Alien Power Cell (Fallout: New Vegas)

The alien power cell is a type of ammunition in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
These are only obtainable if you have the Wild Wasteland trait (if you don't have Wild Wasteland, hostile mercenaries with the YCS/186 unique Gauss rifle will be there instead). The alien captain will drop up to around 222 alien power cells along with the alien blaster. If you have the Scrounger perk, the maximum is raised to 272.

However many you get from the captain, these are the only alien power cells in the game. Once you've used them up, you can never use the alien blaster, one of the most powerful energy weapons in the game, again. (^ Unless the player uses the console to spawn more ammunition.)

The Alien power cells on the Captain are the only ones you can find in a fixed location. However they can be duped for unlimited amount, although this may take some time to accumulate hundreds or thousands. Save before hand, find a group of enemies, Fiends or other raiders work best. Drop the Alien blaster and one alien power cell, one of the enemies will pick it up and will use the blaster,(the Alien Blaster is a very powerful weapon, even in the hands of a raider) kill them and let another enemy pick it up, each enemy that picks up the blaster after the first enemy will have a small amount(2-5, maybe more) on their body(The enemy that picked it up first will still just have one, so you need more than one enemy to get more power cells than you dropped). This works with most if not all ammo types. This exploit was first found in Fallout 3, sense these games are pretty similar it makes sense for it to work in New Vegas as well.

Weapons using this ammunition

 * Alien blaster

Bugs

 * There is a glitch where sometimes if you kill an enemy and equip the alien blaster, then go pick up the dead enemy's gun, that gun will be converted into alien power cells and will remain in your inventory. This can also be done with the Fat Man and almost if not all other ranged weapons. (Patched)