Expunging Impure Elements

**Expunging Impure Elements** is a security branch of the Republic of New Vegas that handles issues regarding feral ghouls and other impure elements of the wastes.

## History

The EIE was a paramilitary founded by former caravan guard Adam Barnes dedicated to destroying impure elements in the Mojave Waste. Barnes attracted a good following and some funding from the NCR and the EIE made their headquarters in the Broadcasting Corporation Satellite northeast of New Vegas. There, they hunted feral ghouls, lakelurks, and other mutants.

They attracted the attention of Red and his companions when they attacked the headquarters of the secret Orion Project. The Project had been kidnapping the inhabitants of the Mojave for experiments to develop a hybrid human that could survive severe radiation and nuclear blasts. A repentant scientist within the Project secretly notified the EIE, who sent a platoon led by Leo Jones to end the Project. Jones was unmerciful and only one member of the project, a scientist named Jennifer Rawley survived by locking herself in her office. Jones and the EIE were in the bottom layers destroying the impure test subjects; Rawley killed them by using a contingency plan to flood the lower level with poison gas.

Red found Rawley, who tried to kill him by sending him into the lower level. He survived her betrayal, but Rawley escaped the facility. Red sought out the EIE and found their base at the BCS. He meets Barnes and earns the respect of the EIE by restarting the satellite's main generator. The satellite is restarted and they learn a test subject has escaped and is sending out a distress signal.

Red and the EIE track the subject down, but arrive at the same time as Rawley and Orion mercenaries. Rawley and the mercenaries are killed, eradicating the Orion Project. The subject, Max Jones, is put out of his misery with a bullet from Maria to the head. Barnes gave Red his family revolver, Serendipity, for his help.

### Terror Rising

The EIE and Red team up once again to defeat Jeremiah. Developing a large army of rogue Brotherhood of Steel soldiers and robots, Jeremiah was attempting to crack the launch codes to the remaining nuclear missile at the Argyle Silo in West Vegas. Red and EIE interrupted the plot by seizing control of the silo themselves and stopping the decryption attempt.

The teams then traveled to Facility TMP, Jeremiah's stronghold. The facility was a prewar facility dedicated to building a new breed of super soldiers via a brainwashing conversion process; Jeremiah had reactivated the facility and was attempting to build his own army by kidnapping citizens from the wastes.

There, they came across Danny Smokes and the intelligent deathclaw Goris, who were storming the facility themselves to rescue Goris's family. The EIE wanted to kill Goris as an abomination, but the Courier managed to talk Barnes out of it. Together the two sides fought to the control room where they confronted Jeremiah. With his minions defeated, Jeremiah activated the facility's self-destruct sequence and fled.

## Members

* Adam Barnes: Director of the EIE.
* James Turner: Associate Director.
* Robert Barker: Liaison from the EIE to Red's offices.
* Emily Park: EIE Head Technician.
* Joseph Grain: Heavy Weapons Specialist.