Chapter 86: Chapter Eighty-Six
Weather Monitoring Station. Mojave Wasteland.
Since I'd had Caesar and anyone who had a chance of succeeding him assassinated the Legion Fort here was poorly manned and disorganised. Held only by a small war band which had once been part of the Legion. Due to the fracture and less organised nature of these war bands when compared to the Legion they were easy prey for my battle harem who swept through the camp, killing anyone who objected to our presence here and sending the slaves running off somewhere. I'd would much rather have sent those slaves off to work as serfs on some project, but I didn't care enough to have them rounded up.
At the western edge of camp, we found what we were lucking for, an old building. It was here when the Fort was taken by the Legion quite recently after the first battle for the Hoover Dam which did not go well for the Legion. There would never be a second battle since the Legion no longer existed as a unified organisation.
Inside the building there was a hatch, and inside that hatch are two steel doors that bear the sigil of the Lucky 38 casino. I was able to open them since Mr House had entrusted me to activate his army. Once he had that army he planned to create what he called the Free Economic Zone of New Vegas. A nation allied with House Thrax and by extension the Imperium of Man.
Once the NCR had been forced to pull most of its forces out of the Mojave then Mr House's robot army would act as the Free Economic Zone's army and police force with House Thrax being free to run its own operations as order was restored to the Mojave Wasteland. I would only leave behind a small garrison once I was done here since even Mr House needed allies to help keep his Free Economic Zone stable.
Before we could bring about any of that we needed to place the chip in the right terminal so that the waiting robot army would get its upgrades.
"Ah Captain, I see you've arrived" said Mr House.
He wasn't here in person, instead an image of himself had appeared on a large screen once I'd opened up the way to vault that was below the harmless looking Weather Monitoring Station.
"As promised, Mr House" I replied "My people will have the vault secured soon and you will have your army".
Since the ruler of New Vegas had already instructed me in what to do there was no more need for any speech between us. My battle harem led the way as Sarah Lyons, Magos Thea Maxanid and I headed down some stairs. Due to the radiation here Sarah and I needed to be in full armour, as for the Magos she had her own defences and the battle harem had been created to endure far worse than some rads.
After going around what remained of a protectron after my battle harem had dealt with it we entered a room that contained three terminals. The Magos, who had aside from being in charge of Ad-Mech operations in the Mojave was also my liaison to the Ad-Mech, quickly got to work, reporting that she was able to disable the turrets and protectrons despite the machine spirits of this vault having no been tended to for many years.
She wasn't able to switch off the sentry bots as it turned out due to the machine spirits governing them having become unresponsive due to a lack of appeasement and that restoring them would take hours. I assumed that this meant the operating systems had become damaged in the last couple of hundred years.
"The sentry bots should remain dormant as long as we do not threaten this complex" Magos Thea Maxanid told us "However if their machine spirts have become restless the robots may mistake us as hostiles. We should proceed with caution".
Which is what we would have done anyway.
"Omnissiah be praised!" Maxanid called out when we entered a side room.
Within this space was a small collection of weapons. I assumed that they were meant to be used by any human people who would have defended the vault in the past. Those people had been dead and gone for a long time yet they'd left behind some weapons. I mag-locked my bolt pistol to my side and took possession of the plasma rifle that still worked. There were grenades as well, a mixture of pulse and plasma, were shared out among everyone. I saw Maxanid take more than her fair share of the spoils and hide them within her robe, but I didn't mind since I knew that the cogboys and coggirls couldn't resist the lure of technology. Besides her services were proving to be useful even if they were expensive.
The next room has two protectrons and two turrets within it all of which were inactive thanks to the hacking of the Magos. As we moved on we found rooms filled with generators, and many long windows that allowed us to look out over an army of securitrons. The final room contained as I knew it would, an operations console that can read the data on the platinum chip. Once it had done that the vault began to upgrade all the securitrons, and activate the army in the vault.
"We'll seal up this place on our way out as we won't be returning" I said, mostly to the Magos.
I didn't want the red robed cyborgs messing about with this place and upsetting Mr House. Not when he now had a robot army that could threaten my garrison. While him having so many soldiers should make him comfortable in dealing with the expedition it wouldn't do to overstep our bounds and start hostiles.
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