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Death, taxes and raiders preying upon helpless traders and travelers. This is one of the biggest issues in the wasteland that every faction, empire or nation fades. Only the Legion has secured the trade routes of their vast lands, though due to a combination of ruthlessness and expected legion thoroughness.
These issues have always existed in the Mojave, especially as caravans of NCR civilians and traders flow through the region towards Hoover or New Vegas. While the Republic was never able to fully take the trade routes, they never had the resources to in the first place. While the Courier has far less manpower, their Securitrons are a force multiplier and New Vegas is not embroiled in a fight to the death with Caesar's Legion.
While the Fiends are destroyed and South Vegas is the safest it’s been in years, the rest of the Mojave has descended into a sort of anarchy that isn’t apocalyptic, but towns are more isolated than they’ve been since perhaps the bombs dropped. This comes with a multitude of consequences but one of the biggest is a lack of food flowing to Freeside and tourists heading to New Vegas.
It’s going to be a long fight, but the Courier dispatches Boone, Lily and 25 Securitrons from South Vegas to hunt down the increasing animal and raider attacks on caravans coming up from the South Mojave.
This small force isn’t acting so much as caravan guards than a QRF for any attacks as well as a scouting force to find the animal nests and raider bases of operation. This is one of Boone’s specialties, having helped hunt down bandit leaders back West.
Lily doesn’t know the “whys” of what she’s doing, but Boone does a superb job leveraging her stealth ability to shadow bandit groups and Boone’s expert tracking to find the groups in the first place. Over the course of the two weeks deployed, Boone’s force doesn’t stop many attacks directly, just too much land to cover and not enough Securitrons to patrol the numerous paths to New Vegas.
He does manage to corner a handful of smaller groups near the old correctional facility and Primm, taking a few hostages and wiping the rest out to a man.
After some “enhanced interrogation”, Boone learns that there’s a sizable group using the abandoned town of Nipton as a base to launch assaults on caravans heading from the NCR border crossing. A gang leader named Headache is in charge, unknown where he came from but unusually cunning and ruthless.
