Anza-Borrego is a mentioned-only location in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
Consisting of a small settlement located near Dayglow, all of its residents are considered citizens of the New California Republic.
Around 20-25 years before 2281, Chief Hanlon and his group of Rangers went to the small homestead of Rattletail to check up on reports of raiders, only to discover the settlers had actually killed several dozen wastelanders they mistook for raiders attempting to reach the water in their well. Seeing that the settlers’ made no distinction between travelers and raiders, Hanlon decided it would be best to get them to abandon the homestead. He resolved the situation peacefully by cooking up a story of a large raider group coming for them, which convinced the settlers to follow them back into NCR territory where they resettled in Anza-Borrego and took up bighorner rearing. Hanlon himself considers it his "one bit of good" in his career as a Ranger.[1]
Appearances[]
Anza-Borrego is mentioned only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenes[]
Anza-Borrego refers to the real-world Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in northeastern San Diego County, California.
References[]
- ↑ The Courier: "There must be something good the rangers have done that you're proud of."
Hanlon: "[SUCCEEDED] It's kind of a long one, but all right. About twenty, twenty-five years ago, a group of NCR settlers pushed way south into Baja. I guess it doesn't seem so far now if you look at a map, but back then, they were out a ways. They built this little shanty town around a well in the middle of nowhere. Called it Rattletail."
The Courier: "[Continue]"
Hanlon: "Word got back to one of our stations that raiders had been attacking the place. I went out with six rangers. We must have been on the trail for a week before we got to Rattletail. We lost one woman to Night Stalkers and another almost died of dehydration. When we reach the place, it's six shacks set up around an old well."
The Courier: "[Continue]"
Hanlon: "There's over two dozen bodies lying in the dunes way outside of town and five men with .308 rifles crouched behind sand bags. And these bodies, these people out in the sand, they aren't raiders. Aren't even heavily armed. They're just people who were trying to get to the only well in fifty miles. I didn't have to talk to the men to see that they did not care one bit."
The Courier: "[Continue]"
Hanlon: "They had planted an NCR flag over the well and they would not budge until every last one of them was laid out, dead and cold. So I walked up and told them there was a group of raiders coming, one hundred strong. I made up some cockamamie name for them and everything. The men looked at each other, looked at us, and asked me what we were going to do about it."
The Courier: "[Continue]"
Hanlon: "I told him we would take them back into NCR territory because we had already lost ten rangers on the way out. Ten rangers, five men with .308 rifles. Well, that was enough for them. They packed up what they could and we took them back north. Last I heard, they settled somewhere in Anza-Borrego. Raised Bighorners. Had some tough times, but it worked out okay for them. So there you go. That's my one bit of good."
(Hanlon's dialogue)