Andre Welle

Director Andre Welle is the leader of the NCR's OSI North in 2281. He can be found at his office in the underground facilities of Navarro, usually pouring over technical documents and reports from his subordinates.
==Background==
===Early life===
Born to a poor farming family northeast of Junktown, Andre's childhood was filled mostly with hard labour. In his free time he played baseball with the other children of his settlement and aspired to play in the New West Baseball League.
In 2255, just a few years before the NCR-Brotherhood War broke out, his settlement was attacked by raiders. By sheer luck a Brotherhood of Steel detachment had been passing through the area on their way to Lost Hills. They made quick work of the raiders, reducing them to ash with advanced energy weapons. Andre was awestruck upon seeing the brave Paladins announce to the town that they were safe. This event stuck with the young boy and years later he often imagined how much safer the NCR would be if everyone had a suit of power armor.
===Followers of the Apocalypse===
Aspiring for more than farming for the rest of his life, Andre left his family and joined the Followers of the Apocalypse in 2264. Interested in technology ever since his encounter with the Brotherhood, with the Followers Andre discovered that he had a natural affinity with machines. He worked with the Followers to restore pre-War agricultural equipment to assist local settlements with farming. When the NCR and Followers split due to ideological differences in the 2270s, Andre jumped ship to the Republic's new Office of Science and Industry. To fulfill his dreams of reintroducing more technology within the NCR, he believes that the OSI is the only group that can feasibly achieve that goal.
===Office of Science and Industry===
As the NCR-Brotherhood War dragged on into the late 2270s, Andre found work in the OSI with analyzing the power armor scavenged from defeated Paladins. He was fascinated with just how much punishment a suit could endure, reinvigorating his childhood fascination with power armor. Andre looks up the good work done by the Brotherhood, both in preserving technology and their efforts to protect people before their war with the NCR. Despite this he truly believes that power armor would be much better in the hands of Republic.
The work done by Andre in the field of researching power armor and other advanced technology earned him a position at OSI North's headquarters, Navarro. NCR scientists were still baffled by the Enclave's advanced technology even into the 2270s and much work was being done in an attempt to understanding the equipment they found in the former Enclave base. Scientist Welle worked his way up in the base through his detailed analyses of Enclave technology, eventually rising to become the director of OSI North.
By 2281 he and his team have made great progress in repairing power armor and vertibirds, although a great deal of work is still needed to provide any of those things in great numbers to the Republic. Under Director Welle OSI North has created much of the salvaged power armor used by the NCR military and has repaired a small number of suits to working order. The armor used by Colonel Royez, currently stationed at the Long 15, is an example of this. Several Enclave vertibirds have also been repaired, including the president's own Bear Force One. Despite his great accomplishments, Andre worries OSI North's military liaison, the much more charismatic Major Damen, is taking most of the credit for his work.
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