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In keeping with spending barrels of caps, you authorize the spending of 15,000 caps for Dr. Henry’s science projects. You haven’t been to Vault 22 but you know the location and you know of the dangers based on stories you’ve read in Zion and the root of the curse from the Big Empty. You instruct Henry to practice the utmost care, putting on a holodisk and paper everything you know and have heard about the vault. In retrospect, you probably should have deployed Securiteons to keep any wastelanders out but if what you fought at X-22 is the same as what’s in the vault, you have pity on anyone unlucky enough to stumble in.
You also decide to take the next step and expand the Mojave Rose Caravan Company. While there’s a small part of you eager to please Cass, there are plenty of pragmatic reasons to expand operations. The larger the company, the more useful it may be to the government especially as the next stages of the RMRP consist of high-level manufacturing and a greater effort in construction of new facilities. There’s also the underlying need for a robust caravan company to run private contracts throughout the region, though Cass has warned that continuing the funding of the MRCC can negatively impact private outfits due to the perceived unfair advantage. Nonetheless, you authorize the large sum of 50,000 caps to increase the overall size of the company as well as give them the CC’s old headquarters to base out of. It’s both a logistical solution and a middle finger to those fuckers in Shady Sands. You only wish you’d be there to see the look on Cass’ face when she realized her responsibilities are being expanded. It really should fall under Garret’s authority but no one knows how to run a caravan better than Cass. At least no one you know.
You also decide now is the best time to begin Stage 2A of the RMRP, which calls for the increase of foodstuffs to where the Mojave is potentially an exporter, or at least has a healthy surplus. You’re not exactly sure if Stage 1 has been a success but from what you’ve been able to gather, it’s successful enough and further investment will keep this artificial inertia running until private enterprise can rise. That’s the idea anyway. Seeking to get input at the next council meeting, you spend the 75,000 caps for Part A and hold off on Part B until a future time.
Sighing with unease at the amount of funds spent in a single sitting, you convince yourself that they are all necessary and if there’s anyone who knows how to find money, its you.
>140,000 caps
