Walter Phebus

Walter Phebus is a rancher from New California residing on the New Vegas Strip .
==Background==
A bighorner rancher and a seasoned brahmin baron,How come the Fallout setting has all kinds of big casinos and weapons manufacturers, but no company that produces food? You'd think producing edible food would be a top priority but everyone just eats old, scavenged, rotten junk food from before the war.Joshua Sawyer: "That's not true. In the Mojave Wasteland, there are a lot of personal farms in communities and larger farms near New Vegas proper. OSI runs sharecropper farms northeast of Camp McCarran and the Westside Co-op is a shared community farm. Also, guys like Heck Gunderson and Walter Phebus are NCR "brahmin barons" and supply a large amount of the area's meat."Josh Sawyer Formspring answers Walter Phebus has been in the ranching lifestyle since he was young.The Courier: "Are you a Bighorn rancher?"Walter Phebus: "Bighorners' my trade since I was a youngin. I confess it's hard living these days, kid. The Wasteland ain't the same anymore."(Walter Phebus' dialogue) Though he lives back west on Phebus Ranch with his wife Ethel Phebus, sometime around 2281, according to him, the Phebuses had some of their land taken over by Heck Gunderson and his men at gunpoint.The Courier: "Were are you from?"Ethel Phebus: "Oh, a good ways west of here, in a place you've never been. Far as we concerned, only name it ever had was "Phebus Ranch." That was before we lost some land to Heck Gunderson. The bank demanded payment in full the day after the Stockmen's Association bailed it out."(Ethel Phebus' dialogue)The Courier: "What was that about settling a score?"Walter Phebus: "There's a long list of grievances that Heck Gunderson's got to answer for, kid. I'm here to make sure that "rancher" stops stealing our lands. If he ain't chiseling behind your back, he just sends his men, ready for a fight. Then you either "sell" your ranch for a penny or you're dead. I'm tired of being trampled over, kid, and I got a good mind to stop Heck once and for all."(Walter Phebus' dialogue)
Walter, deciding that Gunderson needs to be taken down by force, left his ranch to travel to New Vegas with Ethel in tow, seeking revenge against Heck however he can.The Courier: "What's life like as a Bighorn rancher?"Ethel Phebus: "A good life if you don't mind hard work. The only real fuss is the constant bother with varmints. Fail to catch Molerats early in their breeding, and you'll have three or four head breaking their ankles in Molerat holes every day. That's a problem you can't solve with a Varmint Rifle, though I fear my husband's apt to try. He's got Heck Gunderson in his sights right now."(Ethel Phebus' dialogue) Ethel couldn't dissuade him from going, knowing her husband is also a very stubborn man.The Courier: "What are you and he up to on the Strip?"Ethel Phebus: "He's got his reasons. And when that man gets a notion stuck in his head, he's like a Bighorner bull that's seen red. And if it means Heck Gunderson's involved, then you better step aside before the stampede tramples you over."(Ethel Phebus' dialogue)
By the time they reached New Vegas and passed through the gate onto the Strip, Walter learned that Heck had come to reside in the Ultra-Luxe casino but did not know the reason why. He and Ethel took to sitting near the monorail station connecting New Vegas to Camp McCarran, hoping for any news on Heck's movements to act on.
==Interactions with the player character==
===Interactions overview===
===Quests===
* Pheeble Will: Walter Phebus wants Heck Gunderson to suffer because Heck has used threats of violence and intimidation to secure his ranching monopoly.
==Inventory==
==Notes==
* Walter and his wife will continue to mill around the Strip even after they choose to return to their ranch.
* If Walter is at the Las Vegas Boulevard Station, he will not react to any acts of violence committed.
* If his wife is killed, he will be distraught and mention that before joining her "someone's gonna pay first," though he will not attack the Courier.
==Notable quotes==
==Appearances==
Walter Phebus appears only .
==References==
Category:Fallout: New Vegas human characters
Category:New Vegas Strip characters
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