Aerotech Office Park

Aerotech Office Park is a New California Republic refugee camp in the Mojave Wasteland, located east of Camp McCarran and southeast of NCR sharecropper farms.

Background
Once an office park for the Aerotech company that proliferated in the Las Vegas and Henderson area, the former corporate offices have been converted into a shelter for refugees and people down on their luck. NCR drifters, locals who can't find work, and others who have tumbled down the social ladder until they hit rock bottom. Many are hopefuls who tried to make it big on the Strip, only to wind up losing all of their money, to the point they cannot get back home. Some try to find honest work in Vegas to make enough money back to move on, but most remain stuck in a perpetual cycle of hopelessness, exploited by crooked merchants taking what little they have through crooked gambling or selling liquor. Despite Parker's efforts, many of the refugees are further exploited through chems and crooked gambling.

The Army tries to provide the basic necessities: A place to sleep, water, food, and basic medical care, but it's only enough to keep the people from dying. To make things worse, the shortage of personnel makes it impossible for Captain Parker, the head of the camp, to protect everyone. People have gone missing without a trace, while one of the local crooks, Keith, had the gall to set up in one of the suites with a rigged gambling ring. The Followers lend a hand through Bert Gunnarsson, but the Mormon ghoul mostly ministers to those trapped at Aerotech, unable to change the situation on his own.

Layout
The office park is walled off from the wasteland by scrap fences and rubble. The entrance can be found on the northern wall. The main door is very tall, approximately three times taller than the Courier. A large courtyard is located in the center, with tree stumps, broken street lights, barrel fires, derelict cars, and piles of refuse.

Upon entering the area, to the left is an inaccessible building and three dumpsters containing minor loot. In the southeastern corner is Aerotech suite 200 and on the opposite side of the courtyard in the southwestern corner is Aerotech suite 300. The Aerotech tent, the NCR base of operations, is located in the northwest corner, in front of another inaccessible building.

Buildings

 * Aerotech suite 200
 * Aerotech suite 300
 * Aerotech tent

Inhabitants
* Only if the reactor is left intact at the conclusion of Hard Luck Blues.

Notable loot

 * Todays Physician: Suite 300, main room, on the two-tier table.
 * Salesman Weekly: Suite 300, main room, desk opposite the entrance.
 * Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap: Suite 300, on the kitchen counter in the back.
 * 100 tin cans: Spread across suites 200 and 300, provide a reliable source of scrap while Dealing with Contreras.

Related quests

 * Left My Heart
 * The Coyotes
 * Keith's Caravan Charade

Appearances
Aerotech Office Park appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * The Aerotech Office Park marker was created by Megan Parks.
 * Spare Us the Cutter
 * Horowitz (the leader of the vault dwellers you can optionally save from Vault 34), has several cut lines of dialogue. He actually has 16 topics, a large number of which are oddly the same duplicated player only lines repeated over and over. More interestingly he also has an inaccessible PEG greeting line for the Legion winning at Hoover Dam in which he expresses his disgust at the world and how he wishes the player left him in the Vault. In the final game he promises a "Vault trinket" if the player asks for a reward for saving him, but there's nothing in the code, so nothing happens.
 * There are also several unused traders with brahmin here that are disabled.