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Veronica "Let's see what we've got here... Okay, yeah, this is the one I was thinking of. The pulse gun. Although maybe the rangefinder could work too. And it looks like the NCR was onto some miracle farming technology."
Rhodane "What's a pulse gun?"
Veronica "Electromagnetic weapon from before the Great War. Experimental. It never saw mass production. But they were building it as a countermeasure to power armor, which they feared the Chinese were developing. Supposedly a prototype was being housed at Nellis. Imagine what it could do to the Brotherhood. We'd be on equal footing with any idiot with a gun."
Rhodane "Tell me about the rangefinder."
Veronica "It's a targeting device for some kind of doomsday weapon based at HELIOS One. It was lost sometime after the War. We held HELIOS One for a time. Lost a lot of people defending it. Too many. All for this weapon they never got working. If it turns out to be a dud, it'd show how flawed our goals have been. Father Elijah said he thinks a scavenger might have sold it on the Strip."
Rhodane "The rangefinder might be a problem. I reactivated HELIOS One, and it's not powering a weapon."
Veronica "Ah, hell. Well, how could you know, right? Okay. Two other options still on the table."
Rhodane "Farming technology?"
Veronica "More or less. Supposedly it's a vegetation enhancer. NCR has a science branch headquartered at McCarran airport. Guess they found something. Guess somebody wasn't very good at keeping secrets, either. We'd never pursue it because it's not a weapon. But self-sufficiency is fundamental to us. If it works they'd see the value of an alternate course."
Rhodane "We should go after the vegetation technology."
Veronica "Okay. What better way to persuade them than to give them a taste of what they stand to gain, right? Maybe the best place to start is to see what we can find out directly from the NCR. Let's head to their OSI office at McCarran."
Rhodane "But Veronica... We already have the data. We've downloaded it from that mainframe in vault 22. There is no need to go back to McCarran airport."
Veronica "Of course! You're right. The data is in your pipboy. Let's head back to the hidden valley and show it to Elder McNamara."

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Veronica "Let's see what we've got here... Okay, yeah, this is the one I was thinking of. The pulse gun. Although maybe the rangefinder could work too. And it looks like the NCR was onto some miracle farming technology."
Rhodane "What's a pulse gun?"
Veronica "Electromagnetic weapon from before the Great War. Experimental. It never saw mass production. But they were building it as a countermeasure to power armor, which they feared the Chinese were developing. Supposedly a prototype was being housed at Nellis. Imagine what it could do to the Brotherhood. We'd be on equal footing with any idiot with a gun."
Rhodane "Tell me about the rangefinder."
Veronica "It's a targeting device for some kind of doomsday weapon based at HELIOS One. It was lost sometime after the War. We held HELIOS One for a time. Lost a lot of people defending it. Too many. All for this weapon they never got working. If it turns out to be a dud, it'd show how flawed our goals have been. Father Elijah said he thinks a scavenger might have sold it on the Strip."
Rhodane "The rangefinder might be a problem. I reactivated HELIOS One, and it's not powering a weapon."
Veronica "Ah, hell. Well, how could you know, right? Okay. Two other options still on the table."
Rhodane "Farming technology?"
Veronica "More or less. Supposedly it's a vegetation enhancer. NCR has a science branch headquartered at McCarran airport. Guess they found something. Guess somebody wasn't very good at keeping secrets, either. We'd never pursue it because it's not a weapon. But self-sufficiency is fundamental to us. If it works they'd see the value of an alternate course."
Rhodane "We should go after the vegetation technology."
Veronica "Okay. What better way to persuade them than to give them a taste of what they stand to gain, right? Maybe the best place to start is to see what we can find out directly from the NCR. Let's head to their OSI office at McCarran."
Rhodane "But Veronica... We already have the data. We've downloaded it from that mainframe in vault 22. There is no need to go back to McCarran airport."
Veronica "Of course! You're right. The data is in your pipboy. Let's head back to the hidden valley and show it to Elder McNamara."