By playing to the fears of the elderly vault population, the Vault's leaders were convinced to let John form the ' Vault Patriots,' a force ostensibly for vault defense using the vault's young adopted tribal residents as nothing more than meat shields. After Enclave agents remotely sabotaged Vault 18's water systems, forcing them to find replacement parts, the Bragg siblings posed as wastelanders and secured the trust of the Wasteland Scouts and Vault 18's leaders by helping them scavenge a water chip from Vault 16, and spent 8 years living among the Vault populace, growing in influence through a combination of manipulation and sabotage. The Braggs' mission was to secure Project Brazil, indoctrinate surviving Vault residents as a new generation of untainted soldiers for the Enclave, and secure Vault 18 as a foothold from which the Enclave could strike back at the NCR. John Bragg eventually escaped NCR jurisdiction, reuniting with Chevy and receiving orders from surviving Enclave commander Colonel Autumn Senior to secure ' Project Brazil,' data on which was traced to formerly Enclave-affiliated Senator Andrew Oran's personal Vault - Vault 18. During this time, the squadron first encountered and quickly became enemies of Kevin Rossman and the Wasteland Scouts, who helped the NCR war effort in the interests of keeping their Vault safe.Īfter the NCR captured Navarro, John was sentenced to an NCR prison, while Chevy retreated with Enclave survivors to the fringes of NCR territory, negotiating a deal with the Raider Alliance to hide them and their vertibirds in Athens-Tec Mine in exchange for sharing their advanced technology the Raider Alliance was already familiar with the Enclave, as they previously had a long-term business relationship trading their mined uranium for Enclave technology. After regrouping at Camp Navarro, Leonidas participated in the disastrous NCR-Enclave War in northern California and southern Oregon. The Braggs survived the destruction of Control Station ENCLAVE by the Chosen One in 2242. II-equipped Special Operations Squads, commanded by Colonel John and Lieutenant Chevy Bragg and tasked with particularly sensitive operations deep in enemy territory, such as locating and conscripting surviving Prime Normal Vault populations to bolster the Enclave's dwindling numbers. The original Squad Leonidas was one of the Enclave's Advanced Power Armor Mk. 2 Interactions with the player character.

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