Fremont Street[1] was a pre-War roadway in the former state of Nevada and is an unmarked location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
Before the Great War, Fremont Street was one of the major thoroughfares that lead through Nevada and in particular the city of Las Vegas.
By the 23rd century, the roadway now plays host to a centralized slum known as Freeside, situated outside the walls of the Strip. The street runs the perimeter of the former Vegas metropolitan area, through dilapidated ruins that once served as a commercial district. The neighborhood has built up around the intersection of Fremont and Las Vegas Boulevard.[2][Non-game 1]
Around 2281, conflict has been escalating recently between travelers from the New California Republic and locals of Freeside, with problems largely emerging from the influx of destitute travelers derisively called squatters heading to or leaving the Strip.[2] The ghoul vagrant Rotface can be paid to reveal that the Silver Rush is located on the northwest end of Fremont Street, run by the Van Graffs.[3]
Notes[]
There is an unused street sign in the game files bearing the street's name.[4]
Appearances[]
Fremont Street appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenes[]
Fremont Street is based on the real-world roadway of the same name.
References[]
- ↑ HELIOS One terminal entries; mainframe terminal, Configure power grid, Fremont and Westside
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fallout: New Vegas loading screen: "Freeside was built up around the intersection of Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard. The influx of destitute travelers in recent months has created problems for its local residents."
- ↑ Rotface: "At the northwest end of Fremont Street you'll find the Silver Rush. It's run by a rather scary family called the Van Graffs."
(Rotface's dialogue) - ↑ Fremont Street sign
Non-game
- ↑ Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 42: "Base of Operations: Outer and Inner Freeside [Zone 2C]":
"Mr. House directed the tribes to use his sizable quantities of pre-war construction materials to build the crude (but effective) outer walls that separate The Strip and Freeside from the rest of New Vegas. While Mr. House valued the area around Fremont Street, he ultimately viewed it as secondary in importance to the Strip itself and he had a second, inner wall that separated the two areas. When NCR prospectors (and eventually the army) arrived in the region, people typically went straight for The Strip, leaving Freeside (as it had become known by locals) as an informal stopping point."
(Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide faction profiles)
