Doctor Mobius

""You will never survive my deadly robo-scorpions, technological terrors and, uh, um... BIGGER, more ATOMIC versions of these things!""

- Mobius

Doctor Mobius is a think tank operating in the Big MT in 2281. He is the leader of the robo-scorpion army and nemesis of Dr. Klein and his think thank's team.

Background
Doctor Mobius was one of the Big MT "Think Tank" executives before the Great War. Sometime after the War, he became a think tank during the "Think Tank Project", to continue his work at the Big Empty. But like the others, he forgot a part of his personality and his real name, the scientist giving them a new one, enforcing the recursion loop in their new perception programming.

After the escape of the cazadores and the nightstalkers and the way take by the other think tanks, he became tired of his endless and horrible experimentation and was deeply afraid of the damage the amoral and psychosis-ridden think tanks would wreak upon the fragile post-apocalyptic world in the name of science. So he erected a radar fence - a kind of radar-guided repulsive field around the perimeter of Big MT to prevent the disembodied brains from escaping into the wasteland.

After a severe dispute with Klein, Mobius removed all the chips of all personalities of The Sink; his room and personal laboratory, and against his will, hacked the databanks of his colleagues, reprogramming their chronometers, geometers and cartography programs, and making them to lose the sense of time and history. It also creating a belief that the robo-scorpion consumes intelligence (creating the fear to go out of the central Big MT's dome named The Think Tank), he was exiled for a crimes too heinous to remain in recorded memory, and a belief that Big MT is the world, and nothing exist out of Big MT. However in the process, it also damaged some of their memories and knowledge, creating a mangled, disjointed versions of themselves. Disgusting to have done this to his friends, he also erased some parts of his memory, like this event and his pre-War creation, the robo-scorpion.

After, Mobius moved to the X-42 robo-warfare facility (that renamed the "Forbidden Zone") and began to "re-create" the robo-scorpion after seeing some radscorpions coming into Big MT, with all features of the pre-War model as energy bolts blaster in the tail, eyes and bullhorns systems connected to him. Having now his proper army and thinking that without something to distract them, the radar fence would not be sufficient and he began to send a repetitive threat broadcast to instill and install fear and prompting them to focus on retrieving technologies bringing to attack Mobius. After that, the Big MT fell silent, the remaining think thanks were stuck in The Think Thank dome, forced to continue their work only in this small area because of the fear instored by Mobius, continuously spying them.

Although not originally aggressive in his intentions, Mobius's own behaviour seems to have degraded over the centuries, partly due to an increasingly serious addiction to Mentats and Psycho. By 2281 he has not only lost the functionality of his right 'eye' but also suffers from short term memory loss, hallucinations and obsessive compulsion. Although his plan had up until then been successful, it was increasingly coming under strain due to three visitors from the Mojave finding their way into the Big MT, and the curiosity of the think tanks pushing at the boundaries he had set them.

The arrival of the Courier, and their subsequent survival of their lobotomy, proved to be the last straw. Mobius unleashed a fresh wave of robo-scorpions and announced his false intention to finish the other think-tanks off once and for all, whilst subliminally suggesting to them that various technologies around the Big MT would help them against him. These technologies - a sonic emitter, a X-2 antenna and a stealth suit Mk II - were actually all the components required to rehouse a brain inside a body. Eventually, The Courier defeated the X-42 giant robo-scorpion, come into the Forbidden Dome and a confrontation ensued.

Quests

 * Old World Blues: You are to go to Mobius' lair and either kill him or reason with him.

Notable quotes

 * "I see you. Now, I end you." nvdlc03gen_attack_00015edb_1.ogg
 * "Well, there's many things they have forgotten sitting in their bowls. Friendship. The thrill of discovery. Love. Masturbation. The usual."
 * "You're really quiet difficult to ignore, you know. It's because you're... well, bah! Rather intriguing, if you don't mind an old brain for saying so."

Appearances
Mobius appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes

 * His name is a reference to the Möbius strip, a 3D object which topologically has only one side. It is often used as a metaphor for infinity or looping.
 * His name could also be a reference to Dr. Morbius, the antagonist in the 1956 sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet. This is further evidenced by his statement "I have a thing for robots, planets, and all things forbidden."
 * Mobius makes a comment "Mmmmmm Men-thats" calling mentats "menthats" a reference to the Simpsons with Homers' "Mmmm (object)"
 * Mobius often says "raisins" instead of "reasons", this could be a reference to the Big Brain that appeared in an episode of Futurama, after being made stupid by Fry it comments "Now I will leave Earth for no raisin!".
 * The 'Murderous gang of thugs' that he said once went looking for a spine, a heart, and a brain, but had them all along is a reference to Frank L. Baum's book The Wizard of Oz. The thugs refer to The Tin Man, The Scarecrow, and The Cowardly Lion.
 * Mobius' damaged right eye may be a reference to eye patches worn by villains in B-Movies.
 * This is possibly a reference to Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, the inventor of the Oxygen Destroyer used to kill Godzilla in the 1954 classic Godzilla, who wore an eye patch over the right eye.
 * If the player character has taken the Wild Wasteland trait, Mobius will mention keeping several "Plan 9s in place". This is a reference to the cult-classic, 1959 science fiction/horror film "Plan 9 From Outer Space", written and directed by the infamous Edward D. Wood Jr.

Bugs

 * If you talk to Mobius after defeating the giant roboscorpion, you may be forced into killing him, as you can only end the conversation with "enough, I came here to kill you." This can be avoided if the player has a repair skill of 75, permitting the player to repair the "ghosting" in his optical sensors. This will open up the conversation to leave him be without killing him. However, the player can still kill Mobius if they so choose.