However, the Courier is intercepted by the Great Khans and Benny, who shoots him and takes the package, leaving the Courier for dead in a shallow grave. The Courier, the player's character, was meant to deliver a package from Primm to New Vegas. The New California Republic plays a major part in the game's story, being in a three-way struggle amongst the Caesar's Legion slavers, and the mysterious Mr.
The story has taken some parts from the Fallout and Fallout 2 stories, and is for the most part unrelated to its predecessor, Fallout 3.įallout: New Vegas takes place in 2281, four years after the events of Fallout 3, and forty years after Fallout 2.