Baggers

The **Baggers**, are a group of NCR scientists sent to study and observe the Boulder Dome in North East Colorado.

## Historical background

The Baggers hail from the NCR, having set up a base outside of Boulder Dome, having set up a long range observation base outside of the city of Boulder, and have been transmitting helpful information to the NCR for years, continuing their long term scientific and observation expedition.

## Economy

Starting Industry

Starting Resources

## Starting Position

Baggers starts in Central Colorado, between Withered Dogs to the east, Luminous Ones and Glowbugs to the west, and Hangdogs to the south. The North Platte river runs north of Baggers, with no crossing points.

Baggers start with a production of 1 factory making Infantry Equipment.

Baggers starts with these division templates:

* Colorado Troopers (6 Infantry battalions)
* Garrison (4 Militia battalions)

Baggers starts with 5 divisions:

* 2 Colorado Troopers, fully equipped
* 1 Colorado Troopers, 50% equipped
* 1 Colorado Troopers, 10% equipped
* 1 Garrison, fully equipped

## Behind the scenes

* The Baggers are based on the faction of the same name that was to be depicted in *Van Buren*, although having been changed to have more of a significant role in *Old World Blues* than they originally were to in the game.
* The Baggers were created as a flavor faction by Lord Militus.
	+ The Baggers have since been worked on by McGebe, who has sought to integrate the Last Expedition submod as both a single-player and multi-player experience, although they have had to restart the coding of them from scratch.
	+ Two additional Baggers submods were worked on by Makronovo and Commander\_Vex, respectively who had since modified or abandoned their submods to assist with McGebe's. However, due to their help, the two were featured as characters in the original submod version of the Baggers.
* The Baggers were first concepted for use in *Old World Blues* in the 2016 1.0 design document, under the name "NCR Salvagers", with their concept being "These guys are fucked."

## References

1. ↑ Development Diary #18 (Developer Diary 18: Van Buren's Bounty): *"**The Baggers** are an oddity among them though, a group of human scientists sent by the NCR to study Boulder Dome from a distance. They have set up a long range observation base outside of the city and have been transmitting helpful information to the NCR for years. In Old World Blues we expand on their lore - of which they were originally just NCR-aligned scientists near Boulder Dome who were involved in the Boulder Dome story line of that game."*
2. ↑ Pip-Boy Plus/Regions#The Baggers: *"The “Baggers” are a long term scientific and observation expedition sent by the NCR to study Boulder Dome.

They were originally going to appear in Van Buren and have been carried over relatively wholesale."*
3. ↑ Sole Survivor: *"But in regards to the other factions, it would be appropriate to say that, as of right now, you've made, or otherwise contributed to, the Luminous Ones, Withered Dogs, Duoshu Lu, Hexie Lu, Sundogs, and now an Egyptian faction?"*
Lord Militus: *"Correct. And Baggers for flavour stuff too. The Egyptian faction is actually not in production yet, so not sure if you'd include that!

But, five colorado guys and Sun dogs formable yeah"*
- Obtained from Discord, 8/23/2021
4. ↑ McGebe: *"Yeah? You see, the Last Expedition is really a single-player experience and as such, I could not simply intergrate it as it was.
Right now, next to others, I do work on the Baggers, following both of my submod and the Baggers content that I teased before. Let's say I... restarted the development of it, codewise, from scratch."*
- Obtained from Discord, 8/14/2022
5. ↑ McGebe: *"All of three of us was working on a Bagger submod, but only mine has ever came out. I have been offered their work, but I did not used of that much, but they helped me with stuff - that's the main reason why both of them are characters in Last Expedition, as a uh... guest appearance?
To be exact, I developed the mod all by myself, but they did helped me with stuff after release."*
- Obtained from Discord, 8/14/2022
6. ↑ Zusk: *"( The original 2016 1.0 design doc for Arizona actually features the baggers! They are instead called "NCR Salvagers" )
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/432923946933944320/754786842636714004/752184f08d7447ee97eee3457fcd3aa5.png
- Obtained from Discord, 9/13/2020*