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You only have a little less than two weeks before the end of the both and much you want to accomplish. While the focus and energy should be building up the Mojave, nothing is more important than dealing with Zion and the blight. There’s nothing more important than containing its spread. The valley itself has only a few paths to the wider wasteland, those that you know of. You can send Securitrons to block the paths heading North from Zion but what about those heading north from Zion….
You don’t like it but you’ll have to ask the Brotherhood for help. They can deploy small checkpoints based around their valuable vertibirds. This isn’t just a Mojave issue, it’s clear this could destroy all life and turn it into some old science fiction nightmare.
But even with their help, it’s bound to escape eventually. You’ll need to cleanse the valley of this filth and you know the best place to find the tools.
The Divide. While you destroyed numerous warheads for an imaginary challenge you gave yourself, the entire region seems lousy with them. With any luck you can find a working missile or two with a nuclear warhead and destroy the valley. You’ll visit afterwards to make sure, but Zion must die.
Before this, you have a few smaller tasks to complete. In a twist of morbid luck, those with Daniel are the fittest and healthiest of the Children of Zion as those who stayed behind were the infirm, the old, or the young.
The population you have to resettle are young, very self sufficient and trustworthy. It’s almost a boon for you rather than a drain on resources, but they still need a place to call home.
You consider sending them up North around the Bitter Springs/Calville Bay Area but realize the infrastructure up there is rather poor. Instead, Cottonwood Cove seems to be the ideal place. There’s a level of infrastructure from pre-war and the Legion presence, with ready access to the river. They’ll be able to fish, have access to clean water and hunt further up and down river.
You write down your wishes and have a courier deliver them to Yes Man, Secretary Gunderson and Secretary Garret to request a funding estimation. You want to make sure the children of Zion have all they need to begin their life again, as well as access to the wider Mojave to trade. Cottonwood is relatively isolated but all will come in time. And with a judicious application of caps.
You turn your attention next to the Salvatores. You don’t have the bandwidth to execute your planned cleansing of their portion of Freeside, but you direct Kreger and Boone to begin planning their operation. Subtlety has failed and now it’s time to cordon off their entire territory and go door to door shutting down the operation.
