Sonora Cruz

Sonora Cruz is the leader of the Regulators in the Capital Wasteland. You can find her at Regulator HQ. When you have the Lawbringer Perk, you can gain Karma by doing bounties and bringing her the fingers from evil people you have killed. You will also occasionally get a bonus from her if you give her enough fingers.

Cruz is considered plot-essential and cannot be killed, only knocked unconcious. She is equipped with a unique 10mm pistol (unusable by the player) which does a whooping 100 damage per shot. However, she always flees from combat, so she never actually uses it.

Cruz and her Regulator bodyguards should be friendly towards a player with the Lawbringer perk, even if the normal Regulators who appear at random in the Wasteland are hostile towards the player.

Whenever approaching the Regulator HQ, players should circle the building and make sure to kill any hostile critters nearby. Entering the HQ while hostiles are outside causes Sonora to freak out and run outside, where she cannot be spoken with and generally will eventually disappear forever.

Known Bugs

 * On occasion, Sonora flees the premises and never returns.(Found her in wasteland, but refuses to talk).Be careful about firing a weapon in her vicinity! She was observed fleeing the headquarters after The Lone Wanderer failed to deal with usual Giant scorpions, ostensibly to deal with them personally. Firing close to her to kill the scorpions made her yell, "Watch it!" and to cower. She conducted business in the field but upon return could not be found.
 * Different Occasion: Found her about 20 meters to the west of the shack after scaring her out of the house by accident (entered the building before killing hostiles outside after fast-traveling).  She just stands there and acts like she's inside but is out of any enemy's spawn range.
 * Immediately after killing Junders Plunkett and trying to collect on the bounty, Sonora was not in the Regulator HQ. A message popped up saying she was unconscious. She has yet to reappear.
 * (possible) After entering Regulator HQ with Fawkes, Sonora immediately sprinted out the door, followed by one Regulator. Upon exiting the building, no trace of her could be found. There was also no Unconscious message.
 * Entered the HQ with the T-51b Power Armor/Helmet on. She sprinted to the door upon sight of me, along with any other Regulators that saw me.  I took off the armor and walked up to other Regulators and they weren't bothered.  I went outside and waited 12 hours, went back in, and she still wasn't back.


 * (possible)PC Fix: It seems that if Sonora flees, she can be summoned back to her normal area, and should return to business as usual by using the console commands: "prid 6f212" followed by "moveto player". If this fails, she can be "reset" by opening the console. First call up Sonora with her reference ID (COMMAND: "prid 6f212"). Then use the commands "kill", "resurrect", and "moveto player". This seems to "reset" Sonora to a state where she will not try to flee. It is best to attempt this fix while inside Regulator HQ so Sonora reappears in the correct location. Often killing and resurrecting does more harm than good (e.g. crashing the game) so try first withouth. Then "disable" and "enable" the character, which usually resets the AI


 * (possible)Both Versions tip: If you go into the world map and measure roughly the distance to the scrapyard, then make a circle around the HQ with the same distance, she should be somewhere inside there. She never flees too far before stopping. Just run in this area and check out any friendly NPC markers on your compass.

Appearances
Sonora Cruz appears only in Fallout 3.