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The chance of you winning House over to your side in this initial conversation is nil, but you have an angle here. House is many things and one of those is him being exceedingly proud of his intellect. While it is justified, it is perhaps one of his only weaknesses. Within seconds you launch your attack.
[The main reason you're alive is that I want, I need, you to see that New Vegas is just fine under my watch. In fact, I would go so far as to say it’s better than you could have ever done plugged into your computer six months in.]
You go on to explain what you’ve been doing with the Revised Mojave Rehabilitation Plan, playing up the successes in bringing food to Freeside and partnering with the NCR to do the heavy lifting for you. This does the trick and you’re interrupted by his verbal lashings.
House: AND THIS IS A MARK OF SUCCESS? YOU THINK THE NCR WILL STOP AT JUST ECONOMIC INFLUENCE? Congratulations, you have decentralized operations all across the Mojave. What does that really do for long term planning? You truly are at the mercy of the markets, and what good does feeding a bunch of useless scabs in the Wasteland do? You should be forcing them to the mines, especially with coal right across the river. It‘s so simple I feel that you’re playing a trick on me. Mine the gold, use the gold to trade for heavy industry from the NCR and use the coal to fuel that industry if you’re so keen on being Kimball’s whore.
[I’m not worried about foreign influence, you also used the NCR as a means to an end. I plan on restarting the high-tech industry through the documentation and schematics you left. It’s all very simple, really.]
House: Any bureaucrat can find the necessary deposits of minerals and ore. I was the only one capable of efficiently and quickly rebuilding the Mojave. You are depending too much on Man. It would be much easier to create automatic mining sites scattered around the wasteland and have the Securitrons handle security. Your over reliance on the Wastelander will be your undoing.
[Unlike you, I plan on ruling through legitimacy that isn’t backed up by killer robots. The New Vegas Directorate isn’t too far from what you had in mind, I think. Three branches that all run through me.]
You don’t avert your attention from the brain in the jar but you do notice all the Think Tank members completely silent, absorbed in your spat with House.
House: Do you really think you can hold a government together with your personality? Why do you think my entire plan centered around robots? They’re so dependable and simple. If you think that staffing your hyper-centralized government with humans, you only have to look in the mirror to see why that failed for me. And wait until the unwashed masses begin clamoring for representation….
He does have you there.
