Larsen ( Van Buren ) Larsen is the leader of the Baggers in 2253 . Background . With a past career smuggling drugs , Larsen had a disliking for the New California Republic . However , he later joined the military in search of a simple pay check . With no family of his own , he soon became attached to the men in his unit , who served as an escort detail for technicians on repair and salvage ops . Later , he was transferred to guard duty within the NCR capital , before finally being posted to Boulder Dome . Eight months prior to the Prisoner ' s arrival at Boulder Dome : Two glowing ghoul s show up within a three - day period . The soldiers start getting paranoid , thinking they ' re in ghoul territory . Larsen , going stir - crazy , wants to take some RadAway , find the ghoul colony , and kill them all . Goddard says no , but Agnes suggests he consider it to let them " " let off some steam . " " Two months later , another Glowing One showed up . Larsen ' s team is given RadAway and start doing patrols . Agnes says taking RadAway for too long is dangerous and addictive . Larsen realizes that means they won ' t be giving it to them any more , so he starts exaggerating how many ghouls they find to justify getting more RadAway to deal with them . Two months before the Prisoner ' s arrival at Boulder Dome : Larsen becomes paranoid . When another ghoul wanders in , the scientists accuse the soldiers of not doing enough , or anything at all . Larsen pulls a gun on a scientist and tells them to surrender their med supplies for " " one last patrol . " " Goddard agrees , and secretly decides to close them outside to starve and die . He only tells Agnes about this " " exile " " . . . the others just think they haven ' t returned . The following month Larsen and his patrol return to find the dome sealed up . At first the soldiers think it ' s a mistake , then they realize it ' s not . They pull out of Boulder to avoid the Jackals , and end up in a guerrilla state in the nearby mountains , looking for tunnels into the Dome . After two weeks the soldiers are starving . One of them freaks out , and Larsen shoots him , then offers the body to the Jackals . The soldiers and the tribes became allies , both wanting to get into the dome . Soon after , the soldiers use the last of their RadAway , and by the time the player shows up they ' re in their 7th day of withdrawal . Like all Baggers , Larsen is addicted to RadAway and succumbing to radiation poisoning . He and his men are always on a constant search for food and RadAway and have even even tried eating ghouls after taking RadAway . Larsen is also in a Mexican standoff with Banshee ( the leader of the Jackals ) , as both want to get in to the Dome and neither wants the other to live after that . Interactions with the player character . Other interactions . Larsen ' s addicted , and it ' s not really his fault — he had to take RadAway to keep the Dome safe , and now he ' s paying for it . He ' s still an asshole , but not an entirely unsympathetic one . The Prisoner can either help Larsen or let him suffer . His alliance with the Jackals could affect , depending on the choice the Prisoner makes . If someone steals his Geiger counter and RadAway , he freaks out and starts killing his own men , thinking they did it . If the player attacks Larsen or his men , they all attack in retaliation . Appearances . Larsen has not appeared nor is he mentioned in any published game . He was to appear only in " Van Buren " , the canceled " Fallout 3 " by Black Isle Studios . It is not certain if he will appear in any future " Fallout " game .