Union City

Union City is a major NCR outpost along Interstate 138 and the largest NCR settlement in the Pass.

Background[]

In the pre-War world, Union City was a small desert town facilitating the trucking industry along Interstate 15. The town and all other properties in the pass were bought by Athens-Tec to house the company's workers. For unknown reasons, an inedible, highly explosive genetically modified form of corn designed for high-yield ethanol was grown in the surrounding farmland.

Despite being close to several prominent U.S. military installations, including one anti-missile radar site, Union City escaped the devastation that destroyed Los Angeles and San Bernadino proper relatively unscathed, but still fell victim to the lethal radiation and airborne FEV-2 that ravaged California. Like much of the Cajon Pass, the soil was unable to support any other crops besides the modified corn and as a result, Union City became just another of the abandoned ghost towns that littered the desert.

In the following centuries, as the Survivalist Raiders expanded out into the Pass, they reoccupied Union City and used it as a slave settlement, cultivating the mutant corn. However, they quickly realized its relative uselessness as a food source and resorted to only using it for crude explosives.

In 2240, the New California Republic, spurred by corporate interests in the GMO corn as a potential biofuel, conquered Union City. Their victory was not flawless; the bloody Battle of Union City saw incredible casualties for the NCR Army. Despite this, the NCR was able to capture the city, establishing a military presence in the area and liberating the raiders' slaves - among them William Silverman, who later joined the army and quickly rose through the ranks. However, despite formally being taken by the NCR, the city continued to be contested by the Survivalists for the next thirteen years, finally culminating in one last major incident in 2253. Under the command of Juan Maxson-Elsdragon, the raiders attacked, then fled while setting fire to the cornfields, causing massive explosions which killed nearly a hundred NCR troopers and 38 NCR citizens. Afterwards, the NCR and the Survivalists signed a ceasefire, upon which the raiders were formally seen as a foreign power - leaving a ruined but now (mostly) peaceful city as the seat of the NCR's power in the Pass.^[1]

Nevertheless, the NCR quickly converted it into a frontier outpost in the next seven years, repairing the town's power and water infrastructure and fortifying it with a sandcrete wall. NCR sharecroppers moved in to grow the GMO corn, but despite efforts to further modify it, it proved useless as a cheap source of ethanol.

Layout[]

Union City is a large, well-fortified NCR town composed of primarily sandcrete dwellings and a handful of restored or re-utilized pre-War structures. The town forms the western boundary of the world map, with its own boundary marked by the large ethanol fields to the north of the city, and a ruined pre-War anti-missile base to the south. The inhabited limits of the town consist of several businesses along the main street and a number of houses branching off behind the walls.

From the main gate, the road leads west. To the immediate south of the gate are a military barracks and operations tents, as well as the Union City clinic against the exterior wall. North of the main gate is the town gallows, and the sandcrete residence is located nearby. The main road follows a western trajectory with the Shi Bank, Mojave Express and Gun Runners on the northern side, and the Ram Shack to the south. The road intersects with another leading north-south, lined by numerous sandcrete homes. NCR troopers patrol the area, clearing out giant ants and various other threats. Going south, the road passes by a large pre-War refueling station on the east and Molly's on the west, passing by the entrance to the city sewer system, Donnie's man cave, and the Sky Glow trailer camp before ending at a pre-War radar site. Moving north, numerous homes can be found on the way to the El Molinito Suites and continues on past the Good Luck trailer park to the ethanol fields. In the middle of the farming complex is Doc Marius' "Fortress of Solitude" at the Radian-Helix Media studio.

Directly west from the north-south road intersection is the NCR territorial headquarters, built in the remains of the pre-War El Casino Ballroom. Traveling further west from the territorial HQ, a highway tunnel to the Boneyards can be found, although it is currently sealed off. At the base of the mountains, a large abandoned trainyard is found, and a series of railways leads north to south.

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↑ "2240 was when UC was finally taken, 20 years before FNC in 2260. But the last major incident was 2253. After that the ceasefire was signed and Elsdragon was seen as a foreign figure. Same way fallout 2 had towns just outside the NCR dealing in shady stuff, Athens was the same." - Brandan Lee, Discord

[Unionbattle-1] "2240 was when UC was finally taken, 20 years before FNC in 2260. But the last major incident was 2253. After that the ceasefire was signed and Elsdragon was seen as a foreign figure. Same way fallout 2 had towns just outside the NCR dealing in shady stuff, Athens was the same." - Brandan Lee, Discord

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