This success came at a cost, however: Elsdragon's new raiders weren't simply wretched and immoral but unhinged and psychotic, and the great majority of them were abusers of rare and dangerous drugs. A significant amount of these raiders would come from Tibbets Prison, from which Elsdragon staged a massive breakout, freeing hundreds if not thousands of raiders - among them the Nanjima Clan and the Black Vultures. As the Mob gained traction in Congress and the defeated Enclave fled California, Elsdragon used his influence to secure a massive increase in his ranks, swelling its numbers to thousands of raiders. Under Tibbett's successor Wendell Peterson, the Raider Alliance found another niche: shady off-book business with the New Reno Mob. The NCR signed a hasty peace accord in 2253, at which point President Joanna Tibbett was impeached and the Raider Alliance was left alone to its vices. Though their retreat enabled the NCR to take control of Union City, it was too embarrassed by the incident that overshadowed its capture and was far too busy fighting the Enclave-NCR War to deal with Elsdragon. Unable to ignore this new threat, the NCR made efforts to invade the Pass and pacify the Alliance but after the raiders made a tactical retreat from a booby-trapped Union City in 2240, the NCR saw nearly a hundred men and thirty-eight civilian prospectors killed by a burning field of explosive ethanol-producing corn.
Keeping them in line with a strict but simple series of oaths and codes, his feckless raiders gradually became a fearsome force, challenging even the NCR.Įlsdragon adopted the Skull and Hubcap emblem of the raiders he drafted from Southern California and used the familiar symbol as a rallying cry to all who would dare to resist the NCR. Gathering every reject and convict from Northern California and inviting them to join him in Old Mexico, Elsdragon created a wild empire of lawless despots and wicked slave traders. However, after Elsdragon's father and previous leader of the Alliance, Boss Maxson, was killed at the hands of the Wasteland Scouts, the young Elsdragon took his penchant for reckless rebellion and charismatic dictatorship to the next level. Its original inhabitants, the Survivalists, were initially ignored by the NCR, thanks in part to the shady dealings of their politicians in The Hub using the mine as a convenient illicit trade center. Led by the ruthless warlord Juan Maxson-Elsdragon, their major base of operations is the old Athens-Tec Mine.īefore the Alliance was formed, the Athens-Tec Mine was just a backwater hole in the ground, high in the hills of the Cajon Pass off the beaten track of the I-15. It is one of the six main joinable factions in Fallout: New California.įorged out of former members of criminal gangs in the California Wasteland, as well as other felons and misfits pushed out of their original territories during NCR expansions and subsequent civilization and pacification of regions, the Raider Alliance is the last hope of survival for those on the "wrong side" of the NCR's efforts at post-apocalyptic law enforcement. The Raider Alliance, also known as the Raider Armada, is the overarching title for the alliance of raider tribes that rule over much of The Pass.