make the West bleed." (Ulysses' dialogue) Courier: "[NCR] Those bodies in the silo were NCR soldiers... some special forces." Ulysses: "Might have been. Once. To the Divide they came... in the Divide, they rest." (Ulysses' dialogue) Courier: "I'm guessing you don't like Caesar very much." Joshua Graham: "Love the sinner, hate the sin. With Caesar, it's often very difficult to see through all of that sin to the person inside. I can say that we were both lucky that NCR's supply lines and land routes north of Mojave Outpost were destroyed before the Battle of Hoover Dam. Something bad happened near Death Valley, at a place called the Divide. NCR couldn't cut across anymore and it slowed down their reinforcements. Terrible storms ripped entire companies apart before they even got to Nevada soil. The aftermath of Hoover Dam could have been even worse for Caesar." (Joshua Graham's dialogue) Camp Searchlight terminal entries; NCR communications terminal, Communications Entry #937 Courier: "What will you do if I don't turn you in?" Hanlon: "Oliver can't stand that rangers got credit for victory at Hoover. Whatever I recommend, he does the opposite. I said I wanted them on the ridge. He put them right on the western part of the dam itself. We don't have enough firepower to hold that spot. If the troopers fall back, and they will, the rangers will advance to cover Oliver's retreat. We lose the dam, Oliver and the senate are ruined." Courier: "That's crazy." Hanlon: "Maybe fifty rangers will die on that dam. We lose over a thousand troopers every year. Being here is crazy. Getting out's the only sane thing to do." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier: "Legion's attacked Nipton, burned and killed everyone." Sgt. Kilborn: "{Slight shock} What? {Beat} There's no way... we're {emph} miles from the Colorado. They...{To himself} they aren't even waiting for the Dam to fall. They're already inside the borders... {To himself} ...we'll never stop them, not at this rate. We're doomed. {To player} Thanks for bringing the word - even if the news is bad, I'll let the men know." (Sgt. Kilborn's dialogue) Events of I Put a Spell on You in Fallout: New Vegas The Courier: "So tell me about your plan." Big Sal: "Caesar asked us to provide a distraction on the Strip. So when he gives the word we're going to launch an all out assault on the Strip. First we're going to blow the Embassy, then we're going to use soldiers to kill every last motherfucker on the Strip. Then we'll run this joint. That'll teach Not-At-Home what can go on while he sits in his fucking ivory tower lording down from on high." (Big Sal's dialogue) Events of You'll Know It When It Happens/Arizona Killer in Fallout: New Vegas Events and outcomes of Et Tumor, Brute? in Fallout: New Vegas Shotgun Jeff: "Guess you saw them Deathclaw things come up from Quarry Junction. They fightin' around the Strip. Big whup. Just another fuckin' round o' change in management's all it is. Like one of 'em merry-go-rounds. NCR. Legion. NCR. Legion. Fuckin' robots. No matter to me. Always somebody tryna tell us what to do. Long as they don't come 'round and charge me taxes, I don't give a fuck." (Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 5: "The Wrangler") Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 3: "The Profligate" The Ghoul: "Well, I gotta save a dipshit Vaultie from the Legion. Came here hopin' to get some help from the NCR." Victor: "N-N-N-NCR? I ain't seen 'em." The Ghoul: "Who's running these parts these days?" Victor: "Well you know how it is around here. The NCR and the Legion goin' at each other like cats and dogs. Though now, we got the Legion fightin' the Legion like cats and dogs, too." (Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 3: "The Profligate") Freeside citizen: "NCR is here!" Thaddeus: "Why are they lookin' at us like that?" The Ghoul: "Never underestimate the power of brand recognition." Freeside citizen: "Long live the New California Republic!" Freeside citizen: "Welcome back!" Freeside citizen: "Kill the Deathclaws!" Freeside citizen: "Get us back our town!" (Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 7: "The Handoff" The first line is not subtitled.) Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 7: "The Handoff" Lucy MacLean: "If you don't mind me saying, it seems like you guys might have lost your way out here." Lacerta Legate: "I wouldn't expect a profligate like you to understand. We're at war." Lucy MacLean: "With who?" Lacerta Legate: "The New California Republic. The Khans. The Brotherhood. But first, we must conquer the unrepentant members of Caesar's Legion. Over there." Lucy MacLean: "There's two Caesars?" Lacerta Legate: "The great founder of this Empire, he died. We've been at war ever since over who should be his heir. He wrote down the name of his successor. He placed it into his divine pocket. But every time we try to retrieve it, the false Caesar and his followers, they shoot at us. We are at a stalemate." (Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 3: "The Profligate") Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 1: "The Innovator": Novac seen to be under Khan control. Norm MacLean: "So you met my sister?" Ma June: "Yeah, back in Filly. Before the Brotherhood of Steel burnt it down. Had her help a fella from the Enclave get through the Shithole to some folks from the NCR who weren't in town when Shady Sands blew up. Pretty slim odds. What with it being Khan country." (Fallout TV series, Season 2, Episode 5: "The Wrangler") Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 458: "Important Dates "2253 President Tibbett is removed from office by a vote of no confidence following her "timid" response to the massacre of 38 NCR citizens at the hands of Mojave raiders. Her replacement, President Wendell Peterson, orders three battalions of NCR infantry into the Mojave." "2270 The extirpation of tribals in the area of present-day Bullhead City is complete. "The Pacification of the Mojave," as it comes to be known, makes General Aaron Kimball a national hero." "2272 The NCR's Mojave outpost is established." (Behind the Bright Lights & Big City) Chris Avellone at Obsidian Entertainment forums Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p.372-376: "[3.33] Hoover Dam All of the Main Quest in Act III centers around this location, as do the Main Quests involving the visit of President Aaron Kimball. A stronghold of extreme strategic importance for centuries, this location has seen recent turmoil between major Faction too. A few years before current events, Caesar's Legion rolled in, led by ex-Mormon missionary Joshua Graham, Caesar's Legate. Not considering NCR's army to be a serious threat, Graham exercised somewhat lax control over the Legion. During the Battle of Hoover Dam, NCR Rangers and Sharpshooters from First Recon employed risky tactics against the Legion with the help of the enlisted Troopers, and despite horrific loss of life, Caesar's forces were pushed back, but not routed. The NCR has been holding the dam continuously since, and have fortified positions along the dam and up and down the west side of the Colorado River. Recently, the Legion pushed the NCR off of the east side of the river at the Battle of Willow Beach (which destroyed an NCR military camp) and the Battle of Arizona Spillway. Day to day military operations at the dam are under the command of Colonel Moore. While troopers are active here, there are also a large number of civilian contractors who are trying to keep the dam running. They are of a secondary concern to Moore, who is preparing from for an impending attack by Caesar and a visit by President Kimball." (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)

22. #22Racket

    Keys: Racket, covert operation, Omertas

    Racket Event Racket How Little We Know Overview Location New Vegas The Strip Date 2281 Result Player-determinant Involved parties Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Omertas CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion (covert benefactor) Courier (optional) Icon platinum chip Free Economic Zone of New Vegas Nv blackjack-casino-logo01 Chairmen White glove society White Glove Society NCR Flag New California Republic Courier (optional) Leaders Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Big Sal Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Nero CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar (covert benefactor) Icon platinum chip Robert House Nv blackjack-casino-logo01Swank White glove society Marjorie NCR Flag Colonel Cassandra Moore NCR Flag Captain Marie Pappas Forces Nv blackjack-casino-logo02 Omerta thugs CaesarLegionSymbol Legion frumentarii Courier (optional) Icon platinum chip Securitrons Nv blackjack-casino-logo01 Chairmen White glove society White Gloves NCR Flag NCR military police Courier (optional) Casualties Determinant Determinant Connected events Concurrent: NCR-Legion War Racket is the codename given to a covert operation conducted by the Omertas of the Three Families with the backing of Caesar's Legion,[1][2] aiming to destabilize the New Vegas Strip ahead of the Second Battle of Hoover Dam in 2281. The operation appears as a story element in most faction quest arcs of Fallout: New Vegas, with its success or failure determined by the Courier's intervention.

    Background A secret deal Some months prior to October 2281,[3] the frumentarius Vulpes Inculta secretly met with Big Sal and Nero, the co-leaders of the Omertas, owners and operators of the Gomorrah casino on the Strip.[4] There, he played on their cultural tendency towards betrayal (a holdover of their tribal past) as well as their festering resentment toward their employer Mr. House and his tyrannical rule of New Vegas, convincing them to orchestrate a plan to destabilize the Strip and cut off House's response to the impending Second Battle of Hoover Dam between the Legion and the New California Republic.[2] Despite Legate Lanius' belief that the Omertas' attack was unnecessary and would, in his eyes, sully the glory gained with the Legion's victory at Hoover Dam, Caesar carried on with the plan.[4]

    Preparations While being fed a steady line of bribes to support the Legion's efforts to sow chaos behind enemy lines, the Omerta leaders began gathering necessary pieces of the plan, including hiring specialists to devise a plan of attack that would cause the most damage in one strategic strike. Their search led them to Clanden, a brutally sadistic but highly skilled chemist and bomb maker.[5] The Omertas kept him in the loop with promises of a cozy stay in the hotel suites and access to many of their high-value prostitutes, whom Clanden would rape, torture and murder for his own pleasure.[6][7]

    To build up their armory in preparation, the Omertas blackmailed the smuggler Troike with a dead prostitute (possibly one killed by Clanden), staging the scene to make it seem like Troike was responsible.[8][9] In exchange for covering up his "crime," Troike would be obligated to work for the Omertas, using his connections in the NCR to smuggle guns into the Strip by disguising them as NCR supply shipments.[10][11][12] Since Troike could smuggle weapons at a lower cost, the Omertas also stopped buying guns from local suppliers such as Mick & Ralph's.[13][14] These local suppliers were not given any explanation, leaving them confused by the Omertas' sudden change.[15]

    In conjunction with the Omertas' armament, the frumentarius Picus exploited his deep-cover infiltration of the New California Republic Army command structure to plan a sabotage of the pre-War monorail connecting Camp McCarran to the Strip in order to cut off the NCR's ability to respond quickly to either position. While not specifically intended to support the Omertas' attack, it would indeed be useful for them if Curtis succeeds.[16]

    Setbacks and suspicion Despite all these preparations, the plan had run into difficulties by late 2281. Clanden came up against a lack of materials to construct a bomb deadly enough for the massacre the Omertas desired, and Troike was stuck dealing with the loss of a weapons shipment that was intercepted by the Fiends.[17]

    Meanwhile, the other regional powers also began to suspect the Omertas were plotting something. The NCR obtained intelligence reports of the Omerta leaders' secret meetings, but could not confirm who they were meeting with; they suspected that the Omertas were working with Caesar's Legion, but did not want to act officially without confirmation that NCR interests were at risk.[18] They were also alerted by the Omertas' sudden cessation of business with the weapons merchants in Freeside.[13] Mr. House was also alerted, but for a wholly different reason: knowing the Omertas to be "reliably underhanded," their recent cooperativeness with his plans suggested to him that they were plotting against him.[19]

    The Courier's involvement The following is based on player-dependent gameplay events with no known canon outcome. Around late October 2281, the Courier reaches the New Vegas Strip during their hunt for the Chairmen leader Benny, where they are offered the chance to assist the major powers of the Mojave Wasteland in vying for control. If the Courier eventually decides to cast their allegiance with either the NCR, Mr. House himself, or make their own path by helping Yes Man, they are eventually sent to investigate rumors of a conspiracy by the Omertas within Gomorrah,[18][19][20] or simply to evaluate the Omertas.[21] Alternatively, they may stumble onto the conspiracy themselves after helping a Gomorrah prostitute, Joana, escape from the Omertas' clutches with her boyfriend Carlitos Wayne and a few fellow hookers, after which she tips the Courier off to the mobsters' dirty dealings as a reward.[22]

    Even if tasked to do so, the Courier may avoid dealing with the Omertas, whether by making enemies of the Omertas before having the chance to investigate their plans (for the NCR or Mr. House), or simply choosing to disregard them (for Yes Man). Otherwise, the Courier would proceed to enter Gomorrah to investigate. Inside, the Courier makes enough of a commotion to gain an audience with the Omerta lieutenant Cachino, one of the men involved with Racket. After Cachino proves less than open to discussion, the Courier gets around his obstinance by secretly acquiring his journal, detailing a litany of activities he has been doing outside of the Omertas' purview -- which would be enough to get him killed if the Omerta bosses were ever to find out.[23]

    Ending the Racket The Courier comes back to Cachino with his journal and blackmails him with the threat of taking it to Big Sal and Nero to get his cooperation. Cachino capitulates and agrees to help them dismantle the Omertas' scheme by pointing them in the direction of Clanden and Troike as the crucial pillars for Racket's potential success.

    After eliminating Clanden and/or Troike's involvement in the scheme, whether fatally or otherwise, the Courier meets with Cachino again and learns that the Omerta bosses want to speak with them. Big Sal and Nero reveal they are well aware that the Courier is the one responsible for crippling Racket and intend to kill them and start up again. The Courier and Cachino are forced to kill both bosses, either directly or through manipulating them into turning on each other. Cachino subsequently assumes the vacant position as Gomorrah's manager, promising to "run a tight ship" from now on, with the knock-on effect of severing ties with the Legion and putting an end to Racket.[24]

    Aiding the Racket Instead of working with Cachino, the Courier takes the evidence of his double-dealings straight to Big Sal, who arranges a meeting with Cachino and has a button man take him out, subsequently electing the Courier to the vacant position as the fixer and working to finalize preparations to pull off Racket when the time comes. The Courier is then sent to assist Clanden and Troike with their recent setbacks.

    Once the Courier successfully acquires the chlorine supplies for Clanden and brings back Troike's weapons shipment stolen by the Fiends, Big Sal thanks them for their help completing the plan, promising a future of riches once the Legion bumps off the NCR and takes control.[24] The Courier could do this even if they were working for the NCR or Mr. House and were tasked with stopping the Omertas' plans; their ties with the NCR would not be harmed, but Mr. House may sever ties and consider them an enemy if the Courier could not convince him otherwise.

    Aftermath The outcome of Racket (if one did not prevent it by siding with Cachino) is not directly shown nor mentioned during the ending, but if the player character selects the NCR Emergency Radio on the Pip-Boy while participating in the Second Battle of Hoover Dam near the end of the game, a unique report will be delivered depending on certain choices made during How Little We Know:

    “ What the fuck is happening on the Strip? I'm getting reports that someone just bombed the embassy. The attack is coming from the Omertas. They are using some kind of gas to kill everyone in the casinos on the Strip. How is this possible? ” — How Little We Know completed by siding with Big Sal and Nero. “ It sounds like the Omertas are mounting some sort of attack on the Strip. They are receiving heavy casualties from the Securitrons and other casinos. ” — How Little We Know incomplete. Appearances Racket is mentioned only in Fallout: New Vegas.

    References The Courier: "Tell me about the plan." Big Sal: "The plan is called Racket, but that's all the info you're going to get out of me right now." (Big Sal's dialogue) The Courier: "Tell me about the plan." Nero: "We call it Racket, and it is going to show Not-At-Home and every other fucker in our business just what the Family can do." (Nero's dialogue) The Courier: "I killed the Omertas who were scheming to attack the Strip." Caesar: "Months spent feeding the Omertas bribes, nursing their betrayal - all for nothing. Any other crimes?" (Caesar's dialogue) The Courier: "Good, because the Omertas' plan was stopped, Vegas is as strong as ever." Lanius: "A plan by Vulpes... treachery is a weapon that one should never rely on. I can only hope that the Omertas died when their treachery was exposed, to have the plan succeed only would have sullied the Legion. It does not matter, victory shall be ours, it shall be swift, and it will be honest, purchased with blood." (Lanius' dialogue) The Courier: "What do you need the bombs for?" Clanden: "Blowing shit up, of course. Thing is, they don't need things to blow up, they need people to die in a fairly large area in a fairly small timeframe. There are other ways to kill people with bombs aside from explosions, if you know what I mean." (Clanden's dialogue) Snuff tapes: "These tapes contain horrific sounds of murder and violence. You hear Clanden engaging in violent sex with women, and then hear the sounds of visceral and violent murder being carried out." The Courier: "I found these tapes in Clanden's room, can you verify this is him?" Cachino: "Yeah this is Clanden, this guy is one sick motherfucker. The way I see it you have a few options. Maybe you could use what's on these tapes to get him by himself, or maybe you could use them to leverage him out of the casino." (Cachino's dialogue) The Courier: "Tell me what happened with the prostitute." Troike: "Oh man, I don't even like to think about it. All that goddamn blood. It was just in the hotel like any other night. I took some chems with the girl I was with, but I never black out. I did this time though. Next thing I knew I woke up and she was lying next to me stabbed dead. There was a knife next to the bed and I was covered in her blood." (Troike's dialogue) Troike blackmail note The Courier: "Where do the guns come from?" Troike: "I've made lots of contacts over the years. I have some friends back in California that can get their hands on just about anything. Mostly I've been calling in every last favor I have." (Troike's dialogue) The Courier: "How are you getting the weapons into the strip?" Troike: "I'm pretty proud of myself. It's a stroke of genius, if I can be so modest. The whole arrangement starts with an old buddy of mine in the Republic. He's responsible for packing and shipping supplies to the NCR on the Strip. He marks some containers as food and medical and packs them with guns and other shit. From there it just took a couple greased palms to get someone to let me cherry pick a container or two out of every shipment. Easy as pie." (Troike's dialogue) The Courier: "Okay, so what can you tell me about the guns the Omertas have?" Troike: "They're keeping them in a little utility section down off the basement. I don't know what they're arming themselves for, but I know it isn't for the good of mankind." (Troike's dialogue) The Courier: "Can you give me any leads?" Colonel Cassandra Moore: "Our preliminary research shows that the Omertas used to do some business in Freeside, mostly buying weapons. Any other questions?"(Cassandra Moore's dialogue) The Courier: "I think I figured out why the Omertas stopped buying." Mick: "Really? What did you learn?" The Courier: "They found a way to smuggle guns in at a lower price." Mick: "Well, that would explain why they stopped buying. Them not telling me why leads me to think I'd rather not know the particulars. Thanks for digging that up for me. If there is any way you could convince them to reestablish, I have a few extra special items you can have. They're too pricey for anyone around here to afford, but getting the Omerta's sales back would be a worthy trade." (Mick's dialogue) Omertas stopped buying from Mick The Courier: "I know who you are. I'm working for the Legion, too." Capt. Ronald Curtis: "Christ, keep it down! You want to blow the whole thing? We've worked years for this. But maybe it's good you're here. Hsu knows about the leaks, and I'm supposed to find the spy for him. At first I couldn't believe my luck. But since I haven't produced results - for obvious reasons - I feel him looking at me differently now. Maybe he's just thinking about putting someone else in charge, maybe he's starting to suspect. Either way it's bad for me. Especially once this next part goes down." The Courier: "What next part?" Capt. Ronald Curtis: "If you haven't noticed, the NCR bolsters its presence on the Strip from here. Sends troopers on the monorail in shifts. The monorail lets them occupy two positions for the price of one. It's a supply line that's immune to raiders and other hindrances on the ground. If someone were to cut that line, both positions would be much weaker. Fragile. They know this, and they watch it like hawks. But I've been here a long time, and I've learned everything there is to know about it. And I'm going to blow up that train." The Courier: "And you have something in mind for me?" Capt. Ronald Curtis: "I told you I think they're starting to suspect me. You're going to help me cast away those suspicions. You're going to put the bomb on that train. I'll be sure to be in the presence of several reliable eyewitnesses when it happens. Then we're going to pin this on a scapegoat. I'd planned on disappearing after this operation. It'd be a matter of time before they traced it to me. Figured out I was a frumentarius. But with your help, maybe I can stay on after all. Make plans for something... grander." The Courier: "Tell me what I need to do." Capt. Ronald Curtis: "I have the explosives stashed in a trash can next to the ticketing counter along with some incriminating documents. You'll pick them up and make your way upstairs to the monorail terminal. They change the guard there at 0900 and 1800 hours. There'll be a small window where there's no one guarding the train." The Courier: "What do I do when I'm at the train?" Capt. Ronald Curtis: "Put the bomb in one of the vents inside the train on the back wall, towards the joint that connects the cars. Arm it, and get out of there. I've also left some bomb ingredients in with the explosives. You are to take those to the footlocker of a Private Crenshaw. Crenshaw's a problem child. Lots of run-ins with his superiors. It'll be easy for them to believe he's working for the Legion." The Courier: "Is that everything?" Capt. Ronald Curtis: "Report him to Colonel Hsu. Do all that and we should be free and clear. Oh, and Crenshaw should be dead before you report him. Don't leave any chance for him to deny the bombings. Let's say he pulled a gun on you. I've got him on guard duty patrolling the tarmac just inside the south gate. And I reassigned the other guard, so he should be alone." The Courier: "Understood. I'll go and pick up the explosives." Capt. Ronald Curtis: "Good. Try to plant the explosives quietly if you can - you'll make both our lives easier. But first things first. Go offer your services to Colonel Hsu. Tell him you'll work independently to find the leak. He's running out of options. He'll accept as long as you don't give him a reason not to. If he doesn't, then don't be surprised if you're the new scapegoat. So don't fuck this up." (Ronald Curtis' dialogue) The Courier: "Tell me about the problem with the last shipment." Troike: "The Fiends, a group of raiders freaked out on chems, stole my last shipment before I could get it into Vegas. I could sure use some help getting it from them." (Troike's dialogue) Colonel Cassandra Moore: "We've had some disturbing reports recently concerning the Omertas, one of the Three Families that run the Strip. Our intelligence has discovered that high ranking members of the Omertas have been having clandestine meetings for the past several months. We haven't been able to determine whom they've been meeting with, but if it's Caesar's men, we'll need to act. I need you to uncover what they're up to, and stop it if it threatens the NCR. Any questions?" (Cassandra Moore's dialogue) Mr. House: "Your next assignment won't take you far. It concerns the Omertas and their den of vice, Gomorrah. As the decisive encounter between the bull and the bear looms close, my concerns about the Omertas have grown. I've never expected loyalty, mind you. A reliably underhanded tribe is just as constant to deal with as one that always run true. But that's just it - lately the Omertas' cooperative silence has been deafening. Not a single complaint? They're up to something." (Robert House's dialogue)

23. #23Sacking of New Canaan

    Keys: Sacking of New Canaan, New Canaan

    Sacking of New Canaan Event Sacking of New Canaan NewCanaan New Canaan Overview Location New Canaan, Utah Date 2281 Result White Legs victory Destruction of New Canaan and salting of the earth Scattering of Mormons Involved parties New Canaan WhiteLegsSymbol White Legs CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Leaders Bishop Mordecai † Daniel Joshua Graham WhiteLegsSymbol Salt-Upon-Wounds CaesarLegionSymbol Ulysses Forces New Canaanite Mormons White Legs tribals Casualties Heavy, estimated roughly 30 survivors[1] Unknown Connected events Next: War for Zion The sacking of New Canaan was the destruction led by Ulysses and perpetrated by the White Legs against the Mormons at the city of New Canaan in 2281.

    Prelude Caesar, angered by Joshua Graham surviving his execution, tasked the White Legs, a raider tribe in Utah that had been petitioning Caesar to be assimilated into Caesar's Legion, to wipe out all New Canaanites, promising to absorb them into the Legion if they succeed.[2] To achieve this, Caesar sent an envoy, Ulysses, to train the White Legs into a more formidable force. Ulysses taught the White Legs how to fight and honed their ferocity, as well as armed them with powerful weapons and how to properly use them.[3] To achieve the total destruction of New Canaan that Caesar wanted, Ulysses had to get the White Legs to kill a certain way. Young and old, armed and unarmed, the able and the weak, no one was to be spared in the coming raid. He told them that the New Canaanites valued generations and that every generation must be killed.[4]

    The White Legs watched over New Canaan from a distance, taking note of guards on duty and waiting for an opportunity when most of the main force was away to strike.[1]

    Destruction The New Canaanites didn't think the White Legs were a legitimate threat and didn't anticipate them mounting an attack, especially at night when guard shifts were being rotated. The White Legs struck the settlement at night while Graham and many other New Canaanites were away, indiscriminately killing anyone they could, regardless of age or ability to fight or defend.[1][5] The White Legs followed Ulysses' teachings exactly. As a gesture of shock and awe, the White Legs burned down the Canaanite bishop's home with the elderly man trapped within.[6]

    Aftermath After New Canaan was razed, Salt-Upon-Wounds had the corpses of the slain nailed to the neighboring cliffs and the area salted so nothing could grow.[7][8] The surviving Mormons who escaped, about thirty in total,[1] including Daniel and Joshua Graham, regrouped and moved onward toward Zion Canyon.

    On a night after the raid, the White Legs braided their hair into dreadlocks in order to honor Ulysses and to possibly curry favor for Legion assimilation. Ulysses was more appalled by the gesture than anything. In his view, the hair that symbolized history and meaning for his tribe, the Twisted Hairs, was being bastardized by the White Legs and their ways of wanton violence with no meaning for the dreadlocks' symbolism. Seeing this triggered a realization in Ulysses: he had single-handedly caused the destruction of the history of a tribe of people just as it was done to him by Vulpes Inculta at Dry Wells for the Legion before.[9]

    Appearances The Sacking of New Canaan is mentioned in the Fallout: New Vegas add-ons Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road.

    References The Courier: "If you don't acknowledge your past now, it'll come back to you later." Daniel: "[SUCCEEDED] True enough. We can't escape it no matter how hard we try. Best we can do is own up, trust in the Lord to forgive. Joshua was gone, so were a lot of the other New Canaanites. White Legs must have been watching for a long while, counting who remained. We didn't think the White Legs were a real threat. Maybe it was overconfidence. Maybe sloth. Either way, we didn't see them coming. They attacked at night. They killed without regard to age or infirmity. Armed or unarmed. They beat children to- Beat them to death in their beds while they were sleeping. And now we're all that's left. Maybe thirty of us. Pride goeth before destruction." (Daniel's dialogue) The Courier: "I came here with the Happy Trails Caravan Company to make contact with the New Canaanites." Joshua Graham: "Happy Trails. I remember. They were good friends. I have bad news for your employers. New Canaan was destroyed, its citizens scattered. All because of the White Legs. And Caesar, of course. The White Legs want to join the Legion. Caesar's rite of passage is the destruction of the New Canaanites, almost assuredly because of me. The good news is that we can help you find your way back. Daniel, one of the other New Canaanites, has made many maps of the region. The bad news is that we can't help you right now. Not with everything that's going on." (Joshua Graham's dialogue) Ulysses log Y-17.21 Ulysses log Y-17.22 The Courier: "Well, I'm guessing you're pretty mad about something." Joshua Graham: "The White Legs didn't just force my people out of New Canaan. They butchered everyone who wasn't fast enough to get away. The elderly, the ill, children. Those who stopped to help the wounded. It made no difference to them. They can't be reasoned with, the White Legs. Daniel believes that if we leave, if the Sorrows leave, the White Legs will stop. He doesn't understand what this kind of tribe is like." (Joshua Graham's dialogue) The Courier: "You're the man in charge. If something's troubling you, it could affect all of us." Daniel: "[SUCCEEDED] I never thought I'd be in charge of anything. Don't know why. Bishop Mordecai was old. He had been sick for years. He couldn't walk anymore. It wasn't a problem for the rest of us. He made it out to be more trouble than it really was. Just his way, I guess. When the White Legs came... he was upstairs. We couldn't get him out in time. The house caught fire at the base and worked its way up. Fast. He didn't die of smoke. I wish he had. Sometimes I wake up and for a minute or two, I think all of it was a dream. But it's not. It wasn't. I wish all of this were some fevered vision of what could have been. Instead of what is, what we let happen." (Daniel's dialogue) Follows-Chalk: "Way I heard it, Salt-Upon-Wounds butchered everyone in New Canaan and nailed their corpses to the cliffs." (Follows-Chalk's dialogue) Waking Cloud: "When Salt-Upon-Wounds took New Canaan, he ordered the White Legs to salt the earth so nothing could grow again. What kind of monster could do that?" (Waking Cloud's dialogue)

24. #24Searchlight Sabotage

    Keys: Searchlight Sabotage, Searchlight, Sabotage, Searchlight Disaster

    Searchlight Sabotage Event Searchlight Sabotage Searchlight Disaster Pre-War transport trucks parked in the fire station, the source of the radioactive blight in Searchlight Overview Location Camp Searchlight Date 2281 Result NCR military presence around Searchlight collapses Most surviving NCR forces are ghoulified Establishment of Legion outpost in Cottonwood Cove goes unopposed Involved parties FNV NCR Flag New California Republic Army CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Leaders Unnamed NCRA officers[1] First Sergeant Astor Vulpes Inculta Forces NCRA military garrison At least 2 Legion frumentarii Casualties 20+ NCR troopers ghoulified[2] Unknown number of radiation deaths 2 frumentarii Connected events Part of: NCR-Legion War Previous: Battle of Arizona Spillway[Non-game 1] Concurrent: Battle of Nelson Next: Massacre of Nipton The Searchlight Sabotage was a pivotal event within the scope of the NCR-Legion War where the NCR-held Camp Searchlight was destroyed by a radioactive chemical attack orchestrated by frumentarii of Caesar's Legion, paving the way for Legion forces to establish their forward operating base at Cottonwood Cove and going on to execute other atrocities around the southern Mojave Wasteland. The event is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Prelude The setup to the Searchlight Sabotage began all the way back in the pre-War era. Around late October 2077, a convoy of three flatbed trucks were sent to collect radioactive nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and then transport it to a burial site elsewhere. Their route included passing through the town of Searchlight, the spot they ended up at when the Great War erupted on October 23. In the chaotic aftermath, local police re-directed the drivers to temporarily park their trucks in the town's fire station, but due to a lack of space, only two of the trucks were able to fit while the third was sent to an overlook near the boating resort at Cottonwood Cove. Following the collapse of America and society, the town was abandoned, leaving the nuclear waste to sit in its lead-lined casks undisturbed for the next 200 years.[3][Non-game 2]

    Event In the late 23rd century following the nuclear apocalypse, as part of their big push into the Mojave, the Army of the New California Republic re-discovered the abandoned Searchlight and garrisoned it as a military base. One advantage of the base was that it allowed for oversight of the old Cottonwood Cove to the east as the most likely avenue for incursion by Caesar's Legion from Arizona.

    When it became obvious to the Legion's scouts that a direct assault on the newly renamed Camp Searchlight would not prove fruitful, a change of strategy was decided. Sometime prior to October 2281, Vulpes Inculta, leader of the Legion's frumentarii, dispatched disguised agents to infiltrate the base and learn about any potential weaknesses. Once he received word of the pre-War radioactive waste being stored in the town fire station and realized its potential to simultaneously kill many "profligates" and deny control of their base to the NCR permanently or at least long-term, Vulpes ordered two recruit grunts to infiltrate the fire station, with the orders to "open as many containers as possible" and "report back."[4]

    In the fire station, the legionaries, seemingly unaware or unconcerned about what was in the containers, died from intense radiation poisoning instantaneously, only managing to open two of the several containers. But it was enough, as with the centuries-old seal breaking out, it unleashed a massive wave of invisible death that spread throughout the pre-War town, effectively destroying Camp Searchlight as a military outpost and a place of would-be settlement.[Non-game 2][5]

    Aftermath In the wake of the Legion's makeshift "dirty bomb" erupting, the area in and around Searchlight has become a zone of omnipresent, debilitating levels of radiation, the most overt effect of which is the presence of a thick, green haze in the atmosphere. All inhabiting NCR troops in Searchlight at the time of the disaster either died from radiation poisoning or were rapidly ghoulified, with the latter turning feral within hours. The strong lingering radiation also served to attract radscorpions that took the opportunity to nest and feast on the corpses of the dead troopers, providing easy food to raise a queen.

    Despite the seeming lethality of the Legion's surprise attack, not all of the NCR's troops were caught up in it and became casualties: a handful of troopers led by First Sergeant Astor were on patrol away from the camp when the radiation cloud consumed it, and thus were spared their comrades' fates of death or ghoulification.[6] Once Astor and his men pieced together what happened, they resolved to remain at a safe distance close by, warning off unwary passers-by from entering Searchlight.[7][8]

    Even with Astor's group's survival, the high death toll of the disaster left the NCR military unable to marshal a meaningful resistance to the Legion's advancement so far away from Camp McCarran; exploiting this, Caesar ordered the centurion Aurelius of Phoenix to cross the Colorado River and erect a forward operating base of their own at Cottonwood Cove.[9] The loss of Searchlight and the subsequent founding of the Cottonwood outpost paved the way for increased Legion raids throughout the southern Mojave, including further atrocities such as Vulpes Inculta's slaughter of the town of Nipton and the conquest of Nelson and subsequent contesting of the NCR's Camp Forlorn Hope by forces under decanus Dead Sea.

    The Legion was not the only organization to take advantage of the fall of Searchlight either. Upon finding out about the disaster herself, Alice McLafferty of the Crimson Caravan Company discreetly hired a party of mercenary prospectors to loot the ruins for military-grade weapons, intact computer parts, and other technical equipment.[10][11]

    References Sergeant Astor: "There were a few others with me after it happened, including some of my superiors. Between radiation poisoning and attacks by the Legion they all died out." (Sergeant Astor's dialogue) This figure is based on the sum of both the 10 marked targets including Pvt. Edwards encountered during We Will All Go Together and feral trooper ghouls both regular and glowing that can spawn in the surrounding areas of Camp Searchlight Camp Searchlight terminal entries; Chief Fire Officer Terminal, Chief Fire Officer Report No. F1-218 Legion orders The Courier: "What happened at Searchlight?" Chief Hanlon: "Searchlight was worse. One of Caesar's frumentarii must have found something in there, flooded the whole camp with radiation." (Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier: "How did you survive?" First Sergeant Astor: "I was out on patrol at the time so I wasn't in the camp when it happened. There were a few others with me after it happened, including some of my superiors. Between radiation poisoning and attacks by the Legion they all died out." (Astor's dialogue) First Sergeant Astor: "Hang on there, traveler. You'll want to steer clear of this place - the whole town is irradiated to high hell." (Astor's dialogue) The Courier: "If the area is filled with radiation, why are you still here?" First Sergeant Astor: "I was stationed at Camp Searchlight before the incident. I've since taken it upon myself to keep travelers away from the area." (Astor's dialogue) The Courier: "You must be the one in charge here." Aurelius of Phoenix: "Of course I am, you fool. I am a Centurion! When Vulpes Inculta drove the NCR from Searchlight by clever means, Caesar himself ordered me to set up this camp and harass the Profligates! It's a modest presence, a single finger of the Legion reaching across the river's narrows. But with me here, it has an iron knuckle." (Aurelius of Phoenix's dialogue) Events of Wheel of Fortune in Fallout: New Vegas The Courier: "Who is your employer?" Logan: "Some caravan company, Crimson something or other. Some old broad said they're looking to expand their business, be more competitive or some shit."

25. #25Second Battle of Hoover Dam

    Keys: Second Battle of Hoover Dam, Hoover Dam

    Second Battle of Hoover Dam

    “ Kimball, Caesar, House... you'd think their whole world was that wall, cutting the Colorado. If I'd never laid eyes on it, never spoke of it... ” — Ulysses, Lonesome Road The Second Battle of Hoover Dam is the conjectural name applied to the second offensive mounted by Caesar's Legion against the New California Republic forces entrenched on Hoover Dam circa late 2281,(Date) but also can refer to the fighting which occurred across the surrounding Mojave Wasteland at the same time.[2]

    The adjacent event table only describes the forces present for the battle at Hoover Dam itself.

    Prelude After the First Battle of Hoover Dam, Mr. House knew that as soon as either the NCR or the Legion became victorious at the dam, they would turn their attention to New Vegas. In an attempt to stop this and allow the city to remain under his control, he had Victor hire a courier to retrieve his platinum chip, a data storage device capable of upgrading the city's defense systems and activating a massive army of Securitrons.[3] This would give House the ability to single-handedly crush the Legion and intimidate the NCR into a retreat.[4] However, the leader of the Chairmen, Benny, learned of this plan and ambushed House's courier outside of Goodsprings, shooting them in the head and leaving them for dead in a shallow grave, taking the platinum chip and throwing House's plans into disarray.

    The Courier survived, however, and began a journey to the New Vegas Strip to find Benny and get revenge, in the process of learning the true purpose of the platinum chip and its power. The Courier was faced with the choice of either giving the chip to House or destroying the Securitron army or even using it to create an army of their own. The Courier's journey attracted the attention of the NCR and the Legion, both wanting such an influential individual on their side. Also in preparation, the Courier traveled the land looking for other tribes and factions to ally with.

    Battle Hoover Dam The Courier's role in the battle depended greatly on which faction they sided with. If the Courier sided with House or Yes Man, the battle played out in a similar fashion, both involving the activation of the Securitron army. From there, the Courier was forced to fight their way across the dam and into the Legion camp. The NCR questline had the Courier perform the same basic task: fighting through enemy forces to get to the Legion camp on the other side of the dam.

    While traversing the dam, any aid the Courier had enlisted would have been acted upon by the corresponding faction. Once the Courier reached the other side of the dam and entered the Legate's camp, they would face off against Legate Lanius. The resulting confrontation would either have had the Courier fight and kill the legate, or solve the confrontation diplomatically. After dealing with the legate, the Courier returned to the main gate, at which point General Lee Oliver and his men destroyed it. If siding with the NCR, Oliver would have congratulated the Courier; however, if siding with Yes Man or Mr. House, the Courier would have been forced to confront General Oliver, either fighting and killing Oliver and his men or solving the issue through diplomacy.

    If the Courier sided with the polar opposite, the Legion, the battle played out in a similar fashion to the battle involving the Courier siding with the NCR, only it would play out in reverse; the Courier started at the Legate's camp, and then fought their way across the dam to reach the NCR's position, confronting General Oliver. Once again, the Courier was forced to choose between killing the general or convincing him to leave through diplomacy.

    Various factions from across the Mojave Wasteland may participate in the battle in support of the NCR, the Legion, or the Free Economic Zone of New Vegas under Mr. House or Yes Man. Other aspects of the battle are also changed depending on the Courier's previous actions.

    The Mojave Brotherhood of Steel sends several paladins to assist the NCR, if the Courier helped broker a formal truce between them during For the Republic, Part 2, which is only possible by completing Still in the Dark while Elder McNamara remains Elder. The Boomers will fight alongside the Courier against their primary enemy, if their aid was enlisted. Unlike other minor factions, the Boomers cannot be made to pledge strict allegiance to the NCR, nor the Legion, owing their loyalty and actions during the battle to the Courier directly. When siding with any faction except the Legion, they solely attack the Legion, regardless of the Courier's potential standing with the NCR while aiding the Free Economic Zone of New Vegas. On the other hand, when siding with the Legion, the Boomers will attack the NCR. If the B-29 Superfortress was not salvaged in Volare!, the Boomers fire their artillery at the opposing forces atop the dam. If the B-29 was salvaged, then the plane will fly over the dam, dropping bombs on the Courier's foes instead. The Enclave remnants appear to support the NCR or Legion if they are assembled during For Auld Lang Syne, depending on who the Courier asked them to fight for. Cannibal Johnson will outright refuse to participate when told to assist the Legion, and Orion Moreno will initially refuse if told to aid the NCR, but unlike Johnson, he can be convinced. Due to his strong NCR sympathies, a present Cannibal Johnson can potentially turn on the Courier and their allies, even his fellow remnants, when siding with the Free Economic Zone of New Vegas. If General Oliver is not convinced to back down during the final confrontation, Johnson will come to his defence. If the Enclave remnants are told to fight alongside the NCR, and Arcade Gannon decided to join the remnants during For Auld Lang Syne, he will appear separately during the battle assisting the NCR in his family's Enclave armor. The Great Khans will send a group of their warriors to assist the Legion if the Courier did not break their previously established alliance. If the Courier breaks the alliance during Oh My Papa, either by convincing Papa Khan/Regis while they are leader, or chosing to do so themselves should they became leader after Papa Khan's death (possible by informing Papa Khan of the completion of We Are Legion, which subsequently has the Courier named as his successor), the tribe can potentially send their warriors to fight alongside the NCR instead. This occurs if the Courier sides with the NCR, and Papa Khan is replaced as leader, either Regis or the Courier themselves, they may pledge support to the NCR during For the Republic, Part 2. However, if the Courier ultimately sides with Yes Man or Mr. House after having the Great Khans agree to support the NCR, they will not arrive in time to make it past the Legion's blockade of the western side of the dam. Lastly, if the Courier broke their alliance with the Legion, the Khans can be made to stage an independent suicidal stand against the Legion instead of pledging support for the NCR. This decision can again be made by convincing Regis, or by the Courier themselves as leader, but also by Papa Khan. In this situation, the Khans throw all of their might against the Legion and go on to die almost to the last. The Followers of the Apocalypse provide medical supplies to the frontlines for NCR forces if the Courier enlists their help at any point after Mr. House's elimination as a threat during For the Republic, Part 2 and the battle itself. If the Courier repaired the howizer at the Fort during I Hear You Knocking, the Legion uses it to attack NCR sniper positions from range. Elsewhere The details of the battle at Hoover Dam are unclear. However, the fighting was not just limited to that relatively small location; violence engulfed the entire Mojave Wasteland as Caesar's Legion and its allies attacked NCR targets and locations across the region, with varying levels of success.

    A coup (Operation Racket) may have been staged on the New Vegas Strip by the Omertas, financed by the Legion, and potentially assisted by the White Gloves. The coup is successful if the Courier aided the Omertas in finalizing their plans to acquire more weapons during How Little We Know, regardless of the allegiance of the White Gloves. Albeit weakened, the coup still occurs if the Courier did not finish aiding the Omertas, or failed to thwart their plans instead. However, in this case, they were stopped by the coalition of Chairmen, Securitrons and NCR MPs. The White Gloves also joined the effort to stop the Omertas if they were not recruited by the Legion. If the Courier foiled the Omertas' plans, even if the White Gloves were recruited by the Legion, Racket never happened and the NCR Embassy was bombed in turn. The bombing was possibly the work of the Legion's frumentarii, or the White Gloves if they were recruited, in an attempt to cause at least some disruption on the Strip after their initial plan failed. (NCR Emergency Radio) The Legion spy at Camp McCarran will execute their plan to bomb the monorail connecting the base to the Strip if the Courier did not catch them for the NCR during I Put a Spell on You. If the Omertas' coup occurred, the monorail's destruction prevented the NCR from sending more reinforcements to help stop them, likely causing more casualties on the Strip as a result. (NCR Emergency Radio) The Fiends, in the event at least one of their four leaders remained alive, launched an attack on the NCR at Camp McCarran. If Cook-Cook, Motor-Runner, Violet and Driver Nephi all died beforehand, the gang were unable to coordinate themselves properly and the attack never occurred. If Motor-Runner is killed, but at least one of the other Three-Card Bounty leaders remains alive, they stage a disorganized assault. If the Courier sided with the NCR or Mr. House, the Fiend attack is repulsed with only minor NCR casualties. Even if only Motor-Runner remained alive, his leadership allows the Fiends to lead a brutal attack on Camp McCarran. If the Courier sided with Mr. House, the gang will overrun McCarran and deal devastating losses to the NCR. If the Courier sided with the NCR, they are repelled, albeit at the cost of heavy casualties for the NCR. If the Courier sided with Yes Man and the Fiends launched their attack, no matter the strength, they successfully defeat the NCR. If the Courier sided with Caesar's Legion and the Fiends launched their attack, no matter the strength, they are repelled by the NCR. (ending slides) Riots broke across New Vegas outside of the Strip. If the Courier escalated tensions between the NCR and the Kings into all-out war during G.I. Blues, the damage in Freeside was worsened by the latter staging targeted attacks on both NCR soldiers and civilians in the area. However, if a formal truce was declared in Kings Gambit, tensions were eased without a formal truce in G.I. Blues, or the situation was left unresloved, the outcome is unclear. The Kings' reaction likely ranged from helping to contain the riots in Freeside, to abstaining and allowing the NCR to deal with them. The Fiends' actions during the battle play a significant role in the outcome of the riots. If the Fiends failed to assemble an attack on Camp McCarran, the NCR are able to divert enough additional troops across New Vegas to successfully quell the rioting. If the Courier enlisted the Followers of the Apocalypse to support an independent Vegas, they will provide medical support to the locals involved in the riots. (ending slides) Camp Forlorn Hope was attacked by the Legion. If the Courier did not complete either mutually exclusive quest, Restoring Hope or We Are Legion, the Legion is able to take Forlorn Hope, but some NCR troops manage to retreat. If Alpha Squad of First Recon was present at Forlorn Hope following Driver Nephi's death during Three-Card Bounty, and neither side was aided in their respective quests, the NCR repels the Legion with minimal casualties. If the Courier completed Restoring Hope, but Alpha Squad was not present, the NCR hold.their position, but with heavy casualties. If both Resoring Hope was completed, and Alpha Squad present, then the engagement was such a crushingly one-sided NCR victory that a radio operator suggests that it will "surely be the most decisive victory in this entire battle." Regardless of Alpha Squad's presence, if the Courier completed We Are Legion, the camp was totally overrun, with the victorious Legion then continuing onwards to assist their forces attacking Novac. (NCR Emergency Radio) Camp Golf was attacked by the Legion. If the Courier did nothing for either side, the NCR Rangers defeated the Legion, throwing back their attack with moderate casualties. If the Courier trained the Misfits, the Legion was defeated more easily, with the Misfits distinguishing themselves. If the Courier aided the Legion, then the camp fell and Chief Hanlon and the other rangers stationed there were killed, many by crucifixion. (NCR Emergency Radio and ending slides) Novac was attacked by the Legion. If the Courier assisted the Bright Brotherhood in their pilgrimage during Come Fly With Me, the group returned in time to aid the settlement. If the Courier sided with Legion, the Bright Brotherhood returned during the battle itself and facilitated the successful evacuation of many of Novac's citizens before the Legion overwhelmed the town. If the Courier sided with any other faction, Novac repelled the Legion onslaught at the cost of many citizen's lives. In this scenario, the Bright Brotherhood arrived in the weeks following the battle, helping to rebuild the town's defenses. If the Courier killed, or did not assist, the Bright Brotherhood, Novac became deserted. Lacking the Bright Brotherhood's aid, Novac's citizens are massacured in the Legion attack, if the Courier sided with them. Alternatively, when siding with any other faction, the Legion attack is again repelled at heavy cost, but the surviving townspeople are eventually forced to flee the settlement from the gradual influx of feral ghouls from the REPCONN Test Site. (NCR Emergency Radio and ending slides) HELIOS One is attacked by the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel if the Courier sided with Yes Man without activating the Securitron army, and Still in the Dark was completed by siding with Hardin, or left unresloved. The Brotherhood claimed victory over the NCR or Legion forces stationed there, and inflicted heavy damage to retreating NCR forces in the surrounding area. (ending slides) Aftermath This section is transcluded from Fallout: New Vegas endings. To change it, please edit the transcluded page. Independent Narrated by Ron Perlman

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    1 House end slide 01 The Courier, with the aid of Yes Man, drove both the Legion and the NCR from Hoover Dam, securing New Vegas' independence from both factions. With Mr. House out of the picture, the remaining Securitrons on The Strip were hard-pressed to keep order. Anarchy ruled the streets. When the fires died, New Vegas remained, assuming its position as an independent power in the Mojave.Icon sound trigger Complete Wild Card: You and What Army? for an independent New Vegas without upgrading the Securitron army. 2 House end slide 01 The Courier, with the aid of Yes Man, drove both the Legion and the NCR from Hoover Dam, securing New Vegas' independence from both factions. With Mr. House out of the picture, part of the Securitron army was diverted to The Strip to keep order. Any chaos on the streets was ended, quickly. Chaos became uncertainty, then acceptance, with minimal loss of life. New Vegas assumed its position as an independent power in the Mojave.Icon sound trigger Complete Wild Card: You and What Army? for an independent New Vegas with the Securitron army. Mr. House Narrated by Ron Perlman

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    1 House end slide 01 Mr. House's Securitron army took control of Hoover Dam and the Strip, pushing both the Legion and the exhausted NCR out of New Vegas. Mr. House continued to run New Vegas his way, a despotic vision of pre-War glory. The streets were orderly, efficient, cold. New Vegas continued to be the sole place in the wasteland where fortunes were won and lost in the blink of an eye.Icon sound trigger Complete The House Always Wins for Mr. House. Caesar's Legion Narrated by Ron Perlman

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    1 Legion end slide 01 Caesar entered The Strip as though it was his Triumph. The Legion pushed the NCR out of New Vegas entirely, driving them back to the Mojave Outpost. The Legion occupied all major locations, enslaving much of the population and peacefully lording over the rest. Under the Legion's banner, civilization - unforgiving as it was - finally came to the Mojave Wasteland.Icon sound trigger Do not allow Caesar to die in Et Tumor, Brute?, complete the endgame quest Veni, Vidi, Vici for Caesar's Legion. 2 Legion end slide 02 The Legate is crowned as the new Caesar. He entered The Strip as though it was a military target, destroying anyone who resisted him. The Legion brutally occupied all major locations, killing and enslaving a large amount of the population. Under the Legion's banner, civilization - savage as it was - finally came to the Mojave Wasteland.Icon sound trigger Allow Caesar to die in Et Tumor, Brute?, complete the endgame quest Veni, Vidi, Vici for Caesar's Legion. New California Republic Narrated by Ron Perlman

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    1 NCR end slide 01 The New California Republic celebrated its second victory at Hoover Dam, establishing definitive control over the entire Mojave Wasteland. Soon after, they negotiated terms to annex The Strip, Freeside, and many surrounding communities. The Mojave Wasteland, at long last, had entirely fallen under the NCR's banner.Icon sound trigger Complete the endgame quest Eureka! for the NCR. Notes ^ (Date) This is an estimate for the earliest date based solely on scripted timeskips in the base game and add-ons' main questlines. All other events are assumed variable, so they are not included. Furthermore, Dead Money is excluded; although there are presumably travel times to and from the Sierra Madre, they do not include any scripted timeskips. Fallout: New Vegas begins on October 19, 2281. For the main quest of Honest Hearts, traveling to and from Zion Canyon takes 14 days each way, for a total of 28 days.[5] Three days pass during the intro of Old World Blues.[6] Traveling to and from the Divide takes three days each way, for another six days.[7] This makes up a total of 37 days from scripted travel time in the add-ons, after which the in-game date would be at least November 25, 2281. Yes Man and Mr. House's participation in this battle are mutually exclusive; if the Courier chose to support an independent Vegas, then they would already have had control of the Securitron army and House would have been long-dead (or irrevocably disconnected from the Lucky 38's mainframe computers) by the time the battle started. Despite Yes Man mentioning that enlisting the Followers of the Apocalypse was the ideal solution theorised by Mr. House among his projections about riots breaking out across New Vegas, Mr. House never asks the Courier to help in facilitating as such during his questline. Appearances The Second Battle of Hoover Dam occurs in Fallout: New Vegas.

    NCR Emergency Radio: "Deploying battalion 14 to the southwestern flank." (NCR Emergency Radio) The Courier: "What should I expect at the dam?" Robert House: "Imagine two snarling dogs fighting over a curve of bone, perhaps the rib of their master, long-dead. It'll be a pitched battle, that's a certainty. Perhaps the greatest battle the Earth has seen since the human race nearly made itself extinct." The Courier: "Any speculation on Legion tactics?" Robert House: "The Legion will mount a ferocious and determined frontal assault from the east, that much is certain. Still, Caesar is a capable strategist. I'd be surprised if he hasn't found some way to infiltrate the dam, or the NCR's rear areas." The Courier: "Any speculation on Legion tactics?" Robert House: "With Caesar dead, it's hard to know what to expect. The Legate, Lanius, is renowned as a brutal man, not a subtle tactician. Frontal assaults, wave attacks - these are the sort of tactics one would expect from such a man." The Courier: "How will the NCR defend Hoover Dam?" Robert House: "General Oliver's strategy - or 'tunnel vision,' as I like to call it - has been to mass troops at Hoover Dam. He wants to out-fight the Legion in a straight-forward slugging match, and then, when they rout, pursue and destroy them in detail. A crushing, decisive victory of this sort would overshadow the tactical ingenuity of Chief Hanlon's defense four years ago, you see." The Courier: "What's your battle plan for the Dam?" Robert House: "A good deal should be obvious to you by now. I won't spoil the rest by talking out of turn." (Robert House's dialogue) The Courier: "How do you intend to enforce your claim on the city?" Robert House: "To enforce, one must have force - a position of strength. Years ago, when I detected NCR scouts roaming the Mojave, I could tell from their uniforms that these were no mere tribesmen. I knew it was only a matter of time before an army appeared, to take control of the dam. And I knew my Securitrons wouldn't be enough to oppose them. And so I recruited the Three Families. Vegas belongs to me because I mustered enough strength to bring the NCR to the bargaining table." (Robert House's dialogue) The Courier: "What will you do with your Securitrons?" Robert House: "My army will do what an army does best - defend territory from invaders... and maintain order." (Robert House's dialogue)

26. #26Siege of Hopeville and Ashton

    Keys: Siege of Hopeville and Ashton, Hopeville, Ashton

    Siege of Hopeville and Ashton Event Siege of Hopeville and Ashton Divide3 The ruins of Hopeville and Ashton Ashton Overview Location Hopeville and Ashton, New California Date Sometime before 2277 Result Legion victory Both sides forced out of the region by the Hopeville and Ashton Disaster NCR Supply Route destroyed. Involved parties NCR Flag New California Republic CaesarLegionSymbol Caesar's Legion Leaders NCR Flag Blister CaesarLegionSymbol Blade CaesarLegionSymbol Bonesaw CaesarLegionSymbol Beast Forces NCR Army New California Republic Rangers Caesar's Legion Casualties Heavy Heavy Connected events Part of: NCR-Legion War Next: Destruction of Hopeville and Ashton

    The Siege of Hopeville and Ashton was the conflict between the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion between the towns of Hopeville and Ashton in New California, beginning sometime before 2277 and ending in that year with the Destruction of Hopeville and Ashton.

    Prelude A small survivalist community established itself in the area at an unknown point in history. Kept alive, it prospered, and more settlers moved into the new city. It prospered enough in fact, to draw the attention of the New California Republic, who began to annex it swiftly for a newly established supply line across the treacherous Divide into the Mojave Wasteland.[1]

    Battle These actions drew the attention of Caesar's Legion, which, in its bid to take the Mojave Wasteland, attempted to cut the supply line (after successfully severing New Canaan's route), sending countless frumentarii and assassins to strike the route after a sizeable force of legionaries struck against the Republic's forces located there.[2] But the battle did not destroy the settlement. That was the work of the Courier in 2277, who, returning to the area again, carried a package from Navarro by order of the NCR,[3] containing the activated ICBM detonator to the Divide, a short time before the NCR and the Legion jumped at each other's throats. When this device was close enough, it remote linked with the ICBM computers, sending a signal to the dormant nuclear missiles lying in the silos beneath the ground. They then began detonating one after another, splitting the earth, cracking and twisting the landscape, causing massive earthquakes, causing the total destruction of the route.

    Aftermath Entire companies of NCR soldiers in the Divide were trapped together with their Legion foes. The disaster created the new Divide; a wind-beaten maze of twisting canyons, skin-flaying dust storms and mutated skinless hateful beasts, created from the trapped soldiers remaining inside the ruins of Hopeville and Ashton. In the end, the battle ended as a pyrrhic victory for the Legion with the destruction of the route at an unsurmountable and severe cost.

    Appearances The Siege of Hopeville and Ashton is mentioned in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

    References The Courier: "[NCR] NCR would have needed this supply line open to reinforce the Mojave - and Hoover Dam." Ulysses: "The Dam. That Old World Wall." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "[Legion] The Legion would want to cut this road off if it had been a supply line to Hoover Dam." Ulysses: "The Dam. That Old World Wall." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "What happened here?" Ulysses: "You delivered a package. Had markings that matched those in the Divide. Not all... but enough. Military markings, from some place the Bear had savaged in the West. Maybe seeing those markings on it reminded you of home... made you carry it."

27. #27Arizona Spillway

    Keys: Arizona Spillway

    Arizona Spillway Fallout: New Vegas location Arizona Spillway Exterior Interior FNV Arizona Spillway 2 Overview General Gameplay Technical Factions New California Republic (formerly) Caesar's Legion Layout Part of Arizona The Arizona Spillway is an unmarked location within Hoover Dam in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background Situated on the eastern side of the Dam overlooking the Colorado River, both it and the Nevada Spillway on the western side form an integral part of the Dam's infrastructure, providing the means to control the flow of water from Lake Mead into the river below. It is a concrete-lined open channels about 650 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 170 feet deep on each canyon wall lined with 18 inches of concrete and the floors with 24 inches. Spilling water was directed into the spillway tunnel, exiting into the Colorado River below.

    Sometime after the First Battle of Hoover Dam, the combined events of the Battle of Willow Beach and the Battle of Arizona Spillway culminated in the Legion pushing the NCR off of the east banks of the River.

    Appearances The Arizona Spillway is mentioned in the Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition and appears in Fallout: New Vegas. The location also appears on an early map of Fallout: New Vegas[1] and a map of the Hoover Dam seen in-game.[2]

    Behind the scenes The Arizona Spillway is based on the real-world location of the Arizona Spillway, located on the eastern side of the Hoover Dam in the state of Arizona.

    USBR FAQ Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition pp. 372-376: "[3.33] Hoover Dam All of the Main Quest in Act III centers around this location, as do the Main Quests involving the visit of President Aaron Kimball. A stronghold of extreme strategic importance for centuries, this location has seen recent turmoil between major Faction too. A few years before current events, Caesar's Legion rolled in, led by ex-Mormon missionary Joshua Graham, Caesar's Legate. Not considering NCR's army to be a serious threat, Graham exercised somewhat lax control over the Legion. During the Battle of Hoover Dam, NCR Rangers and Sharpshooters from First Recon employed risky tactics against the Legion with the help of the enlisted Troopers, and despite horrific loss of life, Caesar's forces were pushed back, but not routed." "The NCR has been holding the dam continuously since, and have fortified positions along the dam and up and down the west side of the Colorado River. Recently, the Legion pushed the NCR off of the east side of the river at the Battle of Willow Beach (which destroyed an NCR military camp) and the Battle of Arizona Spillway. Day to day military operations at the dam are under the command of Colonel Moore. While troopers are active here, there are also a large number of civilian contractors who are trying to keep the dam running. They are of a secondary concern to Moore, who is preparing from for an impending attack by Caesar and a visit by President Kimball." (Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)

28. #28Ashton

    Keys: Ashton

    Ashton Lonesome Road settlement Ashton Ashton Overview General Gameplay Technical Creatures Marked men Layout Part of The Divide Maps World map Ashton loc “ At the end of the High Road lies Ashton. ” — Ulysses Ashton was a pre-War city in the former American Southwest within the area of the Divide and is a location in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

    Background Main article: Background of the Divide Prior to the Great War, along with its neighbor of Hopeville, Ashton was home to several Army-owned nuclear missile bases with silos housing them. On October 23, 2077, along with the rest of the world, it burned in nuclear fire. Although the Ashton area was a major part of the ballistic defense matrix, the missiles raining down on the city apparently struck it by surprise, as the ICBMs never left their silos and remained there for the next 200 years.

    Close to two centuries later, a small but growing community emerged near the ruins of Ashton and Hopeville. Though small at first, a single courier was willing to travel the hard road to and from the community and the more prosperous territory in the west, New California.[1] Naming themselves the Divide, it was a community of hardy folk, gradually building a new future using the symbols of the Old World as their foundation.[2] To some, the Divide was a new nation in the making, slowly stirring to life and developing new ideals from the ashes of the Old World they were left with.[3]

    In the region also known as the Divide, the community's location along a sparse, but active trade route served as a connection to the communities of the Mojave Wasteland to the east, and the wealth of the New California Republic to the west as travelers from the latter began to traverse it, establishing a new supply line to the region as a means to bolster their military occupation of the Hoover Dam in the former.[4] This drew the attention of Caesar's Legion, who attempted to cut the new connection by sending in their Frumentarii.[5]

    Despite the support it gave to the NCR's expansion, any skirmishes with enemies of the republic did not destroy the settlement, however. Instead, it was the work of the same courier that breathed new life into it that led to its destruction. When the Courier returned to the Divide again, they were on a job to carry a package recovered from Navarro by order of the NCR after their offensive against the Enclave garrison there. Unbeknownst to both the Courier and the NCR, the package contained the activated ICBM launch codes,[6][Non-game 1] and when it was brought back to its origin point, it sent a signal to the dormant nuclear missiles, causing them to begin detonating one after another, splitting the earth, cracking and twisting the landscape, and causing massive earthquakes.

    After the destruction of the Divide, all but a single missile silo were destroyed until the Courier's return in 2281, where they were forced to activate the launch of the final missile to pass through the sealed bunker, resulting in the creation of the Courier's Mile when it detonated over a portion of Hopeville.[7] Hopeville and Ashton were left as massive metal graveyards composed by the skeletons of buildings and makeshift camps inhabited by the marked men, ghoulified former members of both the NCR Army and Caesar's Legion forced to survive the brutal living within the Divide. Many ruined elevated highways have collapsed and numerous cars litter the area.

    Locations Ashton missile silo Ashton silo control station Appearances Ashton appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

    Behind the scenes The in-game Ashton is based on the real-world city of the same name, once serving as a water stop on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, located in Nye County near Death Valley and the California/Nevada state line. The rail lines were taken up in 1943 for World War II and officially become defunct when the company and town was abandoned in 1946.

    References Ulysses: "Never would have known the Divide had it not been for you. The road you made with your tracks, again and again. You were the only one willing to make the journey to and from here... a hard road. Kept the land before the Divide alive through seasons, storms......can't have been just a job. Was something more to you. Don't feel for a place that hard unless it's home." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "This road leads nowhere. There's nothing in the Divide." Ulysses: "Many in the Mojave think the Divide's nothing but canyon and storm. Wasn't always. There was life, a town, farther West... not talking about an Old World town like Hopeville... more recent. Something you saw in your lifetime. It had the name "the Divide," too. But rather than cracks in the earth, it was a road from the West into the Mojave, a supply line. Took a Courier to make that road. You. Back then, you saw the road with eyes facing East. This time... the Divide's in the other direction. And if your eyes try to make sense of it when you reach it... home's not what it was." The Courier: "If you blame me for what happened here at the Divide - why do you care?" Ulysses: "The community that was once here... and the package you brought... both had markings of the Divide. Markings of America. You've seen the marks, the symbol. As early as the Hopeville silo, maybe. Carried it etched on your weapons. The Divide, its buildings, its people, were built around those same markings, surrounded them here... ...markings like the flag on my back. When I followed your road to the Divide those years ago, I saw the symbol I wore all around me. An Old World symbol. Strong, to survive here - its people, strong. Outlast the Bear, outlast the Bull. Promise of something better. Caesar was right to want it dead. NCR was right to want to rake their claws in it. Seeing it... changed me, just as seeing Hoover Dam changed Caesar and the NCR. Seeing it end changed me, too." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "So you believed in this place. What it once was." Ulysses: "There was hope here, another chance. A new nation, stirring to life. A place I could have set my flag. Not the America of old. But something larger than the tribes of the East, something larger than the houses of the West. Something better. The Divide... could have bridged both, like Hoover Dam. Now like the Dam, it's too covered in blood to see what it could have been. You gave life to this place. I followed your road here, saw the Divide. You led me here, so that I could see. Then, you brought it to an end." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "[Legion] The Legion would want to cut this road off if it had been a supply line to Hoover Dam." Ulysses: "The Dam. That Old World Wall." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "[NCR] NCR would have needed this supply line open to reinforce the Mojave - and Hoover Dam." Ulysses: "The Dam. That Old World Wall." (Ulysses' dialogue) The Courier: "What happened here?" Ulysses: "You delivered a package. Had markings that matched those in the Divide. Not all... but enough. Military markings, from some place the Bear had savaged in the West. Maybe seeing those markings on it reminded you of home... made you carry it." (Ulysses' dialogue) Events of Lonesome Road

29. #29Bullhead City

    Keys: Bullhead City

    Bullhead City is a location in Arizona. In 2253, President Tibbett was removed from office by a vote of no confidence following her timid response to the massacre of 38 NCR citizens at the hands of Mojave raiders near Bullhead City.[Non-game 1] Her replacement, President Wendell Peterson, ordered three battalions of NCR infantry into that area of the Mojave in retaliation.[Non-game 1]

    The NCR completed the removal of tribes from the areas surrounding Bullhead City in 2270.[Non-game 1] The campaign, known as the Pacification of the Mojave, elevated then-General Aaron Kimball to the status of a national hero.[Non-game 1] As all territory east of the Colorado River is recognized as Caesar's Legion territory under his direct rule or his representatives, it's not clear who actually controls Bullhead City by 2281.

30. #30Camp Willow

    Keys: Camp Willow

    It is known that there was an NCR military camp located at Willow Beach, southeast of Fortification Hill. However, sometime after the First Battle of Hoover Dam the Battle of Willow Beach took place there and as a result, the camp was destroyed. This later led to the NCR being pushed off of the east side of the Colorado River by Caesar's Legion. The location of Camp Willow on the map is geographically close to that of the real-world location of Willow Beach in Mohave County, Arizona.

31. #31Crimson River Trail

    Keys: Crimson River Trail

    According to Ulysses, during his time in the Legion, soldiers went on forced marches throughout the expanse of the Crimson River Trail somewhere within their territory. Throughout the trail, a deadly trek that cost many lives, possibly to exhaustion and possibly to cazadores, broc flowers and xander roots were common and plentiful, which the Legion leaders used to make bitter drink in order to keep the soldiers going. The fictional Crimson River Trail may be based on the real-world Crimson Trail, a hiking trail that traverses the entirety of Logan Canyon in northeastern Utah, along the Logan River.

32. #32Caesar's Legion safehouse

    Keys: Caesar's Legion safehouse, safehouse

    Caesar's Legion safehouse Edit

    Fallout: New Vegas settlement Caesar's Legion safehouse Caesar's Legion Safehouse Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Veteran Atticus Factions Caesar's Legion Maps World map Caesars Legion Safehouse loc “ You've proven yourself to be a true friend of the Legion. We have a safehouse available to our agents in the Mojave - here's the key. It's an excellent place to rest and store extra equipment. In addition, one of our veterans, Atticus, visits the house every few days. While he's there, you can acquire items useful for stealthy operations against our enemies from him. ” — Lucius The Caesar's Legion safehouse is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Obtaining The key to the safehouse is held by Lucius at the Fort and is only obtained once one has a Liked or higher reputation with the Legion and speaks to him. He does not carry the key in his inventory, and therefore cannot be killed or pickpocketed for it.

    Layout Situated southeast of Nipton and south of Wolfhorn Ranch, outside of the building, there is a campfire. Inside, the house consists of two large rooms connected by stairs. The room downstairs has two cabinets and three footlockers, all of which can be safely used for storage. One wall of the room is lined with shelving units. There are three beds, all of which count as owned by the player character and confer the full benefits of well rested sleep. There is also a radio tuned to Radio New Vegas, and a water fountain providing clean water. The safehouse is visited every 3.5 days by Veteran Atticus.

    On each of the three beds, there are sets of Legion armor. One of the beds has Legion centurion armor placed on it in poor condition, allowing the Courier to receive the centurion's armor without killing a Legion member or stealing one.

    Notable loot Legion centurion armor, centurion helmet and a chainsaw on the left bed. Legion vexillarius armor, vexillarius helmet and a sniper rifle on the middle bed. Lucky shades, Legion praetorian armor and a displacer glove on the right bed. Two Stealth Boys, two Cateye, two random skill magazines - Offered by Veteran Atticus every 3.5 in-game days (84 hours). If the player character develops a negative reputation with the Legion after the safehouse key is obtained, Atticus will still offer items if Legion-faction armor is worn when speaking to him.

33. #33Cottonwood Cove

    Keys: Cottonwood Cove, Cove

    Cottonwood Cove Fallout: New Vegas settlement Cottonwood Cove Exterior Signage Cottonwood Cove Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Aurelius of Phoenix Factions Caesar's Legion Creatures Legion mongrels Layout Sections Cottonwood overlook Buildings Cottonwood Cove HQ Cottonwood Cove mess hall Cottonwood Cove restroom Cottonwood Cove storage Cottonwood Cove shack Maps World map Local map Cottonwood Cove loc "City of Lost Angels"Icon sound trigger “ Believe me, I would love orders to take Cottonwood Cove apart and kick the Legion back across the river. But, the brass at McCarran doesn't want us to waste resources on something they consider a minor target. So we just get to watch. ” — Green Cottonwood Cove is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    One of the few stable strongholds of Caesar's Legion west of the Colorado River in 2281, the cove serves as both a military outpost protecting access to their main base at Fortification Hill and overseeing raiding parties throughout the southern desert, and a slave camp where "prospects" are judged whether to be sent upriver as slaves or left to the dirt as corpses.

    Background Once a small resort location before the Great War, circa. 2281, Cottonwood Cove was selected as the site of an outpost by Caesar's Legion, under the command of the centurion Aurelius of Phoenix. The Cove became a staging area where captives taken by the Legion are then sent by boat over the Colorado River into Arizona to be processed as slaves, as well as a launching point for Legion raids in the southern areas of the Mojave.[1] It has since become the largest single encampment of Legion forces on the western side of the Colorado River and is their foothold into Nevada, using the river to transfer troops and supplies to Fortification Hill on the east bank.[Non-game 1] The Legion was able to prevent retaliatory conflict from their enemy, the New California Republic through the actions of the frumentarius Vulpes Inculta. He orchestrated the collapse of the NCR's closest stronghold of Camp Searchlight via the unsealing of several barrels of nuclear waste that had been stored in the old fire station, enshrouding the entire area in radiation.[2][3]

    When the camp fell and the NCR's presence in the region waned, Aurelius crossed the Colorado and put down the Legion's roots in the Cove before beginning to arrange for raiding parties to continue disrupting NCR-allied caravans and troop movements.[4] Rather than risk sending couriers that could be intercepted, the centurion had all communication to and from Cottonwood Cove done over ham radio. Relying on the martial strength of the two contubernia at his command, Aurelius has accomplished killed and capturing a number of NCR soldiers over four times as much as that of his own forces.[5] Aurelius himself thinks of the camp's presence as a modest one, "a single finger of the Legion reaching across the river's narrows," but with his forces on hand, they equate to "an iron knuckle."[4]

    Layout The Legion camp is concentrated among the former resort buildings on the edge of the bay. Legionaries patrol the area around the buildings and up to the edge of the resort, near the welcome sign adorned with heads on pikes, while Legion explorers accompanied by Legion mongrels cover the entry points.

    There is a hollowed-out rock to the left of the fast travel point to Cottonwood Cove. The rock will be marked with the phrase "the sun is killing me" and is located in the path between the two crucifixes. Centurion Aurelius of Phoenix maintains his command post at the headquarters set up in the concrete building overlooking the bay, with legionaries quartered in red tents surrounding it. Most of the resort buildings are boarded off, with the exception of the mess hall. A shack set up by the overlook is used as a supply dump.

    The Cottonwood overlook overlooks the area and contains a truck packed with nuclear waste barrels leaning over the cliffside.[2] One can elect to dump the radioactive contents from the transport truck into the camp below, killing all occupants. This action will not deny access to the Fort. Cursor Lucullus will wear a radiation suit, and if he is otherwise dead, the Courier can take the barge independently. A 50 Lockpick skill level is required to open up the back of the truck.

    On the eastern shore is the dock used by Cursor Lucullus to ferry to and from the Fort, serving as the only access point to the Legion's main encampment. A trio of overturned canoes rest on the shoreline, and next to them is where the boat to Dry Wells will spawn if the corresponding choice is made in the Lonesome Road add-on.

    Inhabitants Anders (before completing Aba Daba Honeymoon) Aurelius of Phoenix Canyon Runner Cursor Lucullus Decanus Severus Mrs. Weathers (before completing Left My Heart) Kenny Weathers (before completing Left My Heart) Sammy Weathers (before completing Left My Heart) Notable loot Grognak the Barbarian - On the nightstand in Aurelius of Phoenix's office. Legion raid plans - In one of the filing cabinets in the headquarters building. Recompense of the Fallen and Legion patrol notes - In the desk of Aurelius of Phoenix's office. Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - On a shelf inside the women's restroom. Related quests Aba Daba Honeymoon Arizona Scavenger Caching in at the Cove Eye for an Eye I Forgot to Remember to Forget Left My Heart Render Unto Caesar Lonesome Road (add-on) The Apocalypse

    Notes When approaching Cottonwood Cove with Boone as an active companion, he will stop the Courier and state that it is a Legion slave camp, that he has been here before, and if he continues to follow them, he will kill everything in it. After every Legionary in the camp is killed, Boone will sometimes express disappointment that there were not more of them. Boone's statement of having been to the Cove before implies that it was the location where he was forced to execute his wife Carla before she could be sold into slavery. If the Courier elects to release the radioactive waste on the area, and one already has (or subsequently obtains) the Mark of Caesar, Cursor Lucullus will still wait to ferry them up the river, but he will be wearing a radiation suit. If Lucullus has been killed, it is still possible to travel to the Fort by simply activating the raft at the end of the pier. If the radioactive barrels were released upon Cottonwood Cove without freeing the Weathers family, the family will be killed and Left My Heart will fail. Although the individuals in the area are killed instantly by the radioactive waste, the subsequent radiation level in the area is very low and does not prevent anyone from entering the area afterward. Looting Aurelius' office will result in negative Karma. Cottonwood Cove is based on the real-world location of Cottonwood Cove Resort and Marina, located on the Colorado River in Clark County, Nevada. The resort features a similar layout that is mirrored in the in-game equivalents. Cottonwood Cove to have a more linear point of entry down the large hill (excluding the nearby cliffs) so that the Legion explorers could more easily confront the player character.

34. #34Dry Wells

    Keys: Dry Wells, Dry Well's

    Dry Wells Lonesome Road location Dry Wells Exterior Dry Wells Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Unnamed U.S. general (pre-War)[1] Gaius Magnus Factions United States Armed Forces (pre-War) Caesar's Legion Twisted Hairs (formerly) Creatures Irradiated Legion explorer Irradiated Legionary prime Irradiated Legionary veteran Layout Part of Arizona Map exits Boat to Dry Wells Maps World map Local map Dry Wells loc "City of Lost Angels"Icon sound trigger “ No, opposite of that. It's where my tribe was taken. Where another history was put to the blade, lesson taught. It is where we realized Vulpes did not approach us as equals. Where we realized the wolf had come, and we watched our history die. Now it belongs to Legion... and all the death there now belongs to them as well. Not revenge... just the way of things when you own them. ” — Ulysses Dry Wells is a location in the Mojave Wasteland added with the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

    Background Before the Great War, Dry Wells was used as a encampment of the United States Armed Forces, commanded by an unnamed general.[1] At some point after the War, a tribe called the Twisted Hairs occupied the town, and it became one of their prominent territories (though not their homeland). Some time prior to 2281, Dry Wells became more infamous in the memory of its members, one especially, as the place of their destruction when the tribe was betrayed by Vulpes Inculta at Caesar's command. Their alliance, used to defeat many other tribes in Arizona, was broken as they were assimilated into the ranks of Caesar's Legion, with those who resisted being crucified along Interstate 40.[2][3]

    By 2281, the centurion Gaius Magnus came to reside in Dry Wells with his force of legionaries. The area will be found irradiated and destroyed if the Courier nukes Legion territory.

    Layout Initially, Dry Wells can only be reached by going to Cottonwood Cove and taking the boat to Dry Wells there, which is only available if The Apocalypse was completed by picking any option that causes the Divide missiles to target Legion territory. After visiting it, the map marker for Dry Wells becomes a fast travel point.

    The area consists of several burned tents and crumbling buildings along a road from an irradiated stretch of the river, ending in a large crater. Attempting to enter the crater will cause instant death. Just south of the boat the Courier arrives in are a couple of crates behind an overturned boat with random loot. Several burned tents are also scattered about the area, along with numerous ammunition boxes and weapons crates. The entire camp is filled with irradiated Legionaries and irradiated Legion explorers, along with the unique enemy, Gaius Magnus.

    Notable loot Armor of the 87th Tribe - Worn by Gaius Magnus. Red Victory grenade rifle - Overlooking the western side of camp, there is a tower that is broken but still standing. On a cliff beside it is a burnt tent. Beneath the frame of the tent is a gun case, in which the weapon can be found. "Missing" shipment - In the same gun case as the Red Victory grenade rifle. Two lead-lined metal boxes at the same burned tent as described above. They are guaranteed to hold Med-X, Stimpaks, RadAway and an issue of either Lad's Life or Today's Physician. Random advanced armor (Combat armor, reinforced mark 2, T-45 or T-51 power armor) - Located inside a metal box on a ledge, south-southeast of the crater. The ledge can be accessed by traversing a concrete slab, which leans onto it. Alongside the box are two emergency kits and four ammo boxes. Three high-tech gun cases - One is in the first destroyed house encountered on the left (west) side of the road after entering the camp, surrounded by four ammo boxes. The other two are in the rubble of a destroyed building near the northwest corner of the camp, next to a military shipping crate containing random ammunition (including potential mini nukes), weapon mods and weapon repair kits, as well as four additional ammo boxes.

    Notes Unlike nearly every other location introduced through add-ons, companions can travel with the player character to Dry Wells and the Long 15. Some Legion explorers may be using Stealth Boys upon entering the area. Due to the high level of radiation towards the back end of the area, irradiated legionaries regenerate health very quickly and must be drawn away towards the docks to have an easier time killing them. Killing any irradiated Legion troops will yield further Legion infamy. This makes it difficult to obtain the Armor of the 87th Tribe while remaining on good terms with the Legion if the Mark of Caesar was acquired after completing The Apocalypse but before traveling to Dry Wells. Approaching the edge of the blast crater (the far end of the site when arriving at the location) will result in a radiation level of up to 35 rads/sec, as opposed to 20/sec max in the Long 15. Jumping into the crater in either location will result in a massive spike in this rate. Additionally, the amount of radiation increases exponentially as the player character approaches the crater in Dry Wells, as opposed to a more linear increase in the Long 15. This reaches approximately 322 rads/sec in the dead center of the crater, fatal almost immediately without any protection. Trying to swim upstream will bring up the message, "You can't swim any further in this direction" and the player character will hit an invisible wall. If he is still alive and Dry Wells was targeted during The Apocalypse, talking to Ulysses near the pass to canyon wreckage will yield a new dialogue option.

    A black outline of a person who was vaporized by the blast can be found on the building facing the crater. These imprints happen in the real world and are called "nuclear shadows," caused by the intense heat of an atomic blast. The blast changes the colors of surfaces like steps, walls, and pavement. When people or items block this light, their outline is left on the surface behind them. In the real world, the impression on the wall would be the opposite of that seen in-game, with the dark area consisting of the individual and wall or surface appearing lighter, akin to a real shadow.

35. #35Fortification Hill Exterior

    Keys: Fortification Hill, The Fort, Fort

    The Fort Fallout: New Vegas location The Fort Fortification Hill Exterior Fortification Hill Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Caesar Factions Caesar's Legion Merchants Dale Barton Creatures Legion Mongrels Lupa Brahmin Robots Protectrons Sentry bots Automated turrets Securitrons Mister Handy (broken) Layout Buildings Caesar's tent Legion arena Securitron vault Weather monitoring station Connects to Securitron vault Maps World map Local map The Fort loc "City of Lost Angels"Icon sound trigger “ That crazy lightshow over the Fort, what the fuck was that, some kind of thumb of God you called down? Amazing, fucking amazing.Icon sound trigger ” — General Oliver about the Securitron army destroying the Fort during All or Nothing or No Gods, No Masters Fortification Hill, or simply the Fort, is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas. Caesar's Legion claimed Fortification Hill when they returned to the Mojave in 2277,[1] following their loss to the New California Republic during the First Battle of Hoover Dam.

    Background Fortification Hill is the main base of the Legion's operations in the war against the NCR, including preparations for the upcoming Second Battle of Hoover Dam. The site presides over the eastern side of the Colorado River, and looks down upon Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. Caesar himself is stationed at the Fort, along with his Praetorian guards and the bulk of the Legion's Mojave forces, in preparation for the upcoming battle.[Non-game 1]

    Unknown to Caesar, in the pre-War era, the weather monitoring station on the hill had been secretly co-opted by Robert House. He constructed a secret vault under the ground of Fortification Hill and filled it with an army of Securitron robots created by his company RobCo Industries, along with the technology to produce more.

    Layout Reaching the Fort is only possible via the raft controlled by Cursor Lucullus at Cottonwood Cove. However, accessing it, even if he is killed, is not possible until after a certain point in the game. To be able to reach the Fort, the player character must either receive the Mark of Caesar when exiting The Tops after completing Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (either by Vulpes Inculta, or by Alerio if one has killed Vulpes prior such as when first meeting him at Nipton during They Went That-a-Way), or when For the Republic, Part 2 has been progressed to the point where one must report to Colonel Moore to inform her that the Great Khans have been dealt with.

    On either side of the entrance are sleeping tents. To the north of the entrance past the tents is a small bar. In the center of the camp are the arena and Caesar's tent. To the southwest, there are more tents, another bar, and the weather monitoring station, which initially cannot be entered until Caesar orders the player character to do so during Render Unto Caesar. Standing on top of the hill near the entrance will allow a view of other tents and structures off in the distance that cannot be visited.

    If one was not invited via receiving the Mark, the guards at the Fort may be hostile. If one travels to Cottonwood Cove with Boone as an active companion, he will immediately attack all legionaries on sight, causing them and those at the Fort to turn hostile as well (unless a Legion faction disguise is worn).

    Legion arena Main article: Legion arena The Legion arena is a small pit made of walls of scrap metal put together to form a post-apocalyptic colosseum. Here a male Courier can fight slaves and captured NCR soldiers to the death for the amusement of Caesar's legionaries; a female Courier will be told they are not allowed to fight in the arena and will not have this option. The only exceptions to this are: choosing to kill Benny (if he hadn't been dealt with at The Tops) by fighting him in the arena as a part of Render Unto Caesar, fighting Lupa to acquire her brain during Nothin' But a Hound Dog, and fighting the Legion mongrels during Saving (or Savaging) Sergeant Teddy.

    Notable loot 500 surplus 5.56mm rounds - At the end of the northeast trench seen when first entering the Fort. Lupa's brain - Lupa must be killed for her brain. Antony may be spoken to while standing beside her, to arrange an arena fight with Lupa, for the quest Nothin' But a Hound Dog. Alternatively, Lupa may be attacked where she stands, but it will turn everyone at the camp hostile. Lupa's brain increases Rex's DT by 10. Caesar's armor - Worn by Caesar. Benny's suit and Maria - Both used by Benny (only if he was not killed at the Tops during Ring-a-Ding-Ding!). Legion slave ledger - On a table on the lefthand side of Caesar's tent, in the righthand corner by some empty metal shelves. Related quests The Finger of Suspicion The House Always Wins II I Hear You Knocking I Put a Spell on You Render Unto Caesar Wild Card: You and What Army? A Trusted Aide Laurifer Gladiator Powder to the People Saving (or Savaging) Sergeant Teddy Silus Treatment Notes If one chooses to fight Benny in the arena, both the player character and he will be equipped with machetes, and his body will have Maria on it. The Legionary guarding the entrance to Robert House's bunker pronounces Caesar with a soft "c" sound, unlike all the other Legionaries, who use a hard "k" sound. There is a Museum of Technology poster in the first room of the weather monitoring station. This location is actually far larger than the area that can be accessed. From various locations throughout the camp, one can see that the tents of the Legion stretch out far across the land surrounding the camp, though the gates to these areas are marked as "inaccessible." Lupa's dead body will remain in the arena unless her brain is removed to take to Doctor Henry. Blood spurts out of the training dummies when attacked with a power fist. There is a crucified trooper on the left upon entering the gate. The Legion has a strict policy of eradicating all use of drugs and alcohol among their men. Despite this, Legion officers and troops around the camp may be seen drinking beer. If everyone in the Fort is killed with Boone present, he will acknowledge the death of Caesar and will proceed with a conversation about it. The location's entry in the Official Game Guide states that after regrouping there following the First Battle of Hoover Dam, Caesar carried out Joshua Graham's punishment of being set on fire and thrown over the cliffs of Fortification Hill into Lake Mead. This is contradicted in-game by multiple characters and the Honest Hearts intro stating that Graham was instead thrown into the Grand Canyon in Arizona.[Non-game 1]

    Appearances The Fort appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Behind the scenes The Fort is located in the same geographical area as the real world Fortification Hill, located on the Arizona side of Lake Mead, overlooking the Hoover Dam. Jeff Husges served as an area designer on the Fort, and wrote for many characters and quests within, including its involvement with the quest Nothin' But a Hound Dog, which he designed.[Non-game 2] Bugs PC When traveling to the Fort after talking to Lucullus, the loading screen will be glitched and will never end, even though the player has already loaded into the area. The only fix is to 4GB patch the game executable. Xbox 360 If Vulpes Inculta is killed after the Mark is given, and then becoming vilified by the Legion before traveling to the Fort the first time, going there will result in random resets of the reputations with other factions in the game (at least on the map).[verified] PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 You may not regain all your weapons upon leaving the Fort, so make sure you save before you attempt to leave.[verified] PC After leaving Caesar's tent, Cursor Lucullus may have completely disappeared, making it impossible to leave the fort or retrieve your equipment.[verified] This can be fixed on PC by simply using "Prid [Ref ID]" and then "Moveto player" Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Sometimes, if Boone is waiting outside Fortification Hill, the guard outside Caesar's tent, the dog near him and everybody inside Caesar's tent except Caesar himself will be hostile. To prevent this, the player character must have previously kicked Boone from their party.[verified] Xbox 360 If the player character leaves the Fort after having the platinum chip returned to them by Caesar, the guard will take the chip. If the player character returns to the Lucky 38 and kills Mr. House, the platinum chip will be added back to their inventory. Fast traveling back to the Fort will initiate the same dialogue as trying to leave with the platinum chip. Choose the option to stay and they will not confiscate any of one's items.[verified]

36. #36Securitron vault

    Keys: Securitron vault, vault

    Securitron vault Fallout: New Vegas location Securitron vault Entrance WC You and What Army Overview General Gameplay Technical Owners Mr. House Terminals Securitron vault terminal entries Robots Protectrons Sentry bots Securitrons Automated turrets Mister Handy (broken) Layout Part of The Fort Connects to Weather monitoring station Maps World map Local map The Fort loc "Radiation Storm"Icon sound trigger “ Now take the Platinum Chip, go down to that bunker or whatever it is, and destroy whatever gizmo-happy brahmin shit you find. ” — Caesar The Securitron vault is an unmarked location within the Fort in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Pre-War Constructed by Mr. House at some point during his preparations for the Great War, he situated the entrance to the vault in a hidden section of the weather monitoring station atop Fortification Hill. Along with hiding it behind a false floor panel, House also ensured that the only means to open the panel and access the vault was by using the platinum chip. He then filled it with a massive army of his Securitrons and the technology to create more if needed.

    Post-War Sometime before 2281, when the Chairmen leader Benny hijacked a Securitron and reconfigured it, renaming it Yes Man, to aid in his takeover of the New Vegas Strip, he gained access to Mr. House's data network via Yes Man, and there he discovered the presence of non-standard hardware in both the Lucky 38 and in the vault, below what was now called "the Fort" after it was taken over by Caesar's Legion. After also learning about House's expensive attempts to recover the platinum chip, as well as some of the chip's true function as a data-storage device (while still unaware about the true contents of the vault itself), Benny saw his chance to put his plan into action, and used Yes Man to track the Courier's route so he could ambush them and steal the chip.

    Once he had the chip, while Benny initially intended to dig under New Vegas and break into the Lucky 38 to use the hardware there, he kept the knowledge of the vault as a contingency should his plans go awry.

    Layout After opening the doors inside the station and entering the metal doors stamped with the sigil of the Lucky 38, there is a room with a smaller version of Mr. House's main terminal as well as a terminal reflecting the status of the vault's security.

    Heading down the stairs and killing or sneaking by the first protectron, three terminals can be found through the first door straight ahead. These can be used to deactivate the turrets and protectrons via Average and Hard locks, respectively, while the third terminal for the sentry bots is unusable. The hallway past this has three doorways, one leading forward, one going into an empty pod bay, and a third that's inaccessible but can be opened by interacting with the junction box below the switch (requires 60 Repair); behind it are four sentry bots.

    Going through the first doorway leads to a long room with windows on either side, looking out into a big room where House's army of Securitrons are on stand-by. A turret sits in the far corner while a pair of protectrons wait for intruders. The door at the other end leads to stairs, guarded by another turret, down into an engine room. More protectrons occupy the area while there are four doors, all leading to different objectives. The doors to the south, southwest, and north lead to active generators and in each room, a power regulator that must be destroyed during Render Unto Caesar if aligned with the Legion. The last door to the west goes up to the systems room with two turrets, and the console to take the platinum chip during The House Always Wins II if aligned with House. Notes Mr. House's terminal will show up as a friendly mark on the radar even if he has been killed and doesn't show up on the screen. The vault is irradiated and one will constantly be taking +1 rads/sec while inside. After leaving the vault during any of the related quests, it will be permanently locked and cannot be accessed again; the only way to reenter the vault is if Mr. House is killed and one is not following the Legion or Independent questlines. At the bottom of the first set of stairs, there is a door to the right that requires a 60 Repair skill level to access. This room has four sentry bots ready to attack, although if the Courier hasn't set off the security feature by destroying the generators, they will remain non-hostile. If any of the generators are destroyed after fixing the door to the room with the sentry bots in it, the sentry bots will immediately begin to hunt down the Courier. Sometimes the sentry bots will open the door after activating the army of Securitrons, but will not attack unless provoked. After activating the Securitron army, the noise of moving hydraulics will sound throughout the vault. If one chooses to destroy the generators, warnings will begin to play after the first one is destroyed. Once all are destroyed, radiation will leak in and the building will begin to explode and collapse. Should one enter the vault after obtaining the platinum chip but without talking to him at the Lucky 38 first, House will have unique dialogue.[1] He will also have unique dialogue if one enters the vault without ever interacting with him, e.g. never entering the Lucky 38 when first arriving at the Strip.[2][3] Mr. House: "Well! You're here ahead of schedule! I suppose it's just as well... This is where I wanted you to end up, after all. I knew I could rely on Caesar to give you back the Platinum Chip." (Mr. House's dialogue) Mr. House: "Quite an honor you spurned, my invite. You would be the first person to set foot inside the Lucky 38 in over 200 years. But... you still wound up here, right where I wanted you. I knew I could rely on Caesar to return the Platinum Chip to you." (Mr. House's dialogue) Mr. House: "I do wish you'd come and met with me at the Lucky 38 when you first arrived on the Strip. Or after [Benny fled/you killed Benny], even." (Mr. House's dialogue)

37. #37Weather monitoring station

    Keys: Weather monitoring station, Weather station

    Weather monitoring station Fallout: New Vegas location Weather monitoring station Exterior Weather monitoring station Overview General Gameplay Technical Factions Caesar's Legion Layout Part of The Fort Connects to Securitron vault Maps World map Local map The Fort loc “ Down the hill, at the west edge of camp, is an old building. It was here when the Fort was taken in 2277. Inside the building is a hatch, and inside that hatch are two steel doors that bear the sigil of the Lucky 38 casino. ” — Caesar The weather monitoring station is an unmarked location within the Fort in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Layout Situated behind Caesar's tent, near the west fence of the upper level of the Fort, the building is decrepit from lack of maintenance. When first entering the weather monitoring station, it will appear as a small square room, with an indent holding two desks and a broken terminal to the left. Further exploring the small room reveals a large control station on the right.

    The player character is only allowed to enter the building during Render Unto Caesar after Caesar returns the platinum chip. possibly as a component of The House Always Wins II and/or Wild Card: You and What Army? as well.

    With the platinum chip in the inventory, it can be placed in the control station which will open up two large doors built into the right half of the floor. The doors open to a staircase, which leads down into a circular room. Double doors stamped with the symbol of the Lucky 38 are at the far end of the room, leading into the Securitron vault.

38. #38Legion arena

    Keys: Legion arena, arena

    Legion arena Fallout: New Vegas unmarked location Legion arena Exterior Legion Arena Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Otho Factions Caesar's Legion Creatures Legion mongrels Lupa Layout Part of The Fort Maps World map Local map The Fort loc “ Remember the rules: light armor and machetes only. And, of course, to the death. ” — Otho The Legion arena is an unmarked location within the Fort in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Situated between the gate to the lower area of the Fort and Caesar's tent, the Legion arena is comprised of a small pit with walls of scrap metal and an entrance gate.

    Here a male Courier can fight opponents to the death for the amusement of Caesar's legionaries; a female Courier will be told they are not allowed to fight in the arena and will not have this option.

    Combat Speaking to Otho, standing to the right of the arena gate, will provide the option to participate in arena matches. When entering a contest, weapons and equipment will be confiscated, replaced with gladiator armor and a machete. All arena opponents will be either unarmed or equipped with machetes by default. Battling in the arena will increase the player character's reputation with Caesar's Legion.

    Opponent List Round 1: A fight against two slaves with machetes. Round 2: A fight against Sergeant Andrews, a captured male NCR trooper armed with a machete. Round 3: A fight against Ranger Stella, a captured female NCR Ranger. Optional List A fight against Benny armed with a machete, but only if choosing to do so after progressing far enough in Render Unto Caesar. A fight with 2-4 of Antony's strongest dogs in a quest given by a girl named Melody if a Speech check is passed successfully. A fight with Lupa for Lupa's brain, in the quest Nothin' But a Hound Dog. Notes When fighting in the arena, all non-quest items (even keys) will be removed from the inventory and deposited in the equipment storage case outside. After winning, each item in the case is returned with its own popup message, similar to Mojave Express dropboxes and New Vegas casinos. To avoid minutes of popups, storing the items in the footlocker of any nearby tents will circumvent the issue. Note that even though the footlockers are marked as owned, retrieving items from them does not count as stealing. If the Courier turns around quickly as the fight starts, the footlocker can be opened and all items can be retrieved and used. Since quest items can't be removed from the inventory, Motor-Runner's helmet and the rebreather can both be worn during fights. The machete and the gladiator armor can be kept by running out of the gate as the fight starts. If any companions are given ranged holdout weapons and ammo, they have a clear shot at the arena (e.g. at Caesar's tent) and will attack the enemy combatants. A female Courier will be allowed to participate in the three optional fights above due to them occurring via special circumstance rather than going through Otho. After winning in the arena, Legion guards around the Fort will remark on the Courier's bouts with the slaves and Ranger Stella, claiming that they didn't think anyone could defeat a ranger in one-on-one combat. The presence of Ranger Stella in the arena is not a contradiction to Otho's policy of no female fighters, as she is not there to earn respect by combat; she is there to die. Items dropped on the ground inside the arena will remain each time a bout is triggered, making it possible to drop chems, food, or stimpaks to pick up during combat.

39. #39Caesar's tent

    Keys: Caesar's tent, Caesars tent, The Caesar's tent, The Caesars tent

    Caesar's tent Fallout: New Vegas location Caesar's tent Exterior Caesars tent Overview General Gameplay Technical Factions Caesar's Legion Owners Caesar Creatures Legion mongrels Robots Auto-Doc Mark III Layout Part of The Fort Maps World map Local map The Fort loc “ You must enter Caesar's tent alone. Anyone else must remain outside. ” — Unnamed Praetorian Guard outside the tent Caesar's tent is an unmarked location within the Fort in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Layout The "tent" is a combination of four individual tents facing an open-air throne room. The entrance serves as a reception area or checkpoint for the main room. Praetorian Guards and Legion mongrels are posted here. To the left and right of the open area, a war room or command center can be found, containing several tables strewn with maps, clipboards, and books.

    Caesar's throne and private quarters serve as the largest tent section and serves as the central hub. More guards are located flanking the throne and the entrance. The area behind the throne contains Caesar's bed, an Auto-Doc Mark III, and a locked footlocker.

    The tent always contains two Legion mongrels, four Praetorian Guards armed with ballistic fists, Lucius and Caesar himself. Other occupants depend on choices made during certain quests with possible ones including Vulpes Inculta (if he was not killed at Nipton during They Went That-a-Way or outside of the Tops), Arcade Gannon (if he was sold into slavery during Et Tumor, Brute?), and Benny (if he was not killed in the Tops during Ring-a-Ding-Ding!).

    Notable loot 2000 caps and a T-45d power helmet - In a Very Hard-locked footlocker. Legion slave ledger - On the far side of the left wing of Caesar's tent, next to some metal shelves and scrap metal. Optional quest item in Oh My Papa. Caesar's armor - Worn by Caesar. Benny's suit and Maria - Both used by Benny. Can be taken if one chooses to kill him in the tent.

40. #40Legate's camp

    Keys: Legate's camp, Legates camp, Lanius camp, Lanius's camp

    Legate's camp Fallout: New Vegas settlement Legate's camp Exterior LegatesCamp Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Legate Lanius Factions Caesar's Legion Creatures Legion mongrels Brahmin Layout Buildings Legate's war tent Maps World map Local map Legates Camp loc “ And just in time, as it turns out. The forces of Caesar's Legion are on the march, establishing a staging area east of the dam. ” — Robert House The Legate's camp is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Situated east of Hoover Dam and south of the Fort, the site of the camp is surrounded by cliffs and mountains on all sides. It cannot be accessed until the final quest of the game, and the manner of that happening depends on the chosen faction: the quest either starts in the camp with Veni, Vidi, Vici (Legion), or ends in the camp with Eureka! (NCR), All or Nothing (House), or No Gods, No Masters (Independent/Yes Man).

    At the entrance of the camp, there are a few Praetorian Guards, one standing directly in front of the hill and two in the small encampment to the left. On the right side of the entrance to the camp, there is a cage with Legion mongrels. The cage door can be sabotaged so that it will not open, however, the dogs inside can still be attacked. There are several Prime Legionaries armed with marksman carbines and power fists throughout the camp.

    On top of the hill within the camp is the Legate's war tent and, during a non-Legion ending quest, Legate Lanius stands at the top of the rocky incline. The tent cannot normally be entered due to being inaccessible, only during Veni, Vidi, Vici to meet Lanius, where there is a Praetorian Guard on the right, and a slave sitting on the left, along with mutilated bodies lying on the table in the center.

41. #41Legion raid camp

    Keys: Legion raid camp, raid camp

    Legion raid camp Fallout: New Vegas settlement Legion raid camp Legion raid camp Overview General Gameplay Technical Factions Caesar's Legion Maps World map Legion Raid Camp loc “ Yeah, a bunch of those Legion fucks dragged them off right away. They were headed east, if you're feeling heroic. ” — Boxcars The Legion raid camp is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background When Vulpes Inculta orchestrated the sacking of Nipton, including burning Mayor Steyn on a pile of tires,[1] according to Boxcars, the third place "runner-ups" of the Nipton "lottery" were enslaved by the Legion, at least two of which ended up at the raid camp.[2]

    Layout Situated northeast of Wolfhorn Ranch, midway between Walking Box Cavern and Broc flower cave, the camp consists of two levels created by the natural landmasses. There is a storage tent and two red tents on the upper level, each containing four bed rolls and two footlockers. Taking items from the footlockers results in negative Karma. On the lower level, there is one more tent, which may have a few legionaries sleeping inside. Each level has a campfire, and in all, there will be up to five legionaries residing at the camp.

    A patrol of two to four legionaries will be walking a perimeter around the camp. NCR patrols sometimes travel near the raid camp and will engage in firefights with the Legion patrol. Two Powder Gangers will be found kneeling around the campfire as part of Booted. Sometimes, the camp will be attacked by two or more night stalkers. The night stalkers may kill everyone in the camp, the hostages included which renders Booted unable to complete.

42. #42Techatticup Mine

    Keys: Techatticup Mine, Legion Mine

    Techatticup Mine Fallout: New Vegas location Techatticup Mine Exterior Techatticup mine Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Alexus Factions Caesar's Legion Creatures Legion mongrels Maps World map Local map Techatticup Mine loc “ I know those Legion bastards are tough but my friends won't last long with all the radiation in there. ” — Private Renolds on Techatticup Mine Techatticup Mine is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background Prior to the Great War, the area, formerly called Knob Hill Mine, was both an active industrial mine and a tourist attraction, though evidence exists that it was also used as a storage location for barrels full of radioactive debris.

    Circa 2281, the long-abandoned mine was taken over by members of Caesar's Legion under the command of the decanus Alexus as a secret prison where they bring captured NCR troopers; recently a group was captured but one of their members, Pvt. Renolds escaped and looked for help to save his comrades.[Non-game 1]

    Layout Situated southeast of Nelson, following a road that turns south from the one going into the town, there is a hollowed-out rock directly to the right of the mine's entrance. The rock is marked with two white rectangles. After a short winding path from the entrance, there is a small chamber containing Legion troops, and paths leading left and right.

    The left path leads down to a large, irradiated chamber with a group of eight Legion members including their leader Alexus, who holds the key to the storage areas down the righthand path containing NCR prisoners. The chamber centers around a large concentration of irradiated barrels and over a dozen skeletons lying among the waste.

    Farther down the path, there are two Average locked gates with various weapons and armor within. Taking the righthand side path leads to a small chamber with four Legion troops and two locked storage areas, each containing a tied-up NCR soldier and some loot.

43. #43Nelson

    Keys: Nelson

    Nelson Fallout: New Vegas settlement Nelson Exterior NelsonFNV Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Dead Sea Sergeant Cooper (optional) Factions Caesar's Legion New California Republic (formerly, optional) Creatures Legion mongrels Layout Buildings Nelson barracks Nelson houses Maps World map Local map Nelson loc "City of Lost Angels"Icon sound trigger “ Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate? ” — Legion explorer guarding Nelson Nelson is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Sitting on one side of the mine-laden no man's land opposite from the NCR's Camp Forlorn Hope, in 2281 the town is fiercely controlled by the military might of Caesar's Legion under the command of their decanus Dead Sea, trapping both forces in a bitter stalemate.

    Background See also: Battle of Nelson Once a prosperous mining town, following the Great War, some former miners attempted to gather resources from the area.[1]

    By 2281, as part of their Mojave Campaign, the New California Republic occupied the town and established a military camp. The area was of high value due to its strategic location, between Camp Forlorn Hope and Camp Searchlight, both for logistics planning and to plug the gap between the bases and cover the Colorado River.[Non-game 1][Non-game 2] Shortly after the NCR occupation, before the inhabiting troopers could settle in, a decanus of Caesar's Legion, Dead Sea launched an attack.[2] With Searchlight recently destroyed and Camp Forlorn Hope stretched thin, no counter-attack materialized. The town has remained under Legion control ever since, though recently a Ranger, Milo set up a FOB slightly west of the town.[3]

    Under orders from Caesar to demoralize troops in the area,[4] Dead Sea has ordered the execution of captured NCR troopers by hacking them apart, forcing them to jump off the cliff overlooking the river, and crucifying the remainder, all within sight of surrounding NCR forces.[5] They believe that holding territory on the western bank of the Colorado River humiliates their enemies.[4]

    Layout The mining camp and town itself are enclosed by a chainlink fence and surrounded by bunkers made from sandbags. The tallest point in Nelson lies up a hill on the northern edge of town where Legion soldiers monitor the area from an overlook. The NCR has established a roadblock on the road leading to Nelson. The town itself is centered around an open-air courtyard, now containing three crucified NCR troopers.

    Surviving houses line the perimeter, used for a variety of purposes, including storage, an armory, mess hall, and housing. A small fortified position on the terrace below the town overlooks the Colorado River, with three graves nearby. A pair of barracks face the center of town. The barracks to the west contain the bodies of two NCR troopers and the eastern barracks contain another deceased NCR trooper as well as two recruit legionaries and their leader, Dead Sea.

    Inhabitants Dead Sea Recruit legionary Prime legionary Veteran legionary Legion explorer Crucified NCR troopers Sergeant Cooper (after completing Restoring Hope) NCR troopers (after completing Restoring Hope and barely helping the camp) NCR Rangers (after completing Restoring Hope and partially helping the camp) NCR Veteran Rangers (after completing Restoring Hope and fully helping the camp) Notable loot Liberator - Used by Dead Sea in the eastern barracks. Nuka-Cola Victory - In the Nelson house west of the barracks, behind the fridge. NCR dogtags - Found on dead NCR soldiers. C-4 plastic explosive with detonator - In a footlocker at the southwest NCR roadblock with Ranger Milo.

    Notes Nelson will periodically be attacked by a squad of three NCR troopers armed with caravan shotguns from Camp Forlorn Hope. Unless the player character has already killed most of the Nelson guards, the legionaries will be able to easily repel the attack. This may trigger when visiting Nelson after starting the Restoring Hope quest. A generator can be found near the barracks that Dead Sea resides in. Turning it off will turn off the lights on the telephone poles and inside the barracks. This can most easily be seen at night. If one manages to annihilate all the legionaries in Nelson, the soldiers at Camp Forlorn Hope will talk about the player character freeing Nelson. After Nelson has been liberated from the Legion, the NCR guards there will have the same dialogue as the troopers in Camp Forlorn Hope. Killing Dead Sea silently and talking to the legionaries outside may cause them to comment that Nelson was slaughtered to the last man despite being there and still alive.

44. #44Neslon House's

    Keys: Nelson, Nelson house's, nelson houses

    Nelson house Fallout: New Vegas location Nelson house Exterior Nelson house Overview General Gameplay Technical Factions Caesar's Legion New California Republic (formerly, optional) Layout Part of Nelson Maps Local map Nelson house map The Nelson houses are unmarked locations within Nelson in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Layout Each of the five buildings contain beds, a small kitchen, dining area, and a bathroom in the back. The number of books found in the houses is significant, with 46 small scorched books, 60 small destroyed books, 27 small burned books, and 25 small ruined books on and around the bookshelves. The houses typically have several packs and cartons of cigarettes, tin cans, beer, and other random aid items.

    The layout of the houses varies slightly from one to another. One house appears to be used for storage, containing crates with Sunset Sarsaparilla and footlockers with ammunition.

    Notable loot Nuka-Cola Victory - Can be stolen from the house beside the barracks. Appearances The Nelson houses appear only in Fallout: New Vegas. Fallout: New Vegas location Nipton house Exterior Nipton house 4 of the 8 Nipton houses Overview General Gameplay Technical Creatures Bark scorpions Robots Mister Gutsy prototype Layout Part of Nipton Maps World map Local map Nipton loc The Nipton houses are unmarked locations within Nipton in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas. Layout There are a total of eight intact houses scattered around Nipton.

    Inside house #4 with the sandbags in front, four frag mines can be found, one each in the living room corner, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. Both the kitchen and the bedroom doorways conceal rigged shotgun traps. There is an Easy locked safe with a grenade rifle in the bathroom, but if the pressure plate in the bathroom doorway is triggered, the three bark scorpions in the living room cage will be released. The kitchen contains an Average locked cabinet with some provisions, as well as a dead Legion recruit with a machete, armor, and helmet.

    In house #7 to the southeast of the town hall, a prototype Mister Gutsy can be found which can, if killed, respawn after about three in-game hours as another Mister Gutsy variant. The house contains several damaged weapons, including a single shotgun, plasma pistol, laser rifle, two .357 Magnum revolvers, and two 9mm submachine guns. The house also has various metal/electronic parts and items needed for crafting weapon repair kits, including wrenches, scrap metal, wonderglue, and duct tape.

    The Wild Wasteland encounter "Owen and Beru" takes place in front of house #6.

    Notable loot Declaration of Vital Essence - In house #4, this note is found in the tool cabinet in the kitchen. One Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - In house #2, on the bookshelf next to the Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle in the bedroom. A larger than usual red plate - House #3, taking the plate and dropping it once will keep it the same unusual size, but picking it up and dropping it again will cause it to become a normal-sized red plate. Appearances The Nipton houses appear only in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Behind the scenes Wild Wasteland The following is based on the Wild Wasteland trait. In front of house #6, east of town hall, the charred skeletal remains of two people named Owen and Beru can be found. This is a reference to a famous scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in which Luke Skywalker returns home to find that his uncle and aunt, Owen and Beru Lars, have been incinerated in a similar fashion by stormtroopers of the Galactic Empire. Wild Wasteland End of information based on the Wild Wasteland trait

45. #45Interstate 40

    Keys: Interstate 40, The Interstate 40, The Interstate, Interstate

    Interstate 40

    Background Once in service to vacationers and commuters alike before the nuclear apocalypse, during their rise to power in the 23rd century, the slaver army of Caesar's Legion made frequent use of the old highway to transport legionaries and supplies across their territory, as well as using it to display crucified members of the tribes that resisted their conquest, such as members of the Twisted Hairs, as a reminder and a warning.[1]

    Layout The highway serves as the southern border of the Mojave Preserve. The I-40 connects many territories together, crossing the continental United States before the War. In the Mojave Wasteland region, the highway passes through Flagstaff in Arizona, intersects with Highway 93, progresses through Bullhead City, running along the bottom of the Mojave until entering California, where it intersects with Highway 95 and merges with Interstate 15.

46. #46Nipton

    Keys: Nipton

    Nipton Fallout: New Vegas location Nipton Exterior Nipton Overview General Gameplay Technical Leaders Mayor Steyn Dead Vulpes Inculta Factions Powder Gangers (formerly) New California Republic (formerly) Caesar's Legion Terminals Nipton terminal entries Mentions Lonesome Road Creatures Legion mongrels Bark scorpions Layout Buildings Nipton General Store Nipton Town Hall Nipton Hotel Nipton house Good Luck trailer park Cut content Train station Maps World map Local map Nipton loc "City of the Dead"Icon sound trigger “ Nipton was a wicked place, debased and corrupt. It served all comers, so long as they paid. Profligate troops, Powder Gangers, men of the Legion such as myself - the people here didn't care. It was a town of whores. For a pittance, the town agreed to lead those it had sheltered into a trap. Only when I sprang it did they realize they were caught inside it, too. ” — Vulpes Inculta Nipton is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas. Background Main article: Massacre of Nipton Most of Nipton's buildings were left intact following the Great War, allowing it to remain as a small, but robust presence along the trade routes.

    By the 23rd century, it had gained a seedy reputation under the leadership of Mayor Joseph B. Steyn, where prostitution and thievery thrived under the dubious leadership of the one-time Hub crook. Following the mass breakout at the NCR Correctional Facility to the northwest, Steyn extended a hand to the newly organized Powder Gangers, letting them know Nipton was open for trade. Steyn turned the situation to his advantage by arranging for service to be provided to NCR soldiers in the night and Powder Gangers in the day while working to keep the two separated and increase the contents of the town coffers.[1] Steyn's greed ended up being the town's undoing as he sought to arrange a deal with Caesar's Legion to turn over both the NCR soldiers and Powder Gangers to the frumentarius Vulpes Inculta (disguised as "Mr. Fox") in return for a sum of 8,000 caps.[2]

    Unbeknownst to Steyn, Vulpes never intended to honor their deal. Instead, he used his small force of legionnaires to round up the residents along with the aforementioned groups, including the mayor, while those who resisted were shot. Those that did not were subjected to a lottery. Using lottery tickets, the fate of those gathered was decided: the ones who were unlucky to be on the short end of the stick, dubbed the "lucky losers," by Boxcars for their swift deaths, were decapitated, followed by crucifixions, enslavement of the third-place winners, crippling the legs of the runner-up and finally freedom unscathed for the sole winner.[3][4] Steyn himself was burned to death on a pile of flaming tires after his ticket was called.[5]

    Layout By approaching from either direction along Nevada State Route 164, the player character may be greeted by Oliver Swanick, celebrating his winning "the lottery" though he doesn't provide much detail. As the player character approaches the town hall to the north, the first time they will be greeted by Vulpes Inculta and at least four legionnaires (if he was instead met for the first time on the Strip and/or killed, Gabban will be here instead). Talking to Vulpes will start Cold, Cold Heart after which he and his group start walking back to the Fort.[Non-game 1][Non-game 2]

    Outside of Nipton Hall are several crucifixes, along with skulls on a post, and a pyre. Behind the hall are a water tower and a pump which causes minor radiation damage. Inside the hall itself, one will find many Legion mongrels. They are automatically hostile if the player character does not have the Animal Friend perk, even if dressed as a member of Caesar's Legion. Killing the mongrels does not give the player character Legion Infamy.

    The Nipton General Store is located close to the western side of town. A man named Boxcars sits inside and will speak about what happened, opening up the quest Booted. To the left of the town hall, one will find the Nipton Hotel, a small building with four NCR trooper corpses dumped unceremoniously inside.

    There are several houses available for the player character to explore. The house with the sandbags in front of it is heavily booby-trapped. Inside, one can find are frag mines in the corner of the living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Both doorways conceal shotgun traps. There is a cage with three bark scorpions directly inside the house. There is an Easy locked safe with a grenade rifle inside, but if the pressure plate to the front of it is triggered, the scorpions will be released. The Average locked cabinet in the kitchen contains some provisions, as well as a dead Legion recruit with a machete, armor, and helmet. A campfire can be found in the Good Luck trailer park, located on the southmost end of town.

    In the house to the southeast of the town hall, a prototype Mister Gutsy can be found. The terminal in the house states that the previous owner had two, but only one is found. The house contains a few damaged weapons, including two .357 Magnum revolvers, a plasma pistol, a laser rifle. The house also has various metal/electronic parts and items needed for weapon repair kits, including wrenches, scrap metal, wonderglue, and duct tape.

    Buildings Nipton General Store: Located close to the western side of town. A man named Boxcars sits inside and will speak about what happened, opening up the quest Booted. Nipton Town Hall: Inside the hall itself, one will find many Legion mongrels. They are automatically hostile if the player character does not have the Animal Friend perk, even if dressed as a member of Caesar's Legion. Killing the mongrels does not give the player character Legion Infamy. Nipton Hotel: To the left of the town hall, a small building with four NCR trooper corpses dumped inside. Nipton house: Several houses available for the player character to explore. Good Luck trailer park: A small trailer park in the southeastern part of town. Inhabitants Joseph B. Steyn Dead Little Jim Dead Big Jim Dead Rosie Dead Sylvia Dead Tony the Tinker Dead Harry Collins Dead Wastelanders Dead Wild Wasteland Owen Dead Wild Wasteland Beru Dead Boxcars Notable loot Worn key - Upon entering Nipton Town Hall, directly to the right, behind the counter. There is a mine behind the counter. The key unlocks the first door on the right down the hall, which leads to a basement. Big Book of Science - On the town hall's third floor, in the mayor's office on the desk. Nuka-Cola Victory - Behind the Average locked door in the mayor's office on a shelf. One Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - Ranch house south of the "Trading Post" General Store: On top of the ruined bookcase near the chessboard and bottle, in the master bedroom.

    Notes The crucified people cannot be let down without killing them unless one uses the Ranger Takedown. Killing them will not incur a loss or gain of Karma, nor will it affect their reputation. The only individuals seen on crosses are members of the Powder Gangers. If the Ranger Takedown is used, their only dialogue is "I have to get going." Some companions will comment on the crucified townsfolk. Cass, for example, will ask, "Should we cut the people down?" The Mister Gutsy robot inside the house southeast of the Town Hall respawns after about three hours of in-game time. The background music is City of the Dead which had been originally used for Necropolis in Fallout and Navarro or Vault 15 in Fallout 2. A bark scorpion may randomly spawn upon returning via fast travel. If the crucified Powder Gangers are alive, it may approach each one of them, and sting them by attacking the post. The Powder Ganger will then fall to the ground. Legion mongrels may respawn, but they will be non-hostile. Because they are considered part of the Legion, though, Boone will attack them on sight. The flames burning in the area will not inflict fire damage if walked through. Though Vulpes claims that the townsfolk were passive and cowardly, there are signs in one of the houses and in the trailer park area that at least some of the citizens fought back and killed several legionaries. Such examples consist of one deceased citizen who wielded a laser rifle with an ash pile in front of him bearing the remains of a legionary recruit. Despite Boxcars claiming that both of his legs were broken, if attacked he will stand up and move around limping on a single leg.

47. #47Nipton Town Hall

    Keys: Nipton Town Hall, Town Hall

    Nipton Town Hall Fallout: New Vegas location Nipton Town Hall Exterior Nipton Hall Overview General Gameplay Technical Terminals Nipton Town Hall terminal entries Creatures Radroaches Giant mantis nymphs Legion mongrels Layout Part of Nipton Maps World map Local map Nipton loc The Nipton Town Hall is an unmarked location within Nipton in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background Main article: Massacre of Nipton The town hall has served as the civic center for the unincorporated town of Nipton both before and after the Great War.

    By 2281, the corruption and rampant thievery and prostitution under then-Mayor Joseph B. Steyn had resulted in Nipton developing a seedy reputation. With the town serving soldiers of the New California Republic in the night and Powder Gangers in the day, keeping both groups separate, Steyn's greed led to him attempting to sell out both groups to Caesar's Legion, specifically working with the frumentarius Vulpes Inculta.

    That was Steyn's and the town of Nipton's undoing, as Vulpes and his small legionary force instead captured everyone in the town, then subjected them to a lottery. With their fates chosen via lottery tickets, by the end of it, every person in Nipton was either dead, crucified, or enslaved, with only two survivors left to talk about it.

    Layout Situated on the north end of the town, the hall is composed of three floors and a basement, which are booby-trapped with frag mines. The only enemies inside the hall itself are a number of Legion mongrels which will attack (unless one has the Animal Friend perk).

    Cellar A worn key can be found behind the reception desk, which unlocks the Hard locked door to the cellar. The door is located directly past reception to the right. Down the staircase, there is a sitting area, vending machines, a large amount of scattered food and some Turbo. A first aid kit can be found on the wall and five lottery tickets on the floor and table.

    First floor Behind the double doors leading to Nipton, one will enter the reception area. The remains of the town's citizens are strewn about on the floor and over furniture. A frag mine is located behind the front desk.

    In the corridor, more remains can be found, amid discarded lottery tickets. There are two staircases, on both sides of the main corridor. The eastern steps have the remains of both a mongrel and a wastelander.

    Second floor On the second floor, one will find a large assembly hall with chairs lining the perimeter, a raised platform and a long table. There is a body booby-trapped with a frag mine in the office across from the eastern stairs. Offices flank the main hallway. Six more lottery tickets can be found throughout the assembly hall.

    Third floor The third floor has a different layout than the preceding two, containing the mayor's expansive office behind two executive offices. In the hallway, one will find vending machines. Throughout the executive offices, there are refrigerators with food and drinks, as well as first aid kits on the walls.

    The mayor's office is ornate, with a desk containing his terminal and cabinet behind containing a copy of Big Book of Science, Future Weapons Today and Programmer's Digest, along with Mentats next to a stack of lottery tickets. The shelf also contains a laser pistol. Behind the desk is an Average locked door revealing a closet containing a gun cabinet and shelving with more supplies, including a bottle of Nuka-Cola Victory, cartons of cigarettes, a 10mm pistol and ammunition.

    Notable loot Worn key - Upon entering the town hall, directly to the right, behind the counter. This key unlocks the basement door on the right down the hall. Big Book of Science - On the mayor's desk on the third floor. Mayor Steyn's journal - Added when reading an entry on Steyn's terminal. A Nuka-Cola Victory - On a shelf behind the locked door in the mayor's office. Appearances The Nipton Town Hall appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

48. #48Two-Sun

    Keys: Two-Sun

    Two-Sun Mentioned-only settlement Two-Sun CaesarLegionSymbol Overview General Gameplay Also known as TusconIn-game spelling, punctuation and/or grammar, Tucson Factions Caesar's Legion Mentions Fallout: New Vegas Layout Part of Arizona, USA Two-Sun is a post-War settlement located in the former American state of Arizona and a mentioned-only location in Fallout: New Vegas.

    Background Founded in the remains of the pre-War city of Tucson, Arizona, Sometime after 2248, the pacification of Arizona's tribes under Caesar's Legion extended to Two-Sun as the town also fell under their rule.[2] The proximity of the University of Arizona allowed the Legion to loot it and repurpose most of the pre-War football gear into their signature armor.[Non-game 1]

    Notes During Old School Ghoul, when talking about living in Two-Sun, though Raul pronounces it as "too-sawn" per its Old-World name "Tucson", the subtitles for his dialogue incorrectly spell "Tuscon." This typo is repeated at least five times. Appearances Two-Sun is mentioned only in Fallout: New Vegas. It was only going to be mentioned in Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios.[Non-canon 1]

    Behind the scenes Two-Sun is based on the real-world city of Tucson, Arizona.

49. #49Gaius Julius Caesar (Historical figure in game)

    Keys: Gaius Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar

    Gaius Julius Caesar Mentioned-only character Gaius Julius Caesar Retrato de Julio César Overview Lore Race Human Gender Male Born 13 July, 100 BC Died 15 March, 44 BC Affiliation Roman Republic Role Dictator of the Roman Republic Mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas Fallout 76 Wild Appalachia Wastelanders “ Just as my namesake campaigned in Gaul before he crossed the Rubicon, so have I campaigned, and will cross the Colorado. ” — Caesar, Fallout: New Vegas Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), also known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, military general, and historian who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

    In the Fallout series, the historical Caesar's rise to power served as the inspiration for Edward Sallow to rename himself Caesar and form Caesar's Legion, conquering the tribes of Arizona and aiming to conquer the greater wasteland itself. Sallow utilized the knowledge of his namesake's own literary work Commentarii de Bello Gallico as well as Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.[Non-game 1][Non-game 2]

    Background Julius Caesar rose to become one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic through his accomplishments, such as his military victories in the Gallic Wars. Caesar's wars extended Rome's territory to Britain and past Gaul, with his forces including Legio X.[Non-game 3] These achievements granted him unmatched military power but also caused him to be seen as a threat by elites within the Roman Senate, who ordered for Caesar to give up his command and return to Rome. Refusing to do so, Caesar instead opted to take his army across the Rubicon to challenge the dominant Republican faction. This began Caesar's civil war, and his subsequent victory put him in an unrivaled position of power and influence.[1][2]

    After assuming control of the government, Caesar began numerous social and governmental reform programs. He also centralized the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator for life" (Latin: "dictator perpetuo"), giving him additional authority. His populist and authoritarian reforms angered Roman elites, who began to conspire against him. On the Ides of March (15 March), 44 BC, Caesar was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators led by Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Decimus Junius Brutus, who stabbed him to death. These events directly led into the fall of the Roman Republic and its transition into an empire.

    Notes Julius Caesar's life and accomplishments are referred to by both Edward Sallow, the man who took his name and deeds as inspiration, and by Arcade Gannon, who holds a different, negative view towards the connection.[1][2] Caesar (Edward Sallow) is described in-game and in supplementary materials as wishing to emulate the military and political success of Julius Caesar, and to become venerated as a god-emperor as he believes Julius Caesar was (which was instead part of the reason for his assassination), to the point of writing his own Commentarii like Julius Caesar did.[Non-game 4] Arcade brings up the namesake's life to refute Caesar's perspective, believing it a folly to try and recreate the past under entirely different conditions.[2] All of the Legion's armor has red X symbols painted on their shoulder pauldrons. According to Joshua Sawyer, this is an intentional emulation of Legio X Gemina, one of the legions with which Julius Caesar campaigned in Gaul.[Non-game 3] At that time, however, the legion was known as X Equestris, with the cognomen Gemina being given years after Caesar's assassination. Julius Caesar's assassination can be alluded to by Arcade if he is brought to the Fort.[3] The challenge Historical Propriety tasks the player with recreating the assassination of Julius Caesar by stabbing Caesar to death with a knife. The eponymous Shakespeare play Julius Caesar, which covers the historical Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath, is quoted by Arcade Gannon, Doctor Mobius, the name of the quest Et Tumor, Brute?, and the description of the republic robes in Fallout Shelter.[3][4] The name of the quest Veni, Vidi, Vici is a quote by Julius Caesar meaning "I came, I saw, I conquered." The month of July is named after Julius Caesar, specifically named after him before his assassination in the Roman Senate for being the month of his birth. The Caesar shift cipher, a code created by Julius Caesar, is mentioned as an incorrect answer to a question in the Pioneer Scout codebreaker exam.[5] The raider punk also mentions using the cipher.[6]

    References The Courier: "Surely, the NCR is a powerful foe?" Caesar: "Of course. The most powerful my Legion has faced. Also the first to which I am ideologically opposed. Until now, every tribe I've conquered has been so backwards and stunted, enslavement has been a gift bestowed upon them. My conquest of the Mojave will be a glorious triumph, marking the transition of the Legion from a basically nomadic tribe to a genuine empire. Just as my namesake campaigned in Gaul before he crossed the Rubicon, so have I campaigned, and will cross the Colorado." (Caesar's dialogue) Arcade Gannon: What a load of Brahmin shit! Can you believe that guy?" The Courier: "He seemed pretty smart to me." Arcade Gannon: "Being "smart" doesn't matter if you're insane. Everything makes sense to Caesar because he's twisted everything to his world view. He's Caesar reincarnated, the NCR is the corrupt Roman senate. I wouldn't be surprised if he thought the Colorado River were the new Rubicon. He abdicates responsibility to a myth of historical inevitability. But he's not Caesar. This isn't Rome. And he isn't going to get away with this." (Arcade Gannon's dialogue) The Courier: "Once we get close to Caesar, we can strike." Arcade Gannon: "Et tu, mi amice? I have to commend you on your sense of historical propriety, but have you given more than a passing thought to how we would escape? No disrespect intended, but you aren't the first person to dream up the idea. Just give me a sign when you're about to pull out the dagger so I know when to make a run for the cliffs." (Arcade Gannon's dialogue) Mobius: "Is this thing on? This is Mobius - Dr. Mobius. We're... initiating some kind of emergency test shutdown... in five... Four, as in Forbidden... Three, as in tree... Two, as in "Et Two, Brutus?"... One, as in none. Oh look, the emergency overload is initiating." (Mobius' dialogue) Pioneer Scout codebreaker exam question: How did the dirty Nazis encode their messages during World War II? Vault 76 dweller: "How did you learn about it?" Raider punk: "Okay, right on. I deciphered this one with the Caesar shift. Simple stuff." (Raider punk's dialogue) Non-game

    Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 459: "Rebirth of the Son of Mars The adolescence and young adulthood of the man who calls himself Caesar were spent as a scribe of the Followers of the Apocalypse. While this boy had a quick mind, he made for a scribe of uneven ability, for his success in academics was equal to his interest in the subject assigned. Nor was he a favorite among his fellows. Though athletic, handsome, and petulance held him back. He never felt that he belonged among the Followers, and blamed them for it. their rigorous devotion to scholarship was stifling, their mission to ensure that humanity would never repeat the mistakes of the Great War was ridiculously naive. The boy longed for something more. When the time came for the boy to leave the Boneyard and trek the wastes as part of a nine-person expedition, wanderlust soon curdled into disappointment. The primitive conditions of the tribes the expedition encountered disgusted him. Inferior people all, wretched in their squalor. Still, he seemed to discern, amid the chaos of their petty struggles and everyday atrocities, the true order of the wastes-and it was one of anonymous, amoral liberty. The wastes called to the boy as a blank slate upon which a man of will could write his own destiny. During the same period of the time that the boy was coming to these insights, the expedition uncovered a cache of well-preserved historical texts. Among with adventure fiction and comic books, history had always been his favorite subject, and so the task of cataloguing and studying the texts fell to him. Though the boy had long been aware of basic facts concerning many ancient empires, these new texts filled in many previously obscure details. Reading The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire rendered him a veritable hermit for two weeks. But even that could not have prepared him for the Commentarii, the account of the military campaigns of Gaius Julius Caesar, written by the man himself. Reading Commentarii changed the boy's life. Unfortunately, it was destined to change the lives of thousands more, and for the worse. In Gaius Julius Caesar the boy found a man who seamed to have fulfilled the full measure of potential greatness allotted to him by fate, a man whose career spanned political accomplishment and military achievement in equal measure. Such adventure! And intrigue! And cool uniforms! The boy's frustrations with his lot in life gained sharp focus. In reading about Caesar, he was like an ant scurrying about the feet of a regal statue. He resolved that he would go to any lengths necessary to change the course of his life. The Commentarii would be his blueprint. In an illiterate, benighted world, who would ever know that Caesar was not his original creation? That night, Caesar offered a different sort of assistance to a tribe his expedition had contacted recently: weapons, medical supplies, and tactical expertise. He led several tribal accomplices back to the expedition's camp and through its defenses, and there oversaw the murder of his eight fellows. Within a week he was leading the tribe on ever more ambitious raids against neighboring bands of raiders and tribals." (Behind the Bright Lights & Big City) "There are two sources Caesar (IIRC) refers to: Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Julius Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War). It is certainly possible that he read other primary sources. Based on Arcade’s education, it’s likely that the Followers of the Apocalypse had access to other Roman and Greek literature, including writings by Sallust and Lucan. As Arcade and Caesar both know Latin, it is likely that the textbooks they used also contained snippets of Roman literature and quotes as sententiae antiquae (very common in Wheelock’s and many other books). Because the primary purpose of contemporary (i.e., 20th/21st century) Latin education is typically not conversation or writing, but comprehension of classic literature, the use of these quotes/references is common, though often without context. E.g., a student may learn that “festina lente” means “hasten slowly,” but may not know that it came from Suetonious who was quoting Augustus who, in turn, had borrowed the adage from Greek in the first place. And even if they did learn all that, the Followers might not have access to Suetonious’ text, De vita Caesarium." (J.E. Sawyer on Tumblr) Question: "Why do Legionary forces in New Vegas have "X's" on their shoulder pads? Also, was there any reason why the Legion didn't have any armor that was as iconic as V. Range Armor? NCR gets its best armor showcased all over the place, while the Legion didn't." Joshua Sawyer: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_X_Gemina Centurion Armor is the Legion equivalent of NCR Ranger Combat Armor." (Formspring reply from April 13, 2012) Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition pp. 460-461: "True to Caesar Many years have passed, and by post-apocalyptic standards, Caesar's accomplishments have been prodigious. But the man's hunger for greatness has never been sated. Having assembled a loose nation of slavers and slaves, having won countless "wars" against inferior peoples, secretly he still feels like an upstart, an amateur-a barbaric King of the Gauls, instead of a lofty emperor of Rome. To advance, he needs two things: a Carthage and a Rome. In the NCR he has at last found a great adversary, against which he can wage a military campaign worthy of history books. (Indeed, worth teaching his subordinates how to read and write, so that future generations can read his own Commentarii.) And in Vegas, powered and watered by its great dam, he has found a capital worthy of, well, a Caesar. Contrary to the old saw, Rome will be built in a day. With that out of the way, the next step will be to proclaim his apotheosis. All good Roman emperors became gods, although that was usually done posthumously..." (Behind the Bright Lights & Big City)

50. #50Commentarii de Bello Gallico

    Keys: Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Commentaries on the Gallic War

    The text describes in the third person the warfare and intrigues he undertook throughout nine years he spent subjugating Gaul. The book was one of two (the other being The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon) that heavily influenced Edward Sallow and the principles of strategy and organization of Caesar's Legion.[

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