Hoover Dam

Hoover ... what?

“*I’ve been walking day and night for 3 months. I thought Hoover Dam would be safe, but I was wrong. [...]*”
—Journal
**Hoover Dam** is a former Old World hydroelectric power generation installation in the eastern Mojave. Formally leased at the forefront of the Mojave's political circumstance with the cards of the immortalized conflict between the Bear and the Bull, the Collapse and its impact on water levels have ushered in an extended rot of decrepit decay. The Dam still acquiesces to a insular vanguard force of maudlin accounted NCRA remnants reflecting a bygone oath to a beleaguered flag

## Background

Hoover Dam was built in 1933 named after Old World President Herbert Hoover. The Dam generated power from the artificial reservoir, Lake Mead.

Control over the facility was a major canvas underpinning tensions between different vying factions of the Mojave Wasteland. Under the terms of the bilateral New Vegas Treaty of 2274 - co-signed between the reciprocal powers of the NCR and House's Vegas - formal recognition was cited under the jurisdiction of the Republic a sacrifice honoured with contrary concessions foremost with the application of renewed power manifestation for the Strip and its casinos at a median of 5% of total output. The substantial excess accrued from the newly revitalized turbines were subsequently routed for application across local prospective entrepreneuring projects of habitation like the Sharecropper Farms. Electrification was also directed to New California at significant appraisal for the incumbent Kimball Administration whom swiftly accredited the mantle of acclaim.

The NCR would undertake two cataclysmic defensive operations to fortify their inherent status as the benefactors of the Dam with the successive Battles of Hoover Dam in both 2277 and 2281 against the combatants of Caesar's Legion. Whilst the wily esteem of Chief Hanlon's tactically astute Rangers achieved a lauded victory, the atrophy that heralded within the conducive environment of General Lee Oliver's strenuous doctrine of perpetual hold and overstretch qualified the paramount intervention of the Courier who stymied the Second Offensive from attesting fruition for the chattel fiefdom of Caesar's court. Whilst deemed a nascent victory for the Bear, the Courier thwarted prediction by mandating the expedient withdraw of NCRA military assets from the regional to ensure the perseverance of community autonomy.

As a result of both human interference within regional politics and the chimera of environmental collapse, The Fall precipitated the substantial drying of the Colorado River and Lake Mead rendering the dam inoperable and leaving far reaching consequences with the accelerated desertification of cultivated land promulgating a prolonged scarcity of prevailing foodstuffs that influenced the rise of cannibals and the chronic shortage of fresh water

While it is unknown as to how the water disappeared, tendrils of unsubstantiated word of mouth have circulated doating the potential existence of an 'eccentric' pre-war research facility that has recently been flooded. While still rumour and myth, if not entirely unknown, to those left in the Mojave, the few people knowledgeable enough may put together rumours of teleportation and heavily advanced technology in the crater-shaped region, leading to some of them moving in on the region to secure the technology for themselves, fighting each other and the 'local' inhabitants in the meanwhile.

Surprisingly, Colonel Cassandra Moore, the former commander of the forces protecting the dam, is still present, albeit with unknown designation.

Despite its severe decrease in value, Hoover Dam remained as one of the few NCR strongholds left in the Mojave, now occupied by personnel of the Royst-Bernard Expedition, a still formidable landmark in the east.

## Overview

With the installation being one of the last remaining NCR strongholds, the Survivor will be met with considerable resistance, when trying to infiltrate.

Despite the water having disappeared, reaching the dams crest or inner structure from either the former water side, or the dry side seems not to be possible.

The dam crest still being a maze of sandbag fortifications can provide cover, and with NCR exposing a surprising lack of attention on guard is a feasible route for entry, as long as no direct attention is drawn.

The inside of the dam is heavily guarded. Making entry directly through one of the Visitor Centres will have the Survivor face NCR troops wearing NCR Salvaged Power Armor, and heavy weapons including Heavy Incinerators.

Entering through one of the Dam Towers not directly connected to Visitor Centres seems advisable.

While armor, weaponry and ammunition will be available from neutralized NCR, food and drink are scarce, and are not worth the effort.

## Notes

* Exiting the dam on its lowest level reveals one of the very few clean, radiation free water sources left. This is probably an oversight.
* The two sets of Chinese stealth armor can still be found in the office level, although the existence of only two makes repairing them an issue without the Jury Rigging perk.