The themes of the past and future in New Vegas are so thick you could slurp it up. The struggle of keeping any status quo or rebelling and trying something new, trying to break the curse the Old World could not. Caesar foolishly following the leads of past facists, with the aesthetics of Romans to mask him. The NCR, either knowingly or not, becoming the same bureaucracy burdened, expansion hungry government as the one that was responsible for the hell world they live in today. House, still alive from the past, obsessed with his own ego to prove he is better than everyone.
The Sierra Madre, a monument forever kept for the memory of a man who wished to protect someone from the terrible future. Dean Domino, wasting away for 200 years just stuck on this fucking plan to steal gold that means NOTHING now. Catherine, hell bent on revenge against Elijah who also cannot stop jerking off over old world tech.
Joshua Graham, twisted so far by the words of Caesar eventually leading to a rubber band back to man trying to redeem his actions. He may still be tainted by that past, but he truly is trying to make people's lifes better now, in the way he think he can.
The scientists of the Big Empty, a symbol of the terrors, and sometimes gifts, that the Old World left scarred deep into this new era. Maybe they could become better people, maybe they would not burden this newborn land with the pre-existing poison they have exuded. We can see that with Doctor Borous, although he is definitely stuck in the past because he could not get over his high school life, does eventually have some feelings when presented the bowl of his former dog. He feels regret over experimenting on something that unconditionally loved him, but tries to push those thoughts down, im sure a coping mechanism forced upon by the ways of the Old World. Maybe it would be better just to leave them be, let the Old World go and focus on a new future.
Ulysses knows all to well all of this. He went to the same places you did, talked to all the same people you did. He knows the struggles this new era is having with the past and present. He comes up with his own solution, hoping that you too, will see something is wrong. At the Divide you will see the fresh hell the Old World caused. The fresh radioactivity burns your skin, the land is torn asunder, almost making a new, dark Grand Canyon, and the winds so whipped up as to flay that burning skin off your body. This is sins that the Old World were brought to bear, this is the sins you were unwittingly apart of. You brought a device here that exploded the warheads here, starting a new hell for this area, reopening the wounds made by the Old World. These scars can be opened again, and one must be real fucking careful not to do that. He wants to face what you've done, while also using you to further his plans for the West. He found that there is no future with the current powers, they would both lead doom. Either a fascistic power that would leave nothing sustainable, or a government that doesn't see the wound they are slowly opening again. He wants to wipe it clean again, like you once did here. Eventually those woulds will scar over again, and maybe the Old World will finally stay back.
You've seen contrary to this however. You can set up a new independent nation, one different from the Bear and Bull. You can attempt to look for a new future, one not so reliant on the repeated failures of the Old World. You are the courier, you have been around, you have seen the West, spoken to its people. With this in mind, you don't need the past, the future is here, in these people that struggle to live in this new world. All you gotta do is drive away the floods that try to bring back that Old World stink.
The Sierra Madre, a monument forever kept for the memory of a man who wished to protect someone from the terrible future. Dean Domino, wasting away for 200 years just stuck on this fucking plan to steal gold that means NOTHING now. Catherine, hell bent on revenge against Elijah who also cannot stop jerking off over old world tech.
Joshua Graham, twisted so far by the words of Caesar eventually leading to a rubber band back to man trying to redeem his actions. He may still be tainted by that past, but he truly is trying to make people's lifes better now, in the way he think he can.
The scientists of the Big Empty, a symbol of the terrors, and sometimes gifts, that the Old World left scarred deep into this new era. Maybe they could become better people, maybe they would not burden this newborn land with the pre-existing poison they have exuded. We can see that with Doctor Borous, although he is definitely stuck in the past because he could not get over his high school life, does eventually have some feelings when presented the bowl of his former dog. He feels regret over experimenting on something that unconditionally loved him, but tries to push those thoughts down, im sure a coping mechanism forced upon by the ways of the Old World. Maybe it would be better just to leave them be, let the Old World go and focus on a new future.
Ulysses knows all to well all of this. He went to the same places you did, talked to all the same people you did. He knows the struggles this new era is having with the past and present. He comes up with his own solution, hoping that you too, will see something is wrong. At the Divide you will see the fresh hell the Old World caused. The fresh radioactivity burns your skin, the land is torn asunder, almost making a new, dark Grand Canyon, and the winds so whipped up as to flay that burning skin off your body. This is sins that the Old World were brought to bear, this is the sins you were unwittingly apart of. You brought a device here that exploded the warheads here, starting a new hell for this area, reopening the wounds made by the Old World. These scars can be opened again, and one must be real fucking careful not to do that. He wants to face what you've done, while also using you to further his plans for the West. He found that there is no future with the current powers, they would both lead doom. Either a fascistic power that would leave nothing sustainable, or a government that doesn't see the wound they are slowly opening again. He wants to wipe it clean again, like you once did here. Eventually those woulds will scar over again, and maybe the Old World will finally stay back.
You've seen contrary to this however. You can set up a new independent nation, one different from the Bear and Bull. You can attempt to look for a new future, one not so reliant on the repeated failures of the Old World. You are the courier, you have been around, you have seen the West, spoken to its people. With this in mind, you don't need the past, the future is here, in these people that struggle to live in this new world. All you gotta do is drive away the floods that try to bring back that Old World stink.