The NCR

Their story, step by step

1. Step 1

   Build a republic

   The NCR proves that elections, law and public institutions can return after collapse, offering residents more than survival by the day.

2. Step 2

   Expand beyond its capacity

   Its hunger for territory and resources creates corruption, overreach and resentment at the edges of the republic.

3. Step 3

   What their choices leave behind

   The NCR is most interesting as an unfinished reconstruction: a genuine civic project facing the dangers of becoming an empire.

Turning points

• Founding a durable post-war state.
• Extending authority across the West.
• Confronting the costs of expansion in the Mojave.

Where their story stands now

The NCR is most interesting as an unfinished reconstruction: a genuine civic project facing the dangers of becoming an empire.

Who they are tied to

• Caesar's Legion →Its direct rival for control of the Mojave.
• Mr. House →House resists the NCR's attempt to absorb New Vegas.

Games they appear in

• Fallout 2 →The Chosen One leaves drought-stricken Arroyo to find a G.E.C.K. and uncovers the Enclave's plan to eliminate people it considers genetically impure.
• Fallout: New Vegas →After surviving an execution, the Courier follows a stolen Platinum Chip to New Vegas and enters a four-way struggle for Hoover Dam.

Where this fits in the story

1. The West Coast · step 1

   Survive the first wasteland

   Early communities prove the world can produce new societies.

2. The West Coast · step 2

   Build the NCR

   A republic offers law and scale, but also new bureaucracy and appetite for expansion.

3. The West Coast · step 3

   Meet the Brotherhood

   The Brotherhood preserves power while fearing what uncontrolled technology can do.

4. The West Coast · step 4

   Head east to Hoover Dam

   The NCR's expansion brings its strengths and weaknesses into the Mojave.

Read the full story of The West Coast