The Enclave's Capital

by Meowth22

A what if where the Enclave takes a more active role in the rebuilding of the Capital Wasteland and the consequences of it. Will be written like a history.

1. The Aftermath of the Oil Rig

2242

It was over.

The staff at Camp Navarro had just received confirmation that President Richardson and the entire civilian government had been killed in the oil rig incident. Along with the President's pet monster, Frank Horrigan.

With all the civilian government dead, General Arnold Randolph decided to assume the title of President.

He promoted his second-in-command, Colonel Leonard Saul, a skilled spymaster, to General.

President Randolph was in a meeting with General Saul and Dr. Felix Autumn, head of the Research & Development when the topic was their part in causing this crisis came up.

When Dr. Autumn learned of Dr. Curling's project (that of killing the Wastelanders by weaponizing the FEV), he was horrified. Enough so that he leaked the plan to the Department of the Army staff.

General Randolph and his staff were horrified: their goal was to rebuild society, not to mass murder the survivors on the mainland. But, knew they couldn't directly confront Richardson on it, lest he send Frank Horrigan after them. But, they still couldn't let this genocide happen.

So, Colonel Saul decided to take a drastic course of action. With General Randolph's approval and through spies placed in the NCR capital, he made sure members of the NCR Congress learned of the plan.

In turn, NCR Intelligence collaborated with survivors from the Arroyo raid to infiltrate and destroy the oil rig.

The staff mourned the loss of those innocent lost in the incident, but considered it necessary due to it ridding the Enclave of the influence of Richardson and his genocidal supporters.

The meeting then turn on a different turn: what to do now? They had cynically guessed that their aid had only bought them time and that, eventually, the war hawks in NCR Congress would push President Tandi to destroy them.

Dr. Autumn made the suggestion: returning to the capital. The military figures were skeptical as the capital was one of the most bombed areas in the entire country. But, Dr. Autumn managed to persuade them by reminding them of how much sentiment it would mean to the troops to retake the capital and restore civilization to it.

So, I'll be trying something different with this fic. Instead of using dialogue, I'll be writing it like a history. It'll be a what if on what if the Enclave was more active in rebuilding the Capital Wasteland.