Arthur Harris

Arthur in 2282

**Arthur Harris**, also known as **Courier** is a former leader and war dictator of Mojave Independent State. He was an outlaw and lead a Courier's Gang, also known as Courier's Wild Bunch, which were involved in drug-dealing, racketeering, gambling, gun-dealing and other criminal activities. His influence on Mojave economics allowed him to estabilish control on New-Vegas, then on the whole Mojave Desert, gave him a permission to create Mojave Independent State, in which one he will become the dictator and tyrant like Caesar or Mr. House

## Background

### Childhood

Arthur Harris was born around 2240-2250s in San-Francisco. His parents were nomads until they met the Hubologists. They joined this sect and given up Arthur for education to AHS-7. Due to the peculiarities of education in Hubologist sect, Arthur grew up unsocialized and distanced from people. When Arthur was 8-10 years old, all of the San-Francisco Hubologists died and Arthur was the last survivor. Soon the NCR army entered in San-Francisco and Harris got into Shady-Sands Orphanage where he escaped from when he was 15 due to bullying from other children.

### Meeting with criminal

He forced to join one of the gangs of juvenile delinquents, in which he was also hated, but this activity brought Arthur his first money. His only friend in this gang was Jeffrey Hench, his future mate in Bishop Crime Family. One day Harris's first gang decided to rob influential businessman Mr. Bishop, who stopped in Shady-Sands on business. Robbery failed and Arthur with his gang went into cage, caught by Bishop Enforcers. He choosed Arthur to kill all of his gang partners because Harris looked the most anxious and didn't want to die with his "brother-on-arms". Arthur killed everyone and begged Bishop to save Jeffrey Hench's life. Bishop appreciated Harris's work and brought him into New-Reno to work on Bishop Crime Family

### Working on Mr. Bishop

In 2260s Jeffrey Hench and Arthur Harris went into New-Reno and started to work as contract killers on Mr. Bishop. Bishop raised boys as his own children, he was like a father figure to youngsters, that's why they fullfilled all of his orders. Arthur was much smarter than Jeffrey, that's why Harris originally were the guy who clears the crime scene of evidences to fool NCR Police, but soon he also started to kill people for money when the NCR started to expand to the East and Police became less observant. His biggest contract was killing Hesus Mordino Jr. in 2272. Due to death of Boss of the Mordino Crime Family, soon Mordinos are collapsed. Arthur's disguise was courier's work, he always has been represented himself as a courier and shooted the target when it opened the door. Arthur was devoted to his boss and was depended of him in many questions. He talked only with Mr. Bishop and was fully trusted him, which depends on Arthur's future and his path.

### Mojave Contract

In 2280 Arthur arrived in Hopeville to kill NCR Army officer. He accidentally destroyed Hopeville and Ashton due to the package he brought into Divide - NCR troops which involved into investigation about death of the officer activated nuclear bombs and targeted them to Long 15 with help of ED-e, which was the package. Arthur got a job in Mojave Express and became on of six couriers who was ordered to bring package outside of the Strip. Harris's package contains platinum chip - device contains a code of activation MK-II securitons. Order was made by a robot Victor - personal assistant of Mister House. House's protege - Benny, Boss of Chairmen gang, and mercenaries from Great Khans, intercept Arthur and took his chip. Benny shot Harris in the head and threw him at Goodsprings Graveyard

## Events of Fallout: New Vegas

### Goodsprings

Arthur comes to life in Goodsprings, in the house of Doc Mitchel. First he thought about how to Come back into the New-Reno to Bishop, and he was not very interested in finding the man who shot him. A dispute between the owner of the local saloon and the leader of the bandits prompted Arthur to stay in the Mojave. These people were Trudy and Joe Cobb, the last one is looking for caravan Worker Ringo. Arthur decided to help Joe and Powder Gangers hire him to find and liquidate Ringo. After the work was done, the Courier had to participate in the battle between the bandits and the locals, in which Powder Gangers won. Joe Cobb died in this encounter deadly wounded by Easy Pete. His right-hand man Noodles took control after the town, but Arthur wanted to get his reward, and Noodles went after him to the NCR Correctional Facility - a main base of Powder Gangers.

### Working on Eddie

Arthur arrives at the Powder Gangers base and meets their leader, Eddie. He gives Arthur his award for winning Goodsprings, and also offers the Courier to work fully for him. He orders the murder of the sheriff of Primm so that his group in Primm can take over the city. After completing the task, the criminals in Primm did not want to obey Eddie and created their own gang of raiders. Arthur offers his services to protect the city from bandits to the head of the settlement - Johnson Nash. He frees Deputy Sheriff Beaggle and begins work on finding a new sheriff. Arthur finds Myers in NCR Correctional Facility and heads to the Mojave Outpost to free him. As a result, Myers becomes the new sheriff of Primma and clears the city of bandits who broke away from the Powder Gangers. NCR troops were withdrawn from the region as soon as all the bandits were destroyed, due to Myers' uncompromising attitude and desire for independence for Primm. Eddie began planning an attack on Primm, but the Courier had other plans - he wanted to invest in the restoration of the casino of Vicky and Vance. Arthur planned to go to Shady Sands and receive money from the construction company through racketeering. Upon learning of Harris's plans, Eddie feared that Arthur might thwart the bandit's plans to take over the city, and probably he is an NCR spy. Eddie was recruited by the Chairmen, who promised him 1,000 caps for removing the Courier. Eddie only had to say where Harris was. The chairmen attacked Arthur in the Wasteland and were defeated. On their jacket was found a letter from Eddie, which told about the whereabouts of the Courier. Upon learning of this, Arthur persuaded Eddie's personal bodyguard, Scrambler, to eliminate his boss. Eddie is later killed by a bomb detonating under his desk. Scrambler announced himself as the new leader of the Powder Gangers, but in fact, Arthur was already in charge of all the affairs in the gang with Noodles, Arthur just doesn't want to associate his name with raiders, Arthur begins to build his own crime business

### Meeting with Russel

In Arthur's way on Primm he met an NCR bounty hunter who drove a criminal from New-Reno to Hub. The bounty hunter's name was Russell, the female criminal he was carrying, called herself simply Thug. Arthur made a fuss and invited him to participate in the racket of the construction company. Russell refused and even wanted to arrest the Courier, Arthur reasonably assumed that he would not be given money for Harris's head, for which the Courier himself could give it. Russell temporarily released Thug and went to Shady-Sands. Through threats and torture, ranger mask-wearing bandits forced the director of Invest Group to sign a contract to finance the construction of a casino. When construction was almost complete a month later and the casino along with the Bison and Steve Hotel were ready to open, the NCR correctional facility was attacked by the military. The courier knew from Johnson Nash that the attack was being prepared, so the Powder Gangers were able to defend themselves. After this incident, the NCR military police began to look closely at the Courier, they began to associate the rise of the Powder Gangers and the founding of the casino with an unknown mysterious person.

### Foundation of Wild Bunch

Primm's opening was huge, people from all over the Wasteland went to the city to see the new amazing building, the city began to be called the second New Vegas. In gratitude for the development of social infrastructure Primm, Sheriff Myers gave the Courier the status of a special citizen, in fact, the Courier began to control all activities in the city, Powder Gangers assumed control after I-15, but Arthur was not happy with the looting of the Powder Gangers in the new territory, in order to earn money he needed the caravans to go along this road again. He fulfilled the order of Ranger Jackson and cleared the roads of gangs and ants. In return for the profits, he received exclusive rights from Ranger Jackson and Sgt. Kilborn to take weapons to Interstate 15 through the Mojave Outpost. To do this, it was necessary to eliminate the Scrambler, according to Arthur, the Powder Gangers were bandits of the old school who earned little money, and in order to build a large-scale drug trafficking and arms sales business, the Courier formed the Wild Gang from the Powder Gangers, with whom he engaged in arms dealer racketeering. But in order to carry out their plans, Scrambler had to be removed. At the right moment during the Powder Gangers raid against the caravans, Russell fired a sniper rifle into the head of the gang boss. Before everyone dispersed, Arthur gathered all the criminals on the prison site and declared himself the new leader of the Powder Gangers. This meant that they were no longer a group of criminals who escaped from prison, but united in the fight against the NCR, they were mercenaries who worked for the Courier and were stationed in Goodsprings. On this day, the Courier gang was founded, Russell became the right hand of Harris and his companion along with the Thug, Noodles became his treasurer and head of security. On average, the Courier earned about a thousand caps from one contract for the sale of weapons, but he did not yet have the resources to produce weapons, his merchants could no longer produce weapons in such quantities to support government contracts, so the Courier wanted to take all business from Benny and get the weapons and drugs of the Chairmen at his disposal, for this he had to head to the Strip through Nipton, where he went with Russell, leaving Noodles in charge