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Try as you might, you just can’t pull the trigger on putting a system of laws in place. You’re fine with a vast majority of it, but the devil is in the details and you decide to give yourself the rest of the month to chew on it.
Thankfully, you’re killing two molerats with one landmine because Secretary Garrett is also reporting on her trip to the Securitron Factory.
[Thank you all for your input, I have a lot to think about. Next, Secretary Garrett has a report.]
Garrett shuffles a few papers in an old manilla folder and stands.
Garrett: Thanks, Courier. Recently, I took a trip across the river to a Securitron Facility across the river. It was certainly interesting and Secretary Haversam does have some options for fixing the reactor. I was tasked with sourcing the resources needed for the Securitron robot.
First, titanium for the outer shell. This may prove to be the most difficult of the resources as it needs to be manufactured. That being said, we’re incredibly lucky there is a titanium facility in New Vegas. According to Yes Man, it’s a fully integrated facility meaning that it should be able to produce the finished product for the shell of the robot. That being said, we have no idea what state the facility is in and how far we are from it running. As for the actual material, it’s a little more unknown. In Mr. House’s files, Bagdad Arizona had a copper mine with small-scale zinc deposits. It is unsure the extent of Titanium-adjacent material but the only other deposits are deep in Legion territory, south of Phoenix. This is outside of my area of expertise and there aren’t many geologists in the NVD.
Moving on, copper for the wiring and ammunition. Thankfully, we have a sizable deposit in the NVD and the Legion mines copper in their territory.
The glass for the monitor is a mixture of standard glass and lead, resulting in a much stronger material. Once again, the Legion mines lead so that’s a source and a place called Panaca north of New Vegas was a sizable lead mine before the war. The focusing crystals for laser weaponry are more advanced but there are those in the wasteland who know this craft. Silica is the main material needed, of which there are small deposits in and around the Mojave. We also need this for electronic parts within the Securitron.
Thanks to Secretary Lewis, we know the old Vault around Sloan was on top of a large sulfur cave deposit and the hopes are that some minor excavation will allow us access to it. Saltpeter, or Potassium Nitrate, is more difficult as it is not found anywhere nearby. It’s possible caves in and around the region will have guano, from bats, but we can import from the NCR.
We have the capability to produce steel for miscellaneous Securitron parts and for the ammunition due to New Vegas Steel. The facility needs work and we need coal and iron, but there is a small iron deposit around Charleston and a coal mine across the river. We can also import from the NCR.
