New Vegas

"New Vegas is more than a city - it's the remedy to mankind's derailment."

- Mr. House

New Vegas is the post-War remnant of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, deep in the Mojave Desert. Unlike most of the other major cities of the United States, Las Vegas was not critically hit by atomic weapons during the Great War. Most of the damage was done by the fall of society and government across the United States, background radiation, or the general decay of post-atomic society. The city itself is walled off by the tattered remains of billboards, which makes access the city difficult. New Vegas itself takes up a large portion of the Mojave Wasteland, but there are plenty of nearby settlements as well as large numbers of Raiders.

Background
Before the Great War eradicated the civilization of the Old World, Robert House, the founder, CEO and president of RobCo Industries, locked himself up in the Lucky 38 casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. China then launched seventy-seven nuclear missiles at the city when the Great War began on October 23, 2077. Mr. House was able to send a disable command code to forty-nine of the missiles, and the city's laser defenses were able to destroy twenty-one of them. The city and the surrounding Mojave Wasteland in Nevada was thus hit only by seven of the nuclear warheads. By the 2270's, the reborn city of New Vegas was being attacked by Caesar's Legion, led by the vicious tribal warlord Caesar. Caesar's Legion sought to rebuild the city and eventually the post-War world through the extensive use of slavery. The New California Republic expanded to the border of New Vegas and into the greater Mojave Wasteland at this time in an attempt to annex the city and all of the region's resources. However, the annexation could not be done outright due to the resistance offered by Caesar's Legion. By 2281 a precarious balance of power in the Mojave Wasteland had developed centered on the control of Hoover Dam, the NCR's most important strategic base in the region which Caesar's Legion sought to take for their own, forcing the NCR forces to retreat back to California. Mr. House sought to maintain his complete control over an independent New Vegas, to rebuild the city and develop new, advanced technology to better the lot of post-apocalyptic humanity. At the same time, the Brotherhood of Steel also attempted to take over the region from the other contending powers to secure the advanced technologies of the area. The ultimate fate of New Vegas and the Mojave Wasteland was determined by the actions of the mysterious individual known to history only as "the Courier."

Control
The city can be controlled by Mr. House, the New California Republic, Caesar's Legion or the Courier.

Appearances

 * New Vegas is mentioned by Tycho in Fallout.
 * New Vegas appears in Fallout: New Vegas, a game by Obsidian Entertainment.

Behind the scenes

 * Las Vegas was one of the main and most central cities in Wasteland, the predecessor to the Fallout series. In "Wasteland," the city survived largely unscathed because casinos bribed Russian military officers by tearing up the markers they held. The fat mobster mentioned by Tycho is a reference to Fat Freddy, a character from Wasteland.

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