1mo ago

How Does the NCR Manufacture Their Armor?

I've been wondering this for a while, but how does the NCR manufacture their armor, and what materials are used in it's construction? The NCR's economy seems largely backed by expansion and the brahmin industry, with a decent manufacturing industry as represented by the Gun Runners, likely using salvage rather than extraction for resources like steel. So that makes me wonder the question then, since the NCR's trooper (and patrol ranger) armors are clearly produced by the Republic, what textiles do they use to produce these? Additionally, are the armoring over the fatigues steel woven into a carrier, or maybe some kind of layered leather? What do you think?

15 comments

It has a DT of 10, literally no better than leather armor, so clearly whatever metal the breastplate is using is trash quality
- It also only covers about 25% of the torso, so it could simply be that it's not very complete coverage despite it's construction.

My guess: I'm pretty sure they're recycled prewar fatigues made for desert warfare, which might have been underfunded due to the fact that none of the desert areas were an active frontline at the time of the great war.
The plates are likely low grade polymer armor.

- whats the fabric made out of then? some kind of hemp or canvas
  
  Probably. There are a number of plants that can be used for textile fiber. Aloe, Indian hemp, cacti, and other native examples can make for quality fabric (nettles also make for great fabric fiber).
- VIVE L'EMPEREUR 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥐🥖🥐🥖!!!

Y'all are forgetting about all the developed post-post apocalypse stuff from Fallout 1 and (moreso) 2. The capital of NCR territory, Shady Sands, is a legitimate (not-bethesda modern fallout style) city with farms, factories, schools, hospitals, scientists researching and developing shit, local government, etc. Estimated population of 35,000 around the time of NV.
None of the 3D games have come remotely close to showing that type of post-post apoc civilization.
The area covered in New Vegas is effectively the frontier of their civilization. The unification monument is in honor of the over extended NCR rangers, too far from home and their government's resources, signing a peace treaty and making a strategic alliance with the existing Arizona Rangers. This extended NCR territory into Nevada as the additional AR troops were able to give them enough local manpower and supplies to just be able to barely hold the line against Caesar's legion at the first battle of the dam.
So the NCR territory shown in game is absolutely an American Western Frontier analogue complete with ~~cattle~~ brahmin barons, and ~~natives~~ Great Khans, but it's entirely possible for them to have brand new equipment being manufactured from new material "back home" so to speak. It would just be a logistics issue of getting all the way out to the front lines of the game.
- no, this is exactly what I wanted to discuss. I know the NCR is a full on nation, like the USA of old, but I wanted to discuss the logistics of their manufacturjng processes. would they have mines and quarries for raw metals? Likely not, as there's enough already extracted for salvage. this post is mostly for speculation. I fully believe that the ncr manufactures the fatigues from scratch, but with what material? surely not cotton given their water problems. I also just can't quite decide what their breastplates are shielded with. I wanted for this to be a space where people could speculate on the theoretical industries and manufacturing processes of the NCR, not a refusal to see that they exist.
  I for one am a Pittsburgh truther, and believe that the NCR has exported all their industry to Ashur. /j
  
  It's two hundred years from the war, it would be really hard to salvage steel with it being exposed fot this long.
  They probably started with scavenging but moved to mining it. Even depleted mines usually contain enough material it's just can't be used due to small volume, but when your whole nation is 1-2 million people it will work.
  They can make fabrics from whool, or nettle or any native local plant.

15 comments