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"Spawn of Mojave Thread"
 
   RenoDumont asked on the rather full Mojave thread over in Featured Documents:

>On the other hand which DLCs did you use because I can almost see
>Azula running around the Big Empty and the Sierra Grande in her usual
>style ;)

Well, we know from Tyrants If They Could that she's been to Big Mountain, because she has the Sink's Auto-Doc prototype aboard the Phoenix Queen as of 2390. (No word yet on how many of the other Sink personalities are aboard. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess she left most of them behind. Particularly the Toaster; one pyromaniac is enough. :)

Any time she happens to have a medical scan by someone not already familiar with her setup, she's always amused by the confusion her cybernetics cause. Nobody ever has any idea what the hell Implant C-13 is supposed to be for.

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  RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread Mercutio Jan-31-14 1
     RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread Gryphonadmin Jan-31-14 2
  RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread CdrMike Feb-08-14 3
  RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread Zemyla Jun-24-14 4
  RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread RenoDumont Jul-16-14 5

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Mercutio
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1. "RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread"
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   >RenoDumont asked on the rather full Mojave thread over in Featured
>Documents:
>
>>On the other hand which DLCs did you use because I can almost see
>>Azula running around the Big Empty and the Sierra Grande in her usual
>>style ;)
>
>Well, we know from Tyrants If They Could that she's been to Big
>Mountain

And hopefully moved her base of operations there, if she had any sense.

Or was that just me? Because when Mr. House offered me the use of the Lucky 38, my immediate reaction was "Thanks, but no thanks, because you just ooze crazy, you freak. I am not going to deposit all of my worldly goods in convenient receptacles in a giant fortress swarming with robots that you control and then fall asleep there. My hotel room in Novac is small and cramped but at least it's mine."

This was the in-character reason. The actual reason was that getting to that suite was always really annoying for me. Fast travel to the New Vegas gates. Load into New Vegas. Walk to the Lucky 38. Load into that. Walk to the elevator. Load into THAT. Finally, you're in the suite. With Novac you just fast travel there and load into the hotel room.

You can also only get a workbench up in the suite, not a reloading bench; Novac has both right in the nearby garage.

Of course, I bailed from Novac the second I got myself to the Big MT. It's a bit... weird there, but it's also damn convenient.

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2. "RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-31-14 AT 11:48 AM (EST)
 
>>Well, we know from Tyrants If They Could that she's been to Big
>>Mountain
>
>And hopefully moved her base of operations there, if she had any
>sense.

(Oh, hey, speaking of Tyrants...)

I like to think that Azula crashed there, so that taking over the Big Mountain was the very first thing she had to do on Mojave. And that Dr. Möbius's dome in the Forbidden Zone is retractable, and after Azula took the place over, she had the roboscorpions move the Phoenix Queen in there and start repairing her, like the Ebon Hawk in the tutorial level of Knights of the Old Republic II.

That way, no one would stumble across this anomalous hyper-advanced (by local standards, anyway) starship out in the desert someplace (be a hell of a note to get back there after a hard day's adventuring and find the Brotherhood of Steel trying to strip her for parts). Also, when she finally managed to reboot the navigation beacon and get Starfleet out there, getting off the planet was a simple matter of scoring a new unobtanium triangle* off Scotty, plugging it into the hyperdrive, and returning all seats and snack trays to their fully upright and locked positions.

That said, she didn't use Big Mountain as her day-to-day headquarters during the bulk of the Mojave operation. It's too remote, and getting anybody else there was too logistically complicated (in the game it's impossible, full stop) to make it feasible for that purpose. She did use it as her fortress of solitude, where she stashed all the best toys and would withdraw to reflect and strategize when things became particularly dicey (as they did several times during the process), while the rest of the crew held things down back at wherever forward operations were based out of (which varied a few times).

>Or was that just me? Because when Mr. House offered me the use of the
>Lucky 38, my immediate reaction was "Thanks, but no thanks, because
>you just ooze crazy, you freak. I am not going to deposit all
>of my worldly goods in convenient receptacles in a giant fortress
>swarming with robots that you control and then fall asleep
>there. My hotel room in Novac is small and cramped but at least it's
>mine."

Well, by about the midpoint of her takeover of the planet, that wasn't an issue for Azula because she controlled the robots (in-game, because she'd killed Mr. House, and in-story, because she'd made him the offer he couldn't refuse). Before that point, though, she didn't base herself there, for very similar reasons. Rather than trudge all the way back to Novac, though, she was usually based out of the Atomic Wrangler. Or Vault 21, if she simply had to be on the Strip for some pressing reason.

After she controlled it, though, the Lucky 38 was an excellent headquarters - it's intimidating, it was already instinctively recognized by the Strip tribes as the fulcrum of power in the region, and everything worked - and ultimately became the capitol building of the United Wasteland Empire. It may well still be the seat of Mojave's government in the 25th century.

In selecting bases of operations, Azula had the advantage that she knew, right from the start, that her ultimate goal was to take over the Wasteland. She didn't just sort of stumble into it like the canonical Courier. Since she had a plan from eight o'clock on Day One, the logistics were easier to manage.

>Of course, I bailed from Novac the second I got myself to the Big MT.
>It's a bit... weird there, but it's also damn convenient.

Big Mountain is convenient to get to (as long as you don't mind going alone), but the only exit point drops you in that Agni-forsaken drive-in theater out past the ass-end of Nipton, with the bark scorpions and the garbage and the 200-year-old fucking newspapers blowing BACK and FORTH -

ahem -

with the bark scorpions, anyway. It's not really what I would call outstandingly convenient to get back from.

On the other hand, I strongly suspect Azula eventually figured out how to get one of those abandoned motorcycles working, because walking everywhere is for losers and fugitive Avatars. :)

--G.
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3. "RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread"
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   The thought of Azula going through the New Vegas DLCs is an amusing one. It's safe to say that she didn't get her brain scooped out and her head stuffed with THE COILS OF TESLA (sorry, don't know where that came from), though the subsequent argument with her own brain would have been hilarious. Especially considering that, in-game, the excuse made for hiring on one voice actor to play the Brain is that Mobius could only find a male voice modulator. And yeah, I kinda like the idea that she left the Think Tank alive, if only because I like particular flavor of ham they have to offer the DLC. Perhaps she kept them around as a way of harnessing the full power of Big Mt., even if she did pull their PA system privileges.

Dead Money? Burning Ghost people to ash overrides the whole "won't stay dead" problem, and it likely saved her the trouble of scrounging for ammo. Then again, the confrontation with Dog/God was one of the few times where she actively cursed her power being a liability. And in keeping with the theme of Azula as someone who now gives a damn about her fellow man, the rest of the crew survived to go their own ways. As for Elijah? He went down to the Vault and never came out. Nothing more need be said.

With Honest Hearts, I imagine that Azula saw a lot of herself in Graham, besides the whole "covered in burning pitch and tossed into the Grand Canyon" bit. The philosophical discussions on forgiveness and redemption were likely long and enlightening, with Graham relating how he'd been welcomed home as if he'd done no wrong invoking questions in Azula's own mind about if she'd ever know the same feeling. And in the end, while she agreed to support his defeating the White Legs, both agreed that sparing Salt-Upon-Wounds was more degrading and fitting than killing him would have been. And as she left Zion, Azula thanked him for giving some things to think about...as well as telling Daniel to quit whining.

The problem with Lonesome Road is that it's sort of hard to shoehorn Azula in, mostly because she hadn't been on Mojave long enough to have carried the package to The Divide. And putting up with someone like Ulysses likely wasn't in the job description when she became a Courier. Perhaps the story could be rejiggered into one about unintended consequences, something that Azula would have experience with. But making her trek all the way to the silo, listening to a sermon the entire way, just to meet him? Yeah, she'd probably find it very hard to keep herself from just burning him down where he stood. Especially when he told her his intention to nuke the Mojave for the destruction of a community that she never even heard of.

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4. "RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jun-24-14 AT 06:12 PM (EDT)
 
>Any time she happens to have a medical scan by someone not already
>familiar with her setup, she's always amused by the confusion her
>cybernetics cause. Nobody ever has any idea what the hell
>Implant C-13 is supposed to be for.

I like to think that that implant triggered exactly once while she was under medical scanning.

It was when she was swatting a mosquito that had landed on her.

This left the medtechs twice as confused.


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5. "RE: Spawn of Mojave Thread"
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   >RenoDumont asked on the rather full Mojave thread over in Featured
>Documents:
>

Bloody hell, I created a child of a child of a child of a child of a thread? Sorry about the havoc.

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The Curator: I know you don't. And in years to come you might find yourself revisiting a few, but just the old favorites.


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