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Mercifully, you only have to leave the Mojave once this month and it’s for a good reason. You decide not to go nuclear if you can help it and choose the MOAB. It will undoubtedly be easier to create a trigger mechanism for a conventional explosive than a nuclear one. Transportation was a question quickly answered when you remembered that Daisy’s Vertibird can pretty easily haul the explosive from.
You’re not risking such a valuable piece of technology to go flying over an active war zone, so you instead trek back into The Divide. You considered taking a companion for old times sake, but honestly, everyone is too busy. Even those not in the government, like Veronica, have found new responsibilities in the Mojave. Oh well, it sure is lonely at the top.
You tell Daisy the plan, that you’ll clear an LZ near the munitions bunker and you’ll secure the bomb to the Vertibird. She will leave a day after you and loiter nearby while waiting for your signal.
Now that you know what you’re looking for, the trip down to the munitions bunker goes quickly and without much fuss. The first real challenge comes from finding and fixing up a cart to move the bomb with. You find a few in varying conditions and spend the next few hours cobbling together the parts to get one of the maintenance vehicles working.
That should have been the biggest problem of the entire trip, except when you went to begin preparing the MOAB for transport. When readying the carrying crate, you clear away some grime and dust and see “DEACTIVATED-FOR DISPLAY AND TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY”
You slam your first into the housing, denting the bomb as there’s no risk of it blowing you to atoms. Okay, Plan B.
You don’t have the time nor did you prepare to fuck around with ICBMs so instead look at the atomic bombs sitting around. You have only encountered one of these things before, up in nowhere Mojave. From the little tinkering you have done with it, they’re remarkably simple compared to the warhead of a nuclear warhead.
There are numerous different kinds of styles and sizes, but you need one that’s able to be carried by a Vertibird and simple enough to rig a remote activation mechanism on. Most have damage from sitting in storage for so long, either leaking their payload or the shell being too far gone. You settle on a cylindrical-like bomb with stubby metal fins at the tail end. “B53” is stenciled on the side but that has no meaning to you.
