Robert House Robert Edwin House is the self - styled President , CEO , and sole proprietor of the New Vegas Strip in the Mojave Wasteland in the year 2281 . House is foremost responsible for the founding of RobCo Industries and civilizing the New Vegas casino tribes . Background . Biography . Born on June 25 , 2020 ( 261 years old ) to a wealthy Nevada tool magnate , Robert Edwin House was orphaned at an early age when his parents died in a freak accident involving an autogyro and a lightning strike . Cheated out of his inheritance by his half - brother , Anthony , he nevertheless attended the Commonwealth Institute of Technology , and later went on to found RobCo Industries in his hometown of Las Vegas at the age of 22 . It would soon become one of the most profitable corporations in the world , owing mostly to House ' s considerable technical genius and business acumen . He used the wealth and power to gain controlling interests in a myriad of other businesses . These included REPCONN Aerospace , the Lucky 38 Hotel & Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard , and perhaps , most personally , the H & H Tool Company - the family business usurped by his greedy half - brother ( although curiously , the factory on the outskirts of Vegas was still under his brother ' s control in 2077 ) . A staunch pragmatist by nature , Mr . House would regularly design and run mathematical simulations based on global political and socio - economic conditions in an effort to predict future events . By 2065 , these projections led him to the inexorable conclusion that the world would be engulfed in a nuclear war within fifteen years . Worse still , his contacts within the military informed him that seventy - seven Chinese warheads were aimed at his beloved Las Vegas . Armed with this knowledge and his projections , House went to work on a secret plan to ensure the city would survive this apocalypse and that he would live to see the world after the war . He programmed multiple mainframes with satellite links meant to disable the vast majority of the Chinese missiles while in flight , then designed an array of high powered laser cannons , which he had installed on the roof of the Lucky 38 , to deal with any missile his program had missed . To preserve himself , he took equally drastic steps : his body was permanently connected to an extremely sophisticated life support device named a " hibernation chamber " to take care of his physiological needs , while his brain was wired directly into his vast information network via an enormous supercomputer . Essentially , he became a one - of - a - kind humanoid brain bot , with the Lucky 38 and an army of securitron s serving as his " body " . An integral element of his plan was the platinum chip , which in reality was a combination access card and high capacity data storage device , containing a massive OS upgrade for his Securitrons and the laser defense network . The chip was to be delivered in the afternoon of October 23 , 2077 . Unfortunately , about 20 hours before delivery , the Great War began . The chip was lost and was rediscovered over 200 years later in Sunnyvale by some of the multiple scavengers hired by House . Forced to work with an inferior version of the OS , he has suffered numerous system crashes and was even forced into a coma by one of the failures before being able to reboot an earlier , stable version . House regained consciousness in 2138 . Biding his time , he entered the world stage once again in 2274 , when Securitrons under his command emerged from the Lucky 38 . This action was prompted by the arrival of New California Republic scouts at Hoover Dam . In order to establish his rule , he enlisted the help of tribes living in New Vegas ( later known as the Three Families ) and rebuilt the city just in time to welcome the arrival of the New California Republic Army ' s advance forces . In exchange for help with Hoover Dam and permission to use the McCarran Airport as its headquarters , House signed the New Vegas treaty , ensuring cooperation from NCR and , for a time , protecting the Strip from annexation . Post - war status . House lives in the Lucky 38 and is in charge of the securitron s that roam New Vegas . At some point after emerging from stasis , House won the leadership of Vault 21 in a bet , stripped it of all useful technology , and then planned to permanently seal the Vault away by filling it with cement . At the pleadings of Sarah Weintraub he left the top section of Vault 21 as it used to be , and she converted it into a hotel ( all the casino equipment was already there from the vault experiment ) . Mr . House is also extremely interested in the collectible snow globe s and he will pay handsomely for each . The snow globes can be given to Jane in exchange for 2000 s each . Snow globes found in Sierra Madre ( Dead Money ) , Big MT ( " Old World Blues " ) , Zion National Park ( " Honest Hearts " ) and the Divide ( " Lonesome Road " ) will automatically be removed from the player ' s inventory and replaced with 2000 caps ( except for snow globe - Sierra Madre Casino , it adds 2000 Sierra Madre chip s . ) Once the Courier has sold a snow globe to Jane it is placed on display ( on a mantle ) in the Lucky 38 presidential suite . However , if you kill Mr . House the snow globes will stay in your inventory and Jane will disappear . Health . Mr . House is extremely physically decrepit and can only live inside a self - contained life support unit . The Courier has the opportunity to break through his security and see his true form . However , opening his isolation chamber , even for a second , means that Mr . House will not live more than a year due to exposure to outside contaminants . Appearances . Robert House appears only in " " and is mentioned in " Fallout 4 " .