Samuel Cooke

"Their "republic" is a joke. They're a bunch of tyrants led by an even greater tyrant, that idiot Kimball."

- Cooke on the NCR.

 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 back in California, blowing up railroads and other NCR assets. 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.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * Samuel Cooke is a reference to the 1950's soul singer Sam Cooke.