Refugee (Fallout: New Vegas)

Refugees in the Mojave Wasteland fall into either one of two categories: war refugees displaced by Caesar's Legion, and assorted locals and drifters alike who are out of luck, including gamblers rendered penniless by the casinos of New Vegas.

Bitter Springs
Those refugees of the NCR-Legion War have mostly been gathered at the refugee camp at Bitter Springs. While NCR personnel try their best to care for their charges, they are chronically under supplied and understaffed. To make matters worse, their camp has been terrorized by an unknown assailant, whom the local NCR officers have determined to be hiding in the nearby mountains. Over the past six months, eight refugees and three soldiers have been killed.

Aerotech Office Park
In contrast to the war refugees, those at Aerotech Office Park are NCR citizens and nationals and other travelers who ventured to New Vegas to seek fortunes, only to become completely destitute. 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.

Even here the efforts of the NCR Army is only enough to keep the people from dying. The shortage of personnel makes it impossible for Captain Parker, the head of the camp, to protect everyone. A local crook, Keith, has set up in one of the suites with a rigged gambling ring, cheating camp refugees out of what little savings they have left, and a number of refugees have even disappeared from the camp altogether. The Followers lend a hand through Bert Gunnarsson, but the New Canaanite ghoul mostly ministers to those trapped at the office park, unable to change the situation on his own.

Appearances
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