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Caesar's Legion

Authoritarian empire seeking to conquer the Mojave.

Who they are

Caesar's Legion offers order through domination. Its conflict with the NCR makes Hoover Dam a clash not only for territory but for incompatible views of civilization.

Their story belongs to The Mojave and New Vegas. A desert where every faction has a plan for the dam, the Strip and the future.

Their story, step by step

  1. Step 1

    Make order through terror

    Caesar's Legion offers security and expansion by treating conquest, slavery and fear as necessities for a stable civilization.

  2. Step 2

    Confront its limits

    Its rigid hierarchy depends on one leader's ideology and on the suffering it refuses to count as a cost.

  3. Step 3

    What their choices leave behind

    The Legion remains the Mojave's clearest case that efficiency and order cannot be separated from the means used to impose them.

Turning points

  • Forging an empire from conquered peoples.
  • Bringing its ideology to Hoover Dam.
  • Making the Mojave choose what it will tolerate for stability.

Where their story stands now

The Legion remains the Mojave's clearest case that efficiency and order cannot be separated from the means used to impose them.

Games they appear in

Where this fits in the story

  1. The Mojave and New Vegas · step 1

    Survive the delivery

    The Courier enters the Mojave with a mystery and no fixed allegiance.

  2. The Mojave and New Vegas · step 2

    Learn the factions

    Each power offers security, ideology or freedom at a different cost.

  3. The Mojave and New Vegas · step 3

    Return to the Strip

    Mr. House and the Strip reveal that pre-war technology still governs the present.

  4. The Mojave and New Vegas · step 4

    Choose Hoover Dam

    The final battle resolves a route, not a single permanent reading of the wasteland.

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