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“The Courier: What's the Courier's Mile? Is that where the Ashton missile hit?
Ulysses: My name for it. If you have a better one, you grant it - my choice in names won't carry past you and I.
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Ulysses: My name for it. If you have a better one, you grant it - my choice in names won't carry past you and I.
The Courier's Mile is a location in the Divide in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.
Background[]
During the Courier's trek through the Divide in 2281, in order to access the Ashton missile silo and reach Ulysses, they had to lift the lockdown by engaging the launch sequence for one of the nuclear warheads still stored there. It flew a fair distance away before executing an airburst detonation over an area north of the ruined Sunstone Tower.[1]
If Ulysses later survives the confrontation with the Courier in his temple, and they meet again near the entrance at the canyon wreckage, he will tell the Courier about the missile impact site and reveal that he personally named it; he states that the name is merely a personal term of reference, and if the Courier has a different one, he won't challenge them over it.[2]
Layout[]
Located in the far north of the Divide and accessed via a narrow path between piled-up car wrecks in the southwest, the area is distinguished by a wide crater befit with ruined cityscape. The radiation of the recent nuclear strike has significantly affected the local marked men, as well as some deathclaws that roam the ruins. A RALPHIE poster can be found by taking a right towards the area with irradiated deathclaws, above a desk upturned against the wall in a ruined building, with a fire hose box nearby. Two warheads are found here, one located to the upper right of the rubble wall very close to the irradiated deathclaws and the other is located on the lower left wall inside the camp of the irradiated marked men. Detonating them will significantly increase the levels of radiation throughout the area, healing the irradiated enemies faster.
Notable loot[]
- Stealth Boy - On top of a destroyed box, located to the right upon first entering the irradiated area.
- Blood-Nap - a unique variant of the Bowie knife, found sticking out of a streetlamp in front of the entrance.
- Several mini nukes - In containers within the central building, guarded by several irradiated deathclaws.
- One Nuka-Cola Quartz - On the ground in the rubble that forms the barrier at the northcentral area of the map. It will be difficult to see before climbing up onto the rubble and looking down. When standing on the campfire in the western part of the marked men camp going straight northwest, it is located next to the table with the broken terminal and telephone.
- Three high-tech gun cases - One left of the map center (next to the barber's pole by the entrance), the other two to the southeast. Contain high-tier weapons.
- There is a random set of high-end armor inside a metal box in the very north part of the map, close to where the nuclear warhead is. The metal box is inside a destroyed two-story building to the right of the warhead, next to a fridge, emergency kits, med kits, and ammo boxes.
- Two random weapon mods - Inside of a military shipping crate.
- There are several ammo boxes in the area, containing high amounts of special ammo types for multiple ranged weapons.
Notes[]
- A black outline of a person who was vaporized by the nuclear blast can be found on the second floor wall in the southeast building. In reality, the opposite would occur; instead there would be a dark area in the shape of a person surrounded by a lighter surface. These "nuclear shadows" are the result of the thermal radiation from a blast "bleaching" exposed surfaces. A person (or any other object) between the flash and the surface shields the surface from the effect, leaving a dark "shadow."
- Despite first hearing the name from Ulysses (if he survives and is met at the pass to canyon wreckage) after completing the story of Lonesome Road, at any point after launching the missile in Ashton, both locations on the map, the Courier's Mile and path to the Courier's Mile, will already be revealed and named.
- The irradiated deathclaws and irradiated marked men will not attack each other as they are both in the same faction.
- The radiation levels in the center of the area reach beyond 25 rads per second, also causing the marked men to regenerate health extremely quickly.
- Most food and drink exposed outside are heavily irradiated, while those in the containers or carried by marked men are not.
Appearances[]
The Courier's Mile appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.
Behind the scenes[]
Area designer John Lewis worked on the creation of this location.[Non-game 1]
Gallery[]
Courier's Mile map
Entrance of the Courier's Mile from the inside
General view of the Courier's Mile
H&H Tools nail gun and nails
A high-tech gun case with high tier loot
Two more high-tech gun cases and military shipping crate
References[]
- ↑ Events of Lonesome Road
- ↑ The Courier: "What's the Courier's Mile? Is that where the Ashton missile hit?"
Ulysses: "My name for it. If you have a better one, you grant it - my choice in names won't carry past you and I. Lies along the road, running from the Hopeville silo... straight on to where the ground burns, and wind howls even stronger than here."
(Ulysses' dialogue)
Non-game
- ↑ John Lewis on LinkedIn (archived): "As a level design intern, I had a variety of responsibilities across the four DLC's. In Dead Money and Honest Hearts, my focus was on building the navmesh, placing loot, fixing object placement bugs, and creating the Pip-Boy world maps. In Old World Blues and Lonesome Road, I was additionally able to design several zones including the Saturnite Alloy Research Facility, Ashton Missile Silo, and Courier's Mile, and I was responsible for creating all of the end slide images."
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