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Codex-
2282-Alliance raider repression patrols spot in the light of day a group of Big Sisters carrying a few children each right out of Alliance borders, reports make their way to Xana and subsequently to megaton, city 101, and the Republic of Dave. Anger sparks at this clear message of disrespect, kidnapping, and treaty breaking-
-Anger rises as more "sightings" are revealed, instead hoaxes by intimidated wasteland settlers made to make the Empire look bad, and cause tensions to rise further between the Empire and the Alliance. The Empire controlled Brotherhood of steel protecting the only major source of water in the wasteland is reevaluated, and after talks of placing control of the treatment facility into the alliance's hands fail (Because it is in Empire territory and right next to rivet city) An attack force made of Megaton's small militia is sent to take control by force before Overseer Xana can stop Moriarty-
-Xana fears retribution and calls all non-essential personnel in the well developing farms into City 101 and locks the city down, mindful of Imperial revenge-
-Megaton militiamen attack the water purifier and are decimated by Rapturian marines station there. Eleanor orders an immediate vengeance attack on megaton-
Staring down the closed gates of megaton with contempt Marine commander Steve Arnold growls out one word
"Attack" Missiles come flying into the gates and bombard the area for about a minute, the gatehouse completely destroyed by then A mixture of marines and army, all that they had on hand at the time, were sent through the hole and told to kill any militiaman they saw. The nuke was the first thing secured to avoid a "fuck you I'm taking you with me" situation and the city is taken in one hour.
The occupation of Megaton was never a worry ever since all Brotherhood knights and paladins had been recalled to the citadel, it is the inevitable attack by the other two allied cities that worried Steve's higher-ups.
In fact, city 101 should be the first one to be attacking, but Steve was confused as to why they weren't here yet, then it donned on him, the alliance had avoided conquer by empire because of the high casualty rate of attacking their cities, but since losing their brotherhood benefactors the alliance was effectively crippled.
A cruel grin spread across Steve's face, this little hole right in the middle of empire territory was going to be gone soon, especially since citizens died during the purifier attack. The Empress protects.
The misshapen heap of badly made concrete buildings that was the Republic of Dave, small boxes of concrete build close together and even on top of each other gave it that futuristic slums feel. Even so, the simple reinforced concrete wall surrounding the small city was formidable enough to take a few hits from missiles, but stood no chance against a Fatman. The joint marine army force had nuked the walls towards the back and swarmed their way inside, using door to door tactics to make sure to secure the settlement.
Then the peasant's palace, for what else could the Presidential Palace be called with its haphazard construction from concrete slabs and the occasional exposed rebar. Even though it was three floors high and expansive with a few towers dotted about it, it was still a bit shit.
Attacking it had been much more of an issue, as Dave put far more value on his family than the "Squatters" that made up the population of his "Nation", the Palace had the most advanced protections they could scavenge. Turrets and rocket turrets were randomly placed all about the outer wall, and they even had a force field system that would block off the many hallways in strategic points that would activate in the event of a lockdown.
The royal guard was all in formation like the old civil war infantry, tight-knit formations with the front row knelt down while the back stood up. they all fired their high-powered hunting rifles in unison and managed to wipe out a small wave of troops. A well placed grenade killed them all though.
When the invaders reached the first force field right over the main doors that were basically concrete double slabs on hinges, hot tar made from two hundred year old asphalt started falling on them and they couldn't reach the mechanisms for the force field.
So instead another mini-nuke was launched at a random bit of wall, and the troops poured in. Many robots stolen from Canterbury commons and reprogrammed to serve Dave assaulted the troops as they made their way through the palace. Dave's many MANY children pulled out plasma pistols when each one was found but were eventually capture, or in some cases killed, and two of his wives ran while the third unloaded a full magazine from her 10mm submachine gun before running for the panic room herself.
Eventually, Dave himself appeared before them decked out in a suit of T-41b power armor that had been heavily modified by his genius little girl, who had added multiple power packs to the back to move the extra weight added by the many new layers of steel. The armor was so bulky that he moved at a leisurely walk speed at full speed. A miniguns attached to his shoulder started spewing bullets while his favorite "light" machine gun, originally made in the west before the great war but had somehow made it into his hands, fired down waves of imperial soldiers.
Eventually they had to resort to using a mini-nuke in-doors to take him down (AN: "blink blink"), and Dave went out in a blaze of glory.
With the Republic of Dave taken, the Empire gathers its regional forces for City 101, wary of the explosive devices they had been using so effectively being used against them at the vault born city.
Xana was at her desk with her head in her hands. Toshiro was leaning against the corner with an even more serious than normal look on his face, while Sergeant RL-3 hummed contemplatively, thinking hard on strategy.
"Damnit, why did Moriarty have to be so FUCKING STUPID!" Xana abruptly stood up knocking over her chair as she started pacing.
"I told him so many fucking times that the Empire is too fucking large and powerful to fight but he just laughs it off! Bet the bastard's dead now. I know they'll be coming here since they attacked the Republic, obviously seeing this as an attack by the Alliance instead of by Megaton." Sigh, Xana picked up her chair and flopped down into it, letting her head fall backwards to hang there while she thought, speaking again but more calmly.
"I know that they'll make it through our mini-nuke bombardment, and even if we hold off the attack they'll just keep coming with their trigger happy, ridiculously large population. The only way..." Xana closed her eyes, she had worked so hard to make this city, HER city. Parting with it was almost unthinkable.
Almost.
Sigh "Toshiro, will you still follow me even if I am no longer a lord?" Toshiro looked up and nodded, speaking slowly so his translator could keep up.
"I have sworn myself to you and you are still strong, sacrificing your power to protect your people is more honorable than anything that my former lords have done before. I will stand by you for that if nothing else. My sword is still yours." With a respectful nod, he went back to his pseudo meditation while Xana gave a very small smile at his loyalty.
Glancing at the handheld radio that Eleanor had provided early on in their dealings, she sighed and picked it up, steeling herself for what she was about to do
As soon as the personal line to Eleanor was connected, an obviously curious Eleanor on the other end, Xana sighed sadly and spoke.
"I surrender."
codex- (Already?!)
2282-Empire Soldiers marched through the streets of city 101 in a show of force, the empress herself observing as the overseer's office was destroyed and the militia building torn down to be replaced by an Imperial Garrison barracks-
-The newly made Imperial flag of Rapture, a simple golden gear with a space in the middle with a golden R in the center, on a darkened navy blue background, was being attached to every building on the main streets. Many more copies of the flags were being sent to Flagstaff and Rapture-
-With the "peaceful" Occupation of City 101 complete, Eleanor renames it Forge City because of it's heavily weapons production based industry. With the complete and utter surrender of all territories and ownerships Xana had given Eleanor the Pitt too, but the people there were a bit less welcome to that fact so it was heavily populated with military police-
-With the discovery of Duraframe from the Overseer's archives, Eleanor herself starts making schematics for a new setoff armor, but sets it aside until she finds a way to produce the alloy-
2283- The new gene tonic is finished, now anyone who takes it will have a resistance to 150 rads per second for life, effectively removing most issues with living in an apocalyptic wasteland for the Empire-
-A small team injected with the new tonic is sent through the radiation field with lightly armored advanced radiation suits, which can block 200 rads. Rad-x is injected regularly through the trip but the use of three fusion Humvees allow the team to make it through without much issue-
-The Colorado river is discovered and as such Hoover Dam, with it being night-time the scouting troops can see the lights of New Vegas in the distance, and make out the heavy amount of guards on the dam-
-Vegas forces spot the suited scouts and fire upon them, thinking they are somehow legion scouts. this marks a few small skirmishes with a few more teams being sent through. The courier, Queen of Vegas, comes to the dam to resolve the issues a small Imperial attack group gets ready to attack-
Yes short chapter, but I REALLY wanted to get to New Vegas already! In a couple more chapters we'll hit mass effect and it will really get down!
For those who voted for the response Vegas will have and receive don't worry, your wishes will be granted :)
I just had to give Dave that instead of the more realistic cowering in a panic room, the guy was awesome enough to get two wives so I got to hand this to him at least :)
Don't expect updates to be this fast again, or if you do want it expect them to be just as short if not shorter. I just happened to be in a hard work mood!