It is assumed, that personel of the Royst-Bernard Expedition, in an attempt to covertly recover remaining research materials located in the Lucky 38, was deliberately being lied to about the true goals of the operation by leads of the expedition.īelieving their assignment to be the retrieval of high-powered, possibly nuclear explosives, they were successful in breaching the barricades formerly errected by regular NCR, but then got stranded in the Old Mormon Fort.
Sometime after the second battle of Hoover Dam, the Followers of the Apocalypse abandoned their former headquarter for reasons unknown.ĭuring the events leading up to The Fall, NCR repurposed the then derelict fort into a security checkpoint for the few travelers remaining, while sealing up other entrances into New Vegas.