Quoted By:
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-s"> (POSIEDON ENERGY ATOMIC POWERPLANT NO. 5, NORTHWEST COMMONWEALTH, SEPTEMBER 2271)
(MISSION PARAMETERS: INFILITRATE GECKO, AND ASCERTAIN THE STATUS OF THE GHOULS AND THEIR POWER PLANT)
(MISSION RESULTS: SUCCESS, ALL RELAVENT DATA POINTS EXTRACTED, RELATIONS BETWEEN ROGUE STATES DAMAGED)
(RECOMMENDED ACTIONS.... COMPUTING... EXTERMINATE GHOUL POPULATION, CONTINUE FALSE FLAG ATTACKS, SEIZE REACTOR)</span></span>
Gerald and his boys hadn't gone on a short term operation like this in a long while, but it's a good rust dusting operation. After all ghoul's ain't nearly as scary or determined as the Bishop's.
He gathered the group together, his best shots would stick back a ways in power armor, ready to radio in the Combat Vets while he and the others got some civilian clothing, a bucket of rad-x and radaway and got close to the city, engaging with the ghouls under the guise that they were small time merchants and mechanics.
The ghouls were affable folk, but Gerald wasn't about to start getting chummy with the corpses beyond what he needed to do. What he did learn in his time at Gecko was that the NCR had become their foremost trade partner shipping Uranium to the power plant, in return for whatever goods the ghouls could give in return, it was a pretty one sided trade deal in favor of the Ghouls and that's what got Gerald's attention more than anything else.
If what he knew about Vault city was true, then he suspected this was all part of some grand diplomacy play, where they keep Gecko running in hopes that Vault City either slips up with their relations with it, or they run out of alternatives. With the NCR being the only suppliers of Uranium it would inexorably tie Vault City to the NCR via the Uranium Trade. That's a pretty nasty catch 22.
He also noted in his report that the Ghouls had attempted to optimize the reactor before, get more power per uranium rod as it were, but their last chance at that was just about 30 years ago when the chosen one had fixed their reactor leak. For whatever reason he decided not to ease the tension between Vault City and Gecko. That man was either playing the longest game ever, or really just didn't care, and Gerald didn't know which it was.
None the less, he was able to do something about the matter, if only to delay the inevitable warming of relations between the NCR and the Ghouls, and start a small false flag operation where in he framed the NCR for some aggressive assaults on some ghouls, made it look like the diplomats soldiers had decided they didn't like the ghouls.
Cause a bit of a diplomatic incident, but there wasn't much Gecko could really do about it, as Broken Hill was mined out of Uranium, and the NCR were the only ones capable of supplying it now.
Still all and all as successful as the operation could have been.
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