Location from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
The West Coast heartland where civilization actually took root after the bombs — the NCR built a real nation here, but the ghosts of Vault-Tec's experiments and the Brotherhood's origins haunt every mile of progress.
This is what recovery sounds like: the creak of water pumps, the lowing of brahmin herds, children playing behind settlement walls. But the old scars run deep. Caravans travel armed because raiders never fully went away. The wind off the Pacific carries salt and the faint chemical tang from pre-War industrial sites that still leach poison. NCR taxes fund the army but squeeze the frontier settlements dry. At night, the older settlers tell stories about the Master's army, about Shady Sands before the bomb, about how quickly civilization can be unmade.
Rolling brown hills and coastal scrubland stretch from the ruins of Los Angeles northward through the Central Valley. Brahmin ranches and irrigated farmland surround walled towns connected by patrolled highways. NCR flags fly from guard towers along maintained roads. The Boneyard — LA's skeletal remains — sprawls along the southern coast, partially reclaimed. Scattered vault doors dot the hillsides like steel scars, some sealed, some long since forced open.
Also known as: NCR Territory, New California Republic, The West Coast, California