ARCHIMEDES II



 is a deadly orbital laser superweapon controlled from Helios One in Fallout: New Vegas.

You can either kill Fantastic, NCR's tech, gaining control of the laser for yourself, or assist him in fixing it, which increases your Reputation with the NCR faction.

Characteristics
Firing it will cause a massive blue laser beam to burst from the sky, annihilating everything in its path. If you fix the laser, you can use the Euclid's C-Finder to call in a laser airstrike. When you use it, you must wait 24 hours for it to recharge OR you can do the infinite ammo glitch. Note: you won't recieve Euclid's C-Finder after completion of the quest. This weapon will be found later in Freeside on a child named Max at the east entrance, he lives in the 1st house on the right and the gun can be pickpocketed when he sleeps or you can buy it off him for around 1000 caps or with a successful barter skill check (45 barter) obtain it for a mere 20 caps. It is also possible to buy/steal the Euclid's C-Finder from Max before completing the quest, but it will have no ammunition since the laser has not been activated yet.

Behind the scenes

 * Archimedes is rumored to have developed the plans for a 'death ray' super weapon. The weapon would harness the power of the sun through a series of mirrors and prisms, resulting in an intense beam of light that was intended to sink enemy ships.

Bugs and glitches

 * When leaving the Brotherhood of Steel Bunker in Hidden Valley, and being confronted by its members in Veronica's quest, using this will cause the game to freeze.
 * When leaving Archimedes through the back entrance where Fantastic is, Old Lady Gibson and her dogs will spawn on you. The dogs will be automatically aggressive and this might also cause a fame rate drop.
 * If trying to use at long range, the weapon will run the three blue lasers into one, but will not fire. Instead it just keeps running the lasers wherever you point and never fires, rendering it useless until a solution to this is found. (Note: the laser fired during the quest I Forgot to Remember to Forget, just after Boone decides to rest for the night). This can be fixed on the XBOX by saving with the gun out, turning off the console,  turning back on, loading save and wait for the laser to fire.  Similarly, the same can be done on the PC by saving after pressing fire, exiting and restarting the game, then loading the save.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.