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Colonel Hsu "I'm usually good with faces, but I don't think I've seen you here before. What brings you to Camp McCarran?"
Rhodane "How are things going for the NCR around here?"
Colonel Hsu "Could be better, I'll say that much. We set up here with our sights set on annexing New Vegas. That's a lot of resources that could do a lot of good for us. But that hasn't happened. If anything, they annexed us. They rake in the profits from our soldiers and we're stuck protecting them from the Legion. Not exactly the plan."
Rhodane "Where does that leave you?"
Colonel Hsu "Now we're trying to secure the Strip and the Dam at the same time, and it's costing us. And in the meantime General Oliver won't approve any offensive maneuvers because he doesn't want to risk losing our positions. So we're in a holding pattern here. And Caesar's on the other side of the river, planning."
Rhodane "What's Camp McCarran's role in NCR operations?"
Colonel Hsu "It's our main base. We took it because it lets us keep an eye on the Strip. And it had already been fortified before the Great War. From here we handle most of the logistics for our operations in Nevada. Troop allocation, supply distribution, intel. Usually General Oliver runs the show here, but he's on his way to the Dam now, so I've taken on a lot of his duties here."
Rhodane "Are things mostly quiet between here and the Dam?"
Colonel Hsu "Unfortunately, no. In fact, the word from the Ranger stations has been especially concerning lately. It sounds like they've run into overwhelming resistance, and supplies just aren't reaching them. It's been so bad I asked Sergeant Reyes at Camp Forlorn Hope to look into it and see how it is that things could be so fouled up there."
Rhodane "You seem calm given that things are as bad as they are."
Colonel Hsu "Calm is what you have to be when people look to you. And it's all you can be when things are out of your hands."
Rhodane "What challenges does the NCR face here?"
Colonel Hsu "Everything was going according to President Kimball's plan at first. We met minor resistance from local troublemakers. But our two main objectives are still contested. Mr. House controls the Strip and he won't so much as meet with our ambassador. And we're holding Hoover Dam, but Caesar's Legion is positioning itself to overrun it. If it falls, so will New Vegas. We'd be forced to withdraw."
Rhodane "We're up for hire if you need some extra manpower around the base. "
Colonel Hsu "There are a lot of things I can't spare troops for right now. If you can help us, we can definitely pay you for your work. Hmm... you don't cook by any chance, do you? Farber's doing his best, but it's hard to manage an army with half my staff in line for the latrine. Honestly, we're fighting a lot of fires right now. The Fiends keep pressing their position from Vault 3. We've got the Legion breathing down our necks across the river. We actually took an officer alive last week, but so far he hasn't spoken a word."
Rhodane "The Fiends?"
Colonel Hsu "As in chem fiends. Biggest gang of raiders I've ever seen. Nothing like addiction to swell your numbers. Psychotic, and completely unpredictable. They've set up shop in Vault 3 to the west. Every day they attack our positions and my men repel them. But every day there's more of them and less of us. I sent one of my rangers after their leader to try and destabilize them. He didn't return. Hell of a thing, losing a ranger. You come to depend on them. And they come through for you so often, you forget it can happen."
Rhodane "I bet I could make the Legion prisoner talk."
Colonel Hsu "I have Lieutenant Boyd on that already, and she's excellent. But I think she's hit a wall. Talk to her, if you like. See if she has any use for you. Her office is right above mine, but I think she might be interrogating right now. So she'd be upstairs on the other side of the building."
Rhodane "Any other problems?"
Colonel Hsu "Yeah. On top of everything else, I can't send a patrol on a bathroom break without it being ambushed by someone who heard they were coming. So somebody's getting the word out."
Rhodane "I could look into who's leaking NCR intelligence."
Colonel Hsu "Hmm... Well, why not? Given your recent arrival, at least I can safely rule you out as the leak. I'd like to have absolute trust in my men, but that's just not practical right now. Go ahead and look into it. See what you find. We don't have much to go on right now. Lately every raiding party in New Vegas seems to have a map of our troop movements. It derails everything. Supplies, reinforcements. And it'll only get worse, the longer we let it go on. Captain Curtis is heading up the investigation right now. He can fill you in."

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Colonel Hsu "I'm usually good with faces, but I don't think I've seen you here before. What brings you to Camp McCarran?"
Rhodane "How are things going for the NCR around here?"
Colonel Hsu "Could be better, I'll say that much. We set up here with our sights set on annexing New Vegas. That's a lot of resources that could do a lot of good for us. But that hasn't happened. If anything, they annexed us. They rake in the profits from our soldiers and we're stuck protecting them from the Legion. Not exactly the plan."
Rhodane "Where does that leave you?"
Colonel Hsu "Now we're trying to secure the Strip and the Dam at the same time, and it's costing us. And in the meantime General Oliver won't approve any offensive maneuvers because he doesn't want to risk losing our positions. So we're in a holding pattern here. And Caesar's on the other side of the river, planning."
Rhodane "What's Camp McCarran's role in NCR operations?"
Colonel Hsu "It's our main base. We took it because it lets us keep an eye on the Strip. And it had already been fortified before the Great War. From here we handle most of the logistics for our operations in Nevada. Troop allocation, supply distribution, intel. Usually General Oliver runs the show here, but he's on his way to the Dam now, so I've taken on a lot of his duties here."
Rhodane "Are things mostly quiet between here and the Dam?"
Colonel Hsu "Unfortunately, no. In fact, the word from the Ranger stations has been especially concerning lately. It sounds like they've run into overwhelming resistance, and supplies just aren't reaching them. It's been so bad I asked Sergeant Reyes at Camp Forlorn Hope to look into it and see how it is that things could be so fouled up there."
Rhodane "You seem calm given that things are as bad as they are."
Colonel Hsu "Calm is what you have to be when people look to you. And it's all you can be when things are out of your hands."
Rhodane "What challenges does the NCR face here?"
Colonel Hsu "Everything was going according to President Kimball's plan at first. We met minor resistance from local troublemakers. But our two main objectives are still contested. Mr. House controls the Strip and he won't so much as meet with our ambassador. And we're holding Hoover Dam, but Caesar's Legion is positioning itself to overrun it. If it falls, so will New Vegas. We'd be forced to withdraw."
Rhodane "We're up for hire if you need some extra manpower around the base. "
Colonel Hsu "There are a lot of things I can't spare troops for right now. If you can help us, we can definitely pay you for your work. Hmm... you don't cook by any chance, do you? Farber's doing his best, but it's hard to manage an army with half my staff in line for the latrine. Honestly, we're fighting a lot of fires right now. The Fiends keep pressing their position from Vault 3. We've got the Legion breathing down our necks across the river. We actually took an officer alive last week, but so far he hasn't spoken a word."
Rhodane "The Fiends?"
Colonel Hsu "As in chem fiends. Biggest gang of raiders I've ever seen. Nothing like addiction to swell your numbers. Psychotic, and completely unpredictable. They've set up shop in Vault 3 to the west. Every day they attack our positions and my men repel them. But every day there's more of them and less of us. I sent one of my rangers after their leader to try and destabilize them. He didn't return. Hell of a thing, losing a ranger. You come to depend on them. And they come through for you so often, you forget it can happen."
Rhodane "I bet I could make the Legion prisoner talk."
Colonel Hsu "I have Lieutenant Boyd on that already, and she's excellent. But I think she's hit a wall. Talk to her, if you like. See if she has any use for you. Her office is right above mine, but I think she might be interrogating right now. So she'd be upstairs on the other side of the building."
Rhodane "Any other problems?"
Colonel Hsu "Yeah. On top of everything else, I can't send a patrol on a bathroom break without it being ambushed by someone who heard they were coming. So somebody's getting the word out."
Rhodane "I could look into who's leaking NCR intelligence."
Colonel Hsu "Hmm... Well, why not? Given your recent arrival, at least I can safely rule you out as the leak. I'd like to have absolute trust in my men, but that's just not practical right now. Go ahead and look into it. See what you find. We don't have much to go on right now. Lately every raiding party in New Vegas seems to have a map of our troop movements. It derails everything. Supplies, reinforcements. And it'll only get worse, the longer we let it go on. Captain Curtis is heading up the investigation right now. He can fill you in."