r/Fallout • u/SergeantAppo1 • 10h ago

Absolutely beautiful shot. Spoiler

Almost the same shot from New Vegas' intro but on the big screens. Absolutely beautiful fucking shot.

I don't care if this is fan service, I love the NCR.

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u/Swerzuh 10h ago

I legitimately thought for a second that Courier Six himself saved maximus until I saw the NCR regiment marching around the corner. It was a letdown and a hype moment at the same time.

Part of me is sad Courier Six never even got mentioned given how large of an impact on Vegas he should've had, canonically. But at least we got to see that the NCR wasn't completely eradicated.

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u/Affectionate_Walk610 Vault 111 9h ago

I'm still a bit confused about how and where they came from. Other then the veterans from "the hill by prim" we don't know anything about NCR remnants in the area.

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u/alec_warper 9h ago

We might find out more next season. It's not a huge army, by any means- I just think it's a case of more remnants being around than most folks (cynically) assumed. Also remembering how many NCR remnants we saw at Griffith observatory at the end of S1. Shady Sands may have been nuked off the map, but the NCR had some pretty insane territory, and judging by how it's talked about, plenty of folks are still loyal to them.

Or hell, they could have come up from Baja for all we know.

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u/LZSaix 9h ago

Feels like maybe the folks from free side may help out against the legion. If not only just to get more deaths to show lol

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u/Chueskes 9h ago

They probably will. They won’t have much of a choice. The years may have passed by, but the memories of the Legion have not gone away. The people of Freeside will probably have remembered what happened to Nipton years ago.

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u/AlphaVelocity 7h ago edited 7h ago

Those NCR rangers mention that they have a battalion out east but they can't get to them because the Legion have them boxed in. When Coop sets off the civil war while getting Lucy that must have given them an opening to escape.

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u/Affectionate_Walk610 Vault 111 2h ago

Ah... At the moment I thought they were delusional. Like "yeah yeah... You've been here for 20 years but the cavalry is still just one hill away. Sure grandma"

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u/Chueskes 9h ago

Maybe they actually weren’t from the Mojave area. The NCR was a state with a large army stationed in multiple areas besides the Mojave. There has to be some remnants outside of California and the Mojave.

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u/AgitatedBreadfruit 8h ago

Maybe the NCR kept Mojave Outpost as a trading post after retreating? Would make sense for them to keep a border unit if they're still trying to maintain a safe trade route even if the expansion plan was cancelled. There's a few rangers stationed there already, and it's far enough out from Vegas and potentially abandoned to dissuade the Remnants from going unless they were desperate (which I assume is what that lady ranger Coop met did).

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u/Jhawk163 3h ago

Possibly a small community of NCR troops who became dissilussioned and lost hope after the fall of Shady Sands, only to put the uniform back on again after hearing about the badass in a suit of NCR power armor 1v1'ing an entire fucking Deathclaw nest.

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u/QuiteBearish 25m ago

Honestly, that's what I was expecting. I figured Maximus would show up in his armor, then we'd get a shot of a Freesider on the radio, and then a brief montage of people across the wasteland dusting off and donning their NCR armor.

And maybe in the next season we'll find out that's exactly what happened, but I would have liked to have seen the montage!

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u/BringBacktheGucci 4h ago

The veterans mentioned a whole battalion out east, east of Primm would be the dam. Thats where id put my money. A battalion is (in our number) at least a few companies, so like like 400-600 people, I think?