Editing AfterTheBomb.Setting (section)

===BRIEF HISTORY AND SETTING FOR 'LEAVING LOS VEGAS'===
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'''New Vegas''' (built on the ruins of the old city) has a population of around 30,000 with a mix mutants, pure strain humans and uplifted animals and plants is the core setting where the player's characters start out there adventures at. The city is open to all and has a very cosmopolitan to all sentient beings. All are welcome and free to live and trade as they wish.

The city’s overall technology is probably closer to the old US Empire of the 1970’s and 80's but less reliance on fossil fuels (although there are some coal mining pits to the southwest and natural gas fields to the south and east). They can replace the machine parts of most tech of this present level, including car parts and older aircraft.

The city government is something like a city-state republic, with an elected Lord-Mayor and city council (12 members). All serve six year terms. While these elections are open to any New Vegas citizen, most are part of the city’s oligarchy (local merchants). The city has fairly light laws and people have few restricts put on them by the council. This does not mean anarchy of course and murder, rape, slavery, robbery, assault and even certain drugs use are all outlawed. Punishment for such is generally hard labor and/or exile from the city. Execution are rare but are the penalties reserved for rape and murder and slavery.

The city maintains a local law enforcement force of 500 souls. This police force is fairly well received and respected by the local population but there is of course a strong illegal underground criminal element. These officers are armed mostly with pistols and shotguns along with a few wearing some sort of armor. They maintain a small motor pool with the rest of patrols being conducted on foot or with riding animals or even Uplifted horses and rider teams. There is also a standard city army of 400 professional soldiers who are better equipped and trained for military action. They have a few light armored transports and propeller aircraft and at least one helicopter and conduct patrols outside the city (especially to the north). The city also enlists a local militia of 2,500 members whom train in different groups of 100 at least four days every month. They are provide firearms by the city and keep these weapons at their homes but ammunition is given out sparingly and the militia are excepted to purchase extra on their own with their monthly stipend.
 
The major villains in the setting is the so-called the '''Hyborian Empire''' based out of the old US military base '''Area 51''' and '''Groom Lake Facility'''. The Empire is dominated both socially and militarily by an elite cadre of transhumans whom call themselves the ''Hyborians''[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/363454632434376119/]. These super-soldier make up about 10% of the overall population of the Empire around 2,000 souls. Most of the citizen population is made up of Pure Strain Humans whom make up another 50% of the overall population at around 10,000 souls. Citizens are branded with their civilian ID on their right arms. The remained are slaves made up of capture Mutant Humans, Animals and Planets, and Hyborian or Pure Strain ‘traitor’ former citizens that make up another 8,000 souls.

Most of the Pure Strain Humans of the Empire were workers and techs on the research part of the Area 51 Groom Lake base while Hyborians where created by the Pure Strains to act as guards and security for the base as the old US Empire fell (after most of the normal human soldiers and techs either feld or died). The Hyborians quickly saw themselves as superior to all beings on the Earth. Before the final fall they seized the facility and local military base as their own. Over the last hundred years they have lead slave and supply raids into the outlying lands but never extensive attacks. They never had the number to start conquering the lands beyond the Groom Lake valley. But it is a dream of all of them to one day they will rule over the Earth, first the old US Empire, then the world (for the lesser/inferior beings benefit of course).

The Empire today enjoys a fairly high technology level and standard of living (especially for the Hyborians), such that some furture tech is available to them (including some primitive or early stage cybernetics) They are not large enough to manufacture everything they need but they have managed to produces enough machine parts to maintain the technology of old… or at least parts of it such as vehicles, a local internet hub and limited aircraft. At present they have a couple of dozen of military helicopters, six fighter jets and two bombers. They have maybe a hundred armored fighting vehicles and three main battle tanks. Most of the military is armed with automatic rifles and combat infantry armor.

The Hyborians are generally very warry of mutants within their own populations, and there are very few if any within their own bloodline. This is in part due to the fact that many families will destroy any of their own children who they deem as ‘weak’ and all mutations are seen as a weakness and dilution of their pure, superior bloodline. 

Almost the entire adult Hyborian population (90% of the adults who make up about 60% of the overall population) is trained for war and are expected to be competent in as many forms of combat as possible. Of their population, around 10% (200) make up their standing professional full time army (and extremely limited air force) with another 25% (500) trained to act as a part-time militia whom serve in times of emgency. This militia trains at least once a month but otherwise are unarmed as the rest of the civilian populations. There is also a small group of some 500 soldier slaves made up various mutant humans and uplifted animals. These troops are trained and conditioned from birth to be absolutely loyal and obedient to their officers but even so they also tend to have various lethal measures to keep them in line (such as explosive collars, etc.). 

While Empire is only 150 miles north of New Vegas they have little direct contact. One of the major factors seperating the two states is that a nuclear bomb was dropped between the two area as the old US Empire was attempting to stop the virus. That radiation is still unhealth creating a Red Zone even today. Hence the Empire needs to take a long detore around this area to reach New Vegas.

There are no other big settlements or lands claimed by any group near New Vegas. Father out there is largest named lands of the '''Free Plains''' located to the east claiming parts of the Great Plains region of the Old US Empires heartland. The Free Plains have the greatest overall population and land area, number well over a hundred thousans, but are scattered among various tribes and clans and families that are often hostile towards each other and outsiders. Their loose confederation have few common practices except for their one universal law – that no one ever uses another beings as an unwilling beast of burden. This law applies even to unintelligence non-sentient animals.

Another towards the southwest are the lands of the '''Bandits Kingdom'''. These ''Kingdoms'' are are mostly mountainous (claiming much of the old central Rockie Moutains). Many, if not most, of the tribes here spend a good portion of their lives stealing and raiding into other territories, hence their nations name (at least by outsiders).

Both groups  are fairly primitive, using swords and bows as their main armaments or the occasional firearm salvaged or stolen from someone else. Most lead vary nomadic lifestyles, wandering the length of breath of their landscape.