Samuel Cooke

Samuel Cooke is an anti-NCR revolutionary and the original leader of the Powder Gangers prisoner uprising, now operating with a small group of escaped convict followers out of Vault 19 in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281.

Background
Samuel Cooke is the founder and former leader of the Powder Gangers. He was sent to the NCR Correctional Facility after waging a one-man campaign of mayhem against the NCR, blowing up supply caravans along the I-15. After leading the convicts in a successful uprising to take over NCRCF, Cooke left with a group of followers and went north, leaving Eddie as the Powder Ganger leader. Since then, Cooke and his personal gang of convicts reside in Vault 19, plotting to use the sulfur deposits underneath the vault to create explosives for a small-scale war against the NCR.

In contrast to Eddie and the Powder Gangers, whose reasons for hating the NCR are largely the normal antipathy of criminals toward the standing government, Cooke is described as having a revolutionary zeal, hating the NCR with an ideological passion. When asked why he hates the NCR so much, Cooke states that he hates how they feel they can just walk in and take whatever they want from the independent people of the Wasteland.

Quests

 * Why Can't We Be Friends?: After killing the fire geckos, Samuel will tell you to secure the Powder Gangers alliance with the Great Khans.

Effects of player's actions

 * Once the Courier kills the fire geckos and talks to Papa Khan, and returns to the vault a few days after completing the quest Why Can't We Be Friends?, they will find the vault deserted, since Cooke and the convicts left to join the Great Khans.
 * If the player character sides with Lem and blows up the caves, Cooke will curse the player character for their actions. With his support dwindling, he eventually leaves the vault so he can continue to wage war on the NCR.

Appearances
Samuel Cooke appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs
The convicts and Cooke may be hostile if you have a vilified reputation with the Powder Gangers, or if you have killed Papa Khan.

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